History: earliest times to present day
Results 12217 - 12240 of 16930
History: earliest times to present day
Hardcover. Zenobia was acknowledged in her lifetime as beautiful and clever, gathering writers and poets, artists and philosophers around her at the Palmyrene court. This narrative explores the legendary queen and charts the progression of her unequivocal declaration, not only of independence of Rome, but of supremacy. Num Pages: 216 pages, 10 bw illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBS; BGH; HBJF; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 164 x 23. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publisher
- Continuum
- Number of pages
- 216
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847250346
- ISBN
- 9781847250346
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.15
€ 91.15
Paperback. This illustrated book offers a fascinating look at the life of the Roman soldier, drawing on Rome's rich historical record, to depictions in literature and art. Written by a leading authority, it spans over a 1000 years and offers a memorable picture of one of the world's most noted fighting forces, with special attention to the common soldier. Num Pages: 400 pages, 3 maps, 32 halftones & line illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; HBW; JWD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 32. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195328783
- ISBN
- 9780195328783
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.95
€ 31.99
€ 28.95
Hardcover. Patrice Gueniffey, the leading French historian of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic age, takes up the epic narrative at the heart of this turbulent period: the life of Napoleon himself, from his boyhood in Corsica, to his meteoric rise during the Italian and Egyptian campaigns, to his proclamation as Consul for Life in 1802. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; 3JH; BGH; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 246 x 55. Weight in Grams: 1622.
- Publisher
- Belknap Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674368354
- ISBN
- 9780674368354
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.42
€ 45.99
€ 38.42
Paperback. Num Pages: 506 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVP; HBJD; HBLC; HBLH; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 2. Weight in Grams: 684.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 506
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780875807560
- ISBN
- 9780875807560
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02
Paperback. This study explores two categories empire and citizenship that historians usually study separately. It does so with a unifying focus on racialization in the lives of outstanding women whose careers crossed national borders between 1880 and 1965. It puts an individual, intellectual, and female face on transnational phenomena." Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 283 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJK; HBL; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 443.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349341863
- ISBN
- 9781349341863
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. Num Pages: 384 pages, 27 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; HBJK; HBLW; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 159 x 33. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781493017539
- ISBN
- 9781493017539
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.89
€ 30.99
€ 27.89
Paperback. This book offers a social and cultural history of American culture in the formative years of the twentieth century, examining forms such as vaudeville, early film, popular songs, modernist art, and many others in the context of contemporary social changes. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360. A Social History, 1900-1920. 264 pages, illustrations. This book offers a social and cultural history of American culture in the formative years of the twentieth century, examining forms such as vaudeville, early film, popular songs, modernist art, and many others in the context of contemporary social changes. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB. Dimension: 218 x 141 x 17. Weight: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230105843
- ISBN
- 9780230105843
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.24
€ 66.24
Hardcover. This book offers a social and cultural history of American culture in the formative years of the twentieth century, examining forms such as vaudeville, early film, popular songs, modernist art, and many others in the context of contemporary social changes. Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 148 x 11. Weight in Grams: 398. A Social History, 1900-1920. 264 pages, Illustrations. This book offers a social and cultural history of American culture in the formative years of the twentieth century, examining forms such as vaudeville, early film, popular songs, modernist art, and many others in the context of contemporary social changes. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLW. Dimension: 218 x 148 x 11. Weight: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230613324
- ISBN
- 9780230613324
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover. Editor(s): Ebrey, Patricia Buckley; Smith, Paul Jakov. Num Pages: 28 black & white tables, 19 black & white illustrations, 5 maps, 19 b&w illus., 5 maps, 28 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3H; HBJF; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 157 x 30. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295998107
- ISBN
- 9780295998107
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardback. A comprehensive English-language biography of Emperor Huizong that corrects the prevailing view of this ruler as a decadent political failure who lost the throne to invaders. It recasts the artistically gifted emperor as passionate and paradoxical, yet genuinely ambitious - if too much so - in pursuing glory for his flourishing realm. Num Pages: 656 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3H; BGH; HBJF; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 235 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1244.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 656
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674725256
- ISBN
- 9780674725256
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.61€ 55.91
€ 60.61
€ 55.91
hardcover. This study of the French Revolution reveals that from March 1792 to April 1793, French foreign policy was dominated not by the leaders of the French revolutionary government, but by two successive French foreign ministers, Charles-Francois Dumouriez and Pierre LeBrun. Num Pages: 262 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTV2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 475.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2008th Edition
