Regional & national history
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Regional & national history
Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages, 12. BIC Classification: HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 158 x 31. Weight in Grams: 778.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 486
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801481789
- ISBN
- 9780801481789
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.12
€ 38.99
€ 35.12
Hardback. Yuval Ben-Bassat examines the petitions, including many previously unpublished ones, sent during the last decades of the Empire to the Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II. The petitions enable Ben-Bassat to explore Palestine's history in this formative period from a unique perspective, providing first-hand accounts. Num Pages: 331 pages, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF1; HBLL; HBLW; JPV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 139 x 32. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780764573
- ISBN
- 9781780764573
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.14€ 137.06
€ 154.14
€ 137.06
Hardcover. This study of urban and cultural geography shows how Dublin's iconography evolved before and after the creation of the Irish Free State. Yvonne Whelan argues that a shift has taken place from an intensely political iconography to one that is increasingly apolitical. Num Pages: 336 pages, 75 b&w photographs, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBR; AMVD; HBJD1; HBTP; JP; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 708.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Univ College Dublin Pr
- Edition
- illustrated edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781900621854
- ISBN
- 9781900621854
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.73€ 51.10
€ 55.73
€ 51.10
Paperback. Looks at the origins, meaning, and uses of Conjure - the African American tradition of healing and harming that evolved from African, European, and American elements - from the slavery period to well into the twentieth century. This work describes Conjure and other related traditions, such as Hoodoo and Rootworking. Num Pages: 232 pages, 8 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HRKT; HRQX; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520249882
- ISBN
- 9780520249882
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 25.86
€ 34.99
€ 25.86
Paperback. Hitler saw himself as a 'philosopher-leader', and astonishingly gained the support of many intellectuals of his time. In this book, the author explores Hitler's relationship with philosophers - those who supported his rise to power and those whose lives were wrecked by his regime. Num Pages: 328 pages, 16 b/w illustrations in 8-page insert. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 199 x 26. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300205473
- ISBN
- 9780300205473
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.14
€ 19.99
€ 16.14
Paperback. Num Pages: 550 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; GBCY; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 184 x 234 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1090.
- Publisher
- Visible Ink Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781578595075
- ISBN
- 9781578595075
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.59
€ 27.59
Paperback. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJWVM; BT; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 146 x 32. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845230371
- ISBN
- 9781845230371
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.98
€ 10.99
€ 9.98
Hardback. Argues that the impact of technology-enhanced mass death in the twentieth century has affected the future shape of religious thought. This book shows how key Jewish theologians faced the memory of Auschwitz by rejecting traditional theodicy, abandoning any attempt to justify and vindicate the relationship between God and catastrophic suffering. Num Pages: 204 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTZ1; HRJ; HRLB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 457.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780691059419
- ISBN
- 9780691059419
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.08€ 82.87
€ 109.08
€ 82.87
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, 36 color illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBEC; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 12. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764343155
- ISBN
- 9780764343155
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.71
€ 20.99
€ 15.71
Hardcover. Field Notes uncovers how Middle East studies as an academic field was built over the course of the 20th century--a process replete with contention, anxiety, dead ends, and consequences both unanticipated and unintended. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: HBJF1; HBJK; JNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 237 x 27. Weight in Grams: 686.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804798051
- ISBN
- 9780804798051
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.75
€ 138.75
Paperback. Field Notes uncovers how Middle East studies as an academic field was built over the course of the 20th century--a process replete with contention, anxiety, dead ends, and consequences both unanticipated and unintended. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: HBJF1; HBJK; JNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 230 x 25. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804799065
- ISBN
- 9780804799065
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.61
€ 33.99
€ 30.61
Paperback. Explores the mutually formative interactions between the Arab and Jewish working classes, labor movements, and worker-oriented political parties in Palestine just before and during the period of British colonial rule. This book avoids treating the Arab and Jewish communities as if they developed independently of each other. Num Pages: 443 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 3JJ; HBJF1; HBLW; JFF; JFSL1; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 29. Weight in Grams: 736.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 443
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition. Wraps.
