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Paperback. Including more than 50 documents that span the history of slavery in America, African American Voices chronicles the widely varied experience of African American slaves. Editor(s): Mintz, Steven. Series: Uncovering the Past: Documentary Readers in American History. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 10. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
4th Edition
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405182676
ISBN
9781405182676
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 40.89

Hardback. China's efforts to modernize yielded a kleptocracy characterized by corruption, wealth inequality, and social tensions. Rejecting conventional platitudes about the resilience of Party rule, Minxin Pei gathers unambiguous evidence that beneath China's facade of ever-expanding prosperity and power lies a Leninist state in an advanced stage of decay. Num Pages: 316 pages, 10 tables. BIC Classification: HBJF; JPA; JPZ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 220 x 150 x 31. Weight in Grams: 586.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674737297
ISBN
9780674737297
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.20

Paperback. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472814210
ISBN
9781472814210
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.60

Paperback. As cousins, George V, Kaiser Wilhelm II and the last Tsar Nicholas II should have been friends - but they happened also to rule Europe's three most powerful states. This book offers an account of how three men who should have known better helped bring down an entire world is a gripping story of abdication, betrayal and murder. Num Pages: 624 pages, 2x16 insets. BIC Classification: 3JJC; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 41. Weight in Grams: 442.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141019987
ISBN
9780141019987
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.95

Hardback. The French Revolution invented the notion of the citizen, but it also invented the noncitizen--the person whose rights were nonexistent. The South American outpost of Guiana became a depository for these outcasts of the new French citizenry, and an experimental space for the exercise of new kinds of power and violence against marginal groups. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 296 pages, 2 maps, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 242 x 24. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674057548
ISBN
9780674057548
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.55
€ 55.34

Paperback. This fascinating book delves into these corners to examine all aspects of the gods, ritual customs, cult objects and sacred places of the ancient Celtic peoples. Num Pages: 256 pages, 16 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1D; 3D; HBJD; HBLA; HRKP2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 125 x 20. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780750934794
ISBN
9780750934794
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.46

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, 16 black & white plates. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 234 x 21. Weight in Grams: 430.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780750961837
ISBN
9780750961837
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.55

Paperback. Exploring the effects of military defeat and Nazi occupation on French articulations of gender in wartime France, this text uses such sources as governmental archives and propaganda to explore the ways in which Vichy politicians used gendered images to maintain political and social order. Series: Women in Culture and Society Series. Num Pages: 304 pages, 19 halftones. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBWQ; JFFK; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
First Printing
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226673509
ISBN
9780226673509
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 34.51

Paperback. Eyots and Aits Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.). BIC Classification: 1DBKES; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 250 x 12. Weight in Grams: 634.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752462134
ISBN
9780752462134
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.91

Hardcover. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVWR; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 150 x 26. Weight in Grams: 588. 416 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DVWR; HBJD; HBLW3. Dimension: 223 x 150 x 26. Weight: 588.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
East European Monographs
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780880336581
ISBN
9780880336581
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.92
€ 53.52

Paperback. The Middle Ages (c.500-1500) includes a thousand years of European history. In this Very Short Introduction Miri Rubin tells the story of the times through the people and their lifestyles. Including stories of kingship and Christian salvation, agriculture and trade, Rubin demonstrates the remarkable nature and legacy of the Middle Ages. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 160 pages, 10 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; 3H; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 122 x 9. Weight in Grams: 126.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199697298
ISBN
9780199697298
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. "Rubin raises . . . deep and disturbing questions about the nature of persecution and mass hysteria, and not least about the ways in which Christian beliefs have caused the deaths of Jews. . . . This is a courageous book, with implications far beyond medieval history."--Michael Clanchy, Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 280 pages, 30 illus. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780812218800
ISBN
9780812218800
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.99

paperback. There is no more haunting, compelling period in Britain's history than the later middle ages. This account brings the reader a long lost world, a strange, Catholic, rural country of monks, peasants, knights and merchants, almost perpetually at war, but continues to define so much of England's national myth. Num Pages: 400 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Penguin Books
Condition
New
SKU
9780140148251
ISBN
9780140148251
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.46

paperback. A paperback edition of Miri Rubin's highly successful study of the meaning of the eucharist, c. 1150-1500. Num Pages: 452 pages, 19 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; 3JB; HBJD; HBLC; HRCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 147 x 26. Weight in Grams: 664.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780521438056
ISBN
9780521438056
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.99
€ 31.58

Paperback. Exploring everything from fantasy architecture to neo-tribal sports and from Emirati dress codes to neo-Bedouin poetry contests, this title explodes the idea that the tribal is primitive and argues instead that it is an elite, exclusive, racist, and modern instrument for branding nations and shaping Gulf citizenship and identity. Num Pages: 224 pages, 19 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FBX; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJF; HBLW3; HBLX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520280106
ISBN
9780520280106
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.81

Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 7. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJPG; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 235 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780801477485
ISBN
9780801477485
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.34

Paperback. Early Modern Europe was teeming with impostors. Identity theft was only one form of misrepresentation: royal pretenders, envoys from imaginary lands, religious dissimulators, cross-dressers, false Gypsies - all these caused deep anxiety, leading authorities to invent increasingly sophisticated means for unmasking deception. Num Pages: 291 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
291
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349361380
ISBN
9781349361380
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 132.67

Paperback. This is a study of Arab writers such as Ghada al-Samman, Hanan al-Shaikh, Emily Nasrallah and Etel Adnan. It presents a constructive literary approach to the ravages of the civil war in the Lebanon. The ways in which women's consciousness is awakened in terms of female liberation is a theme. Num Pages: 228 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1FBL; DSBH; HBJF1; HBW; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Syracuse University Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815603771
ISBN
9780815603771
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.57

Hardback. The soldiers who occupied Germany after the Second World War were not only liberators: they also brought with them a new threat, as women throughout the country became victims of sexual violence. Translator(s): Somers, Nick. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; HBJD; HBLW; JFFE2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 328 x 30. Weight in Grams: 530.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509511204
ISBN
9781509511204
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.36
€ 50.31

Paperback. Nero's personality and crimes have always intrigued historians and writers of fiction. This book offers a fascinating insight into the sensational life and troubled times of the Emperor Nero. Series: Roman Imperial Biographies. Num Pages: 332 pages, illustrations geneal. table, map. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; BGH; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415214643
ISBN
9780415214643
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.02

hardcover. Provides fresh perspectives on colonialism, tourism, imagery, and the anthropology of place Series: Culture, Place, and Nature. Num Pages: 288 pages, 40 illus. BIC Classification: 1F; GTB; HBJM; JHM; KNSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295991016
ISBN
9780295991016
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.40

Hardback. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 328 pages, 9 b/w photographs, 4 line illustrations, 1 map, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; JFFH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 151 x 26. Weight in Grams: 586.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520276734
ISBN
9780520276734
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.42
€ 46.48

Hardback. Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Num Pages: 454 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVWYV; HBJD; HBTB; HRQX5; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 217 x 31. Weight in Grams: 714.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137372499
ISBN
9781137372499
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.12

Paperback. Translator(s): Floor, Willem M. Num Pages: 337 pages, May 2008. BIC Classification: 1FBN; HBJF1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 278 x 212 x 18. Weight in Grams: 816.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Mage Publishers United States
Number of pages
337
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933823232
ISBN
9781933823232
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 32.26

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