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paperback. A fascinating study of ritual and symbolism which poses new questions for the understanding of our history. Editor(s): Hobsbawm, Eric; Ranger, Terence. Series: Canto Classics. Num Pages: 324 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 136 x 17. Weight in Grams: 464. Series: Canto Classics. 326 pages. Editor(s): Hobsbawm, Eric; Ranger, Terence. A fascinating study of ritual and symbolism which poses new questions for the understanding of our history. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: HBTB; JHBT. Dimension: 210 x 136 x 17. Weight: 468.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
324
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107604674
ISBN
9781107604674
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 23.23

Paperback. The first book in a new Johns Hopkins series, Regional Perspectives on Early America, At the Edge of Empire explores one of British America's most intriguing regions, both widening and deepening our understanding of North America's colonial experience. Series: Regional Perspectives on Early America. Num Pages: 224 pages, 17, 17 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; 1QDB; HBJK; HBLH; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 272.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801871375
ISBN
9780801871375
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 26.71

Paperback. Shaping the New World introduces students to the origins, growth, and consolidation of African slavery in the Americas and race-based slavery's impact on the economic, social, and cultural development of the New World. Series: International Themes & Issues. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps. BIC Classification: 1K; 3J; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 135 x 13. Weight in Grams: 262.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442605558
ISBN
9781442605558
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.42

Hardback. The 1962 Cuban missile crisis had many possible outcomes. Positing an alternate history helps us better appreciate the dangers of that tense time. Such counterfactual speculation shows what the Cuban missile crisis could have wrought and how it was truly one of the most important moments of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 316 pages, maps. BIC Classification: HBTW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 160 x 29. Weight in Grams: 614.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc United States
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
SKU
V9781597975179
ISBN
9781597975179
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.52

Paperback. A stirring history of America focused on its animating impulse: freedom. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBT; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393319620
ISBN
9780393319620
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.26

Paperback. "A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era."-Boston Globe Num Pages: 448 pages, 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations; 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 172 x 209 x 28. Weight in Grams: 422.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393340662
ISBN
9780393340662
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.49

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 254 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JJ; HBJH; HBTQ; KNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691641362
ISBN
9780691641362
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.92
€ 85.15

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 254 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBE; HBTK; KFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691613598
ISBN
9780691613598
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 37.81

Paperback. Explains why youth gangs emerged, how they evolved, and why young men found membership and the violence it involved so attractive. This book describes how postwar urban renewal, slum clearances, and ethnic migration pitted African-American, Puerto Rican, and Euro-American youths against each other in battles to dominate changing neighborhoods. Num Pages: 360 pages, 11 halftones, 3 line illus., 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBTB; JFC; JFFE; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 524.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780691074542
ISBN
9780691074542
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.49
€ 42.15

Hardcover. Rise of a Japanese Chinatown focuses on a Chinese immigrant community in the Japanese port city of Yokohama from the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 to the normalization of Sino-Japanese ties in 1972 and beyond. It tells the story of how Chinese immigrants found an enduring place within a monoethnic state during periods of war and peace. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 270 pages, Illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBJF; HBTB; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 568.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674491984
ISBN
9780674491984
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 37.79

Paperback. A nail-bitingly suspenseful account of the conspiracy of assassins that hunted down Turkish officials following the Armenian Genocide. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 3JJG; HBJF1; HBLW; HBTZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 290 x 29. Weight in Grams: 334.
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780316292108
ISBN
9780316292108
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.30

Paperback. Eric Berkowitz evokes the entire sweep of Western sex law, from the savage impalement of an Ancient Mesopotamian adulteress to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde in 1895 for 'gross indecency'. Num Pages: 476 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHBK5; LAZ; LNFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 199 x 36. Weight in Grams: 452.
Publisher
The Westbourne Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
476
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908906106
ISBN
9781908906106
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.52

paperback. A study of the bracero program during World War II. It describes the labor history of Mexican and Chicano workers in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. It analyses the ways in which Braceros were active agents of their own lives. It also describes the living and working conditions in migrant farm camps. Series: Columbia Northwest Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations, map, tables, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JJH; GTB; HBT; JPFF; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780295978499
ISBN
9780295978499
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.88

Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: BG; HBTB; JFSL3; JHBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S. United States
Edition
3 Rev ed
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780873512015
ISBN
9780873512015
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.26

Paperback. Explores how traumatic loss affects identity and how those who are shaped by loss give shape, in turn, to the empty place where something - relationships, family, culture - was and is no longer. Taking the example of the decimation of European Jewry during the Nazi era, this title confronts the problem of transforming trauma into cultural memory. Editor(s): Epstein, Julia. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780252069499
ISBN
9780252069499
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.81

Hardback. The startling biography of a native Turkestani whose pursuit of self-determination for his country saw him serve the Nazis in World War II, the Red Army, and the CIA at the height of the Cold War. Translator(s): Barchard, David. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FC; 3JJ; BGH; HBTW; HBWQ; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 256.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849046978
ISBN
9781849046978
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.62

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 364 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; HBWH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 685.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
364
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691651651
ISBN
9780691651651
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 186.09

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 364 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; HBWH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
364
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780691625164
ISBN
9780691625164
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.49
€ 42.00

Hardback. More than twelve million immigrants, many of them children, passed through Ellis Island's gates between 1892 and 1954. Children also came through the "Guardian of the Western Gate," the detention center on Angel Island in California that was designed to keep Chinese immigrants out of the United States. Num Pages: 208 pages, 18 b&w photos, chronology, bibliography, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTD; JFFN; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781597972963
ISBN
9781597972963
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 38.30

Paperback. Series: Comparative Studies in Overseas History. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB. Category: (G) General; (P) Professional & Scholarly; (U) Tertiary Education. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1979
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers Group Netherlands
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9789060214473
ISBN
9789060214473
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 240.11

Paperback. Europe's imperial projects were often predicated on a series of legal and scientific distinctions that were frequently challenged by the reality of social and sexual interactions between the colonized and the colonizers. This title reveals the unacknowledged but central role of race in the definition of French nationality. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBTQ; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 478. Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies. 352 pages. Europe's imperial projects were often predicated on a series of legal and scientific distinctions that were frequently challenged by the reality of social and sexual interactions between the colonized and the colonizers. This title reveals the unacknowledged but central role of race in the definition of French nationality. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBTQ; JFSL; JHMC. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 19. Weight: 480. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226733081
ISBN
9780226733081
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.41

Hardback. The Making of Modern Cameroon, Vol. 1 examines the history of present day Cameroon's struggle to create, unite, and integrate their country. The story begins with the colonization of the country by Germany in 1884 and continues with the country's experience under British and French rule from 1914 to 1961. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFJA; 3JJ; GTB; HBTB; JPFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761808961
ISBN
9780761808961
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.92

paperback. Presents an account of day-to-day life in a medieval French village. Using records gathered by the Catholic Church in its pursuit of heretics, this book shows the lives of a cast of village characters. Translator(s): Bray, Barbara. Num Pages: 400 pages, maps, bibliog , index. BIC Classification: 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 126 x 20. Weight in Grams: 284.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780140137002
ISBN
9780140137002
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.37

Paperback. From autobiographical writings, this book reconstructs the extraordinary life of Thomas Platter and the lives of his sons. It expands the historical contexts of these accounts and, in the process, brings to life the customs, perceptions and character of an age on the threshold of modernity. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur. Num Pages: 418 pages, 26 halftones, 5 maps, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1D; BGH; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 151 x 27. Weight in Grams: 610.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
418
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226473246
ISBN
9780226473246
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 24.82

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