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History: specific events & topics
Hardback. Why did the passion for food--gastronomy--originate in France? The key, it turns out, is France itself. In its climate, diversity of soils, abundant resources, and varied topography lie the roots of France's food fame. Pitte masterfully reveals the ways in which cultural phenomena surrounding food and eating in France relate to space and place. Translator(s): Gladding, Jody. Series: Arts & Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History. Num Pages: 176 pages, 33 photos, 8 maps. BIC Classification: HBT; JFC; WBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231124164
- ISBN
- 9780231124164
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 32.94
€ 46.99
€ 32.94
Hardcover. Identifying key events, practices, stakeholders and institutions in the history of French cycling, this volume presents an interdisciplinary analysis of how cycling has been significant in French society and culture since the late Nineteenth century. Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBTB; WSBX; WSQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 290
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846318351
- ISBN
- 9781846318351
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.90
€ 69.90
paperback. This book describes how a long generation of founding French Canadians shaped the Pacific Northwest. Num Pages: 944 pages, 47 photos, 4 maps, 16 tables. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 944
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780774828055
- ISBN
- 9780774828055
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 45.61
€ 46.99
€ 45.61
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Osprey Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 112
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781855328983
- ISBN
- 9781855328983
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.41
€ 21.99
€ 20.41
Paperback. Freemasonry is one of the oldest and most widespread voluntary organizations in the world. Andreas Onnerfors sorts the facts from the colourful fictions surrounding this organization and outlines how the organization works, its rituals and symbols, its values, and the work it does in modern society. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 144 pages, 10 black and white images. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSV; JFSV1; JKSN1. Dimension: 174 x 111. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198796275
- ISBN
- 9780198796275
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.74
€ 11.99
€ 10.74
Hardback. Congress established the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - more commonly known as the Freedmen's Bureau - in March 1865. Upon its creation this temporary federal agency assumed the Herculean task of overseeing the transition from slavery to freedom in the war-torn South. Series: Reconstructing America. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 539.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823232116
- ISBN
- 9780823232116
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.46
€ 119.46
hardcover. Unearths an unexpected bloom of liberty in an ex-slave's journal Num Pages: 219 pages, 8 figures/1 table/ 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JH; BJ; HBTS; TVS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 161 x 14. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814705100
- ISBN
- 9780814705100
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.52
€ 86.52
Hardcover. In the spring of 1915, Chicagoans elected the city's first black alderman, Oscar DePriest. This book tells the history of three generations of African American activists - the ministers, professionals, labor leaders, clubwomen, and entrepreneurs - who transformed twentieth-century urban politics. Num Pages: 304 pages, 11 halftones, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JJ; HBTB; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226135908
- ISBN
- 9780226135908
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.27€ 46.80
€ 55.27
€ 46.80
Paperback. This saga opens with the enslavement of a woman from Senegambia, and then traces her family s quest, across five generations, for lives of dignity and equality. The story of Rosalie and her descendants unfolds against the background of three great antiracist struggles: the Haitian Revolution, the French Revolution of 1848, and the U.S. Civil War." Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KL; 3JH; HBJK; HBTB; HBWJ; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674416918
- ISBN
- 9780674416918
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.23
€ 27.99
€ 24.23
Hardback. Series: Apercus: Histories Texts Cultures. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; HBTB; JPVH2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 224 x 22. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611483666
- ISBN
- 9781611483666
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.76
€ 135.76
Paperback. Winner of the Lincoln Prize. "Oakes brilliantly succeeds in [clarifying] the aims of the war with a wholly new perspective."-David Brion Davis, New York Review of Books Num Pages: 640 pages, 8 pages of illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 144 x 28. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 608
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393347753
- ISBN
- 9780393347753
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.29
€ 19.99
€ 18.29
Hardcover. A powerful history of emancipation that reshapes our understanding of Lincoln, the Civil War, and the end of American slavery. Num Pages: 596 pages, 8 pages illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 170 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1044.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- First
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393065312
- ISBN
- 9780393065312
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.37
€ 32.99
€ 27.37
