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Hardback. Paper Memory tells of one man's mission to preserve for posterity the memory of everyday life in sixteenth-century Germany. Lundin takes us inside the mind of an undistinguished German burgher, Hermann Weinsberg, whose early-modern writings sought to make sense of changes that were unsettling the foundations of his world. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 352 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JB; BM; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 236 x 25. Weight in Grams: 654.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674065949
- ISBN
- 9780674065949
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.46€ 56.59
€ 61.46
€ 56.59
Hardback. "The Pilgrim and the Bee makes a broad claim about a reading-centered history, reclaiming for this purpose a distinctive body of texts. Brown's analysis marks an important step toward a better history of reading."-David D. Hall, Harvard University Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 288 pages, 20 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; 3JB; CFC; DSBD; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812240153
- ISBN
- 9780812240153
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.91
€ 81.91
Hardback. This study explores how magazines became the first mass medium in the USA and how they expressed a new American culture built on dreams of a better future. The author argues that the birth of the popular magazine at the turn of the 20th century laid the foundations of the modern consumer culture. Num Pages: 357 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFC; JFD; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 357
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231082907
- ISBN
- 9780231082907
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.35€ 57.11
€ 73.35
€ 57.11
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780861933112
- ISBN
- 9780861933112
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.07
€ 98.07
Paperback. Suppose that everything we think we know about 'The Victorians' is wrong? That we have persistently misrepresented the culture of the Victorian era, perhaps to make ourselves feel more satisfyingly liberal and sophisticated? What if they were much more fun than we ever suspected? This book provides the answers for us. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571206636
- ISBN
- 9780571206636
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.50
€ 13.00
€ 11.50
Paperback. Meet the girl from MI5 who had the gravy browning licked from her legs by Dylan Thomas; the barman who was appointed the keeper of Winston Churchill's private bottle of whisky; the East End Communist who marched with his comrades into the air-raid shelter of the Savoy; the throneless prince born in a suite at Claridge's declared.. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 25. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571234783
- ISBN
- 9780571234783
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 6.23
€ 12.99
€ 6.23
Paperback. This book provides the historical background to the rise of the Big Society. Voluntarism has evolved over the last hundred years to adapt to changing circumstances, drawing up new agendas, tackling old problems, and acting as an alternative to state provision and as a catalyst for further government action. Editor(s): Hilton, Matthew; McKay, James. Series: British Academy Original Paperbacks. Num Pages: 208 pages, one illustration. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; 3JMC; HBTB; JKSN1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780197264829
- ISBN
- 9780197264829
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.79
€ 28.79
Paperback. Editor(s): Rossum, Matthias van; Kamp, Jeanette. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 3JB; 3JD; HBG; HBLH; HBTB; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474215992
- ISBN
- 9781474215992
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.95
€ 35.99
€ 30.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JJC; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Publisher
- Persephone Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903155691
- ISBN
- 9781903155691
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 19.30
€ 23.99
€ 19.30
Hardback. Traces the global, national, and local origins of the conflict between Muslims and Jews in France, challenging the belief that rising anti-Semitism in France is rooted solely in the unfolding crisis in Israel and Palestine. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBTB; HRAM9; JFSR1; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 167 x 25. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691125817
- ISBN
- 9780691125817
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.24€ 42.14
€ 53.24
€ 42.14
Paperback. France is the only Western European nation home to substantial numbers of survivors of the World War I and World War II genocides. This title offers a comparison of the country's Armenian and Jewish survivor communities. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBJD; HBTZ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822331216
- ISBN
- 9780822331216
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.62
€ 31.99
€ 28.62
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVWR; 2AB; FA; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200. Weight in Grams: 179. Clean copy with some shelf wear and yellowing
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Attic Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- SKU
- KOC0021148
- ISBN
- 9781855941267
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
paperback. Naamiwan's Drum follows the story of a famous Ojibwe medicine man, his gifted grandson, and remarkable water drum. The book contains a powerful Anishinaabe interpretive perspective on repatriation and on anthropology itself. Num Pages: 356 pages, 14. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBC; ACX; HBTB; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 21. Weight in Grams: 690.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 356
