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Regional & national history
Paperback. Presents in visual detail an introduction to almost 2000 years of Chinese history - from the founding of the Chinese Empire in 221 BCE to the Ming dynasty, the last dynasty to rule before the country opened to the outside world in the middle of the seventeenth century. This book is suitable for travelers, students, and general readers. Series: Dictionaries of Civilization. Num Pages: 384 pages, 250 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 137 x 30. Weight in Grams: 692.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520259072
- ISBN
- 9780520259072
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 29.54
€ 41.99
€ 29.54
hardcover. Editor(s): Schroeder, Susan; Cruz, Dr. Anne J.; Roa-de-la Carrera, Cristian Andres; Tavarez, David E. Translator(s): Schroeder, Susan; Cruz, Dr. Anne J.; Roa-de-la Carrera, Cristian Andres; Tavarez, David E. Num Pages: 536 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 43. Weight in Grams: 857.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 536
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804769488
- ISBN
- 9780804769488
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.10
€ 86.10
Paperback. Num Pages: 177 pages, illustrations map, port. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; HBJK; HBLW; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Black Rose Books
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551641928
- ISBN
- 9781551641928
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.22
€ 19.99
€ 18.22
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781526701350
- ISBN
- 9781526701350
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.53
€ 21.99
€ 17.53
Hardback. Offers a look at the people and politics behind the various chains of rescue as well as the personal narratives of the children who left everything behind in the hope of finding safety. This title examines the religious and political tensions that emerged throughout the migration and at times threatened to bring operations to a halt. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTZ1; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 221 x 149 x 26. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848855373
- ISBN
- 9781848855373
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.80€ 53.63
€ 58.80
€ 53.63
Hardback. Images of disabled children are found throughout well-known works of literature, film, and even opera. Their characters range from sweet, to brave, to tragic. Disabled children are also a part of reality as poster girls and boys for drives and causes. This work demonstrates the critical role of disability with respect to the history of childhood. Series: Children and Youth: History and Culture. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFFG; JKSB1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 262 x 181 x 20. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780313331466
- ISBN
- 9780313331466
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.39€ 63.08
€ 69.39
€ 63.08
Hardback. A timely interdisciplinary, comparative and historical perspective on African childhood migration that draws on the experience of children themselves to look at where, why and how they move - within and beyond the continent - and the impact of African child migration globally. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 5 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1H; HBJH; JFFN; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 241 x 21. Weight in Grams: 564.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- James Currey
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847011381
- ISBN
- 9781847011381
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.34
€ 96.34
Hardback. Challenges preconceptions which have held back aid work and reconstruction in the Sudan region. Provides a powerful critique of the position taken by the international community, NGOs and academia to the phenomenon of child soldiers, and calls for a new approach to conflict resolution in Africa. Num Pages: 320 pages, 8 integrated bw illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBS; HBJH; HBWS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 223 x 27. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780760179
- ISBN
- 9781780760179
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.89€ 135.20
€ 152.89
€ 135.20
Hardback. Series: American Childhoods Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JFSP1; WZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566635400
- ISBN
- 9781566635400
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 24.42
€ 26.99
€ 24.42
Paperback. Nineteenth-century France was renowned for its literature, philosophy, art, poetry and technology. Yet this was also a century of political anarchy and bloodshed, where each generation of the French Revolution's 'children' would experience their own wars, revolutions and terrors. This book explores various aspects of these rapidly changing times. Num Pages: 560 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 196 x 26. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141016535
- ISBN
- 9780141016535
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 17.36
€ 25.99
€ 17.36
Paperback. Focusing on the lives of the apprentices at Quarry Bank Mill, David Hanson's book uses a wealth of first-person source material including letters, diaries, mill records, to tell the stories of the children who lived and worked at Quarry Bank throughout the nineteenth century. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKENC; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; KNDD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472220431
- ISBN
- 9781472220431
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.64
€ 14.99
€ 11.64
paperback. Drawing on contemporary reports and illustrations, Eileen Wallace focuses on the lives of working children in nineteenth-century Hertfordshire employed in agriculture, straw-plaiting, silk-throwing, paper and brickmaking and as chimney sweeps. Num Pages: 192 pages, 35. BIC Classification: 1DBKEST; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 7. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Hertfordshire Publications
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905313495
