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Regional & national history

Paperback. An introduction to Indonesia s history, culture, and politics, which brings together more than 150 selections, including journalists articles, explorers chronicles, photographs, poetry, stories, cartoons, drawings, letters, and speeches. Editor(s): Hellwig, Tineke; Tagliacozzo, Eric. Series: The World Readers. Num Pages: 488 pages, 46 photos, 2 tables, 1 map, 11 figures. BIC Classification: 1FMN; GTB; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 702.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822344247
ISBN
9780822344247
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.93

By tracing the varied role of women as producers and distributors of welfare during the period 1780-1930 in both metropolitan and provincial contexts, this collection argues that philanthropy predated, shaped and co-existed with the formation of the "classical" welfare state. It highlights the bias of gender and class in social work. Editor(s): Jordansson, Birgitta; Vammen, Tinne. Num Pages: 288 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DN; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 249 x 174 x 23. Weight in Grams: 814.
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University Press of Southern Denmark Denmark
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9788778383396
ISBN
9788778383396
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 23.51

Hardcover. Includes text in English and Spanish. This work is the translation of Titu Cusi Yupangui's "Instrucion" - an account of the Conquest by the last indigenous ruler of the Inca empire. It features student-oriented annotation, facing-page Spanish, and an Introduction that sets this source in its cultural, historical, and literary contexts. Num Pages: 224 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; HBJK; HBLC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
180
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872208292
ISBN
9780872208292
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.50
€ 48.30

Paperback. Includes text in English and Spanish. This work is the translation of Titu Cusi Yupangui's "Instrucion" - an account of the Conquest by the last indigenous ruler of the Inca empire. It features student-oriented annotation, facing-page Spanish, and an Introduction that sets this source in its cultural, historical, and literary contexts. Num Pages: 224 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; HBJK; HBLC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 12. Weight in Grams: 312.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Edition
Bilingual
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872208285
ISBN
9780872208285
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 21.48

Paperback. An account of survival is told by a Budapest lawyer who secured fake Christian identities for himself, his wife and his two children following the invasion of the Germans in March 1944. Translator(s): Tonkin, Humphrey. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8pp b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DVH; BGHA; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 242.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841951805
ISBN
9781841951805
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.54

Paperback. Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, and Doll, an African slave he acquired in the late 1790s. Over the next thirty years, Shoe Boots and Doll lived together as master and slave and also as lifelong partners who, with their children and grandchildren, experienced key events in American history. Series: American Crossroads. Num Pages: 416 pages, 45 h/t, 1 line, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 580.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520285637
ISBN
9780520285637
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 23.25

Hardcover. Editor(s): Tlusty, B.Ann. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JB; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 150 x 25. Weight in Grams: 520.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603848428
ISBN
9781603848428
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.22
€ 42.22

Paperback. Editor(s): Tlusty, B.Ann. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JB; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 406.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603848411
ISBN
9781603848411
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 17.05

Hardback. How fin-de-siecle Paris became the locus for the most intense revival of magical practices and doctrines since the Renaissance Num Pages: 528 pages, Includes 16-page color insert and 160 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; VXW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 308 x 37. Weight in Grams: 882.
Publisher
Inner Traditions Bear and Company
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781620555453
ISBN
9781620555453
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 22.11

Hardback. This work covers cultural change in a Chinese city following the Manchu conquest of 1644. Yangzhou, at the intersection of the Grand Canal and the Yangzi river, is known as the site of human and physical devastation during the conquest and as a vibrant commercial centre during the 18th century. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; JFC; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804744850
ISBN
9780804744850
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.26

Hardback. Based on oral history interviews, photographs, letters, minutes, diaries, and journals of white and African-American Mennonites, this fascinating book further illuminates the role of race in modern American religion. Series: Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. Num Pages: 392 pages, 30, 30 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: HBJK; HRA; HRCC9; JHB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 31. Weight in Grams: 654.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801897009
ISBN
9780801897009
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.61
€ 62.86

Hardback. Series: American Institutions and Society. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781501707452
ISBN
9781501707452
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 32.84

Paperback. Covers the five centuries preceding the construction of the Great Pyramid at Giza. This book examines the background to that great achievement, the mechanisms by which it was accomplished, and the character of life in the Nile valley during the first 500 years of Pharaonic rule. Num Pages: 440 pages, 11 maps and 17 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; HBJF1; HBJH; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 678.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
440
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415260114
ISBN
9780415260114
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.23

paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JD; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLH; HBLL; HBTB; HRCC9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 236 x 28. Weight in Grams: 708.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300101140
ISBN
9780300101140
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 27.04

Paperback. Series: Sport and Society. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJK; JPVN; WSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 412.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252081699
ISBN
9780252081699
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.20

Hardback. Provides an alternative history of environmental power and the making of the modern Saudi state. This title demonstrates how vital the exploitation of nature and the roles of science and global experts were to the consolidation of political authority in the desert. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1FBX; HBJF1; JFFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 149 x 25. Weight in Grams: 518.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674049857
ISBN
9780674049857
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.13

Paperback. An insightful new biography of Joseph Goebbels, Propaganda Minister of the 'Third Reich' and one of the most important and troubling figures of the twentieth century. The first account to use all of Goebbels' surviving diaries, it sheds new light on his personality, private life and political convictions, as well as his relationship with Hitler. Num Pages: 424 pages, 46, 41 black & white illustrations, 5 maps. BIC Classification: BGH; HBJD; HBWQ; JPFQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 650.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
420
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230278660
ISBN
9780230278660
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.14
€ 58.72

Paperback. A brilliantly readable, beautifully illustrated general history of ancient Egypt, from the builders of the first pyramids to Cleopatra Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; 3D; HBJH; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 47. Weight in Grams: 540. 672 pages. As the world's first nation-state, the history of Ancient Egypt is above all the story of the attempt to unite a disparate realm and defend it against hostile forces from within and without. This title reveals Ancient Egypt in all its complexity. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1QDAE; 3D; HBJH; HBLA. Dimension: 196 x 130 x 47. Weight: 538.
Edition
1st Edition
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
672
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408810026
ISBN
9781408810026
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.33

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBEN; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408843567
ISBN
9781408843567
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.33

paperback. Presents a critique of the ancien regime, with its venality, oppression and inequality, yet acknowledges the reforms introduced under Louis XVI, and claiming that the post-Revolution state was in many ways as tyrannical as that of the King. This book raises questions about liberty, nationalism and justice. Translator(s): Bevan, Gerald. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 248.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780141441641
ISBN
9780141441641
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. An analysis of the career of Candido Rondon providing an avenue to deconstruct recent Brazilian historiography on nation building, indigenous people, and state action Num Pages: 248 pages, 23 illus., 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; HBAH; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5665 x 3963 x 19. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822332497
ISBN
9780822332497
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.40

Paperback. Num Pages: 215 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBJK; HBLW; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3810 x 16. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
215
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822311676
ISBN
9780822311676
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.29

Hardback. Series: Asia Pacific Modern. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1FPK; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 634.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520276550
ISBN
9780520276550
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.70

Paperback. A book-length study about Seoul during the colonial period, that challenges conventional nationalist paradigms by revealing the intersection of Korean and Japanese history in this important capital. Series: Asia Pacific Modern. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 263 x 26. Weight in Grams: 450.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520293151
ISBN
9780520293151
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.27

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