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Hardback. Far from the forest primeval of popular imagination, the historians and literary scholars in this work describe a western European landscape just as consciously constructed by its inhabitants as any modern landscape - physically, conceptually and spiritually. Editor(s): Howe, John; Wolfe, Michael. Num Pages: 256 pages, 22 b&w illustrations, 9 figures, 3 maps, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLC; HBTP; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Publisher
- Inventing Medieval Landscapes: Senses of Place in Western Europe
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813024790
- ISBN
- 9780813024790
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.15
€ 85.15
Hardback. This book focuses on the city of St Petersburg, the capital of the Russian empire from the early eighteenth century until the fall of the Romanov dynasty in 1917. It uses the Russian court as a prism through which to view the various cultural changes that were introduced in the city during the eighteenth century. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137311597
- ISBN
- 9781137311597
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.99
€ 103.99
Hardback. In 1847, during the great age of the freak show, the British periodical Punch bemoaned the public's 'prevailing taste for deformity'. This work argues that far from being purely exploitative, displays of anomalous bodies served a deeper social purpose as they generated popular and scientific debates over the meanings attached to bodily difference. Num Pages: 288 pages, 15 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; ASZW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 528. Freak Shows and Modern British Culture. 288 pages, ill. In 1847, during the great age of the freak show, the British periodical Punch bemoaned the public's 'prevailing taste for deformity'. This work argues that far from being purely exploitative, displays of anomalous bodies served a deeper social purpose as they generated popular and scientific debates over the meanings attached to bodily difference. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; ASZW; HBTB. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 22. Weight: 528.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520257689
- ISBN
- 9780520257689
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.51
€ 112.51
Paperback. Investigates the social and sexual world of these sea rovers Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; HBJK; HBLH; HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814712368
- ISBN
- 9780814712368
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.72
€ 45.72
Paperback. Focusing on the non-elite in the Roman world, this book builds an account of the everyday lives of the masses, including their social and family life, health, leisure and religious beliefs, and the ways in which their popular culture resisted the domination of the ruling elite. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA1; HBTB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745643106
- ISBN
- 9780745643106
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.04
€ 32.04
Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages, 100 b&w/colour. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBJD1; HBTD; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 180. .
- Publisher
- Merrion Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785370939
- ISBN
- 9781785370939
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.29
€ 24.99
€ 21.29
Paperback. Birmingham has been a key innovator in the gun trade since the seventeenth century and the Birmingham Gun Barrel Proof house operates to this day. This book tells the story of the technology and history of gun making. Covering the period 1720 to 1950, it sees the mechanical engineering technology of the 'lock, stock and barrel' firearm change. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEM; HBTB; KNDM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 173 x 13. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752432373
- ISBN
- 9780752432373
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.93
€ 23.99
€ 17.93
Paperback. How do immigrants and their children forge their identities in a new land - and how does the ethnic culture they create thrive in the larger society? This book brings together scholarship on the cultural history of consumption, immigration, and ethnic marketing to explore these questions. Editor(s): Cinotto, Simone. Translator(s): Anglemire, Carlie; O'Byrne, Anne E. Series: Critical Studies in Italian America (FUP). Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white halftones, figures. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1KBB; HBTB; JFC; JFFN; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 168 x 23. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823256242
- ISBN
- 9780823256242
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.32
€ 49.32
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198706854
- ISBN
- 9780198706854
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.94
€ 45.94
paperback. Inspired by the trial of a bureaucrat who helped cause the Holocaust, this radical work on the banality of evil stunned the world with its exploration of a regime's moral blindness and one man's insistence that he be absolved all guilty because he was 'only following orders'. Series: Penguin Great Ideas. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 114 x 9. Weight in Grams: 92.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141024004
- ISBN
- 9780141024004
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.45
€ 10.99
€ 9.45
Paperback. The third edition of "The Trial and Death of Socrates" presents G. M. A. Grube's distinguished translations, as revised by John Cooper for Plato, Complete Works. A number of new or expanded footnotes are also included along with a Select Bibliography. Translator(s): Grube, G. M. A. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBT; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 138 x 5. Weight in Grams: 62.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 58
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 3rd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872205543
- ISBN
- 9780872205543
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.98
€ 11.99
€ 10.98
Paperback. Examines the history of the Fante people of southern Ghana during the transatlantic slave trade, 1700 to 1807. Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora. Num Pages: 250 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 3J; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Publisher
- University of Rochester Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580464789
- ISBN
- 9781580464789
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.04
€ 41.04
Paperback. This comprehensive examination of 18th and 19th-century architecture explores its extreme diversity within the context of social, economic and political upheaval. It offers an analysis of the ways issues of style functioned to make architecture one of the most experimental art forms in the period. Series: Oxford History of Art. Num Pages: 336 pages, colour and black and white halftones throughout. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; ACQ; ACV; AM; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 169 x 20. Weight in Grams: 776.
