History: earliest times to present day
Results 12981 - 13000 of 15892
History: earliest times to present day
Paperback. Featuring eight essays and many images from the New York Public Library, this volume traces Russia's development from an insular, medieval, liturgical realm centred on Old Muscovy into a modern, secular, world power embodied in cosmopolitan St Petersburg. Editor(s): Whittaker, Cynthia Hyla. Num Pages: 224 pages, 69 color illustrations, 69 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3J; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 280 x 216 x 13. Weight in Grams: 962.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674012783
- ISBN
- 9780674012783
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.11
€ 47.99
€ 40.11
Hardcover. From wartime England to Nixon's America and beyond, Helms was witness to some of the seminal eventsNVietnam, Watergate, and especially the demoralization of the CIA in the 1970s for political purposes. This memoir reveals a world where appearances always had to be questioned, where rumors and gossip carried the weight of intrigue. Num Pages: 224 pages, 30 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; JPV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442221314
- ISBN
- 9781442221314
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.58
€ 26.99
€ 23.58
Hardback. Hagiography,or writing about and illustrating the lives of saints, was one of the most creative areas for artistic inspiration in the Middle Ages. This book explores the sumptuously illustrated saints' lives that were made in medieval Europe. Num Pages: 455 pages, 8 color illustrations, 149 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; AKLB; DSB; HBJD; HBLC; HRCC1; HRCC2; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 189 x 264 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1058.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 455
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780520223202
- ISBN
- 9780520223202
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.92€ 53.36
€ 68.92
€ 53.36
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; HBLX; JFSL3; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813141060
- ISBN
- 9780813141060
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.53
€ 37.53
Hardcover. Barack Obama's presidential victory demonstrated unprecedented racial progress on a national level. This title examines the expansion of black leadership from grassroots to the national arena, beginning with Booker T Washington and W E B DuBois and progressing through contemporary leaders including Harold Ford Jr, Jesse Jackson Jr, and Obama. Num Pages: 336 pages, 35 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JMC; HBJK; HBLX; JFSL3; JPHL; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University Press of Kentucky
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813125602
- ISBN
- 9780813125602
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.45
€ 43.45
Hardback. The Many Meanings of Poverty is about poverty in a colonial context--it argues that the cultural meanings of poverty defined social compacts that served to bolster and undermine the sources of colonialism. Num Pages: 384 pages, 14 tables, 4 figures, 10 illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSE; HBJK; HBLH; HBTQ; HBTR; JFFA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 712. Weight in Grams: 653.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804751780
- ISBN
- 9780804751780
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.34
€ 86.34
Paperback. With annotated footnotes, this work explores the debate over manners, morals, and cultural authority in the decades following American Revolution. It also includes an introduction that provides readers with a background on life and politics in the United States in 1787, when Americans were in the midst of nation-building. Num Pages: 147 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSG; HBJK; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 153 x 10. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 147
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780814747933
- ISBN
- 9780814747933
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.31
€ 27.99
€ 26.31
paperback. Cvijeto Job witnessed his country's history as a committed partisan in World War II, a member of the Yugoslav Communist Party and a career ambassador. This book combines analysis and memoir to offer the perspective of an informed insider who lived through Yugoslavia's demise. Series: Eastern European Studies. Num Pages: 304 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DVWY; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742517844
- ISBN
- 9780742517844
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.61
€ 63.61
Hardback. Cvijeto Job witnessed his country's history as a committed partisan in World War II, a member of the Yugoslav Communist Party and a career ambassador. This book combines analysis and memoir to offer the perspective of an informed insider who lived through Yugoslavia's demise. Series: Eastern European Studies. Num Pages: 304 pages, bibliography; index. BIC Classification: 1DVWY; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742517837
- ISBN
- 9780742517837
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.07
€ 164.07
Hardback. Includes two transcriptions of Mary Estelle Elizabeth Cutts's manuscript as well as a study of Cutts's authorship and women's historical writing in the nineteenth century. Editor(s): Allgor, Catherine. Series: Jeffersonian America (Hardcover). Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BGA; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813932989
- ISBN
- 9780813932989
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.90
€ 45.90
Paperback. It isn't done with Mirrors-the Nazi state's total mobilization of resources to gather information. How they built their international information gathering apparatus-an organization where no nugget of news was too small to be taken note off. This was Total Espionage. Riess, an ex-Berlin journalist had all of the contacts to know what was going on. Editor(s): Sutton, Alan. Num Pages: 288 pages, 75 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Publisher
- Fonthill Media United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781554517
- ISBN
- 9781781554517
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.92
€ 31.99
€ 25.92
Paperback. An invaluable guide to the life of the celts in Ireland -- concise, accurate, informative and heavily-illustrated. Illustrator(s): Lizatovic, Josip. Num Pages: 96 pages, b&w photographs & illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBJD1; HBLA; YQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 134 x 7. Weight in Grams: 178. Clean copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- O'Brien Press
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- 4th Edition
- SKU
- KSS0002019
- ISBN
- 9780862785635
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
The Guadajoz Project. Andalucía in the First Millennium BC: Volume 1
Cuncliffe, Barry; Castro, Maria Cruz Fernande...
