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History: specific events & topics

Hardback. Focuses on the interaction between two "places," China and Guanzhong, the capital area of several dynasties. This book addresses such questions as What do we mean by "local"? Did the inhabitants of a locality believe that being "local" required them to assume a certain identity? And, If so, how did they talk and write about it? Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 325 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
325
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674031708
ISBN
9780674031708
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 37.31

Paperback. Argues that only with consistent attention to research and development and an emphasis on long-term corporate strategies could firms remain successful over time. This work details these processes for various major chemical and pharmaceutical firms, demonstrating why some companies forged ahead while others failed. Series: Harvard Studies in Business History. Num Pages: 384 pages, 7 tables, 3 charts. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBTK; KNDC; KNDP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674032217
ISBN
9780674032217
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.23

Paperback. Debt was an inescapable fact of life in early America. At the beginning of the 18th century, its sinfulness was preached by ministers. By 1800, imprisonment for debt was under attack, and insolvency was seen merely as an economic setback. This work focuses on this crucial transformation in early American society. Num Pages: 358 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBTB; KCZ; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 227 x 144 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
358
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674032415
ISBN
9780674032415
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.26

Hardback. On the eve of World War I, Russia, not known as a nation of joiners, had thousands of voluntary associations. This work examines the crucial role of voluntary associations in the development of civil society in Russia from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. Num Pages: 384 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJC; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JKSN1. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 168 x 244 x 31. Weight in Grams: 714.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674032798
ISBN
9780674032798
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.63
€ 69.39

Hardback. The process of transforming bamboo into paper involves production-related and social skills, as well as the everyday skills that allowed Sichuan papermakers to survive in an era of tumultuous change. This book charts the vicissitudes of a rural community of papermakers in Sichuan. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 425 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; HBLW; HBTB; JFSF. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 30. Weight in Grams: 660.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
425
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674032880
ISBN
9780674032880
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 41.33

Hardback. Chinese culture was a performance culture, and ritual was the highest form of performance. Village ritual life everywhere in pre-revolutionary China was complex, conservative, and extraordinarily diverse. This title discusses the ritual world of a group of rural settlements in Shanxi province in pre-1949 North China. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 450 pages, 15 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBTB; HRKN; HRLF; JFSF. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 702.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
450
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674033047
ISBN
9780674033047
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 45.72

Paperback. Intends to decipher the puzzle of Nazism's ideological grip. This title examines the efforts of Germans to adjust to new racial identities, to believe in the necessity of war, to accept the dynamic of unconditional destruction - in short, to become Nazis. It presents a portrait of how ideology takes hold. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBTB; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674034655
ISBN
9780674034655
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 26.36

Paperback. In the years between 1880 and 1950, Americans recited poetry at family gatherings, school assemblies, church services, camp outings, and civic affairs. This book presents a portrait of the uses of verse in America. It shows how the sites and practices of reciting poetry influenced readers' lives and helped them to find meaning in a poet's words. Num Pages: 488 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DCF; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 141 x 31. Weight in Grams: 616.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674035126
ISBN
9780674035126
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.23

Hardback. Traces the evolution of University Extension at Harvard from the Lyceum movement in Boston to its creation by the newly appointed president A Lawrence Lowell in 1910. Series: Harvard University Extension School. Num Pages: 250 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: HBT; JNM; JNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 190 x 22. Weight in Grams: 668.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674036161
ISBN
9780674036161
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.23

Paperback. Under the Third Reich, Nazi Germany undertook an unprecedented effort to refashion the city of Lodz. Home to prewar Poland's second populous Jewish community, this was to become a German city of enchantment - a modern, clean, and orderly showcase of urban planning and the arts. This work examines the Jewish ghetto's place in the Nazi worldview. Num Pages: 416 pages, 20 color illustrations, 12 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 1DFG; 1DV; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 151 x 27. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674045545
ISBN
9780674045545
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 27.25

Hardback. Tells the stories of three of the most dramatic fugitive slave trials of the 1850s, presenting the determination of the fugitives, the radical tactics of their rescuers, the brutal doggedness of the slavehunters, and the tortuous response of the federal courts. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 241 x 32. Weight in Grams: 696.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674047044
ISBN
9780674047044
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 39.32

Hardback. Combining the history of the Enlightenment, Atlantic history, and the history of the French Revolution, this title explores the political economy of globalization in eighteenth-century France. It presents an interpretation of the relationship between capitalism and the French Revolution. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages, 2 line illustrations, 2 graphs. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTV; HPS; KCCD; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 167 x 26. Weight in Grams: 618.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674047266
ISBN
9780674047266
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.04
€ 60.41

