History: specific events & topics
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Hardcover. Discover the fascinating lives of the figures that have shaped Ireland from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Explore the rich history of the island's cultural, social and political landscape, with more than 100 obituaries carefully curated from The Times archive. Editor(s): Lysaght, Charles. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3J; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 205 x 41. Weight in Grams: 502. In dustwrapper
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KKD0006943
- ISBN
- 9780008211516
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. An innovative and lively account of both the history and key debates in postcolonialism. Robert Young situates it in a wide cultural context, discussing its importance as an historical condition, and as a means of changing the way that we think about the world. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 192 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: HBTQ; HBTR; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 118 x 11. Weight in Grams: 146. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0006138
- ISBN
- 9780192801821
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Foreign students have travelled to Britain for centuries and, from the beginning, attracted controversy. This book explores changing British policy and practice, and changing student experience, set within the context of British social and political history. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBTB; JNM; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- SKU
- V9781349451692
- ISBN
- 9781349451692
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.26
€ 66.26
Paperback. This expanded edition features new photographs and a new epilogue on the impact of the discovery of Karl Plagge-especially the story of 83-year-old Alfons von Deschwanden, who, after fifty years of silence, came forward as a veteran of Plagge's unit. His testimony is now part of this growing witness to truth. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUF; 3JJH; BG; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- Expanded ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823224418
- ISBN
- 9780823224418
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.05
€ 34.99
€ 32.05
Paperback. The story of the Ottoman Empire's struggle with the Portuguese for control of the sixteenth-century Indian Ocean. Num Pages: 304 pages, 26 halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDT; 3JB; HBJF1; HBLH; HBTQ; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 228 x 164 x 18. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199874040
- ISBN
- 9780199874040
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.74
€ 59.74
Paperback. Surveys children and their place in family life from the Middle Ages to the end of the eighteenth century. This book explores the gradual change from the medieval attitude to children, looked upon as small adults as soon as they were past infancy, to the seventeenth and eighteenth century awareness of the child as the focal point of family life. Translator(s): Baldick, Robert. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 3F; 3H; 3J; HBTB; JFSP1; JFSP2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 33. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780712674584
- ISBN
- 9780712674584
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.70
€ 21.99
€ 17.70
Paperback. Presents the story of how the modern, professional, spectator sport of football was born in Britain in the second half of the nineteenth century. This title picks apart the complex processes which forged the modern game, turning accepted wisdom on its head. Num Pages: 336 pages, 2x8pp. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBTB; WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780553819359
- ISBN
- 9780553819359
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.91
€ 20.99
€ 16.91
Paperback. This pioneering study explores the surprising extent and limits of the GDR's forgotten sexual revolution. Num Pages: 250 pages, 21 b/w illus. 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 159 x 15. Weight in Grams: 412. Intimacy and Sexuality in the GDR. 250 pages, 21 b/w illus. 7 tables. This pioneering study explores the surprising extent and limits of the GDR's forgotten sexual revolution. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB; JHBK5. Dimension: 228 x 159 x 15. Weight: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521727617
- ISBN
- 9780521727617
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.62
€ 51.62
Paperback. A unique and comprehensive account of attitudes to slavery in ancient Greece and Rome. Series: The W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTS; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392. 288 pages. A unique and comprehensive account of attitudes to slavery in ancient Greece and Rome. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HBTS; HPCA. Dimension: 156 x 217 x 17. Weight: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521574334
- ISBN
- 9780521574334
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.32
€ 62.32
Paperback. This book demonstrates that territoriality for humans is not an instinct, but a powerful and often indispensable geographical strategy used to control people. Series: Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HBTP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521311809
- ISBN
- 9780521311809
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.08
€ 47.08
Paperback. Henri de Monfried is inextricably linked to the Red Sea and the raffish ports between Suez and Aden in the early years of the twentieth century. This book is an account of how de Monfried becomes a collector and merchant of the fabled Gulf pearls, and is drawn into the shadowy world of arms trading, slavery, smuggling and drugs. Num Pages: 224 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1QSL; BG; BTC; HBTM; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141442105
- ISBN
- 9780141442105
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.31
€ 17.99
€ 14.31
Paperback. A comparative survey of 5000 years of colonialism. Series: Topics in Contemporary Archaeology. Num Pages: 204 pages, 22 b/w illus. 5 tables. BIC Classification: HBTQ; HBTR; HDD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780521787956
- ISBN
- 9780521787956
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.42
€ 55.42
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226532394
- ISBN
- 9780226532394
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.59
€ 36.99
€ 29.59
Paperback. Series: Studies in Economic and Social History. BIC Classification: HBTB. Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 144. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0004099
- ISBN
- 9780333565643
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Explores the security forces' covert operations in Northern Ireland. This book charts the successes and failures of special operations during the troubles. It reveals the dilemmas faced by intelligence chiefs engaged in a daily struggle against terrorist organisations. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations, 1map. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; HBTV; JKSW1; JPSH; JPWL; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 248. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KKD0003806
- ISBN
- 9780571168095
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Matthew Flinders was the first to circumnavigate and chart the treacherous Terra Australis coastline - he is the man who put Australia on the map. Num Pages: 400 pages, 2x8pp 4x4c. BIC Classification: BG; DN; HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2019
- Publisher
- Hachette Australia Australia
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780733637384
- ISBN
- 9780733637384
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.14
€ 19.99
€ 15.14
Hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages, TBD. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780465032709
- ISBN
- 9780465032709
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 23.07
€ 33.99
€ 23.07
Titanic Calling: Wireless Communications during the Great Disaster
Michael Bosworth & Katherine Bosworth Eds.
hardcover. Drawing on the Marconi Archives in the Bodleian Library, the most extensive record of wireless communications, this book recounts the fateful events of April 1912 using complete transcripts of the messages to re-tell this legendary story as it was first heard. Editor(s): Hughes, Michael; Bosworth, Katherine. Num Pages: 192 pages, 50 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QSAN; 3JJC; HBLW; HBTM; TJK; WGG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 182 x 21. Weight in Grams: 604. Wireless Communications During the Great Disaster. 192 pages, 50 black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Hughes, Michael; Bosworth, Katherine. Drawing on the Marconi Archives in the Bodleian Library, the most extensive record of wireless communications, this book recounts the fateful events of April 1912 using complete transcripts of the messages to re-tell this legendary story as it was first heard. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1QSAN; 3JJC; HBLW; HBTM; TJK; WGG. Dimension: 198 x 182 x 21. Weight: 606.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- BODLEIAN LIB
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781851243778
- ISBN
- 9781851243778
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.29
€ 19.99
€ 16.29
Hardcover. A history of American culture as told through its eating habits and restaurants. Num Pages: 560 pages, 95 images. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; WB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 254 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1320.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Liveright
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780871406804
- ISBN
- 9780871406804
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.62
€ 36.99
€ 31.62
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- New Africa Books (Pty) Ltd South Africa
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780864864338
- ISBN
- 9780864864338
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.47
€ 14.99
€ 14.47