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Regional & national history
Hardback. A biography of Franklin D Murphy (1916-994). It delivers the story of how Murphy, as chancellor of UCLA and later as chief executive of the "Times Mirror" media empire, was able to influence academia, the media, and cultural foundations to reshape a fundamentally provincial city. It also brings to light the influence of LA's powerful families. Num Pages: 495 pages, 33 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: BG; HBJK; HBLW; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 495
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520224957
- ISBN
- 9780520224957
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.37€ 64.66
€ 84.37
€ 64.66
Paperback. In the 18th century shotgun weddings were not unusual, but in most cases it wasn't the bride that was holding the gun. So began the stormy marriage between Lord and Lady Grange, a marriage which was to end with Lady Grange's death on the Isle of Skye after 13 years in exile. Num Pages: 192 pages, black and white. BIC Classification: 1DBKSHQ; 3JF; BTC; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 195 x 16. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Publisher
- Luath Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906817657
- ISBN
- 9781906817657
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.23
€ 11.99
€ 10.23
Paperback. The powerful image that the kings of Egypt presented to their subjects was so awe inspiring and captivating that people today are still impressed by the compelling stories and imposing statuary of the Pharaoh. This title reveals that the reality of Egyptian kingship was often much more complex. Series: A Journey through Time. Num Pages: 96 pages, 96 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; HBJH; HBLA; HDDG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 199 x 10. Weight in Grams: 354. King of Egypt. Series: A Journey through Time. 96 pages, 96 colour illustrations. The powerful image that the kings of Egypt presented to their subjects was so awe inspiring and captivating that people today are still impressed by the compelling stories and imposing statuary of the Pharaoh. This title reveals that the reality of Egyptian kingship was often much more complex. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1QDAE; HBJH; HBLA; HDDG. Dimension: 201 x 199 x 10. Weight: 354.
- Publisher
- British Museum Press
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714119984
- ISBN
- 9780714119984
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.37
€ 13.99
€ 13.37
Paperback. Ancient Rome and Modern America explores the vital role the narratives and images of Rome have played in America's understanding of itself and its history. Series: Classical Receptions. Num Pages: 312 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1QDAR; HBJD; HBJK; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 172 x 247 x 16. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405139342
- ISBN
- 9781405139342
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 50.93
€ 50.99
€ 50.93
paperback. This edition of "The Dawn of a New Era in Syria" captures the country at a difficult time in its history. Syria was still waiting to discover how it was to be governed following the war - the country was on the brink of a new political future. Series: Folios Archive Library. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBS; 3JJF; HBJF1; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 200 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Garnet Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781859641675
- ISBN
- 9781859641675
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.08
€ 21.08
Hardback. Renaissance humanists believed that the origins of peoples could reveal crucial facts about their modern political character. The author explores what happened when European historians turned to study the political history of a faith other than their own. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 370 pages, 8 halftones, 1 map. BIC Classification: HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 370
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674026568
- ISBN
- 9780674026568
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.37€ 70.43
€ 78.37
€ 70.43
hardcover. Margaret O'Callaghan has given us a subtle, compressed reinterpretation of a crucial period in Anglo-Irish relations. Every scholar of the period is in her debt.Paul Bew, The Irish Times Series: Irish history. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; HBJD1; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 541.
- Publisher
- Cork University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Edition
- illustrated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781859180013
- ISBN
- 9781859180013
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 35.16
€ 49.99
€ 35.16
Hardback. What is the magic formula for turning a place into a high-tech capital? How can a city or region become a high-tech powerhouse like Silicon Valley? This book examines why high-tech development became so economically important late in the twentieth century, and why its magic formula of people, jobs, and capital has been so difficult to replicate. Series: Politics and Society in Modern America. Num Pages: 320 pages, 10 halftones. 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691117164
- ISBN
- 9780691117164
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.30€ 54.95
€ 71.30
€ 54.95
Paperback. From the era of the industrial factory to the age of the microchip, Pivotal Tuesdays explores four twentieth-century elections-1912, 1932, 1968, and 1992-using the election of the American president as a lens through which to explore the broader sweep of the nation's social, economic, and political history. Num Pages: 256 pages, 30 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTB; JPHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780812223934
- ISBN
- 9780812223934
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.60
€ 32.99
€ 29.60
Paperback. In a small village beside a reed-lined lake in the Russian north, a cluster of farmers has lived for centuries - in the time of tsars and feudal landlords; Bolsheviks and civil wars; collectivization and socialism; perestroika and open markets. This book discusses the place and the power of social memory. Series: Woodrow Wilson Center Press. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 603.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253218018
- ISBN
- 9780253218018
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.37
€ 26.99
€ 25.37
Hardback. A pioneering study of the social aspects of industrialisation in a developing country in tropical Africa. Series: African Studies. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; HBG; HBJH; HBTK; JHBL. Weight in Grams: 553. Ex Libris with usual markings. Fine copy in dustwrapper, DW with some minor nicks and bumps but remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1972
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0013801
- ISBN
- 9780521082969
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1MKPN; HBJM; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 171 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1054.
