History: earliest times to present day
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History: earliest times to present day
Paperback. Explores the changing meanings of honour in early-20th-century Brazil, a period that saw an extraordinary proliferation of public debates that linked morality, modernity, honour, and national progress. This title reveals how everyday interpretations of honour influenced official attitudes and even the law itself as Brazil attempted to modernise. Num Pages: 328 pages, 1 b&w photograph. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822323983
- ISBN
- 9780822323983
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.42
€ 31.99
€ 28.42
Paperback. The author spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent. This book offers an account of that journey, full of diaries, newspaper reports and memoirs, and the voices of prominent figures and unknown players; from the grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II to Adriana Warno in Poland, with her holiday job at the gates of the camp at Birkenau. Translator(s): Garrett, Sam. Num Pages: 896 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLW; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 143 x 39. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099516736
- ISBN
- 9780099516736
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.96
€ 19.99
€ 14.96
Hardback. A groundbreaking work that delivers a fresh account of the Arab conquests, incorporating the latest research in Late Antique history. Series: Ancient Warfare and Civilization. Num Pages: 320 pages, 30 illus., including maps. BIC Classification: 3F; HBG; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 237 x 23. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199916368
- ISBN
- 9780199916368
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 23.14
€ 31.99
€ 23.14
Paperback. A groundbreaking work that delivers a fresh account of the Arab conquests, incorporating the latest research in Late Antique history. Series: Ancient Warfare and Civilization. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1QFM; 3F; HBG; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190618575
- ISBN
- 9780190618575
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 22.80
€ 24.99
€ 22.80
Hardback. Presents a historical and sociological account of how, by the late 1960s, three small Italian towns had come to lead the world in the production of gold jewelry - even though they had virtually no jewelry industry less than a century before, and even though Italy had western Europe's most restrictive gold laws. Num Pages: 352 pages, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBLW3; JH; KCC; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 657.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691126975
- ISBN
- 9780691126975
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.18€ 63.82
€ 83.18
€ 63.82
Paperback. Manuel Cortes was a Socialist Party member, an activist in the peasant reform movement and an organizer in the farm workers' unionization struggles. He also became mayor of Malaga, where he was caught up in the ferment of revolutionary Spain in the late 1930s. This title supplements Cortes' ordeal. Num Pages: 256 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD; HBLW; JPFF; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Publisher
- Verso Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- New Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844675968
- ISBN
- 9781844675968
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.09
€ 27.09
Paperback. Num Pages: 302 pages, Illustrations, map. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Cornell Univ East Asia Program
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781885445131
- ISBN
- 9781885445131
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.56
€ 31.99
€ 28.56
Paperback. A fascinating exploration of the tavern as a significant and fluid social space in colonial Canada. Num Pages: 240 pages, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774815765
- ISBN
- 9780774815765
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.10
€ 40.99
€ 36.10
Paperback. Num Pages: 440 pages, 42 color illus. + maps. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBW; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127. .
