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Regional & national history
Hardcover. This book provides a needed framework for understanding the rich history of German- and Czech-Jewish politics and culture in Bohemia and is a notable contribution to the historiography of Bohemian, Czechoslovak and central European Jewry. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVKC; HBJD; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 528. National Identity of the Jews of Bohemia. 296 pages, 25 figs and tables, 1 map. This book provides a needed framework for understanding the rich history of German- and Czech-Jewish politics and culture in Bohemia and is a notable contribution to the historiography of Bohemian, Czechoslovak and central European Jewry. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1DVKC; HBJD; HBTB; JFSR1. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 20. Weight: 528.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857454744
- ISBN
- 9780857454744
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.65
€ 152.65
Hardcover. The collapse of the Iron Curtain, the renationalization of eastern Europe and the simultaneous eastward expansion of the European Union have all impacted the way the past is remembered in today's eastern Europe. At the same time, memory in western Europe has changed significantly in recent years.. Editor(s): Langenbacher, Eric; Niven, Bill; Wittlinger, Ruth. Num Pages: 248 pages, 2 ills. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857455772
- ISBN
- 9780857455772
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.26
€ 152.26
Hardcover. This book analyzes the highly complex interconnections among the cultural-political concepts of various ideological groups and asks why the most artistically ambitious art forms were viewed as politically important by all cultured (or even semi-cultured) Germans in the period from 1933 to 1945.. Translator(s): Hill, Victoria W. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 536. Nazi Fascism, Inner Emigration, and Exile. 272 pages, Illustrations. This book analyzes the highly complex interconnections among the cultural-political concepts of various ideological groups and asks why the most artistically ambitious art forms were viewed as politically important by all cultured (or even semi-cultured) Germans in the period from 1933 to 1945. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Dimension: 238 x 157 x 20. Weight: 536. Translator(s): Hill, Victoria W.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857455901
- ISBN
- 9780857455901
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.65
€ 152.65
Hardcover. The essays in this volume examine sites of socialist escapes, such as beaches, camp sites, nightclubs, concerts, castles, cars, and soccer matches. The chapters explore the effectiveness of state efforts to engineer society through leisure, entertainment, and related forms of cultural programming and consumption.. Editor(s): Giustino, Cathleen M.; Plum, Catherine J.; Vari, Alexander. Num Pages: 296 pages, 12 figs. BIC Classification: 1DV; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 232 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857456694
- ISBN
- 9780857456694
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.65
€ 152.65
Hardcover. The period between 1917 and 1957, starting with the birth of the USSR and the American intervention in the First World War and ending with the Treaty of Rome, is of the utmost importance for contextualizing and understanding the intellectual origins of the European Community.. Editor(s): Hewitson, Mark; D'Auria, Matthew. Num Pages: 400 pages, 15 maps & ills. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857457271
- ISBN
- 9780857457271
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.72
€ 163.72
Hardcover. A few years after the Nazis came to power in Germany, an alliance of states and nationalistic movements formed, revolving around the German axis. Such an alliance, the states involved, and the interplay between their territorial aims and those of Germany during the interwar period and World War II are at the core of this volume. Editor(s): Cattaruzza, Marina; Dyroff, Stefan; Langewiesche, Dieter. Series: Austrian and Habsburg Studies. Num Pages: 226 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 414. Goals, Expectations, Practices. Series: Austrian and Habsburg Studies. 232 pages, 1 ill, 5 maps. Editor(s): Cattaruzza, Marina; Dyroff, Stefan; Langewiesche, Dieter. A few years after the Nazis came to power in Germany, an alliance of states and nationalistic movements formed, revolving around the German axis. Such an alliance, the states involved, and the interplay between their territorial aims and those of Germany during the interwar period and World War II are at the core of this volume. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 16. Weight: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857457387
- ISBN
- 9780857457387
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.06
€ 152.06
Hardcover. Blood awakens associations with ancient ideas. But we know very little about the historical representations of blood in Western cultures. The contributors attempt to follow the use of blood in mapping family and kinship relations in European culture from the ancient world to the present. Editor(s): Johnson, Christopher H.; Jussen, Bernhard; Sabean, David Warren; Teuscher, Simon. Num Pages: 372 pages, 6 ills, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 610. Matter and Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present. 372 pages, 6 ills, 1 table. Editor(s): Johnson, Christopher H.; Jussen, Bernhard; Sabean, David Warren; Teuscher, Simon. Blood awakens associations with ancient ideas. But we know very little about the historical representations of blood in Western cultures. The contributors attempt to follow the use of blood in mapping family and kinship relations in European culture from the ancient world to the present. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; JHMC. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 23. Weight: 610.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 372
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857457493
- ISBN
- 9780857457493
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.06
€ 164.06
Hardcover. While we often tend to think of the Third Reich as a zone of lawlessness, the Nazi dictatorship and its policies of persecution rested on a legal foundation set in place and maintained by judges, lawyers, and civil servants trained in the law. Editor(s): Steinweis, Alan E.; Rachlin, Robert D. Num Pages: 288 pages, 7 ills. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; LAQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857457806
- ISBN
- 9780857457806
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.93
€ 151.93
Hardcover. Using the framework of genocide, this volume analyzes the patterns of persecution of the Roma in Nazi-dominated Europe. Detailed case studies of France, Austria, Romania, Croatia, Ukraine, and Russia generate a critical mass of evidence that indicates criminal intent on the part of the Nazi regime to destroy the Roma as a distinct group. Editor(s): Weiss-Wendt, Anton. Series: War and Genocide. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857458421
