History: specific events & topics
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History: specific events & topics
Hardcover. Editor(s): Balina, Marina; Dobrenko, Evgeny. Series: Anthem Series on Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies. Num Pages: 334 pages, 36+ images. BIC Classification: HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 235 x 32. Weight in Grams: 702.
- Publisher
- Anthem Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 334
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843313106
- ISBN
- 9781843313106
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.21
€ 139.21
Hardcover. Drawing from the Bodleian Library's collections, this richly-illustrated book features extracts from letters, journals, diaries and memoirs written by a diverse cast of onlookers. Put into context with introductory notes, these first-hand accounts give a fascinating insight into the tumultuous year of 1917. Num Pages: 304 pages, 32 colour plates, 44 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJF; BJ; HBTV4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781851244607
- ISBN
- 9781851244607
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.06
€ 33.99
€ 25.06
Paperback. Analyzing the first Exposition Coloniale Internationale, held in Paris in 1931, this title shows how the exhibition's display of architecture gave a vision to the colonies that justified France's cultural prejudices, while stimulating the desire for further expansionism. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 216 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 1QSP; AB; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822317876
- ISBN
- 9780822317876
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.38
€ 32.99
€ 25.38
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781526704085
- ISBN
- 9781526704085
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.61
€ 33.99
€ 24.61
Paperback. A magnificent and timely examination of an age of fear, subversion, suppression and espionage, Adam Zamoyski explores the attempts of the governments of Europe to police the world in a struggle against obscure forces, seemingly dedicated to the overthrow of civilisation. Num Pages: 592 pages, With index. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 39. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007282777
- ISBN
- 9780007282777
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.60
€ 24.99
€ 18.60
Paperback. Makes important inroads into the widely discussed topic of historical memory, evoking the everyday lives of eleventh-century people and both their written and nonwritten ways of preserving the past. This title unearths a range of approaches to preserving the past as it was or formulating the past that an individual or group prefers to imagine. Num Pages: 264 pages, 3 maps. 14 halftones. 4 figs. 3 tables. BIC Classification: HBA; HBG; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 236 x 14. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691026039
- ISBN
- 9780691026039
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.89€ 42.58
€ 52.89
€ 42.58
Paperback. Editor(s): Jensen, Frede P.; Beukel, Erik. Num Pages: 480 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1MTNG; 3JJPG; HBJQ; HBTQ; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 169 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1016.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788763525879
- ISBN
- 9788763525879
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.16€ 53.96
€ 68.16
€ 53.96
paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJM; HBL; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- SKU
- V9781349494491
- ISBN
- 9781349494491
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62
Hardcover. This book, the first long-range history of the voluntary sector in Australia and the first internationally to compare philanthropy for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in a settler society, explores how the race and gender ideologies embedded in philanthropy contributed to the construction of Australia's welfare state. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJM; HBTB; HBTQ; JKSN1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137440495
- ISBN
- 9781137440495
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.31
€ 67.31
Paperback. American philanthropy today expands knowledge, champions social movements, defines active citizenship, influences policymaking, and addresses humanitarian crises. How did philanthropy become such a powerful and integral force in American society? This book explores the twentieth-century growth of this phenomenon. Series: Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; 3JM; HBTB; JKSN1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 235 x 25. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- Updated edition with a New Preface
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691161204
- ISBN
- 9780691161204
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.68
€ 26.99
€ 20.68
Hardcover. Philanthropy in Transition examines the rising importance of new channels of giving, from purchase made from social market enterprises to social impact investing. While these movements extend the reach and appeal beyond traditional philanthropy, the result is a widening distance between donor and recipient that raises new challenges. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBT; JKSN1; KJG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137395610
- ISBN
- 9781137395610
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Hardback. This book presents an interdisciplinary reading of Central European dissidence during the Cold War. It argues for a view of dissent as an existential search for mutual understanding and recognition, showing how dissidents' ideas contribute to current conversations in political theory and philosophy about thinking and action. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DV; HBTW; HPCF; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137576026
- ISBN
- 9781137576026
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.65
€ 67.65
paperback. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; HPC; JHBA; JNA; JNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- SKU
- V9781349471379
- ISBN
- 9781349471379
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. BIC Classification: 1DBK; AJC; HBT; WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 279 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1220.
