Regional & national history
Results 4201 - 4224 of 27891
Regional & national history
Paperback. This book is the first full length history of the all-female National Federation of Women Workers (1906-21) led by the gifted and charismatic Mary Macarthur. Its focus is on the people who made up this pioneering union - the organisers, activists and members who built branches and struggled to improve the lives of Britain's working women. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349441525
- ISBN
- 9781349441525
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.75
€ 61.75
Paperback. The story of the brave and visionary men and women who fought to raise the age of consent. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8pp colour and b/w plate section. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFFE1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 23. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Publisher
- Lion Hudson
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745956992
- ISBN
- 9780745956992
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.42
€ 14.99
€ 12.42
Paperback. A traveller's guide filled with anecdotes, maps and descriptions of the often-surprising connections between English and American culture. Num Pages: 295 pages, col. Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1KBB; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 161 x 26. Weight in Grams: 942.
- Publisher
- D Giles Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904832386
- ISBN
- 9781904832386
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.38
€ 26.99
€ 19.38
Paperback. Discover which prehistoric mammals would once have lived by the River Thames. Take a detailed look at the crystal palace of the Great Exhibition and an early map of the underground. This title offers a perspective on one of the world's most exciting cities. Editor(s): Hall, Simon. Num Pages: 352 pages, Colour Throughout. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 275 x 202 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- 9780141011592
- ISBN
- 9780141011592
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 25.82
€ 38.99
€ 25.82
Paperback. In the early 19th century, Lowell, Massachusetts, was widely studied as a model for capitalist industrial development. It was one of the first cities in the US to experience the ravages of deindustrialization. This book explores how history and culture have been used to remake Lowell and how historians have played a crucial role in that process. Num Pages: 304 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; HBJK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781558495470
- ISBN
- 9781558495470
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.61
€ 36.61
paperback. Num Pages: 560 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780142437506
- ISBN
- 9780142437506
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.47
€ 18.99
€ 17.47
Paperback. Num Pages: 488 pages, 110 b/w + 12 pp. col. illus. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJD; HBLW; HBLX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 488
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300219401
- ISBN
- 9780300219401
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.42
€ 33.99
€ 24.42
Hardback. Fragile, gritty, and vital to an extraordinary degree, St Petersburg is one of the world's most alluring cities - a place in which the past is at once ubiquitous and inescapably controversial. This book shows how creative engagement with the past has always been fundamental to St Petersburg's residents. Num Pages: 416 pages, 80 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJD; HBLW; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 236 x 43. Weight in Grams: 974.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300169188
- ISBN
- 9780300169188
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.74€ 49.96
€ 64.74
€ 49.96
Hardcover. The volume explores how the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars were experienced, perceived and narrated by contemporaries in Britain and Ireland, drawing on an extensive range of personal testimonies by soldiers, sailors and civilians to shed new light on the social and cultural history of the period and the history of warfare more broadly. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; HBWH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230275430
- ISBN
- 9780230275430
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.41
€ 119.41
Hardback. Series: The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 513.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742550278
- ISBN
- 9780742550278
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.44
€ 74.44
Hardback. Continues: A Kineano remembers: from the King Ranch to the White House. 2006. Series: Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest. Num Pages: 352 pages, 40 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BM; HBJK; JNB; JPR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Texas Tech Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896729681
- ISBN
- 9780896729681
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 28.72
€ 30.99
€ 28.72
Paperback. A bestselling historian on a crucial episode in French history. Num Pages: 208 pages, 8, 2 maps. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 138.
