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General & world history
The memoir of a woman who served not only in the Women's Army A uxiliary Corps but the American Red Cross as well during both World War II and the ensuing occupation. Num Pages: 211 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBWQ; JFSJ1; JWD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 211
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813118666
- ISBN
- 9780813118666
Condition: New
€ 34.11
€ 34.11
Paperback. This work examines historical and philosophical background to the current turning point of history. The author brings together hermeneutics and history, philosophy and politics in a thought-provoking synthesis which should interest politicians, diplomats and economic development specialists. Num Pages: 328 pages, notes, bibliography. BIC Classification: HBG; JPS; KCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761817246
- ISBN
- 9780761817246
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 73.12
€ 73.12
Paperback. A compelling account of a crucial year in post-war history, in the tradition of Margaret MacMillan's award-winning and bestselling The Peacemakers. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJPG; HBG; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 31. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Publisher
- Pan Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Main Market
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780330544856
- ISBN
- 9780330544856
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.02
€ 19.99
€ 15.02
Paperback. Num Pages: 616 pages. BIC Classification: AC; AMX; HBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 246 x 189. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781350012721
- ISBN
- 9781350012721
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.75
€ 47.75
Paperback. Num Pages: 968 pages. BIC Classification: AC; AMX; HBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 246 x 189. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- NIP
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781350012738
- ISBN
- 9781350012738
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.49
€ 47.49
paperback. A history of the rise to dominance of the West, exploring the links between cultural values and military success. It studies nine major clashes between West and non-West, arguing that the West won not just because of technology, but because of its focus on individualism and democratic rights. Num Pages: 512 pages, 25 line drawings. BIC Classification: HBG; HBT; JFC; JFFE; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 133 x 39. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Publisher
- Faber Non Fiction
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571216406
- ISBN
- 9780571216406
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.45
€ 26.99
€ 18.45
Paperback. Series: Studies in European History. Num Pages: 128 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Publisher
- Macmillan Education UK
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137385345
- ISBN
- 9781137385345
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.34
€ 38.34
Paperback. This book makes a unique contribution to the renewed debate about empire and imperialism and will be of great interest to all those concerned with understanding the historical antecedents and wider implications of today's emergent liberal interventionism, and the various logics of international development. Editor(s): Duffield, Mark R.; Hewitt, Vernon. Num Pages: 226 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- James Currey
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847010773
- ISBN
- 9781847010773
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.04
€ 27.04
Hardcover. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DFG; 1KBB; 3JJH; HBG; HBJD; HBWQ; JWXR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 335.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403911698
- ISBN
- 9781403911698
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.93
€ 127.93
Paperback. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Edition
- First Paperback
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813547053
- ISBN
- 9780813547053
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 46.64
€ 50.99
€ 46.64
Hardcover. As railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor discrepancies in local time-telling became a global problem. Vanessa Ogle s chronicle of the struggle to standardize clock times and calendars from 1870 to 1950 highlights the many hurdles that proponents of uniformity faced." Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBG; JFFS; PDX; PGZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 244 x 26. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674286146
- ISBN
- 9780674286146
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 45.46
€ 53.99
€ 45.46
Paperback. How was anti-communism organised in the West? This book covers the agents, aims, and arguments of various transnational anti-communist activists during the Cold War. Existing narratives often place the United States - and especially the CIA - at the centre of anti-communist activity. The book instead opens up new fields of research transnationally. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 292 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJK; HBL; HBTB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349482146
- ISBN
- 9781349482146
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 149.87
€ 149.87
Paperback. This is the first study of the aims that motivated the major powers -- the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, Germany and Japan -- to fight in the Second World War. Series: Societies at War. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 3JJH; HBG; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748615032
- ISBN
- 9780748615032
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 37.73
€ 42.99
€ 37.73
Paperback. A translation of a key medieval Arabic text that bears directly on the Crusades and Crusader society and the Muslim experience of them. Editor(s): Cobb, Paul M. Translator(s): Cobb, Paul M. Num Pages: 400 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 3H; HBG; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140455137
- ISBN
- 9780140455137
