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History: earliest times to present day

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History: earliest times to present day

Hardcover. Sara Fieldston shows how humanitarian child welfare agencies sponsored by Americans filtered political power through the prism of familial love after World War II. These well-meaning institutions shaped perceptions of the United States as the benevolent parent in a family of nations, and helped to expand American hegemony around the globe. Num Pages: 326 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBLW; JPS; JPWH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 244 x 31. Weight in Grams: 634.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674368095
ISBN
9780674368095
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 43.91

Hardback. Explores the cultural and political significance of ostracism in democratic Athens. This book argues that ostracism was primarily a symbolic institution whose meaning for the Athenians was determined both by past experiences of exile and by its role as a context for the ongoing negotiation of democratic values. Num Pages: 376 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 657.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
362
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691119755
ISBN
9780691119755
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 89.00
€ 68.07

Hardback. Most studies of ancient Greek politics focus on formal institutions such as the political assembly and the law courts. This book suggests that Greek literature reveals traces of popular culture that can be further illuminated by comparison with later historical periods. Num Pages: 288 pages, 10 halftones. 1 map. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691140056
ISBN
9780691140056
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.40
€ 42.14

Hardback. This book investigates the earliest known prosecutions of bigamy. In fifteenth-century Champagne, ordinary Christians valued marriage enough to risk criminal prosecution for illegal remarriage. Meanwhile, Church officials regarded bigamy as a grave threat to Christian identity and subjected male bigamists to harsh punishment. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBLC1; HRCV4; LAFX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 162 x 230 x 19. Weight in Grams: 448.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812243987
ISBN
9780812243987
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.50

Hardcover. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226337746
ISBN
9780226337746
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 32.45

Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 16, 16 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 265 x 166 x 23. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801452536
ISBN
9780801452536
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.67

Hardback. Covering a wide variety of topics, including science, citizenship, gender, and anti-Semitism, the author demonstrates how sin which rhetoric tied to blood and vampires permeated political discourse and transcended the disparate cultures of Great Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, forming a cohesive political and cultural metaphor. Num Pages: 250 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJC; HBLL; HBTB; JFC; JFHF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9781934843611
ISBN
9781934843611
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.85

Paperback. 'Unique.' Edward W. Said Leading Harvard scholar chronicles 20 years of conflict in Gaza. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; HBJF1; HBLW3; JPWS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 586.
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
408
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745322346
ISBN
9780745322346
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 25.13

Paperback. Rather than focus on the departures of the sixteenth-century Reformation from medieval traditions, the essays in this volume explore one of the most remarkable yet still under-studied chapters in its history: the survival and transformation of mysticism between the late Middle Ages and the early modern period. Editor(s): Poor, Sara S.; Smith, Nigel. Series: Reformations: Medieval and Early Modern. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: HBLC1; HBLH; HRCC9; HRCS1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 603.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268038984
ISBN
9780268038984
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.60

Hardback. This study of recruitment to the ministry of the Church of England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries overturns many long-standing assumptions about the education and backgrounds of the clergy in late Hanoverian England and Wales. Num Pages: 264 pages, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HRCC91; HRCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783271757
ISBN
9781783271757
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.32

Hardback. A celebration of Christmas in the 1950s and '60s. Num Pages: 240 pages, 120 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 211 x 19. Weight in Grams: 776.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781581574029
ISBN
9781581574029
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.17

Hardback. Pomeroy sets the Pythagorean and Neopythagorean women vividly in their historical, ecological, and intellectual contexts, illustrated with original photographs of sites and artifacts known to these women. Num Pages: 200 pages, 12, 9 black & white halftones, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; HBLA1; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421409566
ISBN
9781421409566
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.14

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674046542
ISBN
9780674046542
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 39.84

Paperback. 'I hadn't been in Hackney for 24 hours but I knew that the way I saw life and people had changed forever. There was such goodness here but there was a sadness I had never imagined before, and it wasn't even lunchtime yet ..' Num Pages: 352 pages, (1 x 8pp plate section). BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JJ; BM; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 26. Weight in Grams: 300. Some light shelf wear else as new.
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
SKU
KTG0002248
ISBN
9780007520077
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 154 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 11. Weight in Grams: 249.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
154
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803291782
ISBN
9780803291782
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.03

Paperback. King George VI reigned through taxing times. Acceding to the throne upon his brother's abdication, he was immediately confronted with the turmoil in European politics leading up to the Second World War, then the War itself, followed by a period of austerity, social transformation and loss of Empire. This book tells his story. Num Pages: 704 pages, geneal. tables. BIC Classification: BGR; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 47. Weight in Grams: 484.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
704
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241956090
ISBN
9780241956090
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.63

Paperback. Lucrezia Borgia's name has echoed through history as a byword for evil - a poisoner who committed incest with her natural father, Pope Alexander VI, and with her brother, Cesare Borgia. Long considered the most ruthless of Italian Renaissance noblewomen, her tarnished reputation has prevailed long since her own lifetime. This text tells her story. Num Pages: 464 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; BGH; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 29. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
Penguin Books
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
1st Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141014135
ISBN
9780141014135
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.61

Paperback. Elizabeth II has lived through Abdication, the Blitz and World War Two, the sex and spy scandals of the swinging sixties, the Cold War and the nuclear threat and the Fall of the Berlin Wall. She has known 11 US Presidents including JFK and Ronald Reagan, and other world leaders like President Mandela and Pope John XXII. This title tells her story. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations (some col.), ports. (some col.). BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; 3JM; BGR; HBJD1; HBLW; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 22. Weight in Grams: 266.
Publisher
Viking
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780670919123
ISBN
9780670919123
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.85

Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages, Section: 8, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; DSBH; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 126 x 29. Weight in Grams: 356.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844087686
ISBN
9781844087686
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. Ur, one of the world's first cities, was highly important politically and economically around 2600 - 2500 BC when the Sumerian rulers of the city were buried in tombs filled with ornate, valuable objects and with evidence of elaborate rituals and human sacrifice. This is the story of discovery and significance of this splendid object. Series: Objects in Focus. Num Pages: 64 pages, 30 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAS; 3D; HBJF1; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 150 x 11. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
British Museum Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714151137
ISBN
9780714151137
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.28

Paperback. Examines the stages by which religious dissidents were persecuted by Tudor monarchs across the 16th century and the means by which these dissidents counteracted authorities. During each stage of persecution, many dissidents were able to elude capture and counter-interrogate their inquisitors. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; HBJD1; HBLH; HRCC2; HRQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 165 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268042264
ISBN
9780268042264
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.75

Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBNT; 3JH; BM; HBJK; HBLL; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 153 x 5. Weight in Grams: 136.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Globe Pequot Press United States
Edition
New
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9781493023165
ISBN
9781493023165
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.33

Hardcover. This text links two areas of inquiry: crime and delinquency with war and social change. In a study based on archival research, Sarah Fishman reveals the impact of the Vichy regime on one of history's most silent groups - children - and offers enlightening information about the Vichy administration. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 line illustration, 1 table. BIC Classification: 3JJH; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; HBWQ; JFSP1; JKVQ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 608.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674007550
ISBN
9780674007550
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.31
€ 82.30

paperback. In this nuanced portrait of Athelstan, Sarah Foot offers the first full account of the king ever written. Series: The Yale English Monarchs Series. Num Pages: 284 pages, b/w pls. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3F; BGH; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 518.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Number of pages
284
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300187717
ISBN
9780300187717
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.64

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