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History: earliest times to present day

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History: earliest times to present day

Hardcover. Examining rents and taxes in 19th- and 20th-century China, this text shows how in real terms, tax burdens on landlords rose due to higher state levies. Simultaneously, rents earned by landlords fell due to state interference and peasant resistance, csusing a progressive weakening of landlord power. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804718806
ISBN
9780804718806
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.58

Paperback. Kathryn Burns shows how the biases and practices of Spanish notaries and their clients in colonial Cuzco shaped official records and, therefore, the archive on which contemporary historians rely. Num Pages: 264 pages, 27 illustrations, 3 tables, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; 1KLSX; HBJK; HBLH; HBTQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822348689
ISBN
9780822348689
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.31

Hardcover. This volume redefines the origins of the 19th-century women's rights campaigns in Britain, demonstrating that a vibrant feminist network existed during the 1830s and 1840s. Their pioneering work is shown to have fed directly into the women's rights movement of the subsequent decades. Series: Studies in Gender History. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 500.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Edition
1995th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333633823
ISBN
9780333633823
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 187.65

Paperback. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781350009868
ISBN
9781350009868
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.23

Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007548385
ISBN
9780007548385
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.47

Hardback. This book examines major sports, both professional and intercollegiate, from baseball, football, and basketball to golf, tennis, stock car racing, and extreme sports, to explain how sports became a multibillion-dollar industry as well as a major influence on and reflection of American society. Jay also shows how sports have helped shape racial, gender, national, and class identities. Series: Columbia Histories of Modern American Life. Num Pages: 304 pages, 25 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; HBT; WS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 166 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780231125345
ISBN
9780231125345
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.01
€ 76.79

Hardcover. Series: State & Society in East Asia. Num Pages: 306 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, 34 black & white halftones, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJH; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 161 x 26. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442223523
ISBN
9781442223523
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.54

Hardcover. A study of how the role of party agents grew and became professionalised in local political parties. Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 25. Weight in Grams: 684.
Publisher
Royal Historical Society
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780861933402
ISBN
9780861933402
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.28

Hardback. Provides an original account of Gandhi's beliefs, their origins, and their expression in his political views and personal behaviour. This work examines Gandhi's ideas about the relationship between sexual temptation and spiritual power, and the bizarre and scandalous behaviour that resulted. Num Pages: 400 pages, 8 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; BGH; HBJF; HBLW; JPHL. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 166 x 248 x 36. Weight in Grams: 770.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
400
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845111663
ISBN
9781845111663
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.48
€ 49.51

Paperback. The fascinating story of the exceptional woman who wrested power from Edward II and changed the course of English history. Num Pages: 336 pages, 30. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 158 x 30. Weight in Grams: 412.
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781445652429
ISBN
9781445652429
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.94

Paperback. The dramatic life and mysterious death of the reviled Edward II, focusing on the vivid personality of the erratic and contradictory king, his unorthodox lifestyle and his passionate relationships with his male favourites, including Piers Gaveston Num Pages: 336 pages, 32. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; BGH; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9781445666723
ISBN
9781445666723
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.48

Hardcover. Includes eleven essays, from an international cast that trace the development of political culture in the Roman Republic. This title covers such themes as the flourishing of civic society, as with the introduction of the Roman Games, and the emergence of a theory of politeness. Editor(s): Welch, Kathryn; Hillard, T.W. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 164 x 240 x 25. Weight in Grams: 720.
Publisher
Classical Press of Wales
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905125005
ISBN
9781905125005
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.42

Hardback. Num Pages: 392 pages, 24, 17 black & white halftones, 7 maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3F; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 237 x 32. Weight in Grams: 716.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781501703157
ISBN
9781501703157
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.55

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 25. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 181 x 255 x 16. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801473098
ISBN
9780801473098
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 44.90

Hardback. This ambitious work traces a social history of semicolonialism in late-19th and early-20th-century China. It takes as its central concern the intertwining of two antagonistic forces: elite constructions of modernity shaped globally and an alternative line of peasant resistance and development. Num Pages: 348 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 660.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
348
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804729321
ISBN
9780804729321
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.38

Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 9 line illus. 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC; HRAX; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 167 x 243 x 27. Weight in Grams: 596.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691169538
ISBN
9780691169538
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.48
€ 42.46

Hardcover. First full-length study of the role and duties of the medieval cantor. Num Pages: 392 pages, 21 black & white illustrations, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; 3H; AVGC2; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
Publisher
York Medieval Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903153673
ISBN
9781903153673
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.57

Paperback. A fresh introductory study of late medieval Scotland. Includes: expert assessment of the period arranged in thematic chapters; fresh insights into the period that draw on a wide range of sources; extensive further reading lists. Series: New History of Scotland. Num Pages: 240 pages, 2 Maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748645862
ISBN
9780748645862
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.70

Hardcover. Throughout the Weimar period the so-called masculinization of womanA" was much more than merely an outsider or subcultural phenomenon; it was central to representations of the changing female ideal. While some commentators celebrated this new,A" masculineA" woman as symbolic of women's entrance into non-traditional fields.. Series: Monographs in German History. Num Pages: 220 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBLW; JFSJ1. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 169 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857451200
ISBN
9780857451200
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.60

Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, b&w illus. BIC Classification: HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 253 x 14. Weight in Grams: 450.
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292718234
ISBN
9780292718234
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.89

Paperback. A unique guide to all aspects of life in the Middle Ages. Num Pages: 400 pages, 48. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 126 x 313 x 31. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781445660219
ISBN
9781445660219
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.78

Paperback. Seeks to understand why, with its seemingly unrivaled power, the Tokugawa shogunate of early modern Japan tried so hard to regulate the ostensibly unimportant popular culture of Edo (present-day Tokyo) - including fashion, leisure activities, prints, and theater. Series: Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning. Num Pages: 304 pages, 30 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJF; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226060569
ISBN
9780226060569
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 26.71

Hardcover. Draws on previously unexplored visual and ephemeral sources to re-evaluate the British city, its changing form, representation and impact. Num Pages: 256 pages, 63 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719099694
ISBN
9780719099694
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.83

Hardback. Num Pages: 432 pages, 75 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJD; HBJK; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 200 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1200.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stackpole Books United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811704496
ISBN
9780811704496
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 24.72

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