History: earliest times to present day
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History: earliest times to present day
Paperback. Everyone has heard of Ramesses the Great - but what is the truth behind the legend? This book explores the life and times of Egypt's greatest king. Ramesses II was the archetypal Egyptian pharoah: a mighty warrior, an extravagant builder and the father of scores of children. His monuments and image were to be found in every corner of the empire. Num Pages: 272 pages, 16pp b&w line drawings. BIC Classification: 1F; 1QDAE; BGH; HBJF; HBJH; HBLA; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 18. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140280975
- ISBN
- 9780140280975
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.00€ 16.77
€ 19.00
€ 16.77
Paperback. In ancient Egypt women enjoyed a legal, social and sexual independence unrivalled by their Greek or Roman sisters, or in fact by most women until the late nineteenth century. This book presents a picture of daily life - marriage and the home, work and play, grooming and religion - viewed from a female perspective. Num Pages: 352 pages, 16pp line drawings, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 1QDA; HBJH; HBLA; HDD; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140175967
- ISBN
- 9780140175967
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.00€ 17.93
€ 19.00
€ 17.93
Paperback. The Romans regarded Cleopatra as 'fatale monstrum', a tyrant to be crushed. Pascal said the shape of her nose changed the history of the world. Shakespeare and Tiepolo (and Elizabeth Taylor) portrayed her as an icon of tragic beauty. But who was Cleopatra, really? This biography discusses about Cleopatra. Num Pages: 320 pages, 16pp colour plates. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; BGH; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Profile Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861979018
- ISBN
- 9781861979018
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 11.65
€ 17.99
€ 11.65
Paperback. Hatchepsut was an astonishing woman - defying tradition she became the female embodiment of a male role, dressing in men's clothes and even wearing a false beard. Combining archaeological and historical evidence from a range of sources, this book strips away the myths and misconceptions and restores the female pharaoh to her rightful place. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16pp b&w halftones. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 1QDA; BGH; HBG; HBJH; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140244649
- ISBN
- 9780140244649
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.00€ 16.87
€ 19.00
€ 16.87
Paperback. This text contends that the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia have potentially threatened the essence of NATO by forcing the alliance to take on the role of peacekeeper without adequately allowing it to examine the role the alliance wants to or should play in a largely post-communist world. Num Pages: 256 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DVWY; 1QFN; HBJD; HBLW3; HBW; JPSN; JWLP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 146 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742510227
- ISBN
- 9780742510227
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 78.43
€ 78.43
Hardback. This text contends that the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia have potentially threatened the essence of NATO by forcing the alliance to take on the role of peacekeeper without adequately allowing it to examine the role the alliance wants to or should play in a largely post-communist world. Num Pages: 256 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DVWY; 1QFN; HBJD; HBLW3; HBW; JPSN; JWLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742510210
- ISBN
- 9780742510210
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.60
€ 157.60
paperback. In 203 AD a group of Christians in Carthage were sentenced to death. One of these, a young mother, wrote a diary while awaiting execution. This narrative is the focus of this work which studies the conflict that resulted in her martyrdom and places it in an intellectual and social context. Num Pages: 240 pages, 11 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; BGH; HBJD; HBLA; HRC; HRKP; J. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 317.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415918374
- ISBN
- 9780415918374
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.02
€ 64.02
Hardback. Compulsively readable, Rome's Christian Empress is the first full-length work to give this fascinating and complex ruler her due. Num Pages: 248 pages, 20, 1 colour illustrations, 11 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings, 7. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; AN; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421417004
- ISBN
- 9781421417004
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.22
€ 45.22
Paperback. Enlivened with profiles and vignettes of some of the remarkable people whose histories inform this study, Stepping Lively in Place shows how single, free women navigated life in a busy slave-encrusted river-port town before, during, and after the Civil War. It examines how single women coped with life unencumbered, or unprotected, by husbands. Num Pages: 368 pages, 17 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBSM; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820349725
- ISBN
- 9780820349725
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.88
€ 46.88
Paperback. Through data gathered on thousands of people, as well as hundreds of memoirs and autobiographies, this volume tells myriad intersecting stories of how Americans born between 1776 and 1830 reinvented themselves and their society in politics, economics, reform, religion, and culture. Num Pages: 336 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674006638
- ISBN
- 9780674006638
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 30.75
€ 36.99
€ 30.75
Paperback. Editor(s): Kornbluh, Joyce L. Num Pages: 464 pages, contemporary cartoons & graphics. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBLW; HBTB; KNXB2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 181 x 30. Weight in Grams: 882.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The Merlin Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 3rd Revised edition
