History: specific events & topics
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History: specific events & topics
Paperback. Explains the horror of American slavery and the emotional impetus behind the antislavery movement. This book describes the life and achievement of a man who escaped from slavery to become a leading abolitionist and one of our most important writers. It is suitable for those interested in American literature and history. Series: The John Harvard Library. Num Pages: 176 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBTS; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674034013
- ISBN
- 9780674034013
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.43
€ 15.99
€ 14.43
hardcover. Series: Indiana Series in Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JD; DSBD; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253024015
- ISBN
- 9780253024015
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.45
€ 60.45
Hardcover. Provides information on the complexity of German policy toward the Jews and the policy of forced labour. This book describes the daily life of the Jewish slave labourers; and traces Reich economic policy and the huge concerns that used slave labour. Translator(s): IBRT. Num Pages: 304 pages, 20 ills., 3 maps, bibliog., index. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 159 x 235 x 21. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845452063
- ISBN
- 9781845452063
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.20
€ 162.20
Paperback. Students of slavery, the Old South, and African American history will find in Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County an outstanding example of painstaking research and imaginative family and community history. Num Pages: 416 pages, 4, 4 maps. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBTS; JFFJ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. .
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421422558
- ISBN
- 9781421422558
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 33.15
€ 38.99
€ 33.15
Hardback. Students of slavery, the Old South, and African American history will find in Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County an outstanding example of painstaking research and imaginative family and community history. Num Pages: 416 pages, 4, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JFFJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 230 x 31. Weight in Grams: 696.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421414799
- ISBN
- 9781421414799
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.19€ 47.61
€ 51.19
€ 47.61
paperback. A history of Russia's mighty culture. It covers the lives of those who have shaped its culture, and the enduring spirit of a people. Num Pages: 768 pages, 32pp colour illustrations, b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; AB; HBJD; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 33. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140297966
- ISBN
- 9780140297966
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 16.68
€ 24.99
€ 16.68
Hardback. Series: Contemporary Asia in the World. Num Pages: 400 pages, 24 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBTB; JHBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 165 x 35. Weight in Grams: 686.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231164900
- ISBN
- 9780231164900
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.12
€ 40.99
€ 29.12
Paperback. This Pulitzer Prize-winning book is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people - an embryonic black nation. Num Pages: 624 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 776.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 624
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674017658
- ISBN
- 9780674017658
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 32.94
€ 37.99
€ 32.94
Paperback. Nation Within is the complex history of the events between the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawai?i in 1893 and its annexation to the United States in 1898. Highlighting the native Hawaiians' resistance during that five year span, Tom Coffman shows why occupying Hawai?i was crucial to American imperial ambitions. Num Pages: 368 pages, 68 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822361978
- ISBN
- 9780822361978
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.43
€ 32.99
€ 29.43
Paperback. Examines the role of literature in building states and citizens. Num Pages: 296 pages, 8 figures, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: 1H; DSB; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253215543
- ISBN
- 9780253215543
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 23.19
€ 24.99
€ 23.19
Hardcover. This book presents thirteen articles by leading scholars offering different approaches to mediating, facilitating, and resolving ethnic and class tensions, based on case studies in Hungary, Bulgaria, the Baltic States, and Yugoslavia. Among the topics discussed are higher education, the role of women, nationalism, minorities, and religion. Editor(s): Carey, Henry F. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 1DV; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 179 x 29. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- East European Monographs United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780880335126
- ISBN
- 9780880335126
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 38.17
€ 52.99
€ 38.17
Paperback. Num Pages: 257 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; ASD; HBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826329417
- ISBN
- 9780826329417
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.28
€ 34.28
Paperback. Originally published in German, Erika Thurner's NATIONAL SOCIALISM AND GYPSIES IN AUSTRIA is the ground-breaking study of Nazi policy toward Gypsies during the Third Reich. The recent upsurge of anti-Gypsy violence in Austria illustrates both the horror of the treatment of Gypsy tribes and the timeliness of this volume. Illustrated. Num Pages: 240 pages, 28 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780817353292
- ISBN
