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History: specific events & topics

Hardback. This is a comparative study of the reforms and revolutions that have swept through the former USSR and Balkan states in the past 25 years. The collection examines the struggle to modernise the economies and political systems of the former Soviet states and Eastern Europe. It specifically focuses on the mostly nonviolent Colour Revolutions. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JMC; HBJD; HBLX; HBTV. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Number of pages
276
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849041447
ISBN
9781849041447
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.48
€ 53.08

Paperback. Analyzing the 'democratic' features and institutions of the Athenian democracy in the fifth century BC, this work traces their development from Solon's judicial reforms to the flowering of popular sovereignty, when the people assumed the right both to enact all legislation and to hold magistrates accountable for implementing what had been enacted. Num Pages: 500 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 153 x 46. Weight in Grams: 917.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
500
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520067981
ISBN
9780520067981
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.48
€ 42.00

Paperback. Presenting a portrait of engaged, activist lives in the 1930s, this book features a global network of individuals and organizations that posed challenges to the racism and colonialism of the era. It positions race at the center of the British, imperial, and transatlantic political culture of the 1930s. Num Pages: 408 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJG; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTQ; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 578.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691141862
ISBN
9780691141862
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.35

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 236 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JH; HBTB; JHM; JWD; JWT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 14. Weight in Grams: 628.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691636412
ISBN
9780691636412
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.49

Paperback. An analysis of Pueblo Indian pottery, Pueblo and Spanish blankets, and Spanish religious images that links economic change to social and cultural change in the New Mexico. It charts the creation of a culturally innovative and dominating Hispanic settler - or vecino - community during the final decades of the eighteenth century. Num Pages: 353 pages, 12 figures, 19 b/w photographs, 9 maps, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBWX; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 463.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
353
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520251595
ISBN
9780520251595
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 25.78

Hardback. The book is the first comprehensive survey charting the development of cinema exhibition and cinema-going in Britain from the first public film screening - the Lumiere Brothers' showing of their Cinematographe show at London's Regent Street Polytechnic in February 1896 - through to the development of the multiplex and megaplex cinema. Series Editor(s): Richards, Jeffrey. Series: Studies in Popular Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DB; APF; HBT. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719069444
ISBN
9780719069444
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.63

paperback. When sanctions prohibited local use of racially, ethnically, and scatalogically offensive toponyms, names like Jap Valley, California, were erased from the national and cultural map forever. This title considers the efforts to computerize mapmaking, standardize geographic names, and respond to public concern over ethnically offensive appellations. Num Pages: 230 pages, 33 halftones, 9 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GBGP; HBTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780226534664
ISBN
9780226534664
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 18.29

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 410 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBTV2; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 485.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691635262
ISBN
9780691635262
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 178.25
€ 132.63

Paperback. Offers fresh insight into and new perspectives on key cultural phenomena, from the iconic role of the Scottish regiments to the role of tartan in rock music. This book argues that tartan may be fun, but it also plays a wide range of roles in Scottish and international culture. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 158 x 233 x 16. Weight in Grams: 442. Scottish Culture, History and Myth. 288 pages, Illustrations, ports. Offers fresh insight into and new perspectives on key cultural phenomena, from the iconic role of the Scottish regiments to the role of tartan in rock music. This book argues that tartan may be fun, but it also plays a wide range of roles in Scottish and international culture. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBJD1; HBTB. Dimension: 158 x 233 x 16. Weight: 442.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748664641
ISBN
9780748664641
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.08

Paperback. .
Publisher
UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783160549
ISBN
9781783160549
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.38

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Hertfordshire Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909291041
ISBN
9781909291041
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.45

Paperback. Starting from the events surrounding the First World War, the author traces the history of the modern Middle East and puts the Arab Spring into context. McMillan breaks down the nuances of Western involvement in the Middle East, alliances and divisions between Middle Eastern peoples and nations, and the role of religion in these conflicts. Series: Middle East Today. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJF1; HBTV; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 376.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137522047
ISBN
9781137522047
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 130.71
€ 124.46

Hardcover. The memories of David Shachar are a journey through the tunnel of time: from wanderings in Poland to the life of a refugee in World War II, and on to a soldier's life fighting the Nazis. After the war, while studying radio electronics in Paris, David cut his studies short and came to Israel to fight in the War of Independence. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white halftones, colour illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: BGHA; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 246 x 24. Weight in Grams: 580.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Gefen Publishing House Israel
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9789652295460
ISBN
9789652295460
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 23.79

Paperback. Presents the comprehensive history of the meteoric rise and precipitous decline of the United Farm Workers, the most successful farm labor union in United States history. Based on little-known sources and one-of-a-kind oral histories with many veterans of the farm worker movement, this book revises much of what we know about the UFW. Num Pages: 368 pages, 18 b/w photographs, 1 map, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBTK; JPWQ; KNXB2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 460.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520283855
ISBN
9780520283855
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.74

paperback. Tells the history of the past two centuries, showing how a disparate group of thinkers, journalists, radicals and charismatics emerged from the ruins of empire to create an unstoppable Asian renaissance, one whose ideas lie behind everything from the Chinese Communist Party to the Muslim Brotherhood, and have made our world what it is today. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 268.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241954669
ISBN
9780241954669
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.84

paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 4 illustrations/3 maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; HBTB; JFSC; JFSJ1; JNLC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 513.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780271024912
ISBN
9780271024912
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 30.53

Hardcover. By 1989 it was obvious that the majority of Hungary's population wanted fundamental political, economic and social changes. These essays examine the components of the peaceful transition that over a ten-year period led to democracy in Hungary. Editor(s): Schmidt, Maria; Toth, Laszlo. Series: EEM Atlantic Studies on Society in Change. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJPR; HBJD; HBTB; JPHV; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 147 x 39. Weight in Grams: 817.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
East European Monographs United States
Edition
EEM #574
Number of pages
640
Condition
New
SKU
V9780880334723
ISBN
9780880334723
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.24
€ 59.90

Hardback. Explores the political mobilisation of the two largest French veterans' associations during the interwar years, the Union federale (UF) and the Union nationale des combattants (UNC). Series Editor(s): Taithe, Bertrand; Summerfield, Penny; Gatrell, Peter; Jones, Max; Carden-Coyne, Ana. Series: Cultural History of Modern War. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTB; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 221 x 137 x 25. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719085505
ISBN
9780719085505
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.51

Paperback. .
Publisher
Frith Book Company Ltd. United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
Pbk. ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859373170
ISBN
9781859373170
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.02

Hardcover. The first issue of the Pittsburgh Gazette was published on Saturday, August 12, 1786. Nearly 220 years later, it lives on as the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. By focusing on what stories were reported -and how - this book adds a to the history of Pittsburgh and its people. Num Pages: 352 pages, 50 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; HBTB; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 178 x 31. Weight in Grams: 934.
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822942481
ISBN
9780822942481
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 45.86

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