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History: specific events & topics

Paperback. What was it like to be a slave in colonial South Africa? What difference did freedom make? John Edwin Mason presents complex answers after delving into the slaves' experience within the slaveholding patriarchal household, primarily during the period from 1820 to 1850. Series: Reconsiderations in Southern African History. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JH; HBJH; HBLL; HBTB; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 502.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813921792
ISBN
9780813921792
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.77

Paperback. The saga of the Ledfords of Lancaster, Kentucky, this book transcends family biogrpahy to become a social history of a national experience, a metaphor for America. This 20th anniversary edition brings the Ledford's remarkable story up to date. Num Pages: 320 pages, 11 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBSK; BG; HBTB; HBTG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Edition
20th Anniversary ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813190594
ISBN
9780813190594
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.55

Paperback. Num Pages: 16 pages, illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 25. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Condition
New
SKU
V9780385239547
ISBN
9780385239547
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.71

Hardcover. A combination of environmental history, travel writing, literary criticism, and memoir, this book features a pivotal figure who is the nineteenth-century diplomat and writer George Perkins Marsh, generally regarded as America's first environmentalist. Series: Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBTB; RNA; WTLC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 513.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
annotated edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813925769
ISBN
9780813925769
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.26

Hardcover. How the smile and fortitude of a child actress revived a nation. Num Pages: 320 pages, 32 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; APB; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 243 x 27. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393240795
ISBN
9780393240795
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 42.27

Hardback. This book examines British naval policy during the mid-Victorian period, emphasising the political, economic, and foreign relations contexts within which naval policy was formulated. Num Pages: 376 pages, 17 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTM; JWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 36. Weight in Grams: 730.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780804729819
ISBN
9780804729819
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.05

Paperback. Num Pages: 486 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; KNDF; KNSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 34. Weight in Grams: 510.
Publisher
Bantam USA
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
Revised, Subsequent
Condition
New
SKU
V9780553347593
ISBN
9780553347593
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.27

Paperback. Focuses on the commercial hunting of wildlife and its profound global impact on the environment and the early modern world economy. Tracing the massive expansion of the European quest for animal products, this title explores the fur trade in North America and Russia, and whaling and sealing on the world's oceans and coastlands. Series: California World History Library. Num Pages: 184 pages, 7 maps, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1DD; 1KBB; HBG; HBLH; HBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 266.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Abridged
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520282537
ISBN
9780520282537
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 21.28

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Crucible Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
464
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905472017
ISBN
9781905472017
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 23.57

paperback. This book tells the story of the education programme in the Transport and General Workers Union, from its foundation in 1922 until the end of the 20th century. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JJ; HBT; KNG; KNXB2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 136 x 2. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Lawrence And Wishart Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905007073
ISBN
9781905007073
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.52

Paperback. This architectural study updates John Fitchen's original with extensive new material. Added to Fitchen's descriptions of barn types, framing style and exterior appearance is research information that relates to the form, fabric and essence of each Dutch barn in the United States. Num Pages: 272 pages, 52 b&w and 10 colour photographs, 2 maps, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AMC; AMG; AMK; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 267 x 184 x 16. Weight in Grams: 776.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Syracuse University Press United States
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815606901
ISBN
9780815606901
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 30.14

Hardback. Carrying the story of the rural landscape into our frantic era, he describes the "bow wave"where city life meets rural agriculture and plots the effect of recreation and its structures on the look of the land. Num Pages: 416 pages, 229, 93 black & white line drawings, 136 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 32. Weight in Grams: 839.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801857171
ISBN
9780801857171
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.84

paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, 10ill.3fig.5M. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBTB; JFSG; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 268.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780816646159
ISBN
9780816646159
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.77

Paperback. In the ancient Graeco-Roman world, an enemy or rival was cursed by writing an incantation down, and dedicating it to a god or spirit. More than a thousand such texts are translated here. An introduction supplies the full cultural, social and historical context for the thematically arranged texts. Editor(s): Gager, John G. Num Pages: 296 pages, halftones, line figures. BIC Classification: 3D; HBG; HBLA; HBTB; HRKP; HRQX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195134827
ISBN
9780195134827
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 93.69

Paperback. Orientalism, as explored by Edward Said in 1978, was a far more complex phenomenon than many suspected, being homogenous along the lines of neither culture nor time. This title provides a genealogy for the critique of orientalism by examining the divergence of the British and French colonial experiences. Editor(s): Burke, Edmund, III; Prochaska, Assoc Professor David. Num Pages: 460 pages, 33 Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; GTB; HBJF; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 612.
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
576
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803213425
ISBN
9780803213425
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 462 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBTB; JPHL; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 999.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
462
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691647135
ISBN
9780691647135
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 193.70
€ 145.11

Paperback. A garden at the foot of Europe and a crossroads between Spain, Africa and the New World, Andaluca has been a cultural customs house on the border of the Mediterranean and Atlantic civilisations for more than ten thousand years. This book covers the whole historyy of the region. Series: Landscapes of the Imagination. Num Pages: 256 pages, 30. BIC Classification: 1DSE; HBTB; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 418.
Publisher
Signal Books
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
New ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904955443
ISBN
9781904955443
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.71

Paperback. Turning his back on neoliberalism at the moment that its advocates were in their pomp, trumpeting 'the end of history' and the supposedly unstoppable spread of liberal values across the globe, Gray's was a lone voice of scepticism. The thinking he criticised here would lead ultimately to the invasion of Iraq. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JF; HBG; HBLL; HBTB; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 352.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415424042
ISBN
9780415424042
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.58

Paperback. Offers an account of George Crook's campaigns during the American Indian Wars. This book brings to life the entire American frontier. Num Pages: 496 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HBW; JFSL9; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 33. Weight in Grams: 585.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9781626365438
ISBN
9781626365438
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.14

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 484 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBTV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 657.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
484
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691615837
ISBN
9780691615837
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 77.24
€ 59.92

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