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History: earliest times to present day
Paperback. A portrait of the Victorian world that takes readers on a journey through the birth of modern Britain. Using the paintings of the era as a starting point, it tells us stories of urban life, family, faith, industry and empire that helped define the Victorian spirit and imagination. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 142 x 24. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Publisher
- BBC Books
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846077449
- ISBN
- 9781846077449
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.81
€ 26.99
€ 18.81
Paperback. A picture can say a thousand words and the images caught on camera during the Victorian and Edwardian periods provide a fascinating insight into the lives of Britons during this time. This book lets you take a step back between 1840 and 1910 and explore the world of work and working conditions experienced by the Victorians and Edwardians. Series: Shire Library. Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 149 x 10. Weight in Grams: 282. New.
- Publisher
- Shire Publications Ltd
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780747807193
- ISBN
- 9780747807193
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.98
€ 10.98
Paperback. A picture can say a thousand words and the images caught on camera during the Victorian and Edwardian periods provide a fascinating insight into the lives of Britons during this time. This book lets you explore the pastimes, hobbies, sports and other entertainments enjoyed by the Victorians and Edwardians. Series: Shire Library. Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 150 x 10. Weight in Grams: 284. New.
- Publisher
- Shire Publications Ltd
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780747807209
- ISBN
- 9780747807209
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.98
€ 10.98
paperback. In a panoramic survey of the Victorian Age, this work describes the men and women who brought the modern age into being. The capitalist world was challenged by the ideas of such men as Karl Marx, William Morris and George Bernard Shaw - here they are. Here are also the lofty and famous and here too are the poor and the obscure. Num Pages: 752 pages, 32. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 41. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099451860
- ISBN
- 9780099451860
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 13.73
€ 19.99
€ 13.73
Paperback. With an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses political history, the history of ideas, cultural history, and art history, 'The Victorian World' offers a sweeping survey of the world in the 19th century. Editor(s): Hewitt, Martin. Num Pages: 776 pages, 59 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1QDB; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 244 x 175 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1358.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 776
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415712989
- ISBN
- 9780415712989
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 84.62
€ 84.62
Paperback. Whether it was 'the batille', 'the spike', 'the work'us' or simply 'the house', the Victorian workhouse was the cause of dread and shame for thousands of men, women and children. This book looks at the principles that lay beind the New Poor Law of 1834, at the design and construction of workhouses, and at the lives of those who entered them. Series: Shire Album S. Num Pages: 32 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; AMG; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 109 x 4. Weight in Grams: 96. New.
- Publisher
- Shire Publications Ltd
- Number of pages
- 32
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780747803553
- ISBN
- 9780747803553
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.59
€ 7.59
Paperback. Public schools were in the business of producing leaders - in national government, in the Empire, and in the armed forces. This title examines the development of the Victorian and Edwardian public school, covering their defining characteristics, their slowly evolving curriculum, and the often-notable headmasters. Series: Shire Library. Num Pages: 56 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JNLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 151 x 5. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Shire Publications
- Number of pages
- 56
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747807223
- ISBN
- 9780747807223
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.40
€ 12.40
Paperback. The history of the telegraph - the men and women who made it - and its relevance to the current Internet debate. Num Pages: 224 pages, Colour 32. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLL; KNTT; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753807033
- ISBN
- 9780753807033
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.91
€ 13.99
€ 10.91
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 19. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press Ithaca
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801487682
- ISBN
- 9780801487682
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.54
€ 34.99
€ 31.54
Paperback. During the nineteenth century, Britain became the first gaslit society, with electric lighting arriving in 1878. At the same time, the British government significantly expanded its power to observe and monitor its subjects. This book explores how light facilitated such practices as safe transportation and private reading. Num Pages: 368 pages, 65 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD1; HBLL; HBT; TNKH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226640778
- ISBN
- 9780226640778
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.38
€ 37.99
€ 29.38
Paperback. Full of detail and colour about everyday life in Dickens's London, and leaves you with a sense not only of how hard life was then, but how strange. Even if you've read Dickens and the contemporary historians of the poor, there is still more to marvel at here.' Sebastian Faulks, Mail on Sunday Books of the Year Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 197 x 41. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848877979
- ISBN
- 9781848877979
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.40
€ 19.99
€ 14.40
Paperback. Presenting a collection of Victorian and Edwardian images, this book explores the growth of tourism from the 1840s until the outbreak of the First World War. Series: Shire Library. Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 149 x 9. Weight in Grams: 276. New.
- Publisher
- Shire
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780747811534
- ISBN
- 9780747811534
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.98
€ 10.98
Paperback. Stalin's reign of terror in the Soviet Union has been called 'the other Holocaust'. During the Stalin years, it is thought that more innocent men, women and children perished than in Hitler's destruction of the European Jews. This book tells the story of the survivors. Num Pages: 224 pages, 89 bw integrated in 38pp plates. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 212 x 17. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780761374
- ISBN
- 9781780761374
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.45
€ 26.99
€ 23.45
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Helion & Company United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908916501
- ISBN
- 9781908916501
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.93€ 53.88
€ 70.93
€ 53.88
Paperback. As the dust settles on Labour's time in office, Toynbee and Walker strip away political rhetoric and spin and investigate their failures and achievements in a lively, comprehensive, acerbic analysis. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JMC; HBJD1; HBLX; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publisher
- Granta Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847082503
- ISBN
- 9781847082503
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.74
€ 13.99
€ 10.74
Paperback. For six centuries, the Republic of Venice was a maritime empire, its sovereign power extending throughout much of the eastern Mediterranean. This book reconstructs the whole of this glittering dominion in the form of a sea-voyage, travelling along the historic Venetian trade routes from Venice itself to Greece, Crete and Cyprus. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBLC; PDX; RGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140119947
- ISBN
- 9780140119947
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.73
€ 13.00
€ 11.73
Paperback. A detailed study of the political relations between church and state in modern Ireland. Num Pages: 324 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLW; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 510. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0004136
- ISBN
- 9780521530521
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Ranging from Virginia, Massachusetts, New York, South Carolina, and Pennsylvania to the backcountry regions of the South, the Mid-Atlantic, and northern New England, The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America offers an ambitious overview of political life in pre-Revolutionary America. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 376 pages, 25 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 649.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812219777
- ISBN
- 9780812219777
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 35.95
€ 37.99
€ 35.95
Paperback. This book examines how the Norsemen came to be drawn into the Imperial service. Num Pages: 260 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAZ; 3H; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1 revised
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521035521
- ISBN
- 9780521035521
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.77
€ 53.77
Paperback. The Varangian Guards were Viking mercenaries who operated far beyond their native shores as an elite force within the Byzantine Armies. The Varangians wore mixtures of their native clothing and armour together with a splendid formal Byzantine uniform. This title offers an insightful look at this legendary guard units of the medieval world. Illustrator(s): Rava, Giuseppe. Series: Men-at-Arms. Num Pages: 48 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: HBLC1; HBW; JWTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 184 x 4. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 48
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849081795
- ISBN
- 9781849081795
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.00
€ 17.99
€ 13.00