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Paperback. * Provides a vivid history of the Armenian people, spanning 3000 years. * Examines Armenian culture as it has survived in enclaves in other parts of the world. * Considers Armenia today and its first experience of independence after a gap of 1000 years. . Series: Peoples of Europe. Num Pages: 416 pages, 33. BIC Classification: 1DVUR; HBG; HBJD; JFC; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631220374
ISBN
9780631220374
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.50

Paperback. Num Pages: 194 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 3D; 3F; 3H; 3J; HBG; HBLC; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 187 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 206.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1960
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
194
Condition
New
Edition
Revised
SKU
V9780801490620
ISBN
9780801490620
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.44

Paperback. Series: Century of the Soldier. Num Pages: 148 pages, 25 b/w ills, 8 b/w diags, 15 photos, 11 colour diags. BIC Classification: HBG; HBW; HD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 246 x 11. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
Helion & Company
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781911096221
ISBN
9781911096221
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.46

Paperback. Explains why the workers at the Ashio copper mine joined together for three days of rioting against the Furukawa Company in February 1907. In the course of this historical analysis, this book takes on some of the most influential critical perspectives on Japanese social and labour history. It will interest scholars of labour history. Editor(s): Gordon, Andrew. Translator(s): Boardman, Terry. Series: Comparative & International Working-Class History. Num Pages: 296 pages, 11 illustrations, 4 figures, 2 maps, 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJC; HBG; HBLL; HBTB; JPWF; KNAT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Duke University Press Durham
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822320180
ISBN
9780822320180
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.29

Paperback. James Charles Roy leads a group of jaded American tourists on a historical tour of the Emerald Isle they only thought they knew Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1D; 1DBR; 1DD; HBG; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Basic Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813391526
ISBN
9780813391526
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 22.00

Paperback. In a work of splendid scholarship that reflects both a firm mastery of difficult sources and a keen intuition, one of Britain's foremost medievalists tells the story of the Christianization of Europe. 36 illustrations. 10 maps. Num Pages: 575 pages, 36 b/w photographs, 10 maps. BIC Classification: HBG; HRCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 513.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
575
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520218598
ISBN
9780520218598
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.56

Hardback. Focusing on the socio-cultural as well as the political dimensions of the Sergius cult, this study sheds light on the lives of the ordinary faithful, as well as on religion's place in the strategic calculations of hostile empires. It discusses Arab Christianity in the context of late Roman culture in the East. Series: Transformation of the Classical Heritage. Num Pages: 246 pages, 17 figures, including b/w photographs and line illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; HBG; HBJF; HBLA; HRKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 166 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520216853
ISBN
9780520216853
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.42
€ 57.11

Paperback. This revised and updated edition is a history of Western Europe, tracing its development from the dissolution of the late-Roman Empire to the emergence, in the 10th century, of the individual states of medieval Europe. Num Pages: 184 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DD; 3D; 3F; HBG; HBJD; HBLA; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
4th Edition
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631202929
ISBN
9780631202929
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.92

Paperback. They are a mythical people, almost an imagined people, writes Kurlansky. Signs of their civilization exist well before the arrival of the Romans in 218BC. Their forbidden tongue is equally mysterious, it is related to no other, but today the Basques are enjoying what may be the most important cultural renaissance in their long existence. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DSE; HBG; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 374.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099284130
ISBN
9780099284130
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.40

Paperback. Factual, yet human and vivid and eminently readable, The Battle for Guadacanal, is military history at its best Num Pages: 312 pages, 9 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1MKLS; HBG; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252068911
ISBN
9780252068911
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.10

Paperback. The Fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 is a military disaster of fascination. This book tells the story of the Malayan campaign, the siege of Singapore, the surrender to a much smaller Japanese force, and the Japanese occupation through the eyes of the soldiers of various nationalities and members of Singapore's beleaguered population. Num Pages: 688 pages, 16pp plates. BIC Classification: HBG; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 46. Weight in Grams: 486.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780749950996
ISBN
9780749950996
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.99

