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Hardcover. The author's sharply critical perspective reveals how this epistemology of alterity has kept Africa ensnared within colonial matrices of power, serving to justify external interventions in African affairs, including the interference with liberation struggles and disregard for African positions. Num Pages: 276 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1H; 3JJ; HBJH; HBLW3; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857459510
ISBN
9780857459510
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 151.97

Hardback. Num Pages: 328 pages, 2 maps, 2 black & white illustrations, 2 charts, 1 graph, 1 map. BIC Classification: 3JJG; 3JJP; HBTB; HBWN; HBWQ; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781526104588
ISBN
9781526104588
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 147.00

Hardback. Sheds light on the relationship between portraiture, social affirmation and the myth of Antiquity as it was experienced and elaborated in 18th-century Rome. This book offers insights and readings into how the experience of the City in terms of abstract or concrete appropriation affected the ways of portraying innate or visiting elite sitters. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JF; AGHF; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 170 x 23. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780719075964
ISBN
9780719075964
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 7.28

Hardcover. A valuable and objective reassessment of the role of Serbia and Serbs in WWII. Today, Serbian textbooks praise the Chetniks of Draza MIhailovic and make excuses for the collaboration of Milan Nedic's regime with the Axis. However, this new evaluation shows the more complex and controversial nature of the political alliances during the period. Editor(s): Listhaug, Ola. Num Pages: 341 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVWYS; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 24. Weight in Grams: 532.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230278301
ISBN
9780230278301
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.71

Paperback. In this book, Parent puts together a history of representations of the 1944 mutiny in Senegal. Combining firsthand analysis of the works and their intertextual interactions as well an external perspective, Parent engages with history, literature, film, poetics, and politics and highlights the importance of remembering the past. Num Pages: 222 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: GTB; HBJH; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349445967
ISBN
9781349445967
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.36

Paperback.
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
Number of pages
250
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674066625
ISBN
9780674066625
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.23

Paperback. This book brings together the newest and the most innovative scholarship on Nigerian children one of the least researched groups in African colonial history. It engages the changing conceptions of childhood, relating it to the broader themes about modernity, power, agency, and social transformation under imperial rule." Editor(s): Aderinto, Saheed. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJH; HBL; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
253
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349505593
ISBN
9781349505593
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.54

Hardback. Xenocracy offers a much-needed account of the islands of the Ionian Sea during their half-century of oversight by Great Britain. It recounts how, despite Britain's liberal reforms, the Ionian State's economic deterioration anticipated the "neocolonial" condition with which the Greek nation struggles even today. Num Pages: 388 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVGS; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 161 x 237 x 25. Weight in Grams: 662.
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785332616
ISBN
9781785332616
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 163.04

Paperback. Divided into male and female sections, this dictionary provides an alphabetical listing of Muslim names in both English and Arabic. Each name has a description of its origin and meaning as well as indication of whether the name is derived from Arabic or Persian. Num Pages: 367 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2BXF; 2CSR; GBC; HBTG; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co (Publishers)Ltd
Number of pages
367
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781850653578
ISBN
9781850653578
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.57

Paperback. Examines how African American artists and intellectuals turn to the subject of slavery to understand and challenge the ongoing exclusion of African Americans from the founding narratives of the United States Num Pages: 248 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTS; JFFN; JHMC; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372. Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination. 240 pages, 5 illustrations. Examines how African American artists and intellectuals turn to the subject of slavery to understand and challenge the ongoing exclusion of African Americans from the founding narratives of the United States. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTS; JFFN; JHMC; JPVH1. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 15. Weight: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822352617
ISBN
9780822352617
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.15

Hardback. Offers eleven vignettes of Palestine's cultural life in the first half of the twentieth century. This book presents the memoirs, diaries, letters, and other writings of six Jerusalem intellectuals whose lives spanned the period of 1918-1948: a musician, a teacher, a former aristocrat, a doctor, a Bolshevik revolutionary, and a Jewish novelist. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 3JJ; HBJF1; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520251298
ISBN
9780520251298
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.58
€ 63.58

