History: specific events & topics
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History: specific events & topics
Hardback. The soap opera is a major form of media art and popular culture. Revered and reviled by fans and critics, its history spans and reflects social change and plays a vital role in the development of broadcasting. This book traces the genre from its beginnings on American radio in the 1930s to the international television genre it has become today. Num Pages: 240 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; APTS; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745626543
- ISBN
- 9780745626543
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.15
€ 71.15
Paperback. Illuminates the connections between soccer empire and sport by tracing the story of World Cup soccer, from the Cup's French origins in the 1930s to Africa and the Caribbean and back again. This title recounts the lives of two of soccer's most electrifying players, Zidane and his outspoken teammate, Lilian Thuram. Num Pages: 352 pages, 29 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: HBT; WSB; WSJA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520269781
- ISBN
- 9780520269781
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.43
€ 33.99
€ 24.43
Hardcover. Celebrates the work of Nick Fisher, Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at Cardiff University. This title contains essays on the theme of ancient Greek social behaviour. It reflects the diversity and the unities in the honorand's interests. Num Pages: 350 pages, 10 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBLA; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 820.
- Publisher
- Classical Press of Wales
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905125517
- ISBN
- 9781905125517
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.50
€ 78.50
Hardback. This is study and analysis of social and political change in the Taihang Base Area during the key years of the War of Resistance to Japan, which was instrumental to the establishment of the People's Republic of China. Series: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives. Num Pages: 384 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB; JF; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 615.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742508644
- ISBN
- 9780742508644
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 198.31
€ 198.31
Paperback. Traces the diverse social currents that developed alongside and interacted with political and economic forces to bring about change in Eastern Europe. This book shows how the processes leading to the collapse of communism began more than a decade earlier and how they were necessarily manifested in spheres as diverse as religion and rock music. Num Pages: 616 pages. BIC Classification: 1DV; HBJD; HBTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1012.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 616
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822315483
- ISBN
- 9780822315483
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 36.86
€ 36.99
€ 36.86
Hardcover. What was it like to be a slave in colonial South Africa? What difference did freedom make? John Edwin Mason presents complex answers after delving into the slaves' experience within the slaveholding patriarchal household, primarily during the period from 1820 to 1850. Series: Reconsiderations in Southern African History. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JH; HBJH; HBLL; HBTB; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 644.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813921785
- ISBN
- 9780813921785
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.73
€ 90.73
Paperback. What was it like to be a slave in colonial South Africa? What difference did freedom make? John Edwin Mason presents complex answers after delving into the slaves' experience within the slaveholding patriarchal household, primarily during the period from 1820 to 1850. Series: Reconsiderations in Southern African History. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JH; HBJH; HBLL; HBTB; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813921792
- ISBN
- 9780813921792
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.28
€ 38.28
Paperback. This book presents an incisive analysis of social formations in present-day Tamil Nadu and Kerala from pre-historic times to early medieval period. It examines the economy, technology, and the process of state formation to understand the transformation from agro-pastoral to agrarian social formation. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FK; HBJF; HBLC; HBTB; JFS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 218 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- OUP India India
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198089391
- ISBN
- 9780198089391
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.49
€ 31.49
Paperback. First published in 1951 Arnold Hauser s commanding work presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its origins in the Stone Age through to the Film Age. This new edition of a classic work offers a contemporary introduction. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACN; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415199469
- ISBN
- 9780415199469
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.49
€ 39.49
paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 2 black & white tables. BIC Classification: HBLC1; HBTB; JFFG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138952386
- ISBN
- 9781138952386
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.30
€ 58.30
Hardback. Largely absent from our history books is the social history of railroad development in nineteenth-century Mexico. This work connects foreign investment in Mexico, largely in railroad development, with its effects on the people living in the isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico's region of greatest ethnic diversity. Series: Jaguar Books on Latin America. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBTB; KNGT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 513.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742553279
- ISBN
- 9780742553279
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.95
€ 164.95
