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Hardcover. An Oral History of the ILWU. 320 pages, 50 illustrations. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union has been known from the start for its strong commitment to democracy, solidarity, and social justice. This title presents a collection of narratives that talk about the lives at work, on the picket line, and in the union of union leaders and rank-and-file workers. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTD; KNXB. Dimension: 168 x 236 x 27. Weight: 728.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Univ of Washington Pr
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295988832
- ISBN
- 9780295988832
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.10
€ 117.10
Hardcover. Against conventional views of the unchallenged hegemony of a modernizing monarchy, this book argues that power was continuously contested in Riza Shah's Iran. Cronin excavates the successive challenges to Riza Shah's regime posed by a range of subaltern social groups and seeks to restore to these groups a sense of their historical agency. Num Pages: 340 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB; HBW; JPW. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 224 x 134 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540. Opposition, Protest and Revolt, 1921-1941. 344 pages, 13 black & white illustrations. Against conventional views of the unchallenged hegemony of a modernizing monarchy, this book argues that power was continuously contested in Riza Shah's Iran. Cronin excavates the successive challenges to Riza Shah's regime posed by a range of subaltern social groups and seeks to restore to these groups a sense of their historical agency. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 1FBN; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB; HBW; JPW. Dimension: 224 x 134 x 25. Weight: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230537941
- ISBN
- 9780230537941
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.07
€ 129.07
hardcover. By assessing how the military roles have evolved and by comparing them in various military settings, the author argues that certain functions must be fulfiled in every army, regardless of its ideological orientation. Num Pages: 264 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 3J; HBTB; JWA; JWT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742511057
- ISBN
- 9780742511057
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 190.11
€ 190.11
Paperback. The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars affected millions of people's lives across Europe and beyond. Yet the extent to which the constant warfare of the period 1792-1815 shaped everyday experience has been little studied. This volume of essays discusses the formative experience of these wars for men and women, as soldiers, citizens and civilians. Editor(s): Forrest, A.; Hagemann, Karen; Rendall, J. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; HBW; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349360864
- ISBN
- 9781349360864
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 93.86
€ 93.86
Paperback. Brings together some of the research on the Revolutionary army that has been undertaken on both sides of the Atlantic by younger historians, many of whom look to the influential work of Braudel for a model. Series: Bicentennial Reflections on the French Revolution. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822309352
- ISBN
- 9780822309352
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.38
€ 32.99
€ 25.38
paperback. Larissa Taylor has examined over 1600 sermons given by the leading lay preachers in France between 1460 and 1560, and examines the social context of preaching and the sermon while reconstructing popular attitudes towards original sin, free will, purgatory, the Devil, the sacraments, and the magical arts. Series: Rsart: Renaissance Society of America Reprint Text Series. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLC; HBTB; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 272 x 28. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802085573
- ISBN
- 9780802085573
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 39.95
€ 43.99
€ 39.95
Hardcover. This book offers the first encounter between labour history and military history, with an analysis of the working lives of nineteenth British rank and file soldiers in the context of a developing working class industrial culture and in its interaction with British society. Series: Studies in Labour History. Num Pages: 256 pages, 6, 6 black & white illustrations, Black and White. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTK; JFSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 266 x 22. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781382783
- ISBN
- 9781781382783
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.98
€ 140.98
Hardback. This book is the first comprehensive oral history of the Iraq War. It presents the raw and vivid testimonies and recollections from combat veterans, family members, conscientious objectors, Bush administration officials, Iraqi leaders, and many others, forming a gripping and moving portrait of the war. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTD; HBWS5. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230601550
- ISBN
- 9780230601550
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.71€ 60.49
€ 93.71
€ 60.49
Paperback. This book is the firstcomprehensive oral history of the Iraq War. Itpresents the raw and vivid testimoniesand recollections from combat veterans, family members, conscientious objectors, Bush administration officials, Iraqi leaders, and many others, forming a gripping and moving portrait of the war." Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; HBL; HBTB; HBTD; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230601642
- ISBN
- 9780230601642
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This book analyzes the ways in which US policy toward Iraq was dictated by America's broader Cold War strategy between 1958 and 1975 and shows where Iraq fits into the broader historiography of the Cold War in the Middle East. Series: Middle East Today. Num Pages: 284 pages, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 1KBB; HBTW; JFSL; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 240 x 22. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137487117
- ISBN
- 9781137487117
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.06
€ 161.06
