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History: earliest times to present day

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History: earliest times to present day

Hardback. This work shows how, on November 7, 1841, the "Creole" was transporting slaves from Richmond to the auction block at New Orleans. A band of slaves led by Madison Washington seized the crew, and forced the ship to sail into Nassau harbour, where the British offered them freedom. Num Pages: 192 pages, 24 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; G; HBG; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566634939
ISBN
9781566634939
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.58

Hardback. The book analyzes the official and popular celebrations on the Brazilian empire's days of national festivity to elucidate elite and popular understandings of the imperial state in the capital city. Num Pages: 576 pages, illustrations (black and white), 1 map (black and white). BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 36. Weight in Grams: 907.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804785266
ISBN
9780804785266
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.02

Hardback. Focusing on the military institutions of Bahia, Brazil, this book analyzes the region's transition from Portuguese colony to province of the Brazilian Empire. It examines the social, racial and cultural dimensions of post-independence state-building in the principal slave region of the Americas. Num Pages: 376 pages, 1 half-tone. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JH; HBG; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 26. Weight in Grams: 676.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804742481
ISBN
9780804742481
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.80

Hardback. Tracing Coolidge's life from his thirteenth birthday until his graduation from Amherst College ten years later, this work outlines the education of a reluctant young man from rural Vermont. Num Pages: 272 pages, 15ill. BIC Classification: BGH; HBG; HBLL; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 600.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838752647
ISBN
9780838752647
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.23

Hardback. Tells how Jan Jeroenszoon, through great personal courage and faith in the rule of law, managed to survive gruesome torture and vindicate himself by successfully arguing at trial that the authorities remained subject to the law even in times of war. Translator(s): Grayson, J. C. Num Pages: 312 pages, 15 halftones. 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DDN; 1DSE; HBJD; HBLH; HRAM9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 166 x 241 x 28. Weight in Grams: 626.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691135649
ISBN
9780691135649
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.06
€ 55.55

Hardcover. Unique story of "Operation Exporter" - the little-known WW2 battle. Translator(s): Land, William. Num Pages: 544 pages, 8 bw in 8pp plates, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FBS; 3JJH; HBJF1; HBLW; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd. United Kingdom
Number of pages
544
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Sew
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784534493
ISBN
9781784534493
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.21
€ 54.65

Paperback. Series: Oriental Institute Publications. Num Pages: 408 pages, 1 Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; HBJF; HBLA; HBTB; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 570.
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Number of pages
408
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1977
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226260082
ISBN
9780226260082
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.01

Hardback. Series: Religion, Culture and Public Life. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3JJ; HBJF1; HBLW; HRAX; HRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231175500
ISBN
9780231175500
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.21
€ 46.81

paperback. Nearly a century after it was first published in 1925, Medieval Cities remains one of the most provocative works of medieval history ever written. This book argues that it was not the invasion of the Germanic tribes that destroyed the civilization of antiquity, but rather the closing of Mediterranean trade by Arab conquest in the seventh century. Series: Princeton Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; 3H; HBJD; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 198.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton Univers. Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780691162393
ISBN
9780691162393
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.55

Paperback. Series: Daily Life. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 16. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1962
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804710305
ISBN
9780804710305
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.82

Hardback. Focusing on areas such as the heritage of 1989 revolutions, ambivalence, disillusionment, individualism, and collective identities, this text explores the expectations and goals that Eastern Europeans had during the 1989 revolutions and the decade thereafter, and the problems and disappointments they encountered in the course of the transformation. Series: Studies in Contemporary European History. Num Pages: 320 pages, Bibliog., index. BIC Classification: 1DV; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 644.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571818959
ISBN
9781571818959
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 156.12

Paperback. The only English translation available of the most important first-hand account of the "Northern Crusades" in the Baltic states has finally been reprinted, with additional maps and a revised introduction by James A. Brundage. Henry's chronicle is the only surviving evidence for many episodes in the early stages of Christendom in the Eastern Baltic. Translator(s): Brundage, James A. Series: Records of Western Civilization Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1DV; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 16. Weight in Grams: 376.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231128896
ISBN
9780231128896
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.68

Paperback. This book is a study of everyday life in rural north China in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century told through the story of one man's life. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; BGH; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 295.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804750691
ISBN
9780804750691
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.10

Hardcover. This book is a study of everyday life in rural north China in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century told through the story of one man's life. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; BGH; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804750684
ISBN
9780804750684
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.23

Hardback. Arguing that the desperate struggle (led by Alfred the Great) against the Vikings helped define a distinctively English sensibility, the author explores relations with the indigenous British, the Anglo-Saxon conversion to Christianity, the ascendancy of Mercia and the rise of Wessex. Series: I.B. Tauris Short Histories. Num Pages: 256 pages, 40 bw integrated, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLC1; HDDM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 134. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780765990
ISBN
9781780765990
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.51
€ 100.41

paperback. MEDIEVAL WOMEN looks at a thousand years of English history, as it affected - and was made by - women. Series: Women in History. Num Pages: 688 pages, 8. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3D; 3F; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 348. *
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
W&N
Edition
Ted Smart Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9781842126219
ISBN
9781842126219
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.53

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BTC; HBJK; HBLW; JFHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
Publisher
Trine Day
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Updated edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781634240185
ISBN
9781634240185
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.81

Paperback. .
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107651333
ISBN
9781107651333
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.36

Paperback. After Hitler conquered Poland, the British began to exert control of the Norwegian coast, an action that threatened to outflank from the start Germany's hegemony on the Continent. He quickly responded with a series of assaults. Airlifted infantry and paratroopers were dispatched to Scandinavia, seizing Norwegian strong points. Num Pages: 400 pages, 16 pages illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DNN; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 32. Weight in Grams: 864.
Publisher
Casemate Publishers United States
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
paperback / softback
Condition
New
SKU
V9781935149330
ISBN
9781935149330
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.16

Hardback. A Warrior Dynasty spans the period from the late sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries. It deals with northern and Eastern Europe, overlooked by military writers in favor of areas viewed as having greater importance for military history. Num Pages: 320 pages, 16pp illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DNS; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 231 x 24. Weight in Grams: 588.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Casemate Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
V9781612002422
ISBN
9781612002422
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.79

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