History: specific events & topics
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History: specific events & topics
Hardback. The eighteenth-century salon played an important role in shaping literary culture, while both creating and sustaining transnational intellectual networks. Focusing on archival materials, this book is the first detailed examination of the literary salon in Ireland, considered in the wider contexts of contemporary salon culture in Britain and France. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 250 pages, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137512703
- ISBN
- 9781137512703
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.11
€ 123.11
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 4th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612057323
- ISBN
- 9781612057323
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 101.02€ 63.42
€ 101.02
€ 63.42
Hardback. Traces the social history of early modern Japan's sex trade, from its beginnings in seventeenth-century cities to its apotheosis in the nineteenth-century countryside. Drawing on legal codes, diaries, town registers, petitions, and criminal records, this title describes how the work of selling women transformed communities across the archipelago. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 282 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3J; HBJF; HBLH; HBTB; JFMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 534. Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. 282 pages, Illustrations. Traces the social history of early modern Japan's sex trade, from its beginnings in seventeenth-century cities to its apotheosis in the nineteenth-century countryside. Drawing on legal codes, diaries, town registers, petitions, and criminal records, this title describes how the work of selling women transformed communities across the archipelago. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3J; HBJF; HBLH; HBTB; JFMX. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 22. Weight: 534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520270909
- ISBN
- 9780520270909
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.37€ 64.99
€ 84.37
€ 64.99
Paperback. A historical account of the Women Strike for Peace movement. Amy Swerdlow, a founding member of WSP, restores to the record a chapter on American politics and women's studies. She traces WSP's triumphs, its problems, and its legacy for the women's movement and American society. Series: Women in Culture and Society Series. Num Pages: 326 pages, 32 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTJ; HBTB; JFFK; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 241 x 25. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226786360
- ISBN
- 9780226786360
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.77
€ 37.99
€ 29.77
Hardback. This book uses the histories of the city art museums in Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester to reveal, examine, and follow the consequences of the underlying logic of the Victorian art museum movement: the attempt to contain the moral and physical ugliness of industrial capitalism through the experience of beauty. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: GM; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804778046
- ISBN
- 9780804778046
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.00
€ 81.00
Hardback. This book thematizes the mystical figure of the abyss by examining the abyss as the dialectical process of the self's reconstruction followed by its dispossession. It traces such process in Neoplatonic mysticism, German idealism, and Afro-Caribbean philosophy with the end of politicizing the mystical figure from the standpoint of coloniality. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: HBTQ; HPC; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823273072
- ISBN
- 9780823273072
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.58
€ 105.58
Paperback. This book thematizes the mystical figure of the abyss by examining the abyss as the dialectical process of the self's reconstruction followed by its dispossession. It traces such process in Neoplatonic mysticism, German idealism, and Afro-Caribbean philosophy with the end of politicizing the mystical figure from the standpoint of coloniality. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: HBTQ; HPC; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823273089
- ISBN
- 9780823273089
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 29.60
€ 30.99
€ 29.60
Hardcover. First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1map. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBTB; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 278. An excellent, clean copy
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- KPI London
- Number of pages
- 94
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- KRS0018094
- ISBN
- 9780710301192
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Hardcover. First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1map. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBTB; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 278. An excellent, clean copy
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- KPI London
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 94
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KRS0018095
- ISBN
- 9780710301192
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Paperback. Focuses on the role of markets in linking local communities to larger networks of commerce, culture, and political power. This book uses bazaars in the northeast Indian state of Bihar during the colonial period as the site of its investigation. Num Pages: 311 pages, 6 b/w illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC; KC; KNPR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of California Press Berkeley, U.S.A.
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 311
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520211001
- ISBN
- 9780520211001
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 30.01
€ 41.99
€ 30.01
Paperback. How can court testimony be used to rebuild a cohesive national identity for the Hutus and Tutsis? And how is it that dance and theater help to move forward the cause of justice and reconciliation? This title provides a satisfying analysis of the interplay between justice, performance, narrative, and memorialization. Num Pages: 264 pages, 30 halftones. BIC Classification: 1HFGR; AN; HBTZ; LNAA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 231 x 11. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857421081
- ISBN
- 9780857421081
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.11
€ 35.99
€ 28.11
Hardback. What India's founders derived from Western political traditions is widely understood. Less well-known is how India's own rich knowledge traditions of 2,500 years influenced these men. Vajpeyi furnishes this missing account, showing how five founders turned to classical texts to fashion an original sense of Indian selfhood. Num Pages: 368 pages, 1 line illustration, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBTB; HBTR; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 165 x 26. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674048959
- ISBN
- 9780674048959
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.42€ 49.18
€ 53.42
€ 49.18
Hardback. Series: World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence. Num Pages: 235 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTQ; JKSW1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137555816
- ISBN
- 9781137555816
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.54
€ 113.54
Paperback. Num Pages: 149 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 205 x 11. Weight in Grams: 156.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 149
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780679781264
- ISBN
- 9780679781264
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.75
€ 17.99
€ 14.75
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 928
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803228436
- ISBN
- 9780803228436
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 182.95
€ 182.95
Hardcover. Offers new perspectives on Ronald Reagan's primary accomplishment as president - persuading the Soviets to reduce their nuclear arsenals and end the Cold War. The authors examine the decisions Reagan made during his presidency that made his success possible and review Reagan's critical negotiations with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Num Pages: 209 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBTW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Hoover Institution Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780817918347
- ISBN
- 9780817918347
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 24.02
€ 26.99
€ 24.02
Paperback. Num Pages: 209 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBTW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Hoover Institution Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780817918354
- ISBN
- 9780817918354
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.43
€ 17.99
€ 17.43
Paperback. Num Pages: 346 pages, colour & b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1MBN; 3JH; HBJM; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 173 x 24. Weight in Grams: 738.
- Publisher
- Otago University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781927322369
- ISBN
- 9781927322369
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.44
€ 26.99
€ 20.44
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781461409281
- ISBN
- 9781461409281
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 34.53
€ 40.99
€ 34.53
Hardback. From inventor's workbench to factory floor to recording studio, Andre Millard and his colleagues trace the development of the instrument, its use across musical genres, and its profound impact on popular culture and American identity. Editor(s): Millard, Andre. Num Pages: 248 pages, 47, 35 colour illustrations, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVRL; HBT; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 203 x 21. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801878626
- ISBN
- 9780801878626
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.29€ 48.44
€ 52.29
€ 48.44