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Hardcover. This text examines the struggle of bondpeople to secure and retain for themselves recognised rights as producers and consumers in the context of the brutal, formal slave economy sanctified by the law. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; HBTS; JPVH; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 621.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820316673
ISBN
9780820316673
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.01

Paperback. Examines developments in American higher education from the colonial era through the mid-20th century in their social, economic and political context. Topics discussed include the financing of institutions, the curriculum, education of women and blacks, college athletics and student life. Num Pages: 616 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JNM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 213 x 140 x 35. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Edition
2nd ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820312842
ISBN
9780820312842
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.79

Hardcover. A rare first-person account of life in the twentieth-century South, "He Included Me" weaves together the story of a black family eight children reared in rural Alabama, their mother a schoolteacher, their father a minister and the emerging self-portrait of a woman determined, like her parents, to look ahead." Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; HBTB; JFSL3; JHBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820311418
ISBN
9780820311418
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.69

Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 292 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1202.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820310701
ISBN
9780820310701
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 45.50

Paperback. Editor(s): Benally, Malcolm D. Translator(s): Benally, Malcolm D. Series: First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies. Num Pages: 178 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HBTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 9. Weight in Grams: 277.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Edition
1st edition,
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816528981
ISBN
9780816528981
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.75

Hardcover. This volume of Memory Ireland focuses on the impact of the Famine and the Troubles on the formation and study of Irish cultural memory. Editor(s): Frawley, Oona. Series: Irish Studies. Num Pages: 376 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBTB; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 678.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd)
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815633518
ISBN
9780815633518
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.98

Hardcover. Since the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and recognition of the Holocaust as a watershed event, the capacity of art to represent this event adequately has been questioned. Contributors provide case studies that include a artists from North America, Europe and Israel, and examine some of the dominant themes of their work. Editor(s): Feinstein, Stephen C. Series: Religion, Theology and the Holocaust. Num Pages: 328 pages, 69 photographs, bibliography, notes, index. BIC Classification: ACX; AG; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 671.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd)
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815630838
ISBN
9780815630838
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.48

Hardcover. The year 1919 in Jerusalem marked the conclusion of hundreds of years of Ottoman rule and the beginning of British occupation, a period of great change that would transform the city. This memoir presents a portrait of life in post-WWI Jerusalem as seen through the eyes of a spirited young English girl. Num Pages: 176 pages, 45 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 3JJG; BGA; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Syracuse University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815608721
ISBN
9780815608721
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.40

Num Pages: 120 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: WBXD3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 122 x 15. Weight in Grams: 172.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813141732
ISBN
9780813141732
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.24

Paperback. Tying together legal, historical, social, political and literary strands to show how the law itself was implicated in the persistence of slavery, this work sheds new light on slavery and Southern history, as it probes the conscience of a troubled jurist incapable of fully transcending his times. Series: Landmark Law Cases and American Society. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTS; LA; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 12. Weight in Grams: 218.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Univ Pr of Kansas
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700612710
ISBN
9780700612710
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.11

Paperback. A first-hand account of the genealogy of the discipline, and of the rise of a new era of social history. Geoff Eley tracks the evolution of historical understanding in our time from social history through the so-called "cultural turn," and back again to a broad history of society. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472069040
ISBN
9780472069040
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.52

Paperback. The first Great Lakes history to expose the heroism, villainy, courage, and confusion surrounding the tragedy of the freighter "Cedarville" Num Pages: 256 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNG; 3JJPK; HBTM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 463.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The University of Michigan Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472030637
ISBN
9780472030637
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.57

Paperback. Num Pages: 378 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBEJ; HBTD; KNAT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 534.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company, US United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
378
Condition
New
SKU
V9780939923908
ISBN
9780939923908
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 23.63

hardcover. Series: Critical Caribbean Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 9 photographs, 2 figures, 2 maps, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1KJD; HBTQ; JFSL1; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 449.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813584485
ISBN
9780813584485
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 159.45

Hardcover. What would it mean to "get over slavery"? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Featuring original essays from an array of established and emerging scholars in the interdisciplinary field of African American studies, The Psychic Hold of Slavery offers a nuanced dialogue upon these questions. Editor(s): Colbert, Soyica Diggs; Patterson, Robert J.; Levy-Hussen, Aida. Num Pages: 288 pages, 14 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTS; JFM; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813583969
ISBN
9780813583969
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 159.45

Paperback. From Aaron to Una, this book provides a gloss on more than four hundred Irish forenames. It helps us learn that the name Art has nothing to do with Arthur; that Brendan is originally of Welsh origin and came to Ireland in a Latinised form; that Cathal is usually translated as Charles, and others. It is useful to choose your child's name. Num Pages: 78 pages. BIC Classification: HBTG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 185 x 124 x 13. Weight in Grams: 168.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
GILL & MAC MILLAN
Condition
New
SKU
9780717140084
ISBN
9780717140084
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 8.82

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Protea Boekhuis South Africa
Number of pages
1344
Condition
New
SKU
V9781869197490
ISBN
9781869197490
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 44.22

Paperback. A history of educational ideas from classical Greece to the 20th century, relating these ideas to the social, political and economic trends of significant periods of history. Series: Woburn Education Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QFH; HBT; JFCX; JNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 14. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780713040418
ISBN
9780713040418
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.51

Paperback. At what point did the British develop their mania for interiors, wallpaper, furniture, and decoration? Why have the middle classes developed so passionate an attachment to the contents of their homes? This book chronicles a hundred years of British interiors, focusing on class, choice, shopping and possessions. Num Pages: 336 pages, 100 black-&-white illustrations + 15 colour images. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 183 x 18. Weight in Grams: 892.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300136418
ISBN
9780300136418
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.47

paperback. An exploration of the impact of recording technology on the art of music. Timothy Day chronicles the developments in recording technology since its inception and describes the powerful effects it has had on artistic performance, audience participation, and listening habits. Num Pages: 336 pages, 16 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 3JJ; AVGC; AVX; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 210 x 22. Weight in Grams: 546.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780300094015
ISBN
9780300094015
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.40

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 60 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFC; JFD; KNTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 205 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226511733
ISBN
9780226511733
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 24.90

Recovering from Genocidal Trauma is a comprehensive guide to understanding Holocaust survivors and responding to their needs. In it, Myra Giberovitch documents her twenty-five years of working with Holocaust survivors as a professional social worker, researcher, educator, community leader, and daughter of Auschwitz survivors. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 660.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442646322
ISBN
9781442646322
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 86.98

hardcover. Grounded in archival research and oral history, Militant Minority provides a valuable case study of one of the most organized and independent working classes in North America, during a period of ideological tension and unprecedented material advance. Num Pages: 424 pages, 24 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBCB; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBTB; HBTK; JPFF; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 36. Weight in Grams: 860.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442641945
ISBN
9781442641945
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.98

Top scholars in eighteenth-century studies examine the significance of the parallel devaluations of women's culture and popular culture by looking at theatres and actresses; novels, magazines, and cookbooks; and populist politics, dress, and portraiture. Editor(s): Potter, Tiffany. Num Pages: 344 pages, 17 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JF; HBLL; HBTB; JFCA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 240 x 31. Weight in Grams: 690.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442641815
ISBN
9781442641815
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.28

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