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History: earliest times to present day

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History: earliest times to present day

Paperback. This volume rewrites the history of East Asia by rethinking the contentious relationship between Confucianism and women. The book reveals Confucianism as a modern construct that does not reflect the social and cultural histories of East Asia before the 19th century. Editor(s): Ko, Dorothy; Haboush, JaHyun Kim; Piggott, Joan R. Num Pages: 350 pages, 14 b/w illustrations, 14 tables, 3 music examples, 4 charts, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPJ; 1FPK; HBJF; HBLL; HBTB; HRKN1; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 463.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520231382
ISBN
9780520231382
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.35

Paperback. A study of Italian colonial history and culture, this text gathers articles which highlight the ways in which colonial discourse has pervaded Italian culture from the post-unification period to the present. It delves into the controversy surrounding immigration from Africa to the Italian peninsula. Editor(s): Palumbo, Patrizia. Num Pages: 332 pages, 9 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1H; HBJD; HBJH; HBLL; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 550.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
332
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520232341
ISBN
9780520232341
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Hardback. Contributes to the study of death and burial in late antique and early medieval society. Tracing the history of Merovingian archaeology, this book exposes biases and prejudices that have colored previous interpretations of these burial sites and assesses what contemporary archaeology can tell us about the Frankish kingdoms. Series: Transformation of the Classical Heritage. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14 b/w photographs, 4 line illustrations, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 3F; HBJD; HBLC; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520232440
ISBN
9780520232440
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.37
€ 64.45

Hardback. An apostolic lifestyle characterized by total material renunciation, homelessness, and begging was practiced by monks throughout the Roman Empire in the fourth and fifth centuries. This book presents a study of this type of Christian poverty and the challenge it posed for episcopal authority and the promotion of monasticism in late antiquity. Series: Transformation of the Classical Heritage. Num Pages: 339 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 3D; HBG; HBLA; HBTB; HRCC1; HRCX8. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
339
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520233249
ISBN
9780520233249
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.68
€ 56.86

Hardback. The most feared man in China, Dai Li, was chief of Chiang Kai-shek's secret service during WWII. This work traces Dai's rise from obscurity as a rural hooligan and Green Gang blood-brother to commander of the paramilitary units of the Blue Shirts and of the Military Statistics Bureau: the world's largest spy and counterespionage organization. Num Pages: 672 pages, 25 b/w photographs, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJH; GTB; HBJF; HBLW; JPSH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1092.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
672
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520234079
ISBN
9780520234079
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.37
€ 64.99

Paperback. Explains how an Arab landscape, physical and human, was transformed into an Israeli, Jewish state. This book discusses the process by which Hebrew nomenclature replaced the Arabic names of more than 9,000 natural features, villages, and ruins in Eretz Israel/Palestine (his name for the Holy Land, thereby defining it as a land of Jews and Arabs). Translator(s): Kaufman-Lacusta, Maxine. Num Pages: 376 pages, 23 b/w photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; 3JJP; HBJF1; HBLW3; JFSR1; RGCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 226 x 24. Weight in Grams: 534.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520234222
ISBN
9780520234222
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Paperback. This volume presents an exploration of the origins of nationalism and cultural identity in China, tracing the ways in which a large, early modern empire of Eurasia, the Qing, incorporated neighbouring, but disparate, political traditions into a new style of emperorship. Num Pages: 417 pages, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLL; JFC; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 626.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
417
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520234246
ISBN
9780520234246
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Paperback. Num Pages: 397 pages, 19 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; HBJF1; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
397
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520235465
ISBN
9780520235465
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 30.22

Hardback. Presents a study of representations of Jews in eighteenth-century France - both by Gentiles and Jews themselves. This work offers fresh perspectives on the Enlightenment and French Revolution, on Jewish history, and on the nature of racism and intolerance. Series: Studies on the History of Society & Culture. Num Pages: 339 pages, 1 b/w illustration. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 302 x 32. Weight in Grams: 698.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
339
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520235571
ISBN
9780520235571
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.37
€ 64.45

Paperback. This work examines the history of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1898-1956) and the Republic of Sudan that followed in order to understand how colonialism worked on the ground, affected local cultures, influenced the rise of nationalism, and shaped the postcolonial nation-state. Series: Colonialisms S. Num Pages: 245 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1HBS; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBJH; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ; HBTR; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
245
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520235595
ISBN
9780520235595
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.19

Paperback. Lawyer, educator, novelist, radio and television scriptwriter, film director and screenwriter, wartime intelligence operative, and full-time radical romantic, Abraham Lincoln Polonsky was blacklisted in Hollywood for refusing to be an informer. This biography helps us understand the relationship between art and politics in American culture. Num Pages: 285 pages, 18 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; BGF; HBJK; HBLW3; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
285
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520236721
ISBN
9780520236721
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Paperback. Drawing on the literature, especially the historiography, composed by the members of the elite who conducted Roman foreign affairs, this book reevaluates the roots, motivations, and goals of Roman imperial foreign policy especially as that policy related to warfare. Num Pages: 280 pages, 5 line figures, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBG; HBJD; HBLA; JWD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 230 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520236837
ISBN
9780520236837
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.24

Paperback. History, political philosophy, and constitutional law were born in Athens in the space of a single generation - the generation that lived through the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE). This text provides an examination of this democracy transformed by war. Num Pages: 537 pages, 14 b/w illustrations, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
525
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520236851
ISBN
9780520236851
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.37