paperback. This analysis of the social development of Spain since 1800 explores the social conflicts at the root of the Spanish Civil War and how that war and the subsequent changes, from democracy to Franco and back again, have shaped the social relations of the country. Num Pages: 308 pages, maps, graphs, chronology, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 233 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780415090834
- ISBN
- 9780415090834
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.72
€ 56.72
Paperback. Editor(s): Sklar, Kathryn Kish; Schuler, Anya; Strasser, Susan; Schuler, Anja. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFFK; JPWD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press New York
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801484698
- ISBN
- 9780801484698
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 49.71
€ 49.99
€ 49.71
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 434 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBJD; HBTV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 434
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691643694
- ISBN
- 9780691643694
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 182.29€ 135.01
€ 182.29
€ 135.01
Paperback. When Hitler assumed power in 1933, he and other Nazis had firm ideas on what they called a racially pure "community of the people." This work includes eesays that explore the political strategies used by the Third Reich to gain support for its ideologies and programs, and each following essay concentrates on one group of outsiders. Editor(s): Gellately, Robert; Stoltzfus, Nathan. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691086842
- ISBN
- 9780691086842
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.92€ 41.45
€ 52.92
€ 41.45
Hardback. This book offers an insight into the social relationships and topographies that fashioned both city life and landscape and serves as a useful counterpoise in a field that has largely focused on London. Series: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History. Num Pages: 246 pages, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEAN; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 238 x 21. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843839453
- ISBN
- 9781843839453
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.86
€ 95.86
Paperback. Compact, timely, well-researched, and balanced, this institutional history of Social Security's seventy years shows how the past still influences ongoing reform debates, helping the reader both to understand and evaluate the current partisan arguments on both sides. Series: Studies in Government and Public Policy. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JKSB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Univ Pr of Kansas
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700615223
- ISBN
- 9780700615223
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.52
€ 35.52
hardcover. Editor(s): Kowarick, Lucio. Translator(s): Fisher, William; Mundy, Kevin. Num Pages: 269 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; HBTV; JFSG; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Monthly Review Press United States
- Number of pages
- 269
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780853458623
- ISBN
- 9780853458623
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.24
€ 40.99
€ 33.24
Hardback. Representing a range of approaches and emphases, the chapters in this volume address and illustrate linkages between social theory and history; social theory and historical analysis as mutually supportive frames of analysis, and affinities between the history of social thought and the history of modern societies. Editor(s): Dahms, Harry F. Series: Current Perspectives in Social Theory. Num Pages: 352 pages, no. BIC Classification: HBA; HBTB; JHBA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 32. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 362
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783502189
- ISBN
- 9781783502189
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.85
€ 162.85
Paperback. Num Pages: 66 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLW; HBT; JPA; JPFC; JPLM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 5. Weight in Grams: 120.
- Number of pages
- 66
- Publisher
- Pathfinder Press United States
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 3 ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781604880229
- ISBN
- 9781604880229
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.51
€ 7.51
Paperback. Translator(s): Hurley, R.; Stein, A. Num Pages: 218 pages. BIC Classification: 1KB; 1KLS; HBTB; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 28 x 52 x 18. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Zone Books,U.S. United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780942299014
- ISBN
- 9780942299014
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.35
€ 26.99
€ 20.35
Paperback. An important book which explores the conceptual issues raised by the geography of societal change. Series: Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography. Num Pages: 246 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: HBTP; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521596404
- ISBN
- 9780521596404
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.38
€ 49.38
Paperback. Num Pages: 110 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 137 x 11. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Publisher
- Rebel Press,London United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 110
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780946061129
- ISBN
- 9780946061129
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.24
€ 13.24
Paperback. Includes essays which celebrate 21 years of research by the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies in Oxford. This book brings together the reflections of leading scholars from around the world on the life and work of the Oxford Centre. It records how the pioneering studies carried out by the Centre have become a bench-mark for researchers. Editor(s): Galligan, D. J. Series: Journal of Law and Society Special Issues. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKW; HBTB; J; LAF; LN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631196815
- ISBN
- 9780631196815
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.84
€ 28.84