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History: specific events & topics
Paperback. This major study reconstructs the vast history of European Drama from Greek tragedy through to 20th century theatre, focusing on the subject of identity. Translator(s): Riley, Jo. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; AN; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 173 x 22. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415180603
- ISBN
- 9780415180603
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.80
€ 53.80
hardcover. Familiar Strangers examines how the Soviet empire was built, and ultimately dismantled, by ethnic outsiders. Scott retells Soviet history from the perspective of the socialist state's internal Georgian diaspora. Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 illus. BIC Classification: 1DVUG; HBJD; HBTQ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 171 x 25. Weight in Grams: 642.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- OUP USA United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199396375
- ISBN
- 9780199396375
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 167.94
€ 167.94
Hardcover. Beginning in the fall of 1920, Aleksandr Antonov led an insurgency that became the largest armed peasant revolt against the Soviets during the civil war. This book presents a tale of brutality, domination, and revolt, placing readers at the frontlines of the complex and history of the Russian civil war and the consolidation of the Soviet state. Series: Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies. Num Pages: 432 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTV; HBW; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 166 x 29. Weight in Grams: 746.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Pittsburgh Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822943433
- ISBN
- 9780822943433
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.58
€ 83.58
Paperback. Num Pages: 318 pages, 10 b&w illus., 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFJ; 3JJP; HBJH; HBLW3; HBTV; JPVH4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 409.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253021397
- ISBN
- 9780253021397
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.32
€ 37.99
€ 34.32
Hardcover. The author is acknowledged as a contemporary master of the art of etching. In this title, he uses colour, reimagines the arcane world of the cabinet of curiosities: antiquarian collections of the recondite, rare and bizarre, which reminded the viewer of the vanity of earthly life. Num Pages: 110 pages, 34 illustrations, 16 in colour. BIC Classification: AFH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 285 x 19. Weight in Grams: 790.
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 110
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780500516348
- ISBN
- 9780500516348
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.00
€ 46.99
€ 33.00
Paperback. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCS; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; HBT; HBW; JHMC; JWDG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 557.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781469628660
- ISBN
- 9781469628660
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 43.00
€ 43.99
€ 43.00
Paperback. This volume is an abridgement of Erik Barnouw's three-volume "History of Broadcasting in the United States". The paperback edition was first published in 1976 and a second edition in 1982. Much has happened in US television since then and the additions in this volume take account of those changes. Num Pages: 624 pages, numerous halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APT; HBT; JFD; KNTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 135 x 31. Weight in Grams: 525.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 624
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195064841
- ISBN
- 9780195064841
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.37
€ 43.37
Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674016064
- ISBN
- 9780674016064
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.46€ 54.56
€ 59.46
€ 54.56
Paperback. Series: Martin Classical Lectures. Num Pages: 416 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDA; HBLA; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 154 x 28. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691156354
- ISBN
- 9780691156354
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.92
€ 40.99
€ 28.92
Paperback. Collects essays that explore the idea of cultural identity in the ancient Mediterranean, examine the subject from a variety of angles, and encompass a range of cultures: Greek, Persian, Jewish, Phoenician, Egyptian, Roman, Gallic, and German - and an array of topics. Num Pages: 572 pages, 97 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QRM; HBLA; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 252 x 178 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1576.