Paperback. Tracing the struggle to open the American workplace to all, this work shows how African-American and later Mexican-American civil rights activists and feminists concluded that freedom alone would not suffice: access to jobs at different levels is a requisite of full citizenship. Num Pages: 496 pages, 30 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 762.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674027497
- ISBN
- 9780674027497
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.27
€ 36.99
€ 31.27
Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 17, 13 black & white halftones, 2 maps, 2 charts. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 239 x 24. Weight in Grams: 568. Anti-slavery and Empire in Victorian Britain. 312 pages, Illustrations, maps. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTS. Dimension: 156 x 239 x 24. Weight: 570.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Number of pages
- 312
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801451089
- ISBN
- 9780801451089
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.94
€ 44.94
Paperback. The electrifying story of India's struggle for independence, told in this classic account (first published in 1975) by two fine journalists who conducted hundreds of interviews with nearly all the surviving participants - from Mountbatten to the assassins of Mahatma Gandhi. Num Pages: 656 pages, 8 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FKP; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 129 x 38. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780006388517
- ISBN
- 9780006388517
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.75
€ 21.99
€ 15.75
Paperback. A work of political history in which significant economic and political forces and events that shaped the nineteenth century are examined. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBLL; HBTB; HPC; HPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 214 x 140 x 32. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415487399
- ISBN
- 9780415487399
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.87
€ 21.99
€ 21.87
Hardback. This text examines how the political cultures of the elite and of the common people intersected during the 17th century in England. It looks at politics at all social levels and investigates how it was affected by expectations about women's roles in politics. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 375.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198206125
- ISBN
- 9780198206125
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.24
€ 116.24
Paperback. The story of a 13-year-old slave who escaped from Washington Territory to freedom in Canada on the West's underground railroad Series: V Ethel Willis White Books. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 137 x 13. Weight in Grams: 159.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295992716
- ISBN
- 9780295992716
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.39
€ 18.99
€ 17.39
Hardcover. Although the heroism of last century's freedom marches will long be credited for ending racial discrimination, civil rights legislation owes much to work done more quietly in the district courtrooms of the South. This book helps in understanding how the Voting Rights Act came about by focusing on several key cases in Alabama. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBSB; 3JJPK; HBTB; JPHF; JPVH1; LAZ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700615100
- ISBN
- 9780700615100
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.27
€ 67.27
Paperback. Although Frederick Douglass is best known for the first volume of his autobiography, there has never before been a collection of his inspiring speeches and editorials. Noted historian Milton Meltzer has gathered together a unique selection of Douglass's eloquent and impassioned speeches and writings against slavery and other moral injustices. Editor(s): Barnes, L. Diane. Series: Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: B; HBTS; HBWJ. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813934365
- ISBN
- 9780813934365
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.29
€ 32.29
Paperback. This collection of writings on Frederick Douglass examines the explicit and implicit philosophical themes and arguments that resonate through his texts. Contributors to the volume include Angela Davis, Bernard Boxill, Howard McGary and Lewis Gordon. Editor(s): Lawson, Bill; Kirkland, Frank (Hunter College, City University of New York Graduate Center USA). Series: Blackwell Critical Readers. Num Pages: 424 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSBF; HBTS; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631205784
- ISBN
- 9780631205784
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.32
€ 56.32
Paperback. Frederick Douglass, a former slave, spent four months in Ireland in 1845, filling halls with eloquent denunciations of slavery and causing controversy with graphic descriptions of slaves being tortured. He also shared a stage with Daniel O'Connell. Num Pages: 240 pages, B&W images. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1KB; 3JH; BGH; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The Collins Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848891968
- ISBN
- 9781848891968
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.51
€ 16.99
€ 14.51
Paperback. "A masterpiece..[W]ill rightfully assume its place as the standard biography of a truly great figure in the nation's past." -New York Newsday Num Pages: 512 pages, photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 710.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393313765
- ISBN
- 9780393313765
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.31
€ 33.99
€ 28.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white photos. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD1; HBTR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 158 x 30. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Publisher
- Irish Academic Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780716532392
- ISBN
- 9780716532392
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 21.27
€ 27.99
€ 21.27