- Publisher
- Parragon
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KSG0014415
- ISBN
- 9781472364265
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 10.00
€ 10.00
Paperback. This study traces the history of how images taken during the Nazi Holocaust have been subjected to a perplexing variety of treatments: variously ignored, suppressed, distorted and exploited for propaganda purposes. It asks whether the images can ever be true representations of the events. Num Pages: 144 pages, 50 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJH; AJC; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFC; JPVN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 244 x 171 x 18. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Publisher
- I. B. Tauris
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781860645464
- ISBN
- 9781860645464
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.37
€ 32.37
Hardcover. This collection re-examines photographs and their social history, the ideological, ethical, political, and aesthetic forces that inflect interpretation. Editor(s): Perreault, Jeanne; Kadar, Marlene; Warley, Linda. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AJ; HBTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230617704
- ISBN
- 9780230617704
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.71
€ 67.71
Hardback. This study explores a range of photographic images made during the 1910 revolution. Repeatedly reproduced across a range of media in the aftermath of the conflict, the analysis of this select handful of photographs brings to light compelling stories about cultural memory and identity in the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; AJC; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 175 x 21. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719078422
- ISBN
- 9780719078422
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.04
€ 157.04
Hardcover. Phylogeography is a discipline concerned with various relationships between gene genealogies (phylogenetics) and geography. This book aims to capture the field's conceptual and empirical richness, plus the sense of innovation that phylogeographic perspectives have brought to evolutionary studies. Num Pages: 464 pages, 113 line illustrations, 13 tables. BIC Classification: HBT; PSAJ; PSV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 187 x 32. Weight in Grams: 890.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674666382
- ISBN
- 9780674666382
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.67€ 90.07
€ 98.67
€ 90.07
Paperback. The eighth book in the 500 Reflections on the RCP series, looking at the beautiful art owned and curated by the Royal College of Physicians. Series: 500 Reflections on the RCP, 1518-2018. Num Pages: 112 pages, Approx. 80-100 photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3J; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408706367
- ISBN
- 9781408706367
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.72
€ 16.99
€ 12.72
Paperback. Part exhibition catalogue, part technical and social history of the piano, PIANO 300: Celebrating Three Centuries of People and Pianos presents the Smithsonian's 2000 exhibition's highlights in a lavishly illustrated book that captures the visual excitement of this authoritative survey of one of western culture's most pervasive musical icons. Num Pages: 80 pages, index. BIC Classification: AVRG; HBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 281 x 216 x 7. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780929847085
- ISBN
- 9780929847085
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.09
€ 44.09
Hardback. Referencing literature on every aspect of the piano, this annotated bibliography will cut down on research time for scholars and students, directing them to the most relevant and useful sources. Num Pages: 256 pages, index. BIC Classification: AVRG; GBCR; HBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 139 x 24. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810840522
- ISBN
- 9780810840522
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.43
€ 163.43
Hardback. Analyses the photographs that helped strengthen as well as bring down the Eugenics Movement. Concentrating mainly on developments in Britain, the USA and Nazi Germany, this book argues that photography, as the most powerful visual medium of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was vital to the Eugenics Movement's success. Num Pages: 286 pages, 120 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DFG; 1KBB; AJ; HBTB; PSAK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 252 x 175 x 22. Weight in Grams: 712.
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 286
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845192396
- ISBN
- 9781845192396
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.58
€ 130.58
Paperback. A collection of essays that explore the use and implication of war posters during WWI. It reveals the centrality of visual media, particularly the poster, within the specific national contexts of Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and the United States during World War I. Editor(s): James, Pearl. Series: Studies in War, Society, and the Military. Num Pages: 416 pages, 53 illustrations. BIC Classification: GTC; HBG; HBTB; HBWN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 29. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803226104
- ISBN
- 9780803226104
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. Outlines the history of pier and pavilion construction, using colour illustrations and photographs to show the development of these attractions from simple wooden structures to complex entertainment venues. Series: Shire Library. Num Pages: 64 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AMV; HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 157 x 4. Weight in Grams: 168. New.
- Publisher
- Shire Publications Ltd
- Number of pages
- 64
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780747806936
- ISBN
- 9780747806936
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.89
€ 8.89