- Publisher
- Phoenix London
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781842127599
- ISBN
- 9781842127599
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.10
€ 11.99
€ 10.10
Paperback. December 1941, a crack team of U.S. Navy salvage divers were hurriedly flown to Oahu from the mainland. The divers have been given a Herculean task; to rescue the sailors and Marines trapped below, and resurrect the pride of the Pacific fleet. For the first time, the chief diver of the Pearl Harbor salvage operations tells the whole story. Num Pages: 240 pages, 20 photos. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; 3JJH; HBJK; HBLW; HBWQ; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Naval Institute Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781591147244
- ISBN
- 9781591147244
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.94
€ 26.99
€ 23.94
Paperback. Num Pages: 544 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white halftones, maps. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 31. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271058719
- ISBN
- 9780271058719
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.40
€ 32.99
€ 25.40
Hardback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 18 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVH; 3JJH; HBJD; HBWQ; JFSR1; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 744.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271017396
- ISBN
- 9780271017396
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04€ 56.47
€ 67.04
€ 56.47
Paperback. The story of France through her people, culture and the great events that shaped her. Series: Brief Histories. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Revised, Updated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472139511
- ISBN
- 9781472139511
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.20
€ 17.99
€ 13.20
paperback. The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America. The impact on Anglo-Irish relations was incalculable, the immediate human cost almost inconceivable. This book provides a definitive account. Num Pages: 528 pages, 1 map; portraits. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Publication date
- 1991
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140145151
- ISBN
- 9780140145151
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.82
€ 4.82
paperback. The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America. The impact on Anglo-Irish relations was incalculable, the immediate human cost almost inconceivable. This book provides a definitive account. Num Pages: 528 pages, 1 map; portraits. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 370. From the library of Ivor Browne and June Levine. Good clean copy. Covers sunned to spine and showing light shelf wear. Lightly toned, text is crisp and clear remains a very good copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0031433
- ISBN
- 9780140145151
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 14.00
€ 14.00
Paperback. Traces the origins, development, and consolidation of patriotic cultures in the United States from the latter half of the nineteenth century up to World War I, a period in which the country emerged as a modern nation-state. Num Pages: 366 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; JFC; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- a
- Number of pages
- 366
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691070520
- ISBN
- 9780691070520
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.97€ 42.04
€ 52.97
€ 42.04
Paperback. Cecelia Ferrazzi's inquisitorial autobiography and the transcripts of her preceding testimony are here transcribed and translated into English, allowing the reader an insight into an unfamiliar sector of the past. Editor(s): Schutte, Anne Jacobson (Professor of History, University of Virginia, USA). Translator(s): Schutte, Anne Jacobson (Professor of History, University of Virginia, USA). Series: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Num Pages: 134 pages, 1 halftone, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DST; BGHA; HBJD; HBLH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 168 x 10. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 134
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226244471
- ISBN
- 9780226244471
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.22
€ 17.99
€ 15.22
Paperback. Examines the politics of a 19th c. peasant revolt in Peru, looking at the organization and practice of government by the rebels to examine what a largely illiterate population understood by terms such as "nation" and showing the rebellion's significance in constructing the Peruvian State. Num Pages: 360 pages, 24 b&w photos, 7 illus. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBG; HBJK; HBLL; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822334415
- ISBN
- 9780822334415
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.39
€ 32.99
€ 29.39
Paperback. This concise text explores the spread of settler colonies within the British Empire over the course of the nineteenth century, specifically those in New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, and Australia. Series: International Themes & Issues. Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442607521
- ISBN
- 9781442607521
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.39
€ 31.99
€ 29.39
Hardback. New investigation into and interpretation of the role of textiles and clothing accessories in the performance and materialisation of ritual in Greek sanctuaries of the 7th-1st centuries BC Num Pages: 384 pages, b/w and colour. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HBJD; HBLA1; HDDK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 181 x 249 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1260.
- Publisher
- Oxbow Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785703553
- ISBN
- 9781785703553
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.50
€ 65.50
Paperback. The fall of the Wall to the present day - Berlin's turbulent history and path to reunification as witnessed by one of Europe's most distinguished authors. Translator(s): Watkinson, Laura. Num Pages: 352 pages, 80 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJPR; 3JM; HBJD; HBLW3; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Publisher
- MacLehose Press
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848662919
- ISBN
- 9781848662919
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.65
€ 14.99
€ 11.65