History: specific events & topics
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History: specific events & topics
Paperback. The kinds of punishment used in a society have been considered an important criterion in judging whether a society is civilized or barbaric, advanced or backward, modern or premodern. This title asks how such distinctions have affected our understanding of the past and contributed to the proliferation of kinds of barbarity in the modern world. Num Pages: 312 pages, 17 halftones. 1 line illus. 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; HBTB; JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691130309
- ISBN
- 9780691130309
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.81
€ 52.99
€ 37.81
Paperback. Planet Taco examines the historical struggles between globalization and national sovereignty in the creation of "authentic" Mexican food. By telling the stories of the "Chili Queens" of San Antonio and the inventors of the taco shell, it shows how Mexican Americans helped to make Mexican food global. Num Pages: 320 pages, 46 halftones. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFCV; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190655778
- ISBN
- 9780190655778
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 23.33
€ 25.99
€ 23.33
Hardback. Editor(s): McElligott, Anthony; Herf, Jeffrey. Num Pages: 390 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJH; HBTZ; HBWQ; HRAX; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319488653
- ISBN
- 9783319488653
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.37
€ 135.37
Hardback. Editor(s): Smith, Andrew; Barton, Anna. Series: Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JM; DSBF; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784995102
- ISBN
- 9781784995102
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.29
€ 160.29
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JKV; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 216 x 9. Weight in Grams: 213.
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486779997
- ISBN
- 9780486779997
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.50
€ 15.99
€ 12.50
Hardcover. Hand-illuminated scrolls by Cora Healy-Tobin commemorate members of The Alberta Order of Excellence--Alberta's highest honour. Illustrator(s): Healy-Tobin, Cora. Editor(s): Sivak, Allison. Series: Northern Reference Series. Num Pages: 188 pages, colour plates. BIC Classification: 1KBCL; HBTG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 285 x 312 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1634.
- Publisher
- University of Alberta Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 168
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780888644855
- ISBN
- 9780888644855
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.02€ 76.80
€ 101.02
€ 76.80
Paperback. Europe's imperial projects were often predicated on a series of legal and scientific distinctions that were frequently challenged by the reality of social and sexual interactions between the colonized and the colonizers. This title reveals the unacknowledged but central role of race in the definition of French nationality. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBTQ; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 478. Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies. 352 pages. Europe's imperial projects were often predicated on a series of legal and scientific distinctions that were frequently challenged by the reality of social and sexual interactions between the colonized and the colonizers. This title reveals the unacknowledged but central role of race in the definition of French nationality. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBTQ; JFSL; JHMC. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 19. Weight: 480. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226733081
- ISBN
- 9780226733081
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.41
€ 40.99
€ 31.41
Hardback. Editor(s): Bannet, Eve Tavor; Wheeler, Roxann. Num Pages: 304 pages, 12, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421422145
- ISBN
- 9781421422145
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 43.10
€ 51.99
€ 43.10
Paperback. Gender and the City before Modernity presents a series of multi-disciplinary readings that explore issues relating to the role of gender in a variety of cities of the ancient, medieval, and early modern worlds. Editor(s): Foxhall, Lin; Neher, Gabriele. Series: Gender and History Special Issues. Num Pages: 266 pages, Illustrations, maps, plans. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 172 x 13. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 266
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118234433
- ISBN
- 9781118234433
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.20
€ 29.20
Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, 25 illus. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJK; HBLL; HBTQ; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190638733
- ISBN
- 9780190638733
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.65
€ 70.65
Hardcover. Num Pages: 452 pages. BIC Classification: 1HF; HBJH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 267 x 216 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Publisher
- Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780884024101
- ISBN
- 9780884024101
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.56€ 55.14
€ 60.56
€ 55.14
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
€ 57.00€ 52.41
€ 57.00
€ 52.41
Hardback. How African writers reconstructed the biblical narrative to form a new identity Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 2AB; DSBF; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Publisher
