Regional & national history
Results 26665 - 26688 of 33118
Regional & national history
Paperback. Newton's contributions to an understanding of the heavens and the earth are considered to be unparalleled. This very short introduction explains his scientific theories, and uses Newton's unpublished writings to paint a picture of an extremely complex man whose beliefs had a huge impact on Europe's political, intellectual, and religious landscape. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 144 pages, numerous line drawings and halftones. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBLL; PDX; PDZ; PH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 201 x 113 x 10. Weight in Grams: 124.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199298037
- ISBN
- 9780199298037
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.67
€ 11.99
€ 10.67
Paperback. Num Pages: 260 pages, 20 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; BTC; HBJK; WSJM; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 143 x 28. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Strategic Media Books United States
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781939521224
- ISBN
- 9781939521224
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.72
€ 26.99
€ 18.72
Paperback. The Afghan Way of War provides the Afghan perspective on war, from the 1830s to the present day, and in doing so uncovers the cultural codes that colour the Afghan spirit in warfare. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FCA; HBJF; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 219 x 22. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849043762
- ISBN
- 9781849043762
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 23.82
€ 25.99
€ 23.82
Paperback. Explains and evaluates the historic and political roots of conflicts in South Asia in a systematic and thematic way. Series: Contemporary Worlds. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FK; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861892577
- ISBN
- 9781861892577
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.15
€ 35.15
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Tafelberg Publishers Ltd South Africa
- Edition
- illustrated edition
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780624040682
- ISBN
- 9780624040682
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.21
€ 20.99
€ 19.21
Paperback. A timely and engaging look at the new China told through the stories of its ordinary people. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JMG; HBJF; HBLX; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 196 x 25. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444791082
- ISBN
- 9781444791082
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.72
€ 14.99
€ 11.72
Hardback. "Schorman demonstrates in this readable study of 1890s U.S. society how fashion-which he defines as clothing everyone wears and the symbolic system connected to its choice-reflects the cultural dynamics caused by rapid social change and remnants of past attitudes."-Choice Num Pages: 224 pages, 45 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JH; KCZ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812237283
- ISBN
- 9780812237283
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.39
€ 75.39
Paperback. Num Pages: 155 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Univ Tennessee Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781572331846
- ISBN
- 9781572331846
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.40
€ 23.99
€ 21.40
paperback. Anti-apartheid was one of the most significant international causes of the late twentieth century. The book provides the first detailed history of the emergence of anti-apartheid activism in Britain and the USA, tracing the network of individuals and groups who shaped the moral and political character of the movement. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJH; HBTB; HBTQ; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2010
- Number of pages
- 269
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349301485
- ISBN
- 9781349301485
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.84
€ 53.84
Paperback. BIC Classification: 1HBE; HBJF; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 140 x 25. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784536923
- ISBN
- 9781784536923
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 35.48
€ 42.99
€ 35.48
Paperback. Examines the shatter zone created in the colonial South through the interactions of American Indians and European colonists. This book assesses the shatter zone region as a whole and the varied ways in which Native peoples wrestled with an increasingly unstable world and worked to re-establish order. Editor(s): Ethridge, Robbie; Shuck-Hall, Sheri Marie. Num Pages: 536 pages, 1 photo, 15 maps, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KB; 1KBBS; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 717.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 536
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780803217591
- ISBN
- 9780803217591
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 32.72
€ 38.99
€ 32.72
Hardcover. Drawing on archive material and oral history, Robbie Lieberman illustrates how grassroots peace activism in the USA became associated with Communist subversion after World War II, enabling proponents of the Cold War to virtually silence the opposition until the early 1960s. Series: Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 b&w photographs, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; GTJ; HBJK; HBLW3; JPFC; JPS; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 585.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815628415
- ISBN
- 9780815628415
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.65
€ 44.99
€ 37.65
Paperback. The "British Isles" entered the 20th century as a single state, "Great Britain and Ireland", with a British Empire greater in extent and larger in population than the world had ever seen. This book explores the vast changes in the first 50 years of the new century. Editor(s): Robbins, Keith. Series: Short Oxford History of the British Isles. Num Pages: 302 pages, Maps and half-tones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLW. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 213 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 302
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198731962
- ISBN
- 9780198731962
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.28
€ 45.28
Nature's Northwest: The North Pacific Slope in the Twentieth Century (...
Robbins, William G., Barber, Katrine
Hardcover. Series: The Modern American West. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Arizona Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816528943
- ISBN
- 9780816528943
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.81€ 63.10
€ 68.81
€ 63.10
Hardcover. Editor(s): Friedeburg, Robert von. Num Pages: 321 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3H; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; HBG; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 561.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 321
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2004th Edition
- SKU
- V9781403934550
- ISBN
- 9781403934550
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.67
€ 155.67
Paperback. This is a study of England's biggest and best-known witch trial which took place in 1612, when ten witches were arraigned and hung in the village of Pendle in Lancashire. The book has essays by experts in history and English literature/Renaissance studies, with summaries to explain key points. Editor(s): Poole, Robert. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKENL; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB; HRQX5; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 244
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719062049
- ISBN
- 9780719062049
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.34
€ 32.34
Hardback. The work of a number of prominent British researchers has been brought together in this collection which focuses on the connections between politics, social aspirations and economics in explaining why the Bolsheviks were able to seize control and establish a communist regime. Editor(s): Service, Robert. Series: Studies in Russia and East Europe. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 415.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333469101
- ISBN
- 9780333469101
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.80
€ 122.80
Paperback. Highlights recent approaches to thinking about the Prairie West. These 13 essays are as diverse as the region itself. In their examination of different aspects of Prairie history, literature, climate, society, culture, and identity, they help to provide a new understanding of this place and of the complexities of its definition. Editor(s): Wardhaugh, Robert. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Manitoba Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780887556722
- ISBN
- 9780887556722
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.43
€ 35.99
€ 30.43
Paperback. Provides a perspective on Kennedy's assassination from Johnson's viewpoint, and penetrates deep into what it was like for him to assume a position of such power at a time of national crisis. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; BGH; HBJK; HBLW3; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 153 x 40. Weight in Grams: 938.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781847922953
- ISBN
- 9781847922953
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 21.07
€ 38.99
€ 21.07
Hardcover. Num Pages: 274 pages, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK; HBTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Nevada Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874177831
- ISBN
- 9780874177831
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.09€ 52.69
€ 57.09
€ 52.69
hardcover. Jazz Age Barcelona focuses the lenses of cultural studies and urban studies on the avant-garde character of the city during the cosmopolitan Jazz Age, delving into the cultural forces that flourished in Europe between the late 1910s and early 1930s. Series: Studies in Book & Print Culture. Num Pages: 288 pages, 49. BIC Classification: 1DS; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780802099372
- ISBN
- 9780802099372
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.89
€ 79.89
hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD. Dimension: 242 x 164. Weight in Grams: 613.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- OUP USA US
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780195050080
- ISBN
- 9780195050080
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.97
€ 53.97
Hardcover. A thoughtful retrospective of America's wars of the 20th century, this text examines the process of going to war and seeks patterns showing how and why the nation becomes involved in hostilities. Series: Foreign Relations and the Presidency. Num Pages: 128 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 313.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Texas A&M University Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780890969533
- ISBN
- 9780890969533
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 33.59
€ 38.99
€ 33.59
Paperback. The volume covers many of the most significant themes in pre-industrial Scottish society. Editor(s): Houston, Robert Allen; Whyte, Ian D. Num Pages: 312 pages, tables, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521891677
- ISBN
- 9780521891677
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.21
€ 53.21