- ISBN
- 9780857458421
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.91
€ 151.91
Hardcover. Despite the massive influx of Hollywood movies and films from other European countries after World War II, Austrian film continued to be hugely popular with Austrian and German audiences. By examining the decisive role that popular cinema played in the turbulent post-war era, this book provides unique insights into the reconstruction of a society. Series: Film Europa. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 ills. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 3JJPG; APFA; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857459459
- ISBN
- 9780857459459
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.59
€ 152.59
Hardcover. The author's sharply critical perspective reveals how this epistemology of alterity has kept Africa ensnared within colonial matrices of power, serving to justify external interventions in African affairs, including the interference with liberation struggles and disregard for African positions. Num Pages: 276 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1H; 3JJ; HBJH; HBLW3; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857459510
- ISBN
- 9780857459510
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.97
€ 151.97
Hardcover. This collection is the most up-to-date and comprehensive assessment of the political, social, and intellectual consequences of the efforts to regain German unity. Editor(s): Jarausch, Konrad Hugo. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJPR; 3JM; HBJD; HBLW3; HBLX; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857459725
- ISBN
- 9780857459725
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.67
€ 152.67
Hardcover. A systematic and rich account of how Albanians and Georgians view Europe, this book offers a fresh perspective on the vast East/West literature and, more broadly, on European intellectual, cultural, and political history. Num Pages: 244 pages, 13 ills, 1 table, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVUG; 1DVWA; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857459848
- ISBN
- 9780857459848
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.34
€ 152.34
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Crecy Publishing United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859791472
- ISBN
- 9780859791472
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.22
€ 21.22
Paperback. British Theatre and the Red Peril examines how communism was portrayed in plays in the British theatre between 1917 and 1945, and how at a time when the capitalist system seemed on the verge of collapse, the theatre played a significant part in communicating and manipulating political propaganda in order to influence audiences. Series: Exeter Performance Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJF; 3JJG; 3JJH; AN; HBJD1; HBLW; JFC; JPFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859896375
- ISBN
- 9780859896375
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.45
€ 41.45
Hardcover. For the first time, this book tells the 'lost' story of the 1930s Western. Written from a concern to understand Western films primarily as products of Hollywood's studio system, it recovers the context in which Westerns were produced, exhibited and viewed in the 1930s. Series: Exeter Studies in Film History. Num Pages: 272 pages, 26 halftones, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; APFA; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859896931
- ISBN
- 9780859896931
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.32
€ 134.32
Paperback. The nineteenth volume in the acclaimed paperback series .. the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation. Editor(s): Payton, Philip. Series: Cornish Studies. Num Pages: 252 pages, illustrated. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWC; HBJD1; JH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859898669
- ISBN
- 9780859898669
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.30
€ 43.30
Paperback. The twentieth volume in the acclaimed paperback series .. the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation. Editor(s): Payton, Philip. Series: Cornish Studies. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWC; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859898744
- ISBN
- 9780859898744
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.12
€ 43.12
Mission to Tibet: The Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Account of Fath...
Fr. Ippolito Desideri S.J.
Paperback. Num Pages: 696 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, frontispiece, figures. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; 3JF; HBJF; HBLL; HRCX7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1106.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Wisdom Publications
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780861716760
- ISBN
- 9780861716760
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 32.69
€ 35.99
€ 32.69
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Saqi Books
- Number of pages
- 199
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780863564031
- ISBN
- 9780863564031
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.77
€ 21.99
€ 19.77
Paperback. Honouring the Contract provides a novel perspective on the distinctive foundations of New Zealand's welfare state. It raises issues concerning modern-day concepts of citizenship as the welfare state comes under challenge. Num Pages: 296 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBN; HBJM; HBLW; HBLX; JKS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 565.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Victoria University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780864736345
- ISBN
- 9780864736345
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.31
€ 27.31
Hardcover. Num Pages: 432 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNF; HBJK; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 151 x 40. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- Liberty Fund Inc United States
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780865970366
- ISBN
- 9780865970366
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.07
€ 18.99
€ 15.07
Paperback. Num Pages: 743 pages, 15 illustrations, chronology, indexes. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; DQ; HBJK; HBLL; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1082.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Liberty Fund Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 743
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780865970601
- ISBN
- 9780865970601
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.52
€ 14.99
€ 12.52
Paperback. Editor(s): Richie, Daniel E. (Professor of English Literature, Bethel College, Kansas, USA). Num Pages: 361 pages, index. BIC Classification: 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTV; JPA; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Liberty Fund Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 361
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780865970991
- ISBN
- 9780865970991
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.52
€ 14.99
€ 12.52