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History: earliest times to present day

Paperback. A study that concerns the history of Gibraltar following its military conquest in 1704, after which sovereignty of the territory was transferred from Spain to Britain and it became a British fortress and colony. It focuses on the civilian population. Num Pages: 496 pages, black & white tables, maps. BIC Classification: 1DSG; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 710.
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719080548
ISBN
9780719080548
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.04

Hardback. Late medieval Japan witnessed a growth in the power of the commoner, as seen in the spread of corporate villages (so) marked by collective ownership and administration and other self-governing features. This study of a community of so villages from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries reconstructs the life of these villages. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3H; HBG; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 156. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804719414
ISBN
9780804719414
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.16

Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HBJD; HBLC1; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 235 x 19. Weight in Grams: 462.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Updated edition with a New preface by the author
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691165769
ISBN
9780691165769
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.06

Hardcover. This book depicts, from the uniquely personal perspective of Ion Iliescu, former president of Romania, the historical drama of the global clash of political systems in the 20th century. Num Pages: 528 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVWR; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 181 x 32. Weight in Grams: 817.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
East European Monographs United States
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
SKU
V9780880335508
ISBN
9780880335508
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Hardback. Communism on Tomorrow Street demonstrates the relationship of Soviet mass housing and urban planning to international efforts at resolving the "housing question" that had been studied since the nineteenth century and led to housing developments in Western Europe, the United States, and Latin America as well as the USSR. Num Pages: 416 pages, 15, 15 figures. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; JFFT; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 31. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421405667
ISBN
9781421405667
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.50

Hardcover. Presenting a communicational perspective on the British empire in India during the 20th century, the book seeks to examine how, and explain why, British proconsuls, civil servants and even the monarch George V, as well as Indian nationalists, interacted with the media, primarily British and American, and with what consequences. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14 figures, 2 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FKA; 3JJ; GTC; HBJQ; HBLW; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 482.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230572584
ISBN
9780230572584
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.50

Hardcover. This project examines the development of forced labor in colonial Kenya from 1912 to 1930 and the parallel normalization of communal forced labor during this time period. Num Pages: 186 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJH; HBLW; HBTB; HBTQ; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
194
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230392953
ISBN
9780230392953
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.44

Hardcover. Did medieval women have the power to choose? This is a question at the heart of this book that explores three court cases from Yorkshire in the decades after the Black Death. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230602946
ISBN
9780230602946
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.92

Paperback. A "Common Woman" in medieval England was a prostitute, distinguished as such less for taking money for sex than for belonging to all men in common. Karras's book tells the story of these women, their experiences, relations, and treatment under the law, and concludes that prostitution was central to the medieval understanding of feminity. Series: Studies in the History of Sexuality. Num Pages: 232 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1; HBLC; HBTB; JFC; JFMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195124989
ISBN
9780195124989
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 103.80

Paperback. This edition of the pamphlet includes selections from Paine's other writings from 1775 and 1776 - additional essays that contextualize "Common Sense" provide unusual insight on both the writer and the cause for which he wrote. Editor(s): Slaughter, Thomas P.; Davis, Natalie Zemon; May, Ernest R. Series: The Bedford Series in History and Culture. Num Pages: 176 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; JFC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 10. Weight in Grams: 205.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Bedford/St. Martin's
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312201487
ISBN
9780312201487
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.12

Hardback. Between 1885 and 1960, laws and policies designed to repress prostitution dramatically shaped London's commercial sex industry. This book examines how laws translated into street-level reality, explores how women who sold sex experienced criminalization, and charts the complex dimensions of the underground sexual economy in the modern metropolis. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 320 pages, 0, 1 tables, 3 charts. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 221 x 23. Weight in Grams: 518.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230230545
ISBN
9780230230545
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.91

Paperback. The close links between the Scots and English law in the Middle Ages have long been recognised. Based on extensive research, this book examines the brieves of novel dissasine, mortancestry and right, and legal remedies for the recovery of land, as well as aspects of the early history of the Scottish legal profession and the Court of Session. Series: Edinburgh Classic Editions. Num Pages: 324 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3F; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474407465
ISBN
9781474407465
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.00

