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History: specific events & topics

Paperback. Explores the security forces' covert operations in Northern Ireland. This book charts the successes and failures of special operations during the troubles. It reveals the dilemmas faced by intelligence chiefs engaged in a daily struggle against terrorist organisations. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations, 1map. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; HBTV; JKSW1; JPSH; JPWL; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 248. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Main
SKU
KKD0003806
ISBN
9780571168095
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Presents the history of the bicycle, an invention that precipitated nothing short of a social revolution. This book recounts a story replete with disputed patents, brilliant inventions, and missed opportunities. It shows us why the bicycle captured the public's imagination and the myriad ways it has reshaped our world. Num Pages: 480 pages, 98 b/w and 115 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; YNWY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 179 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1064.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300120479
ISBN
9780300120479
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.20

Hardback. To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com. Series: Native American Bibliography Series. Num Pages: 162 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
162
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810818057
ISBN
9780810818057
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.75

Hardcover. Num Pages: 925 pages, dust jacket. BIC Classification: 1DVH; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 235 x 55. Weight in Grams: 1378.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
East European Monographs United States
Edition
1st
Number of pages
925
Condition
New
SKU
V9780880336871
ISBN
9780880336871
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.12
€ 73.24

Hardback. Gleans from more than 400 genealogy and history periodicals articles listing military men in America's wars from the Colonial era to the Spanish-American War. Num Pages: 1118 pages. BIC Classification: HBTG; WQY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 148 x 64. Weight in Grams: 1371.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
1118
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810821668
ISBN
9780810821668
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 346.67

A collection of essays from one of the most renowned bibliographical scholars of our time. Editor(s): Hall, David D. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 184 pages, 9 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812238372
ISBN
9780812238372
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 87.08

Hardback. Explores how anthropology can come to terms with "colonial library" and begin to develop an ethnographic practice that transcends politics of Africa's imperial past. This book develops a model of critical agency, focusing on a variety of language genres in Africa situated in rituals that transform socio-political relations. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1 map, 1 line drawing, 8 figures, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1H; CFG; HBTQ; HBTR; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 15. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226023519
ISBN
9780226023519
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.12
€ 79.41

Paperback. * First published in 1986 as WINTER IN THE MORNING, this edition has been updated and expanded by the author. *'A profound and moving book which everyone ought to read' Alan Sillitoe, New Statesman Series: VMC. Num Pages: 304 pages, Section: 8, b/w. BIC Classification: 1DVP; BGH; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844083190
ISBN
9781844083190
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.92

Paperback. In this moving memoir Jane Lazarre, a white Jewish mother, describes her experience being married to an African American man and raising two sons as she learns, from family experience, teaching, and her studies, about the realities of racism in America. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: BK; HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 273.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Twentieth Anniversary Edition with a New Preface
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822361664
ISBN
9780822361664
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Hardback. In this moving memoir Jane Lazarre, a white Jewish mother, describes her experience being married to an African American man and raising two sons as she learns, from family experience, teaching, and her studies, about the realities of racism in America. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: BK; HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 237 x 15. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Anniversary, Twentieth Anniversary Edition with a
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822361473
ISBN
9780822361473
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.92

Hardback. Examining imperial efforts to police urban space from the late sixteenth century onward, the author shows how the production of urban space was explicitly centered on the politics of racial exclusion and social control. Num Pages: 296 pages, 24 b/w. BIC Classification: 1KJC; HBJK; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520286030
ISBN
9780520286030
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.12
€ 73.24

Paperback. Examining imperial efforts to police urban space from the late sixteenth century onward, the author shows how the production of urban space was explicitly centered on the politics of racial exclusion and social control. Num Pages: 296 pages, 24 b/w. BIC Classification: 1KJC; HBJK; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520286047
ISBN
9780520286047
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.52

Paperback. From Jewish clothing merchants to Bangladeshi curry houses, ancient docks to the 2012 Olympics, the area east of the City has always played a crucial role in London's history. The East End was the home to Shakespeare's first theatre and to the early stirrings of a mass labour movement. This book offers an illustrated history of this district. Num Pages: 384 pages, 50 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 198 x 33. Weight in Grams: 492.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300187755
ISBN
9780300187755
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 17.15

