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Electronic book text. Investigating the core questions about Arab identity and history, this book tackles the time-honoured stereotypes that depict Arabs as ancient Arabian Bedouin, and reveals the stories to be a myth: tales told by Muslims to recreate the past to explain the meaning of Islam and its origins. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 1FBQ; HBJF1; HRAX; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474426435
ISBN
9781474426435
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 37.73

Hardback. Series: Frontiers of Narrative. Num Pages: 294 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKAS; DS; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 585.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803288591
ISBN
9780803288591
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.70

Paperback. A collection of the writings of sociologist Robert N. Bellah, including essays that consider the entire sweep of Japanese history and the character of Japanese society and religion. The book features an introduction that brings together intellectual and institutional dimensions of Japanese history. Num Pages: 254 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; GTB; HBJF; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 376.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
254
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520235984
ISBN
9780520235984
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Hardcover. European unity is a dream that has appealed to the imagination since the Middle Ages. Its motives have varied from a longing for peace to a deep-rooted abhorrence of diversity, as well as a yearning to maintain Europe's colonial dominance. This book offers a multifaceted history that takes in account the European imagination in a global context. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1QFE; GTJ; HBJD; HBTP; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137480460
ISBN
9781137480460
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.19

Hardcover. Editor(s): Carlin, Claire L. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLH; MBN; MBX; MJCJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 492.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403939265
ISBN
9781403939265
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.31

Hardback. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813585215
ISBN
9780813585215
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.16

Hardcover. This book examines an Austrian identity based on a civic, rather than an ethnic conception of a national community. It analyzes the ideas of Joseph Samuel Bloch, an Austrian Jewish writer and politician, and compares them to those of other Austrian political thinkers of various ethnic and political backgrounds in order to discover how these individuals imagined a supraethnic Austrian nation. Num Pages: 220 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; JFSL; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
East European Monographs United States
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780880335294
ISBN
9780880335294
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

Paperback. Drawing on a wide variety of contemporary journals, newspapers, films, and popular songs, Alan M. Ball compares American social, political, and cultural influence in two newborn Russian states: the young Soviet Union and the modern Russian Republic. Num Pages: 328 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1KBB; 3JJ; GTB; HBJD; HBLW; JFC; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742527935
ISBN
9780742527935
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 82.34

Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 7, 6 black & white halftones, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 1DFG; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 237 x 26. Weight in Grams: 604.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781501704444
ISBN
9781501704444
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.04

Hardback. Focusing on one landmark catastrophic event in the history of an emerging modern nation - the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo and surrounding areas in 1923, this volume examines the history of the visual production of the disaster. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 400 pages, 99 color illustrations, 101 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJG; ACX; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 259 x 186 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1192. Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. 400 pages, Illustrationsstrations. Focusing on one landmark catastrophic event in the history of an emerging modern nation - the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo and surrounding areas in 1923, this volume examines the history of the visual production of the disaster. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJG; ACX; HBJF; HBLW. Dimension: 259 x 186 x 27. Weight: 1192.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
Tion
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520271951
ISBN
9780520271951
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.77
€ 51.34

Hardcover. With its focus on Latina/o communities in the United States, this collection of essays identifies and investigates the salient narrative and aesthetic strategies with which an individual or a collective represents transnational experiences and identities in literary and cultural texts. Editor(s): Concannon, Kevin; Lomeli, Francisco A.; Priewe, Marc. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230606326
ISBN
9780230606326
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.37
€ 47.31

Paperback. Offers a collection of essays by twenty-one American historians that reflects on a peculiarly American way of imagining the past. Divided into three parts, this work contains chapters on exceptionalism, gender, economic history, social theory, race, and immigration and multiculturalism. It also has a chronological survey of non-American histories. Editor(s): Molho, Anthony; Wood, Gordon S. Num Pages: 512 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBAH; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 31. Weight in Grams: 722.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691058115
ISBN
9780691058115
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 70.66
€ 55.72

Hardback. Through a microhistory of a small province in Upper Egypt, this book investigates the history of five world empires that assumed hegemony in Qina province over the centuries. It depicts forms of subaltern discontent against "imagined empires" that failed in achieving their professed goals and brought about environmental crises to Qina province. Num Pages: 216 pages, 7 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1HBE; HBJF1; HBTV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 68.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520275522
ISBN
9780520275522
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.22
€ 73.24

Paperback. Through a microhistory of a small province in Upper Egypt, this book investigates the history of five world empires that assumed hegemony in Qina province over the centuries. It depicts forms of subaltern discontent against "imagined empires" that failed in achieving their professed goals and brought about environmental crises to Qina province. Num Pages: 216 pages, 7 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1HBE; HBJF1; HBTV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 228 x 13. Weight in Grams: 304.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520275539
ISBN
9780520275539
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.00

Hardcover. This book traces the transformation of the Baltic Rim in this period through a focus on the self-image of a number of communities: urban and regional, cultic, missionary, legal, and political. Editor(s): Jezierski, Wojtek; Hermanson, Lars. Series: Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Num Pages: 394 pages, 0 black and white; 3 full color. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HBJD; HBLA1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 748.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press Netherlands
Number of pages
394
Condition
New
Edition
0th Edition
SKU
V9789089649836
ISBN
9789089649836
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 203.41

Courtney Weikle-Mills discusses such characters as Goody Two-Shoes, Ichabod Crane, and Tom Sawyer in terms of how they reflect these conflicting ideals. Num Pages: 280 pages, 9, 9 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSY; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421407210
ISBN
9781421407210
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.21

Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 26. BIC Classification: 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HBLH; HBTB; JFSG; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 565.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801436260
ISBN
9780801436260
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.27

Hardback. Mark C. Yerger, responding to requests from readers of his previous books, this new photo album provides material for the model builder, vehicle enthusiast, memorabilia collector and those interested in SS holders of the Knights Cross. Num Pages: 176 pages, over 320 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBWQ; JWD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 310 x 241 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1650.
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764300783
ISBN
9780764300783
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.16
€ 39.69

Hardback. The medieval clergy, aristocracy, and commercial classes tended to regard peasants as objects of contempt and derision, yet, at the same time, they were not viewed like other condemned groups. This text examines these conflicting images from the post-Carolingian period to the German Peasants' War. Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 484 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; HBJD; HBLC; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 34. Weight in Grams: 840.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
484
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804733724
ISBN
9780804733724
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 171.35

Paperback. The medieval clergy, aristocracy, and commercial classes tended to regard peasants as objects of contempt and derision, yet, at the same time, they were not viewed like other condemned groups. This text examines these conflicting images from the post-Carolingian period to the German Peasants' War. Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 484 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLC; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 685.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
484
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804733731
ISBN
9780804733731
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 38.84

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