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History: specific events & topics
Hardcover. Brings to light the profound social, legal, and cultural changes that attended the growth of the erotica sector. This title includes readings of government and industry records, oral histories, and erotica industry's products uncover the roots of sexual marketplace and reveal the indelible ways in which sexual expression have become intertwined. Num Pages: 320 pages, 23 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226325217
- ISBN
- 9780226325217
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.57€ 43.46
€ 50.57
€ 43.46
Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their Lives, Volume 2 (Southern Wo...
Elizabeth Anne Payne, Martha H. Swain, Marjor...
Paperback. Explores the historical forces that have shaped women's lives in Mississippi. This book acknowledges the state's diverse cultural and physical landscapes as they discuss how issues of race, gender, and class affected women's lives in various private and public spheres. Editor(s): Payne, Elizabeth Anne (Professor of History, University of Mississippi, USA); Swain, Martha H. (Cornaro Professor of History Emerita, Texas Women's University, USA); Spruill, Marjorie Julian (Professor of History, Vanderbilt University, USA). Num Pages: 360 pages, 16 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBSM; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Edition
- Volume 2
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820333946
- ISBN
- 9780820333946
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.35
€ 44.35
hardcover. From the color of a politician's tie, to exorbitantly costly haircuts, to the size of an American flag pin adorning a lapel, it's no secret that style has political meaning. The author shows that in France, England, and Spain, daring dress became a way of taking a stance toward the social and political upheaval of the period. Num Pages: 288 pages, 23 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226187259
- ISBN
- 9780226187259
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 39.32
€ 50.99
€ 39.32
Paperback. An original and sophisticated contribution to understanding the tangled issue of gender in Soviet Russia. Editor(s): Rabinowitch, Alexander; Rosenberg, William G. Series: Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian & East European Studies. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JFSJ1; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 19. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780253214300
- ISBN
- 9780253214300
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.35
€ 32.99
€ 29.35
Hardcover. Explores the neglected history of corporate cartography during the Dutch Golden Age, from circa 1600 to 1650. The author examines how maps were used as propaganda tools for the Dutch West India Company in order to encourage the commodification of land and an overall capitalist agenda. Num Pages: 208 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDN; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; HBTP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 238 x 21. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226254784
- ISBN
- 9780226254784
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.75€ 43.95
€ 51.75
€ 43.95
Paperback. Describes and analyzes the battles over the powerful medium of radio, which helped spark the massive upsurge of organized labor during the Depression. Organized chronologically, this work explores the advent of local labor radio stations such as WCFL and WEVD, labor's anti-censorship campaigns, and unionist experiments with early FM broadcasting. Series: The History of Communication. Num Pages: 320 pages, 17 photographs. BIC Classification: HBTB; KNTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780252073649
- ISBN
- 9780252073649
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 29.31
€ 29.99
€ 29.31
Hardback. A collection of twelve articles that explore various events in the history of witch-hunting and its demonization of women in American and American women's own use of witchcraft as a source of identity and strength, as well as the complicated relationship between the two. Editor(s): Reis, Elizabeth. Series: The Worlds of Women Series. Num Pages: 276 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; HRQX9; JFSJ1; VXWT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780842025768
- ISBN
- 9780842025768
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.95
€ 156.95
Hardback. Palaces of Time resurrects the seemingly banal calendar as a means to understand early modern Jewish life. Elisheva Carlebach has unearthed a trove of beautifully illustrated calendars, to show how Jewish men and women both adapted to the Christian world and also forged their own meanings through time. Num Pages: 304 pages, 56 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; HRJC; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 262 x 190 x 28. Weight in Grams: 850.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674052543
- ISBN
- 9780674052543
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.29
€ 40.99
€ 33.29
Paperback. Presents a synthetic history of the family in Germany and northern France during the High Middle Ages. Concentrating on the special roles of mothers and children, this book advances efforts to write a comparative Jewish-Christian social history. It provides an analysis of the history of Jewish families in medieval Ashkenaz. Series: Jews, Christians and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World. Num Pages: 320 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691130293
- ISBN
- 9780691130293
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.21
€ 46.99
€ 33.21
Hardback. What does it mean to be Jewish? What is an anti-Semite? Why does the enigmatic identity of the men who founded the first monotheistic religion arouse such passions? We need to return to the Jewish question. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745652191
- ISBN
- 9780745652191
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.58
€ 71.58
Paperback. What does it mean to be Jewish? What is an anti-Semite? Why does the enigmatic identity of the men who founded the first monotheistic religion arouse such passions? We need to return to the Jewish question. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 226 x 19. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745652207
- ISBN
- 9780745652207
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.42
€ 25.42
Paperback. A model of clarity.. It provides absolutely essential reference material for the dress historian and archaeologist, for the early textile specialist, and those interested in the tools and equipment used. TOOL AND TRADES HISTORY SOCIETY NEWSLETTER (Linda Woolley, curator of early and medieval textiles and dress, V&A Museum) Series: Medieval Finds from Excavations in London. Num Pages: 252 pages, 239, 16 colour, 132 black and white, 91 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; HBTB; KCZ; KNDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 184 x 17. Weight in Grams: 732.
