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Hardcover. The book brings together many recent trends in writing history under a common framework: thinking history globally. By thinking history globally, the book explains, applies, and exemplifies the four basic strategies of analysis, the big C's: comparing, connecting, conceptualizing, and contextualizing, using twelve different branches of history. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBA; HBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 515.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230361027
ISBN
9780230361027
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.21

Paperback. The book brings together many recent trends in writing history under a common framework: thinking history globally. By thinking history globally, the book explains, applies, and exemplifies the four basic strategies of analysis, the big C's: comparing, connecting, conceptualizing, and contextualizing, using twelve different branches of history. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBA; HBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 234 x 13. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137473387
ISBN
9781137473387
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 149.28

Paperback. This book presents some in-depth cases regarding specific informal economic activities in Brazil. Using an ethnographic approach, the author shows the social and economic processes that allow the informal economy to be reproduced, revealing the complex and heterogeneous relations between the formal and the informal parts of economy. Num Pages: 270 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; JFC; JFF; JHB; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2010
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349380831
ISBN
9781349380831
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. The atomic age was described as one that might soon end in the destruction of human civilization, but from the beginning, utopian images were attached to it as well. This book compares representations of nuclear power in popular media from around the world to to trace divergences, convergences, and exchanges. Editor(s): Van Lente, Dick. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 290 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJK; HBTB; PDX; RNQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349343645
ISBN
9781349343645
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 138.85

Paperback. In 1631 Barbary pirates kidnapped the inhabitants of Baltimore, West Cork in a daring night time raid. Only two of them ever returned. Here is the story of their kidnap, sale in the slave markets of Algiers and the political fallout from the attack. Num Pages: 488 pages, 12 black & white halftones, 4 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 3JD; HBG; HBLH; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 134 x 31. Weight in Grams: 366.
Publisher
O'Brien Press
Number of pages
488
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847171047
ISBN
9781847171047
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 13.21

Paperback. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJF; HBL; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 325.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349267019
ISBN
9781349267019
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.10

Paperback. New for the 2008 specifications, this title includes material from the causes of the First World War to the conflict in Iraq. Includes historical interpretations, document source questions, explanation of difficult words and concepts, a study skills section for exam preparation and a companion website with visuals to support learning. Series: Flagship History. Num Pages: 216 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; 4KL; HBG; HBLW; JPS. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 265 x 192 x 10. Weight in Grams: 530.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007268719
ISBN
9780007268719
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 35.00

Paperback. Num Pages: 383 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD1; HBTQ; HBWQ; JW; TJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 609.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
383
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349130627
ISBN
9781349130627
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 139.86

paperback. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBL; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 311.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 1994
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349236022
ISBN
9781349236022
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.01

Hardcover. The Royal Navy in World War II is a comprehensive annotated bibliography of all monographs describing the role of British, Dominion, and minor allied forces in the naval war against the Axis. Editor(s): Gordon, Martin. Num Pages: 688 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 3JJH; GBCR; HBG; HBWQ; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 140 x 43. Weight in Grams: 924.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Edition
Second Edition
Number of pages
688
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810845343
ISBN
9780810845343
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 199.42

Paperback. A collection of primary, secondary, and visual sources for the Western Civilization survey course that provides an introduction to the materials historians use, the interpretations historians make, and 6,000 years of Western civilization. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, colour illustrations, diagrams, figure. BIC Classification: 1QFH; HBG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 274 x 213 x 11. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe United States
Edition
8 Rev ed
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780077382391
ISBN
9780077382391
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 194.17

Hardback. Num Pages: 270 pages, 5 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLX; JFCX; JFSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319325668
ISBN
9783319325668
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.90

Paperback. Library markings to spine, with usual markings inside. However, remains in a good to very good condition
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Veritas Publications
Number of pages
48
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
SKU
KLJ0006601
ISBN
9781853904028
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Investigates time and its contours as described by the ancient Romans, first as Rome positioned itself in relation to Greece and then as it exerted its influence as a major world power. This book examines the most important of the ancient world's time divisions, that between myth and history. Series: Sather Classical Lectures. Num Pages: 392 pages, 12 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 24. Weight in Grams: 544. Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History. Series: Sather Classical Lectures. 392 pages, Illustrations. Investigates time and its contours as described by the ancient Romans, first as Rome positioned itself in relation to Greece and then as it exerted its influence as a major world power. This book examines the most important of the ancient world's time divisions, that between myth and history. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLA. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 24. Weight: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520258013
ISBN
9780520258013
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 23.31

Paperback.
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Veritas Publications
Number of pages
48
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
SKU
KNH0013234
ISBN
9781853904028
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Hardback. Deirdre Coleman shows how the growing popularity of the anti-slavery movement gave a utopian cast to the debate about colonization. Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; HBG; HBLL; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 26. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521632133
ISBN
9780521632133
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 125.46

paperback. Drawing on official records, contemporary writing and oral history, the author examines the myth and reality of women's "experience of war" and argues that the effect of war-work has changed but not improved their working lives. Series: Social and Cultural History Today. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJF; HBG; HBJD; HBWN; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
I.B.Tauris United Kingdom
Edition
New
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781860644771
ISBN
9781860644771
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.34

Paperback. Features the essays that consider how Western societies think about and use goods, how goods shape female, as well as male, identities, how labor in the family came to be divided between a male breadwinner and a female consumer, and how fashion and cosmetics shape women's notions of themselves and the society in which they live. Editor(s): Grazia, Victoria De; Furlough, Ellen. Num Pages: 443 pages, 44 b&w photographs, 13 tables. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
443
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520201972
ISBN
9780520201972
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.56

Paperback. In this controversial new account of the history of medicine, David Wootton argues that, from the fifth century BC until the 1930s, doctors actually did more harm than good, and asks just how much harm they still do today. Num Pages: 336 pages, 32 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: HBG; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 352.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199212798
ISBN
9780199212798
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.77

Paperback. A major new account of the role and performance of the American army in the First World War. Series: Armies of the Great War. Num Pages: 481 pages, 27 b/w illus. 13 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJF; HBG; HBLW; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 22. Weight in Grams: 784.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107648869
ISBN
9781107648869
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 40.17

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