hardcover. This volume makes an excellent site report in its own right, but the general, multi-period overview of social and settlement history, something which has been sadly lacking in past research, makes this a valuable addition to Iberian archaeology. Trial excavations were made at the site of Torreparedones in the Guadalquivir Valley between 1987-1992. Series: Oxford University Committee for Archaeology Monographs S. Num Pages: 469 pages, many b/w figs and pls. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3B; HBJD; HBLA; HDD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 300. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Oxford University School of Archaeology United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 469
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780947816476
- ISBN
- 9780947816476
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.17
€ 155.17
Cleverly bisecting the over-extension and highly focused specialism of other texts on the ancient novel, this edited collection features the most up-to-date international scholarship and offers an invaluable survey of the classical world s prototypical achievements in narrative fiction. Series: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Num Pages: 632 pages. BIC Classification: HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 249 x 186 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1130.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 632
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444336023
- ISBN
- 9781444336023
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 223.51
€ 223.51
Paperback. Between 1880 and 1930, close to 200 women were murdered by lynch mobs in the American South. This title provides a startling view into the Jim Crow South where the precarious and subordinate position of women linked black and white anti-rape activists together in fragile political alliances. Num Pages: 336 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JFFE; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674061859
- ISBN
- 9780674061859
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 26.64
€ 31.99
€ 26.64
paperback. Before Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" shocked the Western world, some readers already knew of prison life in the Soviet Union, the Eastern bloc and other Communist countries. This is a selection of excerpts from nine widely read books from this gulag literature. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; HBG; HBJD; HBLW; JPS; JPVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 211 x 168 x 20. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Ivan R. Dee United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9781566635219
- ISBN
- 9781566635219
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.43
€ 17.99
€ 16.43
Hardback. This volume constitutes a multidisciplinary intervention into the emerging field of postcolonial studies in Italy, bringing together cultural and social history, critical and political theory, literary and cinematic analyses, ethnomusicology and cultural studies, anthropological fieldwork, and race, gender, diaspora, and urban studies. Editor(s): Romeo, Caterina. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 333 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBLW; HBLX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 173 x 29. Weight in Grams: 656.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 2012th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137281456
- ISBN
- 9781137281456
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.86
€ 146.86
Hardback. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611480184
- ISBN
- 9781611480184
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.01
€ 125.01
Hardback. Intended for general readers as well as scholars, this book extends the boundaries of classics and anthropology, forming a model of the sensitive work that can be done to illuminate how deeply animals are imbricated in human history. Translator(s): Fox, Matthew. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 170 x 24. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition, With a New Preface and Appendix
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520273405
- ISBN
- 9780520273405
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.42€ 46.46
€ 59.42
€ 46.46
Hardback. This is a remarkable reconstruction of the idealogical evolution of a once idealistic young Romanian historian and journalist during the years of Romanian communist rule. It is based primarily on his personal acquaintance with notable Romanian and foreign intellectuals of that time, and their works. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVWR; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 150. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- East European Monographs United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780880335423
- ISBN
- 9780880335423
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.04
€ 52.04