History: specific events & topics
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History: specific events & topics
Hardcover. Arguing on recent cognitive evidence that reading a Bible is much more difficult for human brains than seeing images, this book exposes the depth and breadth of Protestant theologians' misunderstandings about how people could reform their spiritual lives - how they could literally change their minds. Num Pages: 254 pages, 18 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB; HPN; HRCC9; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230006317
- ISBN
- 9780230006317
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.29
€ 64.29
Paperback. Series: Identity Studies in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFF; JHB; JHBL; KJWB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349368716
- ISBN
- 9781349368716
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Work and Identity: Historical and Cultural Contexts (Identity Studies ...
Wall, Christine, Kirk, John
Hardcover. A fascinating account of theoretical debates around identity and work, recent trends and methodological arguments concerning the role of oral testimony and its interpretation. Series: Identity Studies in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460. Historical and Cultural Contexts. Series: Identity Studies in the Social Sciences. 264 pages, 11 figures, 6 black & white tables, 10 charts. A fascinating account of theoretical debates around identity and work, recent trends and methodological arguments concerning the role of oral testimony and its interpretation. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHBL. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 20. Weight: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230580824
- ISBN
- 9780230580824
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.83
€ 64.83
Hardcover. The development of toys in late nineteenth century Germany represents a valuable tool for understanding the influence of consumerism on Wilhelmine society. Through the lenses of producers, distributors, retailers, consumers and pedagogues, this work explores how this industry helped to lead the way toward German modernity. Series: Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany. Num Pages: 312 pages, 5 charts, 7 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; 3JJC; HBTB; HBTK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 581.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472115884
- ISBN
- 9780472115884
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.69
€ 113.69
Paperback. In this wide-ranging and accessible survey of American labour songs, Ronald D. Cohen chronicles the history behind the work songs of cowboys, sailors, hoboes, and others, as well as the singing culture of groups ranging from the Industrial Workers of the World to Pete Seeger Num Pages: 208 pages, 36 color Illustrations and 6 Black & White. BIC Classification: AVGC; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 15. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Carquinez Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780974412481
- ISBN
- 9780974412481
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.24
€ 36.24
Hardcover. This collection of essays takes readers across the twentieth-century American South, from rural roadside stands to the Birmingham Iron Plant's "Sloss Quarters." Covering the full scope of southern rural women's varied lives, this book will be of particular interest to anyone interested in sociology, women's studies, or southern history. Editor(s): Walker, Melissa; Sharpless, Rebecca. Num Pages: 296 pages, illustrations, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBTB; JFSF; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 617.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Missouri
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826216298
- ISBN
- 9780826216298
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.92€ 58.02
€ 62.92
€ 58.02
Hardback. This study examines the impact of the Industrial Revolution upon the family and questions the extent to which ordinary working men and women shared the "Victorian values" of the middle-class. The book focuses on Bradford as its case study. Series: Studies in Gender History. Num Pages: 353 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 34. Weight in Grams: 601.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 353
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333604793
- ISBN
- 9780333604793
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.54
€ 123.54
Hardcover. Germany's rise from newly formed nation-state on the European continent to global industrial power during the late 19th and early 20th centuries was propelled by the rapid transformation of its heavy industries, especially coal mining, iron and steel-making, electrical engineering, and chemical production. This book explores this transformation. Series: Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBLL; HBTK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472116782
- ISBN
- 9780472116782
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.05€ 77.03
€ 85.05
€ 77.03
Hardcover. The book aims to understand work participation in the workplace or worker voice by examining the inter-war experience in Australia, Canada, Germany, the UK and the US. Series: Studies in Labour History. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJD; HBTK; KNXB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781382684
- ISBN
- 9781781382684
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.50
€ 46.50
hardcover. This book focuses on the lives, struggles, and contrasting perspectives of the 60,000 workers, military administrators, and technical staff employed in the largest, most strategic industry of the Nationalist government, the armaments industry based in China's wartime capital, Chongqing. Num Pages: 480 pages, 22 tables, 3 maps, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJH; HBTB; KNDM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 31. Weight in Grams: 757.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804748964
- ISBN
- 9780804748964
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.25
€ 92.25
Hardback. Seeking to historicize today's "Great Recession," this volume includes essays that uses examples from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia to situate the current economic crisis and its impact on workers in the context of previous abrupt shifts in the modern-day capitalist marketplace. Editor(s): Fink, Leon; McCartin, Joseph A.; Sangster, Joan. Series: Working Class in American History. Num Pages: 320 pages, 17 charts, 3 tables, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 166 x 29. Weight in Grams: 668.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252038174
