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Paperback. This perspective allows a unique view of the development of an industrial society not just from the ground up but from the hearth up. Series: How Things Worked. Num Pages: 200 pages, 12, 10 black & white halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBTB; HBTK; TBX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 174 x 13. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421413570
- ISBN
- 9781421413570
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.76
€ 27.99
€ 24.76
Hardback. Academics and students alike will enjoy this fascinating study of the invention of the professional chef, of how ordinary workers influenced emerging trends of scientific knowledge, culture-creation, and taste in eighteenth-century France. Series: Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. Num Pages: 216 pages, 15, 15 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JFCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421402833
- ISBN
- 9781421402833
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.03€ 58.69
€ 64.03
€ 58.69
Hardback. Innovative in its scope and conceptual frameworks, Creole America reveals how literary culture in the New Republic is formed by a push for commercial empire in the hemisphere via the routes of the treacherous West Indian trades and, in turn, aestheticizes U.S.-West Indian relations as an integral aspect of the national imaginary. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 3JH; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780812239300
- ISBN
- 9780812239300
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.82
€ 76.82
Hardcover. Television provides a unique account of the development of a homosexual identity across the western world, emerging as it did when ideas around sex and sexuality were themselves only just beginning to be publicly discussed. Num Pages: 288 pages, 15 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; HBWL; HBWN; JFSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Publisher
- I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784538507
- ISBN
- 9781784538507
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 142.28€ 126.57
€ 142.28
€ 126.57
Hardcover. Series: Library of Modern American History. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JPS; KCLT; KNBP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784531492
- ISBN
- 9781784531492
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 142.28€ 126.76
€ 142.28
€ 126.76
Paperback. Series: Reformations: Medieval and Early Modern. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: HBLC1; HBTB; LAQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268041458
- ISBN
- 9780268041458
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.39
€ 40.99
€ 36.39
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- English Heritage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848020719
- ISBN
- 9781848020719
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 9.08
€ 19.99
€ 9.08
Hardback. Combining her own experience with an examination of the history of blindness in the Western world, author shows that sightlessness has been an 'active' force in history, rather than the passive condition which is too readily assumed. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2023
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781848856905
- ISBN
- 9781848856905
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.23
€ 26.99
€ 20.23
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- English Heritage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848020443
- ISBN
- 9781848020443
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.97
€ 78.97
Hardback. A comprehensive, at times intimate, portrait of Verdun and Verdunites, both English and French, during the Second World War. Series: Studies in Canadian Military History. Num Pages: 320 pages, 30 b/w photos, 15 tables, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBCQ; 3JJH; HBJK; HBTB; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 4039. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780774812603
- ISBN
- 9780774812603
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.38
€ 112.38
Hardback. * A unique historical contribution to the origins of what we now think of as globalization . * Gruzinski shows us that the opening up of cultures to other worlds is not new and occurred at the dawn of the modern age. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1QFM; HBJK; HBTB; JFSR2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745647524
- ISBN
- 9780745647524
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.45
€ 72.45
Paperback. * A unique historical contribution to the origins of what we now think of as globalization . * Gruzinski shows us that the opening up of cultures to other worlds is not new and occurred at the dawn of the modern age. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1QFM; HBJK; HBTB; JFSR2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745647531
- ISBN
- 9780745647531
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.57
€ 24.57
Hardback. Providing heterogeneous accounts of the intersections between the fine art world with literature, jazz, film, and theater in New York, Paris, Milan, Brazil, and Cuba between 1959 and 1960, the contributors show this period to be pivotal in the culture and politics of Western Europe and the Americas. Editor(s): Guilbaut, Serge; O'Brian, John. Num Pages: 352 pages, 67 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1K; 3JJPG; ACXD; APFA; HBTB; HBTW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360230
- ISBN
- 9780822360230
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.28
€ 113.28
paperback. Providing heterogeneous accounts of the intersections between the fine art world with literature, jazz, film, and theater in New York, Paris, Milan, Brazil, and Cuba between 1959 and 1960, the contributors show this period to be pivotal in the culture and politics of Western Europe and the Americas. Editor(s): Guilbaut, Serge; O'Brian, John. Num Pages: 352 pages, 67 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1K; 3JJPG; ACXD; APFA; HBTB; HBTW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360414
