Regional & national history
Results 11241 - 11260 of 25712
Regional & national history
hardcover. In what is today Malaysia, the British established George Town on Penang Island in 1786 and encouraged Chinese merchants and laborers to settle there. This book analyzes the relations between the Chinese and British and between the Chinese and Malays, focusing on the role of temples and religion in organizing Chinese social life. Num Pages: 336 pages, 26 illustrations, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1FMM; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLL; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804744867
- ISBN
- 9780804744867
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.25
€ 87.25
Paperback. This title explores the growing importance of prisons, both lay and ecclesiastical, in western Europe between 1000 and 1300. Included is a discussion of conditions within prisons, the means of release open to some captives, and writing in or about prison. Editor(s): Stacey, Robert. Series: Medieval Culture & Society. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB; HBTS; JKVP1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333647158
- ISBN
- 9780333647158
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.11
€ 58.11
Hardcover. This study traces the story of how Jacob Mordecai and his family, German-American Orthodox Jews, adopted the Anglo-Irish enlightened pedagogical system developed by Richard Lovell Edgeworth and his daughter Maria. The text includes the complete diary of Rachel Mordecai Lazarus. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JFC; JFSJ1; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 603.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820322520
- ISBN
- 9780820322520
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.71
€ 63.71
Paperback. Jean Flori's Richard Coeur de Lion was written to mark the eighth centenary of the death of the "knightly king". The book is a tour de force that provides the reader with a reappraisal of Richard's life as well as a study of the myth and reality of Richard's image as the personification of medieval chivalry. Num Pages: 544 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; BGH; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 690.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748620470
- ISBN
- 9780748620470
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 37.73
€ 42.99
€ 37.73
Hardback. Jean Flori's Richard Coeur de Lion was written to mark the eighth centenary of the death of the "knightly king". The book is a tour de force that provides the reader with a reappraisal of Richard's life as well as a study of the myth and reality of Richard's image as the personification of medieval chivalry. Num Pages: 544 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; BGH; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 820.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748620463
- ISBN
- 9780748620463
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 176.30€ 164.39
€ 176.30
€ 164.39
paperback. The chronicles of Froissart are one of the greatest contemporary records of 14th-century England and France. Depicting the great age of Anglo-French rivalry from the deposition of Edwards II to the downfall of Richard II, Froissart portrays the deeds of knights in battle at Sluys, Crecy, Calais and Poitiers during the Hundred Years War. Editor(s): Brereton, Geoffrey. Translator(s): Brereton, Geoffrey. Num Pages: 496 pages, map, index. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1978
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140442007
- ISBN
- 9780140442007
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.49
€ 17.99
€ 13.49
Paperback. An exploration of the way in which the Northern Democrats of the mid-19th century lived their public lives. The author begins with an explanation of how people became Democrats, and goes on to discuss topics including the Democratic ideology, and their mordant rascism and partisan behaviour. Series: North's Civil War. Num Pages: 367 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; JPFM; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 367
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823218653
- ISBN
- 9780823218653
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.73
€ 41.99
€ 37.73
Paperback. The chronicles of Jean le Bel are one of the most important sources for the beginning of the Hundred Years' War. This is the first English translation of a work written from eyewitness accounts and personal experience. Translator(s): Bryant, Nigel. Num Pages: 294 pages, 7 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3H; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783270224
- ISBN
- 9781783270224
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99
€ 36.99
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843836940
- ISBN
- 9781843836940
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.64
€ 116.64
Paperback. This work represents, in many ways, the French Enlightenment. It traces the history of intellectual progress from the Renaissance to 1751 and includes a revision of Diderot's "Prospectus", and an introduction to the "philosophes". Translator(s): Schwab, Richard N. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: GBA; HBJD; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 205 x 135 x 13. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226134765
- ISBN
- 9780226134765
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.09
€ 32.99
€ 26.09
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Casemate Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612004556
- ISBN
- 9781612004556
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 25.21
€ 27.99
€ 25.21
Paperback. This book traces 25 turbulent years (1821-46) in the Pacific Northwest's fur trade through the experiences of Archibald McDonald, a trader, cartographer and literate observer of his times. Series: The Pioneers of British Columbia. Num Pages: 308 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBCB; 3JH; BGB; BJ; HBJK; HBLL; KCCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774808330
- ISBN
- 9780774808330
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.36
€ 36.99
€ 34.36
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780500292075
- ISBN
- 9780500292075
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.28
€ 17.99
€ 14.28
Paperback. Features a story of ethnic cleansing in California and the Pacific Northwest when the first Chinese Americans were rounded up and purged from more than three hundred communities by lawless citizens and duplicitous politicians. Num Pages: 432 pages, 79 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520256941
- ISBN
- 9780520256941
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.97
€ 33.99
€ 24.97
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 236 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEJ; 1KBBEP; 3JD; 3JF; HBJK; HBTS; HRCC97; JFFJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691630878
- ISBN
- 9780691630878
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.19
€ 123.19
Hardcover. Lenape Country is a sweeping narrative history of Lenape Indian encounters with European settlers in the Delaware Valley in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 264 pages, 24 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812246476
- ISBN
- 9780812246476
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.53
€ 122.53
Hardback. A concise, general history of the crusades from the beginnings to the fall of the last strongholds in 1291. Translator(s): Birrell, Jean. Series: Cambridge Medieval Textbooks. Num Pages: 536 pages, 19 maps 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1D; HBG; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 33. Weight in Grams: 823.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 536
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521623698
- ISBN
- 9780521623698
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.56
€ 130.56
Paperback. Tells the world what it means to be a Saudi woman today. This book shows how with advances in education and access to work, Saudi women are breaking through the barriers; they are becoming doctors, social workers, business owners and are even managing to push at the boundaries of public life. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBXS; BGR; HBJF1; JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 113 x 178 x 35. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857502865
- ISBN
- 9780857502865
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.31
€ 11.99
€ 10.31
Paperback. Tells the true story of a young woman caught up in Saddam Hussein's genocide of the Kurdish people of Iraq. Num Pages: 432 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBXS; BG; HBJF1; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 107 x 28. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Publisher
- Bantam Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780553818147
- ISBN
- 9780553818147
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.89
€ 11.99
€ 10.89
Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; HBJD1; JFD; KNTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Profile Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781252727
- ISBN
- 9781781252727
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.29
€ 17.99
€ 13.29