- Baylor University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781602585317
- ISBN
- 9781602585317
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.59
€ 54.59
Hardback. Hugh Casey was one of the most colorful members of the iconic Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1940s. He played with the likes of Jackie Robinson, Dixie Walker, Joe Medwick, and Pete Reiser, and along the way he helped redefine the role of the relief pitcher. This book covers Casey's life and career in great detail, the first to truly do so. Num Pages: 288 pages, 6 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; BGS; HBTB; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442277595
- ISBN
- 9781442277595
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.95
€ 64.95
Paperback. This work seeks to delve beneath the chaos and brutality of the Norse world to discover a complex interplay of ordering and disordering impulses. Num Pages: 420 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DNC; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 420
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226526805
- ISBN
- 9780226526805
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.58
€ 36.99
€ 28.58
Hardback. George Ciccariello-Maher brings the work of Georges Sorel, Frantz Fanon, and Enrique Dussel together with contemporary Venezuelan politics to formulate a decolonized dialectics that is suited to the struggle against the legacies of slavery and colonialism while also breaking the impasse between dialectics and postcolonial theory. Series: Radical Americas. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSV; 3JM; HBTQ; HBTS; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 238 x 20. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822362234
- ISBN
- 9780822362234
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.87
€ 109.87
Hardback. Draws on mid-seventeenth to nineteenth-century slave narratives to describe oppression in the lives of enslaved African women. Investigates pre-colonial West and West Central African women's lives prior to European arrival to recover the cultural traditions and religious practices that helped enslaved women combat violence and oppression. Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBTS; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618466
- ISBN
- 9780230618466
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.65
€ 124.65
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 B&W drawings. BIC Classification: HBT; WBXD3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 215 x 319. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Publisher
- Greystone Books,Canada
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781771641197
- ISBN
- 9781771641197
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.77
€ 19.99
€ 18.77
Paperback. This account of the female revolutionaries during the French Revolution describes their lives within political, social, historical and gender-specific contexts. It highlights the importance of these women in creating their political and social roles as female citizens within the New Republic. Translator(s): Streip, Katherine. Series: Studies on the History of Society & Culture. Num Pages: 415 pages, 29. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; HBTV; JFSJ1; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 415
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520067196
- ISBN
- 9780520067196
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.62
€ 45.99
€ 32.62
Hardcover. Abraham Lincoln projects a larger-than-life image across American history owing to his role as the Great Emancipator. Yet this noble aspect of Lincoln s identity is the dimension that some historians have cast into doubt. The award-winning historian and Lincoln scholar Allen Guelzo offers a vigorous defense of America s sixteenth president." Series: The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBTS; HBWJ; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674286115
- ISBN
- 9780674286115
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 39.84
€ 47.99
€ 39.84
Hardcover. When Leon was eight years old, his grandfather took him to a one-man stage performance titled, "Papirena Kinder," or Paper Children. It told the story of a bereaved old man who, despite having raised five children, had been abandoned by all of them in his old age. Num Pages: 72 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 279 x 10. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Publisher
- Gefen Publishing House
- Number of pages
- 72
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789652296344
- ISBN
- 9789652296344
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 19.75
€ 27.99
€ 19.75
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719087318
- ISBN
- 9780719087318
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.03
€ 150.03
Paperback. Last Season of Innocence discusses the lives of the preteens and teenagers who were in junior high school, high school, and the first year of college in the 1960s. Brooks offers a unique account of this much-chronicled decade by examining the experiences of these often overlooked young people. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBTB; JFC; JFSP2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442255951
- ISBN
- 9781442255951
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.75
€ 47.75
Hardback. Editor(s): Narayan, John; Bhambra, Gurminder K. Series: International Library of Sociology. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; HBTQ; JFFN; JHB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 164 x 271 x 17. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138961104
- ISBN
- 9781138961104
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 198.99
€ 198.99