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History: specific events & topics
Hardcover. Founded in 1893, the National League of the Blind was the first nationwide self-represented group of visually impaired people in Britain. This book explores its campaign to make the state solely responsible for providing training, employment and assistance for the visually impaired as a right, and its fight to abolish all charitable aid for them. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBTB; JFFG; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137364463
- ISBN
- 9781137364463
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.80
€ 67.80
Paperback. This book provides the historical background to the rise of the Big Society. Voluntarism has evolved over the last hundred years to adapt to changing circumstances, drawing up new agendas, tackling old problems, and acting as an alternative to state provision and as a catalyst for further government action. Editor(s): Hilton, Matthew; McKay, James. Series: British Academy Original Paperbacks. Num Pages: 208 pages, one illustration. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; 3JMC; HBTB; JKSN1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780197264829
- ISBN
- 9780197264829
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.96
€ 28.96
Hardcover. Many studies of fictions of city life take the flaneur as the characteristic metropolitan type and streets and plazas as definitive urban spaces. Looking at novels and films set in London and Paris from L'Assommoir to Nil By Mouth, this book shows that mass housing is equally central to images of the modern city. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN; DNF; DSBF; DSK; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 164 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230579767
- ISBN
- 9780230579767
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
Paperback. Meet the girl from MI5 who had the gravy browning licked from her legs by Dylan Thomas; the barman who was appointed the keeper of Winston Churchill's private bottle of whisky; the East End Communist who marched with his comrades into the air-raid shelter of the Savoy; the throneless prince born in a suite at Claridge's declared.. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 25. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571234783
- ISBN
- 9780571234783
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 6.23
€ 12.99
€ 6.23
Paperback. Suppose that everything we think we know about 'The Victorians' is wrong? That we have persistently misrepresented the culture of the Victorian era, perhaps to make ourselves feel more satisfyingly liberal and sophisticated? What if they were much more fun than we ever suspected? This book provides the answers for us. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571206636
- ISBN
- 9780571206636
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.61
€ 14.99
€ 12.61
Paperback. The incredible year that baseball got the designated hitter, wife-swapping pitchers, world champion A's, and Willie Mays said goodbye to America. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 23.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762780600
- ISBN
- 9780762780600
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.95
€ 18.99
€ 15.95
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780861933112
- ISBN
- 9780861933112
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.38
€ 97.38
Hardback. This study explores how magazines became the first mass medium in the USA and how they expressed a new American culture built on dreams of a better future. The author argues that the birth of the popular magazine at the turn of the 20th century laid the foundations of the modern consumer culture. Num Pages: 357 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFC; JFD; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 357
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231082907
- ISBN
- 9780231082907
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.63€ 56.52
€ 72.63
€ 56.52
Hardback. In a work based on new archival, press, and literary sources, the author revises the picture of German imperialism as being the brainchild of a Machiavellian Bismarck or the "conservative revolutionaries" of the twentieth century. Instead, Fitzpatrick argues for the liberal origins of German imperialism.. Series: Monographs in German History. Num Pages: 237 pages, 8 ills. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; HBTQ; JPFN. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 237
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455200
- ISBN
- 9781845455200
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.71
€ 163.71
Hardback. "The Pilgrim and the Bee makes a broad claim about a reading-centered history, reclaiming for this purpose a distinctive body of texts. Brown's analysis marks an important step toward a better history of reading."-David D. Hall, Harvard University Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 288 pages, 20 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; 3JB; CFC; DSBD; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812240153
- ISBN
- 9780812240153
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.20
€ 81.20
Hardback. Paper Memory tells of one man's mission to preserve for posterity the memory of everyday life in sixteenth-century Germany. Lundin takes us inside the mind of an undistinguished German burgher, Hermann Weinsberg, whose early-modern writings sought to make sense of changes that were unsettling the foundations of his world. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 352 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JB; BM; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 236 x 25. Weight in Grams: 654.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674065949
- ISBN
- 9780674065949
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.86€ 56.30
€ 60.86
€ 56.30
Hardcover. Matthew Lenoe traces the origins of Stalinist mass culture to newspaper journalism in the later 1920s. In examining the transformation of Soviet newspapers during the New Economic Policy and the First Five Year Plan, Lenoe tells a dramatic story of purges, political intrigues, and social upheaval. Series: Russian Research Center Studies. Num Pages: 326 pages, 6 halftones, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JFC; JPFC; JPVN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 242 x 27. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674013193
- ISBN
- 9780674013193
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.66€ 85.93
€ 93.66
€ 85.93
Paperback. At the close of the 19th century, strange new forms of energy arrested the American public's attention in ways that no scientific discovery ever had before. This groundbreaking cultural history tells the story of the first nuclear culture, one whose lasting effects would be seen in the familiar "atomic age" of the post-war twentieth century. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 258 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBL; HBTB; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349455478
- ISBN
- 9781349455478
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 150.14
€ 150.14
Hardback. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611470581
- ISBN
- 9781611470581
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.97
€ 127.97
Paperback. Family Tree Maker has the largest genealogy community in the world and provides access to over 1 billion names. This text demonstrates how to simplify the often-complex genealogy adventure by using this software/online resource to maximize the effectiveness of a search. Num Pages: 360 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 192 x 21. Weight in Grams: 702.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764506611
- ISBN
- 9780764506611
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 23.86
€ 32.99
€ 23.86
Paperback. Describes the formation of a masculine ideology in the decades prior to the war, and shows how it thrived - on the job, and through union politics. This title provides a context for our ideas of postwar masculinity and whiteness and finally returns the men of the home front to our reckoning of the Greatest Generation and the New Deal era. Num Pages: 360 pages, 29 halftones, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1KBBWM; 3JJH; HBJK; HBTB; HBWQ; KNAT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226044194
- ISBN
- 9780226044194
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 30.01
€ 36.99
€ 30.01
Paperback. Editor(s): Harris, Matthew L.; Bringhurst, Newell G. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252081217
- ISBN
- 9780252081217
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.17
€ 26.99
€ 25.17
Paperback. A refreshing insight into a previously neglected area of popular British cinema the holiday film - including historical information about the British holiday and analyses of key films from the 1900s to the recent past." Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; HBJD1; HBTB; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349336708
- ISBN
- 9781349336708
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; DSB; HBTB; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Publisher
- Non Basic Stock Line
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904955757
- ISBN
- 9781904955757
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.68
€ 19.99
€ 19.68
Hardcover. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 250 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBTB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403979926
- ISBN
- 9781403979926
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.78
€ 127.78