Hardback. Presents history of the Romanian Communist Party. This title traces the origins of the once-tiny, clandestine revolutionary organization in the 1920s through the years of national power from 1944 to 1989 to the post-1989 metamorphoses of its members. Series: Society and Culture in East-Central Europe S. Num Pages: 395 pages, 21 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DVWR; HBJD; HBLW; JPFC; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 167 x 33. Weight in Grams: 720.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
395
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520237476
ISBN
9780520237476
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.37
€ 64.66

Hardback. Demonstrates that Polybius' work performs a literary and political balancing act of heretofore unappreciated subtlety and interest. This book shows how Polybius contrived to tailor his historiography for multiple audiences, comprising his fellow Greeks, whose freedom Rome had usurped in his own generation, and the Roman conquerors. Series: Hellenistic Culture and Society. Num Pages: 343 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 32. Weight in Grams: 684.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
343
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520237643
ISBN
9780520237643
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.37
€ 64.45

Paperback. Amid the turbulence of political assassinations, the civil rights struggle, and antiwar protests, American society was experiencing growing affluence and profound cultural change during the 1960s. This text looks at the way in which the film industry interpreted the era. Series: History of the American Cinema S. Num Pages: 359 pages, 112 b/w photographs, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; APFA; HBJK; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 251 x 176 x 21. Weight in Grams: 632. 1960-1969. Series: History of the American Cinema S. 359 pages, 112 b&w photographs, 6 tables. Amid the turbulence of political assassinations, the civil rights struggle, and antiwar protests, American society was experiencing growing affluence and profound cultural change during the 1960s. This text looks at the way in which the film industry interpreted the era. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; APFA; HBJK; HBLW3. Dimension: 251 x 176 x 21. Weight: 632.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
359
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520238046
ISBN
9780520238046
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 34.35

Hardback. Offers an analysis of the relationship between communism and fascism. This title examines the ideological appeal of these radical, revolutionary political movements, the visions of salvation and revolution they pursued, the value and types of charisma of leaders within these political movements, and their legacies in contemporary politics. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBG; HBLW; JPFC; JPFQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 150 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590. Communism, Fascism, and Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century. 336 pages. Offers an analysis of the relationship between communism and fascism. This title examines the ideological appeal of these radical, revolutionary political movements, the visions of salvation and revolution they pursued, the value and types of charisma of leaders within these political movements, and their legacies in contemporary politics. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBG; HBLW; JPFC; JPFQ. Dimension: 235 x 150 x 25. Weight: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520239722
ISBN
9780520239722
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 35.96

Paperback. A work on Jewish communities in the medieval Mediterranean world that offers an unparalleled view of how people lived, traveled, worshiped, and conducted their economic and social affairs. Editor(s): Lassner, Jacob. Num Pages: 525 pages, 1 b/w photograph, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBG; HBJF1; HBLC; JFC; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 31. Weight in Grams: 754.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
Rev Ed
Number of pages
525
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520240599
ISBN
9780520240599
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 30.01

Paperback. Focusing on the era from Napoleon's conquest and the discovery of the Rosetta Stone to the outbreak of World War I, this book examines the evolution of Egyptian archaeology in the context of Western imperialism and nascent Egyptian nationalism. Num Pages: 424 pages, 46 b/w photographs, 2 maps, 14 tables. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JH; 3JJC; GM; HBJH; HBLA; HDDG; JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 224 x 27. Weight in Grams: 682.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520240698
ISBN
9780520240698
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.73

Paperback. Examining the conflict in Iraq, this work reveals the government's assault on the constitutional freedoms of the American media during Operation Desert Storm. Num Pages: 318 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; HBJF; HBLW; JFMD; JPVN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 207 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
First Edition,Revised
Number of pages
318
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520242319
ISBN
9780520242319
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 23.95

Paperback. How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that swept across modern China? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? How did the citizens of Shanghai cope with the epic upheavals - revolution, war, and again revolution - that shook their lives? In this carefully researched study, Hanchao Lu weaves rich. Num Pages: 473 pages, 36 b/w photographs, 2 maps, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
473
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520243781
ISBN
9780520243781
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 31.98

Hardback. What do archaeological excavations in Annapolis, Maryland, reveal about daily life in the city's history? Interpreting the results of one of the most innovative projects in American archaeology, this title speaks powerfully to the struggle for liberty among African Americans and the poor. Num Pages: 320 pages, 32 b/w photographs, 17 line illustrations, 13 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBFM; HBJK; HBLH; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 237 x 31. Weight in Grams: 656.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520244504
ISBN
9780520244504
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.36
€ 50.63

Paperback. The names of early Germanic warrior tribes and leaders resound in songs and legends; the real story of the part they played in reshaping the ancient world is no less gripping. This book presents the history that spans the great migrations of the Germanic people and the rise and fall of their kingdoms between the third and eighth centuries. Translator(s): Dunlap, Thomas. Num Pages: 361 pages, 2 maps, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 546. 361 pages, 2 maps. The names of early Germanic warrior tribes and leaders resound in songs and legends; the real story of the part they played in reshaping the ancient world is no less gripping. This book presents the history that spans the great migrations of the Germanic people and the rise and fall of their kingdoms between the third and eighth centuries. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 25. Weight: 546. Translator(s): Dunlap, Thomas.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
361
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520244900
ISBN
9780520244900
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 30.23

Paperback. Offers an account of the violence and repression that defined the murderous Guatemalan civil war of the 1980s. Drawing on interviews with peasants, community leaders, guerrillas, and paramilitary forces, the author creates a richly detailed political portrait of Santa Maria Tzeja, where highland Maya peasants seeking land settled in the 1970s. Series: California Series in Public Anthropology. Num Pages: 330 pages, 23 b/w photographs, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCG; 3JJPN; HBJK; HBLW3; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 546.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st
Number of pages
330
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520246751
ISBN
9780520246751
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.81

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