History: specific events & topics
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History: specific events & topics
Paperback. Inhuman Bondage is the definitive study of slavery for our time, providing a global perspective on the subject with an emphasis on the United States. Davis is one of our preeminent historians and the authority on America's greatest historical problem. Num Pages: 464 pages, maps, halftone plates. BIC Classification: HBTB; HBTS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 458
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195339444
- ISBN
- 9780195339444
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.86
€ 25.86
Paperback. A fascinating memoir of an extraordinary family told through the vast, four hundred year old house, Knole Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESK; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408809686
- ISBN
- 9781408809686
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.82
€ 19.99
€ 14.82
Paperback. This eye-opening exploration of the aesthetic and legal innovations of home video revisits four decades of frequently overlooked histories of video recording. Num Pages: 352 pages, 54 illustrations. BIC Classification: AJRH; HBTB; JFDT; LNRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822343769
- ISBN
- 9780822343769
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.60
€ 32.99
€ 29.60
Hardback. Inglorious Empire tells the real story of the British in India - from the arrival of the East India Company to the end of the Raj - revealing how Britain's rise was built upon its plunder of India. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJD1; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 224 x 33. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849048088
- ISBN
- 9781849048088
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.71
€ 33.99
€ 30.71
Hardcover. Alejandra Dubcovsky maps channels of information exchange in the American South, exploring how colonists came into possession of knowledge in a region that lacked a regular mail system or a printing press until the 1730s. She describes ingenious oral networks, and she uncovers important lessons about the nexus of information and power. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674660182
- ISBN
- 9780674660182
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 42.02
€ 50.99
€ 42.02
Hardcover. Informal empire is a key mechanism of control that explains much of the configuration of the modern world. This book traces the broad outline of westernization through elite formations around the world in the modern era. It explains why the world is western and how formal empire describes only the tip of the iceberg of British and American power. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3J; HBG; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 221 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232341
- ISBN
- 9780230232341
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.78
€ 63.78
Hardback. What makes a place? This title searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay Area. It explores the area thematically - connecting, for example, Eadweard Muybridge's foundation of motion-picture technology with Alfred Hitchcock's filming of "Vertigo". Num Pages: 166 pages, 17 color illustrations, 7 b/w photographs, 22 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; HBJK; HBTP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 305 x 178 x 20. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 166
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520262492
- ISBN
- 9780520262492
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
€ 40.99
€ 29.06
Paperback. What makes a place? This title searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay Area. It explores the area thematically - connecting, for example, Eadweard Muybridge's foundation of motion-picture technology with Alfred Hitchcock's filming of "Vertigo". Num Pages: 166 pages, 17 color illustrations, 7 b/w photographs, 22 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; HBJK; HBTP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 302 x 181 x 14. Weight in Grams: 594. A San Francisco Atlas. 166 pages, illustrations. What makes a place? This title searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay Area. It explores the area thematically - connecting, for example, Eadweard Muybridge's foundation of motion-picture technology with Alfred Hitchcock's filming of "Vertigo". Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; HBJK; HBTP1. Dimension: 302 x 181 x 14. Weight: 592.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 166
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520262508
- ISBN
- 9780520262508
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.80
€ 33.99
€ 24.80
The first in-depth study of a distinctive brand of women's rights that emerged out of the Victorian Secularist movement. It looks at the lives and work of a number of female activists, whose renunciation of religion shaped their struggle for emancipation. Anti-religious or secular ideas were fundamental to the development of feminist thought. Series: Gender in History. Num Pages: 272 pages, 5 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD1; HBTB; HRQA; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 145 x 217 x 26. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719085826
- ISBN
- 9780719085826
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 151.39
€ 151.39
Hardcover. Num Pages: 407 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JF; HBTB; HRAM1; HRAX; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 245 x 32. Weight in Grams: 852.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Brepols Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9782503531748
- ISBN
- 9782503531748
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 199.69
€ 199.69
Inequality in the Portuguese-Speaking World: Global and Historical Per...
Francisco Bethencourt (Ed.)
Hardcover. Editor(s): Bethencourt, Francisco. Num Pages: 294 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSP; HBTB; JFFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845198466
- ISBN
- 9781845198466
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.15
€ 129.15
Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, 11. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press Ithaca
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801483851
- ISBN
- 9780801483851
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 43.81
€ 48.99
€ 43.81
paperback. The ten essays in this richly illustrated volume detail Nova Scotia's industrial history. Covering coal, steel, iron, ropeworks, and railways, this work presents a rich and diverse industrial heritage that includes a discussion of the impact of industrialization on humans, the role of external capital, and the involvement of unions. Editor(s): Candow, James E. Num Pages: 225 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1KBCV; HBTB; KN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 183 x 13. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Fernwood Publishing Canada
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 225
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781552660607
- ISBN
- 9781552660607
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.51
€ 26.99
€ 23.51
Paperback. Describes Britain's rise as the world's first industrial world power, its decline from the temporary dominance of the pioneer, its rather special relationship with the rest of the world (notably the underdeveloped countries) and the effects of all these on the life of the British people. Num Pages: 432 pages, diagrams, further reading, index. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JH; HBJD1; HBTB; JFC; KJK; KN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140257885
- ISBN
- 9780140257885
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.95
€ 19.99
€ 14.95
Hardcover. Children's work is a controversial subject both in the sciences of sociology and history. This book includes articles that examine children's work from the mid-1800's and until the 1990's. It is the result of an inter-Nordic research project about children's work in the Nordic countries involving various five Nordic countries. Editor(s): De Coninck-Smith, Ning; Sandin, Bengt; Sandin, Ellen. Num Pages: 211 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSP1; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 255 x 182 x 18. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University Press of Southern Denmark Denmark
- Number of pages
- 211
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788778382696
- ISBN
- 9788778382696
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 23.43
€ 31.99
€ 23.43
Paperback. Editor(s): Rabb, Theodore K.; Rotberg, Robert I. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTK; JPA; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 457.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691615028
- ISBN
- 9780691615028
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.48€ 42.28
€ 53.48
€ 42.28
Hardback. Editor(s): Rabb, Theodore K.; Rotberg, Robert I. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTK; JPA; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691642598
- ISBN
- 9780691642598
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.59
€ 162.59
Hardback. Num Pages: 289 pages, 33 black & white illustrations, 4 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; HBJF; HBTK; KCM; RNU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Publisher
- Springer Verlag, Singapore
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789811008238
- ISBN
- 9789811008238
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.64
€ 156.64
Hardcover. This book examines the complex interplay between industrial heritage and tourism. It serves to stimulate meaningful dialogue about the socioeconomic values of industrial sites and the use of tourism for the growth of the creative economy. Series: Tourism and Cultural Change. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: GM; HBTK; KNSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Channel View Publications
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845415136
- ISBN
- 9781845415136
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.38
€ 160.38
Hardcover. Editor(s): Jorgensen, Caspar; Pedersen, Morten. Num Pages: 285 pages. BIC Classification: HBLL; HBTB; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 179 x 27. Weight in Grams: 968.
- Publisher
- Aarhus University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788771241082
- ISBN
- 9788771241082
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99
€ 46.99