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History: earliest times to present day
Paperback. "O'Shaughnessy's excellent, clearly written book is an important contribution to Caribbean and US history. He successfully explains why the Caribbean colonists, far from supporting the American Revolution, preferred to keep the British empire intact.. Highly recommended."-Choice Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 376 pages, 41 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJ; HBJK; HBLH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 550.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812217322
- ISBN
- 9780812217322
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.42
€ 41.99
€ 37.42
Paperback. "Immediately useful to anyone interested in Spanish history and culture."-Virginia Quarterly Review Editor(s): Cowans, Jon. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 502.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812218466
- ISBN
- 9780812218466
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€ 37.99€ 34.03
€ 37.99
€ 34.03
paperback. Examines how the struggle between yeoman farmers and landed gentry shaped public life in the colony. It delineates the beliefs of rioters and upholders of order, both of whom wanted control over the land. It also describes how changes in provincial society led farmers to resort to violence as a means of settling property disputes. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEJ; 3JD; 3JF; HBJK; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812218596
- ISBN
- 9780812218596
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.15
€ 37.99
€ 34.15
Paperback. Provides a picture of Shays' Rebellion, capturing the spirit of the insurgency, the reasons for the revolt, and its long-term impact on the participants, the state of Massachusetts, and the nation as a whole. Num Pages: 216 pages, 38 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; JWLF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812218701
- ISBN
- 9780812218701
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.20
€ 26.99
€ 25.20
Paperback. How is American history written? Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alan Taylor answers this question in this collection of his essays from The New Republic, where he explores the writing of early American history. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812219104
- ISBN
- 9780812219104
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.60
€ 32.99
€ 29.60
Paperback. An in-depth account of the relationship between the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s. Series: Politics & Culture in Modern America. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLW3. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 448.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812219753
- ISBN
- 9780812219753
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.73
€ 32.99
€ 29.73
Paperback. "An exemplary study of public memory because of its wide vision, its attentiveness to context, and its careful delineation of change over time."-David Waldstreicher, author of In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820 Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, 15 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 429.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812221091
- ISBN
- 9780812221091
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.58
€ 32.99
€ 29.58
paperback. Centering on the streets of this metropolis, Simone Roux peers into the secret lives of people within their homes and the public world of affairs and entertainments, populating the book with laborers, shop keepers, magistrates, thieves, and strollers. Translator(s): McNamara, Jo Ann. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 map (black and white). BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3H; HBJD; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812221480
- ISBN
- 9780812221480
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.70
€ 32.99
€ 29.70
Paperback. Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South considers the critical role the famous evangelist played in creating the modern American South. Author Steven P. Miller treats Graham as a serious actor and a powerful transitional symbol-an evangelist, first and foremost, but also a profoundly political figure. Series: Politics & Culture in Modern America. Num Pages: 320 pages, 7 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; HRCX7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 472.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812221794
- ISBN
- 9780812221794
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.15
€ 37.99
€ 34.15
Paperback. This book examines how competing narratives about the Haitian Revolution influenced American public culture during the Civil War. It argues that both antislavery and proslavery groups appropriated the symbols of Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution in their attempts to determine the fate of slavery in the United States. Num Pages: 248 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812221848
- ISBN
- 9780812221848
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.60
€ 32.99
€ 29.60
Paperback. Zamumo's Gifts traces the evolution of Indian-European exchange, from gift giving as a diplomatic tool to the trade of commodities that bound colonists and Natives in commercial relations. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages, 12 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 3J; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; JFSL9. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812222234
- ISBN
- 9780812222234
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.73
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paperback. Lucretia Mott was a central figure in the interconnected struggles for racial and sexual equality in nineteenth-century America. This biography, the first in thirty years, focuses on Mott's long and controversial public career as an abolitionist, women's rights activist, and Quaker minister. Num Pages: 312 pages, 13 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JFSJ1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812222791
- ISBN
- 9780812222791
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.08
€ 37.99
€ 34.08
Paperback. Traditional marriage was not the only option for couples in medieval Europe. Alternative forms of union could make lives precarious but also provided a degree of flexibility. The study draws on a wide geographical and chronological range of examples in order to illustrate local difference while bringing out broad patterns. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 3H; HBLC1; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 449.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780812222982
