History: earliest times to present day
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History: earliest times to present day
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
€ 16.99€ 16.33
€ 16.99
€ 16.33
Paperback. The Emancipation signalled the beginning of Jewish integration in Italy, a process that continued until 1938 when the Racial Laws were put into effect. In this book, Bettin examines the debate between integration and assimilation in the early twentieth century andJewish culture to trace the 'rebirth of Judaism' that characterized the period." Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJF; HBL; HBTB; HRAX; HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349289363
- ISBN
- 9781349289363
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Paperback. The postcolonial condition is one of the most significant factors shaping culture and lived experience in Italy today. The essays gathered here explore the postcolonial context in which a wide array of discourses, social practices, and forms of cultural production are challenging the notion of Italy's national homogeneity. 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: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 174 x 19. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137375049
- ISBN
- 9781137375049
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 150.36
€ 150.36
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
€ 140.80
€ 140.80
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
€ 120.33
€ 120.33
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
€ 59.06€ 45.65
€ 59.06
€ 45.65
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
€ 51.09
€ 51.09
Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 20 bw integrated, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3H; 3J; HBJF; HBLC; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780767246
- ISBN
- 9781780767246
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.12€ 103.59
€ 118.12
€ 103.59
hardcover. Presents an introductory history of India with an account which begins before the period of British rule, and pursues the continuities since then. This book provides coverage ranging from Mughal India to post-independence Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, with a focus on the 'ordinary' people of India and South Asia. Num Pages: 420 pages, 25 black & white halftones, 11 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 163 x 236 x 28. Weight in Grams: 750.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 420
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780415214834
- ISBN
- 9780415214834
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 172.37
€ 172.37
Paperback. Presents a study of the educational system for the Greeks of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt, and a window to the vast panorama of educational practices in the Greco-Roman world. This book describes how people learned, taught, and practiced literate skills, how schools functioned, and what the curriculum comprised. Editor(s): Cribiore, Raffaella. Num Pages: 288 pages, 24 halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; 1QDAG; 1QDAR; HBJH; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691122526
- ISBN
- 9780691122526
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.06€ 45.86
€ 59.06
€ 45.86
Hardcover. Unemployment, monetary and fiscal policy, and the merits and drawbacks of free markets were a few of the issues the journalist and public philosopher Walter Lippmann explained to the public during the Depression, when professional economists skilled at translating concepts for a lay audience were not yet on the scene, as Craufurd Goodwin shows. Num Pages: 370 pages. BIC Classification: BGB; HBJK; HBLW; KCZ; KNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 243 x 162 x 33. Weight in Grams: 770.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674368132
- ISBN
- 9780674368132
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 39.30
€ 47.99
€ 39.30
Hardback. Demonstrates that Polybius' work performs a literary and political balancing act of heretofore unappreciated subtlety and interest. This book shows how Polybius contrived to tailor his historiography for multiple audiences, comprising his fellow Greeks, whose freedom Rome had usurped in his own generation, and the Roman conquerors. Series: Hellenistic Culture and Society. Num Pages: 343 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 32. Weight in Grams: 684.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 343
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520237643
- ISBN
- 9780520237643
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.86€ 63.58
€ 83.86
€ 63.58
Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691174853
- ISBN
- 9780691174853
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.42
€ 52.99
€ 37.42
Paperback. Includes the definitive report from the Presidential Commission on Weapons of Mass Destruction Intelligence and the most revealing official investigations and statements that answer the question of how the United States could go to war on false premises. Num Pages: 704 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 43. Weight in Grams: 785. Clean copy in good to very good condition.
- Publisher
- PublicAffairs
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KRF0000482
- ISBN
- 9781586483616
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A Companion to the Classical Tradition accommodates the pressing need for an up-to-date introduction and overview of the growing field of reception studies. * A comprehensive introduction and overview of the classical tradition - the interpretation of classical texts in later centuries. Editor(s): Kallendorf, Craig W. Series: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Num Pages: 512 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; 2AHA; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 176 x 30. Weight in Grams: 886.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444334166
- ISBN
- 9781444334166
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.73
€ 58.73
hardcover. Frontier heroes and the triumph of patriarchy in early Kentucky Series: A History of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier. Num Pages: 400 pages, 13 b&w illus., 7 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBSK; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 737. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253355195
- ISBN
- 9780253355195
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.99
€ 43.99
Paperback. An extraordinary group portrait of London today: a book as rich, dynamic, lively, and diverse as the city itself. Num Pages: 448 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JM; HBJD1; HBLX; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 196 x 28. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 2000th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847083296
- ISBN
- 9781847083296
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.36
€ 14.99
€ 11.36
Hardback. Between the mid-seventeenth and mid-eighteenth century more than 15,000 Londoners suffered sudden violent deaths. In the early modern period, accidental and 'disorderly' deaths - from drowning, falls, stabbing, shooting, fires, explosions, suffocation, and animals and vehicles, among others - were a regular feature of urban life. Series: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History. Num Pages: 288 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, 12 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JD; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB; JFFU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 348 x 25. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783271351
- ISBN
- 9781783271351
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.86
€ 95.86
Hardback. Biography of Robert Carlton "Bob" Brown, avant-garde publisher, poet and reading machine inventor, bestselling pulp fiction and Hollywood movie treatment writer, cookbook author with Cora and Rose Brown, advertiser copyrighter, editorial board member of the Masses, curator of A Museum of Social Change, and much more. Num Pages: 320 pages, 52 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGL; DSB; DSBH; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780823271450
- ISBN
- 9780823271450
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.30
€ 103.30
Paperback. Presenting an interpretation of England in the 1690s, this book reconstructs the reign of William III through the eyes and in the words of those who lived through it. The author employs a range of sources including popular ballads, correspondence, diaries, pamphlets, sermons, poems and memoirs. Series: History of Early Modern England S. Num Pages: 352 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; DNF; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631209362
- ISBN
- 9780631209362
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.51
€ 71.51