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paperback. Records of prices span the entire range of history, from medieval grain prices to modern statistics. Going beyond the economic data, this text gives a history of the people of the Western world: the economic patterns they lived in, and the politics, culture and society they created as a result. Num Pages: 552 pages, tables, graphs, and maps. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JHBC; KCC; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 35. Weight in Grams: 846.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
9780195121216
ISBN
9780195121216
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 31.97

paperback. Why did the first civilizations emerge when and where they did? How did Islam become a unifying force in the world of its birth? What enabled the West to project its goods and power around the world from the fifteenth century on? Why was agriculture invented seven times and the steam engine just once? Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps. BIC Classification: HBG; UDB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 532.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Co.(New York & London)
Edition
1st Edition,2003
Condition
New
SKU
9780393925685
ISBN
9780393925685
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.99
€ 26.80

hardcover. Num Pages: 266 pages. BIC Classification: BGH; HBG; HBW; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 580. Good copy showing light age and wear. Scoring throughout text. Ex Libris markings to preliminary pages and stamps throughout. Light wear to dust jacket. Remains a nice reading copy
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Overlook Press New York
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KMO0001148
ISBN
9780879515775
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 5.70

Hardback. Offers essays by leading scholars on the writing of history globally during the early modern era, from c.1400 to c.1800. Editor(s): Rabasa, Jose; Sato, Masayuki; Tortarolo, Edoardo; Woolf, Daniel. Series: Oxford History of Historical Writing. Num Pages: 750 pages, 8 maps and 13 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBG; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1238.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
750
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199219179
ISBN
9780199219179
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 288.95

Hardback. Volume 5 offers essays by leading scholars on the writing of history globally since 1945. Divided into two parts, part one selects and surveys theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches to history, and part two examines select national and regional historiographies throughout the world. Editor(s): Schneider, Axel; Woolf, Daniel. Series: Oxford History of Historical Writing. Num Pages: 744 pages, 7 maps. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBG; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1244.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
744
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199225996
ISBN
9780199225996
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 260.38

Hardback. A collection of essays from leading historians which explores the ways in which history was written in Europe and Asian between 400 and 1400. Editor(s): Foot, Sarah; Robinson, Chase F. Series: Oxford History of Historical Writing. Num Pages: 672 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBLC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1138.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
672
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199236428
ISBN
9780199236428
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 263.95

paperback. This study offers a broad range of approaches to medieval society's understanding of mothering and the uses to which the practice and imagery of mothering could be assumed by females and males alike. Editor(s): Parsons, John Carni; Wheeler, Bonnie. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 402 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBG; HBLC; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Routledge United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
402
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815336655
ISBN
9780815336655
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.05

Paperback. With contributions from distinguished scholars from a dozen different countries, The Jesuits, II continues in the illustrious tradition of its predecessor to make an important contribution to religious memory. Editor(s): O'Malley, John W.; Bailey, Gauvin Alexander; Harris, Steven J.; Kennedy, T. Frank, S.J. Num Pages: 924 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLA; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 63. Weight in Grams: 1500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
924
Condition
New
SKU
V9781487520687
ISBN
9781487520687
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.60
€ 55.39

paperback. Editor(s): Goldman, Merle; MacFarquhar, Roderick. Series: Harvard Contemporary China Series. Num Pages: 454 pages, 3 line illustrations, 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBG; HBLW; JPFC; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 649.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
454
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780674654549
ISBN
9780674654549
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 48.43

Paperback. Exploring the final decade of each century from the 15th to the 20th, this work investigates factors such as cultural and economic attitudes, and artistic, scientific and political change. It finds that a consciousness of time has influenced the way people perceive their place in history. Num Pages: 256 pages, 84 b&w illustrations, 34 colour plates. BIC Classification: 3H; 3J; HBG; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 168 x 243 x 17. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Yale University Press
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300082630
ISBN
9780300082630
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.17

Paperback. Editor(s): Haldon, Professor John. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLA1; HRH; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 233 x 19. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138246386
ISBN
9781138246386
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.18

Hardcover. Examines the origins and development of early medieval commerce through an analysis of the dirham hoards from European Russia and the Baltic - between 750-900 - when Viking and Rus' merchants took fur and slaves south through European Russia to the markets of Khazaria and the 'Abbasid caliphate. Series: Variorum Collected Studies. Num Pages: 352 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1DV; 3F; HBG; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 782.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Ashgate Publishing Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9780860786573
ISBN
9780860786573
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.50

Paperback. From 1949 to 1991 the world was overshadowed by the Cold War. This title discloses not only the vast scope of the military resources involved, but also how nearly threat came to terrible reality. It reveals that while the menace of nuclear war predominated, it was actually little understood even by the experts. Num Pages: 496 pages, 16pp b&w plates. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW3; JPS; JWMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 233 x 32. Weight in Grams: 518.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780712664776
ISBN
9780712664776
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.57

paperback. After adventures in Soviet Russia before the war, Fitztroy Maclean fought with the SAS in North Africa in 1942. This book presents his adventures in the Western Desert and later fighting alongside Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia. Series: Penguin World War II Collection. Num Pages: 576 pages, B&W. BIC Classification: 3JJH; HBG; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Penguin
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
9780141042848
ISBN
9780141042848
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.53

paperback. *A comprehensive and accessible account of a crucial period in recent world history *Originally published as a tie-in to the critically acclaimed CNN and BBC series Num Pages: 560 pages, Integrated: 80, b/w int photos. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 63. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Abacus
Condition
New
SKU
9780349120805
ISBN
9780349120805
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.68

paperback. Provides an overview of Great Power politics and world order. This book offers historical case-studies, which throw light on both the power in question and the international system of the period, and how it had developed from the preceding period. It is intended for students of international relations, strategic studies and international history. Series: War, History and Politics. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 16. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780415395809
ISBN
9780415395809
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.36

hardcover. Editor(s): Schaffer, Gavin. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTQ; HBW; JFCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 174 x 20. Weight in Grams: 589.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415626170
ISBN
9780415626170
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.26

Paperback. This volume explores the M10 and M36 tank destroyers used between 1942 and 1952 by the Allied forces. They played a key role in the battles for Normandy, the Battle of the Bulge, the crossing of the Rhine and the final defeat of Germany, and continued to serve in Korea, Indochina and the Balkans. Illustrator(s): Sarson, Peter. Series: New Vanguard. Num Pages: 48 pages, 7 colour & 40 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; 3JJPG; HBG; HBWQ; JWL; JWMV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 249 x 182 x 5. Weight in Grams: 178.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Osprey Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
48
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841764696
ISBN
9781841764696
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.51

paperback. The Druids have been known and discussed for over 2,000 years; few figures flit so elusively through history. Enigmatic and puzzling, the lack of knowledge about them has resulted in a wide spectrum of interpretations. Barry Cunliffe examines their origins, the evidence for their beliefs and practices, and how we interpret them today. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 160 pages, 15 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HDDA; HRKP2; VXWS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 113 x 10. Weight in Grams: 142.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
9780199539406
ISBN
9780199539406
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.90

Hardcover.
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
237
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590333471
ISBN
9781590333471
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.80
€ 63.93

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