- ISBN
- 9780812222982
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.15
€ 37.99
€ 34.15
Paperback. Analyzing economic policy from the New Deal through the Reagan Revolution, Tax and Spend takes a new look at the so-called tax-and-spend liberals of the past. This important study examines why many Americans have come to hate the government but continue to demand the security it provides. Series: Politics & Culture in Modern America. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; KCZ; KFFD1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812222999
- ISBN
- 9780812222999
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.73
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Paperback. This volume examines patterns of growth, government organization, and cultural representation that created a new region across the nation's southern rim following World War II. Essays explain how ideology and political economy restructured space within the Sunbelt, making the landscape and lives of its inhabitants more uniformly metropolitan. Editor(s): Nickerson, Michelle; Dochuk, Darren. Series: Politics & Culture in Modern America. Num Pages: 480 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJK; HBLW3; HBLX; JP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 703.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812223002
- ISBN
- 9780812223002
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.42
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€ 37.42
Paperback. Joseph O'Callaghan offers the first full and authoritative history of the epic battle for control of the Strait of Gibraltar waged by Castile, Morocco, and Granada in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries-a major, but often overlooked chapter in the Christian reconquest of Spain. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 392 pages, 13 illus. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1DSG; 1HBM; 3H; HBLC1; HBWC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 28. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812223026
- ISBN
- 9780812223026
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.34
€ 41.99
€ 37.34
Paperback. Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians offers a distinctive and original reading of racialization in early America. Focusing on cultural cross-dressing from a wide range of sources, Sophie White shows that material culture-especially dress-was central to discourses about race, as colonization was built on encounters mediated by appearance. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 360 pages, 33 color, 17 b/w. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812223088
- ISBN
- 9780812223088
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.25
€ 37.99
€ 34.25
Paperback. Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters tells the story of the battle for access to leisure space in cities across the United States. This detailed and eloquent history shows how African Americans fought to enter segregated amusement areas not only in pursuit of happiness but in connection to a wider movement for racial equality. Series: Politics & Culture in Modern America. Num Pages: 320 pages, 18 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812223286
- ISBN
- 9780812223286
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.15
€ 37.99
€ 34.15
Paperback. Historian Elizabeth Tandy Shermer examines how Barry Goldwater and elite Phoenix businessmen used policy and federal funds to fashion a postwar "business climate," setting off an interstate competition for investment that transformed American politics. Series: Politics & Culture in Modern America. Num Pages: 432 pages, 18 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBWZ; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; JP; KCZ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812223477
- ISBN
- 9780812223477
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.61
€ 41.99
€ 37.61
Paperback. James J. Gigantino II shatters the easy dichotomy between free and slave states in early America. The Ragged Road to Abolition illustrates how slavery in New Jersey persisted until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment and reveals the myriad ways this marginalized the state's free blacks. Num Pages: 368 pages, 11 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBEJ; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812223583
- ISBN
- 9780812223583
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.25
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Paperback. This fascinating history examines the circumstances of two elderly New Englanders who were prosecuted and sentenced to death for bestiality at the turn of the eighteenth century. Their astonishing cases become a springboard to examine the Enlightenment Era political and religious turmoil of the region. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 216 pages, 21 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 325.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812223750
- ISBN
- 9780812223750
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.82
€ 32.99
€ 29.82
paperback. Evan Haefeli demonstrates how convoluted and uncertain were the beginnings of religious tolerance in America, by giving them an international context. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 376 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JD; HBJK; HBLH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780812223781
- ISBN
- 9780812223781
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.25
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€ 34.25
Paperback. In this sweeping collection of essays, one of America's leading colonial historians reexamines struggles between Native peoples and Europeans in early America in terms of how each understood the material basis of power. Num Pages: 328 pages, 35 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JD; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 487.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780812223804
- ISBN
- 9780812223804
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.15
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€ 34.15
Hardback. The book documents thirty cases in which university-trained scholars were condemned for disseminating allegedly erroneous opinions in their teaching or writing. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HRAM7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812233186
- ISBN
- 9780812233186
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.22
€ 71.22