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780850366518
- ISBN
- 9780850366518
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.76
€ 33.99
€ 28.76
Paperback. Chronicles the history of the United States from the end of World War II, through the Cold War and post-Cold War eras, to the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to President Obama in 2009. Series: A History of US. Num Pages: 304 pages, 385 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJ; HBLW; HBLX. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 231 x 191 x 15. Weight in Grams: 622.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Edition
- 4 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199735532
- ISBN
- 9780199735532
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.04
€ 21.04
Hardback. Many of the assumptions about class, race, and gender which marked the emergence of esoteric religions at the end of the nineteenth century continue to shape alternative spiritualities today. Series: Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. Num Pages: 320 pages, 11, 10 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; HRQC5; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 26. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801864995
- ISBN
- 9780801864995
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.67
€ 74.67
Hardback.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691162591
- ISBN
- 9780691162591
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.56
€ 54.99
€ 39.56
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBLA1; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691176376
- ISBN
- 9780691176376
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.32
€ 37.99
€ 27.32
Paperback. Exploring issues of gender in Tang-dynasty literature and culture, Jowen Tung draws on a comprehensive range of historical, literary and social texts to unravel the complex mechanisms of one of the world's oldest patriarchal systems. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSBB; HBJF; HBLC; JFHF; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847695133
- ISBN
- 9780847695133
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.11
€ 62.11
Political Violence in the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933: Fight for the St...
Journal Of Modern European History
Hardcover. The Prussian province of Saxony-where the Communist uprising of March 1921 took place and two Combat Leagues (Wehrverbande) were founded (the right-wing Stahlhelm and the Social Democratic Reichsbanner) - is widely recognized as a politically important region in this period of German history. Series: Studies in Germany History. Num Pages: 346 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; JP. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845454609
- ISBN
- 9781845454609
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 167.17
€ 167.17
Hardback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 3, 3 charts. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JB; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 167 x 24. Weight in Grams: 606.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801451591
- ISBN
- 9780801451591
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.72
€ 74.72
Hardcover. This book analyzes the highly complex interconnections among the cultural-political concepts of various ideological groups and asks why the most artistically ambitious art forms were viewed as politically important by all cultured (or even semi-cultured) Germans in the period from 1933 to 1945.. Translator(s): Hill, Victoria W. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 536. Nazi Fascism, Inner Emigration, and Exile. 272 pages, Illustrations. This book analyzes the highly complex interconnections among the cultural-political concepts of various ideological groups and asks why the most artistically ambitious art forms were viewed as politically important by all cultured (or even semi-cultured) Germans in the period from 1933 to 1945. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Dimension: 238 x 157 x 20. Weight: 536. Translator(s): Hill, Victoria W.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857455901
- ISBN
- 9780857455901
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.60
€ 155.60
Paperback. First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLC; JPA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415394154
- ISBN
- 9780415394154
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.02
€ 51.02
Paperback. Series: The Princeton History of the Ancient World. Num Pages: 448 pages, 1 halftone. 14 line illus. 18 tables. 9 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HBJD; HBLA1; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 136 x 203 x 32. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691173146
- ISBN
- 9780691173146
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.98
€ 23.99
€ 17.98
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 5 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; HBAH; HBJH; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780816648337
- ISBN
- 9780816648337
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.53
€ 30.99
€ 27.53
hardcover. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1HB; 3JH; HBJH; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804799140
- ISBN
- 9780804799140
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.57
€ 128.57
Paperback. Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine, Trotsky was an effective military strategist and an adept diplomat, who staked the fate of the Bolshevik revolution on the meagre foundation of a Europe-wide Communist upheaval. In this book, Trotsky emerges as a brilliant yet flawed man. Series: Jewish Lives. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 black-&-white illustration. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTV4; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300198324
- ISBN
- 9780300198324
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.40
€ 17.99
€ 14.40