History: specific events & topics
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History: specific events & topics
Paperback. This is an oral history of a second-generation, urban-born woman who struggles to survive in the poor, Andean city of La Paz. It shows how her identity shifts over time, shaped by the major events in her life. Topics range fron social networks to magical interventions and clairvoyant dreaming. Num Pages: 256 pages, 13 photos, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSL; BGHA; HBTD; JFSJ1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231104678
- ISBN
- 9780231104678
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 32.90
€ 46.99
€ 32.90
Paperback. On August 18, 1775 a black man was hanged and burned to oblivion. For nearly 235 years, the man and his story have remained obscure. By looking at the world of this free African American harbor pilot, the narrative of American Revolution takes on a different dimension. Num Pages: 282 pages, 8 b/w halftones, 1 b/w line. BIC Classification: 1KBBFS; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; HBWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199922871
- ISBN
- 9780199922871
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.54
€ 45.54
Paperback. Follows the interweaving lives of several key anarchists, and of the secret police who tracked them. Framed by the Paris Commune of 1871 and the 1905 revolution in St Petersburg, and spread across five continents, theirs is the story of a generation that saw the dream of Utopia crumble, to be replaced by a dangerous desperation. Num Pages: 544 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBLL; HBTB; JPFB; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 134 x 36. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Vintage Digital
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099551928
- ISBN
- 9780099551928
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.98
€ 19.99
€ 15.98
Paperback. Describes how blacks, Africans, and Afro-Americans, deeply influenced white's perceptions, values, and identity, and that although two world views existed, there was a deep symbiotic relatedness that must be explored if we are to understand either or both of them. Num Pages: 388 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 388
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691006086
- ISBN
- 9780691006086
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.15€ 41.35
€ 53.15
€ 41.35
Paperback. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW3; HBTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 736.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199371037
- ISBN
- 9780199371037
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.44
€ 65.44
Paperback. Reveals that traditional societies around the world offer an extraordinary window into how our ancestors lived for the majority of human history in evolutionary terms. This book explores how tribal people approach essential human problems, from health and diet to conflict resolution and language. Num Pages: 512 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 25. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141024486
- ISBN
- 9780141024486
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.86
€ 19.99
€ 14.86
Paperback. The first comprehensive and definitive history of the quest for one of the world's most dangerous records. Num Pages: 208 pages, 25. BIC Classification: HBTM; WSE; WSSN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 124. .
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445655345
- ISBN
- 9781445655345
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.03
€ 17.03
Paperback. Num Pages: 528 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QMP; HBJQ; HBTP; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486477329
- ISBN
- 9780486477329
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.32
€ 20.32
Paperback. From the bestselling author of 'The Lighthouse Stevensons', a gripping history of the drama and danger of wrecking since the 18th-century - and the often grisly ingenuity of British wreckers, scavengers of the sea. Num Pages: 320 pages, 30 b/w plates (16pp). BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JH; HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007170333
- ISBN
- 9780007170333
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.15
€ 17.99
€ 14.15
paperback. Original Hungarian work published in Budapest in 1943. Editor(s): Bondy, Frederick. Series: Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies. Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVH; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1429.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781557537645
- ISBN
- 9781557537645
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.40
€ 60.40
paperback. This book is a study of wartime anxiety in the fiction, art, and psychoanalytic writings of mid-century Britain. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 173 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 241.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 173
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- SKU
- V9781349284566
- ISBN
- 9781349284566
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. This study suggests that it was the representation of anxiety, rather than trauma and memory, that emerged most forcefully in mid-century wartime culture. Thinking about anxiety, Lyndsey Stonebridge argues, was a way of imagining how it might be possible to stay within a history that frequently undermined a sense of self and agency. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 184 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSA; DSBH; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 162 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230013278
- ISBN
- 9780230013278
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.00
€ 62.00
Paperback. Editor(s): Bending, Stephen; McRae, Andrew. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349511389
- ISBN
- 9781349511389
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 119.13
€ 119.13
The Yard of Wit. Male Creativity and Sexuality, 1650-1750.
Stephanson, Raymond (Professor Of English, Un...
Hardback. "Raymond Stephanson configures masculinity and its expressions in male creativity historically, biographically, and in sufficient deep-layer detail to persuade the most rigorous of scholars that this work will be a reliable source of enduring worth."-George Rousseau, De Montfort University Num Pages: 312 pages, 13 illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; 3JF; DSBD; HBTB; JFSJ2. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 638.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812237580
- ISBN
- 9780812237580
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.97
€ 98.97
The Year 1000. Religious and Social Response to the Turning of the Fir...
Michael . Ed(S): Frassetto
Hardback. Editor(s): Frassetto, Michael. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLC; HBTB; HRAB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 521.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 289
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403960290
- ISBN
- 9781403960290
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.83
€ 129.83
Paperback. * Vivid recreation of how English people lived a thousand years ago. * What life was like at the turn of the first Millennium. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; HBG; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 196 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349113067
- ISBN
- 9780349113067
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.77
€ 14.99
€ 11.77
Paperback. An examination of the Soviet agricultural crisis of 1931-1933 which culminated in the major famine of 1933. Making extensive use of Russian and Ukrainian central and local archives, the book reaches new conclusions on how far this famine was 'organized' or 'artificial', and compares it with other famines in Russia and elsewhere. Num Pages: 572 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 35. Weight in Grams: 730.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230238558
- ISBN
- 9780230238558
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 183.27
€ 183.27
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Merlin Unwin Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910723036
- ISBN
- 9781910723036
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.13
€ 26.99
€ 20.13
Paperback. In the late 1960s an Amish community considered state education detrimental to its own values. When the state claimed truancy and took Jonas Yoder to court, a legal battle of landmark proportions followed. This volume is a complete and compelling account of the Yoder case. Series: Landmark Law Cases and American Society. Num Pages: 216 pages, bibliographical references, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBT; HRCC99; LA; LND; LNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Univ Pr of Kansas
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700612734
- ISBN
- 9780700612734
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.04
€ 35.04
Paperback. Focuses on the enslavement, middle passage, American experience, and return to Africa of a single cultural group, the Yoruba. Moving beyond descriptions of generic African experiences, this anthology allows students to trace the experiences of one cultural group throughout the cycle of the slave experience in the Americas. Editor(s): Falola, Toyin; Childs, Matt D. Series: Blacks in the Diaspora. Num Pages: 472 pages, 10 b&w photos, 8 figures, 1 maps, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: 1HFD; 1K; GTB; HBTS; JFSL3; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253217165
- ISBN
- 9780253217165
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.41
€ 32.99
€ 31.41