History: specific events & topics
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History: specific events & topics
Paperback. A history of the gypsies, examining the ways they have preserved a distinct heritage and culture that transcends national boundaries. Opening with a study of gypsy origins, the book traces their migration through the early Middle Ages to the present, through the Middle East, Europe and the world. Series: Peoples of Europe. Num Pages: 376 pages, 5. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631196051
- ISBN
- 9780631196051
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 47.81
€ 48.99
€ 47.81
Paperback. A unique and very funny account of the real story behind Whisky Galore. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKSHL; BGA; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Birlinn General
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780273815
- ISBN
- 9781780273815
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.72
€ 19.99
€ 18.72
Paperback. The 1939-45 conflict was, for Britain, a "total war"; no section of society remained untouched by military conscription, air raids, the shipping crisis and the war economy. This book not only states the great events and the leading figures, but also the oddities and the banalities of daily life. Num Pages: 672 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBTB; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (XO) Open University set text. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 48. Weight in Grams: 882.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 672
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780712652841
- ISBN
- 9780712652841
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.05
€ 37.99
€ 27.05
The Final Solution in Riga: Exploitation and Annihilation, 1941-1944 (...
Angrick, Andrej, Klein, Peter
Hardcover. Ghetto, forced labor camp, concentration camp: All of the elements of the National Socialists' policies of annihilation were to be found in Riga. This first analysis of the Riga ghetto and the nearby camps of Salaspils and Jungfernhof addresses all aspects of German occupation policy during the Second World War. Series: War and Genocide. Num Pages: 530 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUC; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 33. Weight in Grams: 844.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Edition
- English ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845456085
- ISBN
- 9781845456085
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 206.19
€ 206.19
Hardback. This painstakingly researched book explains how Egypt's once-robust Greek population dwindled to virtually nothing, beginning with the abolition of foreigners' privileges in 1937 and culminating in the nationalist revolution of 1952. Num Pages: 298 pages, 20 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 1HBE; 3JJ; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785334474
- ISBN
- 9781785334474
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.75
€ 155.75
Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJH; HBTB; HBWQ; JFFJ; JFSL; JNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816681655
- ISBN
- 9780816681655
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.31
€ 30.99
€ 27.31
Paperback. For three decades, Angela Y. Davis has written on liberation theory and democratic praxis. Challenging the foundations of mainstream discourse, her analyses of culture, gender, capital, and race have profoundly influenced democratic theory, antiracist feminism, critical studies and political struggles. Editor(s): James, Joy. Series: Blackwell Readers. Num Pages: 384 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HBTV; HPCF; JFFK; JFSL3; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631203612
- ISBN
- 9780631203612
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.23
€ 33.23
Paperback. Num Pages: 316 pages, Colour and black & white. BIC Classification: 1MBN; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 171 x 23. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Auckland University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781869407315
- ISBN
- 9781869407315
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.81
€ 53.81
Paperback. Drawing on the experiences of mixed-Maori/White families, Wanhalla examines the early history of southern New Zealand, a world in which inter-racial intimacy played a formative role. Num Pages: 220 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBN; HBTB; JFC; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 14. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- AU Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781897425862
- ISBN
- 9781897425862
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.04
€ 34.99
€ 32.04
Paperback. Contains a collection of letters that include correspondence between civilian family members on both sides of the Atlantic during World War II. This book is filled with unguarded reflections on the events, fashion, food, travel, domestic life, leisure, and the upheaval of war. Editor(s): Potter, Angela. Series: Southern Texts Society. Num Pages: 412 pages, 26 b&w photos, 4 genealogical charts. BIC Classification: 1DB; 1KBB; 3JJ; BGA; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Number of pages
- 412
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820328027
- ISBN
- 9780820328027
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.59
€ 47.59
Paperback. The Egyptians believed that the creator god Ptah brought the world into being by naming everything in it. Names had great power, and kings often over-wrote their own names on the monuments of earlier rulers. This book is about reading, writing and understanding ancient Egyptian names, epithets, titles and phrases. Num Pages: 64 pages, 50 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 2CXG; CFL; HBTG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 259 x 202 x 10. Weight in Grams: 366. Names * Greetings * Insults * Sayings. 64 pages, 50 colour illustrations. The Egyptians believed that the creator god Ptah brought the world into being by naming everything in it. Names had great power, and kings often over-wrote their own names on the monuments of earlier rulers. This is an illustrated guide to reading, writing and understanding ancient Egyptian names, epithets, titles and phrases. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 2CXG; CFL; HBTG. Dimension: 259 x 202 x 10. Weight: 366.
