History: specific events & topics
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History: specific events & topics
Hardback. On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened for business, forever changing the face of global trade and military power, as well as the role of the United States on the world stage. Examining the Canal's influence on Panama, the United States, and the world, this title chronicles the economic and political history of the Canal. Num Pages: 440 pages, 1 halftone. 30 line illus. 48 tables. 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCPC; HBT; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 242 x 166 x 32. Weight in Grams: 768.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691147383
- ISBN
- 9780691147383
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Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 35.79
€ 49.99
€ 35.79
Paperback. Los Angeles has attracted intense attention as a 'world city' characterized by multiculturalism and globalization. This work highlights the role African Americans and Japanese Americans played in the social and political struggles that remade twentieth-century Los Angeles. Series: Politics and Society in Modern America. Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 halftones. 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691146188
- ISBN
- 9780691146188
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Condition: New
€ 52.92€ 41.40
€ 52.92
€ 41.40
Hardback. Offers an account of how and why, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American missionaries and moral reformers undertook work abroad at an unprecedented rate and scale. This title presents how transnational organizing played a vital role in America's political and economic expansion. Series: America in the World. Num Pages: 336 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ; HRCX7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691145211
- ISBN
- 9780691145211
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Condition: New
€ 64.68€ 49.96
€ 64.68
€ 49.96
Paperback. Why has shame displaced guilt as a dominant emotional reference in the West? This book presents a genealogical-critical study of the vicissitudes of the concept of survivor guilt and the significance of guilt's replacement by shame. Series: 20/21. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTZ1; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 146 x 13. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691143323
- ISBN
- 9780691143323
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 30.53
€ 42.99
€ 30.53
Paperback. Although by twentieth-century standards the number of victims was small, the Victorian public saw 'the Indian Mutiny' of 1857-59 as an epochal event. This book seeks to discover why. It offers a view of this episode - and of Victorian imperialist culture more generally - at odds with the standard formulations of postcolonial scholarship. Num Pages: 352 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FKA; 2AB; DSBH5; HBTQ; HBTV; JWXT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691143309
- ISBN
- 9780691143309
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.24
€ 46.99
€ 33.24
Paperback. In the early twentieth century, a brand of men and women moved to New York City. For them, the city's immigrant neighborhoods provided a place where the fancies and forms of a new America could be tested. This book tells the story of most famous of these neighborhoods, Greenwich Village, which became a symbol of social and intellectual freedom. Num Pages: 432 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJC; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691142838
- ISBN
- 9780691142838
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 32.94
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€ 32.94
Paperback. Presenting a portrait of engaged, activist lives in the 1930s, this book features a global network of individuals and organizations that posed challenges to the racism and colonialism of the era. It positions race at the center of the British, imperial, and transatlantic political culture of the 1930s. Num Pages: 408 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJG; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTQ; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691141862
- ISBN
- 9780691141862
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.68
€ 40.99
€ 28.68
Paperback. In 1931, nine black youths were charged with raping two white women in Scottsboro, Alabama. Despite meager and contradictory evidence, all nine were found guilty and eight were sentenced to death. This book explores how this case has embedded itself into the fabric of American memory and become a lens for perceptions of race and class. Num Pages: 296 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBSB; 3JJG; HBTB; JFSL3; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691140476
- ISBN
- 9780691140476
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 32.94
€ 46.99
€ 32.94
Hardback. Why was eighteenth-century English culture so fascinated with the things its society discarded? This book explains how English writers used contemporary theological and philosophical texts about unwanted and leftover matter to explore secular, literary relationships between waste and value. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSBD; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691139845
- ISBN
- 9780691139845
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 32.78
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€ 32.78
Hardback. Arguing that celebrity is a mirror reflecting some of the worst as well as some of the best aspects of modern history itself, this book considers how the lives of the rich and famous provide not only entertainment but also social cohesion and, like morality plays, examples of what - and what not - to do. Num Pages: 328 pages, 14 halftones. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFC; JFSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 166 x 26. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691135625
