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Hardback. Examines the leadership styles of earliest presidents, men who served at a time when it was by no means certain that the American experiment in free government would succeed. This book explains how these early presidents and their successors shaped the American presidency and helped the republic prosper despite challenges at home and abroad. Num Pages: 176 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691133584
- ISBN
- 9780691133584
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 18.04
€ 21.99
€ 18.04
Paperback. Features the history of an evangelical revival known in America as the "Great Awakening"�'. This book offers an overview of this episode and proposes an explanation of its origins. It demonstrates that the Great Awakening was invented not by historians but by eighteenth-century evangelicals who were skillful and enthusiastic religious promoters. Num Pages: 320 pages, 5 halftones, 11 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HRCC99; HRCX7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 235 x 23. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691086910
- ISBN
- 9780691086910
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.89€ 42.58
€ 52.89
€ 42.58
Far from being a record of southern failure, Lakwete concludes, the cotton gin-correctly understood-supplies evidence that the slave labor-based antebellum South innovated, industrialized, and modernized. Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology. Num Pages: 248 pages, 26, 16 black & white halftones, 10 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLH; HBTB; PDX; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 159 x 229 x 22. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801873942
- ISBN
- 9780801873942
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.61
€ 70.61
Paperback. A fresh and fascinating look at the Space Age that demolishes the myth of the fearless, hot-shot astronaut. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 161 x 25. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137025289
- ISBN
- 9781137025289
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.26
€ 66.26
Paperback. Examination of Balkan identity in cultural media. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 map (black and white). BIC Classification: 1DVW; HBJD; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849042529
- ISBN
- 9781849042529
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.95
€ 33.99
€ 30.95
Hardback. Series: The Americas in the Early Modern Atlantic World. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; 3J; HBJK; HBLH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403976048
- ISBN
- 9781403976048
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.62
€ 139.62
Paperback. This study examines certain key elements of the "making" or "inventing" of Lima as Peru's viceregal capital. Through analysis of seventeenth-century ceremonies of state and local religious rituals, this book asserts that colonial Lima was culturally diverse and its rich population more integrated than historiography would suggest. Series: Americas in the Early Modern Atlantic World. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJK; HBTB; HBTQ; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2008
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349536641
- ISBN
- 9781349536641
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 138.51
€ 138.51
hardcover. An analysis of the Irish community of city of Worcester, Massachusetts around the turn of the 20th century. The author reveals how an ethnic group can endure and yet change when its first American-born generation takes control of its destiny. Series: Irish in America S. Num Pages: 472 pages, Illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFC; JFFN; JFSL; JHM; JHMP; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 162 x 40. Weight in Grams: 989.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press United States
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780268031534
- ISBN
- 9780268031534
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.13
€ 134.13
Hardback. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVC; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742561274
- ISBN
- 9780742561274
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.84
€ 82.84
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 436
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804727020
- ISBN
- 9780804727020
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.45
€ 36.99
€ 34.45
Hardback. Series: The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era. Num Pages: 388 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, 5 black & white halftones, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 162 x 35. Weight in Grams: 730.
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 388
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442251861
- ISBN
- 9781442251861
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.77
€ 72.77
Hardcover. Series: Perspective History of Congress 1789-1801. Num Pages: 315 pages, Notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLH; JPH; JPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 248 x 165 x 789. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 315
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821412718
- ISBN
- 9780821412718
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.95
€ 57.95
paperback. Inventing Atlantic Canada is the first book to analyse the reaction of the Maritime provinces to Newfoundland's entry into Confederation. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; HBLW; HBTM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442611580
- ISBN
- 9781442611580
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.13
€ 34.99
€ 32.13
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Number of pages
- 500
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393168167
- ISBN
- 9780393168167
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 78.75€ 77.86
€ 78.75
€ 77.86
Paperback. One of the master stylists of American literature, Gore Vidal now provides us with his uniquely irreverent take on America's founding fathers, bringing them to life at key moments of decision in the birthing of the nation. Series: Icons of America. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 209 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300105926
- ISBN
- 9780300105926
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.54
€ 17.99
€ 14.54
Hardcover. Petrarca's four "Invectives" were intended to revive the eloquence of the great Roman orator Cicero, and were directed against the cultural idols of the Middle Ages: against scholastic philosophy and medicine and the dominance of French culture in general. Translator(s): Marsh, David. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; DCQ; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 204 x 33. Weight in Grams: 672.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674011540
- ISBN
- 9780674011540
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 34.17
€ 40.99
€ 34.17
On the 50th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy: a revised and updated edition of Paul Carell's great classic. Num Pages: 291 pages, 32 pages of photographs. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBT; HBWQ; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 161 x 29. Weight in Grams: 826. German Account of the D-Day Landings and the 80 Days' Battle for France. 291 pages, 32pp photographs. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBT; HBWQ; JWL. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 29. Weight: 792.
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Edition
- Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 291
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780887407161
- ISBN
- 9780887407161
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 28.63
€ 42.99
€ 28.63
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16 b/w. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; 3JJH; HBJM; HBLW; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Motorbooks International
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780760345917
- ISBN
- 9780760345917
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 25.90
€ 27.99
€ 25.90
Paperback. In this revised and updated edition new accounts have been included of the ways in which the islanders resisted occupation and did not - hitherto unpublished material describes how a small minority of islanders threw their lot in with the Argentines. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1MTASF; 3JJPN; HBJQ; HBLW3; HBWS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781473853430
- ISBN
- 9781473853430
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
paperback. Series: Latin American Originals. Num Pages: 128 pages, 4 illustrations/3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLC; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 11. Weight in Grams: 209.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271027586
- ISBN
- 9780271027586
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 23.18
€ 27.99
€ 23.18