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Regional & national history
Hardcover. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, this volume argues that although the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars are often understood as laying the foundations for total war, many eyewitnesses continued to draw upon older interpretative frameworks to make sense of the armed struggle and attendant political and social upheaval. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; HBWH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230249172
- ISBN
- 9780230249172
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.00
€ 68.00
Paperback. Highly-trained and immensely skilled, the SAS are widely regarded as one of the best Special Forces units in the world. This book sheds light on the SAS's involvement in the Troubles of Northern Ireland, their operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and the widespread use of the SAS in counter terrorism and counterinsurgency operations since 9/11. Illustrator(s): Dennis, Peter. Series: Elite. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; 3JM; HBJD1; HBWS; JWH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 184 x 7. Weight in Grams: 257.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472814036
- ISBN
- 9781472814036
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.71
€ 19.99
€ 14.71
Paperback. Fighting an elusive and dangerous enemy far from home, the British army in Afghanistan has been involved in asymmetric warfare for the best part of a decade. This book provides a detailed analysis of those specifics within a clear, connected account of the course of the war in Helmand, operation by operation. Illustrator(s): Dennis, Peter. Series: Elite. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 3JM; HBJF; HBLX; HBWS4; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 248 x 7. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472806758
- ISBN
- 9781472806758
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.86
€ 19.99
€ 14.86
Paperback. Explains the evolution of the Rangers' missions in Panama, the first Gulf War, Somalia and the post 9/11 invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. This title reveals the training and organizational changes that the unit has undergone and investigates in particular how their doctrine and tactics have changed during the 14-year war in Afghanistan. Illustrator(s): Dennis, Peter. Series: Elite. Num Pages: 64 pages, 30 b/w; 28 col. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJK; HBLW3; HBWS; JWH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 187 x 250 x 6. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472815408
- ISBN
- 9781472815408
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.64
€ 19.99
€ 14.64
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199782376
- ISBN
- 9780199782376
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 20.67
€ 32.99
€ 20.67
Paperback. Offers a reassessment of the 'consumer rites' that social critics have decried. This book discusses how holiday celebrations were almost banished by Puritans and religious reformers but went on to be romanticized and reinvented in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It offers a cultural history of the commercialization of American holidays. Num Pages: 384 pages, 101 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; HRA; HRLF; JFC; JHBS; JHBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780691017211
- ISBN
- 9780691017211
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.51€ 42.10
€ 52.51
€ 42.10
Hardback. Num Pages: 360 pages, 60 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HRAM2; HRAX; HRQA5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 167 x 245 x 31. Weight in Grams: 646.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691168647
- ISBN
- 9780691168647
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.04
€ 40.99
€ 29.04
The British Migrant Experience, 1700-2000: An Anthology
Leese, Peter, Piatele, Beata, Curytto-Klag, I...
Hardcover. "The British Migrant Experience 1700-2000" is a wide-ranging collection of first-person accounts, together with introductory essays, capturing varied aspects of the British migrant story from the 18th-20th centuries. Editor(s): Piatek, Beata; Curyllo-Klag, Izabela. Num Pages: 360 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3J; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 557.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333998632
- ISBN
- 9780333998632
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.56
€ 129.56
Hardback. This cultural biography rescues Queen Anna from the shadow of King James I, arguing that she sponsored many of the artistic endeavors at court in the innovative Jacobean period (e.g., the extravagant drama known as the masque) in her role as early modern queen consort. Leeds Barroll also delves into her relationship with Catholicism. Series: New Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 232 pages, 15 illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; BGH; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 236 x 30. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812235746
- ISBN
- 9780812235746
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.77
€ 77.77
Hardcover. With sections on "England at the Margins," "Researching the Renaissance," "The Human Figure on the Stage," and "Artificial Persons," this collection makes interventions in historiography as well as history, literary interpretation, and also literary criticism. Editor(s): Orlin, Lena Cowen. Num Pages: 318 pages, 17 black-&-whites, 6 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBD; HBJD1; HBLH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Publisher
- Susquehanna University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781575910987
- ISBN
- 9781575910987
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 147.14
€ 147.14
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 19 halftones, 18 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 289.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195393088
- ISBN
- 9780195393088
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.20
€ 28.20
Paperback. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; JFFJ; JFSJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403963123
- ISBN
- 9781403963123
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLL; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 242 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403963116
- ISBN
- 9781403963116
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.37
€ 67.37
Hardback. Bringing together historians, sociologists, and political scientists, this volume documents persistent prejudices against consistently marginal groups in China, and the moral claims they have mustered in response. Editor(s): Cheung, Siu Keung. Num Pages: 275 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; HBLW; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 475.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230614239
- ISBN
- 9780230614239
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.57
€ 67.57
Paperback. Drawing on multi-archival research in Korean, Russian and English, this book looks at the complexity and changes in Stalin's policy toward Korea for answers about the division of Korea in 1945 and the failure of reunification between 1945 and 1948. Lee argues that the trusteeship decision is key to the division's origins and permanency. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJF; HBL; HBTQ; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230602274
- ISBN
- 9780230602274
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.08
€ 66.08
Paperback. From 1910 to 1940, the Angel Island immigration station in San Francisco served as the processing and detention center for over one million people from around the world. The full history of these immigrants and their experiences on Angel Island is told for the first time in this landmark book. Num Pages: 432 pages, 121 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 234 x 28. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199896158
- ISBN
- 9780199896158
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.49
€ 38.49
paperback. An insight into the life and world of Civil War-time Washington from the woman's perspective, this collection of letters is a perspective on life in the nation's capital during an important period in American history. Editor(s): Laas, Virginia Jeans. Num Pages: 592 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGHA; BJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 32. Weight in Grams: 787.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 592
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780252068591
- ISBN
- 9780252068591
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.28
€ 36.99
€ 34.28
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Baylor University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781932792164
- ISBN
- 9781932792164
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.70
€ 49.70
Hardback. Big Brother, Little Brother provides a fascinating case study of the impact of American culture on South Korea during the Johnson administration. Num Pages: 168 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBJF; HBLW3; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739104354
- ISBN
- 9780739104354
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.59
€ 145.59
Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages, tables & illus. BIC Classification: 1FBH; GTJ; HBJF1; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 160 x 235 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845198053
- ISBN
- 9781845198053
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.03
€ 129.03