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Regional & national history
paperback. Series: Voices of resistance. Num Pages: 350 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FM; BG; HBJF; JF; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 146 x 27. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Monthly Review Press United States
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780853458234
- ISBN
- 9780853458234
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.37
€ 15.99
€ 14.37
Paperback. This book offers a fresh analysis of the role of exemplary violence and its psychological impact. It considers the role emotions such as shame and disgust play in facilitating a climate of extreme brutality and what lessons we can learn from the case of Sierra Leone in understanding the atrocities of other contemporary conflicts. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFDE; HBJH; JWX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 216 x 24. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849044226
- ISBN
- 9781849044226
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.67
€ 36.99
€ 33.67
hardcover. This work is a history of the Rock Island Barracks, one of the Union's largest camps for Confederate prisoners. The testimony of its most famous (albeit fictional) inmate Ashley Wilkes of "Gone with the Wind" fame, has helped to seal its harsh reputation. Num Pages: 250 pages, illustrations, photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HBWJ; JKVP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 603.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780875802671
- ISBN
- 9780875802671
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 45.85
€ 45.99
€ 45.85
Hardback. Argues persuasively that the size, scope, and intensity of black resistance in the Second Seminole War makes it the largest sustained slave insurrection in American history. Series: The New Black Studies Series. Num Pages: 264 pages, 32 black and white photographs, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBFL; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252036910
- ISBN
- 9780252036910
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.40
€ 117.40
Paperback. A study of China from the 1800s. It focuses on China's problems of development - the decay and collapse of the Chinese Empire, its failure to recover in the first half of the 20th-century, and its emergence in world affairs since the Communist Party Revolution of 1949. Examining economic growth, it offers an account of the Tiananmen Incident. Series: Short Oxford History of the Modern World. Num Pages: 576 pages, Maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; GTB; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; JP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 31. Weight in Grams: 802.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 572
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198700692
- ISBN
- 9780198700692
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.19
€ 56.19
Hardback. In a process that will seem tragically familiar to modern-day readers, this book charts the origins and progress of two generations of seemingly endless violence and political instability, set against the backdrop of Yucatan, Mexico. Num Pages: 488 pages, 2 tables, 16 illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 865. Weight in Grams: 794.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804760485
- ISBN
- 9780804760485
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.39
€ 96.39
Paperback. Translator(s): Putnam, S. Series: Phoenix Books. Num Pages: 562 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 132 x 30. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1957
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 2003 Reprint
- Number of pages
- 562
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226124445
- ISBN
- 9780226124445
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.29€ 45.53
€ 53.29
€ 45.53
Paperback. Translator(s): Sharkey, Paul; Neuhouser, Joshua. Num Pages: 426 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLS; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTV; JPFB; KNXB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 333 x 142 x 43. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publisher
- AK Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Translation
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849352215
- ISBN
- 9781849352215
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.88
€ 23.99
€ 21.88
Hardback. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 272 pages, 13 illus. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812238983
- ISBN
- 9780812238983
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.22
€ 71.22
The largest diary in confederate history. Editor(s): Robertson, James I. Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 43. Weight in Grams: 825.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas United States
- Number of pages
- 608
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700621248
- ISBN
- 9780700621248
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.08
€ 107.08
The largest diary in confederate history. Editor(s): Robertson, James I. Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 825.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700621231
- ISBN
- 9780700621231
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.34
€ 106.34
Paperback. Series: Irish Narratives S. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; BG; DNF; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 128 x 0. Weight in Grams: 120.
