History: specific events & topics
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Hardback. Compiling a portrait that's both fascinating and deliciously fun, Gastropolis explores the endlessly evolving relationship between New Yorkers and food. Series: Arts & Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History. Num Pages: 368 pages, 36 b&w halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; HBJK; HBTB; JFCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 29. Weight in Grams: 826.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231136532
- ISBN
- 9780231136532
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.78
€ 51.78
Hardback. Num Pages: 416 pages, 150 color + 150 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; ACQB; AMV; AMX; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 286 x 241. .
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300222012
- ISBN
- 9780300222012
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.57€ 42.55
€ 53.57
€ 42.55
Paperback. Garden Cities: the phrase is redolent of Arts and Crafts values and nineteenth-century utopianism. But despite being the culmination of a range of influential movements, and their own influence, in fact there were only ever two true garden cities in England. This book offers a guide to the movement and to the communities which are its legacy. Series: Shire Library. Num Pages: 80 pages, 30 b/w; 40 col. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; ACVN; AMVD; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 162 x 7. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Publisher
- Shire
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747813422
- ISBN
- 9780747813422
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.15
€ 11.99
€ 10.15
Paperback. A study of the struggle for environmental justice, focusing on conflicts over solid waste and pollution in Chicago. Series: Urban and Industrial Environments. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JH; 3JJ; HBT; RNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- MIT Press Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780262661874
- ISBN
- 9780262661874
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 22.79
€ 26.99
€ 22.79
Hardback. When Gandhi as a young lawyer in South Africa began fashioning the tenets of his political philosophy, he was absorbed by a seemingly unrelated enterprise: creating a newspaper, Indian Opinion. In Gandhi's Printing Press Isabel Hofmeyr provides an account of how this footnote to a career shaped the man who would become the world-changing Mahatma. Num Pages: 240 pages, 5 halftones, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 149 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674072794
- ISBN
- 9780674072794
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.36
€ 47.99
€ 40.36
Hardback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBTB; HRG; JFSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Publisher
- OUP India
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199474295
- ISBN
- 9780199474295
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.25
€ 43.25
Hardback. This intriguing book identifies the imaginative use of wild animals in early western society and shows how attitudes to wild animals changed according to subsistence and economic needs and how wildlife helped to determine social relations among people. Num Pages: 216 pages, 20 b&w photographs, 8 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; HBTB; JFFZ; JHMC; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774809627
- ISBN
- 9780774809627
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.85
€ 113.85
Hardback. Game Changer will change the way you look at sports-and the outsized impact technoscience has on them. Num Pages: 272 pages, 12, 8 black & white halftones, 4 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: HBTB; KNSP; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. .
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421421797
- ISBN
- 9781421421797
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.58
€ 35.99
€ 30.58
Paperback. Explores the theme of gambling in a wide range of nineteenth-century English novels. This book also considers the significance of gambling in the novels within the wider context of the development of Victorian society. It is a useful reading for those interested in the development of English society and culture in the Victorian era. Num Pages: 264 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DB; DSBF; DSK; HBTB; JFFH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 24. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845192112
- ISBN
- 9781845192112
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 35.90
€ 40.99
€ 35.90
Hardcover. This text explores the theme of gambling in a range of 19th-century English novels. It examines the representation of gambling in the novels, the role that gambling played in the lives of the novelists, and gambling in the novels within the context of the development of Victorian society. Num Pages: 254 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; HBTB; JFFH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903900185
- ISBN
- 9781903900185
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.85
€ 127.85
Paperback. Features a treatise on polite behavior. As relevant today as it was in Renaissance Italy, this title deals with subjects as varied as dress codes, charming conversation and off-color jokes, eating habits and hairstyles, and literary language. Num Pages: 144 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JB; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 138 x 11. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226212197
- ISBN
- 9780226212197
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.62
€ 16.99
€ 14.62
Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 20 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300176704
- ISBN
- 9780300176704
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 31.62
€ 43.99
€ 31.62
Paperback. Editor(s): Richie, Daniel E. (Professor of English Literature, Bethel College, Kansas, USA). Num Pages: 361 pages, index. BIC Classification: 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTV; JPA; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Liberty Fund Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 361
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780865970991
- ISBN
- 9780865970991
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.73
€ 15.99
€ 12.73
Paperback. A Seattle Times selection for one of Best Non-Fiction Books of 2010Winner of the New England Historial Association's 2010 James P. Hanlan AwardWinner of the Outdoor Writers Association of America 2011 Excellence in Craft Award, Book Division, First Place"A compelling and well-annotated tale of greed, slaughter and geopolitics." Los Angeles Times Num Pages: 464 pages, 125 black-and-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3J; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 28. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 442
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393340020
- ISBN
- 9780393340020
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.07
€ 22.07
Paperback. John Jacob Astor's dream of empire took shape as the American Fur Company. At Astor's retirement in 1834, this corporate monopoly reached westward from a depot on Mackinac Island to subposts beyond the confluence of the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers. This book focuses on eighteen men who represented the American Fur Company and its successors. Num Pages: 142 pages, Illus., map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 185.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 142
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803272699
- ISBN
- 9780803272699
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.39
€ 15.99
€ 15.39
Paperback. Gritty, deeply touching, fascinating, informative; these letters show the joys and heartbreaking challenges of family life in the fur trade. Editor(s): Munro, K. Douglas. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JH; BGH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Alberta Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 339
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780888644602
- ISBN
- 9780888644602
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.39
€ 40.99
€ 29.39
Paperback. A celebration of the sports mopeds of the '70s and early '80s. This book recaptures the spirit of happy, carefree times and looks at the bikes that gave freedom and mobility to a generation. Num Pages: 144 pages, over 150 colour pictures. BIC Classification: 3JJPL; HBT; WGCK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 210 x 14. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Publisher
- Veloce Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845840785
- ISBN
- 9781845840785
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 44.66
€ 52.99
€ 44.66
Paperback. This study seeks to penetrate the roots of the Taliban movement on Afghanistan, the factors which contributed to its sudden rise to prominence, and the implications of Taliban mobilization for the stability of Afghanistan and the region. Editor(s): Maley, William. Num Pages: 264 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FCA; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTB; HBTV; JFSR2; JPH; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co (Publishers)Ltd
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781850653608
- ISBN
- 9781850653608
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.70
€ 33.99
€ 30.70
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HBT; WDKX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 89 x 23. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- WS Publishing United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781613510360
- ISBN
- 9781613510360
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.15
€ 14.15
hardcover. Fumo illuminates the rich socio-economic history of twentieth-century Italy by following the cigarettes diffusion across class and gender boundaries, navigation of imperialism, Wars, Fascism, and 1970s protest movements to its eventual decline in recent decades. Num Pages: 300 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804795463
- ISBN
- 9780804795463
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.87
€ 144.87