Paperback. Using data on every civil war fought between 1940 and 1992, the author details the conditions that lead combatants to partake in what she defines as a three-step process - the decision on whether to initiate negotiations, to compromise, and, finally, to implement any resulting terms. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: GTJ; HBG; HBLW3; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 161 x 236 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691089317
ISBN
9780691089317
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 38.30

Series: Topics in Kentucky History. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBSK; 3JJH; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 825.
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813165639
ISBN
9780813165639
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 69.04

Hardback. Re-envisages what we know about African political economies through its examination of one of the key questions in colonial and African history, that of commercial agriculture and its relationship to slavery. Editor(s): Law, Robin; Schwarz, Suzanne; Strickrodt, Silke. Series: Western Africa Series. Num Pages: 290 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJH; HBLL; HBTQ; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 656.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
James Currey
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847010759
ISBN
9781847010759
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.73

Hardback. Numerous aspects of the medieval economy are covered in this new collection of essays, from business fraud and changes in wages to the production of luxury goods. Editor(s): Dodds, Ben; Liddy, Christian D. Num Pages: 274 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3F; 3H; HBLC1; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 236 x 25. Weight in Grams: 550. Essays in Honour of Richard Britnell. 274 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Dodds, Ben; Liddy, Christian D. Numerous aspects of the medieval economy are covered in this new collection of essays, from business fraud and changes in wages to the production of luxury goods. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 3F; 3H; HBLC1; KCZ. Dimension: 161 x 236 x 25. Weight: 622.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843836841
ISBN
9781843836841
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.46

Paperback. This edition of Francoise Pascal's collection epistolary highlights a rare, innovative and entertaining work by a woman writer unknown today, but in her time a distinguished playwright, poet and painter. Now in its first modern edition, this text provides new insights into seventeenth-century life and the discourses of galanterie and preciosite. Editor(s): Steinberger, Deborah. Series: Exeter French Texts. Num Pages: 78 pages, 1ill. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DN; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 115.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
78
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859896672
ISBN
9780859896672
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.96

Paperback. The third and final volume of Simon Hornblower's magisterial commentary on the history of the first 20 years of the Peloponnesian War written by the great fifth-century BC Greek historian Thucydides. Volume III covers the years 421-411 BC (Books 5.25 to 8.109). All Greek is translated, and there is a thematic Introduction. Num Pages: 1128 pages, Frontispiece, 6 figures, 8 maps. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
1128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199594450
ISBN
9780199594450
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 128.03

Hardback. Marsilio Ficino (1433 1499) was the leading Platonic philosopher of the Renaissance and is generally recognized as the greatest authority on ancient Platonism before modern times. The I Tatti edition of his commentary on Plotinus, in 6 volumes, contains the first modern edition of the Latin text and the first translation into any modern language. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 420 pages. BIC Classification: HBLA1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 20 x 13. .
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674974982
ISBN
9780674974982
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 34.17

Hardback. The bloody events of the Paris Commune in 1871 traumatized France. In this study of cultural memory, the author draws on a range of sources to understand the resonating questions about the terrible year. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 22. Weight in Grams: 468.
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823226030
ISBN
9780823226030
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.16

Paperback. Exploring the political and cultural layers of memory and commemoration Num Pages: 216 pages, 19 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252077883
ISBN
9780252077883
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.56

Paperback. Weaving together official documents, new research and veterans' own accounts, 'Commando' reveals the exhilarating full story of World War II's most formidable fighting force. Num Pages: 448 pages, Section: 16, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 124 x 29. Weight in Grams: 380.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Digital original
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349123622
ISBN
9780349123622
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.51

paperback. This volume contains the letters written during the Civil War by Colonel Patrick R. Guiney, of the Ninth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. This is the sixth volume in a series exploring "The Irish in the Civil War". Series: Irish in the Civil War. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; BJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HBWJ; JWTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 20. Weight in Grams: 479.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Edition
2nd Edition
SKU
V9780823218134
ISBN
9780823218134
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

Hardback. .
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781590218
ISBN
9781781590218
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.66

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