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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
€ 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
€ 55.33€ 46.80
€ 55.33
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 16.99
€ 16.54
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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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 35.99
€ 28.23
Hardback. Ever since coinage was developed in ancient Lydia, an element of society has sought to debase the coin of the realm for personal gain not only by counterfeiting, but also by shaving away precious metal. Num Pages: 304 pages, full color illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JKV; KCBM; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 216. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- American Numismatic Society,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780897223270
- ISBN
- 9780897223270
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 169.84
€ 169.84
Paperback. Seven authorities in their respective fields come together to offer a new interpretation of the French Revolution: they show how the French monarchy's clumsy efforts to solve a fiscal crisis politicized long-standing structural problems, metastasizing an apparently fairly "normal" fiscal crisis into a revolution. Editor(s): Kaiser, Thomas E.; Van Kley, Dale K. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: HBTV2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 19. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Number of pages
- 360
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804772815
- ISBN
- 9780804772815
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 35.64
€ 36.99
€ 35.64
Hardback. This work examines the history of Hungary's Jewish community in the period 1848-1945. Despite significant contributions to the development of the nation, and intense patriotism in times of national peril, the author finds that Jews remained perennial aliens in the land of Hungary. Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVH; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 653.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761817598
- ISBN
- 9780761817598
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.68
€ 146.68
hardcover. Num Pages: 967 pages, col. maps. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 165 x 70. Weight in Grams: 1202. Very good hardcover copy showing minor wear and age
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- McArthur & Company Ontario
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0025558
- ISBN
- 9781552783467
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.12
€ 5.12
hardcover. Num Pages: 322 pages, col. maps. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 161 x 236 x 32. Weight in Grams: 598. Good copy showing light age and shelfwear. Dust jacket intact
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- McArthur & Company Ontario
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KMK0025488
- ISBN
- 9781552782682
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 5.12
€ 5.12