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Hardcover. The book provides the first detailed, comprehensive assessment of the ideological basis and practical operation of the poor law system in the post-Famine period in Ireland (1850-1914). Series: Reappraisals in Irish History. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 maps, 11 graphs, 4 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; JFFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846319419
ISBN
9781846319419
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 190.43

Paperback. Virginia Cowles's 'The Phantom Major' is a classic account of the SAS raids of the Second World War, an amazing tale of courage, impudence and daring, packed with action and high adventure. Her narrative, based on the eyewitness testimony of the men who took part, gives a fascinating insight into the early years of the SAS. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 24. Weight in Grams: 426.
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848843868
ISBN
9781848843868
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.02

paperback. Series: American Culture. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBA; HBJK; HBLW; JFC; JPSH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780816620425
ISBN
9780816620425
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.43

Hardback. Brings together two subjects in American history: the story of the struggle to end slavery that reached a violent climax in the Civil War, and the story of the westward expansion of the US. This work embraces East and West, as well as North and South, as the US observes the 2015 sesquicentennial commemoration of the end of the Civil War. Editor(s): Scharff, Virginia. Num Pages: 264 pages, 17 color plates, 67 b/w photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 264 x 186 x 23. Weight in Grams: 716.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520281264
ISBN
9780520281264
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Paperback. Presents portraits of twenty-seven notable men and women, including radical abolitionist John Brown; wheat king Theodore C Henry; women's rights activist Clarina Nichols; William Allen White, the "Sage of Emporia"; President Dwight D Eisenhower; Esther Brown, who challenged segregation in public schools; political icon Bob Dole; and, Gordon Parks. Editor(s): Dean, Virgil W. Num Pages: 422 pages, 26 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBNK; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Univ Pr of Kansas
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700617234
ISBN
9780700617234
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.79

Hardback. These books, produced from the archives of the Library of Congress and edited by Vincent Virga, offer a glimpse into the history of the United States through rare historical full-color maps, narrative captions, and short essays. Series: Mapping the States Through History. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, maps, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBBN; HBJK; HBTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 249 x 221 x 18. Weight in Grams: 50.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780762760114
ISBN
9780762760114
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 21.00

Hardback. This study uses the participation of free-colored men, whether mulatos, pardos, or morenos (i.e., Afro-Spaniards, Afro-Indians, or "pure blacks"), in New Spain's militia as a prism for examining race relations, racial identity, racial categorization, and issues of social mobility for racially stigmatized groups in colonial Mexico. Num Pages: 320 pages, 2 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 553.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804742290
ISBN
9780804742290
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.97

Unlocked Memories is a collection of memories that were shared by Russians who witnessed the German invasion of the Leningrad region in 1941. All were young during World War Two and each lived under German rule after the Leningrad region was overrun and occupied by the enemy. Num Pages: 150 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 158 x 16. Weight in Grams: 376.
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
150
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761853251
ISBN
9780761853251
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 102.64

Paperback. Taking poetry as an act of witness and restorative memory, this essay traces the development of poems relating to Ireland's Great Hunger from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Num Pages: 52 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 282 x 6. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
Quinnipiac University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780997837445
ISBN
9780997837445
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 12.02

Paperback. Takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in which Blacks experienced their consumption as a fundamentally homoerotic occurrence. Series: Sexual Cultures. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTS; JFSL3; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
NYU Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814794623
ISBN
9780814794623
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.69

Hardback. Presents a detailed description of the operations to relieve Malta in 1942 and assesses the actual impact Malta had on the fight to deny supplies to Rommel's army in North Africa Illustrator(s): Zuber, Ted. Series: Twentieth-Century Battles. Num Pages: 288 pages, 24 b&w illus., 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1DSM; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253006035
ISBN
9780253006035
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 38.58

Paperback. Num Pages: Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 27. Weight in Grams: 540.
Publisher
Grub Street United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906502720
ISBN
9781906502720
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.87

Hardcover. Translation of: Jaerusalem 1900: la ville sainte aa l'aage des possibles. Translator(s): Tihanyi, Catherine; Weiss, Lys Ann. Num Pages: 224 pages, 22 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HBJF1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226188232
ISBN
9780226188232
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 39.88

paperback. Series: American Philological Association American Classical Studies. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLA; HD; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 10. Weight in Grams: 252.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Oxford University Press, U.S.A. United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781555409432
ISBN
9781555409432
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.04

Hardback. Pitts uses the trial as a lens through which to explore the inner workings of the court of Louis XIV, who rightly feared that Fouquet would expose the tawdry financial dealings of the king's late mentor and prime minister, Cardinal Mazarin. Num Pages: 240 pages, 8, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421418247
ISBN
9781421418247
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 42.94

Hardback. A history of an ancient Sahelian kingdom whose hinterland is now being laid waste by the Boko Haram insurgency. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; HBJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. Weight in Grams: 750.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849044745
ISBN
9781849044745
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.26
€ 75.08

paperback. "As good a second-by-second reconstruction of the assassination and its aftermath as I've read." Bryan Burrough, The New York Times Series: Movie Tie-in Editions. Num Pages: 688 pages, 81 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; JPWL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 211 x 32. Weight in Grams: 548.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Co.
Condition
New
SKU
9780393347333
ISBN
9780393347333
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.86

paperback. What did people make of death in the world of Atlantic slavery? This title intends to ask this question about Jamaica, the staggeringly profitable hub of the British Empire in America - and a human catastrophe. Num Pages: 368 pages, 18 halftones, 4 maps, 2 graphs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJ; HBJK; HBLH; JFSL3; JHBZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 562.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674057128
ISBN
9780674057128
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 27.68

Paperback. Based upon first-hand testimony, this is the story of how one German Division changed the course of the invasion - and almost the war. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 171 x 10. Weight in Grams: 736.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The History Press
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752471457
ISBN
9780752471457
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.75

Paperback.
Publisher
The History Press
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752498768
ISBN
9780752498768
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.69

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