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History: earliest times to present day

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History: earliest times to present day

Hardback. Late medieval Japan witnessed a growth in the power of the commoner, as seen in the spread of corporate villages (so) marked by collective ownership and administration and other self-governing features. This study of a community of so villages from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries reconstructs the life of these villages. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3H; HBG; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 156. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804719414
ISBN
9780804719414
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.63

Hardback. This masterful, richly illustrated account of the planning and building of the most important and influential early American railroad contributes not only to the railway history but to the history of the development of the United States in the 19th century. 80 illustrations. Editor(s): Dilts, James D. Num Pages: 496 pages, 80 half-tones 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; KNGT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 260 x 185 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1306.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804722353
ISBN
9780804722353
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 233.27

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

€ 91.66

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

€ 81.55

Hardback. This book studies the transition from local to national timekeeping, inthe USA, aprocess that led to Standard Time the world-wide system of timekeeping by which everyone lives. Num Pages: 328 pages, 26 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; PGZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 255 x 186 x 28. Weight in Grams: 834.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804738743
ISBN
9780804738743
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.55

Hardback. This work covers cultural change in a Chinese city following the Manchu conquest of 1644. Yangzhou, at the intersection of the Grand Canal and the Yangzi river, is known as the site of human and physical devastation during the conquest and as a vibrant commercial centre during the 18th century. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; JFC; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804744850
ISBN
9780804744850
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.50

Hardback. This compelling historical ethnography explores how people in Bahla, an oasis town in the interior of Oman, experienced dramatic transformation in their lives following the discovery of oil in the late 1960s, and now grapple with the prospect of this resource's future depletion. Num Pages: 264 pages, 5 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FBXM; HBJF1; HBLW3; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804756266
ISBN
9780804756266
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.34

hardcover. Captives and Corsairs uncovers the forgotten story of Muslim corsair raids on French ships and shores and the resulting captivity of tens of thousands of French subjects and citizens in North Africa from around 1550 to 1830. Num Pages: 408 pages, maps. BIC Classification: HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 229 x 27. Weight in Grams: 672.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804770002
ISBN
9780804770002
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.83

Hardback. Cleansing Honor with Blood examines the daily experiences of interpersonal violence, the elaboration of masculine identities around honor and the practice of violence, and the contests for power and authority among free poor men from the hinterlands of the northeastern Brazilian province of Ceara between 1845 and 1889. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804774567
ISBN
9780804774567
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.63

Paperback. This book provides a comprehensive portrait of African American's complex relationship with consumerism and capitalism in the United States. Num Pages: 206 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; JFC; JFFT; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
206
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814793275
ISBN
9780814793275
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.48

Paperback. Very seldom does one come across so inspiring a volume. . . . It belongs in every Irish-American library. . . . Anyone with an interest in the Civil War and/or the history of the Irish in America should own a copy of this very fine work. -Irish Edition Editor(s): Kohl, Lawrence Frederick; Richard, M.C. Series: Irish in the Civil War. Num Pages: 170 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 319.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
170
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823211647
ISBN
9780823211647
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.92

Hardback. Tells stories of Greek Leftists as paradigmatic figures of abjection, given that between 1929 and 1974 tens of thousands of Greek dissidents were detained and tortured in prisons, places of exile, and concentration and rehabilitation camps. This title presents the history of how Greek Left was constituted by Greek state as a zone of danger. Num Pages: 256 pages, 44 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; JPFF; JPVR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823229673
ISBN
9780823229673
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.02

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
€ 13.44

Paperback. Num Pages: 286 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Monthly Review Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
SKU
V9780853458784
ISBN
9780853458784
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.53

Paperback / so. Series: Museyon Guides. Num Pages: 270 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; HBJK; HBLL; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 132 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Museyon Guides United States
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9780984633487
ISBN
9780984633487
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.63

hardcover. A Heritage of Light is of equal importance to collectors and historians in the United States and Canada. This newly reprinted edition of Russell's classic 1968 study has a new introduction by Janet Holmes. Series: Rich: Reprints in Canadian History. Num Pages: 352 pages, 191 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 223 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1050.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802037657
ISBN
9780802037657
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.82

Paperback. Originally published in 1948, Wallace K. Ferguson's The Renaissance in Historical Thought is a key piece of scholarship on Renaissance historiography. Series: Rsart: Renaissance Society of America Reprint Text Series. Num Pages: 450 pages. BIC Classification: 3JB; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 678.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
450
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802094155
ISBN
9780802094155
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.50

paperback. Focusing on the major movements and personalities of the time, as well as the lasting influence of the period, Canada's 1960s examines the legacy of this rebellious decade's impact on contemporary notions of Canadian identity. Num Pages: 480 pages, 20 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1040.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802096593
ISBN
9780802096593
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 40.81

hardcover. Beasts and Beauties examines the relationship between domesticity and power by focusing on the contemporaneous development of the invention of the 'pet' and the delineation of the home as a uniquely private enclosure, where the pater familias ruled over his own secluded world of domesticated wife, children, servants, and animals. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 176 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 15. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802099228
ISBN
9780802099228
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.81

paperback. "Mary-Ann Stouck's short reader stands apart in offering an abbreviated but judicious selection of saints' lives perfectly suited as a brief introduction. It fills a particular need with an elegant sufficiency." - Cynthia J. Hahn, Hunter College and the Graduate Center-CUNY Editor(s): Stouck, Mary-Ann. Series: Readings in Medieval Civilizations & Cultures. Num Pages: 191 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 255.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
191
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442600942
ISBN
9781442600942
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 32.80

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