- Publisher
- Otago University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781877578953
- ISBN
- 9781877578953
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.66
€ 30.99
€ 22.66
Hardback. To be one of 'the middling sort' in urban England in the late seventeenth or eighteenth century was to live a life tied, one way or another, to the world of commerce. This study offers a view of middling society during the hundred years that separated the Glorious Revolution from the factory age. Num Pages: 358 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB; JFSC; JFSJ; JHBK; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 30. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First edition.
- Number of pages
- 358
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520202603
- ISBN
- 9780520202603
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.98€ 48.91
€ 62.98
€ 48.91
Paperback. Margaret Randall explores the Cuban Revolution's impact on the outside world, tracing Cuba's international outreach in healthcare, disaster relief, education, literature, art, liberation struggles, and sports to show how this outreach is a fundamental characteristic of the Revolution and of Cuban society. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJC; GTF; HBJK; KCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822369042
- ISBN
- 9780822369042
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.40
€ 30.99
€ 27.40
Hardback. Margaret Randall explores the Cuban Revolution's impact on the outside world, tracing Cuba's international outreach in healthcare, disaster relief, education, literature, art, liberation struggles, and sports to show how this outreach is a fundamental characteristic of the Revolution and of Cuban society. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJC; GTF; HBJK; KCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822363842
- ISBN
- 9780822363842
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.28
€ 110.28
Paperback. William Paulet was the ultimate courtier. Though born a commoner, by his death he was the senior peer in England and, as Lord High Treasurer, he held one of the most influential positions at court. This biography of William gives insight into everyday life, from etiquette and bathing, to court politics and the monarchs themselves. Num Pages: 256 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; BGH; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Publisher
- The History Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752470108
- ISBN
- 9780752470108
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.54
€ 17.99
€ 16.54
Paperback. From Hellgill to Bridge End is a comparative study of the effects of local, regional and national change on nine parishes in the Upper Eden Valley in north Westmorland during the Victorian years. Num Pages: 392 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 172 x 20. Weight in Grams: 800.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Hertfordshire Publications
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781902806327
- ISBN
- 9781902806327
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.48
€ 25.99
€ 22.48
Paperback. Examines the Cambodian revolution before and after Pol Pot and attempts to explain the reasons for its ultimate failure. Num Pages: 387 pages, Map. BIC Classification: 1FMC; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; GTB; HBJF; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 142 x 22. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP Thailand
- Number of pages
- 387
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789749575345
- ISBN
- 9789749575345
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.20
€ 26.99
€ 25.20
Hardcover. Margaret Stieg Dalton offers a comprehensive study of the German Catholic cultural movement that lasted from the late 19th century until 1933. Her book examines the encounter of clergy and lay Catholics with both high culture and popular culture in Germany. Num Pages: 488 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBLL; HRCC7; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 166 x 33. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268025663
- ISBN
- 9780268025663
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.98
€ 133.98
Paperback. Margaret Stieg Dalton offers a comprehensive study of the German Catholic cultural movement that lasted from the late 19th century until 1933. Her book examines the encounter of clergy and lay Catholics with both high culture and popular culture in Germany Num Pages: 488 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBLL; HRCC7; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 166 x 28. Weight in Grams: 603.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268025670
- ISBN
- 9780268025670
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 42.06
€ 46.99
€ 42.06