Hardback. Tracing commercial imagery across different products and media, this title shows how and why the 'African native' had emerged by 1900 to become a familiar figure in the German landscape, selling everything from soap to shirts to coffee. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 462 pages, 29 color illustrations, 106 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; AKL; HBTB; JFDV; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 34. Weight in Grams: 870.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
462
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674050068
ISBN
9780674050068
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.75
€ 64.46

Hardback. Published here for the first time is a crucial document in the history of American radicalism--the "Prison Blossoms," a series of essays, narratives, poems, and fables composed by three activist anarchists imprisoned for the 1892 assault on anti-union steel tycoon Henry Clay Frick. Editor(s): Brody, Miriam; Buettner, Bonnie. Series: The John Harvard Library. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BG; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JPFB; JPFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 149 x 27. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674050563
ISBN
9780674050563
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 39.30

Hardback. Why do free people submit to any rule? How is consent of the governed formed? Block argues that the source is found in the nursery and schoolroom, where the necessary synthesis of self-direction and integrative social conduct--so contradictory in logic yet so functional in practice--are established without provoking reservation or resistance. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 167 x 36. Weight in Grams: 844.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674051942
ISBN
9780674051942
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.44
€ 51.39

Hardback. Palaces of Time resurrects the seemingly banal calendar as a means to understand early modern Jewish life. Elisheva Carlebach has unearthed a trove of beautifully illustrated calendars, to show how Jewish men and women both adapted to the Christian world and also forged their own meanings through time. Num Pages: 304 pages, 56 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; HRJC; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 262 x 190 x 28. Weight in Grams: 850.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674052543
ISBN
9780674052543
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 33.29

Hardback. The Civil War revealed what united as well as what divided Americans in the nineteenth century - not only in its deadly military conflict, but also in the broader battle of ideas, dueling moral systems, and competing national visions that preceded and followed. This title reveals a city at the heart of the cultural civil war. Num Pages: 352 pages, 22 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBNU; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 662.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674052888
ISBN
9780674052888
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 44.50

Hardback. Examines the making of a new child's world in Japan between 1890 and 1930 and focuses on the institutions, groups, and individuals that reshaped both the idea of childhood and the daily life of children. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 275 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; HBLL; HBTB; JFSP1; JPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 36. Weight in Grams: 739.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674053342
ISBN
9780674053342
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 41.33

Hardback. Fritzsche traces twentieth-century history through the remarkable diaries of an ordinary Berliner. Franz Goll wrote of hungry winters during WWI, the Berlin bombing, rapes by Russian soldiers, shockwaves cast by Darwin, Freud, and Einstein, the flexing of U.S. superpower, and the strange lifestyles that marked Germany's transition to modernity. Num Pages: 288 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; BG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 150 x 26. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674055315
ISBN
9780674055315
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 39.50

Hardback. A discharged official in mid-Ming China faced significant changes in his life. This book explores three such officials in the sixteenth century - Wang Jiusi, Kang Hai, and Li Kaixian - who turned to literary endeavors when forced to retire. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 314 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JB; DSBD; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Number of pages
314
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674056046
ISBN
9780674056046
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 37.31

Hardback. Addresses how gender became a defining category in the political and social modernization of Japan. This book shows how 'a woman's place' in late-nineteenth-century Japan was characterized by contradictions and unexpected consequences, by new opportunities and new constraints. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 266 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; HBTB; JFSJ1; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674056053
ISBN
9780674056053
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 37.31

Hardback. The French Revolution invented the notion of the citizen, but it also invented the noncitizen--the person whose rights were nonexistent. The South American outpost of Guiana became a depository for these outcasts of the new French citizenry, and an experimental space for the exercise of new kinds of power and violence against marginal groups. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 296 pages, 2 maps, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 242 x 24. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674057548
ISBN
9780674057548
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.98
€ 54.99

Paperback. A study of law and imperialism, this title argues that modern settler sovereignty emerged when settlers in North America and Australia defined indigenous theft and violence as crime. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 328 pages, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1MBF; HBTQ; JFSL9; LNDC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674061880
ISBN
9780674061880
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.52

Hardback. Maclachlan analyzes the institutions, interest groups, and leaders involved in the evolution of Japan's postal system from the early Meiji period until 2010. At the crux of her analysis is Prime Minister Koizumi Jun'ichiro's crusade to privatize Japan's postal services, one of the most astonishing political achievements in postwar Japanese history. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 378 pages, 13 halftones, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JMC; HBTB; JPQB; KNTT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 678.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
378
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674062450
ISBN
9780674062450
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 37.63

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