×


 x 

Shopping cart

Regional & national history

Results 21145 - 21168 of 21247

Regional & national history

Hardback. Rethinking Poles and Jews focuses on the role of Holocaust-related material in perpetuating anti-Polish images and describes organizational efforts to combat them. Without minimizing contemporary Polish anti-Semitism, it also presents more positive material on contemporary Polish-American organizations and Jewish life in Poland. Editor(s): Cherry, Robert; Orla-Bukowska, Annamaria. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVP; HBJD; JFSR1. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742546653
ISBN
9780742546653
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 167.34

Hardback. Editor(s): Chatterjee, Partha; Ghosh, Anjan. Series: Anthem South Asian Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Anthem Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843312246
ISBN
9781843312246
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.21

Hardback. Through the lives of a variety of Texans who put a human face on the state's history, this work presents the history of the 'Lone Star State'. Editor(s): Cashion, Ty; Teja, Jesus F. de la. Series: The Human Tradition in America. Num Pages: 239 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; BGH; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
239
Condition
New
SKU
V9780842029056
ISBN
9780842029056
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 168.75

Paperback. When the United States entered World War II on December 7, 1941, only one group of American soldiers had already confronted the fascist enemy on the battlefield. This book contains 154 letters selected from thousands held in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives at NYU's Tamiment Library, provides a fresh perspective on aspects of World War II. Editor(s): Carroll, Peter N.; Nash, Michael H.; Small, Melvin. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJK; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 417.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814716601
ISBN
9780814716601
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

Hardback. The exodus of refugees from Nazi Germany in the 1930s has received far more attention from historians, social scientists, and demographers than many other migrations and persecutions in Europe. Editor(s): Caestecker, Frank; Moore, Dr. Bob. Num Pages: 360 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 166 x 26. Weight in Grams: 664.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845455873
ISBN
9781845455873
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 175.41

paperback. Original interpretations of Brown v. Board of Education's impact, fifty years later Editor(s): Burton, Orville Vernon; O'Brien, David. Num Pages: 456 pages, 21 Black & White photographs, 9 Color photographs, 9 charts, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 28. Weight in Grams: 748.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780252076657
ISBN
9780252076657
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.47

The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade saw the British Empire turn naval power and moral outrage against a branch of commerce it had done so much to promote. The assembled authors bridge the gap between ship and shore to reveal the motives, effects, and legacies of this nineteenth-century campaign. Editor(s): Burroughs, Robert M.; Huzzey, Richard. Series: Studies in Imperialism. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1QDB; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTQ; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 164 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480.
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719085116
ISBN
9780719085116
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 168.57

Hardback. Editor(s): Buchenau, Jurgen; Beezley, William H. Series: Latin American Silhouettes. Num Pages: 220 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; JFFX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 495.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742557697
ISBN
9780742557697
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 174.00

With essays by notable scholars that address the war's impact in Europe and the Atlantic world, this volume is sure to become essential reading for those interested in the relationship between war, culture, and the arts. Editor(s): Bruyn, Frans De; Regan, Shaun. Num Pages: 372 pages, illustrations (some color). BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 29. Weight in Grams: 700.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
372
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442643550
ISBN
9781442643550
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.69

paperback. "An important collection of original articles, so full of insight that summarizing them seems an impossible task..The research is exciting and engaging." - American Historical Review Editor(s): Brown, Jennifer S. H.; Vibert, Elizabeth. Num Pages: 504 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1K; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 720.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd United States
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551115436
ISBN
9781551115436
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

This four-volume collective project by a team of leading scholars offers a vivid portrait of Jewish history in German-speaking countries over nearly four centuries. This series is sponsored by the Leo Baeck Institute, established in 1955 in Jerusalem, London, and New York for the purpose of advancing scholarship on the Jews in German-speaking lands. Editor(s): Brenner, Michael; Meyer, Michael Andrew; Mendes-Flohr, Paul; Lowenstein, Steven M. Series: German-Jewish history in modern times. Num Pages: 466 pages, With a new Preface. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 33. Weight in Grams: 862.
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
466
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231074780
ISBN
9780231074780
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 124.67

Hardback. Exploring the production of lack and desire through fine-grained ethnography, this volume examines how diagnoses of emptiness operate in a range of very different domains in contemporary China. Editor(s): Bregnbaek, Susanne; Bunkenborg, Mikkel. Num Pages: 200 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785335808
ISBN
9781785335808
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.74

hardcover. In writings about travel, the Balkans appear most often as a place travelled to. Western accounts of the Balkans revel in the different and the exotic, the violent and the primitive traits that serve (according to many commentators) as a foil to self-congratulatory defi nitions of the West as modern, progressive and rational. Editor(s): Bracewell, Wendy; Drace-Francis, Alex. Num Pages: 176 pages, ill. BIC Classification: HBJD; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845452544
ISBN
9781845452544
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.87

