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The Great Road. The Building of the Baltimore and Ohio, the Nation's F...
Dilts, James S.. Ed(S): Dilts, James D.
Hardback. This masterful, richly illustrated account of the planning and building of the most important and influential early American railroad contributes not only to the railway history but to the history of the development of the United States in the 19th century. 80 illustrations. Editor(s): Dilts, James D. Num Pages: 496 pages, 80 half-tones 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; KNGT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 260 x 185 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1306.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804722353
- ISBN
- 9780804722353
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 249.33
€ 249.33
Hardback. Focusing on the responses of writers in Shanghai to the Japanese occupation, this book corrects the postwar conception of occupied China as a field of conflict between selfless resisters and shameless collaborators by showing a complexity and ambiguity of moral choices that defies such stereotyping. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 half-tones 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJF; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 521.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804721721
- ISBN
- 9780804721721
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.90
€ 146.90
hardcover. This text examines the political, ideological, and cultural policies pursued by the German Communist of Socialist Unity party, acting upon the instructions of Stalin and his military administration, in Soviet-occupied Germany from 1945 through 1949. Num Pages: 704 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 43. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 704
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804720939
- ISBN
- 9780804720939
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.44
€ 129.44
Hardback. A study of the development of human society in Yucatan during the colonial period, this book poses a challenge to a variety of accepted views, including the notion that Yucatan was isolated from the main part of Spain's New World empire and thus from international markets and the world economy. Num Pages: 344 pages, 7 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 28. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804720625
- ISBN
- 9780804720625
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.80
€ 93.80
Hardback. This is a study of the growth of the police control in Latin America offering a history of one of the fundamental institutions of the modern world through which the power of the state intrudes on public space to control and direct behaviour. Num Pages: 392 pages, 10 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; 3JH; HBTB; JKSW1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 28. Weight in Grams: 722.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804720564
- ISBN
- 9780804720564
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.29
€ 99.29
Hardback. This book studies the changing social relations in a region of Costa Rica that does not conform to the country's image as an "agrarian democracy" and investigates why latifundios (large unproductive or under-utilized estates) still dominate much of Latin America. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCR; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 157 x 33. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804720441
- ISBN
- 9780804720441
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.34
€ 111.34
Hardback. This work sets out to examine Victorian anti-Catholicism in a much fuller and more inclusive context, accounting for its persistence over time, disguishing it from anti-Irish sentiment, and explaining its social, economic, political, and religious bases locally as well as nationally. Num Pages: 348 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBLL; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 688.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804719841
- ISBN
- 9780804719841
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 88.33
€ 88.33
Hardback. This collection of essays is built around a major but previously unstudied theme in Japanese history - the extent to which the exaggeration of antiquity has distorted historical understanding. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3H; 3JB; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 437.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804719742
- ISBN
- 9780804719742
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.41
€ 146.41
Hardback. Late medieval Japan witnessed a growth in the power of the commoner, as seen in the spread of corporate villages (so) marked by collective ownership and administration and other self-governing features. This study of a community of so villages from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries reconstructs the life of these villages. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3H; HBG; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 156. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804719414
- ISBN
- 9780804719414
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.88
€ 85.88
Hardback. Why did a practice that had been considered a duty stop being a duty, or, conversely, why did daughters lose the right they had previously enjoyed of receiving from their parents the wherewithal to contribute to the support of their marriage? Despite the many anthropological studies about dowry, this book offers an analysis of its disappearance. Num Pages: 268 pages, tables, figures, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 575.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804719285
- ISBN
- 9780804719285
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.65
€ 87.65
Hardback. This is a detailed analysis and description of a unique era in American political history, one in which political parties were the dominant dynamic force at work structuring and directing the political world. Series: Stanford Studies in the New Political History. Num Pages: 360 pages, Illustrations, facsims.,ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 26. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804718783
- ISBN
- 9780804718783
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.74
€ 158.74
Hardback. Num Pages: 152 pages, bibliogrpahy, index. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBLL; HRCC95. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 375.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804718264
- ISBN
- 9780804718264
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.28
€ 70.28
Hardback. Num Pages: 436 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 161 x 32. Weight in Grams: 980.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 436
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804718073
- ISBN
- 9780804718073
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.82
€ 138.82
hardcover. Research on the impact of the Reformation on religious life in Germany, has challenged traditional assumptions that Protestantism had a lasting effect on all levels of 16th-century life. Examining the Wurttemberg Reformation Church, this book looks at how the Reformation worked at the ground level. Num Pages: 216 pages, 24 tables. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804716819
- ISBN
- 9780804716819
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.19
€ 92.19
Hardback. Long described as lost, this report was the result of Mao Zedong's investigation in 1930 of the people, economy, society, and history of the obscure rural county of Xunwu in South China. Translator(s): Thompson, Roger R. Num Pages: 292 pages, 21 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804716789
- ISBN
- 9780804716789
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.97
€ 146.97
Hardback. Breaking the Codes is a cultural history of the fin-de-siecle that uses the "problem" of the criminal woman to examine both the debates around the appropriate place of women in French society and the ways in which issues of gender were central to the most important cultural transformations of the period. Num Pages: 280 pages, 11 half-tones. BIC Classification: HBTB; JKVQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 598.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804716635
- ISBN
- 9780804716635
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.62
€ 125.62
Hardback. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW3; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 28. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804715799
- ISBN
- 9780804715799
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.52
€ 87.52
Hardback. Offers an account of the St Petersburg labor movement during the First Russian Revolution that focuses on the sources and meaning of the extraordinary explosion of labor militancy in 1905 - a year that saw more striking workers than ever before in Russian history, almost a quarter of them in the capital. Num Pages: 504 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJC; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 157 x 38. Weight in Grams: 841.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 504
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804714990
- ISBN
- 9780804714990
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.09
€ 111.09
hardcover. Spanning the century from the Taiping Rebellion through the establishment of the People's Republic of China, this book is a comprehensive history of women in modern China. Its historical scope is broad, touching upon most aspects of life and drawing upon little known Chinese and Japanese sources. Editor(s): Fogel, Joshua A. Num Pages: 284 pages, index, supplementary references, chronology, notes. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804714969
- ISBN
- 9780804714969
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 170.60
€ 170.60
Hardback. A study of three Argentine provincial capitals that introduces a new concept in Latin American urban studies: the historical role of secondary cities, settlements large enough to possess all the elements commonly associated with urban areas and yet too small to figure among a country's major cities. Editor(s): Baily, Samuel L. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804714198
- ISBN
- 9780804714198
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.74
€ 103.74
Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 200 x 100 x 23. Weight in Grams: 451.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804713795
- ISBN
- 9780804713795
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.06
€ 87.06
Hardback. Editor(s): Hanley, Susan B.; Wolf, Arthur P. Num Pages: 380 pages. BIC Classification: 1FP; HBTB; JHBD; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 156 x 28. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 380
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804712323
- ISBN
- 9780804712323
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.14
€ 105.14
Hardback. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBG; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 200 x 100. Weight in Grams: 865.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804712194
- ISBN
- 9780804712194
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.40
€ 127.40
hardcover. Num Pages: 320 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 149 x 25. Weight in Grams: 513.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804711364
- ISBN
- 9780804711364
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.44
€ 87.44