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Paperback. Exploring the final decade of each century from the 15th to the 20th, this work investigates factors such as cultural and economic attitudes, and artistic, scientific and political change. It finds that a consciousness of time has influenced the way people perceive their place in history. Num Pages: 256 pages, 84 b&w illustrations, 34 colour plates. BIC Classification: 3H; 3J; HBG; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 168 x 243 x 17. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300082630
- ISBN
- 9780300082630
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.29
€ 19.99
€ 16.29
Illustrating Empire: A Visual History of British Imperialism (The Bodl...
Ashley Jackson & David Tomkins
paperback. Illustrating Empire tells the history of the British Empire through the ephemeral images used to promote, record, and celebrate its development. The narrative is told through more than 200 striking and original images accompanied by illuminating story captions which unlock the history and meaning behind the illustrations. Series: Visual History from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera. Num Pages: 224 pages, 228 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDB; HBG; HBTQ; WCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 213 x 21. Weight in Grams: 886. A Visual History of British Imperialism. Series: Visual History from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera. 224 pages, 228 colour illustrations. Illustrating Empire tells the history of the British Empire through the ephemeral images used to promote, record, and celebrate its development. The narrative is told through more than 200 striking and original images accompanied by illuminating story captions which unlock the history and meaning behind the illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1QDB; HBG; HBTQ; WCS. Dimension: 229 x 213 x 21. Weight: 894.
- Publisher
- Bodleian Library
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781851243341
- ISBN
- 9781851243341
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.67
€ 26.99
€ 20.67
Paperback. This book provides a text, translation and detailed commentary for this seminal work for the study of Roman history. Num Pages: 331 pages, 34 b/w illus. 5 maps. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 245 x 174 x 17. Weight in Grams: 584. Text, Translation and Commentary. 336 pages, 34 b/w illus. 5 maps. This 2009 book provides a text, translation and detailed commentary for this seminal work for the study of Roman history. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: HBG; HBLA. Dimension: 245 x 174 x 17. Weight: 618.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521601283
- ISBN
- 9780521601283
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Condition: New
€ 35.00
€ 35.00
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Languages at War. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AD; CFB; HBG; HBJD; HBTB; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349453030
- ISBN
- 9781349453030
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Condition: New
€ 65.68
€ 65.68
Hardback. In sections covering the new-born infant, child education, and child mortality, this book deals with images of children, with adults' attitudes towards them, and with concepts of childhood as reflected in legal, theological, philosophical, and medical writings from Medieval Muslim society. Series: St Antony's Series. Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLC; JFSP1; JFSP2; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333555989
- ISBN
- 9780333555989
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Condition: New
€ 193.66
€ 193.66
Paperback. In this truly global study, Azar Gat sets out to unravel the 'riddle of war' throughout human history, from the early hunter-gatherers right through to the unconventional terrorism of the twenty-first century. Num Pages: 840 pages, 55 black and white halftones, 4 maps, 2 tables. BIC Classification: HBG; HBW; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 159 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1248.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 840
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199236633
- ISBN
- 9780199236633
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Condition: New
€ 49.66
€ 49.66
Paperback. This collection addresses the recent rebirth of interest in immigrant letters. As these letters are increasingly seen as key, rather than incidental, documents in the interpretations of gender, age, social class, and ethnicity/nationality, the scholars gathered here demonstrate a diversity of new approaches to their interpretation. Editor(s): Elliot, B. Num Pages: 325 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: D; HBAH; HBG; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 325
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349532636
- ISBN
- 9781349532636
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Condition: New
€ 138.78
€ 138.78
Paperback. This collection of essays offers fresh analysis of topics in the exciting area of Atlantic World studies. Challenging standard assumptions, the essays advance the argument that the Atlantic Ocean was a region that encompassed ethnic and political boundaries, in which a sub-community shaped by culture and commerce arose. Editor(s): Hudson, B. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBG; HBJD; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 425.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349298921
- ISBN
- 9781349298921
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This book by world-expert Barry Gough examines the period of Pax Britannica, in the century before World War I. Following events of those 100 years, the book follows how the British failed to maintain their global hegemony of sea power in the face of continental challenges. Series: Britain and the World. Num Pages: 404 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD1; HBL; HBTQ; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 617.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 404
