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Paperback. Throughout the 18th and early 19th centuries, illegitimate offspring of elite families in colonial Spanish America appealed to the Council of the Indies in Spain to purchase legitimations. This analysis provides a detailed picture of attitudes to illegitimacy in colonial Spanish America. Num Pages: 464 pages, 16 tables 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLS; 3J; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 158 x 29. Weight in Grams: 646.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804731485
ISBN
9780804731485
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.99

Paperback. Breaking the Codes is a cultural history of the fin-de-siecle that uses the "problem" of the criminal woman to examine both the debates around the appropriate place of women in French society and the ways in which issues of gender were central to the most important cultural transformations of the period. Num Pages: 280 pages, 11 half-tones, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1D; HBTB; JKVQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804726931
ISBN
9780804726931
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.24

Hardback. Breaking the Codes is a cultural history of the fin-de-siecle that uses the "problem" of the criminal woman to examine both the debates around the appropriate place of women in French society and the ways in which issues of gender were central to the most important cultural transformations of the period. Num Pages: 280 pages, 11 half-tones. BIC Classification: HBTB; JKVQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 598.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804716635
ISBN
9780804716635
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.17

Paperback. Linking the personal and the political, this book depicts the making of the working class in Britain as a 'struggle for the breeches.' Focusing on Lancashire, Glasgow, and London, it contrasts the experience of artisans and textile workers, demonstrating how each created distinctively gendered communities and political strategies. Series: Studies on the History of Society & Culture. Num Pages: 415 pages, 10 b&w illustrations, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 229 x 26. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
415
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520208834
ISBN
9780520208834
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 30.39

Series: New Directions in Southern History. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BJ; HBTB; HBWJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813134246
ISBN
9780813134246
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.50

Hardcover. A study of commercialized opera culture in Russia, exploring the 'melodramatic imagination' Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 273 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJ; AVGC9; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137023445
ISBN
9781137023445
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 273 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AV; HBJ; HBJD; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
273
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349438204
ISBN
9781349438204
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.20

Hardback. Examines colonial medical policy and the ways in which doctors of the Colonial Medical Service dealt with the day-to-day reality of care-giving in Imperial Africa. Series: Studies in Imperialism. Num Pages: 238 pages. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719089671
ISBN
9780719089671
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 170.38

Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HBT; JMH; JMP; MBPK; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231172301
ISBN
9780231172301
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 27.76

Paperback. Analyzing a wide body of cultural texts, including literature, film, and other visual arts, Gender, Empire, and Postcolony: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Intersections is a diverse collection of essays on gender in Portuguese colonialism and Lusophone postcolonialism. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTQ; JFC; JHM; JHMC; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2014
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349465668
ISBN
9781349465668
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 126.80

Paperback. In her memoir, Anna Lo writes for the first time about her extraordinary journey from her birth in Hong Kong to Belfast at the height of the Troubles. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 1FPCH; BM; HBJD; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 21. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
Blackstaff Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856409851
ISBN
9780856409851
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.44

Paperback. The 19th-century women reformers discussed in this text, including Angelina Grimke and Abby Kelley, rejected the repressive features of the Christianity of their day. Their religiosity, however, was fundamental to their world view. This work explores the dimensions of this evolving faith. Series: Women & gender in North American religions. Num Pages: 200 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HBTS; HRCM; JFSJ1; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815628507
ISBN
9780815628507
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.63

Hardcover. This title examines how, between 1680 and 1800, British maritime travellers became both friends and foes of the commercial state. These nomadic characters report on remote parts of the globe in the twin contexts of an increasingly powerful imperial state and an emerging world economy. Num Pages: 239 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; HBTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 483.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333973745
ISBN
9780333973745
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. A historic Holocaust survivor's story: The story of a girl possessed with a unique and harrowing gift for predicting events. Translator(s): Bloom, Sandy. Series: Holocaust Remembrance Series. Num Pages: 392 pages, 10. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJP; BM; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 278 x 41. Weight in Grams: 266.
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781445658773
ISBN
9781445658773
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.59

Hardback. This work challenges contemporary thinking on memory by examining the complex ways in which the social inheritance of the Nazi Holocaust is gendered. It considers how the past is handed down in the US, Poland and Britain through means such as historiography, autobiographies, films and museums. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTZ1; JFC; JFSJ; JMRM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 417.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333761472
ISBN
9780333761472
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.81

Hardcover. Anna Riehl investigates the aesthetic, political, and gender-related meanings inscribed in Queen Elizabeth I's face by her contemporaries. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 248 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3J; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230614956
ISBN
9780230614956
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.84

paperback. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFFN; JFSJ5; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9781439912867
ISBN
9781439912867
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.98

Paperback. Intelligence: A Brief History is a lively and accessible look at the origins of the field of intelligence. The book explores the nature and measurement of intelligence, examines approaches to teaching intelligence, and discusses individual and group differences in intelligence. Series: Blackwell Brief Histories of Psychology. Num Pages: 184 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HBT; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 219 x 11. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
184
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405108249
ISBN
9781405108249
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.09

Paperback. Num Pages: 480 pages, 1 x 8 page colour plate. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 31. Weight in Grams: 362.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408833643
ISBN
9781408833643
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.90

Hardcover. Hybrid Knowledge in the Early East India Company World presents a new reading of the English East India Company 1660-1720. It shows how innovative works - covering natural history, ethnography, theology, linguistics, medicine, and agriculture - were created amid early modern struggles for supremacy in Asia, the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 333 pages, 3 tables, 14 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FKA; 3JF; 3JH; HBJF; HBTQ; KCZ; KNGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Number of pages
333
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137380197
ISBN
9781137380197
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.46

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBN; HBJF1; HBLW3; HBTV; JFD; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780816622177
ISBN
9780816622177
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.24

Paperback. Investigates how women's roles differed, how their roles changed over time, and how their histories can illuminate the structures of power and societies in which they lived. It also helps understand how royal courts, created to project the authority of male rulers, maintained themselves through the reproductive and productive powers of women. Editor(s): Walthall, Anne. Series: California World History Library. Num Pages: 400 pages, 26 b/w photographs, 11 line illustrations, 8 maps, 5 tables. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 646.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520254442
ISBN
9780520254442
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.12

Paperback. Reveals one of the greatest horrors of the 20th century: the system of Soviet camps that are responsible for the deaths of countless millions. This work presents history of the camp: from its origins under the tsars, to its colossal expansion under Stalin's reign of terror, its zenith in the late 1940s and eventual collapse in the era of glasnost. Num Pages: 624 pages, 16pp b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JPVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 444.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
First Penguin Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140283105
ISBN
9780140283105
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.06

Paperback. As Europe's borderlands emerged from Soviet rule, the author travelled from the Baltic to the Black Sea, through Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and the Carpathian mountains. Rich in vivid characters and stories of tragedy and survival, this book illuminates the soul of a place, and the secret history of its people. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBJF; HBTB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141979229
ISBN
9780141979229
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

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