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Paperback. A history of the revolutions that toppled communism in Europe, this work looks behind the scenes at the grassroots movements that made those revolutions happen. It looks for answers not in the salons of power brokers and famed intellectuals, not in decrepit economies - but in the whirlwind of activity that stirred so crucially, on the street. Num Pages: 352 pages, 22 halftones. 4 line illus. BIC Classification: 1DF; 3JJPN; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTV; JPA; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 512.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691116273
- ISBN
- 9780691116273
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.56
€ 54.99
€ 39.56
Hardback. Reveals Epizephyrian Locri - a Greek colony on the Adriatic coast of Italy - as a third way in Greek culture, neither Athens nor Sparta. Drawing on a range of literary and archaeological evidence, this work offers an account of this poorly understood Greek city-state, and in particular the distinctive role of women and marriage therein. Num Pages: 480 pages, 28 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1QDAG; 3D; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA; HDDK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 34. Weight in Grams: 828.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691116051
- ISBN
- 9780691116051
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Condition: New
€ 117.88€ 89.78
€ 117.88
€ 89.78
Paperback. The port city of Liverpool, England, is home to one of the oldest Black communities in Britain. This title analyzes how this worldly origin story supports an avowedly local Black politic and identity. It also examines the rise and consequent dilemmas of Black identity. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKENL; HBTB; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691115634
- ISBN
- 9780691115634
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.99
€ 52.99
€ 37.99
Hardback. Traces the invention and evolution of socialist trade, the progressive constriction of private trade, and the development of consumer habits from the 1917 revolution to Stalin's death in 1953. This book places trade and consumption in the context of debilitating economic crises. Num Pages: 384 pages, 13 halftones. 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; HBTB; KCZ; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 685.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 386
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691114927
- ISBN
- 9780691114927
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Condition: New
€ 88.41€ 68.15
€ 88.41
€ 68.15
Paperback. Celebrating the flowering of female portraiture, mainly in Florence, beginning in the latter half of the fifteenth century, this is an illustrated volume of paintings, sculpture, medals, and drawings. It includes the finest portraits of women by Filippo Lippi, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Antonio Pollaiuolo, Botticelli, Verrocchio, and Leonardo da Vinci. Editor(s): Brown, David Alan. Num Pages: 240 pages, 97 color illus., 76 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; ACND; AFC; AGHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 328 x 14. Weight in Grams: 1526.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691114569
- ISBN
- 9780691114569
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€ 64.84€ 50.63
€ 64.84
€ 50.63
Hardback. Presents the history of the Dutch economy in the nineteenth century. This book shows how institutional factors combined to make the Dutch economy a victim of its own success and traces its subsequent emergence as a modern industrial economy. It argues that the economic and political development of the Netherlands can be understood only in tandem. Translator(s): Cressie, Ian. Series: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World. Num Pages: 416 pages, 32 line illus. 54 tables. BIC Classification: 1DDN; 3JH; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 720.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 402
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691114385
- ISBN
- 9780691114385
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Condition: New
€ 128.49€ 97.61
€ 128.49
€ 97.61
Paperback. Editor(s): Erdmann, Carl. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 371.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691102313
- ISBN
- 9780691102313
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€ 53.05€ 42.14
€ 53.05
€ 42.14
Paperback. Describes the terrors of the Soviet occupation of the lands that made up eastern Poland between the two world wars: the Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia. This title offers an analysis of the revolution that came to Poland from abroad which is based on hundreds of first-hand accounts of the hardship, suffering, and social chaos. Num Pages: 408 pages, Illustrations, 1 map, ports. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 1DVUB; 1DVUK; 3JJH; HBJD; HBWQ; JPVR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 26. Weight in Grams: 644.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- Expanded edition with a New preface by the author
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691096032
- ISBN
- 9780691096032
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.56
€ 54.99
€ 39.56
Paperback. Why did the Soviet Union squander the political leverage afforded by its trade subsidy to Eastern Europe? Why did Soviet officials fail to bargain with resolve, to link subsidies to salient political issues, to make credible commitments, and to monitor the satellites' policies? This book answers these questions and others. Series: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVU; JPA; KCLT1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 237 x 18. Weight in Grams: 446.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691095981
- ISBN
- 9780691095981
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.69
€ 52.99
€ 37.69
Paperback. Analyzes the reconstitution of the Russian polity. This book looks at Russia's democratic transition at the local level. It explains why some of the political institutions in the Russian provinces weathered the monumental changes of the early 1990s better than others. Num Pages: 264 pages, 47 tables, 1 map, 6 line illus. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; JPR; KCB; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 22. Weight in Grams: 432.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691092812
- ISBN
- 9780691092812
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Condition: New
€ 53.05€ 42.00
€ 53.05
€ 42.00
Paperback. Shows how, beginning with Lenin, the Communists established a state monopoly of the media that absorbed literature, art, and science into a stylized and ritualistic public culture. This work explores the close relationship between language and the implementation of the Stalinist-Leninist program. Num Pages: 344 pages, 41 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1DVU; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; JFC; JPFC; JPVN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691088679
- ISBN
- 9780691088679
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Condition: New
€ 53.05€ 42.35
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€ 42.35
Paperback. When Hitler assumed power in 1933, he and other Nazis had firm ideas on what they called a racially pure "community of the people." This work includes eesays that explore the political strategies used by the Third Reich to gain support for its ideologies and programs, and each following essay concentrates on one group of outsiders. Editor(s): Gellately, Robert; Stoltzfus, Nathan. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691086842
- ISBN
- 9780691086842
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€ 53.05€ 42.00
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€ 42.00
