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History: specific events & topics

Hardback. Series: Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700-2000. Num Pages: 184 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319518763
ISBN
9783319518763
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.50

Hardback. This book explores the decision of the British Empire to import Chinese labour to southern Africa despite the already tense racial situation in the region. It enables a clearer understanding of racial and political developments in southern Africa during the reconstruction period and places localised issues within a wider historiography. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, 5 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 3JJC; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTQ; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 222 x 22. Weight in Grams: 466.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
2013th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230303775
ISBN
9780230303775
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.93

Paperback. Num Pages: 174 pages. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJM; HBTB; JNB; JNMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 232 x 22. Weight in Grams: 240.
Publisher
Monash University Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781925377248
ISBN
9781925377248
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.41

Paperback. Janusz Korczak devoted himself to the care of orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto after the Nazi occupation of Poland. This volume constitutes his grimly inspiring ghetto diary, and is accompanied by a new introduction by Betty Jean Lifton, the author of a biography of Korczak. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; BGHA; BJ; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 217 x 9. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300097429
ISBN
9780300097429
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 17.11

Paperback. Editor(s): Ibler, Reinhard. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: HBTZ1; HPN. Dimension: 151 x 213 x 16. Weight in Grams: 396.
Publisher
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9783838209524
ISBN
9783838209524
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 25.86

paperback. When Hitler announced that the result of the war in Europe would be "the complete annihilation of the Jews" before an enormous crowd in Berlin, the Allies heard, but, astonishingly, they did not listen. First-hand reports of the death camps were ignored by the allies. This book explains why. Num Pages: 368 pages, 16pp b&w plates. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153 x 28. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Pimlico
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9780712668064
ISBN
9780712668064
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 12.79

hardcover. Academically rigourous study which situates the Irish experience within both the historical development of an Irish 'racial' consciousness and contemporary patterns of migration. Num Pages: 320 pages, 8 figures. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3J; HBTB; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780745319971
ISBN
9780745319971
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.01
€ 84.01

Paperback. Num Pages: 426 pages, 11 black & white tables, 25 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTK; JFSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 592.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Routledge
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415537605
ISBN
9780415537605
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 70.00

paperback. Series: Library of American Biography. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBTK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 213.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Pearson United States
Edition
3rd Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780321432872
ISBN
9780321432872
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.13

Paperback. A collection of essays analyzing and emphasizing the origins, strategies, creative tensions, and politics of the Civil Rights Movement Editor(s): Eagles, Charles W. Num Pages: 277 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 13. Weight in Grams: 280.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Condition
New
SKU
V9780878052981
ISBN
9780878052981
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.91

hardcover. First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Num Pages: 284 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; HBTB; HBTS; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714631424
ISBN
9780714631424
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 193.25

paperback. This study of power/knowledge in France, from the 1830s through the 1930s, uses the tools of anthropology, philosophy, and cultural criticism to examine how the social environment was described. It aims to show how modernity was revealed in urban planning, architecture, and social legislation. Num Pages: 464 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBTB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 150 x 26. Weight in Grams: 626.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
9780226701745
ISBN
9780226701745
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 37.14

paperback. A collection of essays that contests diehard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as some of the key assumptions of post colonial theory. It is suitable for an interdisciplinary arena of scholarship on colonial and post colonial discourse, history, anthropology, philosophy, political science, psychoanalysis, and literary criticism. Series: Studies on the History of Society & Culture. Num Pages: 274 pages, 22 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; GTB; HBJH; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
KJH0000327
ISBN
9780520204355
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.14

paperback. Series: Religion in America. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBTS; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 170 x 20. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Oxford University Press, U.S.A. United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195313079
ISBN
9780195313079
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.71

paperback. The biography of Jane Digby, an 'enthralling tale of a nineteenth-century beauty whose heart - and hormones - ruled her head.' Harpers and Queen Num Pages: 384 pages, (16 page section). BIC Classification: BGH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 278.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Edition
8th reprint
Condition
New
SKU
9781857024692
ISBN
9781857024692
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 13.91

paperback. Original interpretations of Brown v. Board of Education's impact, fifty years later Editor(s): Burton, Orville Vernon; O'Brien, David. Num Pages: 456 pages, 21 Black & White photographs, 9 Color photographs, 9 charts, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 28. Weight in Grams: 748.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780252076657
ISBN
9780252076657
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.03

paperback. Six annotated pamphlets on the role of women in 15th Century society. They give insight into debates within English culture on gossips, treatises against wife-beating, superiority of women, and cross-dressing. They constitute a significant body of primary literature, allowing the contending voices to be heard. Editor(s): O'Malley, Ms Susan Gushee. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 3H; HBT; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
Annotated
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252071287
ISBN
9780252071287
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.92

hardcover. Medieval Monsters shows how strange creatures sparked artists' imaginations to remarkable heights. Half-human hybrids of land and sea mingle with bewitching demons, blemmyae, cyclops and multi-headed beasts of nightmare and comic grotesques. Over 100 wondrous and terrifying images offer a fascinating insight into the medieval mind. Num Pages: 96 pages, 100 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3F; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC1; HBTB; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 198 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
British Library
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
9780712357906
ISBN
9780712357906
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.77

paperback. This work synthesizes various source materials including newspapers, mortician trade journals, and popular magazines, to offer a historical study of cremation in the United States. The changing view of cremation from a universally condemned practice, to accepted necessity is examined. Num Pages: 280 pages, 20 b/w photographs, 2 line illustrations, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBT; JHBZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520236882
ISBN
9780520236882
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.19

Hardcover. Examines the origins and development of early medieval commerce through an analysis of the dirham hoards from European Russia and the Baltic - between 750-900 - when Viking and Rus' merchants took fur and slaves south through European Russia to the markets of Khazaria and the 'Abbasid caliphate. Series: Variorum Collected Studies. Num Pages: 352 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1DV; 3F; HBG; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 782.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Ashgate Publishing Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9780860786573
ISBN
9780860786573
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.50

Paperback. Jacobs travelled to Holocaust sites across Europe to explore representations of women. She reveals how these memorial cultures construct masculinity and femininity, as well as the Holocaust's effect on stereotyping on grounds of race or gender. Num Pages: 224 pages, 12 integrated bw illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848851030
ISBN
9781848851030
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.04

hardcover. A unique compilation of diverse sources, many in English translation for the first time, this book documents the Mexican Revolution, explains its popular and agrarian nature, and helps to clarify its often perplexing conflicts, alliances, and issues. Series: Fighting Words. Num Pages: 287 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLC; HBJK; HBLW; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 168 x 27. Weight in Grams: 535.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Greenwood United States
Number of pages
287
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846450372
ISBN
9781846450372
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.69

Paperback. Updated and expanded fourth edition which addresses key controversial topics generating debate in US society today. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781612052540
ISBN
9781612052540
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.48

paperback. Examines key hoistorical revolutions such as France, China and Russia, and also looks at the state breakdowns in Eastern Europe after 1989. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781594510496
ISBN
9781594510496
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.68

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