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History: specific events & topics

Paperback.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752446615
ISBN
9780752446615
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.54

Hardback. Drawing on archival sources to analyze a hundred-year perspective on sports in China, this book explores why the country became obsessed with Western sports at the turn of the twentieth century, and how it relates to China's search for a national and international identity. Num Pages: 392 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; HBTB; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 32. Weight in Grams: 685.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674028401
ISBN
9780674028401
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 43.03

Paperback. A sumptuously illustrated history of the Titanic, her sinking and its aftermath. Num Pages: 464 pages, 300. BIC Classification: 3JJC; HBG; HBLW; HBTM; WGG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 174 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1172.
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781445647012
ISBN
9781445647012
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.79

Paperback. These essays, which make the science of economics intelligible to a general audience, are grouped into six areas: the relevance of economics; the "Keynesian revolution"; economics and the university; economics and contemporary problems; world inflation, money, trade, growth, and investment; and economics and the environment. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 537.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226401638
ISBN
9780226401638
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 41.13

Paperback. Thomas Carlyle's "On Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History" considers how heroes are created and conveys his ideas on the importance of heroic leadership. In six reevaluative essays, the authors argue that Carlyle's concept of heroism actually repudiates its own authoritarian roots and stresses the hero's spiritual dimension. Editor(s): Sorensen, David R.; Kinser, Brent E. Series: Rethinking the Western Tradition. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 210 x 23. Weight in Grams: 394.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300148602
ISBN
9780300148602
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.86

Paperback. Takes us on a tour of the Western holiday world and shows how two centuries of 'learning to be a tourist' have shaped our own ways of vacationing. This title shows how fashions in destinations have changed through the years, with popular images teaching the tourist what to look for and how to experience it. Series: California Studies in Critical Human Geography. Num Pages: 334 pages, 33 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: HBT; JHM; KNSG; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 536.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
334
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520234642
ISBN
9780520234642
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.20

Hardcover. On Human Bondage a critical reexamination of Orlando Patterson s groundbreaking Slavery and Social Death assesses how his theories have stood the test of time and applies them to new case studies. Editor(s): Bodel, John; Scheidel, Walter. Series: Ancient World: Comparative Histories. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 176 x 21. Weight in Grams: 654.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781119162483
ISBN
9781119162483
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.23

Paperback. An intimate menoir of Jewish adolescence and life, from a young woman's perspective in an Eastern European shtetl at the end of the nineteenth century. Translator(s): Cammy, Justin Daniel. Num Pages: 126 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 12. Weight in Grams: 224.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Harvard Center for Jewish Studies United States
Number of pages
126
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780674019706
ISBN
9780674019706
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.54

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JKV; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 216 x 9. Weight in Grams: 213.
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486779997
ISBN
9780486779997
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 12.54

Paperback. "A comprehensive modern-day bestiary."-The New Yorker Num Pages: 368 pages, 20 b/w halftones, 30 line illus. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFHF; VXQM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 484.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199798094
ISBN
9780199798094
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 22.80

Paperback. What is the point of Kings and Queens? What do they do all day? And what does it mean to be one of them? This title looks at our present incumbents to find out just what makes them tick. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JPHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 268.
Edition
UK ed.
Publisher
PENGUIN
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141012223
ISBN
9780141012223
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.88

Paperback.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Number of pages
306
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780006532453
ISBN
9780006532453
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.28

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Murray
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719564512
ISBN
9780719564512
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.43

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
NYU Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814776391
ISBN
9780814776391
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.70

Paperback. Comprises of original monographs, handbills, trial records, newspaper articles, and official reports that deal with piracy in and involving the Americas in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This title annotates and explains these records in order to clarify the era's historical, legal, literary, and nautical references. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1K; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 173 x 15. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845194765
ISBN
9781845194765
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.80

Hardback. Reveals how American families have always been characterized by greater diversity than idealizations of the traditional family have allowed. This title features essays that show how family life figured prominently in relations to larger struggles for conquest and control. Editor(s): Adams, David Wallace; DeLuzio, Crista. Num Pages: 366 pages, 19 b/w photographs, 1 map, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
366
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520272385
ISBN
9780520272385
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.80
€ 54.68

Paperback. Sheds new light on the views and attitudes of Latin American writers during the Nazi era Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADS; DSBH; HBTZ1; JFSL4. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Brandeis University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611688566
ISBN
9781611688566
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 33.64

hardcover. J.C. Van Leur attacked the views on the character and significance of the 18th century in Asian history. His denial of European pre-eminence in Asian waters represents an attack on colonial historiography. These essays provide studies of what this period meant in the history of South and East Asia. Num Pages: 328 pages, Includes 21 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; HBJF; HBLL; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 608.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9781840146103
ISBN
9781840146103
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 173.73

Paperback. From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google Maps and beyond, this title examines how maps both relate and realign our history. It explores the legendary, impassable mountains of Kong, the role of cartography in combatting cholera, the 17th-century Dutch craze for Atlases, the Norse discovery of America and more. Num Pages: 468 pages, 60 ills. BIC Classification: HBTP; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 138 x 34. Weight in Grams: 426.
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
Number of pages
468
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846685101
ISBN
9781846685101
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.23

paperback. In the last years of World War II, a million tons of bombs were dropped by the Allies on one hundred and thirty-one German towns and cities. This title explores German writers' strange silence about a moment of mass destruction. Translator(s): Bell, Anthea. Num Pages: 224 pages, b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; DSBH; HBJD; HBTB; HBWQ; JW; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 162.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780140298000
ISBN
9780140298000
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. Uncovers the voices of working-class women, active in the Communist Party, USA, in order to examine how these individuals confronted the tensions between their roles as workers, wives, mothers, and consumers. This work details the strategies used by women to argue for their rights as workers in the paid labor force and as caregivers in the home. Num Pages: 200 pages, 9 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 277.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252073915
ISBN
9780252073915
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.51

paperback. A collection of essays that contests diehard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as some of the key assumptions of post colonial theory. It is suitable for an interdisciplinary arena of scholarship on colonial and post colonial discourse, history, anthropology, philosophy, political science, psychoanalysis, and literary criticism. Series: Studies on the History of Society & Culture. Num Pages: 274 pages, 22 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; GTB; HBJH; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
KJH0000327
ISBN
9780520204355
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.14

Paperback. Modern Russia's turbulent relations with its Muslim frontiers date back centuries. Indeed the nineteenth century, when the Muslim Caucasus first came under Russian rule, witnessed many of the historical antecedents to today's violent confrontations. Series: International Library of Historical Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1DVUZ; HBLL; HBTQ; JFSR2; JPR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784539184
ISBN
9781784539184
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 36.10

Paperback. Pathbreaking studies of the postsocialist transition Editor(s): Bunzl, Matti. Series: New Anthropologies of Europe. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1 b&w illus. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 316.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253221704
ISBN
9780253221704
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.29

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