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Hardback. Annamaboe - largest slave trading port on the Gold Coast - was home to African merchants whose partnerships with Europeans made the town an integral part of Atlantic webs of exchange. The author recreates the outpost's feverish bustle and brutality, tracing the entrepreneurs, black and white, who thrived on a lucrative traffic in human beings. Num Pages: 310 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; 3JF; HBJH; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 174 x 30. Weight in Grams: 660.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
310
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674724877
ISBN
9780674724877
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 37.27

Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 15 black & white halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBNH; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JPHL; RND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 245 x 24. Weight in Grams: 524.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801453618
ISBN
9780801453618
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.72

Paperback. An examination of Sahtu Dene participation in the assessment of the Mackenzie Gas pipeline and other resource extraction projects, this book provides an in-depth account of the workings and effects of participatory environmental assessment in the Canadian North and its implications for the legitimization of resource co-management. Series: Nature | History | Society. Num Pages: 480 pages, 6 b&w photos, 2 maps, 3 tables. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSL9; JHMP; RND; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780774828468
ISBN
9780774828468
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

Paperback. Paperback, blue spine. 160pp
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Barnacle Marine
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
SKU
KON0819589
ISBN
9780948788338
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.49

Paperback. This lovely volume is both a fitting tribute and a stirring reminder of the values we Americans hold dear. Num Pages: 192 pages, 175 colour photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AMGD; HBJK; HBTG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 302 x 233 x 13. Weight in Grams: 916.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
National Geographic Society United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781426204562
ISBN
9781426204562
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.42

Paperback. Explains why the working class was largely missing from the 1989-90 revolution which led to the fall of socialism in Germany. This book documents workers' day-to-day experience of the labor process, workplace union politics, and class. It shows how three factors led most workers to withdraw from politics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; HBTV; JFSC; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 385.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252067518
ISBN
9780252067518
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.89
€ 55.56

Paperback. A collection of photographs that documents the dramatic transformation that has taken place over the last one hundred years in the area around Whetstone and the Great North Road. It includes graphic images of Whetstone, Totteridge, Friern Barnet, New Southgate, Brunswick Park, Woodside Park and North Finchley. Series: Britain in Old Photographs. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBTB; WQP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 11. Weight in Grams: 372.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780750906500
ISBN
9780750906500
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.72

Paperback. A classic essay on the distortions of history that occur when historians impose a rigid point of view on the study of the past. Num Pages: 144 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBTB; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 134 x 197 x 10. Weight in Grams: 156.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1965
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Co.
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393003185
ISBN
9780393003185
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.33

Hardback. Whiskey cocktails that go well beyond the Old-Fashioned Num Pages: 240 pages, 75 color photographs. BIC Classification: HBT; WBX; WBXD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 178. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781581573251
ISBN
9781581573251
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.85

In "Civilization and Its Discontents", Sigmund Freud claimed that Rome must be comprehended as 'not a human dwelling place but a mental entity', in which the palaces of the Caesars still stand alongside modern apartment buildings in layers of brick, mortar, and memory. This book accepts Freud's challenge. Num Pages: 352 pages, 16 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 164 x 40. Weight in Grams: 762.
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300114713
ISBN
9780300114713
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 31.64

Paperback. Jet, a hard, black, shiny gen, closely related to coal, has been fashioned into jewellery and trinkets for generations, but during the Victorian period, when the ritual surrounding death and the long mourning of Queen Victoria made black fashionable, jet became hugely popular. This book traces the history of jet and the Whitby jet industry. Series: Shire Library. Num Pages: 56 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: 1DBKEYK; HBJD1; HBTK; WCP; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 150 x 4. Weight in Grams: 148.
Publisher
Shire Publications Ltd
Number of pages
56
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747807315
ISBN
9780747807315
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.44

Paperback. Rich in historical insight and told in a dramatic and engaging voice, this is a superb evocation of the period with a series character to rival Sharpe. Editor(s): Philipps, Roland. Num Pages: 352 pages, B/W line drawings & photos. BIC Classification: HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 240.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340794708
ISBN
9780340794708
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.51

Hardback. An insight into the world of low-budget westerns and Hollywood's "poverty row". C. Jack Lewis recounts his impressions of the directors, screenwriters and stars of these films, showing the human side of the people with whom he came into contact as he made his break into the industry. Series: The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series. Num Pages: 294 pages, 40 b&w photographs, index. BIC Classification: APF; HBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 144 x 25. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810843585
ISBN
9780810843585
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 125.78

Paperback. Paper is older than the printing press, and even in its unprinted state it was the great network medium behind the emergence of modern civilization. In the shape of bills, banknotes and accounting books it was indispensible to the economy. As forms and files it was essential to bureaucracy. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: GTC; HBTB; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745672540
ISBN
9780745672540
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.47

Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, 6 illus. BIC Classification: 1H; HB; HBTS; HRA; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 234 x 18. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199344390
ISBN
9780199344390
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 73.58

Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Condition
New
SKU
V9781632864123
ISBN
9781632864123
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 26.04

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: BTP; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 138 x 14. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd Canada
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781894384025
ISBN
9781894384025
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 17.49

Paperback. A selection of 19th-century Barbary Coast captivity narratives. The accounts range from 1798 to 1904 and tell the stories of enslaved white Americans, whose plight became fodder for pro- and anti-slavery writers. Num Pages: 376 pages, 19 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
376
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226034041
ISBN
9780226034041
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 27.05

Paperback. "A fascinating anthology of historical narratives composed from the late sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries by European women abducted by Muslim corsairs and enslaved in North Africa during the age of piracy. Many of the narratives are very rare and are by women coming from diverse social and economic backgrounds"-- Num Pages: 321 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; HBJH; HBTB; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
321
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349307487
ISBN
9781349307487
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 182.72

Hardcover. A fascinating anthology of narratives from the period 1735-1830, by European women who recount their enslavement in North Africa. The first such collection, it includes an extensive introduction which links the discourse on contemporary Western women captives in Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq with that of former white captives in North Africa. Num Pages: 321 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HB; 3JF; 3JH; HBJH; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 224 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230221987
ISBN
9780230221987
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 142.68
€ 136.94

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