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General & world history
Hardcover. This volume compares archaic rituals across civilizations, exploring theoretical models and interpretations for a variety of cultures and ritual practices, focusing especially on the location, frequency, and role of ritual in each of these societies and their resulting archaeological signatures. Editor(s): Murphy, Joanne M. Num Pages: 320 pages, 28 black & white illustrations, 11 maps, 2 tables. BIC Classification: HBG; HD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 585.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813062785
- ISBN
- 9780813062785
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.70
€ 96.70
Hardback. The Two-Can Discovery Guides series is a fantastic way to discover the worlds of history, nature and science. The book is filled with activities that challenge kids to try out ideas for themselves. Quiz questions encourage kids to look closely at each page, and this series is perfect for either home or school use. Series: Two-Can Discovery Guides (Hardcover). Num Pages: 32 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 278 x 233 x 9. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Two-Can Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 32
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781587282355
- ISBN
- 9781587282355
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 14.13
€ 14.13
Hardcover. With a blend of narrative and analysis, this book explores the extent to which mercenaries have been used, from Sumer to Rome, and the reasons governments hired them when they could conscript native citizens. Num Pages: 316 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDA; HBG; HBLA; HBTB; JWXN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 241 x 25. Weight in Grams: 604. Clean copy in fine dustjacket with shelf wear. Some sunning to spine and minor tearing and edgewear to DJ. All illustrations present. In very good condition
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Constable
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0000025
- ISBN
- 9780094757509
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Explores a rare system of colonialism in Middle Belt Nigeria, where the British outsourced the business of the empire to Hausa-Fulani subcolonials because they considered the area too uncivilized for Indirect Rule. Num Pages: 294 pages, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1H; 1HFD; GTB; HBG; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253011602
- ISBN
- 9780253011602
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.22
€ 92.22
Paperback. The Global History of Childhood Reader provides an essential collection of chapters and articles on the global history of childhood. Editor(s): Morrison, Heidi. Series: Routledge Readers in History. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; JFSP1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 173 x 17. Weight in Grams: 896.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415782494
- ISBN
- 9780415782494
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.34
€ 71.34
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 243
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New ed of 2 Revised ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872204966
- ISBN
- 9780872204966
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.60
€ 25.99
€ 19.60
Paperback. A study of the use of propaganda in Mexico during WWII to promote a policy of national unity and patriotism. It examines the pervasive domestic and foreign propaganda strategies in Mexico during World War II and their impact on Mexican culture, charting the evolution of these campaigns through popular culture, advertisements, and art. Series: The Mexican Experience. Num Pages: 384 pages, 29 illustrations, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBG; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 214 x 21. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803224551
- ISBN
- 9780803224551
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.89
€ 32.99
€ 29.89
Hardback. European colonial conquest included many instances of indigenous peoples being exterminated. Cases where invading commercial stock farmers clashed with hunter-gatherers were particularly destructive, often resulting in a degree of dispossession and slaughter that destroyed the ability of these societies to reproduce themselves. Editor(s): Adhikari, Mohaemd. Series: War and Genocide. Num Pages: 370 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTQ; HBTZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 29. Weight in Grams: 772.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782387381
- ISBN
- 9781782387381
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 183.57
€ 183.57
Hardcover. Good clean copy with some shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Prion
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- SKU
- KI20002724
- ISBN
- 9781853757501
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. This text covers medical thought from antiquity through to the Middle Ages, reconstructing the slow transformation and sudden changes in theory and practice that marked the birth and early development of Western medicine. Editor(s): Grmek, Mirko D. Translator(s): Shugaar, Antony. Num Pages: 496 pages, 1 line illustration, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 3D; 3F; 3H; HBG; HBLA; HBLC; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 151 x 27. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674007956
- ISBN
- 9780674007956
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.21
€ 45.99
€ 38.21
Paperback. Presents a collection of letters by a member of the legendary 442nd Combat Team, which served in Italy and France during World War II. Written to his wife by a medic serving with the segregated Japanese American unit, the letters featured in this book describe a soldier's daily life. Editor(s): Bridgman, Dianne; Masuda, Hana. Series: The Scott & Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 16 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1F; 1K; GTB; HBG; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295987453
