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Paperback. In 1767, two 'princes' of a ruling family in the port of Old Calabar, on the slave coast of Africa, were ambushed and captured by English slavers. The princes were themselves slave traders who were betrayed by African competitors - and so began their own odyssey of enslavement. This book presents an account of the Atlantic slave experience. Num Pages: 208 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1H; 3JF; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674032057
- ISBN
- 9780674032057
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.85
€ 27.99
€ 24.85
Hardcover. Tycoons, Scorchers, and Outlaws charts how auto racing was shaped by class tensions between the millionaires who invented it, the public who resented their seizure of the public roads, and the working class drivers who viewed the sport as a vocation, not a leisured pursuit. Num Pages: 154 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137322500
- ISBN
- 9781137322500
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.25
€ 66.25
Paperback. A historical account of concepts of honor in Mexico during the mid-to-late nineteenth century and the role of those concepts in the development of the public sphere. Num Pages: 400 pages, 24 illustrations, 7 tables, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822346456
- ISBN
- 9780822346456
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Hardback. A historical account of concepts of honor in Mexico during the mid-to-late nineteenth century and the role of those concepts in the development of the public sphere. Num Pages: 400 pages, 24 illustrations, 7 tables, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822346531
- ISBN
- 9780822346531
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.20
€ 124.20
Paperback. For millennia, war was viewed as a supreme test. In the period 1750-1850 war became much more than a test: it became a secular revelation. This new understanding of war as revelation completely transformed Western war culture, revolutionizing politics, the personal experience of war, the status of common soldiers, and the tenets of military theory. Num Pages: 401 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBTB; HBTQ; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 401
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349358670
- ISBN
- 9781349358670
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 194.44
€ 194.44
Paperback. Available for the first time in one volume, a unique and comprehensive guide that includes the precise position and characteristics of 285 wrecks between Whitby to Berwick - from fishing boats to submarines and steamers to warships - that were lost or sunk from the 1850s to the present day. Num Pages: 400 pages, liberally illustrated. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 170 x 27. Weight in Grams: 844.
- Publisher
- Whittles Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1ST
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904445890
- ISBN
- 9781904445890
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.81
€ 26.99
€ 23.81
hardcover. The 1948 Genocide Convention is one of the most important instruments in international law. This Commentary provides a comprehensive analysis of each article of the Convention, taking a thematic approach. It also examines the Convention's legacy and future, drawing on its preparatory works and the development of international case law on genocide. Editor(s): Gaeta, Paola. Series: Oxford Commentaries on International Law. Num Pages: 616 pages. BIC Classification: HBTZ; LBBR; LBBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 166 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1034.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (UK) United Kingdom
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 616
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199570218
- ISBN
- 9780199570218
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 228.93
€ 228.93
Paperback. In this volume, Doug Underwood asks whether much of what is now called literary journalism is, in fact, 'literary, ' and whether it should rank with the great novels by such journalist-literary figures as Twain, Cather, and Hemingway, who believed that fiction was the better place for a realistic writer to express the important truths of life Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; DS; HBTB; JFD; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 335.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349469703
- ISBN
- 9781349469703
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.94
€ 65.94
paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Arcturus Publishing Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784287139
- ISBN
- 9781784287139
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 8.29
€ 14.99
€ 8.29
Paperback. Series: African American. Num Pages: 560 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 143 x 216 x 27. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 560
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486450391
- ISBN
- 9780486450391
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.77
€ 23.99
€ 17.77
Paperback. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DS; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 433.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349634101
- ISBN
- 9781349634101
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.73
€ 127.73
paperback. Argues that the expansion of the Florentine economic market in the fifteenth century helped to undo the development of markets of other economies - especially the rural economy of Tuscany. This title shows how sectoral relations are crucial to transitions to capitalism and how capitalist development can also contract markets. Series: Politics, History, & Social Change. Num Pages: 288 pages, 15 tables, 1 map, 3 line art. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781592136193
- ISBN
- 9781592136193
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Hardcover. Radio was one of the major weapons used in the Cold War and The Undivided Sky gives a lively and comprehensive account of radio programming and audience responses in the divided Germany of the 1960s by looking at the reportage of major war-crimes trials of the time, issues of the Holocaust and German national identity. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB; JFD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230576766
- ISBN
- 9780230576766
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12
Paperback. In a work as much about the present as the past, Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Reformation for the modern condition: a hyperpluralism of beliefs, intellectual disagreements that splinter into fractals of specialized discourse, the absence of a substantive common good, and the triumph of capitalism s driver, consumerism." Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: 3JB; 3JD; HBTB; HRCC2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 43. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674088054
- ISBN
- 9780674088054
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 26.87
€ 31.99
€ 26.87
Hardback. EPUB Editor(s): Mayersen, Deborah. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; 3JM; HBTZ; JPSN1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137484482
- ISBN
- 9781137484482
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.77
€ 105.77
Paperback. Rev. ed. of: United Nations since 1945: peacekeeping and the Cold War. London: Longman, 1999. Series: Seminar Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, maps. BIC Classification: HBTW; JPSN1; JWLP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 171 x 12. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408237663
- ISBN
- 9781408237663
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.12
€ 54.12
Hardcover. This book analyzes the dynamics of the changing relationships between the United States and states seeking decolonization. It does so within the contexts of the US relationship with the European colonial powers, the Cold War and the economic system. Editor(s): Ryan, David; Pungong, Victor. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBG; HBJK; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 2000th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333730553
- ISBN
- 9780333730553
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.03
€ 128.03
Paperback. * Provides survey of the ways in which the United States acquired, administered, and abandoned its various imperial possessions. * Offers a new interpretation of how and why America became an imperialist power. * Incorporates notions of imperialism, anti-imperialism, and geopolitics into American foreign policy decision making. Series: Problems in American History. Num Pages: 320 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781577180562
- ISBN
- 9781577180562
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.44
€ 60.44
Hardcover. This work offers a history of the Pacific as a "frontier" of the United States using economics, politics, and culture as its central areas of consideration. While many studies have analyzed specific regions within the Pacific, this work considers the whole of this vast ocean. Translator(s): Wilson, W.D. Num Pages: 504 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1M; 1QSP; GTB; HBG; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 163 x 40. Weight in Grams: 966.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268043087
- ISBN
- 9780268043087
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.72
€ 52.72
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; KNDF; WBXD2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 16. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780062389770
- ISBN
- 9780062389770
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.26
€ 17.99
€ 16.26
Hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; KNDF; WBXD2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 646.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- William Morrow
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780062389756
- ISBN
- 9780062389756
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.00€ 23.95
€ 25.00
€ 23.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; HBW; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349488698
- ISBN
- 9781349488698
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.01
€ 66.01
Paperback. From a small city college in the sixteenth century the University of Edinburgh grew to be one of the world's greatest centres of scholarship, research and learning. Its history is told here by three of its leading historians with wit, verve and style. Num Pages: 216 pages, 275. BIC Classification: 1DBKSC; 3J; HBTB; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 173 x 16. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748616466
- ISBN
- 9780748616466
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.63
€ 41.99
€ 37.63
Hardback. Thanks to extensive archival research and a thorough examination of the published works of the university's professors, Grendler's history tells a new story. Num Pages: 312 pages, 19, 13 black & white halftones, 6 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; JNMN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801891717
- ISBN
- 9780801891717
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.99€ 60.80
€ 65.99
€ 60.80