History: specific events & topics
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History: specific events & topics
Hardback. Editor(s): Ellinghaus, Katherine; Carey, J.; Boucher, Leigh. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618855
- ISBN
- 9780230618855
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Hardcover. This study focuses on workers, women and peasants, and the ways in which their reading was constructed as a social and political problem, to analyze the fear of reading in 19th century France. The author presents a series of case studies of actual readers. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; CFC; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 459.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333921265
- ISBN
- 9780333921265
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 141.03€ 140.76
€ 141.03
€ 140.76
Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages, 45 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AJC; HBTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226497242
- ISBN
- 9780226497242
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 28.00
€ 34.99
€ 28.00
Paperback. Series: New Directions in Book History. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349446650
- ISBN
- 9781349446650
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Paperback. This volume examines how gender, social class and ethnicity colour the storylines of those who experienced the horrors of Auschwitz, and asks whether we can or should make sense of Auschwitz. Series: Ethnographic Alternatives. Num Pages: 184 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSA; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761991878
- ISBN
- 9780761991878
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.84
€ 61.84
Paperback. Examines several topics, including the business of baseball (industrial and labour relations, Curt Flood, law and organised baseball); social commentary biographies (the work of Stephen Jay Gould and Ken Burns, for example); and, culture of the game as it spreads across the globe to places like Australia, Japan, and Latin America. Num Pages: 238 pages, black & white halftones, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Fitness Information Technology, Inc, U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781935412243
- ISBN
- 9781935412243
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.92
€ 18.99
€ 18.92
Hardcover. Up until the end of the eighteenth century, the way Ottomans used their clocks conformed to the inner logic of their own temporal culture. This book unravels the complexity of Ottoman temporal culture and tells the story of its transformation. It presents us with a new understanding of the relationship between time and modernity. Num Pages: 312 pages, 14 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1QDT; 3JH; HBJF1; HBLL; HBTB; PGZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 15. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226257723
- ISBN
- 9780226257723
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.42€ 48.91
€ 56.42
€ 48.91
Hardback. Editor(s): Mason, Michele M.; Lee, Helen. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 537.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804776967
- ISBN
- 9780804776967
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.11
€ 119.11
Hardcover. Asks how 'reading for the law' as literary history contributes to the progressive educational purposes of the Law and Literature movement. This title demonstrates the relevance of literary history to feminist jurisprudence and suggests how literary history might contribute to other forms of 'outsider jurisprudence'. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3J; DSB; HBJD; HBL; HBTB; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813928937
- ISBN
- 9780813928937
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.20
€ 63.20
Paperback. Every Thursday morning in a living room in Iran, over tea and pastries, the author and other women meet in secret to discuss forbidden works of Western literature. This book tells how they lose themselves in the worlds of Lolita, and share their own stories, dreams with each other, and, for a few hours, taste freedom. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBN; BM; HBTV; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 258 x 24. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241246238
- ISBN
- 9780241246238
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Hardback. This book attempts to read the character of Mary in the infancy narratives of Luke and Matthew alongside the lives of experiences of the Indian surrogate mother living a postcolonial India. Reading Mary through these lenses helps us see this mother and her actions in a more ambivalent light, as a mother whose love is both violent and altruistic. Series: The Bible and Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 228 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBTR; HRCA; HRCG; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137542526
- ISBN
- 9781137542526
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.48
€ 127.48
Paperback. Examines how people acquired and read books from the sixteenth century to the present, focusing on the personal relationships between readers and the volumes they owned. This title also investigates the means by which books were sold, and lends insights into the ways booksellers and publishers marketed their wares. Num Pages: 304 pages, 90 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: GL; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300164046
- ISBN
- 9780300164046
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.40
€ 18.99
€ 15.40
Paperback. Num Pages: 231 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBF; DSBH5; HBJF; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 231
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349295951
- ISBN
- 9781349295951
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. From the rise of ticker-tape technology to the development of conspiracy theories, Reading the Market argues that commentary on the Stock Exchange between 1870 and 1915 changed how Americans understood finance-and explains what our pervasive interest in Wall Street says about us now. Series: New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History. Num Pages: 336 pages, 19, 19 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; HBTB; JFCA; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421420608
- ISBN
- 9781421420608
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.54€ 47.68
€ 50.54
€ 47.68
Hardcover. This teaching guide focuses on an emerging body of literature by US Latina and Latin American women writers. It should assist non-specialist educators in syllabus revision, course design and classroom presentation. Editor(s): Quintana, Alvina E. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KL; 2JS; DSB; HBTB; JFSJ1; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312294137
- ISBN
- 9780312294137
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
paperback. Editor(s): Quintana, Alvina E. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; HBTB; JFSJ; JFSL; JNMT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 291.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United States
- Number of pages
- 221
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2003rd Edition
- SKU
- V9781403969453
- ISBN
- 9781403969453
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.88
€ 65.88
Readings from Voices of a People's History of the United States
. Ed(S): Zinn, Howard; Arnove, Anthony
CD-Audio. Editor(s): Zinn, Howard; Arnove, Anthony. Num Pages: 1 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 125 x 142 x 10. Weight in Grams: 91.
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Seven Stories Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 1
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781583227527
- ISBN
- 9781583227527
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.05
€ 16.99
€ 14.05
Paperback. Shawn Levy, author of 'Rat Pack Confidential' brings alive London in the swinging Sixties with a gripping, groovy story of those who created the scene that changed the world. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JJPK; HBTB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841152264
- ISBN
- 9781841152264
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. Explores the history of men's dress in America to consider how capitalism and democracy emerged at the center of social life during the century between the Revolution and the Civil War. This book illuminates the critical links among culture, ideology, political economy, and fashion in antebellum America. Num Pages: 306 pages, 36 halftones, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBT; JFCK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 179 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 306
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226977959
- ISBN
- 9780226977959
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 33.73
€ 42.99
€ 33.73
Paperback. Presents the story of urban growth, the politics of labour, and the relationships among the many immigrant groups who came to work on the sewing machines of the women's garment industry in the US. This book also provides an examination of gender and ethnicity, historical conflict and consensus, and notions of class and cultural difference. Series: Comparative & International Working-Class History. Num Pages: 448 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFFN; JPVH1; KCZ; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 151 x 33. Weight in Grams: 750.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822318743
- ISBN
- 9780822318743
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.63
€ 41.99
€ 37.63