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Hardcover. The research Alexander von Humboldt amassed during his five-year trek through the Americas in the early 19th century proved foundational to the fields of botany and geology. But his visit to Cuba during this time yielded observations that extended far beyond the natural world. This title presents a physical and cultural study of the island nation. Editor(s): Kutzinski, Vera M.; Ette, Ottmar. Num Pages: 496 pages, 115 tables. BIC Classification: 1KJC; HBLL; HBTB; JFC; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 862.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226465678
- ISBN
- 9780226465678
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€ 82.81€ 69.67
€ 82.81
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Hardcover. Digs deep into the terrain of fatherhood. This title explores the nature and aftereffects of combat, the culture of fear during the Cold War, the ways that fear altered the lives of racial and sexual minorities, and how the civil rights movement affected families both black and white. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JFSJ2; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226467429
- ISBN
- 9780226467429
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€ 121.85€ 101.01
€ 121.85
€ 101.01
Paperback. Digs deep into the terrain of fatherhood. This title explores the nature and aftereffects of combat, the culture of fear during the Cold War, the ways that fear altered the lives of racial and sexual minorities, and how the civil rights movement affected families both black and white. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JFSJ2; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226467436
- ISBN
- 9780226467436
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 36.38
€ 46.99
€ 36.38
Paperback. Part of a series which studies the impact of Asia's high civilizations on the development of modern Western society. Volume III, Book One examines Christian missions, trade and conquest in the East and the histories, reports, letterbooks and travelogues of 17th-century Europe. Num Pages: 736 pages, 90 halftones, 17 line drawings, 2 maps, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1D; 1F; HBJD; HBJF; HBLH; HBLL; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 168 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1002.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 736
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226467658
- ISBN
- 9780226467658
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Condition: New
€ 65.07€ 55.38
€ 65.07
€ 55.38
Paperback. Part of Volume III of a series which traces European encounters with Asia, and the ways in which those encounters altered the development of Western society, art, literature, science and religion since the Renaissance. The books of the third volume of this work cover the 17th century. Num Pages: 578 pages, 69 halftones, 9 line drawings, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 1F; HBJD; HBJF; HBLH; HBLL; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 720.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 578
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226467689
- ISBN
- 9780226467689
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Condition: New
€ 53.24€ 45.88
€ 53.24
€ 45.88
paperback. Revealing the extent to which some of yesterday's fathers were involved with their children, this text recounts how fatherhood was reshaped during the "Machine Age" into the configuration we know today. Num Pages: 300 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFSJ; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226469041
- ISBN
- 9780226469041
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.66
€ 40.99
€ 31.66
Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JFCX; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 28. Weight in Grams: 624.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226469706
- ISBN
- 9780226469706
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 41.13
€ 52.99
€ 41.13
paperback. Translator(s): Goldhammer, A. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 618.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226470818
- ISBN
- 9780226470818
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Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 37.37
€ 47.99
€ 37.37
Paperback. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur. Num Pages: 302 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLC; HDDA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 414.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226470856
- ISBN
- 9780226470856
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.74
€ 37.99
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Paperback. From autobiographical writings, this book reconstructs the extraordinary life of Thomas Platter and the lives of his sons. It expands the historical contexts of these accounts and, in the process, brings to life the customs, perceptions and character of an age on the threshold of modernity. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur. Num Pages: 418 pages, 26 halftones, 5 maps, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1D; BGH; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 151 x 27. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 418
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226473246
- ISBN
- 9780226473246
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.00
€ 31.99
€ 25.00
Hardcover. How does religion stimulate and feed imperial ambitions and violence? This title identifies three core components of an imperial theology that have transhistorical and contemporary relevance: dualistic ethics, a theory of divine election, and a sense of salvific mission. It shows how the religious ideas shaped Achaemenian practice. Num Pages: 192 pages, 12 halftones, 11 line drawings, 13 tables. BIC Classification: 1QDAP; HBJD; HBLA; HRKP; JPVR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 236 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226481968
- ISBN
- 9780226481968
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Condition: New
€ 94.64€ 79.10
€ 94.64
€ 79.10
Hardcover. Explains how, before entering World War I, the United States sought a way to avoid the enormous cost of providing injured soldiers with pensions, which it had done since the Revolutionary War. This title includes a story that culminates in the postwar establishment of the Veteran's Administration. Num Pages: 272 pages, 20 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JWJ; MQV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226482538
- ISBN
- 9780226482538
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Condition: New
€ 94.64€ 79.10
€ 94.64
€ 79.10
Paperback. Series: Phoenix Books. Num Pages: 332 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 202 x 132 x 18. Weight in Grams: 367.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1965
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226485867
- ISBN
- 9780226485867
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.74
