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Hardcover. A fascinating anthology of narratives from the period 1735-1830, by European women who recount their enslavement in North Africa. The first such collection, it includes an extensive introduction which links the discourse on contemporary Western women captives in Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq with that of former white captives in North Africa. Num Pages: 321 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HB; 3JF; 3JH; HBJH; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 224 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230221987
- ISBN
- 9780230221987
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 142.08€ 135.48
€ 142.08
€ 135.48
Paperback. A selection of 19th-century Barbary Coast captivity narratives. The accounts range from 1798 to 1904 and tell the stories of enslaved white Americans, whose plight became fodder for pro- and anti-slavery writers. Num Pages: 376 pages, 19 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226034041
- ISBN
- 9780226034041
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 26.89
€ 33.99
€ 26.89
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: BTP; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 138 x 14. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd Canada
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781894384025
- ISBN
- 9781894384025
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 17.35
€ 24.99
€ 17.35
Paperback. White servitude was one of the major institutions in the economy and society of early colonial British America. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JD; HBJK; HBLH; HBTS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521273794
- ISBN
- 9780521273794
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.33
€ 31.99
€ 30.33
Paperback. Paper is older than the printing press, and even in its unprinted state it was the great network medium behind the emergence of modern civilization. In the shape of bills, banknotes and accounting books it was indispensible to the economy. As forms and files it was essential to bureaucracy. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: GTC; HBTB; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 328
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745672540
- ISBN
- 9780745672540
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.38
€ 19.99
€ 17.38
Paperback. Rich in historical insight and told in a dramatic and engaging voice, this is a superb evocation of the period with a series character to rival Sharpe. Editor(s): Philipps, Roland. Num Pages: 352 pages, B/W line drawings & photos. BIC Classification: HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340794708
- ISBN
- 9780340794708
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.47
€ 17.99
€ 13.47
Paperback. Jet, a hard, black, shiny gen, closely related to coal, has been fashioned into jewellery and trinkets for generations, but during the Victorian period, when the ritual surrounding death and the long mourning of Queen Victoria made black fashionable, jet became hugely popular. This book traces the history of jet and the Whitby jet industry. Series: Shire Library. Num Pages: 56 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: 1DBKEYK; HBJD1; HBTK; WCP; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 150 x 4. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Publisher
- Shire Publications Ltd
- Number of pages
- 56
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747807315
- ISBN
- 9780747807315
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.41
€ 11.41
Hardback. Whiskey cocktails that go well beyond the Old-Fashioned Num Pages: 240 pages, 75 color photographs. BIC Classification: HBT; WBX; WBXD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 178. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781581573251
- ISBN
- 9781581573251
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.78
€ 26.99
€ 23.78
Paperback. A classic essay on the distortions of history that occur when historians impose a rigid point of view on the study of the past. Num Pages: 144 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBTB; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 134 x 197 x 10. Weight in Grams: 156.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1965
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Co.
