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History: earliest times to present day

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History: earliest times to present day

Hardback. To be one of 'the middling sort' in urban England in the late seventeenth or eighteenth century was to live a life tied, one way or another, to the world of commerce. This study offers a view of middling society during the hundred years that separated the Glorious Revolution from the factory age. Num Pages: 358 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB; JFSC; JFSJ; JHBK; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 30. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
First edition.
Number of pages
358
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520202603
ISBN
9780520202603
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.77
€ 48.91

Paperback. Challenges the heroic myths about the foundation of the State of Israel by investigating the struggle to control land and labor during the early Zionist enterprise. This title argues that it was not the imported Zionist ideas that were responsible for the character of the Israeli state. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF1; HBLL; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 226 x 19. Weight in Grams: 506.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520204010
ISBN
9780520204010
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.44

Paperback. Drawn from the daughters and wives of the working poor and declasse elites, prostitutes in Shanghai were near the bottom of class and gender hierarchies. This title examines prostitution in Shanghai from the late nineteenth century. Num Pages: 603 pages, 26 b/w photographs, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB; JFMX; JFSG; JFSJ1; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 44. Weight in Grams: 917.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
603
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520204393
ISBN
9780520204393
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.72

Paperback. The story of Senator Joseph McCarthy's rise to unprecedented power and the decline of his influence is a dramatic one. This title documents the process by which a clever, power hungry individual came to mislead and manipulate members of Congress and the American public and to damage countless lives. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLW3; JPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520204720
ISBN
9780520204720
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.47

Paperback. One of the unanticipated results of the First Crusade in 1095 was a series of violent assaults on major Jewish communities in the Rhineland. The author offers a detailed analysis of these events, illuminating the attitudes that triggered the assaults as well as the beliefs that informed Jewish reactions to them. Num Pages: 380 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBLC; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
380
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520205062
ISBN
9780520205062
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.34

Paperback. In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. Yet years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicated to the marvels of nature. Drawing on archives of visitors' books, letters, and pleas for patronage, this title reconstructs the lost social world of Renaissance and Baroque museums. Series: Studies on the History of Society & Culture. Num Pages: 449 pages, 30 b&w reproductions, 1 map, 6 museum floor plans, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1DST; GM; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; P; WN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 29. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
449
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520205086
ISBN
9780520205086
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.19

Paperback. This volume looks at the rise of the Ottoman Empire - the longest-lived political entity in human history - showing the transformation of a tiny frontier enterprise into a centralized imperial state that saw itself as both leader of the world's Muslims and heir to the the Eastern Empire. Num Pages: 205 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDA; 3H; 3JB; HBG; HBJF; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
205
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520206007
ISBN
9780520206007
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.56

Hardback. Traces the history of the Gregorian revival from its Romantic origins in a community of French monks at Solesmes, whose founder hoped to rebuild the moral foundation of French culture on the ruins of the Benedictine order. Series: California Studies in 19th Century Music. Num Pages: 196 pages, 37 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC; AVGD; HBJD; HBLL; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520210080
ISBN
9780520210080
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.03
€ 45.60

Paperback. Detailing the role played by non-elites, this book presents a perspective on nationalism in the Arab Middle East in the early 20th century. It documents the appearance of the popular committee and examines nationalist politics as a mass phenomenon that informs the politics of the region today. Num Pages: 353 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FBS; HBJF1; HBLW; JFSL; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
353
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520210707
ISBN
9780520210707
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.42

Paperback. In the two decades after World War II, Germans on both sides of the iron curtain fought vehemently over American cultural imports. This title traces how westerns, jeans, jazz, rock 'n' roll, and stars like Marlon Brando or Elvis Presley reached adolescents in both Germanies, who eagerly adopted the different styles. Series: Studies on the History of Society & Culture. Num Pages: 346 pages, 26 figures. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 164 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
346
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520211391
ISBN
9780520211391
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.60

hardcover. This history examines fundamental questions of ethnic identity by focusing on the Egyptian Jewish community since 1948. Central to the study is the question of how people handle multiple identities and loyalties that are dislocated and reformed by turbulent political and cultural processes. Series: Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture & Society. Num Pages: 318 pages, 11 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JJP; HBJH; HBLW3; HRJ; JFC; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
318
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520211759
ISBN
9780520211759
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.77
€ 49.08

