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History: earliest times to present day
Paperback. A timely and engaging look at the new China told through the stories of its ordinary people. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JMG; HBJF; HBLX; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 196 x 25. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444791082
- ISBN
- 9781444791082
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.85
€ 13.00
€ 11.85
Paperback. The "British Isles" entered the 20th century as a single state, "Great Britain and Ireland", with a British Empire greater in extent and larger in population than the world had ever seen. This book explores the vast changes in the first 50 years of the new century. Editor(s): Robbins, Keith. Series: Short Oxford History of the British Isles. Num Pages: 302 pages, Maps and half-tones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLW. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 213 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 302
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198731962
- ISBN
- 9780198731962
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.85
€ 50.85
Paperback. Provides a perspective on Kennedy's assassination from Johnson's viewpoint, and penetrates deep into what it was like for him to assume a position of such power at a time of national crisis. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; BGH; HBJK; HBLW3; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 153 x 40. Weight in Grams: 938.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 736
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847922953
- ISBN
- 9781847922953
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 26.85
€ 40.99
€ 26.85
Paperback. Tells what really happened in history rather than simply what obviously happened. Num Pages: 664 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3J; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL; HBTG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 39. Weight in Grams: 924. 664 pages, maps. Tells what really happened in history rather than simply what obviously happened. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3J; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL; HBTG. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 39. Weight: 922.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 664
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520042063
- ISBN
- 9780520042063
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.48
€ 38.99
€ 28.48
Hardcover. The Roman poet Statius called the Via Appia "the Queen of Roads," and for nearly a thousand years that description held true, as countless travelers trod its path from the center of Rome to the heel of Italy. Today, the road is all but gone. This book deals with the author's adventures along this ancient highway. Series: Culture Trails: Adventures in Travel. Num Pages: 144 pages, 24 halftones, 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1QDAR; HBLA1; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 223 x 15. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226425719
- ISBN
- 9780226425719
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 22.22
€ 26.99
€ 22.22
Paperback. To walk on remnants of the storied Appian Way, from Rome to Italy, is to walk in the footsteps of ghosts. In this book, the author is our guide to those ghosts - and the layers of history they represent. It takes us on a trek with him back in time, to the campaigns of Garibaldi, the revolt of Spartacus, and the glory days of Imperial Rome. Series: Culture Trails: Adventures in Travel. Num Pages: 136 pages, 24 halftones, 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1QDAR; HBLA1; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226142999
- ISBN
- 9780226142999
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.45
€ 19.99
€ 17.45
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BM; HBA; HBG; HBLW3. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 234 x 13. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474274227
- ISBN
- 9781474274227
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.91
€ 35.99
€ 30.91
Paperback. The Muslim world represented an alien and foreign phenomenon for the USA in its early years as a republic (1785-1815). This study examines the American view of Muhammad and the many issues which helped to determine American perceptions of the Muslim world. Num Pages: 284 pages, 12pp halftones. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; JFSR2; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226014906
- ISBN
- 9780226014906
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.66
€ 35.99
€ 28.66
Hardback. For centuries, readers of Tao Qian have felt directly addressed by his poetic voice. This book revisits Tao's approach to his readers by attempting to situate it within the particular poetics of address that characterized the Six Dynasties classicist tradition. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 275 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSB; HBJF; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 652.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674053212
- ISBN
- 9780674053212
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.10
€ 45.99
€ 38.10
hardcover. Craft Capitalism focuses on Hamilton, Ontario, and demonstrates how the preservation of traditional work arrangements, craft mobility networks, and other aspects of craft culture ensured that craftsworkers in that city enjoyed an essentially positive introduction to industrial capitalism. Series: Canadian Social History Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 27. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JH; AFT; HBJK; HBLW; HBTK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 26. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802091277
- ISBN
- 9780802091277
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.06
€ 92.06
Paperback. Drawing on extensive research among the records of the American Historical Association and a multitude of other sources, the author traces the slow fragmentation of the field from 1880 to the divisions of the 1940s manifest today in the diverse professions of academia, teaching, and public history. Num Pages: 256 pages, 15 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBAH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226923932
- ISBN
- 9780226923932
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.74
€ 40.99
€ 31.74
