Regional & national history
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Regional & national history
Hardback. This book focuses on the city of St Petersburg, the capital of the Russian empire from the early eighteenth century until the fall of the Romanov dynasty in 1917. It uses the Russian court as a prism through which to view the various cultural changes that were introduced in the city during the eighteenth century. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137311597
- ISBN
- 9781137311597
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.30
€ 65.30
hardcover. Escape from the Staple Trap is a powerful critique of the dominant trend in Canadian political economy since the 1970s. Num Pages: 304 pages, 33 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 1QFG; GTF; HBJK; JP; KCA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802099419
- ISBN
- 9780802099419
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.55
€ 75.55
Hardback.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752463049
- ISBN
- 9780752463049
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.91
€ 33.99
€ 28.91
Paperback.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752453323
- ISBN
- 9780752453323
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.91
€ 33.99
€ 28.91
Paperback. Offers an account of how the tide was turned against the Nazis by the Allies in the Second World War. This book reveals the role of the problem-solvers and middle-men who made it happen - like Major-General Perry Hobart, who invented the 'funny tanks' which flattened the D-Day beaches. Num Pages: 464 pages, 16 pp b/w inset. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141036090
- ISBN
- 9780141036090
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.41
€ 17.99
€ 13.41
Paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBTM; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 33. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141983820
- ISBN
- 9780141983820
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.47
€ 17.99
€ 13.47
Paperback. This is a lively, new textbook for US students on British history from the Stuart Restoration of 1660 to the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837. Its central theme is how Britain became the first modern nation state. Num Pages: 444 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1QDB; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 174 x 24. Weight in Grams: 772.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405134453
- ISBN
- 9781405134453
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.63
€ 43.63
This is a lively, new textbook for US students on British history from the Stuart Restoration of 1660 to the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837. Its central theme is how Britain became the first modern nation state. Num Pages: 448 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1QDB; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 256 x 178 x 30. Weight in Grams: 932.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405134446
- ISBN
- 9781405134446
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 162.13
€ 162.13
Hardback. On a winter night in 1743, a local magistrate was stabbed to death in the churchyard of Rye by an angry butcher. Why did this grueome crime happen? What does it reveal about the political, economic, and cultural patterns that existed in this small English port town? Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESX; 3JD; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 555.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300099850
- ISBN
- 9780300099850
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.69
€ 74.69
Paperback. In The Chicken and the Quetzal Paul Kockelman tells the cultural history of a village in Guatemala's highland cloud forests and its relation to conservation movements and eco-tourism to create a theoretical framework for understanding the entanglement of values as they are created, interpreted, and reconfigured. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLC; HBJK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 252 x 13. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360728
- ISBN
- 9780822360728
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.20
€ 26.99
€ 25.20
Hardback. In The Chicken and the Quetzal Paul Kockelman tells the cultural history of a village in Guatemala's highland cloud forests and its relation to conservation movements and eco-tourism to create a theoretical framework for understanding the entanglement of values as they are created, interpreted, and reconfigured. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLC; HBJK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360568
- ISBN
- 9780822360568
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.36
€ 107.36
Paperback. In the sixth millennium BC, settlers on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers created the world's first cities. In doing so, they wrote the opening chapter of the history of human civilization as we know it. Paul Kriwaczek tells their extraordinary story. Num Pages: 320 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1QDAM; 3D; HBJF1; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 25. Weight in Grams: 330. Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization. 320 pages, ill. In the sixth millennium BC, settlers on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers created the world's first cities. In doing so, they wrote the opening chapter of the history of human civilization as we know it. Paul Kriwaczek tells their extraordinary story. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1QDAM; 3D; HBJF1; HBLA. Dimension: 198 x 133 x 25. Weight: 326.
