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Hardcover. This is the first book to give a long-term and comprehensive account of the stories, the histories and the evolution of Irish museums and galleries. Num Pages: 594 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JH; 3JJ; GM; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1824.
Edition
Illustrated
Publisher
Cork University Press Cork
Number of pages
594
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859184752
ISBN
9781859184752
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.00
€ 38.37

Hardback. Drawing on hundreds of unpublished court records, Marie Kelleher examines how women in the fourteenth-century Crown of Aragon engaged with patriarchal assumptions to shape their own legal identities, thus playing a crucial role in the formation of a gendered legal culture that shaped women's lives throughout Europe for centuries afterwards. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3H; HBJD; HBLC1; HBTB; JFSJ1; LAZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812242560
ISBN
9780812242560
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.26

Hardback. Based on an in-depth analysis of the published photographs taken by Norwegian evangelical missionaries in Northern Cameroon between 1925, the start of their activities, and 2005. This work takes part in the "pictorial turn" in academic teaching and research, constituting visual images as an site of conversation across disciplinary lines. Num Pages: 368 pages, 50 ills, bibliog., index. BIC Classification: 1DNN; 1HFJA; 3JJ; AJC; HBTB; HRCX7; JFSL. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 259 x 177 x 27. Weight in Grams: 784.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845453435
ISBN
9781845453435
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 167.97

Hardcover. This volume reassesses maternalism by providing critical reflections on prior usages of the concept, and by expanding its meaning to encompass geographical areas, political regimes, and cultural concerns that scholars have rarely addressed. Editor(s): Klein, Marian van der; Plant, Rebecca Jo; Sanders, Nichole; Weintrob, Lori. Series: International Studies in Social History. Num Pages: 288 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBLW; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857454669
ISBN
9780857454669
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.48

Hardcover. This volume, which compiles the photographs from the exhibition Transiciones (Transitions), held as part of PHotoEspana 2016, shows the evolution in the photographer's eye from the 1980 to the 1990s. Num Pages: 176 pages, 145. BIC Classification: AJC; HBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 300 x 210. Weight in Grams: 1124.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
La Fábrica
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9788416248674
ISBN
9788416248674
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 42.00

Hardcover. By 1989 it was obvious that the majority of Hungary's population wanted fundamental political, economic and social changes. These essays examine the components of the peaceful transition that over a ten-year period led to democracy in Hungary. Editor(s): Schmidt, Maria; Toth, Laszlo. Series: EEM Atlantic Studies on Society in Change. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJPR; HBJD; HBTB; JPHV; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 147 x 39. Weight in Grams: 817.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
East European Monographs United States
Edition
EEM #574
Number of pages
640
Condition
New
SKU
V9780880334723
ISBN
9780880334723
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.24
€ 59.90

Surveys the materials and experimental practices of radioactivity research in early twentieth century Vienna, focusing on radioactive materials, instruments, women's work in physics, and gendered skills. This title shows how experimental cultures in radioactivity are constructed and reshaped by politics as well as scientists of different genders. Series: Gutenberg-E. Num Pages: 316 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 3JJC; HBTB; PDN; PDX; PN; TBX. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 656.
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231135580
ISBN
9780231135580
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.51

Hardback. Technology was key to European colonialism. Via technology, Europeans mapped non-European territories - and controlled the flow of people and resources, goods and information. Read stories of technologies introduced and creatively adapted. Discover how globalization as we know it differs from what Europeans once intended. Series: Making Europe. Num Pages: 312 pages, 68 b & w photos. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBTQ; JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 192. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230279636
ISBN
9780230279636
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.48

paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 201 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 202 x 12. Weight in Grams: 531.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Globe Pequot United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781493019366
ISBN
9781493019366
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.07

Paperback. The first book to tackle the controversial history of prostitution in modern Ireland. Num Pages: 368 pages, 13 b/w illus. 2 maps 12 tables. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 596.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
9780521709057
ISBN
9780521709057
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.77

Hardcover. This gorgeous companion book to the PBS series illuminates an important, overlooked part of American history. Num Pages: 320 pages, 150 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 280 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1226.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393241297
ISBN
9780393241297
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 32.04

