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Hardcover. The first full study of the life of Margherita Datini illuminates the role and social standing of wives in early modern Italian society Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472119493
ISBN
9780472119493
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.16

Hardcover. Enter the turbulent world of a Florentine family through personal correspondence Series: Studies in Medieval & Early Modern Civilization. Num Pages: 344 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBLC; HBTG; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 159 x 28. Weight in Grams: 675.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472109128
ISBN
9780472109128
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 120.28

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 17. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JD; 3JF; HBJK; HBLH; JFSL9; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801483639
ISBN
9780801483639
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.51

Hardcover. In this volume, scholars from three continents trace the role of dreams in the cultural transitions of the early modern Atlantic world, illustrating how both indigenous and European methods of understanding dream phenomena became central to contests over religious and political power. Editor(s): Plane, Ann Marie; Tuttle, Leslie. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1K; HBJD; HBJK; HBLC; HBLH; HRQ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 592.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812245042
ISBN
9780812245042
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.65

No further information has been provided for this title. Num Pages: 127 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 236 x 168 x 13. Weight in Grams: 455.
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Facts On File Inc United States
Number of pages
126
Condition
New
SKU
V9781604137651
ISBN
9781604137651
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.66

When the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 was passed by Congress, the flight to freedom for runaway slaves became even more dangerous. But the Underground Railroad, a secret and loosely organized network of people and safe houses that led slaves to freedom, only grew stronger. This title shows how this secret system worked in the days. Num Pages: 152 pages, full-colour & black-&-white photographs, bibliographical sidebars, excerpts from primary. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBWJ; YQH. Category: (ES) Secondary; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 165 x 10. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers United States
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
SKU
V9781604136944
ISBN
9781604136944
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.66

Paperback. Reveals how ideas about gender and family life were central to the ways people in colonial New England, and their neighbors in New France and Indian Country, described their experiences in cross-cultural warfare. This book argues that English, French, and Indian people had broadly similar ideas about gender and authority. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 272 pages, 17 illus. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812219616
ISBN
9780812219616
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.89

Hardcover. Editor(s): Graf, Ann M.; Seligman, Amanda I.; Anderson, Margo. Series: Urban life. Num Pages: 345 pages. BIC Classification: GBA; HBJK; JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Marquette Univ Pr
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874620849
ISBN
9780874620849
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.46

Hardback. Commerce by a Frozen Sea reveals Native Americans as industrious people and effective traders who achieved a standard of living in the eighteenth century higher than most workers in Europe. Num Pages: 264 pages, 25 illus. BIC Classification: HBJK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 584.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812242317
ISBN
9780812242317
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.06

paperback. Examines methods of information management in ancient and medieval Europe as well as the Islamic world and China, focusing on the organization, composition, and reception of Latin reference books in print in early modern Europe. Num Pages: 416 pages, 31 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: GLC; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 235 x 23. Weight in Grams: 592.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780300165395
ISBN
9780300165395
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 18.10

Paperback. A wonderful compendium of bizarre and curious stories from Scottish myth and history Num Pages: 256 pages, b/w illustrated throughout. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBJD1; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
Publisher
Birlinn General
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
9781780274096
ISBN
9781780274096
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. Investigates the matters of state in late 19th and early 20th century Indonesia, particularly the critical role played by sexual arrangements and affective attachments in creating colonial categories and distinguishing the ruler from the ruled. This work argues that social classification is not a benign cultural act but a potent political one. Num Pages: 376 pages, 42 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 514.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
376
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
2010 ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520262461
ISBN
9780520262461
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.87

Paperback. Offers a methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political content of archival forms. This title identifies the social epistemologies that guided perception and practice, revealing the problematic racial ontologies of that confused epistemic space. Num Pages: 336 pages, 8 halftones. 1 maps. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBJM; HBLL; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 135 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691146362
ISBN
9780691146362
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 27.25

Paperback. This study presents a different approach to the question of power and influence after the Cold War. Inspired by the debate over German hegemony and drawing on fieldwork, it develops two cases of German relations with East-Central Europe to test competing arguments. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1DV; 3JJPR; 3JM; HBJD; HBLW3; JPQB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 148 x 12. Weight in Grams: 299.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847695232
ISBN
9780847695232
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.73

Hardback. This study presents a different approach to the question of power and influence after the Cold War. Inspired by the debate over German hegemony and drawing on fieldwork, it develops two cases of German relations with East-Central Europe to test competing arguments. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1DV; 3JJPR; 3JM; HBJD; HBLW3; JPQB; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847695225
ISBN
9780847695225
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 184.52

Paperback. Num Pages: 190 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 167 x 12. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415214919
ISBN
9780415214919
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.31

Hardcover. From the Arab world comes a love story between an Arab man and an American woman that lasted more than half a century. Their lives spanned both sides of the Jordan River, and their love was tested by the traditions of an ancient and proud Christian tribe and the contrasts between their cultures. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBX; BM; HBJF1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 234 x 40. Weight in Grams: 878.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Medina Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909339354
ISBN
9781909339354
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.21

Paperback. From the Arab world comes a love story between an Arab man and an American woman that lasted more than half a century. Their lives spanned both sides of the Jordan River, and their love was tested by the traditions of an ancient and proud Christian tribe and the contrasts between their cultures. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBX; BM; HBJF1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 228 x 34. Weight in Grams: 714.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Medina Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909339347
ISBN
9781909339347
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 14.19

paperback. Showcases peasants' memories of everyday life in North India under royal rule before Indian Independence and their musings on the contrast between the old days and the unprecedented shifts that a half century has wrought. Num Pages: 432 pages, 32 b&w photos, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBLW; HBTQ; HBTR; JHMC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 149 x 28. Weight in Grams: 654.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822328209
ISBN
9780822328209
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.49

Hardcover. Recounts the Battle of Fort Dearborn while situating it within the context of several wider histories that span the nearly four decades between the 1795 Treaty of Greenville to the 1833 Treaty of Chicago. This title is published to commemorate the bicentennial of the Battle of Fort Dearborn. Num Pages: 328 pages, 35 halftones, 14 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226428963
ISBN
9780226428963
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 28.22

Paperback. The story of the world-famous home of the Bronte sisters. Explores the impact of the Brontes' home on their writing and what it was like for their successors living in a literary shrine. New exhibition focusing on the building starts at the Bronte Parsonage Museum in April 2013. Num Pages: 96 pages, 12 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYK; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 171 x 9. Weight in Grams: 304.
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781445608556
ISBN
9781445608556
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.53

Hardback. Contemporary Spanish Gothic is the first book to study how the Gothic mode intersects with cultural production in Spain today, considering some of the ways in which such production feeds off and simultaneously feeds into Gothic production more widely. BIC Classification: 1DS; APFA; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 241 x 17. Weight in Grams: 456.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474402996
ISBN
9781474402996
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.82
€ 101.23

Paperback.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752455280
ISBN
9780752455280
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.22

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843836698
ISBN
9781843836698
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.57

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