- ISBN
- 9780691135625
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.43
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€ 24.43
Hardback. The modern prison is commonly thought to be the fruit of an Enlightenment penology that stressed man's ability to reform his soul. This book challenges this view by tracing the institution's emergence to a much earlier period beginning in the late thirteenth century, and provides a view of medieval prison life. Num Pages: 224 pages, 22 halftones. 1 table. BIC Classification: HBLC1; HBTB; JKVP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 165 x 19. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691135335
- ISBN
- 9780691135335
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Condition: New
€ 52.92€ 41.40
€ 52.92
€ 41.40
Paperback. How we die reveals much about how we live. This book traces the history of euthanasia in the United States to show how changing attitudes toward death reflect new and troubling ways of experiencing pain, hope, and freedom. It shows how over time, the term came to mean a death blessed by the grace of God, and later, medical hastening of death. Num Pages: 240 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFME. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691133904
- ISBN
- 9780691133904
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.27
€ 46.99
€ 33.27
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691133126
- ISBN
- 9780691133126
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 21.88
€ 29.99
€ 21.88
Hardback. In 2004, Spain's Banco Santander purchased Britain's Abbey National Bank in a deal valued at fifteen billion dollars - an acquisition that made Santander one of the ten largest financial institutions in the world. This work reveals how strategic decisions made by the family drove Santander's unprecedented rise to global prominence. Num Pages: 280 pages, 3 line illus. 19 tables. BIC Classification: 1DSE; HBT; KFFK; KNST. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691131252
- ISBN
- 9780691131252
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Condition: New
€ 64.68€ 49.94
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€ 49.94
Hardback. Uncovers the rapidly disappearing vestiges of the Jews of western Ukraine, who were rounded up and murdered by the Nazis during World War II with help from the local populace. This travelogue reveals the erasure of the Jews and their removal from public memory, a blatant act of forgetting done in the service of a aggressive Ukrainian nationalism. Num Pages: 288 pages, 60 halftones. 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVUK; HBJD; HBTB; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 220 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691131214
- ISBN
- 9780691131214
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 22.04
€ 29.99
€ 22.04
Hardback. Arguing for Harlem as a crossroads between writers and the image, this book explores its power for canonical writers, whose work was profoundly responsive to the changing meanings and uses of photographs. It opens possibilities for understanding the entangled histories of literature and the photograph. Num Pages: 376 pages, 73 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 2AB; 3JJG; DSBH; HBTB; JFSG; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 657.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691130873
- ISBN
- 9780691130873
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.68€ 50.69
€ 64.68
€ 50.69
Paperback. In the summer of 1964, the turmoil of the civil rights movement reached its peak in Mississippi, with activists across the political spectrum claiming that God was on their side in the struggle over racial justice. This work takes us back to this place and time. Num Pages: 296 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; HRC; JFFJ; JFSL; JPVH; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691130675
- ISBN
- 9780691130675
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 30.35
€ 42.99
€ 30.35
Paperback. During the Civil War, Americans from homefront to battlefront played baseball as never before. This work gives us a commentary of the growth and transformation of baseball. It shows that the game was a vital part of the lives of many a soldier and civilian - and that baseball's popularity had everything to do with surging American nationalism. Num Pages: 168 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBTB; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 28.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691130439
- ISBN
- 9780691130439
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.46
€ 24.99
€ 18.46
Paperback. Presents a synthetic history of the family in Germany and northern France during the High Middle Ages. Concentrating on the special roles of mothers and children, this book advances efforts to write a comparative Jewish-Christian social history. It provides an analysis of the history of Jewish families in medieval Ashkenaz. Series: Jews, Christians and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World. Num Pages: 320 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691130293
- ISBN
- 9780691130293
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.40
€ 46.99
€ 33.40
Hardback. Long before the photo op, political rulers were manipulating visual imagery to cultivate their authority. The Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519) was, this title argues, the first ruler to exploit the propaganda power of printed images and text. It explores how Maximilian used illustrations and other visual arts. Num Pages: 320 pages, 100 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; KJS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 265 x 215 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1106.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691130194
- ISBN
- 9780691130194
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 88.20€ 66.90
€ 88.20
€ 66.90