Paperback. Shows how ordinary people broke down the institutional and cultural barriers that separated elite from popular politics in 16th- and 17th-century Europe and entered fully into the historical process of European state formation. This book offers an alternative to traditionally elite-centered accounts of territorial state formation in Europe. Num Pages: 237 pages, 12 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 226 x 9. Weight in Grams: 372. Ordinary People in European Politics, 1500-1700. 237 pages, 12 line illustrations. Shows how ordinary people broke down the institutional and cultural barriers that separated elite from popular politics in 16th- and 17th-century Europe and entered fully into the historical process of European state formation. This book offers an alternative to traditionally elite-centered accounts of territorial state formation in Europe. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; JPA. Dimension: 152 x 226 x 9. Weight: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
237
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520213180
ISBN
9780520213180
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.47

Hardback. The text studies how various Western, Japanese, and Chinese businesses struggled with the persistent dilemma in China of how to retain control over corporate hierachies while adapting to dramatic changes in Chinese society, politics and foreign affairs from 1880-1937. Num Pages: 269 pages, 11 b/w photographs, 15 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; 3JJ; GTB; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; KCZ; KJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 463.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
269
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520216259
ISBN
9780520216259
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.03
€ 45.45

Hardback. Focusing on the socio-cultural as well as the political dimensions of the Sergius cult, this study sheds light on the lives of the ordinary faithful, as well as on religion's place in the strategic calculations of hostile empires. It discusses Arab Christianity in the context of late Roman culture in the East. Series: Transformation of the Classical Heritage. Num Pages: 246 pages, 17 figures, including b/w photographs and line illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; HBG; HBJF; HBLA; HRKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 166 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520216853
ISBN
9780520216853
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.42
€ 56.67

Paperback. During the colonial period, Africans told each other terrifying rumors that Africans who worked for white colonists captured unwary residents and took their blood. Providing the stories that Africans told to describe colonial power, this book presents an epistemological inquiry into the nature of historical truth and memory. Series: Studies on the History of Society & Culture. Num Pages: 368 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFG; 1HFJ; GTB; HBJH; HBLL; HBLW; JFHF; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 135 x 20. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520217041
ISBN
9780520217041
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.19

Paperback. For most of the 20th century, considered opinion in the US regarding Palestine has favored the inherent right of Jews to exist in the Holy Land. That Palestinians, as a native population, could claim the same right has been largely ignored. This book shows how the endurance of such assumptions has impeded a resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Num Pages: 399 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJF1; HBLW; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 552.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
First Edition, Updated Edition with a New Afterwor
Number of pages
399
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520217188
ISBN
9780520217188
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.47

Hardback. Themistius was a philosopher, a prominent Constantinopolitan senator, and an adviser to Roman emperors during the 4th century A D. This work focuses on the culture of Constantinople and the eastern Roman empire during the fourth century. It provides a resource on the late antique period, as well as on Greek intellectual history and oratory. Series: Transformation of the Classical Heritage. Num Pages: 271 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; CFG; HBG; HBLA; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520218215
ISBN
9780520218215
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.69
€ 53.80

Paperback. Between 1800 and 1850, political demonstrations and the tumult of a ballooning street life not only brought novel kinds of crowds onto the streets of London, but also fundamentally changed British ideas about public and private space. This book demonstrates the influence of these crowds, riots, and demonstrations on the period's literature. Num Pages: 275 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; HBJD1; HBLL; JFS; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 59.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of California Press Los Angeles California
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520219175
ISBN
9780520219175
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.47

Paperback. Pachomius, who died in 346, has long been regarded as the "founder of monasticism". This reading of the available texts, first published in 1985, reveals that Pachomius's pioneering enterprise has been consistently misread in light of later monastic practices. Series: Transformation of the Classical Heritage. Num Pages: 250 pages, 2 maps, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 1QDA; HBG; HBJH; HBLA; HRCC7; HRCX8. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 40.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520219595
ISBN
9780520219595
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.19

Hardback. This examination of the social history of modernization investigates the centuries that followed the year 1000, when a new kind of society emerged in Europe. The text highlights both the "top-down" and "bottom-up" changes that characterized the social experience of early modernization. Num Pages: 438 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
438
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520220584
ISBN
9780520220584
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.77
€ 49.44

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