History: specific events & topics
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History: specific events & topics
Paperback. A stunning collection of essays, photographs, speeches and ephemera from this historic activist organisation Editor(s): Enck-Wanzer, Darrel. Num Pages: 269 pages, 21. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJP; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL4; JPWD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 177 x 18. Weight in Grams: 510.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814722428
- ISBN
- 9780814722428
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.88
€ 33.99
€ 33.88
Paperback. A major re-examination of postwar American Jewry that debunks the assumption of silence Series: The Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History. Num Pages: 540 pages, 26 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 147 x 32. Weight in Grams: 704.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814721223
- ISBN
- 9780814721223
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.44
€ 33.99
€ 33.44
Paperback. From polo players to migrant workers, an inside peek at one of America's most exclusive communities. Num Pages: 277 pages, Black and White. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 277
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814719978
- ISBN
- 9780814719978
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.63
€ 33.99
€ 33.63
Paperback. Provides a portrait of East European and American Jewish life in the immigrant generation at the turn of the twentieth century. Editor(s): Cohen, Jocelyn; Soyer, Daniel. Num Pages: 329 pages, 21 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DV; 1KBB; 3JJC; HBTB; JFFN; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 329
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814716953
- ISBN
- 9780814716953
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.63
€ 33.99
€ 33.63
Hardcover. Argues that the prison systems of California and Texas during the Depression set the tone for the identity roles of the 30s Series: American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 335 pages, 16 b&w illustrations, 17 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 1KBBWF; 3JJG; HBJK; HBTB; JKVP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 499.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814709405
- ISBN
- 9780814709405
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Condition: New
€ 70.57
€ 70.57
Hardcover. Tea Sets and Tyranny offers a political history of politeness in early America, from its origins in the late seventeenth century to its remaking in the age of the Revolution. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 304 pages, 19 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812248609
- ISBN
- 9780812248609
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.11
€ 64.11
Hardcover. Following the stories of families who built their lives and fortunes across the Atlantic Ocean, Intimate Bonds shows how households anchored the French empire and shaped the meanings of race, slavery, and gender in the early modern period. Series: The Early Modern Americas. Num Pages: 280 pages, 6 illus. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1QSA; HBTQ; HBTS; JFFN; LAZ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812248401
- ISBN
- 9780812248401
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Condition: New
€ 114.26
€ 114.26
Hardback. Drawing on hundreds of unpublished court records, Marie Kelleher examines how women in the fourteenth-century Crown of Aragon engaged with patriarchal assumptions to shape their own legal identities, thus playing a crucial role in the formation of a gendered legal culture that shaped women's lives throughout Europe for centuries afterwards. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3H; HBJD; HBLC1; HBTB; JFSJ1; LAZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812242560
- ISBN
- 9780812242560
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Condition: New
€ 80.88
€ 80.88
Hardback. Building on the eighteenth-century commonplace that the theater could be a school for public virtue, this book illustrates the connections between the popularity of theatrical performances in eighteenth-century British North America and the British and American national identities that colonial and Revolutionary Americans espoused. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; AN; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812240245
- ISBN
- 9780812240245
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Condition: New
€ 81.53
€ 81.53
Hardback. "The Pilgrim and the Bee makes a broad claim about a reading-centered history, reclaiming for this purpose a distinctive body of texts. Brown's analysis marks an important step toward a better history of reading."-David D. Hall, Harvard University Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 288 pages, 20 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; 3JB; CFC; DSBD; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812240153
- ISBN
- 9780812240153
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.00
€ 86.00
Hardback. Focusing on the luxury trade, Gilding the Market investigates Italian market towns at the moment when fashion arrived in the fourteenth century. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 344 pages, 14 color, 10 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 722.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812239003
- ISBN
- 9780812239003
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Condition: New
€ 86.40
€ 86.40
Hardback. A provocative and historical reading of the relations between Victorian liberalism and aestheticism that challenges critical assumptions concerning liberal agency and aesthetic experience more generally. Num Pages: 248 pages, 30 illus. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; HBTB; JFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 165 x 238 x 25. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812237542
- ISBN
- 9780812237542
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Condition: New
€ 81.53
€ 81.53
Paperback. Seasons of Misery offers a boldly original account of early English settlement in American by placing catastrophe and crisis at the center of the story. Donegan argues that the constant state of suffering and uncertainty decisively formed the colonial identity and produced the first distinctly colonial literature. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBAH; HBJK; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812223774
- ISBN
- 9780812223774
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.41
€ 32.99
€ 31.41
Paperback. Presented with an introduction by John Lukacs, the letters in this volume reveal new dimensions in George Kennan's thinking about America and its future and illuminate the political-and spiritual-philosophies that both authors shared as they wrote about a world transformed by war and the clash of ideologies that defined the twentieth century. Editor(s): Lukacs, John R. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTW; JPA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812222715
- ISBN
- 9780812222715
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 35.47
€ 36.99
€ 35.47
Paperback. Rather than categorizing Romantic literature as resistant to, complicit with, or ambivalent about the workings of empire, Slavery and the Romantic Imagination views the creative process in light of the developing concept of empathy. Num Pages: 312 pages, 36 illus. BIC Classification: DSBF; HBTS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812218824
- ISBN
- 9780812218824
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 35.80
€ 36.99
€ 35.80
Paperback. Uses the bra to gauge the social history of women and to understand the business history of fashion. This book illuminate the effect the brassiere has had on women's lives - their style, health, and economic opportunity. It also contains examples from advertising, movies, and other areas of popular culture. Num Pages: 264 pages, 51 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AK; GT; HBTB; JFCK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 461.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812218350
- ISBN
- 9780812218350
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.35
€ 32.99
€ 29.35
Paperback. This book explores the ways in which colonial administrators constructed knowledge about the society and culture of India and the processes through which that knowledge has shaped past and present Indian reality. Editor(s): Breckenridge, Carol A.; Veer, Peter van der. Series: South Asia Seminar. Num Pages: 372 pages, 3 illus. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 564.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812214369
- ISBN
- 9780812214369
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 35.80
€ 36.99
€ 35.80
Paperback. Where else .. can one learn about Carolingian furniture, medicine, dieting, birth control, astrology, .. drinking habits, or hygiene? A fine introduction to early medieval Europe."-International Historical Studies Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Edition
- 2Rev Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812210965
- ISBN
- 9780812210965
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.73
€ 36.99
€ 33.73
Paperback. Series: Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. Num Pages: 296 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTQ; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804798136
- ISBN
- 9780804798136
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 29.23
€ 29.99
€ 29.23
Hardback. This book examines the enormous riskiness of transatlantic trade in 18th century Spain and argues that many of the long-condemned commercial practices were vital accommodations to pervasive risk and uncertainty. Series: Social Science History. Num Pages: 408 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLL; HBTQ; KCLT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804785426
- ISBN
- 9780804785426
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.58
€ 97.58