- ISBN
- 9780295987453
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.38
€ 32.99
€ 29.38
Paperback. This author draws upon his personal experience in the Middle East and many recent trips as correspondent for "The New Yorker" to take the reader into the aspirations, fears, prejudices, hopes and convictions of the inhabitants of seven key countries and those without a country - the Palestinians. Series: Contemporary Issues in the Middle East. Num Pages: 452 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1Q; BG; HBG; JFC; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 603.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- First Thus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815603627
- ISBN
- 9780815603627
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.57
€ 24.57
Paperback. A history of the British Royal Marines twelve-year occupation of San Juan Island. Num Pages: 112 pages, illus., bibliog., index. BIC Classification: 1K; GTB; HBG; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 4531 x 5830 x 8. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780914019466
- ISBN
- 9780914019466
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.35
€ 22.35
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199688340
- ISBN
- 9780199688340
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.65
€ 13.99
€ 11.65
Paperback. Port cities were the means through which cultural and economic exchange took place between continental societies and the maritime world. In examining the ports of Brazil, the Caribbean and West Africa, this volume will provide fresh insight into the meaning of the 'First Globalisation'. Editor(s): Suarez Bosa, Miguel. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBL; HBTQ; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 203
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349460311
- ISBN
- 9781349460311
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.60
€ 68.60
Paperback. This text, Volume Four in a series on the evolution of private life, covers the development of self-consciousness from the tumult of the French Revolution to the outbreak of World War I, a century and a quarter of rapid, ungovernable change culminating in a conflict that altered life in the West. Editor(s): Aries, Philippe; Duby, Georges. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur. Series: History of private life. Num Pages: 744 pages, 16 color illustrations, 406 halftones. BIC Classification: 1Q; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBG; HBTB; JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 178 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 744
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674400030
- ISBN
- 9780674400030
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.70€ 50.59
€ 54.70
€ 50.59
Hardcover. Num Pages: 222 pages, tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; HBG; HBJK; JP; KCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 262 x 189 x 21. Weight in Grams: 664.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590336212
- ISBN
- 9781590336212
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.70€ 83.90
€ 110.70
€ 83.90
Paperback. Num Pages: 424 pages, 18 photographs, 2 maps, notes, glossary, index. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJK; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803259959
- ISBN
- 9780803259959
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 22.82
€ 24.99
€ 22.82
Hardback. An assessment of how important the sea was in the middle ages. Num Pages: 1086 pages, 48 black & white illustrations, 33 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 3F; 3H; HBG; HBLC1; HBTM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 169 x 243 x 56. Weight in Grams: 1562.
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783271597
- ISBN
- 9781783271597
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 182.10
€ 182.10
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 136 x 19. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 2nd Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807080535
- ISBN
- 9780807080535
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 18.44
€ 23.99
€ 18.44
Paperback. Offers a study of those at the centre of Western civilization's vision of the world - the Enlightenment: nobles, priests, functionaries, men of letters, artists, explorers, soldiers and women. This book examines the fundamental structures of society, and attitudes to birth, death and sexuality. Editor(s): Vovelle, Michel. Translator(s): Cochrane, Lydia G. Num Pages: 460 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; HBG; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 634.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 460
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226865706
- ISBN
- 9780226865706
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.52€ 50.90
€ 59.52
€ 50.90
Paperback. Asks questions such as: what is civilization? Did it mean the same to the Chinese, the Indians and the Greeks? What can the values of the ancient cultures teach us today? And, do the ideals of the West - a latecomer to civilization - really have universal validity? This title explores these ancient cultures, looking for their essential character. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLA; HDD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 162.
- Publisher
- Ebury Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- Mass Market Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780563522669
- ISBN
- 9780563522669
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.90
€ 21.99
€ 16.90
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJP; HBG; HBLW3; HRAM2; JPV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 210 x 25. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300223637
- ISBN
- 9780300223637
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.39
€ 18.99
€ 15.39
Paperback. Series: Cornell Studies in Comparative History. Num Pages: 408 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1Q; HBG; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801493348
- ISBN
- 9780801493348
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.30
€ 40.99
€ 36.30