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History: specific events & topics

Paperback. Looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class. This book shows how it raised incomes, improved literacy and offered exciting opportunities for political action. Num Pages: 320 pages, 16-page section of black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JH; BK; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300205251
ISBN
9780300205251
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.13

Paperback. Philosopher, dramatist, rhetorician, Stoic and pragmatist, Seneca was one of the most contradictory figures in ancient Rome, embracing a stern ascetic morality while amassing a fortune under Nero and eventually committing suicide. This biography reveals a life lived perilously in the gap between ideals and reality. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3D; BGH; HBJD; HBTB; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 298 x 20. Weight in Grams: 204.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780718193508
ISBN
9780718193508
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 9.57

Paperback. Investigates a central puzzle of power and politics in West African history: Why do women figure frequently in the political narratives of the precolonial period, and then vanish altogether with colonization? This book addresses this question by exploring the relationship of the household to the state. Series: New African Histories. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1HFDU; HBJH; HBTQ; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821419830
ISBN
9780821419830
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.09

Paperback. In Shanghai, China's largest industrial centre prior to 1949, cotton was king and the majority of mill workers were women. This book presents detailed information on all aspects of the life of this group of urban workers. Num Pages: 316 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 23. Weight in Grams: 381.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804720120
ISBN
9780804720120
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.39

Paperback. After Mao, abrupt turns in public policy made "personal life" a crucial issue for discussion. This book is concerned with the debate about the role of women in Chinese society, examining their anxieties, confusions and excitement as they contemplate various stages of a new future. Num Pages: 400 pages, bibliography, index, notes. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 539.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804714310
ISBN
9780804714310
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.22

Hardcover. This text is based on extensive personal viewing of urban Chinese women and study of contemporary literature and articles in the periodical press that touched on the problems of rural women. Each chapter is devoted to one aspect of women's lives including: girlhood, sexuality, marriage, and work. Num Pages: 400 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 43. Weight in Grams: 725.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804714167
ISBN
9780804714167
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.24

Hardcover. Series: Studies in the Legal History of the South. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; 1KBBFS; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JFM; LNDC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820338644
ISBN
9780820338644
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.46

Paperback. A National Historic Landmark and international tourist destination, the Palace of the Governors is an example of Spanish Colonial architecture. This book celebrates its quatrocentennial in photographs, drawings, lithographs, and maps: the story of New Spain and four centuries of change. Num Pages: 124 pages, 80+ photos & illus. BIC Classification: AMG; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 269 x 10. Weight in Grams: 574.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Museum of New Mexico Press United States
Number of pages
124
Condition
New
SKU
V9780890135006
ISBN
9780890135006
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 30.01

Hardback. This volume, by Hungary's preeminent scholar of Eastern European social history, illustrates the similarities and differences among the region's social and governmental structures by focusing on the cases of Prussia, Mecklenburg, the Habsburg Empire, the Russian empire, and Romania. Num Pages: 420 pages. BIC Classification: 1DV; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 147. Weight in Grams: 681.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
East European Monographs United States
Number of pages
420
Condition
New
SKU
V9780880335553
ISBN
9780880335553
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.75

Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages, 236 colour photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBEC; AJCR; HBJK; HBTK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 304. Weight in Grams: 1778.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764349300
ISBN
9780764349300
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 35.44

Paperback. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780190627805
ISBN
9780190627805
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.96

Paperback. Num Pages: 73 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DVU; HBTW; HRAX. Dimension: 122 x 189 x 13. Weight in Grams: 94.
Publisher
Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9789463380997
ISBN
9789463380997
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 13.12

Hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 236 x 26. Weight in Grams: 532.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781681771632
ISBN
9781681771632
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 25.16

paperback. Num Pages: 398 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; BG; HBJD; HBTD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; HRC; JFSJ1; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
William B Eerdmans Publishing Co United States
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
398
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802847478
ISBN
9780802847478
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 27.84

Paperback. Trafficked children are portrayed by the media - and even by child welfare specialists - as hapless victims who are forced to migrate from a poor country to the United States, where they serve as sex slaves. But as Elzbieta M. Gozdziak reveals in Trafficked Children in the United States, the picture is far more complex. Series: Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTS; JFSP1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 268.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813569697
ISBN
9780813569697
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.34

Hardback. The first comprehensive survey of the Irish literary elite in the early middle ages. Series: Studies in Celtic History. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3F; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 532.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Number of pages
248
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843838555
ISBN
9781843838555
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.32

Hardback. This collection of essays examines select historical questions about the interrelationship between the sciences and Harvard University as an organizational, intellectual, and social context for science in the United States. The essays span the period from the seventeenth century to World War II. Editor(s): Rossiter, Margaret W. Num Pages: 380 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: HBTB; JNM; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 740.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
380
Condition
New
SKU
V9780934223126
ISBN
9780934223126
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 146.21

Paperback. In this distinctive study of the impact of immigration and ethnicity on twentieth-century America, Barkan thoughtfully examines the changing composition of our immigrant populations, highlighting the ways in which certain facets of the struggle to adapt to American society have persisted from the 1920s until the 1990s. Series: American History S. Num Pages: 262 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFFN; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780882959283
ISBN
9780882959283
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 40.91

Paperback. A seemingly familiar tale of Indians, goldseekers and the resulting conflict, yet in this text Elliot West assesses the cataclysmic changes that the Colorado gold rush brought to the Great Plains, in particular the disruption to Plains Indian cultures. Num Pages: 446 pages, 31 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 704.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Univ Pr of Kansas
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700610297
ISBN
9780700610297
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.21

Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations, tables. BIC Classification: HBT; JPFM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813935546
ISBN
9780813935546
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.65

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