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History: specific events & topics
Paperback. Offers a reassessment of the 'consumer rites' that social critics have decried. This book discusses how holiday celebrations were almost banished by Puritans and religious reformers but went on to be romanticized and reinvented in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It offers a cultural history of the commercialization of American holidays. Num Pages: 384 pages, 101 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; HRA; HRLF; JFC; JHBS; JHBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780691017211
- ISBN
- 9780691017211
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.17€ 42.46
€ 53.17
€ 42.46
Paperback. Exploring the political forces that shaped Impressionism, this work proposes that at the heart of the modern is a "guilty secret" - the need of the dominant, mainly bourgeois, classes in Paris to expunge from historical memory the haunting nightmare of the Commune and its socialist ideology. Series: Princeton Series in Nineteenth-Century Art, Culture & Society. Num Pages: 256 pages, 162 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; ACVT; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 191 x 254 x 13. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780691015552
- ISBN
- 9780691015552
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.98€ 51.02
€ 64.98
€ 51.02
Paperback. The era of the American Revolution was one of violent and unpredictable social, economic, and political change, and the dislocations of the period were most severely felt in the South. This title contends that the military struggle there involved a triangle - two sets of white belligerents and approximately 400,000 slaves. Num Pages: 376 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTV; JFSL3; JPWL; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691006260
- ISBN
- 9780691006260
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.17€ 42.31
€ 53.17
€ 42.31
Paperback. A study of the intimate relationship between science, colonialism, and the modern nation. It explores the complexities, contradictions, and profound importance of this relationship in the history of the subcontinent. It reveals how science served simultaneously as an instrument of empire and as a symbol of liberty, progress, and universal reason. Num Pages: 344 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBTQ; HBTR; PDR; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691004532
- ISBN
- 9780691004532
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.98€ 51.02
€ 64.98
€ 51.02
Paperback. Can foreign invaders successfully exploit industrial economies? This work demonstrates that expansion can, in fact, provide rewards to aggressor nations. It argues that invaders can exploit industrial societies for short periods of time and can maintain control and economic performance over the long term. Series: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics. Num Pages: 264 pages, 4 line illus. 26 tables. BIC Classification: HBTQ; JPA; JPS; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 371.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780691002422
- ISBN
- 9780691002422
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.98€ 51.02
€ 64.98
€ 51.02
Paperback. This account of the PLO's ideology, strategy, tactics, its relationship to other Arab states, and its confrontations with Israel, documents how the PLO was transformed from revolutionary organization into the administrator of its own territory. Series: A selection of the History Book Club. Num Pages: 292 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; HBLW3; HBTV; JPWL; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674768048
- ISBN
- 9780674768048
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.10
€ 45.99
€ 38.10
Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 281.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674569515
- ISBN
- 9780674569515
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 36.02
€ 42.99
€ 36.02
Paperback. Historians and social scientists give an account of what youth has been in the West and what it has meant through the ages, tracing the changing character of young people in culture, society, economics, politics and art from early times. Editor(s): Levi, Giovanni; Schmitt, Jean-Claude. Translator(s): Naish, Camille. Num Pages: 402 pages, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLA; HBLC; HBTB; JFSP1; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 402
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674404076
- ISBN
- 9780674404076
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.93€ 48.36
€ 51.93
€ 48.36
Hardback. Series: Harvard-Hallym Series on Korean Studies. Num Pages: 325 pages, 3 maps, 2 figures, 41 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPK; GTF; HBTQ; HBTR; JHBL; KCF; KNJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 325
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780674142404
- ISBN
- 9780674142404
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 42.19
€ 49.99
€ 42.19
Paperback. Consigned to illiteracy, American slaves left little record of their thoughts and feelings or so we have believed. But a few learned to use pen and paper to make sense of their experiences, despite prohibitions. These authors perspectives rewrite the history of emancipation and force us to rethink the relationship between literacy and freedom." Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: D; HBTS; HBWJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780674088061
- ISBN
- 9780674088061
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.97
€ 35.99
€ 30.97
