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History: specific events & topics
Paperback. Ireland's Easter Rising of 1916 is one of the handful of modern historical events that instantly created its own mythology and changed millions of lives forever. Charles Townshend's remarkable new book vividly re-creates this extraordinary time when a powerful narrative was born and Ireland was launched into a new world. Num Pages: 480 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJF; HBJD1; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 144 x 35. Weight in Grams: 684.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566639651
- ISBN
- 9781566639651
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.04
€ 43.04
Paperback. Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like any other British city, comparable to Bristol or Liverpool and part of a complex, deep-rooted British world. The devastating events of that Easter changed everything. This book focuses on these events. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJF; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141982472
- ISBN
- 9780141982472
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 13.91
€ 19.99
€ 13.91
Paperback. Cannibalism is one of the oldest and deepest seated taboos. This work provides a lively and easily digestible account from the earliest incidents through to the modern day. It includes ritual cannibalism in primitive societies; cases in mythology, literature and fairy tales and contemporary figures. Num Pages: 360 pages, 16 illusrations. BIC Classification: BTC; HBTB; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750943734
- ISBN
- 9780750943734
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.21
€ 17.99
€ 16.21
Hardback. Series: Arts & Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History. Num Pages: 392 pages, 30 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBT; WB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 668.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231140928
- ISBN
- 9780231140928
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.43
€ 33.99
€ 24.43
Paperback. Series: Arts & Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History. Num Pages: 392 pages, 30 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBT; WB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231140935
- ISBN
- 9780231140935
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.61
€ 21.99
€ 17.61
Hardback. The process of transforming bamboo into paper involves production-related and social skills, as well as the everyday skills that allowed Sichuan papermakers to survive in an era of tumultuous change. This book charts the vicissitudes of a rural community of papermakers in Sichuan. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 425 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; HBLW; HBTB; JFSF. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 30. Weight in Grams: 660.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 425
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674032880
- ISBN
- 9780674032880
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 41.33
€ 49.99
€ 41.33
Hardback. Offers a perspective on the history of food, looking at writings about cuisine, diet, and food chemistry as a key to larger debates over the state of the nation in Old Regime France. This title demonstrates how public discussions of eating and drinking were used to articulate concerns about the state of civilization versus that of nature and more. Num Pages: 368 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; HBTB; JFCV; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226768861
- ISBN
- 9780226768861
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.08€ 77.43
€ 94.08
€ 77.43
Hardback. This book examines how the principal British maritime industries - shipping, shipbuilding and ports - adapted, or failed to adapt, to a changing world in the period 1918 to 1990, and discusses their reactions to the opportunities seemingly offered by offshore oil and gas from the mid-1960s. Series: Exeter maritime studies. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 frontispiece, 2 maps, 8 black & white illustrations, 24 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBTM; KNGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 245 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859897280
- ISBN
- 9780859897280
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.80
€ 140.80
Paperback. Num Pages: 432 pages, B&W illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTS; JNB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 31. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781608194025
- ISBN
- 9781608194025
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.15
€ 21.99
€ 16.15
paperback. Num Pages: 220 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; HBJH; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- David Phillips Publishers South Africa
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780864866615
- ISBN
- 9780864866615
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.26
€ 20.99
€ 19.26
Hardback. Series: NWSA / UIP First Book Prize. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBTB; JFFK; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780252040542
- ISBN
- 9780252040542
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.37
€ 127.37
Hardcover. Illustrated 8vo.Good copy in original cloth . Maritime History.The Sea.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1946
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- KEX0254523
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. First English translation of this 19th century novel tracing the relationship between traditional Greenlandic life and the interaction with the culture of their Danish colonizers Translator(s): Johanson, L. S. Num Pages: 192 pages, , black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1QMP; HBLC1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 110 x 10. Weight in Grams: 159.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- International Polar Institute Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780982915561
- ISBN
- 9780982915561
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.71
€ 22.71
Paperback. Focusing on commercial and social networks in the Rio de la Plata region, this book examines how Montevideo merchant elites used transimperial connections to expand their influence and how their trade offered crucial support to Montevideo's autonomist projects. Num Pages: 264 pages, 9 maps, 8 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KLS; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTM; JPA; KCLT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520285163
- ISBN
- 9780520285163
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.66
€ 40.99
€ 28.66
Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDU; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226054421
- ISBN
- 9780226054421
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.08€ 78.15
€ 94.08
€ 78.15
paperback. Sophisticated, culturally sensitive, and accessible, Edible Histories will appeal to students, historians, and foodies alike. Num Pages: 472 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442612839
- ISBN
- 9781442612839
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 46.25
€ 48.99
€ 46.25
Hardcover. Editor(s): Allen, Aaron; Spence, Cathryn. Series: Scottish History Society 6th Series. Num Pages: 668 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBKSC; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 146 x 58. Weight in Grams: 984.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Scottish History Society
- Edition
- 6th
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780906245392
- ISBN
- 9780906245392
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 49.58
€ 52.99
€ 49.58
Hardcover. The oil industry in the United States has been the subject of innumerable histories. But books on the development of the natural gas industry and the electricity industry in the U.S. are scarce. Edison to Enron is a readable flowing history of two of America's largest and most colorful industries. Num Pages: 608 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTK; KNBG; KNBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 165 x 38. Weight in Grams: 962.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 608
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470917367
- ISBN
- 9780470917367
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.45
€ 57.45
Paperback. Series: Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; APF; DSK; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557536877
- ISBN
- 9781557536877
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.75
€ 53.75
Hardcover. The world-famous French singer Edith Piaf (1915-63) was never just a singer. This book suggests new ways of understanding her, her myth and her meanings over time at home and abroad, by proposing the notion of an 'imagined' Piaf. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: AVH; BGF; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 241 x 23. Weight in Grams: 564.
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781382578
- ISBN
- 9781781382578
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 43.67
€ 43.99
€ 43.67