- ISBN
- 9781905313495
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.31
€ 21.99
€ 20.31
paperback. At the height of the Greek Civil War in 1948, thirty-eight thousand children were evacuated from their homes. The Greek Communist Party relocated half of them to orphanages in Eastern Europe, while their adversaries placed the rest in children's homes elsewhere in Greece. This book presents a comprehensive study of the two evacuation programs. Num Pages: 336 pages, 11 halftones, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 3JJPG; HBJD; HBLW3; HBWS; JFFD; JFSP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780226135991
- ISBN
- 9780226135991
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.99€ 28.09
€ 39.99
€ 28.09
Hardcover. At the height of the Greek Civil War in 1948, thirty-eight thousand children were evacuated from their homes. The Greek Communist Party relocated half of them to orphanages in Eastern Europe, while their adversaries placed the rest in children's homes elsewhere in Greece. This book presents a comprehensive study of the two evacuation programs. Num Pages: 336 pages, 11 halftones, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 3JJPG; HBJD; HBLW3; HBWS; JFFD; JFSP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226135984
- ISBN
- 9780226135984
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.96€ 82.74
€ 99.96
€ 82.74
Paperback. Putting Greece back on the cultural and political map of the "Long 1960s," this book traces the dissent and activism of anti-regime students during the dictatorship of the Colonels (1967-74). Series: Protest, Culture and Society. Num Pages: 392 pages, 33 figures. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 392
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785330339
- ISBN
- 9781785330339
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.83
€ 36.99
€ 34.83
Hardback. Num Pages: 348 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUK; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 166 x 27. Weight in Grams: 654.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801452192
- ISBN
- 9780801452192
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.57
€ 146.57
Paperback. Discusses the history of child-rearing conditions and practices in late 19th and early 20th century Chile. Num Pages: 376 pages, 16 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; 3JH; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JKSB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822345749
- ISBN
- 9780822345749
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.45
€ 32.99
€ 31.45
paperback. When Henry VIII died in 1547, he left three highly intelligent children to succeed him in turn, to be followed, if their lines failed, by the descendants of his sister, Mary Tudor. Num Pages: 400 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099532675
- ISBN
- 9780099532675
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 11.01
€ 19.99
€ 11.01
Paperback. A collection of eyewitness accounts by Cambodian survivors of Pol Pot's genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s. Each witness was a child at the time of Cambodia's holocaust, and each tells of families torn apart, struggles to survive, and the ultimate triumph of the human spirit. Editor(s): DePaul, Kim. Series: Southeast Asia Studies Monograph Series. Num Pages: 218 pages, 28 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMC; BG; HBJD; HBJF; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 218
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300078732
- ISBN
- 9780300078732
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.51
€ 30.99
€ 22.51
Paperback. Bethnal Green is at the heart of London's East End, infamous as the stamping ground of gangland bosses the Kray Twins. In this book the world of Bethnal Green's back streets in the 1920s, 1930s and during the Second World War is vividly recalled including the endless struggle to make ends meet, the little shops, street sellers, etc. Num Pages: 130 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 172 x 11. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750938150
- ISBN
- 9780750938150
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.38
€ 19.99
€ 18.38
Paperback. The centenary of the First World War has brought with it much attention on the lives of those left behind at home. This book explains how the daily life of children one hundred years ago was affected by war. Series: Britain's Heritage Series. Num Pages: 64 pages, 80. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJF; HBJD1; HBTB; HBWN; JFSP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 165. .
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445668765
- ISBN
- 9781445668765
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.21
€ 17.21
paperback. Examines the aspects of childhood in the American colonies between the late sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries. This work contains essays and documents that shed light on the ways in which the process of colonization shaped childhood, and in turn how the experience of children affected life in colonial America. Editor(s): Marten, James. Series: Children and Youth in America. Num Pages: 288 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JD; 3JF; HBJK; HBLH; HBTB; JFSP1. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 381.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814757161
- ISBN
- 9780814757161
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.59
€ 33.99
€ 33.59
Hardback. How children living in the North experienced the Civil War, considered in the larger contexts of economic, political, and cultural developments during the nineteenth century. Mr. Marten opens a new window on the impact of the war and shows that the youngest Americans were inevitable and enthusiastic participants. Series: American Childhoods Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566635639
- ISBN
- 9781566635639
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 24.37
€ 26.99
€ 24.37
Paperback. Editor(s): Herndon, Ruth Wallis; Murray, John E. Num Pages: 280 pages, 42. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JD; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780801475597
- ISBN
- 9780801475597
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 37.99
€ 38.99
€ 37.99