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General & world history
Paperback. An entertaining, impassioned polemic on the retreat of reason in the late 20th century. An intellectual call to arms, Francis Wheen's Sunday Times bestseller is one of 2004's most talked about books. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 3JM; HBG; HBLW; HBTB; JFCX; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007140978
- ISBN
- 9780007140978
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.36
€ 16.99
€ 13.36
Hardcover. In this book, the first written about the globalization of the English language by a professional historian, the exploration of English's global ascendancy receives its proper historical due. This brief, accessible volume breaks new ground in its organization, emphasis on causation, and conclusions. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CBX; CFB; CFF; HBG; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 405.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137303059
- ISBN
- 9781137303059
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 121.49
€ 121.49
Hardcover. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 264 x 186 x 20. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781621006046
- ISBN
- 9781621006046
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 241.35€ 163.84
€ 241.35
€ 163.84
Hardback. This book aims to advance our understanding of household and family religion in Mediterranean and West Asian antiquity, as opposed to state-sponsored or civic temple cults. The volume explores the new recognition that religious expression associated with household, family, and domicile is significant and must be investigated in a serious way. Editor(s): Bodel, John; Olyan, Saul M. Series: Ancient World: Comparative Histories. Num Pages: 346 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLA; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 248 x 169 x 24. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 346
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405175791
- ISBN
- 9781405175791
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.90
€ 129.90
Paperback. Focusing on the way Jewish history - particularly the Holocaust - and tradition inform postwar Canadian and American Jewish literature, this text highlights their concerns and work in the context of the broader traditions of mulitculturalism, postcolonial writing, and critical theory. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HBG; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780773516656
- ISBN
- 9780773516656
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.23
€ 40.99
€ 36.23
Paperback. This updated edition confirms Solnit's seminal work as a timeless classic on politics and change Series: Canons. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBG; HBLW; HBTB; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 134.
- Publisher
- Canongate Canons
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- First Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782119074
- ISBN
- 9781782119074
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.46
€ 13.00
€ 11.46
Paperback. Tzvetan Todorov's book examines the history of the past century by analyzing its spectacular political conflicts and by offering moving profiles of individuals who, at great personal cost, resisted the strictures of the communist and Nazi regimes. . Translator(s): Bellos, David. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBG; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 141 x 28. Weight in Grams: 468. Reflections on the Twentieth Century. 304 pages. Tzvetan Todorov's book examines the history of the past century by analyzing its spectacular political conflicts and by offering moving profiles of individuals who, at great personal cost, resisted the strictures of the communist and Nazi regimes. . Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBG; HBLW. Dimension: 214 x 141 x 28. Weight: 468. Translator(s): Bellos, David.
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843543602
- ISBN
- 9781843543602
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.21
€ 26.99
€ 20.21
Paperback.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752460413
- ISBN
- 9780752460413
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.38
€ 19.99
€ 18.38
Paperback. Num Pages: 228 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: HBG; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Granville Island Publishing Canada
- Edition
- Revised edition
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781894694384
- ISBN
- 9781894694384
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.90
€ 26.99
€ 18.90
Hardback. Examines the "home front" war effort from an overall imperial perspective, assessing the contribution of individual imperial territories. Num Pages: 240 pages, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1QDB; 3JJH; HBG; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 23 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783272259
- ISBN
- 9781783272259
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.69
€ 97.69
Hardback. The key battles fought over 3000 years of turbulent history in the Holyland, from ancient times to today's Arab-Israeli conflict Today's Arab-Israeli conflict, ever-present in the news, is merely the latest episode in an unending history of violence in the Holyland, a region that is unsurpassed as witness to a kaleidoscopic military history. Num Pages: 280 pages, 16 pages of illustrations, 10 maps. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBG; HBW; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Casemate Publishers
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612000084
- ISBN
- 9781612000084
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 30.35
€ 34.99
€ 30.35
Paperback. A sustained analysis of the ways in which oral testimonies of survivors contribute to the understanding of the Holocaust. The book also aims to shed light on the forms and functions of memory as victims relive devastating experiences of pain, humiliation and loss. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: HBA; HBG; HBJD; HBWQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300052473
- ISBN
- 9780300052473
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.82
€ 33.99
€ 24.82
Paperback. The recording, explanation and the inescapable task of judging great wrongs in the past presents historians with their most difficult assignment. For those who have either lived through such injustice or have been in some way responsible for it the impositions of memory are both painful and unavoidable. Editor(s): Hartman, Geoffrey. Num Pages: 370 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 370
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557863676
- ISBN
- 9781557863676
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.06
€ 52.06
paperback. Robert Eaglestone argues that postmodernism is a response to the Holocaust. He offers a range of new perspectives, including new ways of looking at testimony and at recent Holocaust fiction; explores controversies in Holocaust history; looks at the importance of the Holocaust for recent philosophy; and asks what the Holocaust means for reason, ethics, and for being human. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HBG; HBLW3; HP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199239375
- ISBN
- 9780199239375
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.42
€ 62.42
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445658834
- ISBN
- 9781445658834
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.91
€ 19.99
€ 15.91
Paperback. Num Pages: 652 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 114. Weight in Grams: 806.
- Publisher
- Imprint Academic
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780907845607
- ISBN
- 9780907845607
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.69
€ 25.69
paperback. Twelve historical articles describe the problems of the Great Depression in town and country, on a scale we can all comprehend. "A real breakthrough in our understanding of the depression." -Alfred B. Rollins, Jr. Editor(s): Sternsher, Bernard. Num Pages: 303 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 141 x 23. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Ivan R. Dee United States
- Number of pages
- 303
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780929587134
- ISBN
- 9780929587134
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.37
€ 16.37
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 32 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 161 x 12. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750962032
- ISBN
- 9780750962032
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.50
€ 17.99
€ 16.50
Paperback. Drawing on interviews with the black survivors of Nazi concentration camps and archival research in North America, Europe and Africa, this book analyses the meaning of Nazism's racial policies towards people of African descent, and the impact of that legacy on race relations in Germany. Series: Crosscurrents in African American History. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBWQ; JFFJ; JFSL3; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415932950
- ISBN
- 9780415932950
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.56
€ 53.56
Paperback. The story of World War II from the vantage point of its instigator German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler (1889-1945). Num Pages: 432 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; BG; HBG; HBJD; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815411178
- ISBN
- 9780815411178
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.07
€ 20.07