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Hardback. Since 1945, as the U.S. has engaged in near-constant "wars of choice" with limited congressional oversight, the executive and armed services have shared primary responsibility for often ill-defined objectives, strategies, and benefits. Matthew Moten shows the significance of negotiations between presidents and the generals allied with them. Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBW; JPHC; JPS; JWK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 238 x 35. Weight in Grams: 812.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674058149
- ISBN
- 9780674058149
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 44.30
€ 53.99
€ 44.30
Hardback. This book examines the emergence of modern Chinese geopolitics by showing how, in its relations with British India, the Qing empire came to understand its place in the world through competition with European imperialism. Num Pages: 408 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FPC; HBJF; JPSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804782241
- ISBN
- 9780804782241
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 147.96
€ 147.96
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719070556
- ISBN
- 9780719070556
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.44
€ 20.99
€ 19.44
Paperback. A journalist examines the war in Kosovo.PW Best Book of the Year - Nonfiction, 2002 Num Pages: 240 pages, 12 b&w illustrations, 8 pages with halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVWYS; HBJD; HBLW3; JWXK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814756614
- ISBN
- 9780814756614
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.45
€ 32.99
€ 31.45
Hardback. Paper Memory tells of one man's mission to preserve for posterity the memory of everyday life in sixteenth-century Germany. Lundin takes us inside the mind of an undistinguished German burgher, Hermann Weinsberg, whose early-modern writings sought to make sense of changes that were unsettling the foundations of his world. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 352 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JB; BM; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 236 x 25. Weight in Grams: 654.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674065949
- ISBN
- 9780674065949
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.10€ 55.42
€ 61.10
€ 55.42
Paperback. Discover the history behind the facts Series: In 100 Facts. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445647463
- ISBN
- 9781445647463
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.03
€ 14.99
€ 14.03
Paperback. Explores the events of the Wars of the Roses through the eyes of the key players. Discover the personalities behind the fight for the throne. Num Pages: 304 pages, 40. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC1; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 126 x 328 x 20. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445660233
- ISBN
- 9781445660233
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.37
€ 20.37
Paperback. Medieval Britain in 100 Facts covers this extensive period of change - Discover the history behind the facts. Series: In 100 Facts. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3F; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 197 x 17. Weight in Grams: 138.
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445647340
- ISBN
- 9781445647340
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.57
€ 18.57
Hardcover. Matthew Lenoe traces the origins of Stalinist mass culture to newspaper journalism in the later 1920s. In examining the transformation of Soviet newspapers during the New Economic Policy and the First Five Year Plan, Lenoe tells a dramatic story of purges, political intrigues, and social upheaval. Series: Russian Research Center Studies. Num Pages: 326 pages, 6 halftones, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JFC; JPFC; JPVN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 242 x 27. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674013193
- ISBN
- 9780674013193
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.03€ 83.86
€ 94.03
€ 83.86
Hardback. Num Pages: 480 pages, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKEY; HBJD1; HBLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 848.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748632787
- ISBN
- 9780748632787
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.25€ 128.95
€ 135.25
€ 128.95
Paperback. Describes the formation of a masculine ideology in the decades prior to the war, and shows how it thrived - on the job, and through union politics. This title provides a context for our ideas of postwar masculinity and whiteness and finally returns the men of the home front to our reckoning of the Greatest Generation and the New Deal era. Num Pages: 360 pages, 29 halftones, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1KBBWM; 3JJH; HBJK; HBTB; HBWQ; KNAT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226044194
- ISBN
- 9780226044194
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.38
€ 36.99
€ 29.38
Paperback. Embarks on a journey through author's ancestor's footsteps, travelling through places they lived, and landscapes they survived, to provide an account of these extraordinary people and their unique history. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099515999
- ISBN
- 9780099515999
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.57
€ 21.99
€ 17.57
Hardback. A clothier and a deeply religious man, Joseph Ryder faithfully kept a diary from 1733 until his death in 1768. The author interprets Ryder's diary, which provides a real-life perspective on the relationship between capitalism and Protestantism at a time when Britain was rapidly changing from a traditional to a modern society. Series: The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History. Num Pages: 288 pages, 15 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 242 x 26. Weight in Grams: 606.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300169614
- ISBN
- 9780300169614
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.44€ 58.48
€ 76.44
€ 58.48
Paperback. Opens up new ways of thinking about the period, 1400-1750. An original and theoretically-informed contribution to the discipline. Wide-disciplinary appeal. Well-illustrated. Series: Social Archaeology. Num Pages: 244 pages, with 41 illus. BIC Classification: 1D; HBG; HBJD1; HBLH; HBLL; HDT; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557863485
- ISBN
- 9781557863485
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.32
€ 56.32
Paperback. Over recent decades much has been written on the complexities of Imperial Germany. More is known today about the politics, society, economy and culture of the German Empire than ever before. However, the sheer volume of new scholarship makes it increasingly challenging to synthesize all the available information. Series: Contesting the Past. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405129978
- ISBN
- 9781405129978
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.18
€ 45.18
Hardcover. 223pp. Keywords: Irish Abroad. These essays examine diverse elements of the Irish American Experience in the fifteen years after World War II. It emphasises the transition through which the diaspora were moving with focus on social and political developments
- Publisher
- Irish Academic Press Ltd Dublin
- Number of pages
- 276
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780716529873
- ISBN
- 9780716529873
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.00€ 42.11
€ 60.00
€ 42.11
Paperback. This book examines how competing narratives about the Haitian Revolution influenced American public culture during the Civil War. It argues that both antislavery and proslavery groups appropriated the symbols of Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution in their attempts to determine the fate of slavery in the United States. Num Pages: 248 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812221848
- ISBN
- 9780812221848
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.45
€ 32.99
€ 31.45
Hardback. Essays consider the changes and development of Scotland at a time of considerable flux in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Editor(s): Hammond, Matthew. Series: Studies in Celtic History. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10, 8 black & white illustrations, 2 black & white line drawings, 8 black and white, 2 li. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843838531
- ISBN
- 9781843838531
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.00
€ 96.00
Paperback. This study of the regulation of sexuality in the Qing dynasty explores the social context for sexual behavior criminalized by the state, showing how regulation shifted away from status to a new regime of gender that mandated a uniform standard of sexual morality and criminal liability for all people, regardless of their social status. Series: Law, Society & Culture in China. Num Pages: 440 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ; LNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804745598
- ISBN
- 9780804745598
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.63
€ 33.99
€ 33.63
Hardback. Offers a study of polyandry, wife-selling, and a variety of related practices in China during the Qing dynasty. This book explores the functions played by marriage, sex, and reproduction in the survival strategies of the rural poor under conditions of overpopulation, worsening sex ratios, and shrinking farm sizes. Num Pages: 499 pages, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJF; HBTB; JFSL3; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 238 x 37. Weight in Grams: 806.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520287037
- ISBN
- 9780520287037
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.80€ 60.89
€ 78.80
€ 60.89