Hardcover. Called by some a 'Mediterranean Jutland,' the Battle of the Otranto Straits involved warships from Austria, Germany, Italy, Britain, and France. This is the story of the largest naval engagement in the Mediterranean during the First World War. Series: Twentieth-Century Battles. Num Pages: 208 pages, 3 figures, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 3JJF; HBG; HBTM; HBWN; JWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 170 x 23. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253343796
ISBN
9780253343796
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.52

Paperback. Beginning with the intriguing case of Herod the Great's Jewishness, this title discusses what made or did not make Jewish identity during the period, the question of conversion, the prohibition of intermarriage, matrilineal descent, and the place of the convert in the Jewish and non-Jewish worlds. Series: Hellenistic Culture and Society. Num Pages: 441 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBG; HBLA; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 604.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
441
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520226937
ISBN
9780520226937
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.73

Paperback. For millennia, mankind has devised ingenious and diabolical means of inflicting pain on fellow human beings. This deplorable but seemingly universal trait has eaten away at mankind's very claim to civilisation. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JKVP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 173 x 17. Weight in Grams: 736.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752459479
ISBN
9780752459479
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.63

Paperback. Series: G.I.: The Illustrated History of the American Soldier, His Uniform & His Equipment. Num Pages: 72 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBG; HBWN; HBWQ; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 257 x 6. Weight in Grams: 295. 4to. Illustrated. Some minor wear otherwise a good copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Greenhill Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
SKU
KEX0264874
ISBN
9781853675287
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Presents a thematic history of the world from 1780 to the onset of the First World War which reveals that the world was far more 'globalised' at this time than is commonly thought. This book considers various themes of the nineteenth-century world, including the rise of the modern state, industrialization and liberalism. Series: Blackwell History of the World. Num Pages: 568 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; 3JJC; HBG; HBLL; HBWN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 172 x 31. Weight in Grams: 854.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
568
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631236160
ISBN
9780631236160
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 38.17

Hardback. This work plumbs opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the actual, practical accomplishments of Communism around the world: terror, torture, famine, mass deportations and massacres. The book catalogues and analyzes the crimes of Communism over 70 years. Editor(s): Kramer, Mark. Translator(s): Murphy, Jonathan. Num Pages: 912 pages, 78 halftones, 6 maps. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW; JPFC; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 174 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1384.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
912
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674076082
ISBN
9780674076082
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.36
€ 68.52

Paperback. The first paperback edition of this unique and shocking guide to the Black Death in Europe. Num Pages: 454 pages, 14, 1 colour, 2 black and white, 11 line drawing. BIC Classification: 3H; HBG; HBLC; MBNS; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 800. The Complete History. 454 pages, 14, 1 colour, 2 black and white, 11 line drawing. The first paperback edition of this unique and shocking guide to the Black Death in Europe. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 3H; HBG; HBLC; MBNS; MBX. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight: 768.
Publisher
Boydell Press
Number of pages
454
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843832140
ISBN
9781843832140
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 39.25

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
€ 13.47

Paperback. Editor(s): Sheingorn, Pamela. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 344 pages, 11 illus. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLC; HRCC1; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812215120
ISBN
9780812215120
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.08

Paperback. Indian philosopher Vishal Mangalwadi reveals the personal motivation that fueled his own study of the Bible and systematically illustrates how its precepts became the framework for societal structure throughout the last millennium. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 32. Weight in Grams: 490.
Publisher
Thomas Nelson Publishers United States
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781595555458
ISBN
9781595555458
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.47

Hardback. History of British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. Num Pages: 500 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBG; HBLL; HBLW; HBTS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 181 x 223 x 2. Weight in Grams: 718.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849046336
ISBN
9781849046336
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.29
€ 52.77

Paperback. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782005933
ISBN
9781782005933
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.62

Paperback. This text was the first edited collection on the burgeoning history of the early modern Atlantic world and has had a huge impact on the many fields of Atlantic Studies. This second edition features two new essays on science and global history respectively, as well as a revised Introduction and updated guides to further reading. Editor(s): Armitage, Professor David; Braddick, M.J. Num Pages: 416 pages, 3 maps, 5 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1QDB; HBG; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 520.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230202351
ISBN
9780230202351
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.98

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