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History: specific events & topics
Paperback. Presenting a revisionist history of football, this book aims to challenge commonly held beliefs about the birth of the modern game, demonstrating that outside of English public school codification, a long history of an established and organised sport existed. Series: Sport in the Global Society. Num Pages: 320 pages, 89 black & white tables, 20 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: HBT; WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 235 x 19. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415350198
- ISBN
- 9780415350198
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.42
€ 71.42
Paperback. Responsible for some of the most magnificent industrial architecture in the UK, this is the story of Isambard Kingdom Brunel Through Time Series: Through Time. Num Pages: 96 pages, 180. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 165 x 10. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Publisher
- Amberley
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848689633
- ISBN
- 9781848689633
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.34
€ 28.34
Paperback. The untold story of how our national obsession with gardening came to be. Num Pages: 272 pages, 30. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBJD1; HBT; WMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 234 x 21. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445660295
- ISBN
- 9781445660295
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.77
€ 26.77
Paperback. Drawing on fieldwork and archival research, Shaw argues that memories of the slave trade in Sierra Leone have shaped (and been reshaped by) experiences of colonialism, postcolonialsm, and the country's ten-year rebel war. Num Pages: 304 pages, 17 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1HFDE; HBTS; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 125 x 19. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226751320
- ISBN
- 9780226751320
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.64
€ 40.99
€ 31.64
Paperback. The kinds of punishment used in a society have been considered an important criterion in judging whether a society is civilized or barbaric, advanced or backward, modern or premodern. This title asks how such distinctions have affected our understanding of the past and contributed to the proliferation of kinds of barbarity in the modern world. Num Pages: 312 pages, 17 halftones. 1 line illus. 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; HBTB; JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691130309
- ISBN
- 9780691130309
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.81
€ 52.99
€ 37.81
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JKV; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 216 x 9. Weight in Grams: 213.
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486779997
- ISBN
- 9780486779997
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.54
€ 15.99
€ 12.54
Hardcover. Hand-illuminated scrolls by Cora Healy-Tobin commemorate members of The Alberta Order of Excellence--Alberta's highest honour. Illustrator(s): Healy-Tobin, Cora. Editor(s): Sivak, Allison. Series: Northern Reference Series. Num Pages: 188 pages, colour plates. BIC Classification: 1KBCL; HBTG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 285 x 312 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1634.
- Publisher
- University of Alberta Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 168
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780888644855
- ISBN
- 9780888644855
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 100.77€ 77.11
€ 100.77
€ 77.11
Paperback. Europe's imperial projects were often predicated on a series of legal and scientific distinctions that were frequently challenged by the reality of social and sexual interactions between the colonized and the colonizers. This title reveals the unacknowledged but central role of race in the definition of French nationality. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBTQ; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 478. Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies. 352 pages. Europe's imperial projects were often predicated on a series of legal and scientific distinctions that were frequently challenged by the reality of social and sexual interactions between the colonized and the colonizers. This title reveals the unacknowledged but central role of race in the definition of French nationality. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBTQ; JFSL; JHMC. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 19. Weight: 480. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226733081
- ISBN
- 9780226733081
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.64
€ 40.99
€ 31.64
Hardback. Editor(s): Bannet, Eve Tavor; Wheeler, Roxann. Num Pages: 304 pages, 12, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421422145
- ISBN
- 9781421422145
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 43.27
€ 51.99
€ 43.27
Paperback. Gender and the City before Modernity presents a series of multi-disciplinary readings that explore issues relating to the role of gender in a variety of cities of the ancient, medieval, and early modern worlds. Editor(s): Foxhall, Lin; Neher, Gabriele. Series: Gender and History Special Issues. Num Pages: 266 pages, Illustrations, maps, plans. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 172 x 13. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 266
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118234433
- ISBN
- 9781118234433
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.44
€ 28.44
Hardcover. Num Pages: 452 pages. BIC Classification: 1HF; HBJH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 267 x 216 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Publisher
- Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780884024101
- ISBN
- 9780884024101
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.41€ 55.56
€ 60.41
€ 55.56
Hardback. As readers of Russian literature know, the nineteenth century was a time of pervasive financial anxiety. Russians of all classes were enmeshed in networks of credit and debt, and borrowing and lending shaped perceptions of material and moral worth. Sergei Antonov recreates this imperial world of borrowers, bankrupts, lenders, and loan sharks. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 350 pages, 6 halftones, 14 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBTB; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 243 x 35. Weight in Grams: 718.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674971486
- ISBN
- 9780674971486
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.85€ 52.41
€ 56.85
€ 52.41
Paperback. This work seeks to delve beneath the chaos and brutality of the Norse world to discover a complex interplay of ordering and disordering impulses. Num Pages: 420 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DNC; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 420
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226526805
- ISBN
- 9780226526805
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.79
€ 36.99
€ 28.79
Hardback. George Ciccariello-Maher brings the work of Georges Sorel, Frantz Fanon, and Enrique Dussel together with contemporary Venezuelan politics to formulate a decolonized dialectics that is suited to the struggle against the legacies of slavery and colonialism while also breaking the impasse between dialectics and postcolonial theory. Series: Radical Americas. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSV; 3JM; HBTQ; HBTS; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 238 x 20. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822362234
- ISBN
- 9780822362234
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.75
€ 110.75
Paperback. This account of the female revolutionaries during the French Revolution describes their lives within political, social, historical and gender-specific contexts. It highlights the importance of these women in creating their political and social roles as female citizens within the New Republic. Translator(s): Streip, Katherine. Series: Studies on the History of Society & Culture. Num Pages: 415 pages, 29. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; HBTV; JFSJ1; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 415
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520067196
- ISBN
- 9780520067196
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.74
€ 45.99
€ 32.74
Hardcover. Abraham Lincoln projects a larger-than-life image across American history owing to his role as the Great Emancipator. Yet this noble aspect of Lincoln s identity is the dimension that some historians have cast into doubt. The award-winning historian and Lincoln scholar Allen Guelzo offers a vigorous defense of America s sixteenth president." Series: The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBTS; HBWJ; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674286115
- ISBN
- 9780674286115
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.13
€ 47.99
€ 40.13
Hardcover. When Leon was eight years old, his grandfather took him to a one-man stage performance titled, "Papirena Kinder," or Paper Children. It told the story of a bereaved old man who, despite having raised five children, had been abandoned by all of them in his old age. Num Pages: 72 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 279 x 10. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Publisher
- Gefen Publishing House
- Number of pages
- 72
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789652296344
- ISBN
- 9789652296344
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 19.83
€ 27.99
€ 19.83
Hardback. Editor(s): Narayan, John; Bhambra, Gurminder K. Series: International Library of Sociology. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; HBTQ; JFFN; JHB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 164 x 271 x 17. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138961104
- ISBN
- 9781138961104
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 198.99
€ 198.99
Paperback. A collection of the lectures on moral philosophy given by John Rawls over three decades of teaching at Harvard. This book looks at thinkers such as Leibniz, Hume and Kant, in their struggle to define the role of a moral conception in human life. Num Pages: 416 pages, 4 line illustrations. BIC Classification: HBT; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674004429
- ISBN
- 9780674004429
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.34
€ 40.99
€ 36.34
Hardback. This cultural history of the evolution of modern marriage practices in colonial Bengal shows that arranged marriage as it is practiced today is a modern practice from the colonial era. Num Pages: 360 pages, 42 photographs, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FKB; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). .
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 360
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822344629
- ISBN
- 9780822344629
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.29
€ 115.29