Hardcover. Explores the daily life of ordinary men, women and children of Anglo-Saxon England. This book covers domestic and family life, work and leisure, education, clothing and housing, food, religion, magic and superstition, health and sickness, warfare, crime and punishment, ethnic and national identity, the creation of kingship, and slavery. Series: Daily Life. Num Pages: 224 pages, 30 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3F; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 672.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Greenwood
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846450136
ISBN
9781846450136
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.57
€ 58.01

Paperback. This account completes the grim picture of slavery by showing us the origins, the nature and the extent of slave patrols in Virginia and the Carolinas from the late 17th century through the end of the American Civil War. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 360 pages, Enter information as it will appear in catalog dataline. Enter none if appropriate. Guess. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 3JF; 3JH; GTB; HBJK; HBTS; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674012349
ISBN
9780674012349
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 33.59

Paperback. How does law transform family, sexuality, and community in the fractured social world characteristic of the colonizing process? This title reveals how, in Hawai'i, indigenous Hawaiian law was displaced by a transplanted Anglo-American law as global movements of capitalism, Christianity, and imperialism swept across the islands. Series: Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History. Num Pages: 432 pages, 23 halftones 1 map 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; 3JJ; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC; JFS; LN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 564.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
390
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691009322
ISBN
9780691009322
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.08

Paperback. Trust and Power argues that automobile corporations have historically faced conflicts with the very customers whose loyalty they sought. Num Pages: 316 pages, 11 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTK; KNDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780521120388
ISBN
9780521120388
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 40.63

Paperback.
Edition
Illustrated
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752460710
ISBN
9780752460710
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.18

Paperback. Containing sample exam questions at both AS and A2 levels, this text aims to show students what makes a good answer and why it scores high marks. It should help students grasp the difference between a GCSE and an A-level mark in history. Series: Heinemann Advanced History. Num Pages: 224 pages, facsimiles, illustrations, maps, portraits. BIC Classification: 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 243 x 175 x 9. Weight in Grams: 398.
Publisher
Pearson Education Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780435327323
ISBN
9780435327323
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.26

Hardback. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; HBG; HBTB; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 27. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1957
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231088404
ISBN
9780231088404
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 177.23

Hardback. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: GBC; HBG; HBTB; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 257 x 154 x 35. Weight in Grams: 908.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1965
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231088473
ISBN
9780231088473
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 174.02

Hardback. Num Pages: 412 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: GBC; HBTB; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 33. Weight in Grams: 862.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1970
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
2nd
Number of pages
412
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231088510
ISBN
9780231088510
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 147.15
€ 109.54

Hardback. Num Pages: 436 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: GBC; HBG; HBTB; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 200 x 36. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1952
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
436
Condition
New
Edition
Volume 2
SKU
V9780231088398
ISBN
9780231088398
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 147.15
€ 110.07

Hardback. Num Pages: 460 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; HBTB; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 153 x 36. Weight in Grams: 817.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1976
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
460
Condition
New
Edition
2nd ed.
SKU
V9780231088534
ISBN
9780231088534
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 147.15
€ 110.07

These are the recollections of a Jewish boy, Norman Salsitz, in a pre-war Polish village, of his scramble to survive the Holocaust and of his adventures in America. In America, Salsitz found that the very traits that saw him through the war enabled him to prosper in his adopted land. Series: Religion, Theology and the Holocaust. Num Pages: 408 pages, 54 photographs. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 1KBB; 3JJ; BG; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 612.
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Syracuse University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815607342
ISBN
9780815607342
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 35.95

Paperback. Representing a wave of legal history that has emerged in recent years, this title presents essays about the relationship between ordinary people and the law. It is suitable for scholars in Latin American studies and to those interested in the social and cultural history of law. Editor(s): Salvatore, Ricardo Donato; Aguirre, Carlos A.; Joseph, Gilbert M. Num Pages: 480 pages, 11 tables, 5 figures. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTB; JKV; LN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 717.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822327448
ISBN
9780822327448
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 33.59

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