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Paperback. Winner of the PEN Hessel-Tiltman prize for history, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography, The Lunar Men captures the creation of the modern world with lucid intelligence, sympathy and wisdom. Num Pages: 608 pages, 16pp colour and 60 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; BGH; HBJD1; HBLL; PDX; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 408.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571216109
ISBN
9780571216109
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.77

Hardback. Did the Romans have rakes? Did the monks get muddy? Did the potato seem really, really weird when it arrived on our shores? This 'potted' history of gardening in Britain takes us on a garden tour from the thorn hedges around prehistoric settlements to the rage for ornamental grasses and 'outdoor rooms' today. Num Pages: 384 pages, 80. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBT; WM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 166. Weight in Grams: 567.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784740313
ISBN
9781784740313
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 23.06

Paperback. As the Napoleonic wars raged, what was life really like for those left at home? This book reveals the colourful and turbulent everyday life of Georgian Britain through the diaries, letters and records of farmers, bankers, aristocrats and mill-workers. It tells the story of how people lived in one of the most momentous periods of history. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 275 x 40. Weight in Grams: 546.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571269532
ISBN
9780571269532
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 15.98

Paperback. Sarah Losh, strong-willed and passionate, an architect and an intellectual who dumbfounded critics with her genius and originality. Born into an old Cumbrian family, heiress to an industrial fortune, Sarah combined a zest for progress with a love of the past. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKENM; 3JH; AMN; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 136 x 27. Weight in Grams: 350.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
344
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571269518
ISBN
9780571269518
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.15

Paperback. Charles II was thirty when he crossed the Channel in fine May weather in 1660. His Restoration was greeted with maypoles and bonfires, like spring after long years of Cromwell's rule. This title is a portrait of Charles II, exploring his elusive nature through the lens of these ten vital years. Num Pages: 608 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps, ports. (some col.). BIC Classification: BGR; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 42. Weight in Grams: 470.
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Number of pages
592
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571217342
ISBN
9780571217342
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.60

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843833789
ISBN
9781843833789
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 164.42

Hardback. The multi-national story of the Gallipoli campaign - how it was fought, how it has been remembered, and what it has come to mean Series: Great Battles. Num Pages: 280 pages, 28 b&w halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 317 x 23. Weight in Grams: 472.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199644872
ISBN
9780199644872
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.50

Hardcover. The history of adoption from 1918-1945, detailing the rise of adoption, the growth of adoption societies and considering the increasing emphasis on secrecy in adoption. Analyses adoption law from legalization in 1926, to regulation and reform in the 1930s, with regulations finally being enforced in 1943 amid concern about casual wartime adoptions. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB; JKSF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 145 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230517882
ISBN
9780230517882
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.11

Paperback. Num Pages: 282 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; CFF; DSBB; HBJD; HBLC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801485206
ISBN
9780801485206
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.59

Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 100 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; BGH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 240 x 25. Weight in Grams: 742.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780750961844
ISBN
9780750961844
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.86

Paperback. Series: New Approaches to Midwestern History. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; JPWQ; KCZ; KNAC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821422373
ISBN
9780821422373
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.43

Hardback. Series: New Approaches to Midwestern History. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; JPWQ; KCZ; KNAC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821422366
ISBN
9780821422366
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.97

Paperback. The chapters in this volume, each written by a leading scholar of the period, analyse in turn the response to the Union of 1603, the religious controversies under the early Stuarts, the Civil War, Commonwealth, and Restoration periods, and the social and economic context within which these developments took place. Editor(s): Wormald, Jenny. Series: Short Oxford History of the British Isles. Num Pages: 320 pages, 7 halftones, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396. Clean copy with some shelf wear and yellowing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KOG0007964
ISBN
9780198731610
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. This volume is an interdisciplinary guide to the Treaties of the Six Nations and their league. It provides a description of the earliest recorded treaties and an alphabetical list of persons involved in Iroquois treaty making. Editor(s): Jennings, Francis; et al. Num Pages: 296 pages, 5 maps, glossary, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JHM; JPSD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815626503
ISBN
9780815626503
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.28

Paperback. Examines literary and historical texts to show how writers have manipulated images and ideas associated with the cattle killing - harvest, sacrifice, rebirth, devastation - to speak to their contemporary predicaments. Num Pages: 304 pages, 6 halftones, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JH; HBJH; HBLL; HBTB; JHMC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780226893488
ISBN
9780226893488
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 29.91

Edition, with full explanatory notes and introduction, of financial records from Elizabeth de Burgh, one of the most important women of fourteenth-century England. Editor(s): Ward, Jennifer. Series: Suffolk Records Society. Num Pages: 222 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 3 colour illustrations, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBKEAS; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 238 x 24. Weight in Grams: 670.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843838913
ISBN
9781843838913
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.83
€ 54.88

Hardcover. As home to 1920s excess and Hitler's Final Solution, Berlin's physical and symbolic landscape was an important staging ground for the highs and lows of modernity. In Cold War Berlin, social and political boundaries were porous, and the rubble gave refuge to a re-emerging gay and lesbian scene, youth gangs, prostitutes, hoods, and hustlers. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 331 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 218 x 24. Weight in Grams: 518.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230202016
ISBN
9780230202016
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.09

Paperback. This text is a history of how the obsession with homosexuality is deeply tied to changing American anxieties about social and sexual order in the modern age. It argues that homosexuality served as a marker of the "abnormal" against which contradictory concepts of the "normal" were defined. Num Pages: 416 pages, 14 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFSK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 180 x 229 x 33. Weight in Grams: 858.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226793672
ISBN
9780226793672
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.82

Hardcover. A major new history of the violent, protracted conflict between ancient Athens and Sparta. Series: Ancient Warfare and Civilization. Num Pages: 448 pages, 7 black and white line; 20 black and white halftone. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 164 x 36. Weight in Grams: 776.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199996643
ISBN
9780199996643
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 39.33

Paperback. The Nature of Cities brings together environmental and urban history to reveal how, over four decades, this ecological vision shaped the development of cities around the nation. Num Pages: 328 pages, 12, 3 black & white line drawings, 9 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: HBJK; JHB; PDX; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 614.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421413846
ISBN
9781421413846
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 34.75

Through analysis of cultural production that often countered governmental intentions for official diplomacy, Jennifer Ruth Hosek offers a broad-reaching history of the influence of the global South on the global North. Series: German & European Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1KJC; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 620.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442641389
ISBN
9781442641389
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 69.27

Hardcover. Num Pages: 228 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Cornell Univ East Asia Program
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933947075
ISBN
9781933947075
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 48.91

Paperback. This fascinating biography describes the real experiences of women and their relationships as they struggled to win the right to vote Num Pages: 288 pages, 20 illus. BIC Classification: HBJK; JFSJ1; JPF; JPHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 484.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295990866
ISBN
9780295990866
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.34

Paperback. A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan is an unprecedented collection of original essays by some of the field's most distinguished scholars of Japan which, taken together, offer a comprehensive overview of the field. Editor(s): Robertson, Jennifer. Series: Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Anthropology. Num Pages: 544 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJM; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 170 x 28. Weight in Grams: 924.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405182898
ISBN
9781405182898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.26

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