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Paperback. The memoirs of Hortense (1646-99) and Marie (1639-1715) Mancini, members of court of Louis XIV, represent earliest examples in France of memoirs published by women under their own names during their lifetimes. This title chronicles the beginnings of women's rights within the confines of an otherwise circumscribed early modern aristocratic society. Editor(s): Nelson, Sarah. Translator(s): Nelson, Sarah. Series: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Num Pages: 254 pages, 2 halftones, 3 maps, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JD; 3JF; BGHA; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 350.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226502793
- ISBN
- 9780226502793
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.77
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paperback. First published in 1600 in answer to Giusepe Passi's diatribe about women's alleged defects, this polemic displays Lucrezia Marinella's knowledge of the Italian poetic tradition and demonstrates her ability to argue against authors of the misogynist tradition from Boccaccio to Torquato Tasso. Translator(s): Dunhill, Anne; Panizza, Letizia. Series: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBLH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 350.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226505466
- ISBN
- 9780226505466
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.89
€ 32.99
€ 25.89
paperback. "The freshness of the authors' approaches . . . is salutary. . . . The collection is stimulating and valuable."-Joan Shelley Rubin, "Journal of American History" Editor(s): May, Lary. Num Pages: 320 pages, x, 310 p., 22 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226511764
- ISBN
- 9780226511764
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.88
€ 35.99
€ 28.88
Paperback. Saint Domingue (Haiti) was the world's richest colony in the eighteenth century and home to an active society of science - one of only three in the world at that time. This study of the colon raises questions about the relationship between science and society that historians of the colonial experience are grappling with today. Num Pages: 416 pages, 24 figures, 4 maps, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KJH; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTQ; PDX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226514673
- ISBN
- 9780226514673
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.83
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Paperback. Shedding light on a fundamental tension in liberal theory, this book reaches beyond post-colonial studies to revise the reader's conception of Britain's 19th-century grand liberal tradition and the conception of experience with which it is associated. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTQ; JPA; JPFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 232 x 21. Weight in Grams: 390.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226518824
- ISBN
- 9780226518824
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.64
€ 40.99
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Paperback. In 1849, news of the discovery of gold in California triggered an enormous wave of emigration toward the Pacific. Lured by the promise of riches, thousands of settlers left behind the forests, rain, and fertile soil of the eastern United States in favor of the rough-hewn lands of the American West. This title brings their perspective to life. Num Pages: 352 pages, 89 halftones, 10 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK; HBLL; RBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 227 x 25. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226519623
- ISBN
- 9780226519623
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 19.30
€ 23.99
€ 19.30
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWX; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 165 x 17. Weight in Grams: 410.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226532431
- ISBN
- 9780226532431
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.74
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€ 29.74
Hardcover. Some nuns in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy strayed far from the paradigms of monastic life. In this book, the author resurrects forgotten tales and restores to life the long-silent voices of these cloistered heroines. The nuns of early modern Italy, it shows, set the standard for religious transgression in their own age - and beyond. Num Pages: 264 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBLH; HRCX8; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226534619
- ISBN
- 9780226534619
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Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 42.08
€ 53.99
€ 42.08
Paperback. As a woman wielding public authority, Elizabeth I embodied a paradox at the very center of sixteenth-century patriarchal English society. This title illuminates the ways in which the Queen and her subjects variously exploited or obfuscated this contradiction. It is suitable for historians, literary scholars, and art historians of the period. Num Pages: 352 pages, 51 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; ACN; AG; HBJD1; HBLH; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 229 x 29. Weight in Grams: 562.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226534756
- ISBN
- 9780226534756
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.50
€ 40.99
€ 31.50
Paperback. In 17th century France, aristocratic women were valued by their families as commodities to be married off in exchange for money, social advantage, or military alliance. The Duchesse de Montpensier was one of the few exceptions, as this collection of her letters demonstrates. Translator(s): DeJean, Joan. Series: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Num Pages: 96 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 3JD; BJ; HBJD; HBLH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226534923
- ISBN
- 9780226534923
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.94
€ 32.99
€ 25.94
Paperback. When eight-year-old Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana (1590-1662) entered one of the preeminent convents in Bologna in 1598, she had no idea what cloistered life had in store for her. This title retells the story of Vizzana and the nuns of Santa Cristina to elucidate the role that music played in the lives of these cloistered women. Num Pages: 280 pages, 32 halftones, 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JD; AV; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408. Nuns, Music, and Defiance in Seventeenth-century Italy. 280 pages, 32 halftones, 3 line drawings. When eight-year-old Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana (1590-1662) entered one of the preeminent convents in Bologna in 1598, she had no idea what cloistered life had in store for her. This title retells the story of Vizzana and the nuns of Santa Cristina to elucidate the role that music played in the lives of these cloistered women. Cateogry: (UF) Further/Higher Education. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JD; AV; HBJD; HBLH. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226535197
- ISBN
- 9780226535197
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.77
€ 37.99
€ 29.77