Hardback. Urbanization was central to development in late imperial China. Yet its impact is heatedly debated. This book argues that this conceptual impasse derives from the fact that the seemingly continuous urban expansion was in fact punctuated by a wide variety of 'dynastic urbanisms'. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 370 pages, 29 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBTB; JFSG; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 161 x 31. Weight in Grams: 704.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 370
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674035614
- ISBN
- 9780674035614
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 42.10
€ 49.99
€ 42.10
Paperback. An intimate menoir of Jewish adolescence and life, from a young woman's perspective in an Eastern European shtetl at the end of the nineteenth century. Translator(s): Cammy, Justin Daniel. Num Pages: 126 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 12. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Harvard Center for Jewish Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 126
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780674019706
- ISBN
- 9780674019706
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.54
€ 19.99
€ 18.54
hardcover. Editor(s): Molony, Barbara; Uno, Kathleen S. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 550 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1012.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 550
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674017801
- ISBN
- 9780674017801
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.20€ 55.56
€ 60.20
€ 55.56
Paperback. These essays deal with the origins and historical development of Helotry, with its sociological, economic and demographic aspects, and with its ideological construction and negotiation. Editor(s): Luraghi, Nino (Assistant Professor of the Classics, Harvard University, USA); Alcock, Susan. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBTS; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674012233
- ISBN
- 9780674012233
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.82
€ 33.99
€ 28.82
Paperback. In this study of the monarchy in postwar Japan, the author examines not only its reform during the Occupation (1945-52), but also its evolution in the decades since the Japanese regained the power to shape their monarchy and polity. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 352 pages, 25 halftones, 4 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTG; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674010888
- ISBN
- 9780674010888
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.70
€ 27.99
€ 24.70
Paperback. "Globalization" is here. This text provides an historical perspective, exploring the circumstances in which the globally integrated world of an earlier era broke down under the pressure of unexpected events. Num Pages: 272 pages, 5 line illustrations, 8 tables. BIC Classification: HBT; JFFS; KCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 15. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674010079
- ISBN
- 9780674010079
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 34.92
€ 41.99
€ 34.92
Paperback. The Chinese overseas now number 25 to 30 million, the 2000-year history of Chinese attempts to venture abroad and the underlying values affecting that migration are presented in this volume. Series: The Edwin O.Reischauer Lectures. Num Pages: 160 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1H; GTB; HBTB; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 182 x 119 x 11. Weight in Grams: 149.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780674009868
- ISBN
- 9780674009868
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 31.77
€ 37.99
€ 31.77
Hardcover. Based on an extensive study of Jianyang imprints, genealogies of the leading families of printers, local histories, documents and annotated catalogues and bibliographies, this is not just a history of commercial printing but also a wide-ranging study of the culture of the book in traditional China. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 360 pages, 78 line illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3H; 3JB; 3JD; HBT; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 168 x 34. Weight in Grams: 792.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Annotated
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674009554
- ISBN
- 9780674009554
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 46.30
€ 54.99
€ 46.30
Hardcover. Jacob Katz was one of the greatest Jewish historians of the 20th century. In this volume, ten scholars critically discuss Katz's work with an appreciation for Katz's importance in reshaping the way Jewish history is studied. Series: Harvard Center for Jewish Studies. Num Pages: 200 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 161 x 18. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674008465
- ISBN
- 9780674008465
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.96
€ 40.99
€ 33.96
Paperback. This work looks at the city of Lynn, Massachusetts, during the rise of industrialism in the early-19th century. It studies labour and class issues, poverty and progress, as well as women and black members of the community in this portrait of an eastern city on the verge of modernity. Series: Harvard Studies in Urban History. Num Pages: 332 pages, 2 halftones, 2 line drawings, 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; KCZ; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674004313
- ISBN
- 9780674004313
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 39.10
€ 46.99
€ 39.10