- 9780817353292
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.67
€ 34.67
hardcover. Moving beyond the well-established problems and public discussions of the Holocaust, this collection of essays, written by some of the leading German historians of the younger generation, leaves behind the increasingly agitated arguments of the last years and substantially broadens, and in many areas revises, our knowledge of the Holocaust. Editor(s): Herbert, Ulrich. Series: War and Genocide. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 145 x 25. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781571817501
- ISBN
- 9781571817501
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.44
€ 164.44
Paperback. Explores the transition from oral to written history that is taking place in tribal Jordan, a transition that reveals the many ways in which modernity, literate historicity, and national identity are developing in the contemporary Middle East. This book discusses the substance of tribal history through the eyes of its creators. Series: Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies. Num Pages: 363 pages, 22 b&w photographs, 6 line illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1FBJ; HBAH; HBTD; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 363
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520201019
- ISBN
- 9780520201019
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.55
€ 38.99
€ 28.55
Hardcover. By telling the story of France's noncitizen soldiers - who included not only men born abroad but also Jews and blacks whose citizenship rights were subject to contestation - Christopher Tozzi sheds new light on the roots of revolutionary France's inability to integrate its national community despite the inclusionary promise of French republicanism. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; 3JH; HBTV2; HBW; JFSL3; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 242 x 32. Weight in Grams: 644.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813938332
- ISBN
- 9780813938332
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.44
€ 73.44
Paperback. This updated edition of Ernest Gellner's classic exploration of the roots of nationalism includes an extended introduction from John Breuilly, tracing the way the field has changed over the past two decades. * As pertinent today as it was when it was first published in 1983. Series: New Perspectives on the Past. Num Pages: 208 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: HBT; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 2nd Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405134422
- ISBN
- 9781405134422
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 37.39
€ 37.99
€ 37.39
Paperback. Broadens the scope and meaning of American Indian political activism by focusing on the movement's early and largely neglected struggles, revealing how early activists exploited Cold War tensions in ways that brought national attention to their issues." Num Pages: 318 pages, 33 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700617500
- ISBN
- 9780700617500
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.02
€ 38.02
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSL9; JHMC; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 327.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816665860
- ISBN
- 9780816665860
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.45
€ 30.99
€ 27.45
Hardback. As Protestantism expanded across the Atlantic, most evangelists were not Anglo-Americans but were members of the groups that missionaries were trying to convert. Native Apostles reveals the way Native Americans, Africans, and black slaves redefined Christianity and addressed the challenges of slavery, dispossession, and European settlement. Num Pages: 336 pages, 12 halftones, 1 map, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; HRCC9; HRCX4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 157 x 30. Weight in Grams: 634.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674072466
- ISBN
- 9780674072466
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.72
€ 62.72
Paperback. An investigation of the indigenous arts of the US and Canada in the OXFORD HISTORY OF ART series. The importance of these arts to the integrity of spiritual, social, political and economic systems within Native North American societies is considered through issues such as gender, representation, the colonial encounter and contemporary arts. Series: Oxford History of Art. Num Pages: 304 pages, 53 colour plates, numerous black and white halftones, 16 line drawings, 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBC; ACBK; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 170 x 18. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780192842183
- ISBN
- 9780192842183
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 20.91
€ 27.99
€ 20.91
Paperback. After The Second World War, the author was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In this book, he evokes that homeland and his years away from it; how it nurtured him and how its divisions and destruction shaped a generation. Translator(s): Leach, Catherine S. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 1DVUF; BGLA; HBTW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141392288
- ISBN
- 9780141392288
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.73
€ 15.99
€ 11.73
Hardback. Series: Indigenous Confluences. Num Pages: 224 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, 2 maps, 20 b&w illus., 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL9; JNAM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295998268
- ISBN
- 9780295998268
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.49
€ 107.49
Paperback. Essayists reinterpret treaty making, rights, title, and land claims in Canada from Aboriginal perspectives. Editor(s): DePasquale, Paul W. Num Pages: 160 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Alberta Press Canada
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 119
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780888644626
- ISBN
- 9780888644626
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.89
€ 45.99
€ 32.89