History: specific events & topics
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History: specific events & topics
Hardback. After the worst thing in the world happens, then what? What is left to the survivors, the witnesses, those who tried to help? What can we do to prevent more atrocities from happening in the future, and to stop the ones that are happening right now? This work tells the story of the successes and failures of the modern human rights movement. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFGR; 3JJPR; HBJH; HBLW3; HBTZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 188 x 151 x 25. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674026230
- ISBN
- 9780674026230
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 39.84
€ 47.99
€ 39.84
Paperback. A searching meditation on our all-too-human capacity for inhumanity, "Evil Men" confronts atrocity head-on how it looks and feels, what motivates it, how it can be stopped. James Dawes s unflinchingly honest account, drawing on firsthand interviews, is not just about the things Japanese war criminals did, but about what it means to befriend them." Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: HBTZ; HBWQ; HPQ; JPVH; JWXK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674416796
- ISBN
- 9780674416796
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.54
€ 24.99
€ 21.54
Paperback. Editor(s): Daybell, Professor James; Norrhem, Svante. Num Pages: 258 pages, 3 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 159 x 234 x 20. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138667426
- ISBN
- 9781138667426
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.61
€ 58.61
Paperback. This comprehensive text analyzes significant revolutions of the 20th and 21st centuries, placing them in social, economic, and political context. Num Pages: 512 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 3JJ; 3JM; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 152 x 230 x 25. Weight in Grams: 734.
- Publisher
- Westview Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Fifth Edition, Fifth Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813349244
- ISBN
- 9780813349244
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.90
€ 64.90
Paperback. BIC Classification: HBTQ. Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780718194437
- ISBN
- 9780718194437
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.91
€ 19.99
€ 14.91
Hardback. Traces the path of electricity through early American culture, exploring how the relationship between human, natural, and divine powers was understood in the 18th Century. This book offers a view of the origins of American science and the cultural meaning of the American Enlightenment. It talks about the revolutionary New World of wonder. Num Pages: 378 pages, 15 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBTB; PDX; PHK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 150 x 30. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 378
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674022997
- ISBN
- 9780674022997
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 39.84
€ 47.99
€ 39.84
Sheet map, folded. Series: Birmingham Historic Maps Collection. Num Pages: 1 pages, 16 views of early Georgian and Victorian Buildings by Underwood. BIC Classification: 1DBKEMW; HBTP1; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 126 x 227 x 8. Weight in Grams: 102.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Mapseeker Archive Publishing
- Number of pages
- 1
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844918133
- ISBN
- 9781844918133
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.69
€ 26.99
€ 23.69
This work examines the "political bosses" or powerful men who were the urban "New South" counterparts to the rural "Old South" planter elite. Although villified by the media, these powerful individuals often cared deeply about their cities, and sought to improve the lives of their citizens. Num Pages: 224 pages, 29 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBSK; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813121505
- ISBN
- 9780813121505
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.88
€ 40.88
Hardcover. Acoustic Jurisprudence provides the first detailed study of the trial of Simon Bikindi, who was convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda of inciting genocide with his songs. Using Bikindi as a case study, the book develops the many relations between law and sound, and the importance of sound in legal practice more widely. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFGR; AVA; HBTZ1; LBBR; LBBZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 292 x 24. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198735809
- ISBN
- 9780198735809
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 170.23
€ 170.23
Hardback. Why do free people submit to any rule? How is consent of the governed formed? Block argues that the source is found in the nursery and schoolroom, where the necessary synthesis of self-direction and integrative social conduct--so contradictory in logic yet so functional in practice--are established without provoking reservation or resistance. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 167 x 36. Weight in Grams: 844.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674051942
- ISBN
- 9780674051942
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.98€ 52.25
€ 56.98
€ 52.25
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- McFarland & Co Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 277
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780786494170
- ISBN
- 9780786494170
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 137.85€ 85.60
€ 137.85
€ 85.60
Paperback. Saint Domingue (Haiti) was the world's richest colony in the eighteenth century and home to an active society of science - one of only three in the world at that time. This study of the colon raises questions about the relationship between science and society that historians of the colonial experience are grappling with today. Num Pages: 416 pages, 24 figures, 4 maps, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KJH; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTQ; PDX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226514673
- ISBN
- 9780226514673
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.83
€ 37.99
€ 29.83
Hardcover. Explores the century-long process whereby the Massachusetts Bay Colony went from a distant outpost of the incipient British Empire to a stable society integrated into the transatlantic economy. This title demonstrates how small infrastructure improvements established the foundation for more ambitious, overseas adventures. Num Pages: 224 pages, 4 b&w illustrations, 1 map, 13 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; HBTB. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813926360
- ISBN
- 9780813926360
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.71
€ 53.71
Paperback. Uncovers the internal and external factors that can lead ordinary people to commit extraordinary acts of evil. This book offers a comprehensive psychological view of how anyone can potentially participate in heinous crimes against humanity. Num Pages: 384 pages, 10 half tones and line illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTZ; JMH; JMK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 351
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195314564
- ISBN
- 9780195314564
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.19
€ 54.19
Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801482083
- ISBN
- 9780801482083
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.32
€ 38.99
€ 35.32
Paperback. A Tudor voyage of exploration - an extraordinary story of daring, discovery, tragedy and pioneering achievement. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; HBJD1; HBLC; HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 136 x 25. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780221021
- ISBN
- 9781780221021
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.96
€ 19.99
€ 14.96
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807853825
- ISBN
- 9780807853825
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 76.88
€ 76.88
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Edition
- y 1st us
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801483875
- ISBN
- 9780801483875
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.60
€ 46.99
€ 41.60
Paperback. A nontechnical introduction to architectural structure, history, and criticism. This book includes a discussion of the basic inspiration for architecture, an exploration of space, system, and material, and an examination of the language and history of architecture. It shows the nonspecialist how to read a design in plans, sections, and elevations. Num Pages: 144 pages, 53 illus. BIC Classification: AM; HBTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 11. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812216318
- ISBN
- 9780812216318
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.20
€ 26.99
€ 25.20
Paperback. This book explores a central and significant chapter in the social and economic history of modern America. If the story of the eminent gangsters is not the orthodox, rags-to-riches American success story, neither can it be dismissed as merely a crime story. Num Pages: 500 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JKVM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 740.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 500
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761852155
- ISBN
- 9780761852155
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 101.52
€ 101.52