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History: earliest times to present day

Paperback. In the early days of the post-Cold War "New World Order", international leaders failed to stop horrific genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda. The author recommends practical steps the international community can take to greatly improve its response the next time genocide occurs. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJP; HBG; HBLW3; HBTZ; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 223.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
191
Condition
New
Edition
2001st Edition
SKU
V9780312293253
ISBN
9780312293253
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.35
€ 24.82

Hardback. Roderick Cavaliero provides a fascinating overview of Germany's cultural zenith and its artistic exports. Comprehensive and highly-readable, 'Genius, Power and Magic' surveys the legacy of this golden age, including the literature of Goethe and Grimm, the music of Wagner, Schumann and Mendelssohn and the philosophy of Schiller and Kant. Num Pages: 384 pages, 14 integrated bw. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 158 x 34. Weight in Grams: 750.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
384
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780764009
ISBN
9781780764009
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.42
€ 54.35

Paperback. Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known, whose empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe, including all of China, the Middle East and Russia. So how did an illiterate nomad rise to such colossal power, eclipsing Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Napoleon? Num Pages: 688 pages, 18. BIC Classification: 1F; 3H; BGH; HBJF; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 216 x 47. Weight in Grams: 650.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784703509
ISBN
9781784703509
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.63

Paperback. A biography of the legendary Mongol emperor and warlord. Num Pages: 464 pages, 32pp colour photos. BIC Classification: 1QDM; BGH; HBJF; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 380.
Publisher
Bantam
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780553814989
ISBN
9780553814989
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.95

Paperback. Genghis Khan was the founder of the Mongol Empire, the largest continuous land empire ever. On his death in 1227, this extended from the Near East to the Yellow Sea, and was expanded by his successors to include what is now Iran, Iraq and southern Russia. He then launched his assault on Northern China. This book tells his story. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; BGH; HBJF; HBLC; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 478.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631189497
ISBN
9780631189497
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 45.78

paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, b & w illustrations, maps & line drawings throughout. BIC Classification: 3H; BGH; HBJF; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 272.
Publisher
Crown
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780609809648
ISBN
9780609809648
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.30

Paperback. Spawning an empire ranging from Persia to China, Genghis Khan united a nomadic warrior culture that had lived with their agrarian neighbors through controlled and limited extortion. This book provides an introduction to the history and culture of the Steppe people from which Genghis Khan emerged. Num Pages: 272 pages, b/w maps. BIC Classification: 1F; HBJF; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 374.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872209695
ISBN
9780872209695
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.88

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Saqi Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
323
Condition
New
SKU
V9780863562884
ISBN
9780863562884
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.05

Paperback. This work describes the background of social and theoretical ideas and the progress of scientific researches which, between them, produced the religious difficulties that afflicted the development of science in early industrial England. Num Pages: 351 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; HRCM; PSAJ; RBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 399.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
351
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674344815
ISBN
9780674344815
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 34.96

Paperback. Editor(s): Byrd, Rudolph P. Series: Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AJCR; HBJK; HBLW; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 273 x 210 x 15. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820346175
ISBN
9780820346175
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.11

Paperback. In 2003, the author arrived in Egypt as a 23-year-old trainee journalist. She found a country on the brink of change. In this book, she unravels the complex forces shaping the lives of four young Egyptians caught between tradition and modernity, and what their stories mean for the future of the Middle East. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3JM; HBJF1; HBLX; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 235 x 24. Weight in Grams: 364.
Publisher
Harvill Secker
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846557637
ISBN
9781846557637
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.53

Paperback. Walter Laqueur has drawn on interviews, memoirs and his own experiences to present a generational history of the young people who were forced to flee their homelands in the decade following Hitler's rise to power in 1933. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JFFD; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 30. Weight in Grams: 580.
Publisher
I. B. Tauris
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9781860648854
ISBN
9781860648854
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.93

