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History: earliest times to present day

Hardback. A highly original and detailed study of an individual single woman in early modern England, based on a recently discovered spiritual autobiography authored by a never-married gentlewoman, Elizabeth Isham. Provides new perspective on women's writing, identity and status in the early modern period. Series Editor(s): Lake, Peter; Milton, Anthony; Peacey, Jason; Gajda, Alexandra. Series: Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; BGH; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 241 x 26. Weight in Grams: 574.
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784991432
ISBN
9781784991432
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.18

Paperback. Series: A New History of the Peloponnesian War. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 612. Series: Cornell paperbacks. 420 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA; JW. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 26. Weight: 612.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Number of pages
420
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801495564
ISBN
9780801495564
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.83

Paperback. Depicts the shocking apathy and antipathy of the international community toward the homeless. This book examines the impact of refugee movements on Great Power diplomacy and considers the evolution of agencies designed to assist refugees, noting outstanding successes and failures. Series: Politics, History, & Social Change. Num Pages: 432 pages, 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; HBG; HBLL; HBLW; JFFD; JPQB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 228 x 34. Weight in Grams: 626.
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
2nd Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566399555
ISBN
9781566399555
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.10

Hardback. This book explores the revival under Edward VII of the ceremonial state visit by British monarchs, showing the impact and importance of active royal diplomacy during his reign. Using the Royal Archives, memoirs and newspapers, it reveals the contribution made by the use of ceremony and public display to popular appreciation of the monarchy. Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJC; HBJD1; HBLW; JPSD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137548986
ISBN
9781137548986
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 145.71

Hardback. Noam Maggor shows how the moneyed elite in Gilded Age Boston leveraged their wealth to forge transcontinental networks of commodities, labor, and transportation. With the decline of cotton-based textile manufacturing, these gentleman bankers found new business opportunities in the mines, railroads, and industries of the Great West. Num Pages: 240 pages, 14 halftones, 7 graphs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTK; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 243 x 26. Weight in Grams: 608.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674971462
ISBN
9780674971462
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 40.99

Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages, 30 black & white illustrations, 16 black & white plates. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 166 x 25. Weight in Grams: 534.
Publisher
The History Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752499499
ISBN
9780752499499
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.65

paperback. What did people make of death in the world of Atlantic slavery? This title intends to ask this question about Jamaica, the staggeringly profitable hub of the British Empire in America - and a human catastrophe. Num Pages: 368 pages, 18 halftones, 4 maps, 2 graphs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJ; HBJK; HBLH; JFSL3; JHBZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 562.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674057128
ISBN
9780674057128
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 27.68

Paperback. This introduction to the Ancient Greek economy has proved popular in France, and has also been translated into Italian and Greek; this first English edition is of the second French edition of 2007. Translator(s): Lloyd, Janet. Num Pages: 200 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HBLA; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 206 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 276.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520253667
ISBN
9780520253667
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.35

Paperback. Behind the celebrated code-breaking at Bletchley Park lies another secret. Num Pages: 352 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWQ; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
Aurum Press Ltd
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
PB Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781310793
ISBN
9781781310793
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.40

Paperback. This revised second edition now extends to the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, covering the financial crisis and the related crisis in European integration, the impact of the War on Terror on Europe, and the redefinition of Europe following EU enlargement. Series: Blackwell history of Europe. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 174 x 247 x 16. Weight in Grams: 518.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780470655788
ISBN
9780470655788
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.50

Paperback. A monumental work, decades in the making: the first atlas to illustrate the entire scope of the transatlantic slave trade Series: The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-century Culture & History. Num Pages: 336 pages, 189 color maps; 5 b/w + 36 color illus.; 61 color graphs. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 306 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1364.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300212549
ISBN
9780300212549
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 27.00

Paperback. Local history of Walsall Series: Britain in Old Photographs. Num Pages: 256 pages, 225ill. BIC Classification: 1DBKEM; HBJD1; HBLW; WQH; WQP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 172 x 10. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9780750916943
ISBN
9780750916943
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.63

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 366.
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780888643872
ISBN
9780888643872
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.22

Paperback. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBLW; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472524751
ISBN
9781472524751
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 33.96

Paperback. The Home Front in Britain explores the British Home Front in the last 100 years since the outbreak of WW1. Case studies critically analyse the meaning and images of the British home and family in times war, challenging prevalent myths of how working and domestic life was shifted by national conflict. Editor(s): Andrews, Maggie; Lomas, Janis. Num Pages: 272 pages, 19 figures, 3 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 217 x 13. Weight in Grams: 338.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
2014th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137348975
ISBN
9781137348975
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.57

Hardback. BIC Classification: HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Amber Books Ltd United Kingdom
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782743323
ISBN
9781782743323
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.23

Hardback. The Antikythera Mechanism, now 82 small fragments of corroded bronze, was an ancient Greek machine simulating the cosmos as the Greeks understood it. Reflecting the most recent researches, A Portable Cosmos presents it as a gateway to Greek astronomy and technology and their place in Greco-Roman society and thought. Num Pages: 312 pages, 41 b/w halftones; 41 b/w line drawings. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBLA; PDX; PDZ; TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 173 x 23. Weight in Grams: 632.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199739349
ISBN
9780199739349
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.76

Paperback. Traces how the Bible came to be known by lay people through different mediums. It brings together intellectual and religious history with art history, music, literature and social history to trace how the Bible was sung and preached, revered and studied in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century England. Series: Manchester Medieval Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, Halftones, colour|Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2ADL; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC1; HRCC2; HRCG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 216 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784993740
ISBN
9781784993740
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.56

Paperback. The SOE (Special Operations Executive) was one of the most innovative British creations of the Second World War. This book looks at the men and women who made up the SOE, the rigorous training to which they were subjected, and their lives during and after the war. Series: Shire Library. Num Pages: 64 pages, 55 b/w; 5 col. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWDG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 211 x 9. Weight in Grams: 152.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Shire Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784420406
ISBN
9781784420406
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.06

Paperback. On 11 November 1965, Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith unilaterally declared his country independent of Britain. International sanctions were immediately instituted against the minority white regime as Robert Mugabe's ZANLA and Joshua Nkomo's ZIPRA armies commenced their armed struggle, the Chimurenga, the war of liberation. Series: Africa @ War. Num Pages: 72 pages, 130 colour and black & white photographs and maps. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBJH; HBLW3; JWKT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 298 x 211 x 7. Weight in Grams: 320.
Publisher
Helion and Company
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910294055
ISBN
9781910294055
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 26.49

Paperback. David Welch fully examines German society - politics, propaganda, public opinion and total war - in the Great War. Num Pages: 384 pages, 43 bw integrated. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN; JPVN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 217 x 26. Weight in Grams: 412.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780768274
ISBN
9781780768274
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.93

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

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVH; 3JJPG; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 210 x 18. Weight in Grams: 234.
Publisher
Presidio Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812986747
ISBN
9780812986747
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.63

Paperback. Presents a collection of non fiction essays, articles, and appreciations of fellow writers. This work examines the author's evidence of the inequities of Apartheid as she saw them in 1959, her shocking account of the bans on literature still in effect in the mid-1970s, through to South Africa's emergence in 1994 as a country free at last. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; HBG; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 16. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747548232
ISBN
9780747548232
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.15

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