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History: earliest times to present day

hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8pp plate section. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 135. . Good clean copy with light nicks and tears to dust jacket
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Profile Books London
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMO0000148
ISBN
9781781256824
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Hardcover. Part of a series dealing with physical and human geography and history of the Pacific region, this collection of writings examines the various aspects of the French presence in the region from the 17th through to the 19th century Series Editor(s): Flynn, Professor Dennis O.; Giraldez, Professor Arturo. Series: The Pacific World: Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 1500-1900. Num Pages: 388 pages, Includes 32 b&w illustrations and 10 maps. BIC Classification: 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBJM; HBLC; HBLL; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 244 x 169. Weight in Grams: 834.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
388
Condition
New
SKU
V9780754606017
ISBN
9780754606017
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 236.76

Paperback. A shocking and moving investigation into the hidden abuses perpetrated by Colonel Gaddafi, Gaddafi's Harem reveals the appalling private life of one of the twentieth century's most malevolent dictators. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBL; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJH; HBLW3; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 184 x 22. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611855678
ISBN
9781611855678
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.05

Paperback. Hephaistos created an ornately decorated shield for Achilles. At the Shield's centre lay two walled cities, one at war and one at peace, surrounded by fields and pasturelands. Viewed as Homer's blueprint for an ideal, or utopian, social order, the Shield reveals that restraining and taming Nature would be fundamental to the Hellenic urban quest. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 220 pages, 6 line drawings, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674023741
ISBN
9780674023741
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.57

Hardcover. A groundbreaking work of history that explicates Thomas Jefferson's vision of himself, the American Revolution, Christianity, slavery, and race. Num Pages: 320 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Publisher
Liveright
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780871404428
ISBN
9780871404428
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 25.66

Paperback. A ground-breaking historical work that explicates Thomas Jefferson's vision of himself, the American Revolution, Christianity, slavery and race. Num Pages: 400 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781631492518
ISBN
9781631492518
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.50

Paperback. The Mughal empire (1526 1857) has long been viewed as a wonderland of unimaginable treasure; it was in fact the mightiest Islamic empire in the history of India. This book describes the political, military and economic rise of the Mughals, their system of rule, and their gradual collapse, finally supplanted by the British colonial empire in 1857. Num Pages: 352 pages, 26 black & white illustrations, 92 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1QD; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 208 x 25. Weight in Grams: 942.
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781861892515
ISBN
9781861892515
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.12

Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 492.
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Format
Hardback
SKU
V9780801448638
ISBN
9780801448638
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 48.72

Paperback. Using a spectrum of literary, artistic, archaeological and epigraphic evidence, this book uncovers the kaleidoscopic story of some of the most intriguing women in history, and the complex role of the empresses as political players on Rome's great stage. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; HBJD1; HBLA; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 136 x 26. Weight in Grams: 316.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099523932
ISBN
9780099523932
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.59

Paperback. A complete reappraisal of the scale and significance of female criminality in a period of major legislative changes. Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History. Num Pages: 194 pages, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 16. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Royal Historical Society
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780861933303
ISBN
9780861933303
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 32.81

Hardback. The true story of Napoleon Bonaparte's friendship with Betsy Balcombe and her family, the only English people he ever lived with, during his exile on St Helena. Num Pages: 464 pages, 8pp b+w photos and 8pp colour photos. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBWH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 242 x 43. Weight in Grams: 888.
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
9781760113452
ISBN
9781760113452
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 8.34

Paperback. Combining translations of five peasant narratives with critical commentary on their provenance and implications for historical study, this book illuminates the life of the peasantry in Tokugawa Japan. Editor(s): Walthall, Anne. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; HBLL; JFS; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 339.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226872346
ISBN
9780226872346
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.74

Paperback. Presenting the biography of Matsuo Taseko, a peasant woman of the Tokugawa period, honoured and then adopted as a patron saint by rightist nationalists, this text gives perspectives on the practices and intellectual concerns of rural entrepreneurs and their role in the Meiji Restoration. Series: Women in Culture and Society Series. Num Pages: 424 pages, 20 halftones, 2 maps, 5 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; BGH; HBJF; HBLL; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 154 x 30. Weight in Grams: 670.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
424
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226872377
ISBN
9780226872377
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 34.35

Paperback. An acclaimed biography of Elizabeth I and an examination of the politics and intrigues of her Tudor court. Series: Women in History. Num Pages: 720 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; BGR; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 52. Weight in Grams: 582.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
Number of pages
720
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781842126240
ISBN
9781842126240
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.06

Paperback. Her personal life riven by passion, illness and intrigue, Queen Anne presided over some of the most momentous events in British history. Like Antonia Fraser's life of Marie Antoinette or Amanda Foreman's 'The Duchess', 'Queen Anne' is historical biography at its best. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; BGR; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 36. Weight in Grams: 456.
Edition
1st Edition
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007203765
ISBN
9780007203765
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.66

Paperback. Bestselling biography of the enduringly fascinating Wallis Simpson Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPG; BGR; HBJD1; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 26. Weight in Grams: 312.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Phoenix mass market p/bk
Condition
New
SKU
9780753827390
ISBN
9780753827390
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.47

Paperback. How Parisian women loved, lived and died in the 1940s - under Occupation and then after Liberation. Num Pages: 496 pages, 3x8pp plate sections plus over 20 images on text paper. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; 3JJPG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780226613
ISBN
9781780226613
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.85

Paperback. A fascinating exploration of the world - the education, housing, cultural assumptions - that Jesus took as his reference point Num Pages: 272 pages, Line drawings and maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAL; 3D; HBLA; HDDH; HRCF2; HRCG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Lion Hudson Plc United Kingdom
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781854249470
ISBN
9781854249470
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.69

Paperback. Here are the stories of British women doctors and nurses who served abroad in the First World War. Filled with accounts of kindness and bravery, 'Women in the War Zone' honours the often unsung contribution made by those female doctors and nurses who helped to alleviate the suffering of the First World War. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 164 x 31. Weight in Grams: 648.
Publisher
The History Press
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752493602
ISBN
9780752493602
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 21.68

Paperback. Presents the mystery of what happened to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. In this title, the authors track the outlaws and the enigmatic Etta Place through South America, where they fled in 1901. Information about William T Phillips, who claimed to be Butch Cassidy, is also included. Num Pages: 412 pages, 52 photographs, 16 maps, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 217 x 23. Weight in Grams: 524.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
428
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803282902
ISBN
9780803282902
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.37

Paperback. In this unique study, the authors go deep into the world of the Palestinian group Hamas, in an effort to understand what motivates the young men of the movement to lay down their lives in suicidal act of murder. Num Pages: 304 pages, 85 halftones. BIC Classification: BGH; HBJF; HBLW3; HRA; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 233 x 14. Weight in Grams: 434. Fine copy showing minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0016655
ISBN
9780195305593
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408270509
ISBN
9781408270509
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.30

Paperback. Examines how the presence of the United States as a colonial power in Southeast Asia was perceived by Americans, and how it influenced Southeast Asians and European imperial powers in the region. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 256 pages, 6 photographs, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1FM; 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJF; HBJK; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822348009
ISBN
9780822348009
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.40

paperback. Red Quarter Moon is an enthralling journey into the past that offers a unique look at the lives of ordinary families and individuals in the USSR. Num Pages: 368 pages, 2, 16 halftones; 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 602.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442611399
ISBN
9781442611399
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 40.81

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