History: specific events & topics
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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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 19.99
€ 13.91
Remembering Brown at Fifty: The University of Illinois Commemorates Br...
. Ed(S): Burton, Orville Vernon; O'Brien, Dav...
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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 38.68