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paperback. This book explores how antimodern nostalgia and modern sensibilities about the landscape, child rearing, and identity shaped the history of summer camps. Series: Nature, History, Society. Num Pages: 392 pages, 38 b&w photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBCO; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JHB; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774816403
ISBN
9780774816403
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.17

Hardback. This book explores how antimodern nostalgia and modern sensibilities about the landscape, child rearing, and identity shaped the history of summer camps. Series: Nature, History, Society. Num Pages: 384 pages, 30 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBCO; 3JJG; HBTB; JFSP1; JHBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 703.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780774816397
ISBN
9780774816397
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.37

Paperback. Challenging the prevailing view that taverns tended to break down class and gender differences, Salinger persuasively argues they did not signal social change so much as buttress custom and encourage exclusion. Num Pages: 328 pages, 16, 6 black & white halftones, 10 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801878992
ISBN
9780801878992
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 32.82

hardcover. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: BG; HBTZ1; WNG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 21.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780762780617
ISBN
9780762780617
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 17.50

Hardback. A clear overview of the major cultural forms of 1960s America -- fiction and poetry; music and performance; film and television; art and photography -- and influential texts of the decade. Editor(s): Halliwell, Martin. Series: Twentieth-century American Culture. Num Pages: 272 pages, 33 black & white illustrations, 33 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; AB; HBTB; JFC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 175.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748619467
ISBN
9780748619467
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.01
€ 97.45

Paperback. A clear overview of the major cultural forms of 1960s America -- fiction and poetry; music and performance; film and television; art and photography -- and influential texts of the decade. Editor(s): Halliwell, Martin. Series: Twentieth-century American Culture. Num Pages: 272 pages, 33 black & white illustrations, 33 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; AB; HBTB; JFC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 416.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748619474
ISBN
9780748619474
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.20

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 16 half-tones. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 14. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804713825
ISBN
9780804713825
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Hardback. The testimonies of individuals who survived the Holocaust as children pose distinct challenges for researchers, requiring them to often follow simultaneous, disparate narratives. This interdisciplinary volume brings together historians, psychologists, and other scholars to explore child survivors' accounts. Editor(s): Fogelman, Eva; Ofer, Dalia. Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: HBTZ1; JFSP1; JMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785334382
ISBN
9781785334382
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.45

Hardback. This book attempts to read the character of Mary in the infancy narratives of Luke and Matthew alongside the lives of experiences of the Indian surrogate mother living a postcolonial India. Reading Mary through these lenses helps us see this mother and her actions in a more ambivalent light, as a mother whose love is both violent and altruistic. Series: The Bible and Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 228 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBTR; HRCA; HRCG; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137542526
ISBN
9781137542526
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.98

Paperback. This text reconstructs how freed men and women in tobacco-growing Central North Carolina worked to secure a place for themselves in a ravaged region and hostile time. It has a micro-economic history of Gainville County, drawn from public records, that looks at individual's stories. Num Pages: 216 pages, 5 tables, 5 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBBFN; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HBTS; JHBL; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820324425
ISBN
9780820324425
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.80

Paperback. Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. This book offers a paradigm for theorizing gender and sexuality - not just in the Victorian period, but in our own. Num Pages: 368 pages, 18 halftones. 2 line illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 622.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
370
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691128351
ISBN
9780691128351
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.28

Hardback. Illustrated with images and photographs, this book traces the architecture of the synagogue in Britain and Ireland from its discreet Georgian- and Regency-era beginnings to the golden age of the grand 'cathedral synagogues' of the High Victorian period. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 398 pages, 80 colour images + 170 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; AMN; HBTB; HRJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 286 x 227 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1970.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
398
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300170511
ISBN
9780300170511
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.48
€ 45.57

Paperback. Presents the history of New Orleans' early years, tracing the town's development from its origins in 1718 to its revolt against Spanish rule in 1768. This book presents an account of New Orleans' wild youth. It features a cast of strong-willed captives, thin-skinned nobles, sharp-tongued women, and carousing travelers. Num Pages: 336 pages, 7 colour plates, 8 halftones, 5 maps, 1 figure, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226138428
ISBN
9780226138428
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.76

Paperback. Series: Culture, Labor, History. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9781479889082
ISBN
9781479889082
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.71

Berea College's spiritual motto, "God has made of one blood all peoples of the earth," has shaped the institution's unique culture and programs since its founding in 1855. Using primary sources, recent scholarship, and powerful photographs, the author charts the history and development of one of most distinguished institutions of higher learning. Num Pages: 272 pages, 184 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBSK; HBT; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1034.
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813123790
ISBN
9780813123790
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.69

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 56. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFCK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 233 x 30. Weight in Grams: 502.
Edition
New Ed
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801482830
ISBN
9780801482830
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.00

Paperback. .
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719076800
ISBN
9780719076800
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.79

Paperback. * This is a new addition to Polity s highly successful What is History series. Series: What is History Series. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 227 x 19. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745652696
ISBN
9780745652696
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.71

Hardback. * This is a new addition to Polity s highly successful What is History series. Series: What is History Series. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 362.
Publisher
Polity Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745652689
ISBN
9780745652689
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.65

Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTR; JPH; JPSF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816680986
ISBN
9780816680986
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.31

Paperback. Jewish art and material culture are the subjects of this unique volume presented in memory of a truly profound thinker and scholar, Professor Stephen S. Kayser. A CROWN FOR A KING brings together scholars from Israel, the U.S. and Europe writing on a wide range of Professor Kayser's interests. Editor(s): Kayser, Stephen S.; Fine, Steven; Kramer, William M. Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 242 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
Publisher
Gefen Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
illustrated edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9789652292117
ISBN
9789652292117
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.78
€ 43.58

Hardback. An examination of how Britain and France are handling the new religious and racial diversity that has become a fact of life in both countries, and how postcolonial minorities are caught between the nation and the state in relation to status and identity, acceptance and integration. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DDF; HBTB; HRAM2; JFFN; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 165 x 241 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784993993
ISBN
9781784993993
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.65

Paperback. How we die reveals much about how we live. This book traces the history of euthanasia in the United States to show how changing attitudes toward death reflect new and troubling ways of experiencing pain, hope, and freedom. It shows how over time, the term came to mean a death blessed by the grace of God, and later, medical hastening of death. Num Pages: 240 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFME. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691133904
ISBN
9780691133904
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.49

Paperback. This work examines the British Indian colonial impact on the economy and society of nineteenth-century Afghanistan, with particular interest in the relationships among Kabul, Qandahar, and Peshawar. Num Pages: 288 pages, maps, figures. BIC Classification: HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 402.
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804774116
ISBN
9780804774116
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

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