Hardback. Examines colonial medical policy and the ways in which doctors of the Colonial Medical Service dealt with the day-to-day reality of care-giving in Imperial Africa. Series: Studies in Imperialism. Num Pages: 238 pages. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719089671
ISBN
9780719089671
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 168.42

Paperback. Beyond the Palio is an interdisciplinary collection of essays examining the components and importance of ritual events and ceremonies in Renaissance Siena. * Brings together studies based upon diverse disciplinary and methodological approaches to a common theme. Editor(s): Jackson, Philippa; Nevola, Fabrizio. Series: Renaissance Studies Special Issues. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 9. Weight in Grams: 238.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405155724
ISBN
9781405155724
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.60

Paperback. How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that swept across modern China? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? How did the citizens of Shanghai cope with the epic upheavals - revolution, war, and again revolution - that shook their lives? In this carefully researched study, Hanchao Lu weaves rich. Num Pages: 473 pages, 36 b/w photographs, 2 maps, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
473
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520243781
ISBN
9780520243781
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 32.06

Hardback. In Japan, as elsewhere, cities became the staging ground for wide ranging social, cultural, economic, and political transformations. This title looks at the emergence of urbanism in the interwar period, a global moment when the material and ideological structures that constitute "the city" took their characteristic modern shape. Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Num Pages: 326 pages, 4 maps, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJG; HBTB; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 227 x 30. Weight in Grams: 586.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
326
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520275201
ISBN
9780520275201
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.42
€ 65.36

Hardback. Cold War history has emphasized the division of Europe into two warring camps with separate ideologies and little in common. This volume presents an alternative perspective by suggesting that there were transnational networks bridging the gap and connecting like-minded people on both sides of the divide. Editor(s): Mikkonen, Simo; Koivunen, Pia. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782388661
ISBN
9781782388661
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 174.96

Paperback. A behind-the-scenes look at "Barricada", the official daily newspaper of the Sandinista Front in the 1980s. Even during the period of the Nicaraguan Revolution, a more professional agenda also motivated the journalists and editors of this party-run paper. Series: Ohio RIS Latin America Series. Num Pages: 338 pages, Illustrations, 1 port. BIC Classification: 1KLCN; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; HBTV; JPWQ; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 585. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
338
Condition
New
SKU
V9780896802230
ISBN
9780896802230
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 32.13

hardcover. By challenging the ways that survivors of mass violence are typically understood as either eyewitnesses to history or victims of it, the contributors to this volume ask us to go "beyond testimony" to embrace sustained listening and collaborative research design. Editor(s): High, Steven. Series: Shared: Oral and Public History Series. Num Pages: 7 photographs. BIC Classification: HBTD; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 676.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774828925
ISBN
9780774828925
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.64

paperback. Explores the central role of the British Empire in developing transnational ideas, institutions and social movements of increasing scope and influence in the eras of high imperialism and the two world wars. Editor(s): Grant, K.; Levine, P.; Trentmann, Frank. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed. 2007
SKU
V9781349540891
ISBN
9781349540891
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 126.94

Hardcover. This book looks at a United States that continues to be driven by racial and cultural divisions, from the disproportionately high number of incarcerated African Americans to heartfelt disagreements over the true nature of marriage and the proper role of faith in public policy. Editor(s): Brooten, Bernadette J. Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Num Pages: 358 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTS; HRA; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230100169
ISBN
9780230100169
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.35

Paperback. This study explores the transition from slavery to freedom and what this transition meant for former slaves, former slaveowners, and the societies in which they lived. It covers areas such as Jamaica, Louisiana, Cuba, and French West Africa. Num Pages: 216 pages, 5 illustrations, 4 maps, index. BIC Classification: 1HFD; 1KBB; 1KJC; 1KJWJ; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 148 x 235 x 23. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Edition
1 New ed
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807848548
ISBN
9780807848548
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.87

Hardback. Mark Rifkin explores how Indigenous experiences with time and the dominance of settler colonial conceptions of temporality have affected Native peoplehood and sovereignty, thereby rethinking the very terms by which history is created and organized around time by. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 545.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822362852
ISBN
9780822362852
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.46

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