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Paperback. Should modern Chinese history be approached from the center looking out or from the margins looking in? The contributors to this book have explored a variety of relationships between the center (or centers) and the margins in China under the Qing dynasty, the Republic, and the People's Republic. Series: Cornell East Asia Studies. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cornell East Asia Series
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933947464
ISBN
9781933947464
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.71

Hardcover. Should modern Chinese history be approached from the center looking out or from the margins looking in? The contributors to this book have explored a variety of relationships between the center (or centers) and the margins in China under the Qing dynasty, the Republic, and the People's Republic. Series: Cornell East Asia Studies. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cornell East Asia Series
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933947167
ISBN
9781933947167
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.33

Paperback. Men of Capital reveals how Palestinian businessmen and British colonial officials used economy to shape territory, the nation, the home, and the body. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3JJ; HBJF1; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804796613
ISBN
9780804796613
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.51

A memoir of a life in the Qing dynasty. It reveals a sensitive and artistic man, who failed at the civil service examinations that were the gateway to official employment and had to settle for becoming an itinerant private secretary, dabbling unsuccessfully in making a living as an artist and a merchant. Translator(s): Sanders, Graham. Num Pages: 176 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 310.
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603841993
ISBN
9781603841993
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.22
€ 42.12

Paperback. Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social document written by a man who was educated as a scholar but earned his living as a civil servant and art dealer. Translator(s): Pratt, Leonard; Su-hui, Chiang. Num Pages: 176 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 138.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140444292
ISBN
9780140444292
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.27

Paperback. Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social document written by a man who was educated as a scholar but earned his living as a civil servant and art dealer. Translator(s): Pratt, Leonard; Su-hui, Chiang. Num Pages: 176 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 138. Good clean copy. Showing light shelfwear, remains a nice copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0021764
ISBN
9780140444292
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 11.99
€ 10.27

Paperback. .
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603841986
ISBN
9781603841986
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 17.13

Paperback. Offers a study of the Progressive movement, its reformers, their ideology, and the social circumstances they tried to change. This book contends that the persistence of class conflict in America challenged the very defining feature of Progressivism: its promise of social harmony through democratic renewal. Series: The Working Class in American History. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252072697
ISBN
9780252072697
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.59

Hardback. Radical Sensations examines the radical world-movements that emerged between 1886 and 1927 adapted sentiment, sensation, and new forms of visual culture to move people to participate in projects of social, political, and economic transformation. Num Pages: 368 pages, 88 illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX; HBJK; JFD; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963. Weight in Grams: 622.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822352808
ISBN
9780822352808
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.81

Paperback. Radical Sensations examines the radical world-movements that emerged between 1886 and 1927 adapted sentiment, sensation, and new forms of visual culture to move people to participate in projects of social, political, and economic transformation. Num Pages: 368 pages, 88 illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX; HBJK; JFD; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 488. World Movements, Violence, and Visual Culture. 368 pages, 88 illustrations. Drawing attention to the vast archive of images and texts created by radicals prior to the 1930s, the author analyzes representations of violence and of abuses of state power in response to the Haymarket police riot, of the trial and execution of the Chicago anarchists, and of the mistreatment and imprisonment of Ricardo and Enrique Flores Magon. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: ACX; HBJK; JFD; JPF. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 22. Weight: 488.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822352914
ISBN
9780822352914
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.73

Paperback. Essays illuminate the extraordinarily varied and dynamic intellectual developments underway in India and Tibet during the three centuries prior to the consolidation of British imperial power in 1800. Editor(s): Pollock, Sheldon. Num Pages: 392 pages, 1 map, 3 figures. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FMT; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; HBJF; HBLH; HBLL; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822349044
ISBN
9780822349044
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.75

Hardback. Series: Historical Sourcebooks in Classical Indian Thought. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; DCF; DD; HBJF; HPCA; HPDF; HPN; HRGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231173902
ISBN
9780231173902
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.64
€ 72.45

Paperback. This book completely transforms our understanding of the actual roles that each of the principal EXCOMM members played in the decision making process that led to a peaceful resolution of the Cuban missile crisis. Series: Stanford Nuclear Age Series. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJ; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 230 x 14. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804783774
ISBN
9780804783774
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.59

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804750776
ISBN
9780804750776
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.88

Hardback. The first and only comprehensive narrative account of the secret Cuban missile crisis ExComm meetings, by the first historian to hear the tapes of every secretly recorded discussion. Series: Stanford Nuclear Age Series. Num Pages: 496 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJC; HBJK; HBLW3; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 35. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804748469
ISBN
9780804748469
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.12

paperback. An up-to-date and detailed eyewitness account of Burma's Civil War. It is indispensable for understanding the travails of modern Burma. Num Pages: 304 pages, 5 maps/16 photos. BIC Classification: 1FMB; 3JJP; GTB; HBJF; HBLW3; HBW; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Edition
Annotated
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745315416
ISBN
9780745315416
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 26.89

Paperback. Maurice Rosenblatt was one of the behind-the-scenes engineers of the 1954 overthrow of Senator Joseph McCarthy, the anti-Communist chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. This book tells the story of the rise of McCarthy's power and Rosenblatt's role in effecting McCarthy's eventual censure by the Senate. Num Pages: 136 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; HBJK; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 10. Weight in Grams: 255.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780295985947
ISBN
9780295985947
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.58

Paperback. .
Publisher
Birlinn General
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780273730
ISBN
9781780273730
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.50

Paperback. .
Publisher
Stenlake Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
56
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
SKU
V9781872074405
ISBN
9781872074405
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.34

Paperback. Thanks to the recent discovery of Judith Sargent Murray's papers-including some 2,500 personal letters-Sheila L. Skemp has documented the compelling story of a talented and most unusual eighteenth-century woman. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 512 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780812222487
ISBN
9780812222487
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.49

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