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230604483
- ISBN
- 9780230604483
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 462
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748621941
- ISBN
- 9780748621941
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 32.13
€ 38.99
€ 32.13
paperback. Patricia E. Roy continues her study into why British Columbians were historically so opposed to Asian immigration. Num Pages: 344 pages, 16ill. BIC Classification: 1KBCB; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774810111
- ISBN
- 9780774810111
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.59
€ 40.99
€ 36.59
Paperback. This final volume to Patricia E. Roy's pivotal trilogy exploring racial discrimination against Chinese- and Japanese-Canadians examines the removal of all Japanese-Canadians from the BC coast during WWII, while Chinese-Canadians gained the right to vote in 1947. Num Pages: 400 pages, 21 b/w photos, 3 figures. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBC; GTB; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774813815
- ISBN
- 9780774813815
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.59
€ 40.99
€ 36.59
Paperback. Organized around the categories of materiality, women, and transgression during renaissance, this book promotes and challenges readers' thinking of the everyday. It foregrounds the common person, the marginal, and the domestic even as it presents the unusual details of their existence. Editor(s): Fumerton, Patricia; Hunt, Simon. Series: New Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 344 pages, 52 illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1; HBLC; HBLH; HBTB; JFC; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 170 x 28. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 374
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- First Edition (US) First Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812216639
- ISBN
- 9780812216639
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Paperback. Poor migrants made up a growing class of workers in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. This book is an ambitious attempt to reconstruct the everyday lives of these dispossessed people. It offers a portrait of unsettledness in early modern England that includes the homeless and housed alike. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 tables, 34halftones. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226269566
- ISBN
- 9780226269566
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 28.08
€ 34.99
€ 28.08
Paperback. Since the Nuremberg trials following World War II, there has been considerable debate about the nature and effects of war crimes with regard both to the Nazis and to modern-day perpetrators. This title illuminates a dark subject and helps us to understand the struggle to hold accountable those who perpetrate crimes against humanity. Editor(s): Heberer, Patricia; Matthaus, Jurgen. Num Pages: 360 pages, 5 tables. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW; JWXK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803210844
- ISBN
- 9780803210844
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.28
€ 37.99
€ 34.28
Paperback. Containing significant revelations about cultural treasures previously thought lost, this book should be of interest to all those interested in the contemporary rebuilding of cultural and intellectual institutions in Eastern Europe. Series: Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies. Num Pages: 230 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: 1DVUK; GLH; GLM; HBG; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 58. Weight in Grams: 1160.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780916458768
- ISBN
- 9780916458768
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.71
€ 23.99
€ 20.71
Paperback. This is, for the first time in its entirety, the story of the arrest and trial of Clay Shaw, charged with conspiracy in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Num Pages: 52 pages, 25. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; HBJK; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 148 x 28. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 52
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780871319203
- ISBN
- 9780871319203
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.34
€ 19.34
Hardcover. Presents a collection of essays that brings together scholarship on the subject of memory and identity in the France-Algeria colonial and postcolonial relationship. This book explores topics from history and photography to culture and religion. It includes such topics as migration, displacement, settler colonialism, racism, sexuality, and more. Series: Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East. Num Pages: 312 pages, note, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1HBA; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJH; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 30. Weight in Grams: 853.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815630746
- ISBN
- 9780815630746
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.60
€ 66.60
Paperback. Comparative study of the writings and strategies of European women in two colonies, French Algeria and British Kenya, during the twentieth century. Its central theme is women's discursive contribution to the construction of colonial nostalgia. Num Pages: 329 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2H; DS; HBJD; HBJH; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 234 x 20. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349341672
- ISBN
- 9781349341672
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.31
€ 67.31
Paperback. Explores the relation between the pre-colonial and colonial past to the postcolonial present in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMV; HBAH; HBJF; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822329664
- ISBN
- 9780822329664
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.90
€ 37.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. A narrative of the changing experiences of ordinary people during war, and thoughts on the aftermath of war and whether 'peace' really meant peace, for everyone. Num Pages: 320 pages, 8pp b & w pics. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; BGA; HBJD1; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Profile Books
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846680748
- ISBN
- 9781846680748
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
Paperback. "Limerick is one of the most engaging historians writing today." --Richard White Num Pages: 400 pages, 28 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 207 x 136 x 25. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company New York
- Number of pages
- 396
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780393304978
- ISBN
- 9780393304978
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.64
€ 19.99
€ 18.64