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History: earliest times to present day

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History: earliest times to present day

Hardcover. Divided into three sections on cosmetics, clothes and hairstyling, this book explores how early modern women regarded beauty culture and in what ways skin, clothes and hair could be used to represent racial, class and gender identities, and to convey political, religious and philosophical ideals. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; DSBD; HBLH; JFCD; JFCK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230282858
ISBN
9780230282858
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.27

Paperback. Translator(s): Cochrane, L.G. Num Pages: 360 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226439266
ISBN
9780226439266
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.82

Hardback. Series: Women's Studies at York Series. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; JFSJ; JHB; JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 379.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
197
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312126247
ISBN
9780312126247
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.25

Top scholars in eighteenth-century studies examine the significance of the parallel devaluations of women's culture and popular culture by looking at theatres and actresses; novels, magazines, and cookbooks; and populist politics, dress, and portraiture. Editor(s): Potter, Tiffany. Num Pages: 344 pages, 17 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JF; HBLL; HBTB; JFCA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 240 x 31. Weight in Grams: 690.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442641815
ISBN
9781442641815
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.51

Paperback. Series: Women in Culture and Society Series. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLC; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226355047
ISBN
9780226355047
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 37.57

Paperback. Through an analysis of the marriage patterns of thousands of aristocratic women as well as an examination of diaries, letters, and memoirs, this book demonstrates that the sense of rank identity as manifested in these women's marriages remained remarkably stable for centuries, until it was finally shattered by the First World War. Series: Studies in Modern History. Num Pages: 301 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
301
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349460212
ISBN
9781349460212
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.52

Hardcover. Women, Reform, and Resistance documents the challenges faced by Irish women from 1850 to 1950 and their complex reactions. By investigating prisons, and hospitals; interrogating court records and memoirs; and exploring the 'imaginative resistance' women expressed through folk tales; authors illuminate previously obscured experiences of Irish women. Editor(s): Brophy, Christina S.; Delay, Cara. Num Pages: 253 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; HRCC7; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 452.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137513137
ISBN
9781137513137
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.85

Hardcover. Examines the Soviet state's attempt to rebuild following World War II by offering support to families and encouraging women to enter the work force. This book also scrutinizes a society that proclaimed sexual equality, but was unable to achieve these goals because of the failure of the state to provide the structures necessary for equality. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJPG; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
East European Monographs United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780880335805
ISBN
9780880335805
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB; HBTV; JFFK; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226401898
ISBN
9780226401898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.82

Hardcover. Drawing on legal and literary sources, this work revises and expands understandings of female honesty, worth and credit by exploring how women from the middling and lower ranks of society fashioned positive identities as mothers, housewives, domestic managers, retailers and neighbours between 1550 and 1700. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 222 x 18. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137372093
ISBN
9781137372093
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.03

Hardback. At a time when photographic album-making is being re-vitalised by digital technologies, this book rewrites the history of photographic albums, placing the female collector at its centre and offering an alternative history of photography focused on its uses rather than on its aesthetic or artistic considerations. Num Pages: 200 pages, Includes 20 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; AJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBT; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 164 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
illustrated ed
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780754658559
ISBN
9780754658559
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 187.92

Paperback. Num Pages: 496 pages, 3 maps, 40 bw images. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; 3D; HBJD; HBLA1; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 235 x 24. Weight in Grams: 842.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
4th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472578471
ISBN
9781472578471
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.46

Hardback. This volume describes the lifecycle events and daily life activities experienced by girls and women in ancient Israel. Num Pages: 172 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 464.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
172
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780567398307
ISBN
9780567398307
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.96
€ 101.51

Hardback. Num Pages: 327 pages, Includes 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; HBJD1; HBLH; JFSJ1; LAQG; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 168 x 364 x 29. Weight in Grams: 778.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472453822
ISBN
9781472453822
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 175.17

Hardcover. .
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9789774167607
ISBN
9789774167607
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.89

Hardback. This innovative book focuses on the contested origins of ethnographic film from the late nineteenth century to the 1920s, vividly depicting the dynamic visual culture of the period as it collided with the emerging discipline of anthropology and the new technology of motion pictures. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 528 pages, 100 illus. BIC Classification: APFA; HBG; HBLW3; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 161 x 30. Weight in Grams: 790.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231116961
ISBN
9780231116961
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.91
€ 90.75

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 102 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 257.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
102
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691653570
ISBN
9780691653570
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.10

Hardback. Sets the Italian-American political confrontation within the context of the two countries' cultural perceptions of each other, different war experiences, and ideas about participatory democracy and peace. This book highlights the impact of American ideology and sense of mission in the world. Translator(s): Shugaar, Antony. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 276 pages, 2 tables, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1KBB; HBG; HBJK; HBLW; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 553.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
Tra
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674028241
ISBN
9780674028241
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.85
€ 68.33

paperback. Num Pages: 315 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBL; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
Number of pages
315
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349527632
ISBN
9781349527632
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.73

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403963727
ISBN
9781403963727
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.53

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 434 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGH; HBJK; HBLW; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 771.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691642536
ISBN
9780691642536
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 184.30
€ 138.94

Hardback. Series: Papers of Woodrow Wilson. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGH; HBJK; HBLW; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 628.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691641010
ISBN
9780691641010
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 168.85
€ 127.54

Hardcover. Presents the life of Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), from his early years during the American Civil War, through his academic and political career and US' involvement in the First World War, to Wilson's role at Versailles, including the construction of his 14 Points, his principles for the reformation of Europe, and the consequences of Versailles. Series Editor(s): Sharp, Alan. Series: Makers of the Modern World. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 tables, 3 black & white halftones, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLW; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 209 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
Publisher
Haus Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905791620
ISBN
9781905791620
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.49

Hardcover. Arguing on recent cognitive evidence that reading a Bible is much more difficult for human brains than seeing images, this book exposes the depth and breadth of Protestant theologians' misunderstandings about how people could reform their spiritual lives - how they could literally change their minds. Num Pages: 254 pages, 18 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB; HPN; HRCC9; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230006317
ISBN
9780230006317
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.90

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