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History: specific events & topics
Paperback. Starting with the crippling custom of footbinding, this work presents a study of Chinese American women during the first half of the twentieth century. Using this symbol of subjugation to examine social change in the lives of these women, it shows the stages of 'unbinding' that occurred between the turn of the century and the end of World War II. Num Pages: 395 pages, 33 b&w illustrations, 12 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 395
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520088672
- ISBN
- 9780520088672
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.56
€ 38.99
€ 28.56
Paperback. Presents an argument that the coming of sound inspired more in the massively influential horror movies than screams, creaking doors, and howling wolves. This book makes a case for understanding film viewing as a force that can powerfully shape both the minutest aspects of individual films and the broadest sweep of film production trends. Num Pages: 202 pages, 28 b/w photographs, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: APF; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520251229
- ISBN
- 9780520251229
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.44
€ 40.99
€ 29.44
Paperback. Almost fifty years after Brown v Board of Education, research shows that minority students continue to receive an unequal education. At the heart of this inequality is a complex and often conflicted relationship between teachers and civil rights activists. This title traces the tensions between the two groups in New York City over the years. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJ; HBTB; JNFR; JNKH; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226660721
- ISBN
- 9780226660721
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.82
€ 40.99
€ 31.82
Uncle Will of Wildwood: Nineteenth-Century Life in the Bluegrass
McVey, Frances Jewell, Jewell, Robert Berry
Paperback. This warm and humorous memoir of the nineteenth-century Bluegrass recalls a special moment in Kentucky's past. It was a time of self-sufficient country estates; a time when, as Thomas D Clark writes in his introduction, "every Bluegrass farm gate was the entryway into a ruggedly independent domain." Wildwood was such a domain, ruled by Uncle Will. Illustrator(s): Foose, Robert James. Num Pages: 128 pages, 33 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBSK; BGH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 191.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University Press of Kentucky
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813191478
- ISBN
- 9780813191478
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.95
€ 34.95
Paperback. * Classic essays on the history of radical protest. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHBL; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 127 x 31. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780349112282
- ISBN
- 9780349112282
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.24
€ 17.99
€ 13.24
Hardback. Combining the colorful intrigue of courtroom drama and the keen insights of social history, Unconscious Crime depicts Victorian England's legal and medical cultures confronting a new understanding of human behavior, and provocatively suggests these trials represent the earliest incarnation of double consciousness and multiple personality disorder. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JH; HBTB; JKVQ; MBX; MMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801874284
- ISBN
- 9780801874284
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 45.10
€ 53.99
€ 45.10
Paperback. Comparative case studies reveal the multiple relations between psychoanalysis and globalization, showing how imperial ideologies were incorporated into early psychoanalytic theory, and how psychoanalysis has been reconfigured to critique imperialism. Editor(s): Anderson, Warwick; Jenson, Deborah; Keller, Richard C. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: HBTQ; HBTR; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 234 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822349792
- ISBN
- 9780822349792
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.72
€ 31.99
€ 28.72
Hardback. An interesting set of studies on external perceptions of Yugoslavia during World War II by diverse observers including those by General de Gaulle and The Duke of Spoleto. Series: East European Monographs S. Num Pages: 166 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVWY; 3JJH; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 224 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- East European Monographs United States
- Number of pages
- 166
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780880330817
- ISBN
- 9780880330817
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.79
€ 84.79
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1MBF; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845887629
- ISBN
- 9781845887629
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.00€ 16.46
€ 20.00
€ 16.46
Paperback. Under Fire studies the impact of total war on the civilian population of Essex between 1939 and 1945. How people coped with the immense stress of heavy bombing and the fear of invasion and undercurrents of political disaffection, crime and a supposed crisis in morality, as well as the hostility faced by conscientious objectors are all examined. Num Pages: 320 pages, 46. BIC Classification: 1DBKEAX; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 606.
