History: specific events & topics
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History: specific events & topics
Mad Dogs and Englishmen: Rabies in Britain, 1830-2000 (Science, Techno...
Pemberton, Neil, Worboys, Michael
Hardcover. Rabies was a constant threat in Victorian Britain and gripped popular imagination, not least because its human form, hydrophobia, produced a vile death with the mind and body out of control. This book explores the changing understanding of rabies amongst veterinarians, animal welfare campaigners, state officials, politicians and the public. Series: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230542402
- ISBN
- 9780230542402
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Paperback. But the carnival massacre marked a crossroads: the old mentality of vendetta was soon supplanted by the emerging sense that the direct expression of anger should be suppressed-to be replaced by duels. Num Pages: 240 pages, 16, 16 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JB; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB; JPH; JPWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801858499
- ISBN
- 9780801858499
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.76
€ 39.76
Paperback. Series: Cornell Studies in Comparative History. Num Pages: 452 pages, 10, 7 black & white halftones, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 3J; HBG; HBTQ; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 234 x 29. Weight in Grams: 754.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- With a New Preface
- Number of pages
- 452
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801479809
- ISBN
- 9780801479809
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.36
€ 36.99
€ 34.36
Sheet map, folded. Series: Old Ordnance Survey Maps of Cheshire. BIC Classification: 1DBKENC; HBTP1; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 414 x 192 x 6. Weight in Grams: 24.
- Publisher
- Alan Godfrey Maps
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2nd Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847848321
- ISBN
- 9781847848321
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.05
€ 7.05
Hardback. Thomas Babington Macaulay's "History of England" was a phenomenal Victorian best-seller. In this book, the author explores the emotional, intellectual, and political roots of Zachary Macaulay, the leading abolitionist, and his son Thomas' visions of race, nation, and empire. Num Pages: 420 pages, 16pp. section of black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 166 x 39. Weight in Grams: 864.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 420
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300160239
- ISBN
- 9780300160239
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 36.02
€ 49.99
€ 36.02
Hardback. In parts of eighteenth-century Japan, couples raised only two or three children. As villages shrank and headcounts dwindled, posters of child-murdering she-devils began to appear, and governments offered to pay their subjects to have more children. This book focuses on Eastern Japan, where population growth resumed in the nineteenth century. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 439 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 21 line illustrations, 17 maps, 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3J; HBJF; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 160 x 33. Weight in Grams: 812.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 388
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520272439
- ISBN
- 9780520272439
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.62€ 64.59
€ 83.62
€ 64.59
Paperback. A world-renowned Pomo basket weaver and medicine woman, Mabel McKay expressed her genius through her celebrated baskets, her Dreams, and stories with which she kept her culture alive. This title demonstrates how a woman who worked most of her life in a cannery could become a great healer and an artist whose baskets were collected by Smithsonian. Num Pages: 182 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 11. Weight in Grams: 194. Weaving the Dream. 182 pages, illustrations. A world-renowned Pomo basket weaver and medicine woman, Mabel McKay expressed her genius through her celebrated baskets, her Dreams, and stories with which she kept her culture alive. This title demonstrates how a woman who worked most of her life in a cannery could become a great healer and an artist whose baskets were collected by Smithsonian. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSL9. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 11. Weight: 194.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 182
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520275881
- ISBN
- 9780520275881
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.06
€ 33.99
€ 25.06
Paperback. Why do we look at lynching photographs? What is the basis for our curiosity, rage, indignation, or revulsion? This book examines lynching photographs as a way of analyzing photography's historical role in promoting and resisting racial violence. It charts the history of lynching photographs - their meanings, uses, and controversial display. Series: Defining Moments in American Photography. Num Pages: 110 pages, 22 duotones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; AJCP; AJCR; HBTB; JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 205 x 5. Weight in Grams: 162.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 110
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520253322
- ISBN
- 9780520253322
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.06
€ 33.99
€ 25.06
Paperback. Editor(s): Waldrep, Christopher. Num Pages: 281 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 250 x 176 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Edition
- 1st Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814793992
- ISBN
- 9780814793992
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.62
€ 33.99
€ 30.62
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTQ; HBTR; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816633661
- ISBN
- 9780816633661
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.75
€ 29.99
€ 27.75
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199663248
- ISBN
- 9780199663248
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.10
€ 38.99
€ 28.10
Paperback. 'Luxury in the 18th Century' explores the political, economic, moral and intellectual effects of the production and consumption of luxury goods, and provides a broadly-based account from a variety of perspectives, addressing key themes of economic debate, material culture, the principles of art and taste, luxury as 'female vice' and the exotic. Editor(s): Berg, Maxine; Eger, Elizabeth. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JF; HBTB; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230517790
- ISBN
- 9780230517790
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardback. 'Luxury in the 18th Century' explores the political, economic, moral and intellectual effects of the production and consumption of luxury goods, and provides a broadly-based account from a variety of perspectives, addressing key themes of economic debate, material culture, the principles of art and taste, luxury as 'female vice' and the exotic. Editor(s): Berg, Maxine; Eger, Elizabeth. Num Pages: 292 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JF; HBTB; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333963821
- ISBN
- 9780333963821
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.51
€ 128.51
Hardcover. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JF; ACBP; HBJF; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804798112
- ISBN
- 9780804798112
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.06
€ 77.06
Paperback. Challenges long-standing views of popular medieval revolts. Comparing rebellions in northern and southern Europe over two centuries, this book analyzes their causes and forms, their leadership, the role of women, and the suppression or success of these revolts. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HBTV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 177 x 260 x 25. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674030381
- ISBN
- 9780674030381
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.58€ 47.51
€ 50.58
€ 47.51
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611470208
- ISBN
- 9781611470208
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.33€ 15.27
€ 89.33
€ 15.27
Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages, over 150 b/w photos. BIC Classification: HBT; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 288 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1822.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2023
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764326585
- ISBN
- 9780764326585
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.18€ 56.35
€ 58.18
€ 56.35
Hardback. Despite their centuries-old history and traditions, witchcraft and magic are still a key part of modern Anglo-American culture. In "Lucifer Ascending", Bill Ellis looks at modern practices that are universally defined as "occult" and the social function of individuals' dabbling with the occult. Num Pages: 271 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; HRQX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813122892
- ISBN
- 9780813122892
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.81
€ 50.81
Paperback. Manhattan's Lower East Side stands for Jewish experience in America. This is an account of one of our famous neighborhoods and its power to shape identity. It examines children's stories, novels, movies, museum exhibits, television shows, summer-camp reenactments, walking tours, and photos hung on deli walls far from Manhattan. Num Pages: 240 pages, 29 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFSG; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- Second Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691095455
- ISBN
- 9780691095455
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.81
€ 46.99
€ 33.81
Hardcover. Serves as a riposte to those who use the phrase "the love of literature" as if its meaning were transparent, its essence happy and healthy. Num Pages: 352 pages, 13 halftones. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- y First edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226183701
- ISBN
- 9780226183701
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.22€ 79.61
€ 94.22
€ 79.61