- Publisher
- Cork University Press
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- REPRINT
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781859181812
- ISBN
- 9781859181812
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.64
€ 10.64
Hardback. Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs. Num Pages: 296 pages, 8, 2 black & white line drawings, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBW; JPS; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801452918
- ISBN
- 9780801452918
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.32
€ 52.32
Paperback. Editor(s): Woolfson, J. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349429561
- ISBN
- 9781349429561
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 123.36
€ 123.36
Paperback. Examines the rationale and ideals behind Park's philosophy of national development Editor(s): Kim, Hyung-A; Sorensen, Clark W. Series: Center for Korean Studies Publication. Num Pages: 224 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPKS; GTB; HBJF; HBLW3; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295991405
- ISBN
- 9780295991405
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.60
€ 46.99
€ 41.60
Hardback. For decades the history of the US Military Tribunals at Nuremberg (NMT) has been eclipsed by the first Nuremberg trial - the International Military Tribunal or IMT. The first comprehensive examination of the NMT, this volume brings together diverse perspectives from several fields to explore the impact and legacy of the NMT. Editor(s): Priemel, Kim C.; Stiller, Alexa. Series: War and Genocide. Num Pages: 348 pages, 14 ills. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 594. Transtional Justice, Trial Narratives, and Historiography. Series: War and Genocide. 348 pages, 14 ills. Editor(s): Priemel, Kim C.; Stiller, Alexa. For decades the history of the US Military Tribunals at Nuremberg (NMT) has been eclipsed by the first Nuremberg trial - the International Military Tribunal or IMT. The first comprehensive examination of the NMT, this volume brings together diverse perspectives from several fields to explore the impact and legacy of the NMT. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Dimension: 237 x 158 x 22. Weight: 594.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 348
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857455307
- ISBN
- 9780857455307
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 166.94
€ 166.94
This book examines a decade of extraordinary ferment in ideas, and the battles about those ideas out of which emerged the Britain of the late-twentieth century. Editor(s): Black, Lawrence; Pemberton, Hugh; Thane, Pat. Num Pages: 288 pages, Line drawings, black & white|Tables, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPL; HBJD1; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 164 x 28. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719088148
- ISBN
- 9780719088148
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.11
€ 163.11
Paperback. Acclaimed writer and historian Noel Malcolm presents his sensational discovery of a new work by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679): a propaganda pamphlet on behalf of the Habsburg side in the Thirty Years' War, translated by Hobbes from a Latin original. Malcolm's book explores a fascinating episode in seventeenth-century history. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBLH; HPCD; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 221 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199575718
- ISBN
- 9780199575718
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.49
€ 60.49
Hardback. Christopher J Walker here explores the tensions between the forces of reason and revelation within English religion in the volatile period following the end of the Civil War. Ranging widely across the ideas of the period the author shows that the thinking of the radical figures of the era were not antipathetic to Christian faith but integral to it. Series: International Library of Historical Studies. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH; HRCC2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 32. Weight in Grams: 656.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780762920
- ISBN
- 9781780762920
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 142.11€ 126.76
€ 142.11
€ 126.76
Paperback. An account of the successful adaptation of slavery to industrial labour and freedom in Richmond, Virginia between 1782 and 1865. The book demonstrates how industrial employment allowed blacks to carve out a degree of autonomy and accelerate slavery's demise. Series: Carter G. Woodson Institute Series in Black Studies. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBTS; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 327.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813920993
- ISBN
- 9780813920993
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.56
€ 31.56
Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 9 b&w illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: HBJD; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801430985
- ISBN
- 9780801430985
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.10
€ 112.10
Hardback. Offers the best essays from the acclaimed collection originally published in French. This monumental work examines how and why events and figures become a part of a people's collective memory, how rewriting history can forge new paradigms of cultural identity, and how the meaning attached to an event can become as significant as the event itself. Editor(s): Nora, Pierre; Kritzman, Lawrence D. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 751 pages, 140 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: GTE; HBJD; JFC; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 256 x 184 x 54. Weight in Grams: 1566. The Construction of the French Past. Symbols. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. 642 pages, 140 black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Nora, Pierre; Kritzman, Lawrence D. Offers the best essays from the acclaimed collection originally published in French. This monumental work examines how and why events and figures become a part of a people's collective memory, how rewriting history can forge new paradigms of cultural identity, and how the meaning attached to an event can become as significant as the event itself. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: GTE; HBJD; JFC; JPFN. Dimension: 256 x 184 x 54. Weight: 1508. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 751
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231109260
- ISBN
- 9780231109260
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.51
€ 103.51
Hardback. Offers the best essays from the acclaimed collection originally published in French. This monumental work examines how and why events and figures become a part of a people's collective memory, how rewriting history can forge new paradigms of cultural identity, and how the meaning attached to an event can become as significant as the event itself. Editor(s): Nora, Pierre; Kritzman, Lawrence D. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 643 pages, 140 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 180 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1218. The Construction of the French Past. Traditions. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. 642 pages, 140 black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Kritzman, Lawrence D. Offers the best essays from the acclaimed collection originally published in French. This monumental work examines how and why events and figures become a part of a people's collective memory, how rewriting history can forge new paradigms of cultural identity, and how the meaning attached to an event can become as significant as the event itself. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HBJD; JFC. Dimension: 253 x 180 x 25. Weight: 1186. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 643
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231106344
- ISBN
- 9780231106344
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.32
€ 99.32
Hardback. Offers the best essays from the acclaimed collection originally published in French. This monumental work examines how and why events and figures become a part of a people's collective memory, how rewriting history can forge new paradigms of cultural identity, and how the meaning attached to an event can become as significant as the event itself. Editor(s): Nora, Pierre; Kritzman, Lawrence D.; Goldhammer, Arthur. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 642 pages, 140 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBJD; J. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 183 x 252 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1460. The Construction of the French Past. Conflicts and Divisions. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. 642 pages, 140 black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Nora, Pierre; Kritzman, Lawrence D.; Goldhammer, Arthur. Offers the best essays from the acclaimed collection originally published in French. This monumental work examines how and why events and figures become a part of a people's collective memory, how rewriting history can forge new paradigms of cultural identity, and how the meaning attached to an event can become as significant as the event itself. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBJD; J. Dimension: 183 x 252 x 30. Weight: 1352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Edition
- Subsequent
- Number of pages
- 642
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231084048
- ISBN
- 9780231084048
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.87
€ 101.87