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Hardback. A study of the day-to-day law and culture of slavery. It investigates the local courtrooms of the Deep South where ordinary people settled their disputes over slaves. It also seeks to explain how communities dealt with an important dilemma raised by these trials: how could slaves who acted as moral agents be treated as commodities? Num Pages: 280 pages, 17 halftones, 11 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JFSL3; L. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691059570
- ISBN
- 9780691059570
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.39€ 85.82
€ 112.39
€ 85.82
Paperback. John Gross is the son of a Jewish doctor who practised at the time of the Second World War. His parents were the children of immigrants, steeped in the language and traditions of a European past, yet outside the home he grew up in a very English world of schools and books. Looking back on his childhood, Gross reflects on this double inheritance. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; BGA; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099422266
- ISBN
- 9780099422266
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Hardback. Num Pages: 216 pages, over 260 b/w and color photos. BIC Classification: HBT; JWG; WGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 291 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1412.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764325816
- ISBN
- 9780764325816
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.05€ 46.67
€ 65.05
€ 46.67
Paperback. Num Pages: 166 pages, 36 b/w photos & 5 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBCB; HBTM; WGG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Canada
- Edition
- First Canadian
- Number of pages
- 166
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780888394866
- ISBN
- 9780888394866
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.78
€ 20.99
€ 15.78
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, 100 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJC; HBTM; WGG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Publisher
- The History Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752493237
- ISBN
- 9780752493237
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.62
€ 19.99
€ 18.62
Paperback. Written when George Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, this is a memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; BGL; DNF; HBTB; JFFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141184388
- ISBN
- 9780141184388
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- Second edition
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252076831
- ISBN
- 9780252076831
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.29
€ 27.99
€ 26.29
Paperback. An expansive introduction to the development of African American religion and theology. From the time of slavery up to modern day, the text addresses a broad diversity of African American religion and traces their transition to various forms of Christianity. Editor(s): Murphy, Larry G. Series: Religion, Race, & Ethnicity. Num Pages: 450 pages, 31ill. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; GTB; HBTB; HRCC99; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 26. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 450
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814755815
- ISBN
- 9780814755815
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.15
€ 37.99
€ 34.15
Paperback. The everyday realities of life in the city of Hogarth, Fielding and Dr Johnson, based on contemporary evidence, by the author of the bestselling ELIZABETH'S LONDON. Num Pages: 384 pages, 32. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 130 x 196 x 28. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781842127292
- ISBN
- 9781842127292
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.43
€ 17.99
€ 13.43
Paperback. Explores the context of theological speculations and political aspirations through the medium of dreams to present insights into the social history of the pre-modern Islamic world in its cultural diversity. Editor(s): Marlow, Louise. Series: Hellenic Studies. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QFM; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Center for Hellenic Studies
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674021228
- ISBN
- 9780674021228
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.54
€ 19.99
€ 18.54
Hardback. Num Pages: 416 pages, 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1DF; 1DVUA; HBJD; HBTB; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 253 x 37. Weight in Grams: 678.
- Publisher
- INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781610394840
- ISBN
- 9781610394840
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 26.32
€ 33.99
€ 26.32
Paperback. Stowe's second anti-slavery novel is a primary text for students of literature and history - less well-known but now more pertinent than Uncle Tom's Cabin. Editor(s): Newman, Julie. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; FC; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 175 x 115 x 41. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 752
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853310386
- ISBN
- 9781853310386
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.77
€ 32.99
€ 29.77
Paperback. Collects and examines evidence and references to female clothing, cosmetics and ornament in Roman antiquity, deciphering their meaning and revealing what it meant to be an adorned woman in Roman society. This book argues that Roman women took pleasure in fashioning themselves, enjoying the social status, influence and power that it signified. Num Pages: 192 pages, 30 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 3. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780415414760
- ISBN
- 9780415414760
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.23
€ 51.23
Paperback. From nineteenth-century broad arrows and black and white stripes to twenty first-century orange jumpsuits, prison clothing has both mirrored and bolstered the power of penal institutions over prisoners' lives. This book offers an investigation of prison dress, which demystifies the experience of what it is like to be an imprisoned criminal. Num Pages: 256 pages, 30 b/w. BIC Classification: AKTH; HBTB; JKVQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Publisher
- I. B. Tauris
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781850438946
- ISBN
- 9781850438946
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.71
€ 32.99
€ 27.71
Paperback. Splendid..the major overview of Anglo-Saxon clothing and textile from the 5th to 11th centuries. (..) Owen-Crocker has become the authority reconstructors call upon.. A wise and scholarly book. TOEBI Newsletter Num Pages: 428 pages, 263, 12 colour, 13 black and white, 238 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3F; HBTB; JFCK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 243 x 172 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1092.
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 428
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Revised and enlarged ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843835721
- ISBN
- 9781843835721
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.89
€ 34.99
€ 29.89
Paperback. Dressing Renaissance Florence enables us to better understand the social and cultural milieu of Renaissance Italy. Series: Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. Num Pages: 368 pages, 33, 33 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; 3JB; HBTB; JFCK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 27. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801882647
- ISBN
- 9780801882647
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 31.96
€ 37.99
€ 31.96
Paperback. While many have studied China's rise as an economic power, China itself does not exist solely in the economic realm. This study explores the moral sphere as a key to understanding how rural Chinese experience and talk about their lives in a period of rapid economic transformation. Num Pages: 312 pages, 14 b/w photographs, 4 line illustrations, 2 maps, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520260955
- ISBN
- 9780520260955
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.28
€ 40.99
€ 29.28
Hardback. Series: Arts & Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History. Num Pages: 336 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFCV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 574. Fifteen Turning Points in the Making of American Beverages. Series: Arts & Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History. 336 pages, ill. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFCV. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 25. Weight: 574.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231151160
- ISBN
- 9780231151160
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.92
€ 33.99
€ 24.92
Paperback. Series: Arts & Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFCV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 222 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231151177
- ISBN
- 9780231151177
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.94
€ 23.99
€ 17.94
Paperback. Based on the criminal trial records and related documents from the regions of central Mexico and Oaxaca, this book attempts to discover how peasants conceived of their role under Spanish rule, how they behaved under various kinds of street, and how they felt about their Spanish overlords. Num Pages: 242 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1979
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804711128
- ISBN
- 9780804711128
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.73
€ 32.99
€ 29.73