General & world history
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General & world history
Paperback. He describes the general nature of early piracy, ancient navigation, and the pirate's routines and tactics. Num Pages: 298 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QSM; HBG; HBLA; HBTM; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 327.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801855054
- ISBN
- 9780801855054
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.70
€ 33.99
€ 28.70
Paperback. This inter-disciplinary study is the first to consider how representations of pirates addressed both national political issues and the agenda of particular interest groups. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HBG; HBJD; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349280933
- ISBN
- 9781349280933
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.26
€ 63.26
Hardcover. This book provides an insight to the cultural work involved in violence at sea in this period of maritime history. It is the first to consider how 'piracy' and representations of 'pirates' both shape and were shaped by political, social and religious debates, showing how attitudes to 'piracy' and violence at sea were debated between 1550 and 1650. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; HBG; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230003279
- ISBN
- 9780230003279
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.97
€ 63.97
Hardback. Pius II (1405-1464) began life as Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini in a small town near Siena and became a Latin poet and diplomat. This book gives us a glimpse of his life and thoughts. Editor(s): Meserve, Margaret; Simonetta, Marcello. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: BGX; HBG; HBLC; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 133 x 26. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674024892
- ISBN
- 9780674024892
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.72
€ 40.99
€ 33.72
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBL; HBTB; HBTD; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 391.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349385034
- ISBN
- 9781349385034
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.18
€ 64.18
Paperback. This book explores how the cultural process of making any disease a "plague" results in discrimination against certain groups, as it has for those with AIDS in America. Gina M. Bright here captures the discrimination produced by plague-making in her analysis and her portraits of the people she has cared for with AIDS over the past quarter-century. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJK; HBL; JHB; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349343362
- ISBN
- 9781349343362
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.18
€ 64.18
Hardback. This exciting reinterpretation of the path to Revolution follows Virginia planters' attempts to break with England and shows how their grassroots effort at self-sufficiency solidified into political resistance, war, and independence. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, facsims. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780945612407
- ISBN
- 9780945612407
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.94
€ 77.94
Paperback. Of all Allied airmen, Polish pilots had the most experience of fighting the Luftwaffe by the time the war came to Britain. The author presents this peerless account of the fiery, talented Polish "Spit" pilots, whose country had been overrun and whose aggression and determination to shoot down Axis aircraft was unmatched. Illustrator(s): Grudzien, Robert. Series: Aircraft of the Aces. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; HBG; HBLW; HBWQ; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 222 x 8. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472808370
- ISBN
- 9781472808370
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 13.91
€ 18.99
€ 13.91
Paperback. "Although the Igbo constitute one of the largest ethnic nationalities of Nigeria and the West African sub-region, little is know about their political history before the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. This book is then a pioneer study of the broad changes Igbo political systems have undergone since the prehistoric period"-- Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJF; HBJH; JFC; JP; RGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349383696
- ISBN
- 9781349383696
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.43
€ 63.43
Paperback. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; HBG; HBL; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 279
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349439799
- ISBN
- 9781349439799
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.66
€ 63.66
paperback. Cicero (106-43 BC) was the greatest orator of the ancient world and a leading politician of the closing era of the Roman republic. This book presents nine speeches which reflect the development, variety, and drama of his political career. These new translations achieve new standards of accuracy. Translator(s): Berry, D. H. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DB; DNS; JPH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199540136
- ISBN
- 9780199540136
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.94
€ 15.99
€ 14.94
Paperback. Uses the ideas of western philosophy's most significant thinkers to trace the history of political theory in international relations. This book challenges conceptions both of how relations between communities, nations, and states is transformed, and of the history of thought in international relations. Num Pages: 456 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HBG; JFCX; JPA; JPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 668.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 456
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198780540
- ISBN
- 9780198780540
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 74.99
€ 74.99
Hardback. In the years of revolution between 1776 and 1848, stress and transition produced some fundamental reflections on politics and society. This introductory text considers how a cluster of key European thinkers, including Burke, Hegel, Tocqueville and Marx, viewed the global political upheavals and social changes of their times. Series: European Culture & Society Series. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; HBG; HBLL; HBTV; JPA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230272101
- ISBN
- 9780230272101
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.38€ 114.88
€ 130.38
€ 114.88
Paperback. Offering a nuanced, historically grounded, and critical perspective, this book presents a multidisciplinary exploration of the growing public controversy over reparations for historical injustices. Editor(s): Torpey, John. Series: World Social Change. Num Pages: 328 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HBG; JPS; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 415.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742517998
- ISBN
- 9780742517998
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.23
€ 71.23
Paperback. From the NEW HORIZONS series of pocket-sized information books, an introduction to the life and times of Pompeii as revealed by modern archaeology. With foldouts and double-page spreads. Translator(s): Palmer, Caroline. Series: New Horizons S. Num Pages: 216 pages, 180 illustrations, 110 in colour. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 1QSM; HBG; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 126 x 15. Weight in Grams: 360. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KOG0007751
- ISBN
- 9780500300114
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Editor(s): Ward, J. T. Series: Problems in Focus. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 142 x 13. Weight in Grams: 278. Ex Libris with usual markings. Clean copy with some minor shelf wear, yellowing of pages
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1970
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0013118
- ISBN
- 9780333111376
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardback. Editor(s): Beaven, Brad; Bell, Karl; James, Robert. Num Pages: 289 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3J; HBG; HBTB; HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 219 x 23. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137483157
- ISBN
- 9781137483157
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 153.93
€ 153.93
Hardback. Based on a body of information and data, this volume recounts the history of five continents over a long stretch of time and in a comparative approach. It gives a range of views of the construction and collapse of the modern colonial empires of Europe, the United States of America and Japan. Translator(s): Everson, Andrene. Series: European Expansion & Global Interaction. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845453381
- ISBN
- 9781845453381
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.87
€ 151.87
Hardback. World War II. Tells the epic story of the 475th Fighter Group from combat reports, offical American, Australian, and Japanese documents, and from interviews and conversations with the veterans themselves. Num Pages: 320 pages, over 700 b/w and color photos, color profiles. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBWQ; JWG; JWM; TBX; WGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 291 x 224 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1634.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780887405181
- ISBN
- 9780887405181
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 35.32
€ 53.99
€ 35.32
Paperback. Num Pages: 140 pages, over 100 black and white and color photographs. BIC Classification: HBG; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764318672
- ISBN
- 9780764318672
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.12
€ 31.99
€ 25.12