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349346349
- ISBN
- 9781349346349
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Condition: New
€ 48.87
€ 48.87
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; HBG; HBLC; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 207 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- 5th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801484858
- ISBN
- 9780801484858
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Paperback. A study of homoerotic life on board ships in the Royal Navy in the age of fighting sail. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD1; HBL; HBW; JFSJ; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 339.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349357031
- ISBN
- 9781349357031
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Condition: New
€ 138.78
€ 138.78
Paperback. Weber contributes to the ongoing scholarly discussion about Islam in the West, demonstrating how current thinking about gender violence prohibits the intellectual inquiry necessary to act against such violence, and analyzes ways in which Muslim women participate in the public sphere by thematizing violence in literature, art, and media. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBG; HBJD; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349435258
- ISBN
- 9781349435258
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Condition: New
€ 66.10
€ 66.10
Hardback. A detailed examination of the role of two critical non-state groups in the Liberian Civil War peace process - the diaspora and the religious - that provides key insights for policymakers and NGOs into the roles that civil society actors can play in conflict resolution and peacemaking. Series: Western Africa Series. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Publisher
- James Currey
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847011589
- ISBN
- 9781847011589
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Condition: New
€ 98.73
€ 98.73
Paperback. This reader on world history emphasizes the centrality of raced, sexed, and classed bodies as sites on which imperial power was imagined and exercised, in order to examine the effects of global politics, capital and culture on everyday spaces and local cultural encounters Editor(s): Ballantyne, Tony; Burton, Antoinette. Num Pages: 464 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 166 x 29. Weight in Grams: 653.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822334675
- ISBN
- 9780822334675
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.13
€ 34.99
€ 32.13
Paperback. Investigating how intimacy is constructed across the restless world of empire Editor(s): Ballantyne, Tony; Burton, Antoinette. Num Pages: 368 pages, 7 photographs. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252075681
- ISBN
- 9780252075681
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Hardback. A pioneering volume comparing the great historical empires, such as the Roman, Mughal and Ottoman. Leading interdisciplinary thinkers study tributary empires from diverse perspectives, illuminating the importance of these earlier forms of imperialism to broaden our perspective on modern concerns about empire and the legacy of colonialism. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 308 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; HBTQ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 597.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230294721
- ISBN
- 9780230294721
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.79
€ 150.79
The Loyal Atlantic. Remaking the British Atlantic in the Revolutionary...
Bannister, Jerry; Riordan, Liam. Ed(S): Banni...
Featuring contributions by authors from across Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom, The Loyal Atlantic brings Loyalism into a genuinely international focus. Editor(s): Bannister, Jerry; Riordan, Liam. Num Pages: 288 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1QDB; 3JF; HBG; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 29. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442642089
- ISBN
- 9781442642089
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Condition: New
€ 74.51
€ 74.51
Hardback. Chronicles the history of a Communist-led resistance movement inside the Minsk ghetto, which, through its links to its Belarussian counterpart outside the ghetto and with help from others, enabled thousands of ghetto Jews to flee to the surrounding forests where they joined partisan units fighting the Germans. Num Pages: 376 pages, 23 b/w photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: HBG; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 165 x 28. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520242425
- ISBN
- 9780520242425
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.42€ 65.36
€ 84.42
€ 65.36
Paperback. Using data on every civil war fought between 1940 and 1992, the author details the conditions that lead combatants to partake in what she defines as a three-step process - the decision on whether to initiate negotiations, to compromise, and, finally, to implement any resulting terms. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: GTJ; HBG; HBLW3; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 161 x 236 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691089317
- ISBN
- 9780691089317
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 38.30
€ 52.99
€ 38.30
hardcover. Editor(s): Rosenwein, Barbara H. Num Pages: 272 pages, 12. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBLC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780801432668
- ISBN
- 9780801432668
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.77
€ 140.77