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300228830
- ISBN
- 9780300228830
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.25
€ 19.99
€ 16.25
Hardback. Presents a detailed description of the operations to relieve Malta in 1942 and assesses the actual impact Malta had on the fight to deny supplies to Rommel's army in North Africa Illustrator(s): Zuber, Ted. Series: Twentieth-Century Battles. Num Pages: 288 pages, 24 b&w illus., 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1DSM; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253006035
- ISBN
- 9780253006035
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.70
€ 38.70
Hardback. This book explores how the Canadian Army prepared for the possibility of a Third World War and how its innovations and adaptations laid the groundwork for the evolution of our national army. Series: Studies in Canadian Military History. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW; HBTW; HBW; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774827027
- ISBN
- 9780774827027
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.48
€ 106.48
Hardback. This work covers politics in Britain during the period of industrialization, focusing on how political meanings were sustained. It covers the goal of defining a middle ground between E.P. Thompson's concept of cultural materialism and the postmodern view of culture as a system of signs and codes. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804746625
- ISBN
- 9780804746625
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.25
€ 149.25
Paperback. This work covers politics in Britain during the period of industrialization, focusing on how political meanings were sustained. It covers the goal of defining a middle ground between E.P. Thompson's concept of cultural materialism and the postmodern view of culture as a system of signs and codes. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 327.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804747882
- ISBN
- 9780804747882
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.61
€ 33.99
€ 30.61
Paperback. An annotated English translation of the eleven later panegyrics (291-389 CE) of the XII Panegyrici Latini, with the original Latin text prepared by R A B Mynors. Each panegyric has a thorough introduction, and detailed commentary on historical events, style, figures of speech, and rhetorical strategies accompanies the translations. Series: Transformation of the Classical Heritage. Num Pages: 750 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; DSBB; HBLA1; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1014.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520286252
- ISBN
- 9780520286252
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 36.26
€ 50.99
€ 36.26
Paperback. A critique of how New Deal laws (and later policies in their spirit) ostensibly written to protect women, actually subjegated them financially in the following generations. Num Pages: 384 pages, 22 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 234 x 25. Weight in Grams: 598.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780195158021
- ISBN
- 9780195158021
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.70
€ 35.70
Paperback. Denise Lett argues that South Korea's contemporary urban middle class not only exhibits upper-class characteristics, but also has a culturally inherited disposition to seek high status. Combined with a favourable political and economic climate, many Koreans have thus been able to achieve it. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 270 pages, 3 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPKS; HBJF; HBLW; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674007819
- ISBN
- 9780674007819
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.61
€ 23.99
€ 20.61
Hardcover. This text reconstructs the history of the Sufi Naqshbandi brotherhood and its impact on the North Caucasus (Chechnya and Daghestan) in the early 19th century. It draws on Naqshbandi Arabic sources to explain the pivotal role of Sufism in transforming mountain society. Num Pages: 288 pages, 4 maps, b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FC; HBJD; HBJF; HBLL; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 763.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781850653844
- ISBN
- 9781850653844
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.43€ 58.62
€ 59.43
€ 58.62
Paperback. Editor(s): Schloen, J. David; Rimmer Herrmann, Virginia. Num Pages: 176 pages, 140 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 293 x 14. Weight in Grams: 730.
- Publisher
- Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781614910176
- ISBN
- 9781614910176
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.05
€ 23.05
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- FreeLance Academy Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780982591116
- ISBN
- 9780982591116
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.89
€ 40.89
Paperback. This is the first examination of the Israeli and Egyptian peace process between 1967-1973, which highlights the rise and fall of Soviet influence after the Six Day War and explores how the increasing importance of America's political leadership affected the region. Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; HBJH; HBL; HBW; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 297
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349350872
- ISBN
- 9781349350872
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 121.69
€ 121.69
Paperback. The fascinating story of one of England's most famous monarchs, Alfred the Great, from his birth to the discovery of a piece of his pelvis in a cardboard box in a museum in Winchester Num Pages: 272 pages, 30. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3F; BGH; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 197 x 24. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445649641
- ISBN
- 9781445649641
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.45
€ 20.45
Paperback. Presents the history, archaeology, and legends of ancient Ireland from 9000 BC, when nomadic hunter-gatherers appeared in Ireland at the end of the last Ice Age, to 1167 AD, when a Norman invasion brought the country under control of the English crown for the first time. This book also looks at contemporary Ireland's connection with its past. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Publisher
- Ivan R. Dee, Publisher
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566635257
- ISBN
- 9781566635257
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.79
€ 18.99
€ 14.79
Hardcover. Almost unimaginably immense, North America stretches from a few degrees short of the North Pole to a few degrees shy of the equator. Archaeologists are now racing to unravel the mysterious past of the forgotten peoples who once inhabited this sprawling land. Num Pages: 228 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBJK; HBLC; HDDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471042372
- ISBN
- 9780471042372
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.52
€ 37.99
€ 29.52
Paperback. In the 1960s, Mississippi was the heart of white southern resistance to the civil-rights movement. This work shows how Mississippi leaders strategically accommodated themselves to the demands of civil-rights activists and the federal government seeking to end Jim Crow, and in so doing contributed to a vibrant conservative countermovement. Series: Politics and Society in Modern America. Num Pages: 384 pages, 26 halftones. 6 tables. 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBBS; HBJ; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691140940
- ISBN
- 9780691140940
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 30.89
€ 43.99
€ 30.89