Hardback. In Indian Given Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo provides a sweeping historical and comparative analysis of racial ideologies in Mexico and the United States from 1550 to the present to show how indigenous peoples provided the condition of possibility for the emergence of each nation. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 352 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL4; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 613.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822359883
ISBN
9780822359883
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.33

Paperback. In Indian Given Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo provides a sweeping historical and comparative analysis of racial ideologies in Mexico and the United States from 1550 to the present to show how indigenous peoples provided the condition of possibility for the emergence of each nation. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 352 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL4; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 524.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822360148
ISBN
9780822360148
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Hardback. Brings together work by area specialists and the research on the sea itself in the early modern period, the maritime trade that flourished there, the ships which travelled it and the men who sailed them. This book is suitable for those interested in maritime history, naval history, and the history of the early modern world. Editor(s): Fusaro, Maria; Heywood, Colin; Omri, Mohamed-Salah. Series: International Library of Historical Studies. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 140 x 32. Weight in Grams: 542.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
336
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848851634
ISBN
9781848851634
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.49
€ 137.06

hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Yale University Press
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300176056
ISBN
9780300176056
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.24
€ 61.38

Paperback. The political upheaval in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala had a devastating human toll at the end of the twentieth century. Many of those who survived the wars chose temporary refuge in neighboring countries such as Honduras and Costa Rica. This book tells the story of that migration. Num Pages: 289 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; HBTB; JFFN; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 63.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
289
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520247017
ISBN
9780520247017
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Paperback. How small-scale coca growers came together to oppose an eradication campaign by the Colombain government Translator(s): Klatt, Andy. Num Pages: 328 pages, 11 photographs, 8 tables, 8 maps, 4 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLSBZ; 1KLSC; 3JJPR; HBTV; JPVH1; JWDG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350156
ISBN
9780822350156
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.81

Paperback. Tells the remarkable story of the bagel's journey from the tables of seventeenth-century Poland to the freezers of middle America, a story of often surprising connections between a cheap market-day snack and centuries of Polish, Jewish, and American history. Num Pages: 242 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 292.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300158205
ISBN
9780300158205
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.86

A new gendered approach to the rise of the modern state in Sweden over the long eighteenth century. Series: Gender in History. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1DNS; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ; JPFN; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781526100641
ISBN
9781526100641
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 150.58

Paperback. A portrait of the author's pioneer father that grew out of the hours of listening behind the stove or the wood box. This book contains the accounts of the hunts, of the fights with the cattlemen and the sheepmen, of the scarcity of women, when a man had to 'marry anything that got off the train,' of the droughts, storms, wind and isolation. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 136 x 24. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803293243
ISBN
9780803293243
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.72

Hardcover. Traces the history of the concepts of civility and civilization in nineteenth-century Europe and Asia and explores why and how emotions were an asset in civilizing peoples and societies - their control and management, but also their creation and their ascription to different societies and social groups. Series: Emotions in History. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 1F; 3JH; HBLL; HBTB; JMQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 167 x 242 x 29. Weight in Grams: 716.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198745532
ISBN
9780198745532
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 187.81

Paperback. #1 New York Times Bestseller NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Oscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA's African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America's space program. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780008201326
ISBN
9780008201326
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.37

Paperback. Tales of child sacrifice, demon lovers, incestual relations, and returns from the dead are part of English and Irish gothic literature. This book shows how Anglo-Irish gothic works written from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries reflect the destructive effects of imperialism on the children. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822324140
ISBN
9780822324140
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.42

A memoir of Rachel Margolis, the sole survivor of her family, who escaped from the Vilna Ghetto with other members of the resistance movement, the FPO (United Partisan Organization), and joined the Soviet partisans in the forests of Lithuania to sabotage the Nazis. Editor(s): Margolis, Marjorie. Series: Jews in Poland. Num Pages: 520 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 1D; BM; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 916.
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
520
Condition
New
SKU
V9781934843918
ISBN
9781934843918
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 104.99

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