Regional & national history
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Regional & national history
Paperback. The book includes a completely new final chapter, text and notes rewritten throughout to incorporate evidence and scholarship that has appeared over the past twenty-five years, and an index of ancient sources. Series: Ancient Society and History. Num Pages: 272 pages, 17, 17 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HBJD; HBLA1; HBTB; JFSP1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 153 x 228 x 18. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- second edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421416861
- ISBN
- 9781421416861
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.55
€ 35.55
Paperback. This is a story of dispossession, a meditation on place, home and identity, as well as a deeply personal account of the social ills of South Africa and the triumph of its people Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; BM; HBJH; JFFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 201 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783780990
- ISBN
- 9781783780990
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.61
€ 13.99
€ 10.61
Paperback. Featuring rare photographs, and detailed colour plates of uniforms, insignia and equipment, this book explores the Putin regime's shadowy special-forces apparatus, active in an array of counter-terrorist and counter-mafia wars since 1991. Illustrator(s): Shumate, Johnny. Series: Elite. Num Pages: 64 pages, 45 b/w; 13 col. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJPR; 3JM; HBJD; HBW; JWD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 186 x 6. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 64
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780961057
- ISBN
- 9781780961057
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.50
€ 19.99
€ 14.50
Paperback. Offers the secrets of the Spetsnaz, their missions and personalities. This book is also packed with details such as orders-of-battle, equipment and operational doctrine. Illustrator(s): Shumate, Johnny. Series: Elite. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJD; HBLW; HBLX; JWH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 184 x 7. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472807229
- ISBN
- 9781472807229
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.63
€ 19.99
€ 14.63
Paperback. Focuses on the conflicts that traces the progress of the wars in Chechnya, from the initial Russian advance through to urban battles such as Grozny, and the prolonged guerrilla warfare in the mountainous regions. This book assesses how the wars have torn apart the fabric of Chechen society and their impact on Russia itself. Series: Essential Histories. Num Pages: 96 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1DVUAC; 3JJPR; 3JMC; HBJD; HBLW3; HBWS; JWDG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 249 x 4. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782002772
- ISBN
- 9781782002772
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 20.72
€ 24.99
€ 20.72
Paperback. identifies a number of formal and informal checks on government as disseminator, withholder, and controller of ideas and information. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520261754
- ISBN
- 9780520261754
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.13
€ 35.99
€ 26.13
Hardback. Series: New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 3 recorded music items. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JPVK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. .
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421418704
- ISBN
- 9781421418704
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.03
€ 61.03
Paperback. Series: American Crime Stories. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; BTC; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Regnery Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781621573210
- ISBN
- 9781621573210
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.54
€ 17.99
€ 16.54
Hardback. High in the Tuscan hills above Florence, the menacing Vincigliata Castle - a very special prisoner-of-war camp converted on Mussolini's personal orders - held thirteen of the most senior British and Commonwealth officers captured during the campaign in North Africa. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWXR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 242 x 32. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Icon Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781785781186
- ISBN
- 9781785781186
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 9.50
€ 19.99
€ 9.50
Paperback. Surrounded, abandoned and fighting overwhelming odds in Afghanistan - one true man's story. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 3JMC; BTM; HBJF; HBWS4; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444784435
- ISBN
- 9781444784435
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.64
€ 14.99
€ 11.64
Paperback. Presenting an environmental history of China, this book is based on literary, political, aesthetic, scientific, and religious sources that reveal the views of the Chinese people toward their environment and landscape. Num Pages: 592 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 35. Weight in Grams: 858.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 592
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300119930
- ISBN
- 9780300119930
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.15
€ 26.99
€ 20.15
Paperback. Religion is commonly imagined as a timeless component of human inheritance, but in the Western Himalayas the community of Himachal Pradesh discovered their religion only after India became an independent secular state. This title shows that modern secularity is not so much the eradication of religion as the very condition for its emergence. Num Pages: 305 pages, 25 images. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HRAM2; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520290549
- ISBN
- 9780520290549
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.43
€ 33.99
€ 24.43
Paperback. In 221 bc the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. This book highlights the key challenges faced by the court officials and scholars who set about governing an empire of such scale and diversity of people. It illuminates many formative events in China's long history of imperialism. Series: History of Imperial China. Num Pages: 336 pages, 23 halftones, 16 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3D; HBJF; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674057340
- ISBN
- 9780674057340
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 25.46
€ 29.99
€ 25.46
Paperback. After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. This title traces the changes that both underlay and resulted from this split in a period that saw the geographic redefinition of China, engagement with the outside world, significant changes to family life, and the introduction of religions. Series: History of Imperial China. Num Pages: 352 pages, 25 halftones, 16 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674060357
- ISBN
- 9780674060357
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 25.45
€ 29.99
€ 25.45
Paperback. The Tang dynasty is often called China's golden age, a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. This title captures a dynamic era in which the empire reached its greatest geographical extent under Chinese rule. Series: History of Imperial China. Num Pages: 368 pages, 24 illustrations, 17 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3F; HBJF; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 235 x 23. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674064010
- ISBN
- 9780674064010
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 25.44
€ 29.99
€ 25.44
Hardback. This is a social history of seven anti-poverty "Community Action Programmes" (CAPs) in Milwaukee's inner city that were started in the 1960s. The book aims to dispel the notion that CAPs were a categorical failure and also to provide solutions to social problems in America's inner cities. Series: Studies in Modern American History. Num Pages: 264 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBNW; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBJK; HBLW3; JFFA; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739101995
- ISBN
- 9780739101995
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.36
€ 156.36
Paperback. Anyone who lives in Derbyshire or has walked in the Peak District will have marvelled at the rich variety of prehistoric remains: how and why did our remote ancestors choose to live in this seemingly wild and inhospitable area? Num Pages: 176 pages, colour and b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBLA; HD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 173 x 15. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752414836
- ISBN
- 9780752414836
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.43
€ 24.99
€ 21.43
Paperback. This text provides insights into early prehistory to students of archaeology and landscape history, and all those interested in what life in prehistoric Britain might really have been like. Num Pages: 186 pages, 39 line figures, 22 b&w photographs, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBLA; HDDA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 188
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415204323
- ISBN
- 9780415204323
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.56
€ 56.56
Paperback. Paints a portrait of Lincoln as a lawyer. This work describes Lincoln's guiding principles and legal education, the economics of the law office, and the changes in legal practice that Lincoln himself experienced as the nation became an industrial, capitalist society. Num Pages: 282 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; LAT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780875806266
- ISBN
- 9780875806266
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 25.97
€ 25.99
€ 25.97
Paperback. In 1812 the Jeffersonian-dominated Massachusetts legislature split Essex County to dilute the strength of the Federalists. Its outcome - in the ensuing election, the Federalists won the district anyway. This work discusses this controversy and analyzes the redistricting process. Num Pages: 192 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739101926
- ISBN
- 9780739101926
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.85
€ 60.85