- Publisher
- British Museum Press
- Number of pages
- 64
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714119762
- ISBN
- 9780714119762
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.81
€ 11.99
€ 10.81
hardcover. This book provides a social, cultural, and political history of migration, ethnicity, and madness in New Zealand between 1860 and 1910. Series: Migrations and Identities. Num Pages: 256 pages, 15 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBN; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJM; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 242 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781781381625
- ISBN
- 9781781381625
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 39.99€ 9.66
€ 39.99
€ 9.66
Far from being a record of southern failure, Lakwete concludes, the cotton gin-correctly understood-supplies evidence that the slave labor-based antebellum South innovated, industrialized, and modernized. Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology. Num Pages: 248 pages, 26, 16 black & white halftones, 10 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLH; HBTB; PDX; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 159 x 229 x 22. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801873942
- ISBN
- 9780801873942
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.53
€ 67.53
Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Gl...
Angela Elisabeth Zimmerman
Paperback. Series: America in the World. Num Pages: 416 pages, 31 halftones. 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1HFDT; 1KBB; HBLW; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691155869
- ISBN
- 9780691155869
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.15
€ 40.99
€ 29.15
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 326 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; APFA; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 19. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691637549
- ISBN
- 9780691637549
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.47
€ 163.47
Hardback. Series: Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700-2000. Num Pages: 184 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319518763
- ISBN
- 9783319518763
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.50
€ 134.50
Paperback. The astonishing story of the development of the mobile phone in the UK Num Pages: 96 pages, 100. BIC Classification: HBT; UDT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 165 x 10. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445651088
- ISBN
- 9781445651088
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.77
€ 26.77
Paperback. A highly praised new history of that most turbulent of decades: the 1980s. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPN; HBJD1; HBLW3; HBTB; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 29. Weight in Grams: 308. A History of Britain in the 1980s. 320 pages, Illustrations. The 1980s was the revolutionary decade of the twentieth century. To look back in 1990 at the Britain of ten years earlier was to look into another country. From the Falklands war and the miners' strike to Bobby Sands and the Guildford Four, this title uncovers the truth behind the decade that changed Britain forever. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPN; HBJD1; HBLW3; HBTB; JP. Dimension: 198 x 131 x 29. Weight: 306.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849019798
- ISBN
- 9781849019798
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.81
€ 15.99
€ 11.81
Paperback. Is Santa Claus really a magic mushroom in disguise? Was "Alice in Wonderland" a thinly veiled psychedelic mushroom odyssey? Did mushroom tea kick-start ancient Greek philosophy? This book tells the story of how hallucinogenic mushrooms, once shunned in the West as the most pernicious of poisons, came to be the illicit drug of choice. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFFH1; JMTK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571227716
- ISBN
- 9780571227716
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.99
€ 17.99
€ 12.99
paperback. Compounding history, investigation and travelogue, this outlines one of the bitterest political stories of our age. In 1973, Pinochet overthrew the Chilean democratic socialist government of Allende. In 1998, Spanish efforts to indict him for crimes against humanity revived the ideological divide. Num Pages: 288 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DSE; 1KLSH; 3JJP; HBTV; JPS; JPVH; JPWQ; LBBD; LBBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571215478
- ISBN
- 9780571215478
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.46
€ 15.99
€ 11.46