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Regional & national history
Paperback. Examining various museums, this text argues that Americans built the institutions with the confidence that they could collect, organize, and display the sum of the world's knowledge. It discovers how they gave definition to different bodies of knowledge and how that knowledge was presented. Num Pages: 310 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; GM; HBJK; HBLL; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226114934
- ISBN
- 9780226114934
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 28.00
€ 34.99
€ 28.00
Paperback. One form of the new manly culture practised by American men in the late 19th century, developed out of the Protestant churches, was known as muscular Christianity. This study details how Protestant leaders promoted competitive sports and physical education to create an ideal of Christian manliness. Num Pages: 310 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HRCC9; JFSJ2; WS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674011250
- ISBN
- 9780674011250
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 33.13
€ 38.99
€ 33.13
Paperback. Despite the frequency with which criminals were sentenced to death, crime was still on the rise in England in the mid-1700s. Men were thrown in jail daily for everything from associating with gypsies to cutting down fruit trees and stealing sheep. This collection features the stories of the crimes committed and the subsequent punishments assigned. Num Pages: 176 pages, 55 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 529.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781626360440
- ISBN
- 9781626360440
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.10
€ 17.10
Hardback. A dazzling history of Victorian London's theatre scene involving a larger than life cast of actors, tricksters, impresarios, prostitutes, comedians and more Num Pages: 256 pages, 20 bw integrated. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780766348
- ISBN
- 9781780766348
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.00€ 49.63
€ 53.00
€ 49.63
paperback. Between 1868 and 1935, four killings in the state of Virginia attracted extensive press coverage and led to the press itself playing a role in the construction of the killings and the reporting of them. This text explores the interplay of national media and culture with Southern law and values. Series: American South Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JFD; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780813922089
- ISBN
- 9780813922089
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.62
€ 36.62
Calls attention to the misuse of democracy to justify and commit genocide Num Pages: 456 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTZ; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 798.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803224803
- ISBN
- 9780803224803
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 107.41
€ 107.41
Paperback. Translator(s): Freeman, Kathleen. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA; L. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 11. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872203068
- ISBN
- 9780872203068
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.80
€ 25.99
€ 19.80
Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 37, 37 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 168 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801451454
- ISBN
- 9780801451454
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 45.96
€ 45.99
€ 45.96
Hardcover. .
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107136649
- ISBN
- 9781107136649
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.99€ 67.87
€ 105.99
€ 67.87
Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HBJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 148 x 26. Weight in Grams: 30.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781599214955
- ISBN
- 9781599214955
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 18.25
€ 21.99
€ 18.25
Paperback. Series: American Crime Stories. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; BTC; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Regnery Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781621573210
- ISBN
- 9781621573210
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.43
€ 18.99
€ 17.43
Paperback. From the award-winning, critically acclaimed Charles Bowden, a stunning work of reportage on Ciudad Juarez--the blood-soaked town caught in the crosshairs of Mexico's escalating drug wars Num Pages: 352 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; BTC; HBJK; JKVG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 141 x 24. Weight in Grams: 372. Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields. 352 pages, b/w photos. Presents a devastating chronicle of a city in collapse. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KLCM; BTC; HBJK; JKVG. Dimension: 210 x 141 x 24. Weight: 382.
- Publisher
- Nation Books
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781568586458
- ISBN
- 9781568586458
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 18.21
€ 25.99
€ 18.21
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JH; BTC; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 222 x 19. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- Pegasus Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781681772318
- ISBN
- 9781681772318
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.09
€ 17.99
€ 13.09
Paperback. Num Pages: 340 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBBS; HBJK; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Lean Marketing Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781604732467
- ISBN
- 9781604732467
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.24
€ 45.24
paperback. Editor(s): Friedeburg, Robert von. Num Pages: 321 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBJD1; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 321
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2004
- SKU
- V9781349727230
- ISBN
- 9781349727230
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 160.92
€ 160.92
Hardcover. Editor(s): Friedeburg, Robert von. Num Pages: 321 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3H; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; HBG; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 561.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 321
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2004th Edition
- SKU
- V9781403934550
- ISBN
- 9781403934550
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.64
€ 161.64
Paperback. Aninsightful look into the origins of modern Italian media culture by examining a sensational crime and trial that took place in Rome in the late 1870s, when a bloody murder triggered a national spectacle that became the first great media circus in the new nation of Italy, crucially shaping the young state's public sphere and image of itself." Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2010
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349291151
- ISBN
- 9781349291151
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Hardcover. This is an annotated translation of a Dutch account book recording trade with Native Americans in Ulster County, New York from 1712 to 1732. It documents and analyses 2,000 exchanges in intercultural commercial dealings in the mid-Hudson River Valley. Includes profiles of 40 named and identified Native Americans. Editor(s): Smith, Michael; Waterman, Kees-Jan. Translator(s): Waterman, Kees-Jan. Num Pages: 226 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLH; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815633167
- ISBN
- 9780815633167
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.38
€ 48.38
Paperback. An unique book which shows - with grim humour - how Hitler's Nazi's imposed themselves on a City long associated with pleasure. Num Pages: 224 pages, 83 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JPFQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 234 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Publisher
- Fonthill Media
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781554548
- ISBN
- 9781781554548
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.49
€ 25.99
€ 19.49
Hardback. Num Pages: 396 pages, 25 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJPL; HBJD; WSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 230 x 1. Weight in Grams: 668.
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742567399
- ISBN
- 9780742567399
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 29.77
€ 33.99
€ 29.77
Hardback. Munich 1919 is a vivid portrayal of the chaos that followed World War I and the collapse of the Munich Council Republic by one of the most perceptive chroniclers of German history. Translator(s): Spengler, Jessica. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; BJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBTV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509510580
- ISBN
- 9781509510580
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardback. Translator(s): Lorton, David. Num Pages: 256 pages, 258. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; HBJF; HBLA; JHBZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 184 x 262 x 27. Weight in Grams: 756.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801444722
- ISBN
- 9780801444722
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.21
€ 47.21
Paperback. A place of spectacle and ruin, Mumbai exemplifies the cosmopolitan metropolis. It is not just a big city but also a soaring vision of modern urban life. This title explores the mythic inner life of this legendary city as seen by its inhabitants, journalists, planners, writers, artists, filmmakers, and political activists. Num Pages: 408 pages, 16 color illus. 36 line illus. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 26. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 424
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691153179
- ISBN
- 9780691153179
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.01
€ 33.99
€ 25.01
Hardcover. Num Pages: 550 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1DVH; 1DVKS; 3J; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 149 x 34. Weight in Grams: 738.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- East European Monographs United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 550
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780880336901
- ISBN
- 9780880336901
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.77€ 51.21
€ 64.77
€ 51.21