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393003185
- ISBN
- 9780393003185
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.24
€ 19.99
€ 19.24
Paperback. A collection of photographs that documents the dramatic transformation that has taken place over the last one hundred years in the area around Whetstone and the Great North Road. It includes graphic images of Whetstone, Totteridge, Friern Barnet, New Southgate, Brunswick Park, Woodside Park and North Finchley. Series: Britain in Old Photographs. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBTB; WQP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 11. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750906500
- ISBN
- 9780750906500
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.62
€ 19.99
€ 18.62
Paperback. Expanding on the ex-pat Scottish communities abroad, MacAskill and McLeish turns to organisations specifically designed around the Scottish culture in places such as Singapore, Tokyo, Java and Buenos Aires, as well as the United States, Canada and Australia. This book contains series of conducted interviews, and investigates varied personalities. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Luath Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905222681
- ISBN
- 9781905222681
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.27
€ 11.99
€ 10.27
Paperback. Explains why the working class was largely missing from the 1989-90 revolution which led to the fall of socialism in Germany. This book documents workers' day-to-day experience of the labor process, workplace union politics, and class. It shows how three factors led most workers to withdraw from politics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; HBTV; JFSC; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252067518
- ISBN
- 9780252067518
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.65€ 55.39
€ 55.65
€ 55.39
Paperback. Paperback, blue spine. 160pp
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Barnacle Marine
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- SKU
- KON0819589
- ISBN
- 9780948788338
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Paperback. An examination of Sahtu Dene participation in the assessment of the Mackenzie Gas pipeline and other resource extraction projects, this book provides an in-depth account of the workings and effects of participatory environmental assessment in the Canadian North and its implications for the legitimization of resource co-management. Series: Nature | History | Society. Num Pages: 480 pages, 6 b&w photos, 2 maps, 3 tables. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSL9; JHMP; RND; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780774828468
- ISBN
- 9780774828468
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.15
€ 37.99
€ 34.15
Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 15 black & white halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBNH; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JPHL; RND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 245 x 24. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801453618
- ISBN
- 9780801453618
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.63
€ 33.63
Hardback. Annamaboe - largest slave trading port on the Gold Coast - was home to African merchants whose partnerships with Europeans made the town an integral part of Atlantic webs of exchange. The author recreates the outpost's feverish bustle and brutality, tracing the entrepreneurs, black and white, who thrived on a lucrative traffic in human beings. Num Pages: 310 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; 3JF; HBJH; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 174 x 30. Weight in Grams: 660.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 310
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674724877
- ISBN
- 9780674724877
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.05
€ 44.99
€ 37.05
Hardcover.
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- Irish Academic Press Ltd Dublin
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780716530534
- ISBN
- 9780716530534
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.82
€ 33.99
€ 24.82
Paperback. We know about the leaders of the 1916 Rising. But what about the men and women who fought on the streets of Dublin? What did they go through during those brutal days after the clock struck on 24 April 1916? For them, the conflict was a mix of bloody fighting and energy-sapping waiting. These are their stories. Num Pages: 344 pages, B&W photos. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBTV; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Publisher
- Gill
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848892132
- ISBN
- 9781848892132
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.44
€ 19.99
€ 16.44
Paperback. A moving and revealing insight into the real experiences of children evacuated during the Second World War and the families they left behind Num Pages: 368 pages, 8pp b-w. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBTB; HBWQ; JFSP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 24. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847398765
- ISBN
- 9781847398765
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.65
€ 13.99
€ 11.65
Paperback. Benjamin Franklin secretly loved London more than Philadelphia: it was simply the most exciting place to be in the British Empire. Offering a portrait of eighteenth-century London as the capital of America, this title recreates the famous city's heyday as the centre of an empire that encompassed North America and the West Indies. Num Pages: 320 pages, 36 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBJK; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300178135
- ISBN
- 9780300178135
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.90
€ 23.99
€ 17.90
Paperback. This social history of one remote corner of Spain's colonial American empire uses marriage as a window into intimate social relations, examining the Spanish conquest of America and its impact on a group of indigenous peoples, the Pueblo Indians, seen in large part from their point of view. Num Pages: 424 pages, tables, figures, bibliography, index, notes. BIC Classification: HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804718325
- ISBN
- 9780804718325
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.83
€ 33.99
€ 30.83
Paperback. Goes on a personal and nostalgic journey through post-War Britain in search of treasured values and traditions that were once the soul of society. This title also takes a broader perspective, creating a detailed and evocative portrait of a way of life that is fast disappearing. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPG; HBJD1; HBLW3; HBTB; WQN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 124 x 28. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849901529
- ISBN
- 9781849901529
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.02
€ 19.99
€ 15.02
Paperback. Paperback in good condition.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Amer Canal & Trans Ctr
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1983
- SKU
- KRF0040598
- ISBN
- 9780933788435
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. When Orange County, California, filed for Chapter 9 protection on December 6, 1994, it became the largest municipality in United States history to declare bankruptcy. Presenting an analysis of this momentous fiscal crisis, this title uncovers the many twists and turns from the dark days in December 1994 to the financial recovery of June 1996. Num Pages: 320 pages, 86 tables, 1 map, 1 line figure. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPR; HBTB; KCP; KFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520214866
- ISBN
- 9780520214866
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.73
€ 35.99
€ 26.73