- ISBN
- 9780822360414
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.42
€ 31.99
€ 28.42
Hardback. As readers of Russian literature know, the nineteenth century was a time of pervasive financial anxiety. Russians of all classes were enmeshed in networks of credit and debt, and borrowing and lending shaped perceptions of material and moral worth. Sergei Antonov recreates this imperial world of borrowers, bankrupts, lenders, and loan sharks. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 350 pages, 6 halftones, 14 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBTB; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 243 x 35. Weight in Grams: 718.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674971486
- ISBN
- 9780674971486
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.85€ 52.41
€ 56.85
€ 52.41
Hardback. "Portions of this book were originally published as Politika SSSR v Zapadnoi Afrike, 1956-1964: neizvestnye stranitsy istorii kholodnoi voiny (Moscow: Nauka, 2008); translated by the author"--T.p. verso. Series: Cold War International History Project. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFD; 1HFJC; 3JJ; HBTW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 699.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804760591
- ISBN
- 9780804760591
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.21
€ 81.21
Hardback. This book recounts one of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century: the siege of Leningrad. It is based on the searing testimony of eyewitnesses, some of whom managed to survive, while others were to die in streets devastated by bombing, in icy houses, or the endless bread queues. Num Pages: 460 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509507986
- ISBN
- 9781509507986
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 20.19
€ 24.99
€ 20.19
Paperback. An introduction to the people who lived along the Nile for almost 35 centuries, this collection of essays presents studies of ancient Egyptians arranged by social type - slaves, craftsmen, priests, bureaucrats, pharaohs, peasants and women - representing Egyptian culture, state and society. Num Pages: 378 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 1QDA; HBJH; HBLA; HBTB; HDD; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 151 x 22. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- First edition.
- Number of pages
- 378
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226155562
- ISBN
- 9780226155562
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.79
€ 36.99
€ 28.79
Hardback. Examining figures from Thomas More to Stephen Greenblatt, from George Hickes to Seamus Heaney, from George Eliot to Paul de Man, this book illuminates the wanderings of exiles, emigres, dissenters, and the socially estranged as they helped form the modern university disciplines of philology and rhetoric, literary criticism and literary theory. Num Pages: 388 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFF; DSA; HBT; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 26. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 388
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231123723
- ISBN
- 9780231123723
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.08€ 83.22
€ 109.08
€ 83.22
Paperback. Presents the history of Palestinian Jewish society in antiquity. This book probes more than eight centuries of Persian, Greek, and Roman rule, and argues that the Christianization of the Roman Empire generated the most fundamental features of medieval and modern Jewish life. Series: Jews, Christians and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World. Num Pages: 336 pages, Bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HBTQ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691117812
- ISBN
- 9780691117812
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 42.23
€ 53.36
€ 42.23
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Verso Books United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844678617
- ISBN
- 9781844678617
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.65
€ 19.65
Paperback. This work examines the British Indian colonial impact on the economy and society of nineteenth-century Afghanistan, with particular interest in the relationships among Kabul, Qandahar, and Peshawar. Num Pages: 288 pages, maps, figures. BIC Classification: HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804774116
- ISBN
- 9780804774116
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.73
€ 32.99
€ 29.73
Paperback. How we die reveals much about how we live. This book traces the history of euthanasia in the United States to show how changing attitudes toward death reflect new and troubling ways of experiencing pain, hope, and freedom. It shows how over time, the term came to mean a death blessed by the grace of God, and later, medical hastening of death. Num Pages: 240 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFME. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691133904
- ISBN
- 9780691133904
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.59
€ 46.99
€ 33.59
Paperback. Jewish art and material culture are the subjects of this unique volume presented in memory of a truly profound thinker and scholar, Professor Stephen S. Kayser. A CROWN FOR A KING brings together scholars from Israel, the U.S. and Europe writing on a wide range of Professor Kayser's interests. Editor(s): Kayser, Stephen S.; Fine, Steven; Kramer, William M. Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 242 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Publisher
- Gefen Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- illustrated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789652292117
- ISBN
- 9789652292117
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.64€ 44.19
€ 61.64
€ 44.19