History: specific events & topics
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History: specific events & topics
Paperback. Encountering Ellis Island lays bare the profound and sometimes-victorious story of people chasing the American Dream: leaving everything behind, facing a new language and a new culture, and starting a new American life. Series: How Things Worked. Num Pages: 184 pages, 10, 10 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFFN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 152 x 229 x 11. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- 1st Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421413686
- ISBN
- 9781421413686
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€ 27.99€ 24.27
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Paperback. This perspective allows a unique view of the development of an industrial society not just from the ground up but from the hearth up. Series: How Things Worked. Num Pages: 200 pages, 12, 10 black & white halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBTB; HBTK; TBX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 174 x 13. Weight in Grams: 280.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421413570
- ISBN
- 9781421413570
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€ 27.99€ 24.27
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Hardback. Oliver's study is rigorous and detailed but contemplative in its approach, examining the larger meanings of mankind's first adventures in "the heavens." Series: New Series in NASA History. Num Pages: 248 pages, 12, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTB; TRP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421407883
- ISBN
- 9781421407883
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Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 40.88
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Paperback. Why, despite decades and decades of warnings, do people still choose to drive while intoxicated? One for the Road provides crucial historical lessons for understanding the old epidemic of drunk driving and the new epidemic of distracted driving. Num Pages: 240 pages, 10, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFFH1; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421407746
- ISBN
- 9781421407746
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 26.29
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Paperback. "Little Willie" Adams, and Walter Sondheim-who prepared Jim Crow's grave and waited for the nation to deliver the body. Num Pages: 340 pages, 24, 24 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBFM; 3JJP; HBTB; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421407654
- ISBN
- 9781421407654
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.29
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Paperback. Kennedy's systematic and thoughtful study distinguishes southern approaches to childbirth and motherhood from northern ones, showing how slavery and rural living contributed to a particularly southern experience. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; HBJK; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421405803
- ISBN
- 9781421405803
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 32.33
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Hardback. Academics and students alike will enjoy this fascinating study of the invention of the professional chef, of how ordinary workers influenced emerging trends of scientific knowledge, culture-creation, and taste in eighteenth-century France. Series: Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. Num Pages: 216 pages, 15, 15 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JFCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421402833
- ISBN
- 9781421402833
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Condition: New
€ 63.51€ 57.47
€ 63.51
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Paperback. Written by three prominent historians of the period, Slavery's Ghost forces readers to think critically about the way we study the past, the depth of racial prejudice, and how African Americans won and lost their freedom in nineteenth-century America. Series: The Marcus Cunliffe Lecture Series. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 8. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421402369
- ISBN
- 9781421402369
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.27
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Paperback. They reflect on the moral economy of human smuggling and trafficking, the increasing percentage of the world's asylum seekers who escape political violence only by being smuggled, and the implications of human smuggling in a warming world. Editor(s): Kyle, David; Koslowski, Rey. Num Pages: 416 pages, 1, 1 graphs. BIC Classification: HBTS; JFFN; JKVM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 228 x 25. Weight in Grams: 564.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- second edition
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421401980
- ISBN
- 9781421401980
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Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 36.35
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€ 36.35
Hardback. Anyone interested in how people and goods moved around the country will find much to learn and appreciate in Richard Carpenter's one-of-a-kind railroad atlases. Num Pages: 336 pages, 295, 286 colour illustrations, 9 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; HBTP1; WGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 289 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1518.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421401461
- ISBN
- 9781421401461
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Condition: New
€ 85.51
€ 85.51
Hardback. Informed by a breadth of historical scholarship and based squarely on primary sources, this volume remains the standard text for future teachers and scholars of education. Series: The American Moment. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JNL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 158 x 30. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- updated edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421400167
- ISBN
- 9781421400167
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Condition: New
€ 65.27€ 59.45
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Hardback. A Companion to Border Studies introduces an exciting and expanding field of interdisciplinary research, through the writing of an international array of scholars, from diverse perspectives that include anthropology, development studies, geography, history, political science and sociology. Editor(s): Wilson, Thomas M.; Donnan, Hastings. Series: Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Anthropology. Num Pages: 636 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HBTR; JFC; JFFS; JPSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 179 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1252.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 636
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405198936
- ISBN
- 9781405198936
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Condition: New
€ 192.41
€ 192.41
Paperback. Spaniards in the Colonial Empire traces the privileges, prejudices, and conflicts between American-born and European-born Spaniards, within the Spanish colonies in the Americas from the sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries. Series: Viewpoints/Puntos de Vista. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1K; 3J; HBJK; HBTQ; JFSL4; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 10. Weight in Grams: 244.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405196413
- ISBN
- 9781405196413
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Condition: New
€ 28.96
€ 28.96
Paperback. Celebrates 20 years of the publication of the journal Gender & History Features essays by leading scholars in the fields of women's history and gender history Reflects the extent to which gender analysis suggests alternatives to conventional periodisation. Editor(s): Shepard, Alexandra; Walker, Garthine. Series: Gender and History Special Issues. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405192279
- ISBN
- 9781405192279
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Condition: New
€ 28.94
€ 28.94
Hardback. How Food Made History offers a wide-ranging overview of 5,000 years of global history, a period dominated by agriculture and urbanization. It traces the changing patterns of food production and consumption that have molded economic and social life and contributed fundamentally to the development of government and complex societies. Num Pages: 276 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFCV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405189484
- ISBN
- 9781405189484
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Condition: New
€ 88.51
€ 88.51
Paperback. Hollywood 1963-1976: Years of Revolution and Reaction is a comprehensive study of one of the most tumultuous eras in American film, chronicling the collapse of the studio system, the rise of the auteur, and the birth of the blockbuster. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; APF; HBTB; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 190 x 236 x 17. Weight in Grams: 868.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405188289
- ISBN
- 9781405188289
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 46.42
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Hardback. This brief history connects the past and present of utopian thought, from the first utopias in ancient Greece, right up to present day visions of cyberspace communities and paradise. Series: Wiley Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFCX; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405183291
- ISBN
- 9781405183291
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Condition: New
€ 93.34
€ 93.34
Paperback. The Ethnic Dimension in American History is a thoroughsurvey of the role that ethnicity has played in shaping the historyof the United States. Considering ethnicity in terms of race,language, religion and national origin, this important textexamines its effects on social relations, public policy andeconomic development. Num Pages: 392 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 4th Edition
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405182515
- ISBN
- 9781405182515
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Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 47.64
€ 47.99
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Paperback. A Companion to American Technology is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that analyze the hard-to-define phenomenon of "technology" in America. Editor(s): Pursell, Carroll W. Series: Blackwell Companions to American History. Num Pages: 480 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 171 x 26. Weight in Grams: 816.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405179942
- ISBN
- 9781405179942
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Condition: New
€ 58.80
€ 58.80
Paperback. Over the last twenty years the Journal of Historical Sociology has redefined what historical sociology can be. These essays by internationally distinguished historians, sociologists, anthropologists and geographers bring together the very best of the JHS. Editor(s): Wong, Yoke-Sum; Sayer, Derek. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 165 x 14. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405179348
- ISBN
- 9781405179348
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.06
€ 29.06