- Publisher
- University Of Hertfordshire Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909291287
- ISBN
- 9781909291287
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.62
€ 44.62
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, 17. BIC Classification: 1FPK; HBJF; HBLW; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801472701
- ISBN
- 9780801472701
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.44
€ 26.99
€ 25.44
Paperback. Editor(s): Marquez-Noe, Delfina. Num Pages: 196 pages. BIC Classification: HBTZ. Dimension: 142 x 216 x 15. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Pyramid Press United States
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780989901758
- ISBN
- 9780989901758
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 27.84
€ 41.99
€ 27.84
Paperback. Based on extensive archival research, this book is the first wide-ranging analysis of how memories of the Franco-Prussian War shaped French political culture and identities. Examining war remembrance as an emerging mass phenomenon in Europe, it sheds new light on the relationship between memories and the emergence of new concepts of the nation. Num Pages: 310 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349281916
- ISBN
- 9781349281916
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 138.85
€ 138.85
Paperback. Contains two interlocking strands: the story of those who sought to know and understand our weather; and the story of its impact on us - our history, our culture, the way we think and behave. This work focuses on the people who volunteered and toiled for the cause, telling their stories by tracking them down to the places. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DB; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 23. Weight in Grams: 254. Clean copy
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- KEX0224754
- ISBN
- 9780099461241
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 422 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JMG; HBTB; JPFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 210 x 33. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Publisher
- AK Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849352017
- ISBN
- 9781849352017
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 23.75
€ 25.99
€ 23.75
Paperback. Num Pages: 324 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBTV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 26. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875807447
- ISBN
- 9780875807447
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 42.18
€ 46.99
€ 42.18
Hardback. Num Pages: 363 pages, 170 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJP; HBTW; HBWS; JWK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 241 x 30. Weight in Grams: 994.
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848844803
- ISBN
- 9781848844803
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.66
€ 33.99
€ 24.66
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 86 black & white illustrations, 14 colour illustrations, 8 colour plates. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBJD1; HBTB; WGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 642.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752497723
- ISBN
- 9780752497723
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.68
€ 19.99
€ 18.68
Paperback. Why is the Victoria Line so hot? What is an Electrical Multiple Unit? Is it really possible to ride from King's Cross to King's Cross on the Circle line? This book offers an informative history of everything you need to know about the Tube. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBJD1; HBTB; WGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 133 x 20. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Publisher
- Profile Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846684784
- ISBN
- 9781846684784
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.74
€ 15.99
€ 11.74
Paperback. Num Pages: 48 pages. BIC Classification: HBTP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 305. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Carta,The Israel Map & Publishing Company Ltd,Israel Israel
- Number of pages
- 48
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789652208460
- ISBN
- 9789652208460
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.51
€ 21.99
€ 19.51
Paperback. This text is an introductory survey of German society focusing on the post-unification situation. It raises questions relating to German identity and adopts an integrated approach, considering society, culture, politics, economics and history. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB; JFC; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 385. Some shelf wear , name on endpaper
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- KTK0097297
- ISBN
- 9780415141246
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Genealogists and local historians have probably seen every birth, marriage, death and census record available, and are adept at unsing the internet for research. However, once they have learnt everything they can from them, the next step is reading and understanding older documents. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 170 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1100.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752464640
- ISBN
- 9780752464640
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.96
€ 40.99
€ 28.96
Paperback. Num Pages: 40 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTP1; HRAX; HRCC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 300 x 12. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Carta the Isreal Map & Pub Co Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789652208644
- ISBN
- 9789652208644
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.53
€ 21.99
€ 19.53
Paperback. Examines slavery's historical roots to illuminate today's puzzles. The author explores our basic ideas about what slavery is and how the phenomenon fits into our moral, political, and economic worlds. He asks how we can study and measure this mostly hidden crime. Throughout, he emphasizes that to end global slavery, we must first understand it. Num Pages: 222 pages, 1 b/w photograph, 2 drawings, 2 maps, 4 tables. BIC Classification: HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 222
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520245075
- ISBN
- 9780520245075
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.06
€ 33.99
€ 25.06