History: specific events & topics
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History: specific events & topics
Hardcover. This book presents the first panoramic study of minkan (citizen publications) in China before the Internet. This recent history of citizen publications contributes to the reclamation of a lost past of resistance. It is an exercise in remembering a past that has been marginalized by official history and recovering ideas obliterated by state power. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTB; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137492074
- ISBN
- 9781137492074
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
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
€ 46.99€ 39.93
€ 46.99
€ 39.93
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
€ 41.99€ 38.38
€ 41.99
€ 38.38
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
€ 77.06
€ 77.06
Hardback. Based on careful work with rare archival sources, this book fills a gap in the history of New York Catholicism by chronicling anti-Catholic feeling in pre-Revolutionary and early national periods. Series: Hudson Valley Heritage. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; HRCC7; JFSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 26. Weight in Grams: 541.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823225125
- ISBN
- 9780823225125
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.44
€ 116.44
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€ 19.06
€ 26.99
€ 19.06
Hardback. An analysis of the changing rights, duties and benefits of citizenship in nineteenth and twentieth century Britain. Parker focuses on the difficulties of honouring citizenship entitlements at the end of the twentieth century, in a society with rising expectations, persistent unemployment, and an ageing poplulation. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 225
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333673607
- ISBN
- 9780333673607
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.66
€ 127.66
Paperback. An analysis of the changing rights, duties and benefits of citizenship in nineteenth and twentieth century Britain. Parker focuses on the difficulties of honouring citizenship entitlements at the end of the twentieth century, in a society with rising expectations, persistent unemployment, and an ageing poplulation. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 225
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333673614
- ISBN
- 9780333673614
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.00
€ 127.00
paperback. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 264 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; HBJD; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 343.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349291410
- ISBN
- 9781349291410
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
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€ 29.59
€ 36.99
€ 29.59
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
€ 19.99€ 19.67
€ 19.99
€ 19.67
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€ 30.68
€ 39.99
€ 30.68
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€ 33.99
€ 36.99
€ 33.99
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€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
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€ 27.37
€ 29.99
€ 27.37
Hardback. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 521.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312129330
- ISBN
- 9780312129330
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.20
€ 128.20
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€ 22.89
€ 27.99
€ 22.89
Paperback. Editor(s): Warren, D.; Patrick, J. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBT; JNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403973962
- ISBN
- 9781403973962
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 33.88
€ 41.99
€ 33.88
paperback. One of the central challenges facing Macedonia, along with other Yugoslav successor states, is to develop civic values and to combat such uncivic values as ethnic intolerance, religious bigotry, and homophobia. This volume brings together specialists in Macedonian affairs to offer insights into the experiences and values of the Macedonians. Editor(s): Listhaug, Ola; Simkus, Albert. Num Pages: 362 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJ; HBJD; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 362
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- SKU
- V9781349441440
- ISBN
- 9781349441440
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.01
€ 67.01
Hardback. Chinese civil examinations, a piece of social engineering worked out over centuries, prefigured the regime of meritocratic exams that undergirds higher education around the globe today. This book describes how education, examinations, and civil service fostered the world's first professional class based on demonstrated knowledge. Num Pages: 344 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3J; HBJF; HBLH; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 163 x 31. Weight in Grams: 764.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674724952
- ISBN
- 9780674724952
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.00€ 52.81
€ 56.00
€ 52.81
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
€ 16.99€ 15.46
€ 16.99
€ 15.46
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
€ 36.99€ 31.14
€ 36.99
€ 31.14
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
€ 79.41
€ 79.41
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
€ 199.41
€ 199.41