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Regional & national history
Hardback. Series: Early American Places. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781479816149
- ISBN
- 9781479816149
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.31
€ 97.31
Hardback. Although better known for its sunny skies, Los Angeles suffers devastating flooding. This book explores a little-known chapter in the city's history - the failures to control floods that occurred throughout the twentieth century. It offers a lesson - both of things gone wrong and a glimpse of how they might be improved. Num Pages: 289 pages, 23 b/w photographs, 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFFC; JFSG; RNR; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 289
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520238503
- ISBN
- 9780520238503
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.81€ 65.28
€ 84.81
€ 65.28
Hardcover. Num Pages: 192 pages, over 200 bw images. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWMV1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 288 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1250.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764330988
- ISBN
- 9780764330988
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 43.34
€ 48.99
€ 43.34
Paperback. Janusz Korczak devoted himself to the care of orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto after the Nazi occupation of Poland. This volume constitutes his grimly inspiring ghetto diary, and is accompanied by a new introduction by Betty Jean Lifton, the author of a biography of Korczak. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; BGHA; BJ; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 217 x 9. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300097429
- ISBN
- 9780300097429
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.13
€ 21.99
€ 17.13
Hardback. Janos Pelle examines the reasons why Hungarian society chose to ignore the dangers threatening their Jewish neighbours. Reviewing both archival material and contemporary sources, this book asks how extremist publications affected contemporaries and raises the issue of responsibility for the Holocaust in Hungary. Series: East European Monograph. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVH; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 149. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780880335362
- ISBN
- 9780880335362
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.17€ 39.91
€ 50.17
€ 39.91
Hardback. Examines the army occupying Arizona and New Mexico in the nineteenth-century, its officers, their wives, and the enlisted men as agents of an American empire Num Pages: 360 pages, 9 photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBWX; 1KBBWZ; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JWD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 36. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780803232525
- ISBN
- 9780803232525
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.45
€ 60.45
Hardback. This study demonstrates that three subjects traditionally discussed separately - prostitution, hysteria and the popular novel - share a discourse of marginality and of female marginality in particular, central to the 19th-century experience in France. Num Pages: 422 pages, 18 illustration. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; HBJD; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 817.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 422
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231072069
- ISBN
- 9780231072069
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.45€ 90.70
€ 119.45
€ 90.70
Hardcover. Both Willa Cather and Mary Austin moved west in their youth and spent much of their lives there. Cather lived on the Great Plains, while Austin resided in California and the Southwest. This title addresses Willa Cather and Mary Austin as central figures in a womens tradition of the pictured West. Num Pages: 352 pages, 7 b/w photos, 69 b/w images. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 167 x 29. Weight in Grams: 667.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Texas Tech University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896726109
- ISBN
- 9780896726109
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 38.60
€ 43.99
€ 38.60
Hardback. A study of two Germanic tribes, the Baiuvarii and Thuringi, looking at their origins, development, and customs between the fifth and the eighth centuries. Editor(s): Fries-Knoblach, Janine; Steuer, Heiko; Hines, John. Series: Studies in Historical Archaeoethnology. Num Pages: 396 pages, 63 black & white illustrations, 33 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; HBJD; HBLC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 177 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1152.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843839156
- ISBN
- 9781843839156
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.38
€ 134.38
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408851104
- ISBN
- 9781408851104
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.70
€ 15.99
€ 11.70
Paperback. This study traces the history of how images taken during the Nazi Holocaust have been subjected to a perplexing variety of treatments: variously ignored, suppressed, distorted and exploited for propaganda purposes. It asks whether the images can ever be true representations of the events. Num Pages: 144 pages, 50 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJH; AJC; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFC; JPVN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 244 x 171 x 18. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Publisher
- I. B. Tauris
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781860645464
- ISBN
- 9781860645464
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.37
€ 32.37
Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; HBJD; HBLC; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781501700743
- ISBN
- 9781501700743
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.08
€ 37.99
€ 34.08
Paperback. Using her teenage diaries, the author tells of the horrors of the siege and surrender of Warsaw in 1939, the food shortages, raids and beatings, and the Nazi "Aktion" in 1942, when her family was hounded from shelter to shelter. In 1943 they escaped the ghetto but faced years in hiding. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 208 pages, Section: 8, b/w. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; BG; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 128 x 13. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780860686521
- ISBN
- 9780860686521
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.86
€ 15.86
Paperback. * First published in 1986 as WINTER IN THE MORNING, this edition has been updated and expanded by the author. *'A profound and moving book which everyone ought to read' Alan Sillitoe, New Statesman Series: VMC. Num Pages: 304 pages, Section: 8, b/w. BIC Classification: 1DVP; BGH; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844083190
- ISBN
- 9781844083190
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.89
€ 15.99
€ 11.89
Paperback. A completely original history of one of the most extraordinary movements in the world - the Girl Guides - and how they helped win the war. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBTB; HBWQ; JFSV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007356324
- ISBN
- 9780007356324
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.97
€ 17.99
€ 12.97
"By studying the multiracial Jewish organization Hatzaad Harishon, Janice W. Fernheimer's Stepping into Zion considers the question "Who is a Jew?"-- a critical rhetorical issue with far-reaching consequences for Jews and non-Jews alike"-- Series: Rhetoric, Culture & Social Critique. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBJK; HBLW3; JFSL3; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780817318246
- ISBN
- 9780817318246
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.04
€ 46.04
Paperback. From its humble beginnings as a fur-trading outpost, Chicago has become one of the foremost centers of world finance and trade. Beginning with an overview of the city's commercial development, this book considers how key industries shaped - and were shaped by - both the local and global economies. Editor(s): Reiff, Janice L. Num Pages: 392 pages, 23 halftones, 7 maps, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; HBJK; HBTK; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 21. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226709369
- ISBN
- 9780226709369
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 23.21
€ 29.99
€ 23.21
Paperback. Argues that the contemporary organization of global violence is neither timeless nor natural; it is distinctively modern. This book examines how the arrangement of the world into violence-monopolizing sovereign states evolved over the six preceding centuries. Series: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics. Num Pages: 230 pages, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBTQ; HBTR; JPS; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691025711
- ISBN
- 9780691025711
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.75€ 42.47
€ 53.75
€ 42.47
Hardcover. An evocative collection of wartime accounts, quotes and stories from the First World War. Chronologically ordered, from the day war was declared on 4 August 1914, through to voices from the front, women at war, the American perspective, and ending with Armistice on 11 November 1918. Editor(s): Anderson, Janice. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 179 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Publisher
- Lorenz Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780754831853
- ISBN
- 9780754831853
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 9.06
€ 9.99
€ 9.06
Hardcover. Investigates the historical, political and social factors that inspired and manipulated different identities for Persia and the Persians within Greece. This book offers insights into the role of Greek social elites and political communities in creating different representations of the Achaemenid Persians and their Empire. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia. Num Pages: 224 pages, 20 b&w illustrations, 60 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAM; 3D; HBJF; HBLA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748647231
- ISBN
- 9780748647231
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.80
€ 157.80