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Paperback. Urban history starts in Mesopotamia: the earliest known cities developed there as a result of long indigenous processes. This work examines urban life in the period, investigating urban topography, the role of cities as centres of culture, political and social structure, economy and the arts. Num Pages: 286 pages, 19 figures, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1QDAM; HBG; HBJF1; HBLA; HDD; JFSG; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198152866
- ISBN
- 9780198152866
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 110.67
€ 110.67
Paperback. There is interest in globalization which is thought to be changing all economic, political, and cultural life. This book takes globalization and its opposite, fragmentation as the organizing themes for a grand retrospective of twentieth century international history and assesses how both have been shaped by the century's formative events. Num Pages: 232 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBG; HBLW; JPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 159 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford Oxford
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198781660
- ISBN
- 9780198781660
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 87.72
€ 87.72
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
€ 66.21
€ 66.21
Paperback. 1968 witnessed a highly unusual sequence of popular rebellions worldwide. Gerd-Rainer Horn offers a fascinating re-assessment of these turbulent times, arguing that 1968 cannot be seen in isolation; it must be viewed in the context of a much larger period of experimentation and revolt. Num Pages: 264 pages, 25 b/w halftones. BIC Classification: 3JJPG; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBG; HBLW3; HBTV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199541591
- ISBN
- 9780199541591
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 77.70
€ 77.70
hardcover. Drawing on the best research produced over the last sixty years, this collection brings together the most significant secondary literature on the Nazi persecution and mass murder of the Jews. Editor(s): Cesarani, David. Series: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies. Num Pages: 2680 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 178. Weight in Grams: 4717.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 2680
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415275095
- ISBN
- 9780415275095
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 667.06
€ 667.06
hardcover. A Byzantine Government in Exile Government and Society under the Laskarids of Nicaea (1204-1261) Series: Oxford Historical Monographs. Num Pages: 352 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3H; HBG; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 570.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1975
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198218548
- ISBN
- 9780198218548
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 298.21
€ 298.21
paperback. Translator(s): Cook, M. Num Pages: 296 pages, 6 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1D; HBG; HBLH; HRA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780226123165
- ISBN
- 9780226123165
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.17
€ 31.99
€ 28.17
Paperback. Topics include land and sea warfare from the Renaissance to the neoclassical age; the Anglo-American military tradition; the French Revolution and Napoleon; the Industrial Revolution and war; and the First and Second World Wars and their aftermath. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBT; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801864452
- ISBN
- 9780801864452
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 34.75
€ 41.99
€ 34.75
paperback. Series: Phoenix Books. Num Pages: 370 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLA; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 582.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1971
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780226452388
- ISBN
- 9780226452388
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 23.88
€ 29.99
€ 23.88
paperback. Num Pages: 536 pages, 15 color illus. 71 halftones. 10 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDA; 3D; HBG; HBLA; HRKP; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 204 x 134 x 38. Weight in Grams: 498.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780691170275
- ISBN
- 9780691170275
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.16
€ 19.99
€ 15.16
Hardcover. In this, his third volume on the history of political ideas, Vogelin continues his exploration of political thought, illuminating the great figures of the high Middle Ages and particulary focusing on the "civilizational schism" which resulted in the disappearance of the "sacrum imperium". Series: Collected Works of Eric Voegelin. Num Pages: 304 pages, index. BIC Classification: 3H; HBG; HBLC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 694.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Missouri
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826211545
- ISBN
- 9780826211545
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.56
€ 86.56
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
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. A neglected aspect of Byzantium, physical beauty appears as a quality with an unmistakable dark side, relating ambiguously to notions of power, goodness, evil, masculinity, effeminacy, life and death. Examined as an attribute of the human and, in particular, of the male body, this study of beauty refines our understanding of the Byzantine world. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ACK; HBG; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230007154
- ISBN
- 9780230007154
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover. This volume offers a new cultural and political history of the idea of the nation. Situating the history of international politics and the idea of the nation in the history of psychology, it reveals the popularity and political importance of a transnational discourse of the psychology of nations that had taken shape in the previous half-century. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBLW; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230007178
- ISBN
- 9780230007178
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.73
€ 66.73
Paperback. Written by a senior Indian diplomat, this book provides a unique and far-reaching exploration of the British Commonwealth and its impact since the Second World War on Britain's adjustment to a world without Empire. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFC; HBG; HBJD1; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 217 x 11. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 199
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230203679
- ISBN
- 9780230203679
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.21
€ 71.21
Books Without Borders, Volume 1: The Cross-National Dimension in Print...
Fraser, Robert, Hammond, Mary
Hardcover. Where does the book belong? Does it enshrine the soul of a nation, or is it a means by which nations talk to one another, sharing ideas, technologies, texts? This book, the first in a two-volume set of original essays, responds to these questions with archive-based case studies of print culture in a number of countries around the world. Num Pages: 225 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230210295
- ISBN
- 9780230210295
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.66
€ 66.66
Hardcover. Shows the role of historians in making 'Dominion' status, which combined autonomy with unity and provided the peaceful route by which Canada, Australia and New Zealand gained their independence within the British Commmonwealth of Nations, while South Africa, the Irish Free State and India, also Dominions, chose to become republics. Num Pages: 393 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBG; HBJD1; HBLW. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 221 x 137 x 27. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 394
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230227811
- ISBN
- 9780230227811
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.47
€ 129.47
Hardcover. The first study of the depictions of the Ancient World on the Victorian and Edwardian stage, this book analyzes plays set in and dramatising the histories of Greece, Rome, Egypt, Babylon and the Holy Land. In doing so, it seeks to locate theatre within the wider culture, tracing its links and interaction with other cultural forms. Num Pages: 278 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSG; HBG; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229365
- ISBN
- 9780230229365
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12
Hardcover. Decolonization changed the spatial order of the globe, the imagination of men and women around the world and established images of the globe. Both individuals and social groups shaped decolonization itself: this volume puts agency squarely at the centre of debate by looking at elites and leaders who changed the course of history across the world. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 311 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230243699
- ISBN
- 9780230243699
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.93
€ 67.93
Paperback. The Historiography of Genocide is an indispensable guide to the development of the emerging discipline of genocide studies and the only available assessment of the historical literature pertaining to genocides. Editor(s): Stone, Dan. Num Pages: 656 pages, 3 black & white tables, 4 charts, 8 graphs. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1000.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 656
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230279551
- ISBN
- 9780230279551
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 141.52
€ 141.52