Paperback. At the turn of the twentieth century, a consumer culture in the United States promoted constant spending to meet material needs and develop social identity and self-cultivation. This work examines the key players active in shaping this cultural evolution: advertisers and consumer advocates. Num Pages: 528 pages, 50 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFC; JFFT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 33. Weight in Grams: 806.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Number of pages
- 528
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807856765
- ISBN
- 9780807856765
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.21
€ 65.21
Paperback. An expansive new biography of Sojourner Truth, charismatic preacher and activist Num Pages: 520 pages, 38 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: BG; HBJK; HBTS; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 346 x 236 x 34. Weight in Grams: 914.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 520
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252078019
- ISBN
- 9780252078019
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.28
€ 27.99
€ 26.28
Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBG; HBLL; HBTB; HBTS; JFSC; JFSL3; JHBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814755259
- ISBN
- 9780814755259
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.83
€ 32.99
€ 29.83
Hardcover. Explores the cultural construction of ethnic economies and markets, the social dynamics of American race, and the fully transnational history of American wine Series: Nation of Nations. Num Pages: 280 pages, 48 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1KBBWF; HBTB; HBTK; JFFN; KNDF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814717387
- ISBN
- 9780814717387
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.06
€ 77.06
Paperback. Drawing on both literary and historical evidence, Puff shows that speakers of German associated sodomy with Italy, and increasingly, the Catholic Church. This study will interest historians of gender, sexuality and religion, as well as scholars of medieval history and culture. Series: Chicago Series on Sexuality, History & Society. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1DFH; 3H; 3JB; HBJD; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226685069
- ISBN
- 9780226685069
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.76
€ 40.99
€ 31.76
Paperback. Investigates the social and sexual world of these sea rovers Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; HBJK; HBLH; HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814712368
- ISBN
- 9780814712368
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.83
€ 32.99
€ 29.83
Paperback. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFC; JFSR; JHBS; KJS; KNS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349487714
- ISBN
- 9781349487714
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.29
€ 66.29
Hardcover. Series: Sociology Transformed. Num Pages: 111 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 4 colour illustrations, 7 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJP; HBTB; HPS; JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 219 x 13. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137581860
- ISBN
- 9781137581860
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. The trauma of the Jewish Holocaust has had the effect in scholarship of marginalizing it as a special case within the study of diaspora, ethnicity, and collection memory, yet as the contributors to this collection argue, the Holocaust and its aftermath ha Editor(s): Gerson, Judith Madeleine; Wolf, Diane L. Num Pages: 424 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTZ1; JFFN; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 581.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822339991
- ISBN
- 9780822339991
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 31.02
€ 41.99
€ 31.02
Paperback. This comprehensive anthology critiques sociology's disciplinary engagement with colonialism in varied settings, while also highlighting the lasting contributions that sociologists have made to the theory and history of imperialism. Editor(s): Steinmetz, George. Series: Politics, History, & Culture. Num Pages: 632 pages, 5 photographs, 3 tables, 2 maps, 1 figure. BIC Classification: HBTQ; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 159 x 36. Weight in Grams: 836.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 632
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822352792
- ISBN
- 9780822352792
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 39.50
€ 43.99
€ 39.50
The contributors to this comprehensive anthology critique sociology's disciplinary engagement with colonialism in varied settings, while also highlighting the field's significant contributions to the theory and history of imperialism. Editor(s): Steinmetz, George. Series: Politics, History, & Culture. Num Pages: 632 pages, 5 photos, 3 tables, 2 maps, 1 figure. BIC Classification: HBTQ; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 177 x 41. Weight in Grams: 990.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 632
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822352587
- ISBN
- 9780822352587
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 145.57
€ 145.57
Paperback. Includes essays which celebrate 21 years of research by the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies in Oxford. This book brings together the reflections of leading scholars from around the world on the life and work of the Oxford Centre. It records how the pioneering studies carried out by the Centre have become a bench-mark for researchers. Editor(s): Galligan, D. J. Series: Journal of Law and Society Special Issues. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKW; HBTB; J; LAF; LN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631196815
- ISBN
- 9780631196815
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.60
€ 29.60
Paperback. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349183630
- ISBN
- 9781349183630
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 193.21
€ 193.21
Hardcover. This book examines the striking way in which medical and scientific work on hearing in 18th and 19th-century France helped to shape modern French society and culture. The author argues that of all the senses hearing offered the greatest resources for remodelling the idea of the universal human condition within the modern French historical setting. Num Pages: 179 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137455345
- ISBN
- 9781137455345
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.32
€ 66.32