Hardback. Military, social and economic historians have long appreciated the significance of the conflict in Korea in shaping the post-war world. This study explores these fluctuating relationships, the tensions between Washington and its British Commonwealth allies and their impact on the development of the conflict, from its outbreak in 1950 onwards. Series: Library of Modern American History. Num Pages: 384 pages, 8 bw integrated, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 1KBB; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTW; HBWS1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 223 x 35. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780763682
- ISBN
- 9781780763682
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 153.79€ 135.76
€ 153.79
€ 135.76
Paperback. Gerald of Wales, Giraldis Cambrensis, Gerald the Marcher - his many names reflect the multi-faceted career of one of the most fascinating figures of the Middle Ages. This study of Gerald's attitudes and intellectual outlook discusses the delicate political path Gerald had to tread and portrays him as an example of the medieval world. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKW; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 125 x 10. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752440316
- ISBN
- 9780752440316
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.55
€ 17.99
€ 16.55
Paperback. Seven hundred years ago, executioners led a Welsh rebel named William Cragh to a wintry hill to be hanged. They placed a noose around his neck, dropped him from the gallows, and later pronounced him dead. But was he dead? This book tells the story of this putative miracle - why it happened, what it meant, and how we know about it. Num Pages: 192 pages, 10 halftones. 2 line illus. 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1DBKW; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC; HRAX; HRLK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 213 x 133 x 15. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691126043
- ISBN
- 9780691126043
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.34
€ 30.99
€ 22.34
paperback. This book explores how medieval people categorized the world, concentrating on the division between the natural and the supernatural. Series: The Wiles Lectures. Num Pages: 182 pages, 13 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 9. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780521702553
- ISBN
- 9780521702553
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 23.18
€ 35.99
€ 23.18
paperback. A wave of internal conquest, settlement and economic growth in Europe during High Middle Ages transformed it from a world of small separate communities into a network of powerful kingdoms. This book shows how Europe was itself a product of colonization, as much as it was later a colonizer, and what this did to shape the continent and the world. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140154092
- ISBN
- 9780140154092
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.37
€ 16.99
€ 12.37
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Disinformation Company
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781938875007
- ISBN
- 9781938875007
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 28.02
€ 32.99
€ 28.02
paperback. Using computer simulations of the ancient skies to crack the millennial code that the monuments transcribe, the authors set out a new theory concerning the Pyramid Texts and other archaic Egyptian scriptures. Num Pages: 432 pages, 16 b&w halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; HBJH; HBLA; HDA; HDDG; HDW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 112 x 26. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099416364
- ISBN
- 9780099416364
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.84
€ 14.99
€ 11.84
Hardback. Challenges the tired orthodoxy that the Church of England had a bad First World War. Num Pages: 288 pages, 30 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEAX; 3JJF; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWN; HRCC91. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 241 x 23. Weight in Grams: 756.
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783270514
- ISBN
- 9781783270514
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 44.30
€ 52.99
€ 44.30
Paperback. Editor(s): Weber, Loren J.; Constable, Giles; Rouse, Richard H. Num Pages: 512 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBAH; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268022341
- ISBN
- 9780268022341
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.25€ 65.03
€ 66.25
€ 65.03
Paperback. In the early nineteenth century China remained almost untouched by British and European powers - but as new technology started to change this balance, foreigners gathered like wolves around the weakening Qing Empire. This book explains the roots of China's complex relationship with the West. Num Pages: 512 pages, 16pp colour. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 200 x 15. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Publisher
- Penguin Press/Classics
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141015859
- ISBN
- 9780141015859
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.59
€ 23.99
€ 16.59
Hardback. Old English Shorter Poems offers tantalizing insights into the Anglo-Saxon mental landscape. These poems and charms find meaning in the loss of fortune and reputation, exile, and alienation. Wisdom also emerges as folk remedies, such as charms to treat stabbing pain, cysts, childbirth, and nightmares of witch-riding caused by a dwarf. Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. Num Pages: 370 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSBB; DSC; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674053069
- ISBN
- 9780674053069
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.96
€ 40.99
€ 33.96
Paperback. "The Medici: Citizens and Masters" offers a novel, comparative approach to examining Medici power and influence in Florence. Contributors from diverse perspectives set Medici rule against princely states such as Milan and Ferrara, and they ask how much the Medici changed Florence, contrasting their supremacy with earlier Florentine regimes. Series: Villa I Tatti Series. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1066.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674088443
- ISBN
- 9780674088443
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.07
€ 45.99
€ 38.07
Paperback. The author demonstrates how New England colonialists lived in a densely metaphoric landscape, exploring the links between such cultural expressions as witchcraft narratives and 18th-century crowd violence. He questions the actual impact of the Enlightenment on this climate of fear and instability. Num Pages: 480 pages, 134 illustrations, 5 maps, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; JFC; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 232 x 34. Weight in Grams: 766. Clean copy with some shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- New edition
- SKU
- KOC0018537
- ISBN
- 9780807846889
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99