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History: earliest times to present day
Hardback. This book explores the origins of the Declaration in the political thought and practice of the preceding three centuries that Tocqueville designated the "Old Regime." Editor(s): Van Kley, Dale. Series: The Making of Modern Freedom Series. Num Pages: 452 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 158 x 33. Weight in Grams: 777.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 452
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804723558
- ISBN
- 9780804723558
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 173.46
€ 173.46
Hardback. This is the story of one of the most ambitious agrarian reforms in Latin American history. The book argues that the economic, political, and cultural dynamics set in motion by the reforms are central to understanding the brutal civil war that ensued in Peru between the state and the Maoist-Leninist Shining Path guerilla movement. Num Pages: 284 pages, 36 half-tones 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; HBJK; HBLW; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 596.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724425
- ISBN
- 9780804724425
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.25
€ 161.25
Hardback. This is a series of case studies illuminating the role and character of the House of Lords over two centuries, from 1714 to 1914. The figures treated in the essays include: Edmund Gibson (Bishop of Lincoln and later London), the first Earl Cowper, the Sixth Earl of Denbigh, and Lord Thurlow. Editor(s): Davis, R. W. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 23. Weight in Grams: 530.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724760
- ISBN
- 9780804724760
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.22
€ 89.22
Hardback. The Kamakura period, 1180-1333, is known as the era of Japan's first warrior government. As the essays in this book show, however, the period was notable for the coexistence of two centers of authority, the Bakufu military government at Kamakura and the civilian court in Kyoto. Editor(s): Mass, Jeffrey P. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; HBLC; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Weight in Grams: 772.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804725323
- ISBN
- 9780804725323
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.40
€ 162.40
Hardback. This book focus on the various constitutional problems surrounding the need to provide both enough union and public authority to guarantee defense and order, and a sufficient degree of individual liberty to satisfy the demands and expectations of private citizens who were wary of the arbitrary powers of government. Editor(s): Konig, David Thomas. Series: The Making of Modern Freedom Series. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLH; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 730.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804725361
- ISBN
- 9780804725361
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.05
€ 162.05
Hardback. This is a study of US-Brazilian relations that seriously examines the internal politics and economics of both countries and how they played themselves out in the late 19th century. The author examines not only internal dynamics but also the nature of the international regime at the time. Num Pages: 316 pages, 7 tables 17 figures 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLSB; HBJK; HBLL; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 621.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804726023
- ISBN
- 9780804726023
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.45
€ 161.45
Hardback. This work seeks to understand how, in 19th-century Germany, Jews and non-Jews shaped and experienced Jewish emancipation, a process whereby Jews were freed from ancient discriminatory laws and, over the course of decades, became citizens. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 352 pages, 15 half-tones 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; JFSR1; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 30. Weight in Grams: 694.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804726443
- ISBN
- 9780804726443
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.22
€ 90.22
Hardback. This interpretation of the cultural consequences of social, economic, religious, and political change in early modern London challenges many long-held assumptions of historians and literary critics. Num Pages: 216 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH; JHBA; KCZ; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804729178
- ISBN
- 9780804729178
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.98
€ 77.98
Hardback. This ambitious work traces a social history of semicolonialism in late-19th and early-20th-century China. It takes as its central concern the intertwining of two antagonistic forces: elite constructions of modernity shaped globally and an alternative line of peasant resistance and development. Num Pages: 348 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 660.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804729321
- ISBN
- 9780804729321
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.38
€ 91.38
Hardback. This book radically revises our understanding of the construction of symbolic power in the age of absolutism by examining the fictions that emerge from visual, narrative, and ceremonial representations of (and reactions to) the 1660 marriage of Louis XIV to the Spanish infanta. Num Pages: 264 pages, 13 half-tones. BIC Classification: 3JD; 3JF; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804729772
- ISBN
- 9780804729772
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.02
€ 89.02
Hardback. An account of the history and significance of an armed rebellion which took place in northwestern Mexico in the early 1890's. The author gives an account of the roots of the conflict and discusses its present day significance to culture and government. Num Pages: 444 pages, 36 half-tones 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 740.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 444
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804730389
- ISBN
- 9780804730389
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 173.62
€ 173.62
Hardback. This is an account of how South Korea was transformed from one of the poorest and most agrarian countries in the world in the 1950s to one of the richest and most industrialized states by the late 1980s. Num Pages: 276 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPKS; HBJF; HBLW3; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804730556
- ISBN
- 9780804730556
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.60
€ 127.60
