History: specific events & topics
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History: specific events & topics
Paperback. Of Gardens records a great adventure of continual discovery not only of the artful beauty of individual gardens and landscapes but also of the intellectual and historical threads that weave them into patterns of civilization. Deitz's vivid descriptions and recollections allow readers to share in the experience of her extensive travels. Series: Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture. Num Pages: 384 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: AMV; DNF; HBTB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812223545
- ISBN
- 9780812223545
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.32
€ 37.99
€ 34.32
Paperback. Series: Samuel & Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 215 x 14. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 197
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295974262
- ISBN
- 9780295974262
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.42
€ 26.99
€ 25.42
Paperback. In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. Yet years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicated to the marvels of nature. Drawing on archives of visitors' books, letters, and pleas for patronage, this title reconstructs the lost social world of Renaissance and Baroque museums. Series: Studies on the History of Society & Culture. Num Pages: 449 pages, 30 b&w reproductions, 1 map, 6 museum floor plans, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1DST; GM; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; P; WN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 29. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 449
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520205086
- ISBN
- 9780520205086
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.52
€ 38.99
€ 28.52
Hardback. This volume illuminates the social and cultural landscape of eighteenth-century Italy by exploring how questions of gender in music, art, literature, science, and medicine shaped perceptions of Italy in the age of the Grand Tour. Editor(s): Findlen, Paula; Roworth, Wendy Wassyng; Sama, Catherine M. Num Pages: 504 pages, 51 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 41. Weight in Grams: 794.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 504
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804759045
- ISBN
- 9780804759045
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.55
€ 94.55
Paperback. Explores the relationship between the well-established practice of oral history and the burgeoning field of memory studies. This work explains the processes by which oral histories move beyond interviews with individual people to become articulated memories shared by others. Editor(s): Hamilton, Paula; Shopes, Linda. Series: Critical Perspectives on the Past Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, 2 maps, 15 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781592131419
- ISBN
- 9781592131419
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.32
€ 37.99
€ 34.32
Hardcover. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FP; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804719858
- ISBN
- 9780804719858
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.01
€ 87.01
Paperback. This book elaborates the social-psychological concept of schema while championing the literary critical practice of close reading to show how literature reflects, promotes, and contests pervasive sociocultural ideas like race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DS; HBTB; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804797023
- ISBN
- 9780804797023
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.41
€ 26.99
€ 25.41
Hardback. Num Pages: 360 pages, 23 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691162577
- ISBN
- 9780691162577
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.04
€ 33.99
€ 25.04
Paperback. This volume brings together prominent historians of modern childhood in an effort to define how children's lives and our conceptions of childhood have changed since World War II. Essays explore how childhood has transformed in response to major elements of change, including schooling, parenting, law, culture, and the global economy. Editor(s): Fass, Paula S.; Grossberg, Michael. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJP; HBTB; JFSP1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 281.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812223187
- ISBN
- 9780812223187
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.59
€ 32.99
€ 29.59
Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 15. BIC Classification: 1DVK; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 231 x 16. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801476426
- ISBN
- 9780801476426
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.05
€ 34.99
€ 32.05
hardcover. Make the Night Hideous explores mysterious transformation of the charivari using four detailed case studies from different time periods and locations across English Canada, as well as first-person accounts of more recent charivari participants. Series: Canadian Social History Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442640771
- ISBN
- 9781442640771
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.13
€ 71.13
Hardback. This full, critical edition of the Pauline Wengeroff's Memoirs of a Grandmother uses women's experience to depict the emergence of Jewish modernity in Russia in the nineteenth century and comment upon the role of gender in shaping Jewish experience. Translator(s): Magnus, Shulamit S. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 384 pages, 14 figures, 1 map. BIC Classification: BG; BM; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804768795
- ISBN
- 9780804768795
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.23
€ 81.23
Hardback. Winner of the 2011 Thomas E. Skidmore Prize, this new translation of Paulo Fontes's Migration and the Making of Industrial Sao Paulo is a detailed social history of the millions who migrated from Brazil's Northeast to Sao Paulo. Num Pages: 296 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; HBTB; HBTK; JFFN; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 545.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822361152
- ISBN
- 9780822361152
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.33
€ 111.33
Paperback. The seventeenth volume in the acclaimed paperback series .. the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation. Editor(s): Trower, Shelley. Series: Cornish Studies. Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrated illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; HBTK; JH; KCZ; KNAT; KNSG; WQH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859898492
- ISBN
- 9780859898492
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.60
€ 46.60
Paperback. Robbers Roost is a hideout for outlaws and hunted men long before Butch Cassidy found it in 1884. This book features an introduction by Floyd A O'Neil, director of the American West Center at the University of Utah that discusses landscape, the law and the Wild Bunch, and the author's lifelong preparation for this subject. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illus., maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3429 x 14. Weight in Grams: 273.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803260894
- ISBN
- 9780803260894
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.46
€ 17.99
€ 17.46
Paperback. A collection of essays that explore the use and implication of war posters during WWI. It reveals the centrality of visual media, particularly the poster, within the specific national contexts of Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and the United States during World War I. Editor(s): James, Pearl. Series: Studies in War, Society, and the Military. Num Pages: 416 pages, 53 illustrations. BIC Classification: GTC; HBG; HBTB; HBWN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 29. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803226104
- ISBN
- 9780803226104
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.89
€ 32.99
€ 29.89
Hardcover. Does religion encourage altruism on behalf of those who do not belong? Are the very religious more likely to be altruistic toward outsiders than those who are less religious? In this volume, Pearl M. Oliner examines data on Christian rescuers and nonrescuers of Jews during the Holocaust to shed light on these important questions. Num Pages: 256 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTZ1; JH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 517. Fine copy, with fine D.J
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- SKU
- KST0009839
- ISBN
- 9780300100631
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Paperback. Series: Cornell East Asia Studies. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JD; 3JF; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Cornell Univ East Asia Program
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933947525
- ISBN
- 9781933947525
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.77
€ 33.99
€ 30.77
Hardcover. These original interpretations of Renaissance culture focus on the English Renaissance as well as attending to work in a range of vernacular languages and on the reception and transformation of the Greco-Roman literary, political and intellectual heritage. Series Editor(s): Hutson, Lorna. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 164 x 23. Weight in Grams: 616. Women's Friendship and the Politics of Betrayal in England, 1640-1705. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture. 288 pages. These original interpretations of Renaissance culture focus on the English Renaissance as well as attending to work in a range of vernacular languages and on the reception and transformation of the Greco-Roman literary, political and intellectual heritage. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB; JFSJ1. Dimension: 239 x 164 x 23. Weight: 616. Series Editor(s) :Hutson, Lorna.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748655823
- ISBN
- 9780748655823
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 153.58
€ 153.58
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 291
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843837329
- ISBN
- 9781843837329
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.40
€ 156.40