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Paperback. A compelling history of the Black Death that scoured Europe in the mid 14th-century killing twenty-five million people. It was one of the worst human disasters in history. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 264.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
First Harper Perennial Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007150700
ISBN
9780007150700
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.37

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: BG; BM; BTH; HBJF; HBTB; HBWS1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main Market Ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447253365
ISBN
9781447253365
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Hardback. Series: Contemporary Asia in the World. Num Pages: 400 pages, 61 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJG; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB; RNR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 29. Weight in Grams: 690.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231162180
ISBN
9780231162180
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.03

Hardcover. 8vo.Good copy in slightly worn original cloth . Maritime History.The Sea.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Hamish Hamilton London
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1858
SKU
KEX0254490
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

paperback. The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America. The impact on Anglo-Irish relations was incalculable, the immediate human cost almost inconceivable. This book provides a definitive account. Num Pages: 528 pages, 1 map; portraits. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 370. From the library of Ivor Browne and June Levine. Good clean copy. Covers sunned to spine and showing light shelf wear. Lightly toned, text is crisp and clear remains a very good copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0031433
ISBN
9780140145151
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 16.99
€ 14.00

paperback. The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America. The impact on Anglo-Irish relations was incalculable, the immediate human cost almost inconceivable. This book provides a definitive account. Num Pages: 528 pages, 1 map; portraits. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Edition
Revised ed.
Publisher
Penguin
Publication date
1991
Condition
New
SKU
9780140145151
ISBN
9780140145151
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.53

Hardcover. An investigation of life in the great household of late mediaeval England. Based on household accounts and related primary documents, it looks at the daily routines, weekly and annual patterns, and the life-cycle observances of birth, childhood, marriage, death and burial. Num Pages: 262 pages, 24 colour plates, 54 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 171 x 22. Weight in Grams: 820.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Yale University Press
Edition
First edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300076875
ISBN
9780300076875
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 31.30

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
€ 44.93

Paperback. Stephen Halliday tells the fascinating story of how these individuals fought opposition from politicians, taxpayers and often their own colleagues to overcome these diseases and make the country a safer place for everyone to live. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBTB; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 434.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition Thus
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752461755
ISBN
9780752461755
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 21.68

Paperback. The horrors of the Great Famine (1315-1322), one of the severest catastrophes ever to strike northern Europe. This work provides a comprehensive inquiry into the Famine from Ireland to western Poland, from Scandinavia to central France and western Germany. Num Pages: 328 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB; JFFC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 235 x 22. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691058917
ISBN
9780691058917
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.62

Hardcover. An invaluable compendium of sources relating to the Great Exhibition Series: Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century. Num Pages: 272 pages, 19 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719099120
ISBN
9780719099120
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.83

Paperback. An invaluable compendium of sources relating to the Great Exhibition Series: Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century. Num Pages: 248 pages, 19 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719099137
ISBN
9780719099137
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.96

paperback. This collection of essays exposes how meaning has been produced around the Great Exhibition. Critics and historians of art, culture, design and literature have been brought together to examine the objects, the images, the documents and the fictions of 1851. Editor(s): Purbrick, Louise. Series Editor(s): Wallace, Jeff; Whale, John. Series: Texts in Culture. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBT; KJP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780719055928
ISBN
9780719055928
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 19.04

Hardcover. A panoramic, eye-opening history of the vast migration of Eastern Europeans to the West by a recent winner of a MacArthur Fellowship. Num Pages: 400 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJK; HBTB; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393078015
ISBN
9780393078015
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 26.88

Hardback. This book examines how the French Revolutionaries remade the pre-1789 system of property by removing public power from the sphere of property and excising property from the realm of sovereignty. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; HBJD; HBTV2; LAZ; LNS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 164 x 27. Weight in Grams: 540.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199778799
ISBN
9780199778799
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 163.66

Paperback. Dismissed in early years as a wasteland, the rolling open country that covers the interior parts of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho is today one of the richest farmlands in the nation. This work is the story of its transformation. Meinig traces all of the aspects of its development by combining geographic description with historical narrative.

Series: Emil and Kathleen Sick Series in Western History and Biography. Num Pages: 598 pages, Ill.M. BIC Classification: HBTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 35. Weight in Grams: 817.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
598
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295974859
ISBN
9780295974859
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.65

Hardback. Presents an account about the Cold War. This work provides insights into the mixture of insecurity, ignorance, and ambition that drove the rivalry between the two sides. It concludes that bringing the Cold War to a peaceful end was a far greater challenge than just 'being tough with the Soviets'. Series: Stanford Security Studies. Num Pages: 496 pages, 4 figures, 28 illustrations, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 3JJP; HBTW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 161 x 32. Weight in Grams: 806.
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
496
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804760645
ISBN
9780804760645
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 32.81

Paperback. .
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780500292518
ISBN
9780500292518
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.49

Paperback. In The Great British Bobby, Clive Emsley traces the development of Britain's forces of law and order from the earliest watchmen and constables of the pre-modern period to the police service of today. Num Pages: 336 pages, 24 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBTB; JKSW1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849161978
ISBN
9781849161978
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Simon & Schuster United States
Edition
Anniversary Edition
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
SKU
V9781451683233
ISBN
9781451683233
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 35.55

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