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Hardback. Richard Davis has expertly crafted a stirring narrative of the last years of Song, focusing on loyalist resistance to Mongol domination as more than just a political event. Seen from the perspective of the conquered, the phenomenon of martyrdom reveals much about the cultural history of the Song. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 300 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBG; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674953574
- ISBN
- 9780674953574
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 42.32
€ 49.99
€ 42.32
Paperback. Why was the partridge in the pear tree? Who was Good King Wenceslas? And what are the pagan origins behind 'The Holly and the Ivy'? Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 5HC; AVGD; HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 174 x 10. Weight in Grams: 118.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780752459578
- ISBN
- 9780752459578
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.39
€ 10.39
Paperback. Why does the West rule? This title answers this provocative question, drawing on 15,000 years of history and archaeology, and the methods of social science. Num Pages: 768 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 137 x 47. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Publisher
- Profile Books
- Number of pages
- 768
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846682087
- ISBN
- 9781846682087
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.78
€ 19.99
€ 14.78
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€ 18.40
€ 26.99
€ 18.40
Paperback. Provides a reinterpretation of the war through an account of the decisive military campaigns that created the astonishing revival in Allied fortunes. This title explores the factors that determined success and failure: industrial stength, fighting ability, the skills of leaders and the moral contrasts between the two sides. Num Pages: 512 pages, 16pp b/w plates. BIC Classification: 3JJH; HBG; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845950651
- ISBN
- 9781845950651
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.63
€ 23.99
€ 16.63
Paperback. Analyzes six hundred essays written by workers, soldiers, farmers, clerks, young people, and anti-Semites about why they joined the Nazi party. Num Pages: 346 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBG; HBJD; HBW; HBWQ; JPFQ; JWLF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674952003
- ISBN
- 9780674952003
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 39.10
€ 46.99
€ 39.10
Paperback. Series: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World. Num Pages: 288 pages, 3 halftones. 6 line illus. 15 tables. 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 3J; HBG; HBJD; HBTQ; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 236 x 20. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691175843
- ISBN
- 9780691175843
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.74
€ 24.99
€ 18.74
hardcover. Over the course of more than 1000 alphabetically arranged, biographical entries, Who's Who in World War One builds up a complete and vivid picture of the major figures involved in the Great War. Num Pages: 336 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 3JJF; GBCB; HBG; HBJD; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 240 x 24. Weight in Grams: 642.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415141796
- ISBN
- 9780415141796
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.00
€ 46.00
Paperback. * A wonderful piece of swashbuckling historical biography which recalls the best and the worst of the British Imperial character. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrationsmap,ports. BIC Classification: BGH; HBG; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349116730
- ISBN
- 9780349116730
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.86
€ 13.00
€ 11.86
Hardback. The women who made & bootlegged whiskey Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: KNDF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612345642
- ISBN
- 9781612345642
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 32.08
€ 37.99
€ 32.08
Sheet map. BIC Classification: ACXD; HBG; WBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). . New.
- Publisher
- Old House
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781908402127
- ISBN
- 9781908402127
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 12.23
€ 12.23
Sheet map. Series: Old House. BIC Classification: ACXD; HBG; WBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 209 x 6. Weight in Grams: 114. New.
