History: earliest times to present day
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History: earliest times to present day
Paperback. Offering a reminder of the complex uses to which institutionalized violence can be put, this study shows how the deadly violence of arena sport and political suicide served a social purpose in ancient Rome. Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics. Num Pages: 296 pages, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; JFC; JFFE; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299145743
- ISBN
- 9780299145743
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.55
€ 26.55
Paperback. Gandhi was not only the most important Indian figure of the 20th century, he is the most famous pacifist ever. This is a readable examination of Gandhi and the nature of his often unconventional and controversial power. Series: Profiles in Power. Num Pages: 288 pages, facsim., maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1FKA; BGH; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 134 x 17. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780582319783
- ISBN
- 9780582319783
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.40
€ 53.40
Paperback. Outlines both Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's major philosophical insights and the limitations of his thought. This very short introduction looks at Gandhi's cosmocentric anthropology, his spiritual view of politics, his unique form of liberal communitarianism, and his theories of oppression, non-violent action, and active citizenship. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 160 pages, halftones and line drawings. BIC Classification: 1FKA; BGH; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 113 x 9. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780192854575
- ISBN
- 9780192854575
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.74
€ 13.99
€ 11.74
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857381613
- ISBN
- 9780857381613
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.48
€ 17.99
€ 13.48
Gandhi: Pioneer of Nonviolent Social Change (Library of World Biograph...
Sethia, Tara; Stearns, Peter N.
paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJ; BGH; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Pearson United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780321333056
- ISBN
- 9780321333056
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.83
€ 68.83
Hardback. When Gandhi as a young lawyer in South Africa began fashioning the tenets of his political philosophy, he was absorbed by a seemingly unrelated enterprise: creating a newspaper, Indian Opinion. In Gandhi's Printing Press Isabel Hofmeyr provides an account of how this footnote to a career shaped the man who would become the world-changing Mahatma. Num Pages: 240 pages, 5 halftones, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 149 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674072794
- ISBN
- 9780674072794
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.36
€ 47.99
€ 40.36
Paperback. This memoir focuses on the now-vanished lifestyle of railroad hands and their families who lived along the Southern Pacific railroad tracks in the 1920s and 1930s Num Pages: 192 pages, 14 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBWN; 3JJG; BGHA; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; WGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 281.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Nevada Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874173536
- ISBN
- 9780874173536
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.27
€ 23.27
Paperback. Dealing with the civil war, this title takes a close look at the battlefield doctors in whose hands rested the lives of thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers. It also examines the impact on major campaigns - Manassas, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Shiloh, Atlanta - of ignorance, understaffing, inexperience, and overcrowded hospitals. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 7112 x 5487 x 534. Weight in Grams: 760.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780252070105
- ISBN
- 9780252070105
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.25
€ 26.99
€ 25.25
Num Pages: 382 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLW; HBWN; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 164 x 31. Weight in Grams: 720.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612346830
- ISBN
- 9781612346830
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.85
€ 45.85
Paperback. An extraordinary wartime memoir, combining the best kind of adventure story with a coming of age testimony of unforgettable resonance and poignancy. Num Pages: 448 pages, 2 x 8pp b&w. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; BM; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444760620
- ISBN
- 9781444760620
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.48
€ 17.99
€ 13.48
Paperback. Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian revolutionary leader and popular hero, was among the best-known figures of the nineteenth century. This book seeks to examine his life and the making of his cult, to assess its impact, and understand its surprising success. Num Pages: 496 pages, 33 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 42. Weight in Grams: 758.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300144239
- ISBN
- 9780300144239
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.65
€ 26.99
€ 20.65
Hardback. Series: Orbis Biblicus Et Orientalis. Num Pages: 750 pages. BIC Classification: HBLA; HD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 4259.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 750
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783525543863
- ISBN
- 9783525543863
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 252.84€ 198.27
€ 252.84
€ 198.27
Paperback. Paints a picture of two Roman auxilary regiments, the 9th Cohort of Batavians and the 1st Cohort of Tungrians. Covering officers and familes, friends and colleagues, this book brings to life the ordinary soldiers and their names and duties; military routine, duty-reports, leave and deserters; the supply of food, drink and goods; and, more. Num Pages: 176 pages, colour and b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYN; 1QDAR; HBJD1; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 171 x 13. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752419503
- ISBN
- 9780752419503
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 26.10
€ 30.99
€ 26.10
Paperback. A century of change in an American industrial utopia Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBND; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253222886
- ISBN
- 9780253222886
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.83
€ 20.99
€ 20.83
Paperback. This title reveals the true extent of how chemistry rather than military strategy determined the shape, duration and outcome of the First World War. Num Pages: 240 pages, 32 black & white illustrations, 16 black & white plates. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN; JWMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 178 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750953757
- ISBN
- 9780750953757
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.62
€ 19.99
€ 18.62
Paperback. Num Pages: 172 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; DNF; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 367.
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781681371184
- ISBN
- 9781681371184
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.34
€ 18.99
€ 17.34
Paperback. A study that illuminates the Egyptian experience of modernity by critically analyzing the foremost medium through which it was articulated: history. Covering more than one hundred years of mostly unexamined historical literature in Arabic, it explores Egyptian historical thought and examines the careers of numerous critical historians. Num Pages: 406 pages, 4 b/w photographs, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JJ; HBJF1; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 406
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520257337
- ISBN
- 9780520257337
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 31.66
€ 43.99
€ 31.66
Paperback. Widely admired as the definitive cultural history of the 1960s, this groundbreaking workfinallyreappears in a new edition." Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 142 x 27. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Liveright
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780871404329
- ISBN
- 9780871404329
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.41
€ 17.99
€ 17.41
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 28 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBWM; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 28.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781493010660
- ISBN
- 9781493010660
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.35
€ 19.99
€ 17.35
Paperback. Published by Monthly Review Press, 122 West 27th Street, New York, NY 10001. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Monthly Review Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780853458616
- ISBN
- 9780853458616
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.41
€ 13.99
€ 13.41