History: specific events & topics
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History: specific events & topics
Hardcover. Retrieved after World War II from metal boxes and milk cans buried beneath the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto, the "Oyneg Shabes-Ringelblum Archive" was clandestinely compiled between 1940 and 1942 under the leadership of historian Emanuel Ringelblum. This book describes its contents. Editor(s): Epsztein, Tadeusz; Shapiro, Robert Moses. Num Pages: 568 pages, 92 b&w photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 7112 x 5487 x 1016. Weight in Grams: 989.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 568
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253353276
- ISBN
- 9780253353276
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.90
€ 96.90
Paperback. Presents stories which are based on the author's own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. This title describes a world where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; and, where the difference between human beings is reduced to a second bowl of soup. Translator(s): Kandel, Michael; Vedder, Barbara. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; BG; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; JPVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 12. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140186246
- ISBN
- 9780140186246
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.44
€ 17.99
€ 13.44
Paperback. A sumptuously illustrated history of the Titanic, her sinking and its aftermath. Num Pages: 464 pages, 300. BIC Classification: 3JJC; HBG; HBLW; HBTM; WGG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 174 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1172.
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445647012
- ISBN
- 9781445647012
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.58
€ 40.99
€ 28.58
Paperback. Num Pages: 166 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFC; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Publisher
- Text Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781925240702
- ISBN
- 9781925240702
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.48
€ 15.99
€ 12.48
paperback. An account of the most powerful of the American Indian tribes. It traces the Comanches' rise to power, from their prehistoric origins to their domination of the high plains for more than a century until their demise in the face of Anglo-American expansion. Num Pages: 592 pages, 15. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 32. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 592
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099520559
- ISBN
- 9780099520559
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.96
€ 19.99
€ 14.96
paperback. The Scots are one of the world's greatest nations of emigrants. This title offers an account of the Scots as a 'global people', charting their forgotten role in the building of the modern world. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBJD1; HBTQ; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 197 x 25. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141015644
- ISBN
- 9780141015644
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 12.37
€ 19.99
€ 12.37
Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTV; JPS; JPWQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403979773
- ISBN
- 9781403979773
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.99
€ 64.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 640 pages, 12 page of photos and 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBTB; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 232 x 36. Weight in Grams: 826.
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780307475947
- ISBN
- 9780307475947
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 13.96
€ 18.99
€ 13.96
Hardback. Re-examining the long-held belief that the Sixties in Britain were dominated mainly by 'youth' and 'protest', the authors in the collection argue that innovation was everywhere shadowed by conservatism. A decade fascinated by itself and, especially, by the future, it also was tormented by self-doubt and accompanied by a fear of losing the past. Editor(s): Harris, Trevor; O'Brien Castro, Monia. Num Pages: 216 pages, 2 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPK; HBJD1; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137374097
- ISBN
- 9781137374097
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.06
€ 65.06
Hardcover. This volume explores how issues of women and gender were addressed in medieval culture from the Anglo-Saxon period through the 15th century. It pays attention to the form in which these questions were addressed (which varies significantly from period to period and from culture to culture). Editor(s): Fenster, Thelma; Lees, Claire. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBG; HBLC; HBLH; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 31. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 292
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312232443
- ISBN
- 9780312232443
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.14€ 56.32
€ 89.14
€ 56.32
Hardback. This work examines the history of Hungary's Jewish community in the period 1848-1945. Despite significant contributions to the development of the nation, and intense patriotism in times of national peril, the author finds that Jews remained perennial aliens in the land of Hungary. Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVH; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 653.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761817598
- ISBN
- 9780761817598
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 147.86
€ 147.86
Hardback. This volume brings together the best of T. C. Smout's recent articles and contributions to books and journals on the topic of environmental history. Num Pages: 256 pages, 13 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBT; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748635139
- ISBN
- 9780748635139
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.86€ 114.08
€ 118.86
€ 114.08