- SKU
- V9780520204195
- ISBN
- 9780520204195
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.50
€ 45.99
€ 32.50
Hardback. This short, smart analysis will engage scholars across academia. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK; JHBC; MBDC; PDX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801894909
- ISBN
- 9780801894909
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 45.65
€ 54.99
€ 45.65
Paperback. The story of the Great Society Subway sheds light on the development of metropolitan Washington, postwar urban policy, and the promises and limits of rail transit in American cities. Num Pages: 376 pages, 66 black & white halftones, 9 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBBWS; HBJK; WGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 23. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781421415772
- ISBN
- 9781421415772
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.19
€ 33.99
€ 30.19
Paperback. Reveals the real heart and soul of the eldest Henry Wallace in his open letters to America's farm families and their children. This work features homespun tails that show that Wallace never lost sight of his roots even as he hobnobbed with US Presidents from Teddy Roosevelt to Woodrow Wilson, and anchored the prestigious Country Life Commission. Num Pages: 144 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BJ; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557534934
- ISBN
- 9781557534934
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.40
€ 20.99
€ 20.40
Paperback. Featuring a foreword by the eminent historian Anthony Grafton, this fascinating book draws upon a diverse range of sources-ancient histories, medieval theology, Renaissance art, literature, legal thought, and early modern mathematics and social science-to uncover the meaning of the past and its relationship to the present. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: HBA; HBJD; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 231 x 27. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421422787
- ISBN
- 9781421422787
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 34.28
€ 41.99
€ 34.28
paperback. Al Qaida, Taliban, Pakistani Deobandis - all of these groups are based in Pakistan, which continues to serve as regional hub for Islamist movements and their terrorist offshoots. This book investigates and explains gestation of interlinked radical Islamist networks of Pakistan, Central Asia, and Afghanistan, out of which Al Qaida emerged. Series: The CERI Series in Comparative Politics & International Studies. Num Pages: 92 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 1FKP; HBJF; HBLW3; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly. Dimension: 127 x 203 x 8. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 92
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231133654
- ISBN
- 9780231133654
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.88
€ 38.88
Paperback. This volume, written in both English and Arabic, tells the story of the Sphinx from ancient times to the present, focusing particularly on the task - first addressed in the second millennium BC - of preserving it. Num Pages: 64 pages, 47 colour photographs. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 1QDA; HBJH; HBLA; HDD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 6. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Publisher
- The American University in Cairo Press
- Number of pages
- 64
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789774244926
- ISBN
- 9789774244926
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.46
€ 18.46
Paperback. Tracks the ways in which human beings were defined in contrast to supernatural and demonic creatures during the time of the Scientific Revolution. Explaining that the word 'monster' is derived from the Latin for 'omen' or 'warning', the author begins with an exploration of the monster's early identity as a portent or messenger from God. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2ADT; DSBD; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 21. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822325680
- ISBN
- 9780822325680
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.31
€ 30.99
€ 27.31
Hardcover. .
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764351150
- ISBN
- 9780764351150
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.87€ 57.64
€ 75.87
€ 57.64
Hardback. Num Pages: 223 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, 17 colour illustrations, 47 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: HBJM; JFC; JFSR; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 509.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer Verlag, Singapore Singapore
- Number of pages
- 223
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789811016295
- ISBN
- 9789811016295
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.04
€ 129.04
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 960
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199226863
- ISBN
- 9780199226863
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.96
€ 69.96
Paperback. In this magisterial narrative, Zara Steiner traces the twisted road to war that began with Hitler's assumption of power in Germany. Covering a wide geographical canvas, from America to the Far East, Steiner provides an indispensable reassessment of the most disputed events of these tumultuous years. Series: Oxford History of Modern Europe. Num Pages: 1248 pages, 17 maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJG; HBG; HBJD; HBLW; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 68. Weight in Grams: 1498.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 1248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199676095
- ISBN
- 9780199676095
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.19
€ 43.19
Paperback. In 1937, Mexican workers were among the strikers and supporters beaten, arrested, and murdered by Chicago policemen in the now infamous Republic Steel Mill Strike. This book paints a multifaceted portrait of the complexities and contours of the Mexican American struggle for equality from the 1930s to the postwar era. Series: Politics and Society in Modern America. Num Pages: 400 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; KCF; KCZ; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 235 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691134024
- ISBN
- 9780691134024
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.15
€ 40.99
€ 29.15