Hardback. This is a study of social mobility under Hungary's communist regime. The regime that took power after World War II had the proclaimed goal of eliminating the abusive inequalities of the old regime and creating an egalitarian society. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations, facsims.,forms. BIC Classification: 1DVH; HBJD; HBLW3; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 21. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804731072
- ISBN
- 9780804731072
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.87
€ 77.87
Hardback. What made some 700 men and women in the Yorkshire town of Kingston-upon-Hull, in the years 1837 to 1900, decide to suffer no longer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune and take their own lives? In this study, the author seeks to uncover the experiences that drove people to suicide. Num Pages: 372 pages, 20 tables 13 figures. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 372
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804731232
- ISBN
- 9780804731232
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.55
€ 150.55
hardcover. An account of the conquest of the Itzas which details the layers of political intrigue and action that characterised every aspect of the conquest and its aftermath. Jones offers a comprehensive reconstruction of an independent Maya kingdom which reveals much about neighbouring lowland Maya groups with whom the Itzas interacted, often violently. Num Pages: 596 pages, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; HBJK; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 38. Weight in Grams: 934.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 596
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804733175
- ISBN
- 9780804733175
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 251.64
€ 251.64
hardcover. Unprecedented in the historiography of post-independence Mexico for its combination of rich archival detail and chronological scope, this book focuses on the wealthy men and women of the state of Michoacan from the last decades of colonial rule to the 1930 Revolution. Num Pages: 496 pages, Illustrationsmaps,ports. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBLL; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 810.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804734288
- ISBN
- 9780804734288
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.49
€ 107.49
The Story of Guadalupe. Luis Laso de la Vega's "Huei Tlamahuicoltica" ...
Sousa, Lisa; Poole, Stafford; Lockhart, James...
Hardback. The devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe has been an important element in the development of a specifically Mexican tradition of religion and nationality over the centuries. This volume presents an English translation of the original Nahuatl on which the legend is based. Num Pages: 160 pages, bibliography, tables. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; 2ADS; HBJK; HBLH; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 415.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804734820
- ISBN
- 9780804734820
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 121.55
€ 121.55
Hardback. By examining the unusual course of religious change in Tudor Norwich, this work revises the study of both the Reformation and the history of religious toleration in England. Num Pages: 360 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKEAN; HBJD1; HBLH; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 31. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804735131
- ISBN
- 9780804735131
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.04
€ 106.04
Hardback. The Technical Imagination explores how technology entered the popular imagination in the Argentina of the 1920s and 1930s and how its products helped to shape modern thinking at all levels of Argentine society. Translator(s): Callahan, Xavier. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; JFC; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 381.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804735421
- ISBN
- 9780804735421
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.75
€ 82.75
Hardback. This study of politics in early modern England uses the relations between provincial towns, the landed elite, and the crown to argue that the growth of connections, as much as of conflict, explains the development of early modern government. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLC; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 655.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804735872
- ISBN
- 9780804735872
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.04
€ 101.04
hardcover. This book explores everyday life of the Greek gods, including what their bodies were made of and how they were nourished, the organization of their society, and the sort of life they led in Olympus and the human world. It also shows how citizens carried on everyday relations with the gods. Translator(s): Lloyd, Janet. Series: Mestizo Spaces/Espaces Metisses. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1 half-tone 1 map. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBG; HBLA; HRKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 25. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804736138
- ISBN
- 9780804736138
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.80
€ 149.80
hardcover. This volume offers an illuminating overview of the work of a pioneering and highly distinguished scholar of Latin American social and cultural history and philology. The "old and new" of the subtitle is meant literally; the first piece was written in 1968, the last in 1998. Four of the twelve essays are published here for the first time. Num Pages: 416 pages, 2 line diagrams 1 table 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLS; 3J; HBJK; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 695.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804738095
- ISBN
- 9780804738095
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 173.34
€ 173.34
Hardback. On Demand shows that consumers in early modern England were a powerful force in transforming the economy of the time and that their "demand" was a powerful, though contradictory, force in shaping its literature. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; DSBD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804738569
- ISBN
- 9780804738569
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.31
€ 81.31
Hardback. At the outset of the Reformation, England was an agrarian society; by the Civil war it was on the way to becoming an urban one as well. The complexity of those developments become especially vivid when we experience them through the lives of ordinary townspeople, which Tittler allows us to do. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2 line diagrams 1 half-tone 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804738682
- ISBN
- 9780804738682
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 182.51
€ 182.51