- Publisher
- Oxford Paperbacks
- Number of pages
- 332
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780192842220
- ISBN
- 9780192842220
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 23.22
€ 31.99
€ 23.22
Paperback. Num Pages: 68 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBG; HBJD1; HBLC; HBTB; HRCC99; JFC; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 5. Weight in Grams: 162.
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 68
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- F First Paperback Edition Used
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781898595243
- ISBN
- 9781898595243
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.58
€ 18.58
Paperback. Written when George Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, this is a memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; BGL; DNF; HBTB; JFFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141184388
- ISBN
- 9780141184388
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.87
€ 13.99
€ 10.87
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 16 black & white plates. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 125 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752491097
- ISBN
- 9780752491097
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.11
€ 13.99
€ 13.11
Paperback. Commemorative projects, born out of conflicting memories, can be problematic. Catherine Marshall challenges the coarsening of history by the construction of commemorative monuments that are thought to provide closure over the events that they mark. Num Pages: 36 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 282 x 229 x 3. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Publisher
- Quinnipiac University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780990468608
- ISBN
- 9780990468608
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.00
€ 12.00
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107182561
- ISBN
- 9781107182561
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.53
€ 113.53
Paperback. Presents a theoretical analysis of Japanese thinkers and activists' efforts to reintegrate the natural environment into Japan's social and political thought in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 table, 8 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 151 x 15. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822356998
- ISBN
- 9780822356998
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.06
€ 46.06
Paperback. This text examines how the French nation has dealt with "les annees noires" of defeat, occupation and repression, specifically studying what this proud nation has chosen to remember and what it has chosen to conceal. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur. Num Pages: 400 pages, 7 halftones , 7 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJH; 3JJP; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 584.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674935396
- ISBN
- 9780674935396
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.14
€ 52.14
Paperback. An informative and entertaining study of London's lunatic fringe, and how we have dealt with the mad among us from pre-history to the present day. Num Pages: 336 pages, 8pp b-w. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBTB; JKSM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster UK
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847390004
- ISBN
- 9781847390004
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.25
€ 14.99
€ 11.25
Paperback. On 21 July, 1942, the Nazis took control of the small Polish town of Zolkiew, life for Jewish 15-year-old Clara Kramer was never to be the same again. While those around her were either slaughtered or transported, Clara and her family hid perilously in a hand-dug bunker. Living in the house above and protecting them were the Becks. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; BM; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780091924416
- ISBN
- 9780091924416
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.36
€ 17.99
€ 13.36
Paperback. This books links the stories of 18th Century courtesans into the way it was perceived at the time and uses satirical illustrations and contemporary quotations. Num Pages: 166 pages, Integrated images with colour plate section. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JMU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 174 x 15. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781473837744
- ISBN
- 9781473837744
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 23.19
€ 24.99
€ 23.19
Paperback. Did you know that the Cornish pasty was invented to protect tin miners from arsenic poisoning, or that the word salary comes from Roman soldiers being paid their wages in salt? Why do we eat goose (or turkey) at Christmas? This title tells the strange tales behind our favourite dishes and drinks and where they come from. Num Pages: 368 pages, 40 b/w. BIC Classification: HBT; JFCV; WB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 22. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141043449
- ISBN
- 9780141043449
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.29
€ 20.99
€ 16.29