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History: specific events & topics

Paperback. Traces public housing's history in Chicago from its New Deal roots through mayor Richard M Daley's Plan for Transformation. In the process, the author chronicles the Chicago Housing Authority's own transformation from the city's most progressive government agency to its largest slumlord. Series: Historical Studies of Urban America. Num Pages: 392 pages, 28 halftones, 4 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226360867
ISBN
9780226360867
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.29

Paperback. Tells the story some of the most coveted scraps of paper in existence, from Amuritius' Port Louis to Bordeaux, India and Great Britain, Switzerland and Japan, into the fantasies and imagination of stamp collectors everywhere. Num Pages: 336 pages, integrated prints & line drawings throughout. BIC Classification: HBT; WCG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 316.
Publisher
Atlantic Books London
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843544364
ISBN
9781843544364
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.43

Paperback. Tells the story of Josiah E DuBois, Jr, a young Treasury Department lawyer who risked his career to alert the world to the Holocaust. This book tells how Dubois exposed the inequities in America's refugee policy and forced the United States government to take action to rescue the displaced Jews. Editor(s): Medoff, Dr. Rafael. Series: Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJH; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557535078
ISBN
9781557535078
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.24

Paperback. Num Pages: 235 pages, 100s of historical photos. BIC Classification: HBTM; KNGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 277 x 218 x 14. Weight in Grams: 960.
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
First Thus
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764303180
ISBN
9780764303180
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 25.06

Paperback. Num Pages: 640 pages, 8pp b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBTB; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 50. Weight in Grams: 450.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
640
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349138800
ISBN
9780349138800
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.74

Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages, 55 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780750969819
ISBN
9780750969819
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.38

Paperback. This work seeks to delve beneath the chaos and brutality of the Norse world to discover a complex interplay of ordering and disordering impulses. Num Pages: 420 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DNC; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 574.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
420
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226526805
ISBN
9780226526805
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 28.23

Paperback. A fascinating family memoir from Joseph O'Neill, author of the Man Booker Prize longlisted and Richard & Judy pick, 'Netherland'. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1DVT; 3JJH; BGH; HBT; JPVR; WQY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers London
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007309252
ISBN
9780007309252
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.77

Hardback. A Christmas hardback with tremendous sales potential. Blood, Iron and Gold tells the dramatic story of the people and events that shaped the world's railways, stimulating economic growth and social change on an unprecedented scale. Num Pages: 400 pages, 2x8 colour, 1x4 colour. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBG; HBTK; KNGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 164 x 36. Weight in Grams: 809. Good copy with some minor shelf wear. Dustwrapper with minor edge wear but remains good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Main
SKU
KKD0008858
ISBN
9781848871700
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Nearly a decade of fiercely divisive debate over foxhunting in Britain culminated with passage of the Hunting with Dogs Act of 2004. This book recounts the long and colourful history of hunting in Britain, offers a fresh perspective on the conflicts, and concludes with a critique of the hunting controversies. Num Pages: 296 pages, 32 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBT; WSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300145458
ISBN
9780300145458
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.89

Hardback. Chronicles the emergence and transformation of hemophilia community. This book sets the story within our national political landscape - where the disease is also a social, psychological, and economic experience. Num Pages: 308 pages, 8 b/w photos, 1 figure, 5 tables. BIC Classification: HBTB; MBX; MJCG1; MJCJ2; MJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520211957
ISBN
9780520211957
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.15
€ 48.20

Paperback. Published for the first time as a Granta Books paperback: Barbara Ehrenreich's groundbreaking investigation into the roots of war, with a new introduction by the author. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 238.
Edition
New Edition
Publisher
Granta Books
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847083531
ISBN
9781847083531
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.66

Paperback. Combining contemporary ethnography and ethnohistory, Circe Strum's analysis probes the intersection of race and national identity, the process of national formation, and the dangers in linking racial and national identities. The study focuses on the Oklahoma Cherokee. Num Pages: 268 pages, 20 b/w photographs, 2 line figures,1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBSH; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 54.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520230972
ISBN
9780520230972
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.33

Paperback. Dennis's wide-angle perspective reveals the Memorial Day Massacre as not simply another bloody incident in the long story of labor-management tension in American history but as an illustration of the broad-based movement for social democracy which developed in the New Deal era. Series: Witness to History. Num Pages: 152 pages, 5, 4 black & white halftones, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; HBTK; KCF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 227.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421410180
ISBN
9781421410180
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 21.76

Hardback. Dennis's wide-angle perspective reveals the Memorial Day Massacre as not simply another bloody incident in the long story of labor-management tension in American history but as an illustration of the broad-based movement for social democracy which developed in the New Deal era. Series: Witness to History. Num Pages: 152 pages, 5, 4 black & white halftones, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; HBTK; KCF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 317.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421410173
ISBN
9781421410173
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.05

Paperback. Helps you discover what civil war, revolution and counter-revolution felt like from inside both camps. Num Pages: 624 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTD; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 614.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
624
Condition
New
SKU
V9780712660143
ISBN
9780712660143
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.25

Paperback. A careful and comprehensive analysis of Canada s economic policies and political interference in Latin America Noam Chomsky

" BIC Classification: HBTQ; JFFS; JPH; KJ; KNA; KNB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. .
Publisher
Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781552668306
ISBN
9781552668306
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 26.25

Hardcover. A gripping tale of racial cleansing in the American South and a harrowing testament to the deep roots of racial violence in America. Num Pages: 320 pages, 36 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFG; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 31. Weight in Grams: 626.
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393293012
ISBN
9780393293012
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.26

paperback. Presents the global history of genocide and extermination from ancient times. This book examines outbreaks of mass violence from the classical era to the present, focusing on colonial exterminations and 20th-century case studies including the Armenian genocide, the Nazi Holocaust, Stalin's mass murders, and the Cambodian and Rwandan genocides. Num Pages: 768 pages, 38 black-&-white illustrations + 31 maps. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 50. Weight in Grams: 968.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780300144253
ISBN
9780300144253
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.99
€ 22.79

Paperback. The Wars of the Roses turned England upside down. Between 1455 and 1485, four kings, including Richard III, lost their thrones, more than forty noblemen lost their lives on the battlefield, and thousands of the men who followed them met violent deaths. This title tells how a family survived one of the tempestuous periods in English History. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.). BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC; HBTG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 127 x 28. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571216710
ISBN
9780571216710
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.91

Paperback. A riveting and richly detailed chronicle of what was, by 1614, the largest act of ethnic cleansing in European history. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; HBTZ; HRAM9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 38. Weight in Grams: 478.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849048019
ISBN
9781849048019
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.45

Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 3 Black and white photos. BIC Classification: HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 257 x 32. Weight in Grams: 540.
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812995763
ISBN
9780812995763
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.56

Paperback. Translator(s): Whiteside, Shaun. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBTB; HBWQ; JFFH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141983165
ISBN
9780141983165
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.40

Paperback.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752460314
ISBN
9780752460314
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.27

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