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History: specific events & topics

Hardback. Written for scholars and students alike, Plantation Kingdom is an accessible and fascinating study. Series: The Marcus Cunliffe Lecture Series. Num Pages: 176 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; KCZ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 295.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421419398
ISBN
9781421419398
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.87
€ 47.53

Paperback. Provides an overview of the rapidly changing landscape of global television, combining previously published essays by pioneers of the study of television with new work by cutting-edge television scholars who refine and extend intellectual debates in the field. Editor(s): Parks, Lisa; Kumar, Shanti. Num Pages: 470 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APT; HBT; JFC; KNTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 253 x 177 x 22. Weight in Grams: 808.
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814766927
ISBN
9780814766927
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.93

Hardback. The detective is a familiar figure in British history. This work looks at famous cases such as the Ripper murders and the beginnings of the Special Branch and Detective Branch of Scotland Yard. This history covers various aspects of crime history, including the career of Jim 'the Penman' Saward, a notorious forger, and more. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BTC; HBTB; JKVF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 241 x 22. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Edition
07th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752441863
ISBN
9780752441863
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.65

Hardback. Most papers in this volume originate from a conference on "Gazetteers for Space-Time System Integration" held at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Editor(s): Mostern, Ruth; Southall, Humphrey; Berman, Merrick Lex. Series: The Spatial Humanities. Num Pages: 280 pages, 40 b&w illus., 10 maps, 11 tables. BIC Classification: GBGP; HBTP; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 531.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253022448
ISBN
9780253022448
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.29

Paperback. Tells the story of Johannesburg's MuseumAfrica, a South African history museum that embodies one of the most dynamic and fraught stories of colonialism and postcolonialism, its life spanning the eras before, during, and after apartheid. This title focuses on racism and its institutionalization in South Africa. Num Pages: 352 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JJP; GM; HBJH; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226030302
ISBN
9780226030302
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 34.59

Paperback. This book offers a fundamental review of the Palestine/Israel conflict. It rejects the two state solution, which it likens to Apartheid. Instead it shows there is a better future for a single state; one that is secular and bi-national and as a result economically successful. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; GTJ; HBJF1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 234.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Radical Read
Condition
New
SKU
V9781871204339
ISBN
9781871204339
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.46

Paperback. From the era of the industrial factory to the age of the microchip, Pivotal Tuesdays explores four twentieth-century elections-1912, 1932, 1968, and 1992-using the election of the American president as a lens through which to explore the broader sweep of the nation's social, economic, and political history. Num Pages: 256 pages, 30 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTB; JPHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780812223934
ISBN
9780812223934
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.70

Hardcover. An account of the controversial actions of Pius XII, the man whom some have called "Hitler's Pope", and the Vatican during Europe's darkest years. Num Pages: 352 pages, 14 b&w photos, 2 maps. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTZ1; HRCC7; HRCX1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 166 x 29. Weight in Grams: 690.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253349309
ISBN
9780253349309
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.79

Hardback. In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, more than a thousand pirates poured from the Atlantic into the Indian Ocean. This book explores the resulting global trade network located on the peripheries of world empires and shows the illicit ways American colonists met the consumer demand for slaves and East India goods. Series: California World History Library. Num Pages: 224 pages, 4 maps, 11 b/w images, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1K; 3JF; 3JH; HBG; HBLL; HBTQ; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 440.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520282902
ISBN
9780520282902
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.15
€ 46.46

Paperback. True accounts of Western Pirates, that inspire the fiction today. This book provides information on handful of West Country pirates of the past and also those who voyaged from the West to the Caribbean and Indian Ocean. Num Pages: 160 pages, c. 30. BIC Classification: 1DBKEW; HBTM; JKVM; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752443775
ISBN
9780752443775
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.50

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 4 b/w illus. BIC Classification: HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764324871
ISBN
9780764324871
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.23

Paperback. 8vo.good copy. Maritime History.The Sea
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
North Carolina Div of Archives
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Edition
12th Edition
SKU
KEX0254430
ISBN
9780865261006
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Drawing on material, from furious royal proclamations to the private letters of pirates and their victims, as well as Islamic accounts, this title provides perspectives of the corsairs and an insight into what it meant to sacrifice all you have for a life so violent, so uncertain and so alien that it sets you apart from the rest of mankind. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1HB; 3JF; HBJH; HBLL; HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 346.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099523864
ISBN
9780099523864
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. A man full of contradictions: he who achieved so much 'blew it' later in life, declining into scandal, failure and even farce. A unique man ahead of his time, he lived a large part of his life among pirates yet managed to preserve what Coleridge called his exquisite refinement of mind. A classic example of the best narrative history Num Pages: 512 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: BGH; HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 362.
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552772105
ISBN
9780552772105
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.88

Paperback. Since the rise of Napster and other file-sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. This title explores the intellectual property wars from the advent of print culture in the fifteenth century to the reign of the Internet. Num Pages: 640 pages, 40 halftones. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFM; LNR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 159 x 40. Weight in Grams: 864.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226401195
ISBN
9780226401195
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 22.22

Paperback. He describes the general nature of early piracy, ancient navigation, and the pirate's routines and tactics. Num Pages: 298 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QSM; HBG; HBLA; HBTM; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 327.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801855054
ISBN
9780801855054
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.82

Hardback. Editor(s): Klarer, Mario. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HBJH; HBLH; HBTB; HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138640276
ISBN
9781138640276
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 173.73

Hardcover. Since the rise of Napster and other file-sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. This title explores the intellectual property wars from the advent of print culture in the fifteenth century to the reign of the Internet. Num Pages: 640 pages, 40 halftones. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFCX; LNR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 163 x 43. Weight in Grams: 998.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
640
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226401188
ISBN
9780226401188
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 34.48

Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KB; 3JB; HBJK; HBLH; HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 143 x 9. Weight in Grams: 172.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd Canada
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9781926971001
ISBN
9781926971001
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.84

Hardback. This biographical dictionary of some 3,000 photographers (and workers in related trades), active in a vast area of North America before 1866, is based on extensive research and enhanced by some 250 illustrations, most of which are published here for the first time. Num Pages: 768 pages, 250 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AJB; GBCB; HBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 7112 x 5487 x 47. Weight in Grams: 2395.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
768
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804740579
ISBN
9780804740579
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 205.01

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