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Hardback. Bringing together an international range of experts in the history of China, Japan, India and the Ottoman Empire/Turkey, this pioneering volume demonstrates the importance of Asia in the multifaceted global transformations that revolved around the Paris Peace Conference and its aftermath. Editor(s): Zachmann, Urs Matthias. Series: Edinburgh East Asian Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 16 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBT; JH; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474417167
- ISBN
- 9781474417167
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.66€ 103.50
€ 111.66
€ 103.50
Paperback. This publication speaks to the people of our planet, Urantia, and offers an organized record of mankind's origin, history and destiny. It tells about Deity, the relationship of our planet to the universe, the genesis and destiny of man and his relation to God, and the teachings of Jesus Christ. Editor(s): Urantia Foundation. Num Pages: 2097 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HRCC2; HRCM; PGK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1214.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Urantia Foundation United States
- Edition
- 2nd
- Number of pages
- 2097
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780911560510
- ISBN
- 9780911560510
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.02
€ 26.02
Hardcover. This volume presents nineteenth-century diplomacy as both a real world experience and a structural element in international relations. All sixteen essays share an interest in diplomatic culture and its relevance to official and sometimes not so official interstate relations from the Congress of Vienna to the outbreak of the First World War. Editor(s): Mosslang, Markus; Riotte, Torsten. Series: Studies of the German Historical Institute, London. Num Pages: 486 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD; HBJD1; HBLL; JPSD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 32. Weight in Grams: 719.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 486
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199548675
- ISBN
- 9780199548675
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 190.52
€ 190.52
Paperback. Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. This volume tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of the unprecedented calamaties of World War II. Series: Oxford History of the United States. Num Pages: 528 pages, 16pp halftone plates. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 770.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 506
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195168938
- ISBN
- 9780195168938
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.28
€ 26.28
Paperback. This text contends that Helen of Troy, and in particular the use of her image, is a crucial emblem for much of Western thought and literature and suggests that it has been stolen, appropriated, imitated, extorted and coveted throughout the course of history. Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HBG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299171247
- ISBN
- 9780299171247
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.24
€ 27.24
Paperback. A classic wartime trilogy originally published in the 1960s, this book is the author's account of his service on HMAS Perth, his account of life as a POW in Burma and coal mining in Nagasaki before the atom bomb freed them. Num Pages: 951 pages, line drawings. BIC Classification: 1M; BTM; HBG; HBW; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 145 x 53. Weight in Grams: 1236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Melbourne University Press Australia
- Number of pages
- 951
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780522850673
- ISBN
- 9780522850673
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.55
€ 61.55
Paperback. On October 24, 1929, America met the greatest economic devastation it had ever known. In this first installment of his Pulitzer Prize- winning Freedom from Fear, Kennedy tells how America endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of that unprecedented calamity. Series: Oxford History of the United States. Num Pages: 504 pages, 16pp halftone plates. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 31. Weight in Grams: 768.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195168921
- ISBN
- 9780195168921
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 25.66
€ 25.99
€ 25.66
Paperback. Henrik Bogdan and Martin P. Starr offer the first comprehensive examination of one of the twentieth century's most distinctive occult iconoclasts, Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), one of the most influential thinkers in contemporary western esotericism. Editor(s): Bogdan, Henrik; Starr, Martin P. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBLW; HRQC; HRQX2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 153 x 29. Weight in Grams: 638.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 2012th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199863099
- ISBN
- 9780199863099
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.42
€ 69.42
paperback. A summary of mediaeval aesthetic ideas, by Italian novelist and playwright Umberto Eco. Juxtaposing theology and science, poetry and mysticism, Eco explores the relationship that existed between the aesthetic theories and the artistic experience and practice of mediaeval culture. Translator(s): Bredin, Hugh. Series: Yale Nota Bene. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 3F; 3H; ABA; ACK; ACN; HBG; HBLC; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 194 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 122.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300093049
- ISBN
- 9780300093049
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.76
€ 14.99
€ 12.76
Paperback. Based on the rich museum collections of Harvard University, Tangible Things challenges rigid distinctions between history, anthropology, science, and the arts. Through 20 entertaining and inspiring case studies it demonstrates that almost any material thing, when examined closely, can be a link between present and past. Num Pages: 280 pages, 200 illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JFCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 257 x 179 x 13. Weight in Grams: 686.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199382286
- ISBN
- 9780199382286
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.50
€ 56.50