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History: specific events & topics

Paperback. Presents in visual detail an introduction to almost 2000 years of Chinese history - from the founding of the Chinese Empire in 221 BCE to the Ming dynasty, the last dynasty to rule before the country opened to the outside world in the middle of the seventeenth century. This book is suitable for travelers, students, and general readers. Series: Dictionaries of Civilization. Num Pages: 384 pages, 250 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 137 x 30. Weight in Grams: 692.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520259072
ISBN
9780520259072
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 30.14

Paperback. Celebrates 20 years of the publication of the journal Gender & History Features essays by leading scholars in the fields of women's history and gender history Reflects the extent to which gender analysis suggests alternatives to conventional periodisation. Editor(s): Shepard, Alexandra; Walker, Garthine. Series: Gender and History Special Issues. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405192279
ISBN
9781405192279
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.42

Hardback. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTS; JFFE2; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780231169202
ISBN
9780231169202
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.41
€ 90.18

Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTS; JFFE2; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231169219
ISBN
9780231169219
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.35

Paperback. * Gathers key anthropological and interdisciplinary writings on genocide together for the first time and explores attempts to define genocide. * Traces the history of genocide in the 20th century with discussion of the Holocaust, and examples from Bosnia, Cambodia, Africa, and Latin America. Editor(s): Hinton, Alexander Laban. Series: Wiley Blackwell Readers in Anthropology. Num Pages: 392 pages, 3. BIC Classification: HBTZ; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 248 x 175 x 29. Weight in Grams: 806.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631223559
ISBN
9780631223559
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.02

Hardcover. The research Alexander von Humboldt amassed during his five-year trek through the Americas in the early 19th century proved foundational to the fields of botany and geology. But his visit to Cuba during this time yielded observations that extended far beyond the natural world. This title presents a physical and cultural study of the island nation. Editor(s): Kutzinski, Vera M.; Ette, Ottmar. Num Pages: 496 pages, 115 tables. BIC Classification: 1KJC; HBLL; HBTB; JFC; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 862.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226465678
ISBN
9780226465678
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.89
€ 69.67

Paperback. Series Editor(s): Umland, Andreas. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1MTN; HBTB; JP. Dimension: 215 x 151 x 13. Weight in Grams: 268.
Publisher
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9783838207537
ISBN
9783838207537
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 23.05

Hardback. Alexander Sedgwick explores a tumultuous period of French history which coincided with and punctuates the Arnauld family's struggle with the world. He show how this family reacted to political and religious developments, and the ways in which they helped shape the history of their time. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 550 pages, 3. BIC Classification: 3JD; HBJD; HBLL; HBTG; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
550
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674905672
ISBN
9780674905672
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.12
€ 82.58

Paperback. A new edition of a classic history of the Bolsheviks which destroys the platitudes of mainstream histories, reclaiming the revolution on its centenary Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; HBLW; HBTV4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 150. .
Publisher
Pluto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745399980
ISBN
9780745399980
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 30.85

Paperback. Series: California Series in Public Anthropology. Num Pages: 382 pages, 1 line illustration, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FMC; HBTZ; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 538.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
382
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520241794
ISBN
9780520241794
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.15

Hardback. This book is a rare and important gift. One of the few memoirs of combat in World War II by a distinguished African-American flier, it is also perhaps the only account of the African-American experience in a German prison camp. Series: World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension. Num Pages: 192 pages, 80 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; HBW; JFSL4; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5182 x 5817. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Edition
Revised ed.
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823274383
ISBN
9780823274383
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.09

Paperback. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBTB; JP. Dimension: 173 x 250 x 24. Weight in Grams: 698.
Publisher
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9783838207209
ISBN
9783838207209
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 35.27

Hardcover. In 1934 a Swedish museum director and his assistant researched the maritime and material culture of the Outer Hebrides. Their work is presented here along with 80 sepia photographs and 35 line drawings, all previously unpublished. Editor(s): Fenton, Alexander. Num Pages: 128 pages, 60 sepia photographs + 43 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBKSHL; HBTB; JFCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 195 x 14. Weight in Grams: 624.
Publisher
NMSE - Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905267651
ISBN
9781905267651
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.87

Hardcover. Katyn the Soviet massacre of over 21,000 Polish prisoners in 1940 has come to be remembered as Stalin s emblematic mass murder, an event obscured by one of the most extensive cover-ups in history. Yet paradoxically, a majority of its victims perished far from the forest in western Russia that gives the tragedy its name. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 231 x 22. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745655765
ISBN
9780745655765
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.50

Paperback. This book gives a radically new reading of Russia s cultural history. Alexander Etkind traces how the Russian Empire conquered foreign territories and domesticated its own heartlands, thereby colonizing many peoples, Russians included. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSB; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 464.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745651309
ISBN
9780745651309
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.47

Hardback. Offers historical, cultural, and political account in English of the Japanese martial art of swordsmanship. This book shows how this martial art evolved through a recurring process of "inventing tradition," which served the changing ideologies and needs of Japanese warriors and governments over the course of history. Num Pages: 328 pages, 19 b/w, 6 line drawings, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; HBTB; WSTM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 161 x 28. Weight in Grams: 586.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520284371
ISBN
9780520284371
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.27

Hardback. Published here for the first time is a crucial document in the history of American radicalism--the "Prison Blossoms," a series of essays, narratives, poems, and fables composed by three activist anarchists imprisoned for the 1892 assault on anti-union steel tycoon Henry Clay Frick. Editor(s): Brody, Miriam; Buettner, Bonnie. Series: The John Harvard Library. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BG; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JPFB; JPFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 149 x 27. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674050563
ISBN
9780674050563
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.27

Paperback. Over the last century, many artists have made works that challenge dominant models of gender and sexuality. The results can be sexy or serious, satirical or tender, discreetly coded or defiantly outspoken. Num Pages: 160 pages, 75 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AC; HBTB; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 140. .
Publisher
Tate Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849765039
ISBN
9781849765039
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.95

Paperback. There are a couple of hundred songs that are sung by millions across the world each day, that school children know by heart and sports fans belt out perfectly even after eight beers. And they aren't pop songs - they are national anthems. In this book, the author brings the incredible stories of the world's national anthems to life. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 25. Weight in Grams: 266.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Windmill Books
Condition
New
SKU
9780099592235
ISBN
9780099592235
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 10.51

Paperback. Follows the interweaving lives of several key anarchists, and of the secret police who tracked them. Framed by the Paris Commune of 1871 and the 1905 revolution in St Petersburg, and spread across five continents, theirs is the story of a generation that saw the dream of Utopia crumble, to be replaced by a dangerous desperation. Num Pages: 544 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBLL; HBTB; JPFB; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 134 x 36. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Vintage Digital
Condition
New
SKU
9780099551928
ISBN
9780099551928
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.98

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 4. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; HBJK; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 5. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780801474828
ISBN
9780801474828
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.26

Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDT; HBJF1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 178 x 20. Weight in Grams: 879.
Publisher
Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2020
Edition
Anniversary
Condition
New
SKU
V9780789212061
ISBN
9780789212061
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 25.73

Hardback. .
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611470208
ISBN
9781611470208
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 89.99
€ 15.14

Hardcover. Alejandra Dubcovsky maps channels of information exchange in the American South, exploring how colonists came into possession of knowledge in a region that lacked a regular mail system or a printing press until the 1730s. She describes ingenious oral networks, and she uncovers important lessons about the nexus of information and power. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156. .
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674660182
ISBN
9780674660182
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 42.02

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