Paperback. Considers the misappropriation of African American popular culture through various genres, largely Hip Hop, to argue that while such cultural creations have the potential to be healing agents, they are still exploited -often with the complicity of African Americans- for commercial purposes and to maintain white ruling class hegemony. Series: Contemporary Black History. Num Pages: 316 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTB; JFCA; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 233 x 15. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108974
- ISBN
- 9780230108974
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 77.25€ 49.22
€ 77.25
€ 49.22
Hardback. Considers the misappropriation of African American popular culture through various genres, largely Hip Hop, to argue that while such cultural creations have the potential to be healing agents, they are still exploited -often with the complicity of African Americans- for commercial purposes and to maintain white ruling class hegemony. Series: Contemporary Black History. Num Pages: 316 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTB; JFCA; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108912
- ISBN
- 9780230108912
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.44
€ 65.44
Hardback. Balochistan remains an intractable problem for Pakistan today yet in the nineteenth century, as this history reveals, the British encountered formidable opposition when trying to bring the region under imperial domination. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKP; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138. Weight in Grams: 1000.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849044790
- ISBN
- 9781849044790
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.64
€ 68.64
Paperback. For more than a century and a half the real story of Scotland's connections to transatlantic slavery has been lost to history and shrouded in myth. There was even denial that the Scots had any significant involvement in slavery. The volume systematically peels away the mythology and radically revises the traditional picture. Editor(s): Devine, T. M. Num Pages: 280 pages, 3 illustrations, 8 tables, 2 line drawings, all in black and white. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBJD; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 17. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474408806
- ISBN
- 9781474408806
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 25.85
€ 30.99
€ 25.85
Paperback. Ever since the piano was invented, people have longed to own one. In the nineteenth century, an age without recorded music or television, this craze reached its apex. When Thad Carhart discovered Luc and his hidden cache of pianos in the dusty repair shop on his street in Paris, his life changed. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; AVRG; HBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 133 x 18. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Publisher
- Vintage London
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 1st Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099288237
- ISBN
- 9780099288237
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. This is a history of the trees, woodlands and forests of Scotland and of the people who used them. Editor(s): Smout, T. C. Num Pages: 288 pages, 89 black & white illustrations, 89 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBT; HDD; PST; RGBL; RGC; WNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 212 x 14. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748617012
- ISBN
- 9780748617012
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 40.85
€ 45.99
€ 40.85
Paperback. Provides informative biography of each of the currencies. This book reveals where and how each originated, the various roles they performed, and how they spread, survived and changed over the years. It features facts and interesting stories, and thoughtfully illustrated with images. Editor(s): Hockenhull, Thomas. Num Pages: 160 pages, 70 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; KCBM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Publisher
- British Museum Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714118086
- ISBN
- 9780714118086
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.33
€ 11.33
Hardback. This text argues that the historical settlement of liberated Americans of African descent had a destabilising impact on the geography, politics, social and economic structure and culture of Liberia. It focuses on the environmental consciousness of indigenous Liberians. Num Pages: 172 pages, bibliograohy. BIC Classification: 1HFDL; HBJH; HBTB; JFC; JH; RNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 172
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780819196538
- ISBN
- 9780819196538
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.72
€ 123.72
hardcover. "Originally published in French in 2000 under the title La Clepsydre: Essai sur la pluralitae des temps dans le judaeisme." Translator(s): Ivry, Benjamin. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 237 x 28. Weight in Grams: 702.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804789059
- ISBN
- 9780804789059
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.25
€ 52.25
Hardback. Translator(s): Mes, Tom. Series: Visible Evidence. Num Pages: 392 pages, 23 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; AFKV; APFA; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 29. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816679911
- ISBN
- 9780816679911
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 88.87
€ 88.87
Paperback. Translator(s): Mes, Tom. Series: Visible Evidence. Num Pages: 392 pages, 23 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; AFKV; APFA; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 141 x 37. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816679928
- ISBN
- 9780816679928
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.31
€ 30.99
€ 27.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 16 pp halftone plates. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 525.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195382938
- ISBN
- 9780195382938
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.44
€ 47.44