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History: earliest times to present day

Hardback. In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. This title charts how maps of epidemic disease, slavery, census statistics, the environment, and the past demonstrated the analytical potential of cartography, and in the process transformed the very meaning of a map. Num Pages: 272 pages, 47 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTP; RGV. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 189 x 265 x 24. Weight in Grams: 674.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226740683
ISBN
9780226740683
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.52
€ 79.10

Paperback. In the 19th century, Americans began to use maps in extraordinary new ways. Medical men mapped diseases to understand epidemics, natural scientists mapped climate to uncover weather patterns, and Northerners created slave maps to assess the power of the South. This book charts how thematic maps demonstrated the analytical potential of cartography. Num Pages: 272 pages, 47 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTP; RGV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 15. Weight in Grams: 463.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226103969
ISBN
9780226103969
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.74

Hardcover. Follow the conflict of the Second World War from 1939 to 1945 in this unique volume, published in association with Imperial War Museums, London, featuring historical maps and photographs from their archives, and fascinating commentary from an expert historian. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTP1; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 277 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1544.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780008136581
ISBN
9780008136581
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.61

Paperback. March into Meath Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 165 x 10. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
KOG0000533
ISBN
9781845886929
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 6.23

Hardback. On October 10, 1941, the entire Jewish population of the Belarusian village of Krucha was rounded up and shot. This atrocity was the work of footsoldiers in a regular German army unit, acting on its own initiative. This book paints a searing portrait of the Wehrmacht's descent into ever more intimate participation in genocide. Num Pages: 276 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUB; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 166 x 28. Weight in Grams: 630.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
276
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674725508
ISBN
9780674725508
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 46.21

Hardback. Series: Contemporary Asia in the World. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPKN; 3JJPR; HBJF; HBLW3; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 150 x 26. Weight in Grams: 432.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231171342
ISBN
9780231171342
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.17
€ 42.23

Paperback. The records of the Chinese Yuan dynasty do not mention a Marco Polo at all (and they should), and there are some suspicious omissions from Polo's text - no tea, no foot-binding, no mention of Chinese printing, or even of the Great Wall. Did Polo even go to China? Series: Life & Times. Num Pages: 192 pages, 26 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; HBG; HBLC; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 134 x 14. Weight in Grams: 276. Very good copy with light shelf wear. Light scoring on one page, remains a very good copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Haus Publishing Limited
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0014764
ISBN
9781905791057
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Marcus Aurelius is the one great figure of antiquity who still speaks to us today, nearly 2,000 years after his death. A philosopher as well as an emperor, his was an extraordinary reign. He proved himself a great leader. This is his biography. Num Pages: 704 pages, 18. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 158 x 37. Weight in Grams: 540.
Publisher
Vintage Books
Number of pages
704
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844135271
ISBN
9781844135271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.58

Paperback. At Marengo Bonaparte defeated the Austrians and his fellow general Jean Moreau beat the combined Austrian and Bavarian armies at Hohenlinden. These twin campaigns proved decisive. Bonaparte's dictatorship was secure and his enemies across Europe were forced into a 15-year struggle to overthrow him. Num Pages: 301 pages, 60 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HBWH; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 552.
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
301
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844152797
ISBN
9781844152797
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.81

Paperback. Margaret of Anjou was a vengeful and violent woman, or so we have been told, whose vindictive spirit fuelled the fifteenth-century dynastic conflict, the Wars of the Roses. In Shakespeare's rendering, she becomes an adulterous queen who mocks her captive enemy, Richard, duke of York, before killing him in cold blood. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 392.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843831044
ISBN
9781843831044
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 32.74

Paperback. .
Publisher
University of Wales Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780708321898
ISBN
9780708321898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.78

Paperback. Num Pages: 880 pages, 32pp b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJP; BGH; HBJD1; HBLW3; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 200 x 42. Weight in Grams: 644.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140279627
ISBN
9780140279627
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 18.17

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295989310
ISBN
9780295989310
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.17

Hardback. Explores the political, cultural, and ecclesiastical forces that linked the metropolis of Byzantium to the margins of its far-flung empire. Focusing on the provincial region of Hellas and Peloponnesos in central and southern Greece, this title shows how the prestige of Constantinople was reflected in the military, civilian, and more. Num Pages: 392 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAZ; 3H; HBLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 242 x 157 x 28. Weight in Grams: 700.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
392
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691153018
ISBN
9780691153018
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.80
€ 59.72

paperback. The turbulent story of the Prince Regent's first wife Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; BGH; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 380. Good clean copy showing light toning and shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Constable & Robinson London
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KMK0024757
ISBN
9781841196169
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 5.12

Hardback. Traces debates about the woman consumer to examine the complex encounter between the market and the republic in nineteenth-century France. This work explores how agents of capitalism - department store managers, fashion journalists - addressed fears of consumerism through the forging of an aesthetics of the marketplace: a 'marketplace modernism'. Num Pages: 334 pages, 20 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JFFT; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 674.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
334
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520225299
ISBN
9780520225299
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.89
€ 45.94

Paperback. Tells the story of Marie Antoinette, who became the Queen of France at the age of fifteen. This title analyzes the chemistry of a woman's soul from her intimate pleasures to her public suffering as a Queen under the weight of misfortune and history. It describes Marie Antoinette in the King's bedroom, and with her children. Translator(s): Paul, Eden; Paul, Cedar. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; BGH; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 124 x 32. Weight in Grams: 612.
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Number of pages
592
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906548308
ISBN
9781906548308
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.99

Paperback. The Devil Wears Prada comes to Versailles in the story of the rise and fall of Leonard Autie, Marie Antoinette's loyal hairdresser, the man responsible for the style that made her the envy of France and for the uproar that dragged her to the guillotine. Num Pages: 320 pages, 17 colour illustrations, 30 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; BGH; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 215 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781493000630
ISBN
9781493000630
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.57

Hardback. Marie-Antoinette (1755-1793) continues to fascinate historians, writers, and filmmakers more than two centuries after her death. She became a symbol of the excesses of France's aristocracy in the eighteenth century that helped pave the way to dissolution of the country's monarchy. Num Pages: 216 pages, 225 Color. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; BGH; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 297 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1572.
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781606064832
ISBN
9781606064832
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.17
€ 42.46

Paperback. The first major biography of 18th century France's most mysterious woman, the daughter of Marie Antoinette, who vanished from public view during the tumultuous last days of the ancien regime Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.), map. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; BGH; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 390.
Edition
UK ed.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747596660
ISBN
9780747596660
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.33

Hardback. Series: Cold War International History Project. Num Pages: 936 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW3; HBWS2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1338.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
936
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804778848
ISBN
9780804778848
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.88

Hardback. Long before the photo op, political rulers were manipulating visual imagery to cultivate their authority. The Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519) was, this title argues, the first ruler to exploit the propaganda power of printed images and text. It explores how Maximilian used illustrations and other visual arts. Num Pages: 320 pages, 100 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; KJS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 265 x 215 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1106.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691130194
ISBN
9780691130194
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 88.61
€ 68.64

Hardback. His ambitious study offers a fresh perspective on both French social history in these years and the relationship between corporate culture and popular culture in the twentieth century. Num Pages: 368 pages, 34, 31 black & white halftones, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; JFC; KJSA; KNDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 158 x 29. Weight in Grams: 700.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801866517
ISBN
9780801866517
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.71
€ 52.52

Hardback. .
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442637504
ISBN
9781442637504
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.90

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