- ISBN
- 9780252038174
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 141.75
€ 141.75
Paperback. The workhouse is an institution which has left a emotional scar on the British nation. Its study can illuminate the understanding of the social, political, and medical history of Britain. This volume focuses on the northern part of England, covering the old counties of Cumberland, Durham, Lancashire, Northumberland, Westmorland and Yorkshire. Num Pages: 128 pages, Approx 150. BIC Classification: 1DBKEY; HBTB; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 165 x 10. Weight in Grams: 306. Very good copy.The History of Nursing and Hospital Histories.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KEX0304332
- ISBN
- 9780752440019
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 20.00
€ 20.00
paperback. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: HBTD; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 136 x 41. Weight in Grams: 736.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- The New Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781565843424
- ISBN
- 9781565843424
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.99€ 17.10
€ 22.99
€ 17.10
Paperback. Presents a social and industrial study of the conditions faced by the many thousands of working men and women and their families whose lives were controlled by the Great Western Railway from 1930-1960, the beginning of the modern period for the railway with mechanical accounting, up to the decline of the railway from 1957. Num Pages: 160 pages, 100. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBTB; JHBL; WGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 171 x 10. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- First Paperback Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752444031
- ISBN
- 9780752444031
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.24
€ 21.99
€ 20.24
Hardback. Avram Taylor assesses the effect of credit on working-class communities and relates this to the debate about community. Based on extensive archival research and oral history interviews, this book combines lively individual accounts with theoretical arguments. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB; JFF; JFSC; KFFL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 407.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333962329
- ISBN
- 9780333962329
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.11
€ 64.11
Paperback. Series: Historical Materialism. Num Pages: 253 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLW; HBTV; JPFF; KNXB2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Haymarket Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781608465507
- ISBN
- 9781608465507
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.28
€ 39.28
Hardback. Editor(s): Atabaki, Touraj; Bini, Elisabetta; Ehsani, Kaveh. Num Pages: 2 black & white illustrations, 3 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; TH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319564449
- ISBN
- 9783319564449
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.00
€ 157.00
Hardcover. Featuring over 70 photographs by Rick Williams, this volume portrays the daily lives of Texans at work in the industries that comprise the three economic pillars of the state: ranching, oil, and microcomputer technology. The photographs reveal the factors that link these different industries. Series: Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life Series. Num Pages: 132 pages, 72 duotone photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; HBTB; KN; WQP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 254 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1120.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Texas A&M University Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780890969557
- ISBN
- 9780890969557
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.37€ 48.83
€ 52.37
€ 48.83
Hardcover. Working Hard for the American Dream examines the various economic, social, and political developments that shaped labor history in the United States from World War I until the present day. The labor history presented here includes consideration of the importance of women workers, ethnic America, and post-World War II workers. Series: The American History Series. Num Pages: 302 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJK; HBTB; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118541401
- ISBN
- 9781118541401
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 100.97
€ 100.97
Paperback. Working Hard for the American Dream examines the various economic, social, and political developments that shaped labor history in the United States from World War I until the present day. The labor history presented here includes consideration of the importance of women workers, ethnic America, and post-World War II workers. Series: The American History Series. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118541494
- ISBN
- 9781118541494
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.51
€ 36.51
Hardcover. Tracing US labor history, this book relates social history as well - from slavery and expansion in the West to child labor laws and equal rights for women and minorities. It also includes chronologies of important events, along with eyewitness testimonies on the experience of working in a wide range of professions and trades. Num Pages: 512 pages, black-&-white photographs & illustrations, maps, graphs, & tables, index, bibliography, g. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; KCF; KCZ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Facts on File
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816062393
- ISBN
- 9780816062393
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.03€ 89.52
€ 99.03
€ 89.52
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 4th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612057323
- ISBN
- 9781612057323
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 109.52
€ 109.52
Paperback. Socialist normality and the planned economy: "Working in East Germany" writes the people back into the history of East Germany. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349279999
- ISBN
- 9781349279999
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardcover. Explores economic tendencies, political relationships and social situations that combined to create a specific socio-political habitat in East Germany after the building of the Berlin Wall. This book writes the people back into the history of East Germany. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230001602
- ISBN
- 9780230001602
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.01
€ 64.01