Paperback. Examines the mutual impact of Britain's colonization of India on Indian and British culture. This title shows that national culture in both India and Britain developed in relation to their shared colonial experience and that notions of religion and secularity were crucial in imagining the modern nation in both countries. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FKA; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTQ; HRA; JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 162 x 12. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691074788
- ISBN
- 9780691074788
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 38.09
€ 52.99
€ 38.09
Paperback. Shows how enlightened aristocrats, reactionary romantics, and the theorists and victims of totalitarianism have variously fashioned their vision of Russian society in musical terms. This book focuses on four individual composers, each characterized both as a self-consciously Russian creator and as a European. Num Pages: 616 pages, 127 music exs., 11 figures, 3 diagrams. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; AV; CFP; HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 38. Weight in Grams: 876.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 600
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691070650
- ISBN
- 9780691070650
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Condition: New
€ 64.84€ 50.79
€ 64.84
€ 50.79
Paperback. Explores the staggering gap between the country's role in the terrors of war and its subsequent success as a democracy. Comprising original essays, this book begins by reexamining the nationalist, socialist, and liberal master narratives that have dominated the presentation of German history but are losing their hold. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBAH; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 398
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691059365
- ISBN
- 9780691059365
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Condition: New
€ 53.05€ 42.28
€ 53.05
€ 42.28
Paperback. Examines religious conversion. This book argues that conversion is an interpretive act that belongs in the realm of cultural criticism. It examines key moments in colonial and postcolonial history to show how conversion questions the limitations of secular ideologies, particularly the discourse of rights central to the British empire. Num Pages: 328 pages, 1 table 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HRAB; HRLK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 354
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691058993
- ISBN
- 9780691058993
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Condition: New
€ 53.05€ 42.11
€ 53.05
€ 42.11
Paperback. The horrors of the Great Famine (1315-1322), one of the severest catastrophes ever to strike northern Europe. This work provides a comprehensive inquiry into the Famine from Ireland to western Poland, from Scandinavia to central France and western Germany. Num Pages: 328 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB; JFFC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 235 x 22. Weight in Grams: 486.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691058917
- ISBN
- 9780691058917
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.62
€ 54.99
€ 39.62
Paperback. Features the lives of people - from German children fathered by black Occupation soldiers to communist activists, from surviving Jews to Turkish 'guest' workers, from young hoodlums to middle-class mothers. This book shows how they experienced and represented the institutions and social forces that shaped their lives and defined the wider culture. Editor(s): Schissler, Hanna. Num Pages: 448 pages, 3 tables, 22 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFGW; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; GTB; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 31. Weight in Grams: 740.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691058207
- ISBN
- 9780691058207
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Condition: New
€ 53.05€ 42.00
€ 53.05
€ 42.00
Hardback. Offers a view of opera buffa in the theatrical world of late-eighteenth-century Vienna. This book attributes opera buffa's success to its ability to provide 'sheer' pleasure and hence explores how the genre functioned as entertainment. It shows how the arias and ensembles convey a multifaceted picture of the repertory's social values and habits. Series: Princeton Studies in Opera. Num Pages: 312 pages, 54 music examples. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 2ADT; AVGC4; AVGC9; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 657.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691058122
- ISBN
- 9780691058122
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.49€ 97.61
€ 128.49
€ 97.61
Hardback. Open up to readers the humanistic panorama of medieval life as seen from the traveling court of a conqueror king. This work collects 500 charters that cover a kaleidoscope of topics, including public baths, castles, the renaissance of law, irrigation, mosques and monasteries, hospitals and banks, even exotic women. Num Pages: 600 pages, 7 maps. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3H; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 37. Weight in Grams: 942.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 592
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691054766
- ISBN
- 9780691054766
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Condition: New
€ 192.15€ 144.86
€ 192.15
€ 144.86
Hardback. Unfolding a panoramic history of medieval Valencia, this title presents a set of documents from the registers of Jaume the Conqueror at the Crown Archives in Barcelona. It focuses on 500 government charters covering the years 1264 to 1270, and the culmination of the king's warrior fame in Christendom. Num Pages: 592 pages, 7 halftones, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3H; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 43. Weight in Grams: 942.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 648
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691054759
- ISBN
- 9780691054759
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 192.15€ 145.11
€ 192.15
€ 145.11
Paperback. In the late 19th century, Scandinavian urban dwellers developed a passion for a modern sort of visual spectacle: objects and effigies brought to life in realistic scenes. The period 1880-1910 was the high point of mannequin display in Europe. This title explores this phenomenon. Num Pages: 352 pages, 77 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DND; 1DNN; 1DNS; ASZ; GM; HBT; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691050744
- ISBN
- 9780691050744
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Condition: New
€ 64.84€ 51.06
€ 64.84
€ 51.06
Paperback. A collection of essays, which explore the myriad appropriations of Jane Austen - adaptations, reviews, rewritings, and appreciations - that have been produced since her lifetime. Editor(s): Lynch, Deidre. Num Pages: 248 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 165 x 14. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691050065
- ISBN
- 9780691050065
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.64
€ 46.99
€ 33.64
paperback. Siegfried Kracauer has been misunderstood as a naive realist, appreciated as an astute critic of early German film, and noticed as the interesting exile who exchanged letters with Erwin Panofsky. This work presents an analysis, which covers both Kracauer's best-known publications and previously underexamined texts. Translator(s): Gaines, Jeremy. Num Pages: 200 pages, 1 line illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; APFA; APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 150
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691049922
- ISBN
- 9780691049922
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.49
€ 46.99
€ 33.49