History: specific events & topics
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History: specific events & topics
Hardcover. Offering a sweeping transatlantic perspective, this book explains the current obsession with automobiles by delving deep into the motives of early car users. It provides a synthesis of our knowledge about the emergence and persistence of the car, using a broad range of material including novels, poems, films, and songs.. Series: Explorations in Mobility. Num Pages: 820 pages, 37 ills, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KB; 3JJ; HBG; HBLW; HBTB; PDR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 160 x 263 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782383772
- ISBN
- 9781782383772
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 241.25
€ 241.25
Hardcover. Explores the plight of gypsies in Germany before, during and since the era of the Third Reich. The book reveals the painful record of the official treatment of the German Gypsies, from the heightened racism of the 19th century, to the National Socialist genocidal policies and up to the present day. Num Pages: 312 pages, 14 b&w photographs, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299176709
- ISBN
- 9780299176709
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.38
€ 51.38
Sheet map, folded. Series: Old Ordnance Survey Maps of Lanarkshire. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3JH; HBTP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 105 x 1. Weight in Grams: 26. Lanarkshire Sheet 06.09a. Series: Old Ordnance Survey Maps of Lanarkshire. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3JH; HBTP1. Dimension: 207 x 105 x 1. Weight: 26.
- Publisher
- Alan Godfrey Maps
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847844507
- ISBN
- 9781847844507
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 7.05
€ 7.05
Sheet map, folded. Series: Old Ordnance Survey Maps of Lanarkshire. BIC Classification: 1DBKSC; 3JH; HBTP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 121 x 1. Weight in Grams: 26.
- Publisher
- Alan Godfrey Maps United Kingdom
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847844965
- ISBN
- 9781847844965
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 7.05
€ 7.05
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 350 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 21. Weight in Grams: 828.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691644516
- ISBN
- 9780691644516
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 196.01
€ 196.01
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 388 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; HBJF; HBTW; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 714.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 388
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691630274
- ISBN
- 9780691630274
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 202.76
€ 202.76
Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 24. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590175804
- ISBN
- 9781590175804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.57
€ 21.99
€ 17.57
Paperback. Rich in historical insight and told in a dramatic and engaging voice, this is a superb evocation of the period with a series character to rival Sharpe. Editor(s): Philipps, Roland. Num Pages: 352 pages, B/W line drawings & photos. BIC Classification: HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340794708
- ISBN
- 9780340794708
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.51
€ 17.99
€ 13.51
Paperback. "Superbly researched and vividly written, The Devil's Music is one of the only books to trace the rise and development of the blues both in relation to other forms of black music and in the context of" Num Pages: 320 pages, 36 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGJ; AVGK; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Hachette Books United States
- Edition
- 2nd
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306807435
- ISBN
- 9780306807435
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.10
€ 19.99
€ 15.10
Hardcover. Interdoc was established in 1963 by Western intelligence services as a multinational effort to coordinate an anti-communist offensive. Drawing on exclusive sources and the memories of its participants, this book charts Interdoc's campaign, the people and ideas that lay behind it and the rise and fall of this remarkable network during the Cold War. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 404 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLW3; HBTW; JPS; JWKF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 27. Weight in Grams: 606.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230221260
- ISBN
- 9780230221260
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.95
€ 128.95
Hardback. The story of an ordinary seaman born in Scarborough who would go on to play a key role in some of the major events of seventeenth-century England. Num Pages: 304 pages, 35. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; BGH; HBTM; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445661230
- ISBN
- 9781445661230
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.56
€ 34.56
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611487787
- ISBN
- 9781611487787
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 52.01
€ 53.99
€ 52.01
Paperback. Focusing on clothing, bodily deportment, sex roles, sexual practices, and political rhetoric as forms of "fashion," this work bounds across two thousand years of history, showing how the evolution of fashion from an upper-class privilege into a vehicle of popular expression closely follows the rise of democratic values. Translator(s): Porter, Catherine. Series: New French Thought Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; HPS; JFCK; JFCX; JPHV; KNSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691102627
- ISBN
- 9780691102627
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.00€ 33.45
€ 41.00
€ 33.45
Paperback. Do you want to call him Romeo? Or her Tiger Lily? Does the name you have chosen suit your surname? With so many names to choose from, it's not surprising that many parents find choosing a name for their child an alarming prospect. This work offers a survey of over 4,000 names that help you survive this particular minefield. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: HBTG; VFX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Vermilion
- Edition
- 2Rev Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780091894771
- ISBN
- 9780091894771
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.01
€ 13.99
€ 11.01
Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages, b&w and colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBTB; JFSV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 228 x 17. Weight in Grams: 886. 8vo Very good copy
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- LIBERTIES PRESS
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- first
- SKU
- KEX0277191
- ISBN
- 9781907593062
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages, b&w and colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBTB; JFSV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 228 x 17. Weight in Grams: 886. 238pp
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- LIBERTIES PRESS
- Edition
- first
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781907593062
- ISBN
- 9781907593062
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99
€ 27.99
Paperback. "Published outside South Africa in 2014 by the University of Georgia Press [..] by arrangement with University of KwaZulu-Natal Press"--Title page verso. Series: Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation. Num Pages: 280 pages, maps. BIC Classification: HBTB; JPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820347172
- ISBN
- 9780820347172
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.87
€ 32.99
€ 29.87
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, Lavishly illustrated with photos, maps, paintings and objects from the museum's many coll. BIC Classification: 1QMP; HBTM; RGR; WGG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 189. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472948694
- ISBN
- 9781472948694
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.15
€ 26.99
€ 20.15
Hardback. Captain Thomas Coram was dismayed at the sight of children dying on the dung heaps of London. He petitioned to the King to grant a Royal Charter for building the Foundling Hospital in Bloomsbury. Children were brought to hospital for shelter. This book presents this social history of London's poverty, revealed through the members of the hospital. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations, map, ports, plan. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JF; HBTB; JKSB1; JKSN1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 342. Good copy in clean dustwrapper 8vo. The History of Nursing and Hospital Histories.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KEX0304495
- ISBN
- 9780752442440
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 20.00
€ 20.00
Paperback. A journey through time: from a scattering of cottages along a pre-roman horse track, to a medieval parish and staging post for travellers, onwards into a prosperous Tudor village favoured by gentlemen for their country seats and an 18th century resort of pleasure gardens eventually transformed by a warren of railway lines. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBTB; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 362. The History of One London Village. 256 pages, Illustrations, maps. A journey through time: from a scattering of cottages along a pre-roman horse track, to a medieval parish and staging post for travellers, onwards into a prosperous Tudor village favoured by gentlemen for their country seats and an 18th century resort of pleasure gardens eventually transformed by a warren of railway lines. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBTB; WQH. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 18. Weight: 350.
- Publisher
- Eland Books
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906011482
- ISBN
- 9781906011482
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.72
€ 19.99
€ 14.72