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History: specific events & topics

Paperback. Featuring road signs, direction, warning, boundary, and advisory, this book covers various aspects of traffic signage and signs. Series: Shire Album S. Num Pages: 32 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBT; WGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 203 x 3. Weight in Grams: 96.
Publisher
Shire Publications Ltd
Number of pages
32
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
9780747805311
ISBN
9780747805311
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.59

Paperback. Num Pages: 120 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.). BIC Classification: HBTM; WGG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 248 x 9. Weight in Grams: 534.
Publisher
The History Press
Number of pages
120
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752479521
ISBN
9780752479521
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.66

Paperback. Num Pages: 120 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTM; WGG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 227 x 9. Weight in Grams: 536.
Publisher
The History Press
Number of pages
120
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752479507
ISBN
9780752479507
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.62

Hardback. Since its conception in the 1870s, the Riverside Park has undergone a number of transformations and suffered from periods of misuse and neglect, but in 1984, much-needed renovations turned this city oasis into what is one of Manhattan's beautiful attractions. This book includes the official Riverside Park Fund Map of 2007. Num Pages: 128 pages, 29 black and white images; 19 4-color images. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; HBTB; WQP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231142281
ISBN
9780231142281
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.15

Hardcover. Rivers figure prominently in a nation's historical memory, and the Volga and Mississippi have special importance in Russian and American cultures. Beginning in the pre-modern world, both rivers served as critical trade routes connecting cultures in an extensive exchange network, while also sustaining populations through their surrounding wetlands. Series: Environment in History: International Perspectives. Num Pages: 224 pages, 20 illus. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1KBB; HBTB; HBTP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 12. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782384311
ISBN
9781782384311
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.82

Hardback. Series: Indians of the Southeast. Num Pages: 438 pages, 3 illustrations, 29 maps, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; HBT; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 29. Weight in Grams: 825.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
438
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803273924
ISBN
9780803273924
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.22

Discover how the Singapore government rehabilitated the Singapore River and created Marina Bay, transforming both into lifestyle/commercial settings. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: AMVD; HBTB; JPQB; KCM; RND; RNU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 263 x 287 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1458.
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Editions Didier Millet Pty Ltd Singapore
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9789814385855
ISBN
9789814385855
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.71

Hardcover. India is killing the Ganges, and the Ganges in turn is killing India. Victor Mallet traces the holy river from source to mouth, and from ancient times to the present day, to find that the battle to rescue what is arguably the world's most important river is far from lost. Num Pages: 336 pages, Approx. 20 colour illustrations and 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJ; HBJF; HBTP; RNPG; RNT; WTL. Dimension: 216 x 135. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198786177
ISBN
9780198786177
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 38.88

Paperback. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTQ; HBTS; JPH; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 23 x 15. .
Publisher
Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674975385
ISBN
9780674975385
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 26.85

Hardcover. Illustrated 8vo.Good copy Maritime History.The Sea.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Press of Joseph D. McGuire (printer?)
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1938
SKU
KEX0254558
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. The rivalry for trade in tea and textiles between the English and Dutch East India companies is very much a global history. This trade is strongly connected to emblematic events such as the opening of Western trade with China, the Boston Tea Party, the establishment of British Empire in Bengal and the Industrial Revolution. Series: Europe's Asian Centuries. Num Pages: 248 pages, 6 images, 22 graphs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DDN; 1FKA; 3JF; HBTK; KCLT; KNAC; KNDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137486523
ISBN
9781137486523
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.52

Paperback. Presents readers with scholarship on public celebrations and popular culture throughout Mexican history. This book discusses aspects of Mexico's popular culture from the seventeenth century onwards. It examines a range of Mexican expression, including Corpus Christi celebrations, New Spain, stone murals, and folk theater. Editor(s): Beezley, William H.; etc.; Martin, Cheryl E. (University of Texas, El Paso, USA); French, William E. (University of British Columbia, Canada). Series: Latin American Silhouettes. Num Pages: 374 pages, photographs, further reading. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3J; HBTB; JFC; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
374
Condition
New
SKU
V9780842024174
ISBN
9780842024174
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.10

Hardback. Presents readers with scholarship on public celebrations and popular culture throughout Mexican history. This book discusses aspects of Mexico's popular culture from the seventeenth century onwards. It examines a range of Mexican expression, including Corpus Christi celebrations, New Spain, stone murals, and folk theater. Editor(s): Beezley, William H.; etc.; Martin, Cheryl E. (University of Texas, El Paso, USA); French, William E. (University of British Columbia, Canada). Series: Latin American Silhouettes. Num Pages: 374 pages, photographs, further reading. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3J; HBTB; JFC; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 699.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
374
Condition
New
SKU
V9780842024167
ISBN
9780842024167
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 148.14

Paperback. The principle of sacrifice is as old as human life itself. This book provides an overview of sacrificial practices around the world since prehistoric times. It also examines the reasons behind these rituals, and in the case of human sacrifice an attempt is made to understand the mentality of the 'victims' who often willingly went to their deaths. Num Pages: 192 pages, 48 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; HRLF; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 170 x 12. Weight in Grams: 504.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780750945004
ISBN
9780750945004
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.41

Hardback. This book explores the interplay between ritual performance of the opera Mulian and gentrified mercantile lineages in late imperial Huizhou. It shows how local elites appropriated the opera, turning it into a medium for conveying orthodox values and religious precepts and for negotiating local social and gender issues in a rising money economy. Num Pages: 384 pages, 3 tables, 13 figures, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JB; DSBD; DSG; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 667.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804750325
ISBN
9780804750325
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.06

Paperback. Editor(s): Nunning, Vera; Rupp, Jan; Ahn, Gregor. Num Pages: 278 pages, 3 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSA; HBTB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Transcript Verlag Germany
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
SKU
V9783837625325
ISBN
9783837625325
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 37.06

Paperback. "This volume encompasses a rich world of political culture, from the Spanish kings of the Reconquest to German metal-workers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. . . . A welcome contribution to the interdisciplinary study of ritual, symbolism, and power."-- Editor(s): Wilentz, Sean. Num Pages: 360 pages, 30 illus. BIC Classification: 3H; HBG; HBLC; HBTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 564.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812216950
ISBN
9780812216950
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.91

Hardcover. Recounts the Battle of Fort Dearborn while situating it within the context of several wider histories that span the nearly four decades between the 1795 Treaty of Greenville to the 1833 Treaty of Chicago. This title is published to commemorate the bicentennial of the Battle of Fort Dearborn. Num Pages: 328 pages, 35 halftones, 14 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226428963
ISBN
9780226428963
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 28.58

Paperback. Num Pages: 480 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 519.
Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780771012938
ISBN
9780771012938
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.80

Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 151. Weight in Grams: 367.
Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780771013560
ISBN
9780771013560
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 22.03

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