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848871571
- ISBN
- 9781848871571
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.97
€ 17.99
€ 12.97
Hardback. A study of US imperialism that argues America's leaders have chosen to go to war for influence and power ever since the declaration of independence. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745327655
- ISBN
- 9780745327655
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.01€ 83.19
€ 101.01
€ 83.19
Paperback. Ultimately, Alternative Contact theorizes a more dynamic indigeneity that articulates new or overlooked connections among peoples, histories, cultures, and critical discourses within a global context. Editor(s): Lai, Paul; Smith, Lindsey Claire. Series: A Special Issue of American Quarterly. Num Pages: 400 pages, 19, 19 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: HBJK; JFC; JFFS; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 25. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421400600
- ISBN
- 9781421400600
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 33.01
€ 38.99
€ 33.01
Paperback. First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Paul Langford's Very Short Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Britain spans from the aftermath of the Revolution of 1688 to Pitt the Younger's defeat at attempted parliamentary reform. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 128 pages, 13 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 113 x 8. Weight in Grams: 106.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780192853998
- ISBN
- 9780192853998
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.81
€ 11.99
€ 10.81
paperback. Drawing on research, this volume covers the history of England between the accession of George II and the loss of the American colonies. It reveals simmering discontent in which evangelical enthusiasm clashed with scientific rationalism, aristocratic government with popular insubordination, industrial and imperial expansion with plebian poverty. Series: New Oxford History of England. Num Pages: 840 pages, line drawings, tables. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 840
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780192852533
- ISBN
- 9780192852533
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 77.25
€ 77.25
Paperback. As such, Mixing Races offers a unique perspective on how contentious debates taking place on college campuses reflected radical shifts in race relations in the larger society. Series: Johns Hopkins Introductory Studies in the History of Science. Num Pages: 136 pages, 14, 14 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: HBJK; JFC; PDX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 9. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801898136
- ISBN
- 9780801898136
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.04
€ 32.04
Paperback. Werner Heisenberg's task was to build an atomic bomb for Nazi Germany. What precisely did Heisenberg know about the physics of the atomic bomb? How deep was his loyalty to the German government during the Third Reich? Assuming that he had been able to build a bomb, would he have been willing? This book answers these questions. Num Pages: 372 pages, 1 black-and-white photograph, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DFG; BG; HBJD; HBLW; HBT; JWMN; PDX; PHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 227 x 23. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 372
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520229266
- ISBN
- 9780520229266
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.38
€ 38.99
€ 28.38
Paperback. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBTV; JFSC; JPF; KNXB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 130. .
- Publisher
- Haymarket Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781608466825
- ISBN
- 9781608466825
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.00
€ 23.99
€ 22.00
Paperback. Num Pages: 386 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; HBLW; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 31. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Haymarket Books United States
- Number of pages
- 386
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781608464647
- ISBN
- 9781608464647
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 28.43
€ 32.99
€ 28.43
Hardback. On October 23, 1956, a popular uprising against Soviet rule swept through Hungary like a force of nature, only to be mercilessly crushed by Soviet tanks twelve days later. This book presents an eyewitness account and an history of the uprising in Hungary that heralded the future liberation of Eastern Europe. Translator(s): Major, Ann. Num Pages: 312 pages, 14 halftones. 2 maps. BIC Classification: HBJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 166 x 25. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691132822
- ISBN
- 9780691132822
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.15
€ 30.99
€ 22.15
Hardcover. A memoir by Paul Lendvai, a Hungarian Jew who was arrested by the Nazis as a teenager. He became a communist activist in post-war Budapest, was imprisoned by the communists, and fled to Vienna after the 1956 Revolution. He became a leading journalist and commentator on eastern Europe. Num Pages: 256 pages, b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; BG; HBJD; HBLW3; JPFC; JPVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 24. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Publisher
- I. B. Tauris
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- 1st English Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781860642685
- ISBN
- 9781860642685
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.42€ 54.35
€ 59.42
€ 54.35
Paperback. Tells the story of how the Hungarians, despite a string of catastrophes and their linguistic and cultural isolation, have survived as a nation-state. This book traces Hungarian politics, culture, economics, and emotions from the Magyars' dramatic entry into the Carpathian Basin in 896 to the brink of the post-Cold War era. Translator(s): Decker, Jefferson. Num Pages: 608 pages, 55 black-and-white plates. 9 maps. BIC Classification: HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 37. Weight in Grams: 828.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2020
- Publisher
- The University Press Group Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 608
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691119694
- ISBN
- 9780691119694
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.60
€ 52.60
Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 46, 46 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; KNPR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 166 x 25. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801452864
- ISBN
- 9780801452864
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.12
€ 52.12