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442628267
- ISBN
- 9781442628267
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.31
€ 40.99
€ 36.31
Paperback. The phrase "the Black Legend" was coined in 1912 by a Spanish journalist in protest of the characterization of Spain by other Europeans as a backward country. Challenging this stereotype, this book contextualizes Spain's tarnished reputation by exposing colonial efforts of other nations whose interests were served by propagating the Black Legend. Editor(s): Greer, Margaret R.; Mignolo, Walter D.; Quilligan, Maureen. Num Pages: 448 pages, 31 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HBTQ; HRAM9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 226 x 26. Weight in Grams: 646.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226307220
- ISBN
- 9780226307220
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 33.53
€ 42.99
€ 33.53
Hardback. Num Pages: 160 pages, 250 color and b/w photos. BIC Classification: 3JJH; 3JJPG; AKTA; HBT; JFCK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 286 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1094.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764310096
- ISBN
- 9780764310096
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 25.30
€ 37.99
€ 25.30
Paperback. A frank, salacious and often shocking portrait of an institution Num Pages: 448 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Murray Press
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848544017
- ISBN
- 9781848544017
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.85
€ 13.00
€ 11.85
Paperback. Reconstructs a biography of enslaved Archibald Monteath, an Igbo, who was brought to Jamaica around 1802, became active in the Moravian Church and later purchased his freedom. This book explores the sociology of slavery from 1750 to the 1860s through Monteath's biography. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KJ; HBJK; HBTS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 251 x 178 x 28. Weight in Grams: 735.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of the West Indies Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789766401979
- ISBN
- 9789766401979
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 91.35
€ 91.35
Paperback. Buttressed by historical documentary sources, and by painstaking linguistic researches, Maureen Warner-Lewis offers a re-issue and thematic expansion of her classic collection of essays on the forced and voluntary migration to Trinidad of West and West-Central Africans during the 1800s, extending through both the slavery and post-emancipation eras. Num Pages: 260 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJWWT; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; HBTS; JFC; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of the West Indies Press
- Edition
- 2nd Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789766405052
- ISBN
- 9789766405052
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.04
€ 60.04
Paperback. The Irish Revolution - the war between the British authorities and IRA - was the first successful revolt anywhere against the British Empire. This narrative places events in Ireland in the wider context of a world in turmoil after the ending of a global war: one that saw the collapse of empires and the rise of fascist Italy and communist Russia. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJG; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 35. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571243013
- ISBN
- 9780571243013
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.37
€ 14.99
€ 12.37
Paperback. Series: CMAS Mexican American Monograph. Num Pages: 179 pages, 1 b&w illus., 13 pages of cartoons. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSL; JHBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 179
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780292798038
- ISBN
- 9780292798038
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.87
€ 20.99
€ 20.87
Paperback. Editor(s): Peleggi, Maurizio. Num Pages: 216 pages, 7, 4 black & white halftones, 3 figures. BIC Classification: 1FMT; HBAH; HBJF; HBTB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 15. Weight in Grams: 457.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780877277668
- ISBN
- 9780877277668
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.66
€ 32.99
€ 29.66
Hardcover. Editor(s): Peleggi, Maurizio. Num Pages: 216 pages, 7, 4 black & white halftones, 3 figures. BIC Classification: 1FMT; HBAH; HBJF; HBTB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 18. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780877277965
- ISBN
- 9780877277965
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.86
€ 139.86
Hardback. In 2004, Spain's Banco Santander purchased Britain's Abbey National Bank in a deal valued at fifteen billion dollars - an acquisition that made Santander one of the ten largest financial institutions in the world. This work reveals how strategic decisions made by the family drove Santander's unprecedented rise to global prominence. Num Pages: 280 pages, 3 line illus. 19 tables. BIC Classification: 1DSE; HBT; KFFK; KNST. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691131252
- ISBN
- 9780691131252
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.16
€ 79.16
Paperback. The story of four maverick brothers, and a thrillingly ambitious portrait of Britain in an era of technological and political revolution. Num Pages: 336 pages, 24 colour plates. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTK; TBY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 24. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849161732
- ISBN
- 9781849161732
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.43
€ 17.99
€ 13.43