History: specific events & topics
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History: specific events & topics
Paperback. The first book-length survey of cinema's vital role in the Cold War cultural combat between the U.S. and the USSR. Focuses on 10 films five American and five Soviet, both iconic and lesser-known works showing that cinema provided a crucial outlet for the global "debate" between democratic and communist ideologies." Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: APF; HBTW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700620203
- ISBN
- 9780700620203
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.19
€ 42.19
Hardcover. After 1776, Americans struggled to gain recognition of their new republic and their rights as citizens. None had to fight harder than the nation s seamen, whose labor took them deep into the Atlantic world. Nathan Perl-Rosenthal tells the story of how their efforts created the first national, racially inclusive model of U.S. citizenship." Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTM; HBWF; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 147 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publisher
- Belknap Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674286153
- ISBN
- 9780674286153
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 39.28
€ 47.99
€ 39.28
Hardback. The French Revolution introduced ideological terror to the world. This book offers a comprehensive explanation of the gruesome Terror, its causes and its consequences for the modern world. Num Pages: 630 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; HBTV; JPVR; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 162 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1020.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 630
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742508316
- ISBN
- 9780742508316
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 36.06
€ 38.99
€ 36.06
Paperback. This pioneering study of amateur futbol (soccer) clubs in Chile reveals how the world's most popular sport has served to engage citizens in local and national politics and support democratic practices Num Pages: 327 pages, 17 b&w photos, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; HBTB; WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 330. Weight in Grams: 652.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 327
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780292743939
- ISBN
- 9780292743939
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.58
€ 34.99
€ 31.58
Hardcover. Focusing on the subject of citizen volunteerism by chronicling the nature and purpose of volunteer police in America since 1620, this book emphasizes the role of young people in the fields of security and safety, and stresses the need for more qualified, trained volunteers to help cope with man-made and natural disasters. Num Pages: 364 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; KNSS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Pittsburgh Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822942641
- ISBN
- 9780822942641
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.02
€ 66.02
Paperback. Offers a social, cultural and narrative history of the French Revolution. This title provides an impression of the currents and contradictions which made up this terrible sequence of events. Num Pages: 848 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 36. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Number of pages
- 848
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141017273
- ISBN
- 9780141017273
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.80
€ 26.99
€ 18.80
Paperback. The housing market crash shattered Americans' boundless faith in home ownership. This title tells a history of our national obsession with real estate. It reveals that the aspiration for single-family home ownership was forged in impoverished immigrant neighborhoods in industrializing cities. Series: Historical Studies of Urban America. Num Pages: 256 pages, 15 halftones, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBTB; KFFR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226282107
- ISBN
- 9780226282107
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.15
€ 36.99
€ 29.15
Paperback. A history connecting Chicago's swampy beginnings in the 1600s, its growth as the world's "hog butcher", and its late-20th-century balance of politics, race and ethnicity. Synthesizing a vast body of literature, Robert Spinney presents Chicago in terms of the people whose lives made the city. Num Pages: 300 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3J; HBJK; HBTB; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875805832
- ISBN
- 9780875805832
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.48
€ 20.48
paperback. Series: Women in Culture and Society Series. Num Pages: 368 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 37. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780226871462
- ISBN
- 9780226871462
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.99€ 26.54
€ 39.99
€ 26.54
Paperback. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Edition
- First Paperback Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813551920
- ISBN
- 9780813551920
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 36.69
€ 36.99
€ 36.69
Paperback. Winner of the DEBUT POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015 A searing, energetic portrait of life in modern Tehran - 'deeply researched yet as exciting as a novel' Simon Sebag Montefiore Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 3JMG; HBJF1; HBLX; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780225128
- ISBN
- 9781780225128
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.97
€ 13.99
€ 10.97
paperback. Odessa--celebrated and vilifi ed as a Jewish city of sin Num Pages: 288 pages, 10 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1DVUK; GTB; HBJD; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253223289
- ISBN
- 9780253223289
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 29.11
€ 29.99
€ 29.11
Paperback. A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. By examining the place of water in the nineteenth-century consciousness, the author illuminates how city dwellers perceived themselves during the great age of American urbanization. Num Pages: 344 pages, 31 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSG; KNBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226151595
- ISBN
- 9780226151595
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 22.72
€ 27.99
€ 22.72
Paperback. Illustrator(s): Thomas, Andy. Num Pages: 112 pages, 22 illus. & 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTB; HBWJ; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 209 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Pelican Publishing Co United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781565541108
- ISBN
- 9781565541108
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.51
€ 15.99
€ 14.51
Paperback. Contrary to widespread belief, Roberts concludes, the ironclad program set Navy shipbuilding back a generation. Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology. Num Pages: 300 pages, 26, 9 black & white halftones, 17 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTM; JWF; TRL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801887512
- ISBN
- 9780801887512
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.64
€ 39.64
Civilization and Democracy: The Salvernini Anthology of Cattaneo's Wri...
Cattaneo, Carlo. Ed(S): Lacaita, Carlo G.; Sa...
hardcover. The selection of original pieces presented in this translation is preceded by an introduction by the editors, Carlo G. Lacaita and Filippo Sabetti, which guides the reader through Cattaneo's thinking and puts it in a comparative context. Ultimately, however, it is the editors' goal to let this profound Italian thinker speak for himself. Editor(s): Lacaita, Carlo G.; Sabetti, Filippo. Translator(s): Gibbons, David. Series: Lorenzo da Ponte Italian Library. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JH; HBTB; JPA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 158 x 26. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802092052
- ISBN
- 9780802092052
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.91
€ 81.91
Hardcover. Traces the history of the concepts of civility and civilization in nineteenth-century Europe and Asia and explores why and how emotions were an asset in civilizing peoples and societies - their control and management, but also their creation and their ascription to different societies and social groups. Series: Emotions in History. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 1F; 3JH; HBLL; HBTB; JMQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 167 x 242 x 29. Weight in Grams: 716.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198745532
- ISBN
- 9780198745532
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 185.20
€ 185.20
Paperback. GALWAY "Bestselling author Malachy McCourt recounts the story of Ireland's timeless symbol of loyalty, friendship, and love, a ring design of two clasped hands that is worn by millions worldwide. Following th" Num Pages: 112 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBG; HBJD1; HBTB; HBTG; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 128.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Running Press,U.S.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780762420148
- ISBN
- 9780762420148
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.80
€ 17.80
Hardback. How African writers reconstructed the biblical narrative to form a new identity Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 2AB; DSBF; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Publisher
- Baylor University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781602585317
- ISBN
- 9781602585317
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.59
€ 54.59
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 5 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; HBJK; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801456787
- ISBN
- 9780801456787
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 32.38
€ 32.99
€ 32.38