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Hardback. This brief history connects the past and present of utopian thought, from the first utopias in ancient Greece, right up to present day visions of cyberspace communities and paradise. Series: Wiley Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFCX; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405183291
ISBN
9781405183291
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.82

Paperback. Hollywood 1963-1976: Years of Revolution and Reaction is a comprehensive study of one of the most tumultuous eras in American film, chronicling the collapse of the studio system, the rise of the auteur, and the birth of the blockbuster. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; APF; HBTB; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 190 x 236 x 17. Weight in Grams: 868.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405188289
ISBN
9781405188289
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.40

Hardback. How Food Made History offers a wide-ranging overview of 5,000 years of global history, a period dominated by agriculture and urbanization. It traces the changing patterns of food production and consumption that have molded economic and social life and contributed fundamentally to the development of government and complex societies. Num Pages: 276 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFCV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405189484
ISBN
9781405189484
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 90.43

Paperback. Celebrates 20 years of the publication of the journal Gender & History Features essays by leading scholars in the fields of women's history and gender history Reflects the extent to which gender analysis suggests alternatives to conventional periodisation. Editor(s): Shepard, Alexandra; Walker, Garthine. Series: Gender and History Special Issues. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405192279
ISBN
9781405192279
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.42

Hardback. A Companion to Border Studies introduces an exciting and expanding field of interdisciplinary research, through the writing of an international array of scholars, from diverse perspectives that include anthropology, development studies, geography, history, political science and sociology. Editor(s): Wilson, Thomas M.; Donnan, Hastings. Series: Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Anthropology. Num Pages: 636 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HBTR; JFC; JFFS; JPSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 179 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1252.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
636
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405198936
ISBN
9781405198936
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 197.41

Hardback. Informed by a breadth of historical scholarship and based squarely on primary sources, this volume remains the standard text for future teachers and scholars of education. Series: The American Moment. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JNL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 158 x 30. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
updated edition
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421400167
ISBN
9781421400167
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.66
€ 60.29

Paperback. They reflect on the moral economy of human smuggling and trafficking, the increasing percentage of the world's asylum seekers who escape political violence only by being smuggled, and the implications of human smuggling in a warming world. Editor(s): Kyle, David; Koslowski, Rey. Num Pages: 416 pages, 1, 1 graphs. BIC Classification: HBTS; JFFN; JKVM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 228 x 25. Weight in Grams: 564.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
second edition
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421401980
ISBN
9781421401980
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 37.10

Paperback. Written by three prominent historians of the period, Slavery's Ghost forces readers to think critically about the way we study the past, the depth of racial prejudice, and how African Americans won and lost their freedom in nineteenth-century America. Series: The Marcus Cunliffe Lecture Series. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 8. Weight in Grams: 164.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421402369
ISBN
9781421402369
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 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

€ 63.88
€ 58.69

Paperback. Kennedy's systematic and thoughtful study distinguishes southern approaches to childbirth and motherhood from northern ones, showing how slavery and rural living contributed to a particularly southern experience. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; HBJK; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421405803
ISBN
9781421405803
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 32.98

Paperback. "Little Willie" Adams, and Walter Sondheim-who prepared Jim Crow's grave and waited for the nation to deliver the body. Num Pages: 340 pages, 24, 24 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBFM; 3JJP; HBTB; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421407654
ISBN
9781421407654
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 27.84

Paperback. Why, despite decades and decades of warnings, do people still choose to drive while intoxicated? One for the Road provides crucial historical lessons for understanding the old epidemic of drunk driving and the new epidemic of distracted driving. Num Pages: 240 pages, 10, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFFH1; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421407746
ISBN
9781421407746
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 26.81

Hardback. Oliver's study is rigorous and detailed but contemplative in its approach, examining the larger meanings of mankind's first adventures in "the heavens." Series: New Series in NASA History. Num Pages: 248 pages, 12, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTB; TRP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 492.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421407883
ISBN
9781421407883
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 41.74

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

Paperback. Encountering Ellis Island lays bare the profound and sometimes-victorious story of people chasing the American Dream: leaving everything behind, facing a new language and a new culture, and starting a new American life. Series: How Things Worked. Num Pages: 184 pages, 10, 10 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFFN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 152 x 229 x 11. Weight in Grams: 260.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition
1st Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421413686
ISBN
9781421413686
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.76

Hardback. Myers, of prostitution in Restif de la Bretonne by Rori Bloom, of ruins in Lazzaro Spallanzani by Sabrina Ferri, of Arthur Murphy's female characters by Barbara Mackey King, and of recent film adaptations of the century's masterworks by Karen Gevirtz. Editor(s): Erwin, Timothy; Burnham, Michelle. Num Pages: 300 pages, 24, 24 figures. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; AB; DSBD; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421413761
ISBN
9781421413761
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 43.27

Paperback. Synthesizing the histories of masculinity, manners, and radicalism, Rakes, Highwaymen, and Pirates offers a fresh perspective on the eighteenth-century aristocratic male. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; HBTB; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 176 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421413853
ISBN
9781421413853
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.42

Hardback. Students of slavery, the Old South, and African American history will find in Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County an outstanding example of painstaking research and imaginative family and community history. Num Pages: 416 pages, 4, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JFFJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 230 x 31. Weight in Grams: 696.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421414799
ISBN
9781421414799
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.87
€ 47.39

Hardback. " Readers who love history and stories of exploration on the high seas will devour this gripping tale. Series: The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. Num Pages: 280 pages, 26, 26 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTM; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 516.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421415420
ISBN
9781421415420
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 34.53

Hardback. The book includes a completely new final chapter, text and notes rewritten throughout to incorporate evidence and scholarship that has appeared over the past twenty-five years, and an index of ancient sources. Series: Ancient Society and History. Num Pages: 272 pages, 17, 17 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HBJD; HBLA1; HBTB; JFSP1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 160 x 246 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition
second edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421416854
ISBN
9781421416854
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.87
€ 47.39

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