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Regional & national history

Paperback. Presents a social history of one of South Africa's oldest townships. This title covers the period from the township's founding in 1912, when it was perceived as a peri-urban out-post, through to its growth as a centre of black working class life in the heart of Johannesburg, to the post-apartheid era. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: HBJH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 200 x 30. Weight in Grams: 885.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Wits University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781868144808
ISBN
9781868144808
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 38.54

Paperback. Answers questions such as: What is Thabo Mbeki's legacy for patterns of inclusion and exclusion based on race, class and gender? How, if at all, did his presidency reshape relations within the state, between the state and the ruling party and between the state and society? How did he reposition South Africa on the continent and in the world? Editor(s): Glaser, Daryl. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JMC; HBJH; HBLX; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 121 x 22. Weight in Grams: 316.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Wits University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781868145027
ISBN
9781868145027
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.09

Paperback. Ekurhuleni - The making of an urban region is the first academic work to provide an historical account and explanation of the development of this extended region to the east of Johannesburg since its origins at the end of the nineteenth century. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrated. BIC Classification: HBJH; JFSG; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 200 x 240 x 18. Weight in Grams: 595.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Wits University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781868145430
ISBN
9781868145430
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.09

paperback. Tracing the history of New York transit workers from the Depression to the 1966 transit strike, this work shows how, through collective action, the men and women who operated the world's largest transit system brought about a revolution in their daily lives. It is for those interested in New York City's subways, politics, history, and labor. Series: Labor in Crisis. Num Pages: 456 pages, 1 figure, 16 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJH; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; KNG; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 29. Weight in Grams: 735.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Temple University Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781566399227
ISBN
9781566399227
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 37.34

paperback. Editor(s): Lydon, Jane. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 16. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS) Australia
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781922059598
ISBN
9781922059598
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.60

paperback. Num Pages: 172 pages, 24 black & white halftones, 4 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1FMNB; HBJF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 10. Weight in Grams: 264.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Number of pages
172
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780415546744
ISBN
9780415546744
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.74

Paperback. Illustrator(s): Peter, Juliet. Num Pages: 170 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1MBN; 3JJH; HBJM; HBLW3; HBWQ; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 258 x 190 x 11. Weight in Grams: 518.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Otago University Press New Zealand
Number of pages
170
Condition
New
SKU
V9781877133947
ISBN
9781877133947
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.76

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Savas Beatie United States
Edition
First Trade Paper
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781932714319
ISBN
9781932714319
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.86

Paperback. Num Pages: 94 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DDN; 1DFG; BG; HBJD; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 9. Weight in Grams: 122.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Aspekt,The Netherlands Netherlands
Number of pages
94
Condition
New
SKU
V9789059110960
ISBN
9789059110960
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.66

paperback. Drawing on a range of contemporary evidence, Stephen Constantine studies the nature and causes of unemployment in Britain during the 1920s and 1930s, and analyzes the failure of successive inter-war governments to make a constructive response. Series: Seminar Studies in History. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJG; HBJD1; HBLW; JFFA. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 215 x 144 x 8. Weight in Grams: 174.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1980
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780582352322
ISBN
9780582352322
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 47.27

paperback. Series: Encounter Broadsides. Num Pages: 48 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HBJF1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 120 x 5. Weight in Grams: 71.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Encounter Books United States
Edition
Americantion ed.
Number of pages
48
Condition
New
SKU
V9781594036200
ISBN
9781594036200
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.73

Paperback. 'If the 1960s were a wild weekend and the 1980s a hectic day at the office, the 1970s were a long Sunday evening in winter, with cold leftovers for supper and a power cut expected at any moment.'A jaw-droppingly brilliant account of how the seventies was defined by mass paranoia told with Francis Wheen's wonderfully acute sense of the absurd. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JJPL; HBJD1; HBJK; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 23. Weight in Grams: 252.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
9780007244287
ISBN
9780007244287
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.14

paperback. Features a story of saints and spies, of fishermen and pirates, traders and marauders - and of how their wild and daring journeys across the North Sea built the world we know. Num Pages: 400 pages, 8pp colour inset. BIC Classification: 1QSF; HBJD; HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 35. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780241963838
ISBN
9780241963838
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 13.91

paperback. In late eighteenth-century Britain a handful of men brought about the greatest transformation in human history. This book tells the story of those decades, the moments of inspiration, the rivalries, skulduggery and death threats, and the tireless perseverance of the visionaries who made it all happen. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 233 x 30. Weight in Grams: 532.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Pimlico
Condition
New
SKU
9781845952129
ISBN
9781845952129
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.99
€ 17.36

paperback. What makes someone willing to die, not for a nation, but for a language? In the 1950s and 1960s, southern India saw a wave of dramatic suicides in the name of the Telugu language. This title traces the colonial-era changes in knowledge and practice linked to language that lay behind these events. Series: Contemporary Indian Studies. Num Pages: 304 pages, 6 b&w photos, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJPG; CFB; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253220691
ISBN
9780253220691
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.59

Paperback. Combines the methods of anthropology and cultural history to examine the civic culture of Barcelona between 1888 and 1939 and shows how artists like Picasso, Miro, Casals and anarchists, and other political activists shaped and were influenced by the artistic and political culture of Barcelona. Num Pages: 280 pages, 10 colour plates, 25 b&w illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JH; 3JJ; ACX; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 217 x 13. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520084407
ISBN
9780520084407
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 32.14

paperback. Series: Collected Works of Peter Kropotkin. Num Pages: 610 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLL; JPSN1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 36. Weight in Grams: 748.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Black Rose Books Canada
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
610
Condition
New
SKU
V9780921689386
ISBN
9780921689386
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 34.12

Paperback. This work is an analysis of the ideology, causal patterns, and means employed in the Nazi genocide against the Jews. It argues that the events of the genocide compel reconsideration of such moral concepts as individual and group responsibility, and the role of knowledge in ethical decisions. Series: Religion, Theology and the Holocaust. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Syracuse University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815629931
ISBN
9780815629931
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.73

Paperback. Editor(s): Gehring, Charles T.; Starna, William A. Num Pages: 130 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; 3JD; HBJK; HBLH; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 177.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815633228
ISBN
9780815633228
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.25

Paperback. Dear Dov, You must really be surprised to be receiving a letter from a girl you don't know.. Dov Indig was killed on October 7, 1973, in a holding action on the Golan Heights in Israel during the Yom Kippur War Num Pages: 190 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJF1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 209 x 12. Weight in Grams: 266.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Gefen Publishing House Israel
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
SKU
V9789652296016
ISBN
9789652296016
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.85

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