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Paperback. Presents the international history of the Korean War which argues that by its timing, its course, and its outcome it functioned as a substitute for World War III. This work draws on materials, and the archives of the United Nations, presenting a narrative of the diplomacy of the conflict and an assessment of its critical role in the Cold War. Series: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics. Num Pages: 496 pages, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPK; HBG; HBJF; HBLW3; JPS; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 688.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
498
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691016245
ISBN
9780691016245
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.54

Hardback. The idea that Christianity started as a clandestine movement among the poor is a widely accepted notion. This book addresses beliefs and historical facts, and brings a sociologist's perspective to bear on the puzzle behind the success of early Christianity. It provides insights into why people convert and how new religious groups recruit members. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 halftones, 10 tables. BIC Classification: HBG; HRC; JH; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 165 x 21. Weight in Grams: 536.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691027494
ISBN
9780691027494
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 89.00
€ 68.36

Hardback. Deals with an unusually active, dramatic period during Thomas Jefferson's tenure as Secretary of State. Editor(s): Cullen, Charles T.; Boyd, Julian Parks. Series: Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Num Pages: 720 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGHA; HBG; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 171 x 301 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1214.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
723
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691047393
ISBN
9780691047393
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 168.51
€ 125.73

Hardback. Shows the Big Four in the midst of the gravest crisis of the peace conference set off by the British cabinet's demand for drastic softening of the terms of the peace treaty to be concluded with Germany. Editor(s): Link, Arthur S.; Hirst, David W. Series: The Papers of Woodrow Wilson. Num Pages: 712 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBG; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 52. Weight in Grams: 1142.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
752
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691047621
ISBN
9780691047621
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 168.51
€ 125.73

Hardback. Beginning with Wilson's tour of Belgium, this title then moves to the last days of the peace conference. A great wave of relief sweeps over council chambers in Paris when a new German government sends word that it will accept the peace treaty unconditionally: restoration of peace occurs with the signing of the treaty. Editor(s): Link, Arthur S.; Hirst, David W. Series: The Papers of Woodrow Wilson. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBG; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 52. Weight in Grams: 1142.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
620
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691047669
ISBN
9780691047669
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 168.51
€ 126.15

Paperback. Offering a look at the creative power of institutions, this book explores the rise of the modern idea of the artist in the 19th century, a period that also witnessed the emergence of the museum and the professional critic. Drawing upon neoclassical art and theory, it aims to bring to life the artistic passions and anxieties of an entire era. Num Pages: 328 pages, 54 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JH; ACV; DSBF; DSC; HBG; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 28. Weight in Grams: 608.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
382
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691049144
ISBN
9780691049144
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.33
€ 46.63

Paperback. Asks the question, what do states that win wars do with their newfound power and how do they use it to build order? The author argues that powerful countries do seek to build stable and cooperative relations, but the type of order that emerges hinges on their ability to make commitments and restrain power. Series: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics. Num Pages: 312 pages, 3 line illus., 12 tables. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691050911
ISBN
9780691050911
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.50

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 38.09

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691124094
ISBN
9780691124094
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.41

Paperback. On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran and took sixty-six Americans captive. Thus began the Iran Hostage Crisis. This book takes a look at the hostage crisis, examining its lessons for America's contemporary War on Terrorism. It includes fresh insights regarding the central players in the crisis. Series: Politics and Society in Modern America. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 1KBB; HBG; HBJF1; HBJK; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691127590
ISBN
9780691127590
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.51

Hardback. A collection of personal letters to friends from a foreign correspondent who is trying to understand what she witnessed during the iconic human disasters of our time - in Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and New York City on September 11th, among the other places. Series: Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity. Num Pages: 352 pages, 6 maps. BIC Classification: BJ; HBG; JFFE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 31. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691129037
ISBN
9780691129037
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.43

Hardback. The scholars have argued that the Roman Republic's political culture was democratic in nature, stressing the role of the 'sovereign' people and their assemblies. The author challenges this view, warning that this trend threatens to become an orthodoxy, and defending that the republic was a Roman, oligarchic and aristocratic political form. Translator(s): Heitmann-Gordon, Henry. Num Pages: 232 pages, 4 halftones. 2 line illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBG; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
Revised, Updated
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691140384
ISBN
9780691140384
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.33
€ 46.57

