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Paperback. Num Pages: 755 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLW; HBTV4; HRCC2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1194.
Publisher
Holy Trinity Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780884653363
ISBN
9780884653363
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.68

Hardcover. Num Pages: 755 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLW; HBTV4; HRCC2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 53. Weight in Grams: 1320.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Holy Trinity Publications
Condition
New
SKU
V9780884653813
ISBN
9780884653813
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.85

Hardback. Drawing upon a complex web of early modern sources and ancient texts, this study is a treatment of women, gender and sexuality in 17th-century opera. It explores the operatic manifestations of female chastity, power, transvestism, androgyny and desire. Num Pages: 405 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 4 tables, 45 music examples. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JD; AVGC9; HBT; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
405
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520209336
ISBN
9780520209336
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.99
€ 64.99

Hardback. Sheds light on the world of the witch, mage and necromancer. This work takes us into a shadowy landscape where, in an age before modern drugs, the onset of sudden illness was readily explained by malevolent spellcasting. It presents an account of this aspect of the western cultural experience. Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; VXWT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845114695
ISBN
9781845114695
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 44.43

Paperback.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
237
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780750948876
ISBN
9780750948876
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.44

Paperback. Investigates the history of emotions across cultures as well as the evolutionary history of emotions and of emotional development across an individual's life span. This title examines key topics such as emotional intelligence, emotion and the brain, and emotional disorders. Series: Blackwell Brief Histories of Psychology. Num Pages: 208 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HBT; JMM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 69. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405113151
ISBN
9781405113151
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.76

Paperback. This text identifies a radical shift in concepts that form the philosophical basis of modern politics, concepts such as sovereignty, nation and people - and links this philosophical transformation to cultural and economic changes in postmodern society. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: HBTQ; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 32. Weight in Grams: 556.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674006713
ISBN
9780674006713
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 31.84

Paperback. Although the great historic imperial systems have collapsed during the past, their legacies shape almost every aspect of life on a global scale. What has replaced the old territorial empires in world politics? Do the United States and its allies - the forces of 'globalization', constitute a new imperial system? Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 160 pages, numerous halftones. BIC Classification: HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 112 x 9. Weight in Grams: 128.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780192802231
ISBN
9780192802231
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.87

Hardback. This unique analysis of Manchuria's environmental history provides an overview of the climatic and imperialist forces that have shaped an area of ongoing geopolitical importance. Editor(s): Smith, Norman. Series: Contemporary Chinese Studies. Num Pages: 632 pages, 22 photographs, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; HBJF; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
632
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774832892
ISBN
9780774832892
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.84

Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, 6 bw integrated. BIC Classification: 1QRM; HBTM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 138 x 216 x 32. Weight in Grams: 410.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784533755
ISBN
9781784533755
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.29

Paperback. Finally, contributors examine the changes wrought by the American Revolution both within Britain's remaining imperial possessions and among the other states in the emerging "concert of Europe." Editor(s): Gould, Eliga H.; Onuf, Peter S. Series: Anglo-America in the Transatlantic World. Num Pages: 392 pages, 1, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; HBJD; HBJK; HBTR; HBWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 28. Weight in Grams: 564.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421418421
ISBN
9781421418421
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.42

Made famous through Evans-Pritchard's ethnography, the Nuer are the second largest ethnic group in South Sudan. They were the object of Britain's last pacification campaign in Africa. The contemporary administrative reports and more recent interviews with Nuer and Dinka participants collected here cover significant events from 1898 to 1930. Editor(s): Johnson, Douglas H. Series: Fontes Historiae Africanae. Num Pages: 350 pages, 6 including 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1HBS; 3JJ; HBJH; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9780197265888
ISBN
9780197265888
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 102.66

Hardback. The French Revolution invented the notion of the citizen, but it also invented the noncitizen--the person whose rights were nonexistent. The South American outpost of Guiana became a depository for these outcasts of the new French citizenry, and an experimental space for the exercise of new kinds of power and violence against marginal groups. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 296 pages, 2 maps, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 242 x 24. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674057548
ISBN
9780674057548
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.27
€ 55.44

Hardback. Explores the history of British Atlantic trading colonies Series: Early American Places. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1QDB; 3JD; 3JF; HBJD; HBTQ; KCLT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 648.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814748831
ISBN
9780814748831
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.25

Paperback. Essays written by Antoinette Burton since the mid-1990s trace her thinking about modern British history and engage debates about how to think about British imperialism in light of contemporary events. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 578.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822349020
ISBN
9780822349020
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.73

Hardback. Series: Sport in World History. Num Pages: 256 pages, 21 black and white illus. BIC Classification: HBTV; WSSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 478.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520279100
ISBN
9780520279100
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.64
€ 72.77

Paperback. Series: Sport in World History. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: HBTV; WSSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520279117
ISBN
9780520279117
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 23.15

Paperback.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781416502937
ISBN
9781416502937
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.94

Paperback. For about 900 years, from 1000 to 1900, cotton was the world's most important manufacturing industry. It remains a vast business - if all the cotton bales produced in 2013 had been stacked on top of each other they would have made a somewhat unstable tower 40,000 miles high. This is a history of the cotton in dictating the shape of our world. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: 3H; 3J; HBTK; HBTQ; KNDD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 196 x 29. Weight in Grams: 438.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141979984
ISBN
9780141979984
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.03

Paperback. Empire of Law shows how seventeenth-century Indian claimants, by litigating and petitioning before Mexico City tribunals, became full participants in an early modern cosmopolitan legality that gave rise to a colonial politics of justice that struggled, with some success, against the utter degradation of subject peoples. Num Pages: 392 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTQ; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804776622
ISBN
9780804776622
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.36

Paperback. Series: Culture and Society After Socialism. Num Pages: 392 pages, 27. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801489082
ISBN
9780801489082
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.93

Hardback. Series: Culture and Society After Socialism. Num Pages: 392 pages, 27. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 742.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801442735
ISBN
9780801442735
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.86

Paperback. How did Britain so lose the plot that today there is not a single aircraft manufacturer of any significance in the country? The author captures that season of glory in a book that fuses his own memories of being a schoolboy plane spotter with a ruefully realistic history of British decline. It is the story of machines and men who flew them. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPN; 3JMC; HBJD1; HBTK; KNDV; WGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571247950
ISBN
9780571247950
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. The New York Times bestselling history of the Comanches in the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Num Pages: 496 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 33. Weight in Grams: 420.
Edition
Reprint
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849017039
ISBN
9781849017039
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.44

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