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Hardback. Contributes to the study of death and burial in late antique and early medieval society. Tracing the history of Merovingian archaeology, this book exposes biases and prejudices that have colored previous interpretations of these burial sites and assesses what contemporary archaeology can tell us about the Frankish kingdoms. Series: Transformation of the Classical Heritage. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14 b/w photographs, 4 line illustrations, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 3F; HBJD; HBLC; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520232440
- ISBN
- 9780520232440
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Condition: New
€ 84.37€ 64.45
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Hardback. Analyzes how and why museums emerged in the late-nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. This work argues that, rather than directly emulating post-Enlightenment museums of Western Europe, Ottoman elites produced categories of collection and modes of display appropriate to framing a new identity for the empire in the modern era. Num Pages: 280 pages, 43 b/w photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1F; 1QDT; 3JH; GM; GTB; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 161 x 24. Weight in Grams: 602. Museums, Archaeology and the Visualization of History in the Late Ottoman Empire. Series: Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Book S. 280 pages, 43 b&w photographs, 2 maps. Analyzes how and why museums emerged in the late-nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. This work argues that, rather than directly emulating post-Enlightenment museums of Western Europe, Ottoman elites produced categories of collection and modes of display appropriate to framing a new identity for the empire in the modern era. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1F; 1QDT; 3JH; GM; GTB; HBJF; HBLL. Dimension: 231 x 161 x 24. Weight: 602.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520233355
- ISBN
- 9780520233355
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Condition: New
€ 84.37€ 64.45
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Hardback. The most feared man in China, Dai Li, was chief of Chiang Kai-shek's secret service during WWII. This work traces Dai's rise from obscurity as a rural hooligan and Green Gang blood-brother to commander of the paramilitary units of the Blue Shirts and of the Military Statistics Bureau: the world's largest spy and counterespionage organization. Num Pages: 672 pages, 25 b/w photographs, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJH; GTB; HBJF; HBLW; JPSH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1092.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 672
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520234079
- ISBN
- 9780520234079
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Condition: New
€ 84.37€ 64.99
€ 84.37
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Paperback. Explains how an Arab landscape, physical and human, was transformed into an Israeli, Jewish state. This book discusses the process by which Hebrew nomenclature replaced the Arabic names of more than 9,000 natural features, villages, and ruins in Eretz Israel/Palestine (his name for the Holy Land, thereby defining it as a land of Jews and Arabs). Translator(s): Kaufman-Lacusta, Maxine. Num Pages: 376 pages, 23 b/w photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; 3JJP; HBJF1; HBLW3; JFSR1; RGCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 226 x 24. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520234222
- ISBN
- 9780520234222
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
€ 40.99
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Paperback. This volume presents an exploration of the origins of nationalism and cultural identity in China, tracing the ways in which a large, early modern empire of Eurasia, the Qing, incorporated neighbouring, but disparate, political traditions into a new style of emperorship. Num Pages: 417 pages, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLL; JFC; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 417
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520234246
- ISBN
- 9780520234246
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
€ 40.99
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Paperback. Sir Ronald Syme became the first historian of the twentieth century to place Sallust - whom Tacitus called the most brilliant Roman historian - in his social, political, and literary context. This is a foreword of Syme that delivers biographical essays of Sir Ronald Syme in English. Series: Sather Classical Lectures. Num Pages: 433 pages, 1 b&w photograph. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 1QDH; 3D; HBAH; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 26. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 433
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520234796
- ISBN
- 9780520234796
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 29.91
€ 41.99
€ 29.91
Paperback. Michael Meeker combines anthropological and historical methods to examine the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic in a major region of the country, the eastern Black Sea coast. Num Pages: 438 pages, 13 b/w photographs, 2 maps, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 1FB; 1QDT; HBJF1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 438
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520234826
- ISBN
- 9780520234826
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.89
€ 52.99
€ 37.89
Paperback. Legal thought in America has always focused on the rules rather than on the persons affected by the rules. This text aims to restore the balance by taking a person-centred view of the law. The author shows how even great jurists have chosen the "masks of the law" over persons. Num Pages: 227 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBT; LN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 227
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520235236
- ISBN
- 9780520235236
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.98
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Paperback. Num Pages: 397 pages, 19 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; HBJF1; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 397
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520235465
- ISBN
- 9780520235465
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€ 41.99€ 30.22
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Hardback. Presents a study of representations of Jews in eighteenth-century France - both by Gentiles and Jews themselves. This work offers fresh perspectives on the Enlightenment and French Revolution, on Jewish history, and on the nature of racism and intolerance. Series: Studies on the History of Society & Culture. Num Pages: 339 pages, 1 b/w illustration. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 302 x 32. Weight in Grams: 698.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 339
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520235571
- ISBN
- 9780520235571
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Condition: New
€ 84.37€ 64.45
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Paperback. This work examines the history of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1898-1956) and the Republic of Sudan that followed in order to understand how colonialism worked on the ground, affected local cultures, influenced the rise of nationalism, and shaped the postcolonial nation-state. Series: Colonialisms S. Num Pages: 245 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1HBS; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBJH; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ; HBTR; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520235595
- ISBN
- 9780520235595
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€ 40.99€ 29.19
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Paperback. Lawyer, educator, novelist, radio and television scriptwriter, film director and screenwriter, wartime intelligence operative, and full-time radical romantic, Abraham Lincoln Polonsky was blacklisted in Hollywood for refusing to be an informer. This biography helps us understand the relationship between art and politics in American culture. Num Pages: 285 pages, 18 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; BGF; HBJK; HBLW3; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520236721