- Publisher
- Getty Trust Publications United States
- Number of pages
- 572
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780892369690
- ISBN
- 9780892369690
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.48€ 51.03
€ 65.48
€ 51.03
Hardcover. This work contains two narratives which together offer a portrait of how two German Jews came to terms with the changes in their lives brought on by the Nazis. Translator(s): Goldstein, Brigitte. Series: Jewish Lives S. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; BG; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 325. Clean copy in good condition
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- Translated
- SKU
- KAG0000614
- ISBN
- 9780810111813
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
paperback. Drawing on the findings of anthropology, palaeontogy, psychology and history; and including character analyses of Stalin, Hitler and Himmler, this title shows how the failure to use our capacity for love and reason results in the development of the reverse: we wish to control life absolutely, or to destroy it. Num Pages: 688 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFFE; JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 39. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Pimlico
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 688
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780712674898
- ISBN
- 9780712674898
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.14
€ 25.99
€ 19.14
Paperback. Offers a fresh perspective on Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, telling the story of how American Jewish women played a leading role in achieving Zionist goals and shaping the state of Israel. This book also traces Hadassah's involvement in the child rescue movement, which saved thousands of children from Nazi-occupied Europe. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HBT; JFSJ1; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 176 x 16. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742549388
- ISBN
- 9780742549388
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.12
€ 63.12
Hardback. Editor(s): Tomich, Dale W. Series: World Social Change. Num Pages: 278 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 20 tables. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KJ; HBLL; HBTS; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Publisher
- ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442231399
- ISBN
- 9781442231399
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.67
€ 163.67
Hardback. How did Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood win power so quickly after the dramatic "Arab Spring" uprising that ended President Hosni Mubarak's reign? Based on research in Egypt and interviews with dozens of Brotherhood leaders, the author argues that the very organizational characteristics that helped them win power also contributed to its rapid downfall. Num Pages: 296 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables, 3 figures, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JMG; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTV; JFSR2; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781626163621
- ISBN
- 9781626163621
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.83
€ 47.83
Paperback. Num Pages: 316 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJF; HBTK; JHBL; KNXB2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 286 x 23. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publisher
- Levellers Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Paperback edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781937146955
- ISBN
- 9781937146955
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.53
€ 19.53
Paperback. Generations of historians have maintained that in the last decade of the 19th century white-supremacist racial ideologies such as Anglo-Saxonism, social Darwinism, and the concept of the "white man's burden" drove American imperialist ventures in the nonwhite world. Eric T. L. Love contests this view and argues that racism had the opposite effect. Num Pages: 272 pages, 9 illustrations, 2 tables, notes. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBTQ; HBTR; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807855652
- ISBN
- 9780807855652
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.56
€ 48.56
paperback. Combines the histories of empire, leisure, tourism, culture, and medicine to explain how therapeutic spas for colonists facilitated French imperialism between 1830 and 1962. Num Pages: 288 pages, 24 photos, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBTB; MBX; MX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 234 x 21. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822338222
- ISBN
- 9780822338222
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.75
€ 37.99
€ 33.75
Paperback. Presents a social and cultural history of exploitation films. Analysing many films, such as "The Road to Ruin", "Modern Motherhood", and more, this book demonstrates that these films were more than simply 'bad' movies. It shows how they evolved during a period of forty years and how, during that time, they shaped public policies and attitudes. Num Pages: 488 pages, 59 b&w photographs, 7 figures. BIC Classification: 3JJG; 3JJH; APF; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 155 x 35. Weight in Grams: 796.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822323747
- ISBN
- 9780822323747
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.88
€ 34.99
€ 31.88
Paperback. American progressives - those middle-class citizens who support fundamental change in American life - have always presented a mystery. This work investigates the lives of such reformers as Charles and Mary Beard and Wesley Clair, to investigate their influences and inspiration. Series: Columbia Studies in Contemporary American History. Num Pages: 322 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBTB; JHBK; JPA; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 322
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231121477
- ISBN
- 9780231121477
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 31.15
€ 43.99
€ 31.15
Hardcover. Eric R. Schlereth places religious conflicts between deists and their opponents at the center of early American public life. This history recasts the origins of cultural politics in the United States by exploring how everyday Americans navigated questions of religious truth and difference in an age of emerging religious liberty. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 304 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 153 x 236 x 25. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812244939
- ISBN
- 9780812244939
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.67
€ 107.67
Hardback. Scholars of the period will find this to be a richly informative and thoroughly engrossing read. Num Pages: 240 pages, 10, 7 black & white halftones, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1QRM; HBLH; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421400716
- ISBN
- 9781421400716
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.60
€ 73.60
Paperback. Scholars of the period will find this to be a richly informative and thoroughly engrossing read. Num Pages: 240 pages, 10, 7 black & white halftones, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1QRM; HBLH; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421400723
- ISBN
- 9781421400723
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 29.02
€ 33.99
€ 29.02
Paperback. This title explores the ideas of African American musicians, analyzing them on the context of meanings circulating around jazz. The text shows how much black musicians have struggled against the definations of racial authenticity and racism in the dominant culture. Series: Music of the African Diaspora. Num Pages: 425 pages, 16 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGJ; HBT; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 229 x 29. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 425
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520232969
- ISBN
- 9780520232969
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.20
€ 40.99
€ 29.20