Hardback. Editor(s): Miller, Joseph C. Num Pages: 568 pages, 24 halftones. 1 line illus. 5 maps. BIC Classification: 3J; HBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 261 x 182 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1164.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Edition
Vincent Brown, Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, Laurent D
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691148533
ISBN
9780691148533
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.90

Hardback. Offers conceptual vocabularies for understanding how cultures have trespassed across geography and social space. This title challenges the premise of fixed, stable cultural systems by showing that cultural practices have always been moving, crossing borders and locations with often surprising effect. Editor(s): Rodgers, Daniel T.; Raman, Bhavani; Reimitz, Helmut. Series: Publications in Partnership with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University. Num Pages: 384 pages, 28 halftones. BIC Classification: HBG; JFC; JFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 170 x 28. Weight in Grams: 684.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
First Edition, First Printing
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691159096
ISBN
9780691159096
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.40
€ 42.00

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 466 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HPC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1028.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691641959
ISBN
9780691641959
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 198.17
€ 147.86

Hardback. Underworlds is a lively account of organized crime and the world of marginal groups in the seventeenth-- and eighteenth--century Netherlands. Rural banditry has often been associated with mountainous, poverty--stricken areas located at the peripheries of the European continent or on the borders between states. Num Pages: 268 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDN; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBG; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL; HBTB; JFSF; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 565.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745606446
ISBN
9780745606446
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.49

Paperback. aeo An original and provocative book that challenges traditional theories on the meaning of revolution. aeoDrews a range of disciplinary approaches imaginatively together. aeo A wide variety of case studies reinforce and illuminate the authora s arguments. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTV; JFFE; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 151 x 227 x 14. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745611365
ISBN
9780745611365
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.74

Paperback. aeo Georges Duby is one of the most outstanding medieval historians in the world today. aeo This is an important book on the themes of love and marriage in the Middle Ages. aeo The hardback edition was widely reviewed and sold well. Num Pages: 240 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBG; HBLC; HBTB; JFC; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745614793
ISBN
9780745614793
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.80

Hardback. In this volume, one of the greatest medieval historians of our time continues his rich and illuminating enquiry into the lives of twelfth-century women. Georges Duby bases his account here on a twelfth-century genre which commemorated the virtues of noblewomen who had died, and the roles they had played in the history of their lineage. Num Pages: 160 pages, geneal tables. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HBG; HBLC; HBTG; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
Volume 2
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745617893
ISBN
9780745617893
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.52

Hardback. This comprehensive introduction to the study of war and genocide presents a disturbing case that the potential for slaughter is deeply rooted in the political, economic, social and ideological relations of the modern world. Most accounts of war and genocide treat them as separate phenomena. Num Pages: 272 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 3JJ; 3JM; HBG; HBLW; HBTZ; JFFE; JHBA; JPA; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745619064
ISBN
9780745619064
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.84

Hardback. This authoritative new book offers a panoramic overview on health and healthy living from classical Antiquity through to the mid-nineteenth century. Klaus Bergdolt offers the reader a thoroughly researched and a well exemplified examination of the numerous historical manifestations of 'dietetics'. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 162 x 29. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745629131
ISBN
9780745629131
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.17

Paperback. This authoritative new book offers a panoramic overview on health and healthy living from classical Antiquity through to the mid-nineteenth century. Klaus Bergdolt offers the reader a thoroughly researched and a well exemplified examination of the numerous historical manifestations of 'dietetics'. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 30. Weight in Grams: 548.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745629148
ISBN
9780745629148
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.10

Hardback. Everywhere, the twentieth century has been judged and condemned: the century of totalitarian terror, of utopian and criminal ideologies, of empty illusions, of genocides, of false avant-gardes, of democratic realism everywhere replaced by abstraction. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBG; HBLW; HP; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 536.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745636313
ISBN
9780745636313
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.62

Hardback. The first study to explore the full spectrum of peace and peacemaking from our evolutionary origins to contemporary times. Examples include diplomatic, pacifist, non-violent, disarmament and anti-war movements, from across the globe. The diversity of peace and peacemaking presented challenges the notions that peace is solely the absence of war. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: GTJ; HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 237 x 31. Weight in Grams: 608.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745641256
ISBN
9780745641256
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.84

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