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History: earliest times to present day

Paperback. This book argues that the Enlightenment created the intellectual foundations of modern anthropology, and cultivated the anthropological pursuit of cultural perspective. Editor(s): Wolff, Larry; Cipolloni, Marco. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLH; HBLL; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804752039
ISBN
9780804752039
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.39

paperback. Robert Darnton explores the scandalous literature of libel and the colorful lives of libelers in eighteenth-century France. By doing so he shows how an ideological current eroded authority under the Old Regime and became absorbed in a new, more radical, political culture under Robespierre. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 552 pages, 47 illus. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTV2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 38. Weight in Grams: 912.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
552
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812221718
ISBN
9780812221718
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.92

Hardback. Provides an analysis of the aristocracy in the county of Champagne under the independent counts. This work argues that three factors, the rise of the comital state, fiefholding, and the conjugal family, were critical to shaping a loose assortment of baronial and knightly families into an aristocracy with shared customs, institutions, and identity. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 424 pages, 3 illus. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 237 x 40. Weight in Grams: 796.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812240191
ISBN
9780812240191
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.74

Hardcover. In The Great War and American Foreign Policy, 1914-1924, Robert E. Hannigan challenges the conventional belief that the United States entered World War I only because its hand was forced and disputes the claim that Washington was subsequently driven by a desire "to make the world safe for democracy." Series: Haney Foundation Series. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJF; HBJK; HBLW; HBWN; JPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812248593
ISBN
9780812248593
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.06

Paperback. Explores the nineteenth-century foundations of medieval studies as an academic discipline as well as certain unexamined contemporary consequences of these origins. This title exposes the presuppositions of the field of medieval studies and significantly shifts the objects of its historical inquiry. Num Pages: 328 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; HBAH; HBG; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822321996
ISBN
9780822321996
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.64

Paperback. A detailed examination of the contest in Manchuria between Korean, Chinese, and Japanese interests and its consequences for history Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 336 pages, 3 photos, 6 tables, 3 maps, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPK; HBJF; HBLW; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822336143
ISBN
9780822336143
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.62

Paperback. 'The excellence of his book lies .. in the high quality of scholarship, the sensitivity to nuance, the desire to map the entire Jewish response to the crisis of the empire in all its complexity.' New York Review of Books Num Pages: 712 pages, 8 pages plates, 3 text figures, 1 map. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLL; JFSR1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 142 x 45. Weight in Grams: 952.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
712
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904113492
ISBN
9781904113492
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 39.49

Hardback. Num Pages: 64 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBLA; HPCA; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 152 x 50. Weight in Grams: 184.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Diaphanes AG Switzerland
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
SKU
V9783037345443
ISBN
9783037345443
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 13.59

Hardback. An innovative study of the ways in which Germans of different ages and life stages lived through the violent eruptions of the two world wars, and through the dictatorships of Nazism and then Communism that succeeded them. Num Pages: 528 pages, charts. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JPHX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 173 x 45. Weight in Grams: 946.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199287208
ISBN
9780199287208
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.14

Hardcover. Focusing on Japan's Kwantung Leasehold and Railway Zone in China's northeastern provinces, Emer O'Dwyer traces the history of Japan's prewar Manchurian empire over four decades to show how South Manchuria was naturalized as a Japanese space and how this process contributed to the success of the Japanese army's early 1930s takeover of Manchuria. Num Pages: 526 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPJ; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 238 x 41. Weight in Grams: 864.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674504332
ISBN
9780674504332
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.01
€ 54.57

Paperback. The first anthology of modern Middle Eastern Jewish thought Editor(s): Behar, Moshe; Ben-Dor Benite, Zvi. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3JJ; HBJF1; HBLW; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
EUROSPAN
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781584658856
ISBN
9781584658856
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.89

paperback. A lively look at four major Jewish celebrities of early 1960s America, who together made their mark on both American culture and Jewish identity Num Pages: 360 pages, 24 illus. BIC Classification: HBLW3; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Brandeis University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611683141
ISBN
9781611683141
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 33.29

hardcover. Nothing is considered more natural than the connection between Isaac Newton's science and the modernity that came into being during the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. This study challenges the claim that Isaac Newton's solitary genius is the reason for his iconic status as the father of modern physics and the philosophe movement. Num Pages: 464 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; PDX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 167 x 41. Weight in Grams: 928.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226749457
ISBN
9780226749457
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.89
€ 60.12

paperback. Series: Sport and Society. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; WSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 28. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252013256
ISBN
9780252013256
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.53

Paperback. Stephanie Merrim offers a dynamic interdisciplinary approach to colonial Hispanic writing based on the spectacular city, a model that encompasses three driving forces of New World literary culture: cities, festivals & wonder. Series: Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American & Latino Art & Culture. Num Pages: 377 pages, 4 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; DSB; HBG; HBLL; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
377
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292737464
ISBN
9780292737464
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.25

paperback. Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the English throne, claimed to be Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York & Norfolk. This book looks at who Warbeck really was, how he was used by those in power in Burgundy, France, Italy, Scotland and Ireland, and the progress of the conspiracy itself. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780750939898
ISBN
9780750939898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.60

hardcover. Tells the history of a tiny country caught up in four major world crises from 1938 to 1989 and how the American print media presented these events to its readers. This book also discusses how American journalists and political cartoons portrayed, and in some cases stereotyped, Czechoslovakia during this period. Editor(s): Ference, Gregory C. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVK; 1KBB; HBJD; HBLW; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
East European Monographs United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780880335904
ISBN
9780880335904
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.92

paperback. A veteran writer on Russia and the Soviet Union explains why Russia refuses to draw the lessons of its past and what this portends for the future Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300192377
ISBN
9780300192377
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.75

paperback. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: HBLA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 9. Weight in Grams: 276.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
150
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780415620109
ISBN
9780415620109
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.57

hardcover. This rhetorical and historical analysis of sermons in the reign of James I argues that the official polemic of Jacobean government belies its claim to religious consensus and political moderation in pre-Civil War England. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH; HRCC91. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 20. Weight in Grams: 455.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804732215
ISBN
9780804732215
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.69

Hardback. If George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are the saints in America's civil religion, then the twenty-ninth president, Warren G Harding, is our sinner. This title explores how Harding's name became synonymous with corruption, cronyism, and incompetence and how it is used as an example of what a president should not be. Num Pages: 296 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; JPHL; JPZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821418185
ISBN
9780821418185
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.56

Paperback. Offers an analysis of both visual and textual representations of the commodity and the ritual that was tea in nineteenth-century England. This book demonstrates how tea functions within the literature as an arbiter of taste and middle-class respectability, aiding in the determination of class status and moral position. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 564.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821418291
ISBN
9780821418291
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.73

paperback. All over Europe, from Westminster to Rouen, the cathedrals of the Middle Ages still stand. This book explores the world of the medieval master mason. How were these structures built when only primitive machinery was available? Who initiated and designed them? Who built and paid for them? Series: New Horizons S. Num Pages: 176 pages, 182 illustrations, 44 in colour. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; 3JB; AMN; HBG; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 177 x 127 x 9. Weight in Grams: 280.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
THAMES HUDSON
Condition
New
SKU
9780500300527
ISBN
9780500300527
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.99
€ 5.70

paperback. A globe-spanning narrative history of the 1850s - a time of electrifying change - seen through the eyes of the men and women who embraced the adventurous spirit of the times Num Pages: 496 pages, 32 images and 9 maps in text (B 1x8pp colour plate. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Condition
New
SKU
9780753829219
ISBN
9780753829219
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 5.70

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