Hardback. The Battle of the Bulge lives in history as the U.S. Army's largest and bloodiest battle of World War II. This innovative study of American military leadership in action during the battle examines the performance of six generals in the days and weeks after the German attack in December 1944. Num Pages: 432 pages, 8 pg. insert w/ 21 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 164 x 35. Weight in Grams: 612.
Publisher
Stackpole Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811711999
ISBN
9780811711999
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 27.96

Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, 22 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLL; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 159 x 30. Weight in Grams: 582.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stackpole Books United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811732864
ISBN
9780811732864
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 19.53

Hardcover. Civil-military relations have been a consistent theme of the history of the Weimar Republic. This study focuses on the career of General Walther Reinhardt, the last Prussian Minister of War and the First Head of the Army Command in the Weimar Republic. Series: Monographs in German History. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, Bibliog., index. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 468.
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571819086
ISBN
9781571819086
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.94

Hardcover. Jan Smuts was one of the key figures behind the creation of the League of Nations; Wilson was inspired by his ideas, including the mandates scheme. He pleaded for a magnanimous peace, warning that the treaty of Versailles would lead to another war. Series Editor(s): Sharp, Alan. Series: Makers of the Modern World. Num Pages: 224 pages, maps, black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; HBJH; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 209 x 139 x 24. Weight in Grams: 444.
Publisher
Haus Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905791828
ISBN
9781905791828
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.44

paperback. Num Pages: 440 pages, 22 photographs, 8 line drawings. BIC Classification: BGH; HBJK; HBLL; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 661. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252072598
ISBN
9780252072598
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.90

Hardcover. General Ioan Emanoil Florescu modernized the Romanian army in the second half of the 19th century, following the union of the Romanian principalities but predating the war for Romanian independence. This title stresses the role of General Florescu, whose model for modernization was primarily the French army. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVWR; 3JH; BGH; HBJD; HBLL; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 164 x 12. Weight in Grams: 317.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
East European Monographs United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780880336130
ISBN
9780880336130
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.37

Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 16 pages of photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 235 x 25. Weight in Grams: 658.
Publisher
Casemate Publishers
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781612003979
ISBN
9781612003979
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 34.08

Hardback. The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766-1769 Editor(s): Cole, Richard Cargill; Baker, Peter S.; McClennan, Rachel; Caudle, James C. Series: The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell. Num Pages: 320 pages, geneal. table. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; BGA; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 844.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748608102
ISBN
9780748608102
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 231.73
€ 219.46

Hardcover. This is the first of two volumes containing Boswell's correspondence with more than 200 people, including Pitt, Rousseau, Paoli, John Wilkes, Sir Alexander Dick, Baretti and numerous women friends. Editor(s): Cole, Richard Cargill; Baker, Peter S.; McClennan, Rachel; Caudle, James C. Series: The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; BGA; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 595.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748604036
ISBN
9780748604036
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 231.73
€ 219.46

Hardcover. Much more than a mere compilation of pagan myths, Boccaccio's Genealogy of the Pagan Gods incorporates hundreds of excerpts from and comments on ancient poetry. It is both the most ambitious work of literary scholarship of the early Renaissance and a demonstration to contemporaries of the moral and cultural value of studying ancient poetry. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 450 pages. BIC Classification: HBLH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 20 x 13. .
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674975590
ISBN
9780674975590
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 33.80

hardcover. Genealogical Fictions examines how the state, church, Inquisition, and other institutions in colonial Mexico used the Spanish notion of limpieza de sangre (purity of blood) over time and how the concept's enduring religious, genealogical, and gendered meanings came to shape the region's patriotic and racial ideologies. Num Pages: 424 pages, 13 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 703.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804756488
ISBN
9780804756488
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.11

Paperback. A collection in which a group of leading historians of medieval Europe apply a gendered analysis to a series of questions ranging from the transformation of the Roman world and the Christian challenge to late antique masculinity, through canon law and Byzantine coinage to the childhood of medieval visionaries. Editor(s): Stafford, Pauline; Mulder-Bakker, Anneke B. Series: Gender and History Special Issues. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631226512
ISBN
9780631226512
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 31.72

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