- Publisher
- Old House
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781908402035
- ISBN
- 9781908402035
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 12.23
€ 12.23
Paperback. The author's first collection of essays, Reappraisals, was centred on twentieth-century Europe in history and memory. In this book, his widow and fellow historian, gathers together important essays from the span of his career that chronicle both the evolution of his thought and the consistency of his passionate engagement and intellectual elan. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HBG; HBLW; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 201 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099593430
- ISBN
- 9780099593430
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.96
€ 19.99
€ 14.96
Hardback. This short book by one of France's leading historians deals with a big question: how was it that Christianity, that masterpiece of religious invention, managed, between 300 and 400 AD, to impose itself upon the whole of the Western world? In his erudite and inimitable way, Paul Veyne suggests three possible explanations. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLA; HRAX; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745644981
- ISBN
- 9780745644981
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.77
€ 72.77
Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBG; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 142 x 10. Weight in Grams: 172. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Seven Stories Press,U.S.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTG0004426
- ISBN
- 9781583226148
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. The first scholarly history of the Ladysmith miners, the Great Strike of 1912-1914, and the coalmining industry on Vancouver Island. Num Pages: 288 pages, 29 b&w illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBCB; 3JJC; HBG; HBJK; HBLW; KNAT; KNXB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 4217. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774809351
- ISBN
- 9780774809351
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.06
€ 36.06
![Martin Jacques - When China Rules The World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World [Greatly updated and expanded] - 9780140276046 - 9780140276046](https://www.kennys.ie/products/thumbs/9780140276046.jpg "Martin Jacques - When China Rules The World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World [Greatly updated and expanded] - 9780140276046 - 9780140276046")
Paperback. China will replace the United States as the world's dominant power. In so doing, it will not become more western but the world will become more Chinese. This title introduces a set of ideas including China as a civilization-state, the tributary system, the Chinese idea of race, and the principle of contested modernity. Num Pages: 848 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 37. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- SKU
- 9780140276046
- ISBN
- 9780140276046
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 16.68
€ 25.99
€ 16.68
Paperback. Provides a historical look through the eyes of outsiders as they survey and scrutinize the politics, science, technology, religion, family practices, and gender roles of civilizations not their own. This book emphasizes the broader figurative meaning of looking west in the scope of history. Editor(s): Nader, Laura. Num Pages: 472 pages, 2 b/w, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1QFH; 3F; 3H; 3J; HBG; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 28. Weight in Grams: 642.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520285781
- ISBN
- 9780520285781
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.85
€ 45.99
€ 32.85
Paperback. How old is the universe? How are humans related to a sponge? Where did most of the world's water come from? How much would a complete T Rex skeleton cost? Where did the Himalayas come from? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 189 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1214. The Complete Story of the Planet, Life and People from the Big Bang to the Present Day. 416 pages. How old is the universe? How are humans related to a sponge? Where did most of the world's water come from? How much would a complete T Rex skeleton cost? Where did the Himalayas come from? Which came first, the chicken or the egg?. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: HBG. Dimension: 245 x 189 x 30. Weight: 1188.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408834831
- ISBN
- 9781408834831
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 22.46
€ 33.99
€ 22.46
Paperback. A dozen star historians on what might have happened at history's turning points if the dice had fallen differently. Editor(s): Roberts, Dr. Andrew. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 16. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753818732
- ISBN
- 9780753818732
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. * Presents a clear, readable introduction to the flourishing and important field of sexual history from one of the leading international scholars in the area. Series: What is History Series. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Polity
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745680255
- ISBN
- 9780745680255
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.19
€ 22.19
Paperback. Contains the first English translations of a group of important eighteenth-century German essays that address the question, 'What is Enlightenment?'. This book includes interpretive essays by historians and philosophers, which examine the origins of eighteenth-century debate on Enlightenment and explore its significance for the present. Editor(s): Schmidt, James. Series: Philosophical Traditions S. Num Pages: 500 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLH; HBLL; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 35. Weight in Grams: 792.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 500
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520202269
- ISBN
- 9780520202269
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.48
€ 46.99
€ 33.48
Paperback. 'Anyone interested in military history or indeed history in general will find it fascinating to read.' The Spectator Num Pages: 448 pages, 25 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3B; 3D; 3F; 3H; 3J; HBG; HBT; JWA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- Pan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- Main Market
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780330487245
- ISBN
- 9780330487245
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.51
€ 23.99
€ 16.51
Hardback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 7, 7 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JD; DSBD; HBG; HBLH; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801452970
- ISBN
- 9780801452970
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.18
€ 46.18