Hardback. Editor(s): Blowen, Sarah; Demossier, Marion; Picard, Jeanine. Series: Contemporary France Series. BIC Classification: HBJD; JFC; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 478.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571817280
ISBN
9781571817280
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 162.47

Drawing on decades of acquired expertise, this book examines wartime assessment in both theory and practice and, through alternative dimensions of assessment such as justice and proportionality, the war of ideas and economics. Editor(s): Blanken, Leo J.; Rothstein, Hy; Lepore, Jason J. Num Pages: 368 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBW; JPS; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Georgetown University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9781626162457
ISBN
9781626162457
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 136.31

Paperback. These essays do not assume the primacy of national allegiance. Instead, by using the 'sense of place' as a prism to look at German identity in new ways, they examine a sense of 'Germanness' that was neither self-evident nor unchanging. Editor(s): Blackbourn, David; Retallack, James N. Series: German & European Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442628656
ISBN
9781442628656
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.84

This book examines a decade of extraordinary ferment in ideas, and the battles about those ideas out of which emerged the Britain of the late-twentieth century. Editor(s): Black, Lawrence; Pemberton, Hugh; Thane, Pat. Num Pages: 288 pages, Line drawings, black & white|Tables, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPL; HBJD1; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 164 x 28. Weight in Grams: 596.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719088148
ISBN
9780719088148
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 168.91

Paperback. Editor(s): Bjerg, Helle; Lenz, Claudia; Thorstensen, Erik. Num Pages: 306 pages, 19 b/w & 7 colour illus. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBWQ; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 135 x 23. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Transcript Verlag Germany
Number of pages
306
Condition
New
SKU
V9783837613254
ISBN
9783837613254
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.00
€ 35.56

paperback. The first comprehensive account in decades of major party system change in Canada. Editor(s): Bittner, Amanda; Koop, Royce. Num Pages: 728 pages, 37 graphs, 35 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; JPHF; JPL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
UBC Press Canada
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
728
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774824095
ISBN
9780774824095
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.50

Paperback. Includes eighteen essays that offers fresh perspective and scholarship on the difficult transition from empire to republic for the small state of Austria, created by the Allied peacemakers in Paris in 1919. Editor(s): Bischof, Gunter; Plasser, Fritz; Berger, Peter. Num Pages: 450 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DF; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 149 x 34. Weight in Grams: 637.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of New Orleans Publishing United States
Number of pages
450
Condition
New
SKU
V9781608010257
ISBN
9781608010257
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 37.22

Paperback. Includes essays that argues that Schussel's political record and legacy are ambiguous. Editor(s): Bischof, Gunter; Plasser, Fritz. Num Pages: 283 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DF; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 29. Weight in Grams: 535.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of New Orleans Publishing United States
Number of pages
283
Condition
New
SKU
V9781608010097
ISBN
9781608010097
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 36.54

Hardback. Offers fresh perspectives on key debates surrounding Germany's descent into and emergence from the Nazi catastrophe. This book explores relations between society, economy and international policy, and provides fresh insights into the complex continuities and discontinuities of modern German history. Editor(s): Biess, Frank; Roseman, Mark; Schissler, Hanna. Num Pages: 406 pages, bibliog., index. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
406
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845452001
ISBN
9781845452001
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 175.48

Hardback. In 1900, China chose to take on imperialism by fighting a war with the world on the parched north China plain. This multi-disciplinary volume explores the causes behind what is known as the Boxer war, examining its particular cruelties and its impact on China, foreign imperialism in China, and on the foreign imagination. Editor(s): Bickers, Robert; Tiedemann, R. G. Num Pages: 260 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJC; HBJF; HBLW; HBW; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742553941
ISBN
9780742553941
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 159.34

Hardback. Features essays that explore how German mourning changed over the 20th century in different contexts, with a particular view to how death was linked to larger issues of social order and cultural self-understanding. This volume contributes to a history of death in 20th-century Germany that does not begin and end with the Third Reich. Editor(s): Betts, Paul; Confino, Alon; Schumann, Dirk. Series: Studies in German History. Num Pages: 329 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; AMGD; HBJD; HBLW; JHBZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 235 x 22. Weight in Grams: 586.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
329
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845453978
ISBN
9781845453978
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 174.76

Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!