- ISBN
- 9780520236721
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
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Paperback. Drawing on the literature, especially the historiography, composed by the members of the elite who conducted Roman foreign affairs, this book reevaluates the roots, motivations, and goals of Roman imperial foreign policy especially as that policy related to warfare. Num Pages: 280 pages, 5 line figures, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBG; HBJD; HBLA; JWD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 230 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520236837
- ISBN
- 9780520236837
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.24
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Paperback. History, political philosophy, and constitutional law were born in Athens in the space of a single generation - the generation that lived through the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE). This text provides an examination of this democracy transformed by war. Num Pages: 537 pages, 14 b/w illustrations, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 525
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520236851
- ISBN
- 9780520236851
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.37
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Hardback. Presents history of the Romanian Communist Party. This title traces the origins of the once-tiny, clandestine revolutionary organization in the 1920s through the years of national power from 1944 to 1989 to the post-1989 metamorphoses of its members. Series: Society and Culture in East-Central Europe S. Num Pages: 395 pages, 21 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DVWR; HBJD; HBLW; JPFC; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 167 x 33. Weight in Grams: 720.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 395
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520237476
- ISBN
- 9780520237476
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Condition: New
€ 84.37€ 64.66
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Hardback. Demonstrates that Polybius' work performs a literary and political balancing act of heretofore unappreciated subtlety and interest. This book shows how Polybius contrived to tailor his historiography for multiple audiences, comprising his fellow Greeks, whose freedom Rome had usurped in his own generation, and the Roman conquerors. Series: Hellenistic Culture and Society. Num Pages: 343 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 32. Weight in Grams: 684.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 343
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520237643
- ISBN
- 9780520237643
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Condition: New
€ 84.37€ 64.45
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Paperback. Amid the turbulence of political assassinations, the civil rights struggle, and antiwar protests, American society was experiencing growing affluence and profound cultural change during the 1960s. This text looks at the way in which the film industry interpreted the era. Series: History of the American Cinema S. Num Pages: 359 pages, 112 b/w photographs, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; APFA; HBJK; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 251 x 176 x 21. Weight in Grams: 632. 1960-1969. Series: History of the American Cinema S. 359 pages, 112 b&w photographs, 6 tables. Amid the turbulence of political assassinations, the civil rights struggle, and antiwar protests, American society was experiencing growing affluence and profound cultural change during the 1960s. This text looks at the way in which the film industry interpreted the era. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; APFA; HBJK; HBLW3. Dimension: 251 x 176 x 21. Weight: 632.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 359
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520238046
- ISBN
- 9780520238046
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Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 34.35
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Paperback. A revisionist history of the origins of Egyptian nationalism and the revolution of 1919, focusing on gender and the family. Num Pages: 302 pages, 10 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBJH; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520240230
- ISBN
- 9780520240230
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.24
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Paperback. A work on Jewish communities in the medieval Mediterranean world that offers an unparalleled view of how people lived, traveled, worshiped, and conducted their economic and social affairs. Editor(s): Lassner, Jacob. Num Pages: 525 pages, 1 b/w photograph, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBG; HBJF1; HBLC; JFC; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 31. Weight in Grams: 754.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- Rev Ed
- Number of pages
- 525
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520240599
- ISBN
- 9780520240599
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 30.01
€ 41.99
€ 30.01
Paperback. Focusing on the era from Napoleon's conquest and the discovery of the Rosetta Stone to the outbreak of World War I, this book examines the evolution of Egyptian archaeology in the context of Western imperialism and nascent Egyptian nationalism. Num Pages: 424 pages, 46 b/w photographs, 2 maps, 14 tables. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JH; 3JJC; GM; HBJH; HBLA; HDDG; JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 224 x 27. Weight in Grams: 682.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520240698
- ISBN
- 9780520240698
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.73
€ 36.99
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Paperback. Num Pages: 273 pages, 10 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: APFA; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFFE2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 273
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520241756
- ISBN
- 9780520241756
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.15
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Paperback. Examining the conflict in Iraq, this work reveals the government's assault on the constitutional freedoms of the American media during Operation Desert Storm. Num Pages: 318 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; HBJF; HBLW; JFMD; JPVN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 207 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition,Revised
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520242319
- ISBN
- 9780520242319
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 23.95
€ 32.99
€ 23.95
Paperback. How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that swept across modern China? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? How did the citizens of Shanghai cope with the epic upheavals - revolution, war, and again revolution - that shook their lives? In this carefully researched study, Hanchao Lu weaves rich. Num Pages: 473 pages, 36 b/w photographs, 2 maps, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 473
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520243781
- ISBN
- 9780520243781
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Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 31.98
€ 44.99
€ 31.98
Hardback. What do archaeological excavations in Annapolis, Maryland, reveal about daily life in the city's history? Interpreting the results of one of the most innovative projects in American archaeology, this title speaks powerfully to the struggle for liberty among African Americans and the poor. Num Pages: 320 pages, 32 b/w photographs, 17 line illustrations, 13 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBFM; HBJK; HBLH; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 237 x 31. Weight in Grams: 656.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520244504
- ISBN
- 9780520244504
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.36€ 50.63
€ 65.36
€ 50.63