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Hardback. Series: Apercus: Histories Texts Cultures. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; HBTB; JPVH2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 224 x 22. Weight in Grams: 478.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611483666
ISBN
9781611483666
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.76

Paperback. This saga opens with the enslavement of a woman from Senegambia, and then traces her family s quest, across five generations, for lives of dignity and equality. The story of Rosalie and her descendants unfolds against the background of three great antiracist struggles: the Haitian Revolution, the French Revolution of 1848, and the U.S. Civil War." Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KL; 3JH; HBJK; HBTB; HBWJ; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674416918
ISBN
9780674416918
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.23

Hardcover. In the spring of 1915, Chicagoans elected the city's first black alderman, Oscar DePriest. This book tells the history of three generations of African American activists - the ministers, professionals, labor leaders, clubwomen, and entrepreneurs - who transformed twentieth-century urban politics. Num Pages: 304 pages, 11 halftones, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JJ; HBTB; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226135908
ISBN
9780226135908
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 55.27
€ 46.80

hardcover. Unearths an unexpected bloom of liberty in an ex-slave's journal Num Pages: 219 pages, 8 figures/1 table/ 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JH; BJ; HBTS; TVS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 161 x 14. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814705100
ISBN
9780814705100
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.52

Hardback. Congress established the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - more commonly known as the Freedmen's Bureau - in March 1865. Upon its creation this temporary federal agency assumed the Herculean task of overseeing the transition from slavery to freedom in the war-torn South. Series: Reconstructing America. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 539.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823232116
ISBN
9780823232116
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.46

Paperback. Freemasonry is one of the oldest and most widespread voluntary organizations in the world. Andreas Onnerfors sorts the facts from the colourful fictions surrounding this organization and outlines how the organization works, its rituals and symbols, its values, and the work it does in modern society. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 144 pages, 10 black and white images. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSV; JFSV1; JKSN1. Dimension: 174 x 111. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198796275
ISBN
9780198796275
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.74

Paperback. .
Publisher
Osprey Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9781855328983
ISBN
9781855328983
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.41

paperback. This book describes how a long generation of founding French Canadians shaped the Pacific Northwest. Num Pages: 944 pages, 47 photos, 4 maps, 16 tables. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 676.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
944
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780774828055
ISBN
9780774828055
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 45.61

Hardcover. Identifying key events, practices, stakeholders and institutions in the history of French cycling, this volume presents an interdisciplinary analysis of how cycling has been significant in French society and culture since the late Nineteenth century. Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBTB; WSBX; WSQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 590.
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
290
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846318351
ISBN
9781846318351
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.90

Hardback. Why did the passion for food--gastronomy--originate in France? The key, it turns out, is France itself. In its climate, diversity of soils, abundant resources, and varied topography lie the roots of France's food fame. Pitte masterfully reveals the ways in which cultural phenomena surrounding food and eating in France relate to space and place. Translator(s): Gladding, Jody. Series: Arts & Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History. Num Pages: 176 pages, 33 photos, 8 maps. BIC Classification: HBT; JFC; WBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 394.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
176
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231124164
ISBN
9780231124164
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 32.94

Hardback. Offers a collection of scholarship that reveals the important French element in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century creation of the singular Mediterranean. These essays provide a critical study of space and movement through new approaches to rethinking the maps, migrations, and margins of the sea in the French imperial and transnational context. Editor(s): Lorcin, Patricia M. E.; Shepard, Todd D. Series: France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization Series. Num Pages: 444 pages, 13 illustrations, 10 tables, 4 charts. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1HB; 1QSM; HBJH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 29. Weight in Grams: 798.
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803249936
ISBN
9780803249936
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.87

Paperback. This study of power/knowledge in France, from the 1830s through the 1930s, uses the tools of anthropology, philosophy, and cultural criticism to examine how the social environment was described. It aims to show how modernity was revealed in urban planning, architecture, and social legislation. Num Pages: 464 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBTB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 150 x 26. Weight in Grams: 626.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226701745
ISBN
9780226701745
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 37.85

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
For Beginners
Condition
New
SKU
V9781934389911
ISBN
9781934389911
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.54

Paperback. Is the story of how dreams and reality collide, at once glorious and immensely sad. Because for the 30-odd boys of the Permian Panthers, these days will have been the best of their lives. Num Pages: 416 pages, b&w photos. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; WSJS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 292.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Yellow Jersey
Condition
New
SKU
9780224076746
ISBN
9780224076746
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.37

Paperback. Editor(s): Kostash, Myrna. Num Pages: 238 pages, 10 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBCL; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 165 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
NeWest Press Canada
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9781897126462
ISBN
9781897126462
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 19.48

Paperback. Sparberg deftly captures five boroughs of grit, chaos, and emotion grappling with a massive and unwieldy transit system. Num Pages: 192 pages, 6 color, 150 b/w Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; RPT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 165 x 13. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780823271801
ISBN
9780823271801
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.27

Paperback. This collection of post card images presents the panorama of life in early 20th-century Georgia. Family outings, veteran's reunions and market days are some of the occasions depicted, many of the cards represent the only surviving visual record of schools, churches, businesses and public buildings. Editor(s): Doster, Gary L. Num Pages: 240 pages, 620 b&w postcard reproductions. BIC Classification: 1KBBFG; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 272 x 204 x 15. Weight in Grams: 748.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820321134
ISBN
9780820321134
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 27.24

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 80 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTM; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
The History Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752488783
ISBN
9780752488783
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.22

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; HBTB; KC; RGCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 626.
Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822315377
ISBN
9780822315377
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.54

Hardcover. Details the story of a group of San Francisco Bay Area entrepreneurs - Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth network. While tracing the transformation of how our networked culture came to be, this book reminds us that the distance between the Grateful Dead and Google, between Ken Kesey and the computer itself, is not as great as we might think. Num Pages: 360 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFC; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 31. Weight in Grams: 672.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
360
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226817415
ISBN
9780226817415
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 28.23

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