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843832393
- ISBN
- 9781843832393
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.55
€ 35.99
€ 30.55
Paperback. Editor(s): Cheaure, Elisabeth; Nohejl, Regine. Num Pages: 138 pages, 17 b/w & 13 colour illus. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 224 x 9. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837628586
- ISBN
- 9783837628586
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.25
€ 36.99
€ 27.25
Hardback. This book details how international law has approached the core idea underlying the concept of cultural genocide and how this framework can be strengthened and fostered. The volume traces developments from the early conceptualisation of cultural genocide to the contemporary question of its reparation. Series: Cultural Heritage Law and Policy. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFC; LAZ; LBBZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 240 x 24. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198787167
- ISBN
- 9780198787167
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 178.62
€ 178.62
Paperback. Elinore Pruitt Stewart, a widow and mother who washed clothes for a living in Denver, planned to work as a housekeeper for some rancher while learning all she would need to know about homesteading a place for herself. This title presents letters written from time of her arrival until 1913. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3429 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780803251939
- ISBN
- 9780803251939
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.63
€ 20.99
€ 20.63
Paperback. Dimension: 154 x 231 x 40. Weight in Grams: 860.
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442613744
- ISBN
- 9781442613744
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.20
€ 46.99
€ 41.20
Paperback. Finally, contributors examine the changes wrought by the American Revolution both within Britain's remaining imperial possessions and among the other states in the emerging "concert of Europe." Editor(s): Gould, Eliga H.; Onuf, Peter S. Series: Anglo-America in the Transatlantic World. Num Pages: 392 pages, 1, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; HBJD; HBJK; HBTR; HBWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 28. Weight in Grams: 564.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421418421
- ISBN
- 9781421418421
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 29.91
€ 35.99
€ 29.91
Paperback. The Revolution s aspiration was summed up by the phrase life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Yet the American founding was also a bid for inclusion in the community of nations. According to Eliga Gould, America aspired to diplomatic recognition under international law and the authority to become an Atlantic colonizing power itself." Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTQ; JPH; JPS; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674416949
- ISBN
- 9780674416949
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.27
€ 35.99
€ 30.27
Paperback. This text focuses on some of the main ethical and spiritual problems raised by the Holocaust. It addresses the views and moral dilemmas of prominent Jewish thinkers and leaders, then presents the author's own reflections on the problem of "justification of religion" and faith after Auschwitz. Num Pages: 185 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTZ1; HPQ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 185
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780819193599
- ISBN
- 9780819193599
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.82
€ 70.82
Paperback. Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This title presents an account of that atrocity: the ever-increasing horrors he endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to survive in a world that stripped him of humanity, dignity and faith. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJH; BGA; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 197 x 9. Weight in Grams: 106.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141038995
- ISBN
- 9780141038995
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.98
€ 13.99
€ 10.98
Paperback. Elie Wiesel was fifteen years old when he and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz. After the war, Wiesel studied in Paris and later became a journalist. During an interview with the distinguished French writer, Francois Mauriac, he was persuaded to write about his experiences in the death camps. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 3. Weight in Grams: 114.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140189896
- ISBN
- 9780140189896
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.13
€ 11.99
€ 10.13
Hardback. The French Revolution introduced ideological terror to the world. This book offers a comprehensive explanation of the gruesome Terror, its causes and its consequences for the modern world. Num Pages: 630 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; HBTV; JPVR; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 162 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1020.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 630
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742508316
- ISBN
- 9780742508316
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 36.06
€ 38.99
€ 36.06
Num Pages: 186 pages, colour photos & fold-out map. BIC Classification: 1DNN; GBGP; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Tapir Academic Press Norway
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788251920117
- ISBN
- 9788251920117
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.30
€ 30.99
€ 22.30
Paperback. Focusing on the British empire, this book assesses the extent to which Jews participated in the institution of slavery through investment in slave trading companies, ownership of slave ships, commercial activity as merchants who sold slaves upon their arrival from Africa, and direct ownership of slaves. Series: New Perspectives on Jewish Studies. Num Pages: 386 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLH; HBLL; HBTS; JFSL3; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 386
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- New Ed
- SKU
- V9780814726396
- ISBN
- 9780814726396
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.26
€ 32.99
€ 31.26