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Hardback. "A majestic work, moving from the Cold War to now. .. An essential critique of the world of the 21st century." Professor William S. Lucas, University of Birmingham Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1FCA; 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW3; JPS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 18. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745323893
- ISBN
- 9780745323893
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.19€ 82.98
€ 99.19
€ 82.98
hardcover. From 1917 to 1920 the Woman's Land Army (WLA) brought thousands of city workers, society women, artists, business professionals, and college students into rural America to take over the farm work after men were called to wartime service. Num Pages: 352 pages, 64 b&w photos, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; HBWN; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Potomac Books, Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781597972734
- ISBN
- 9781597972734
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 30.55
€ 32.99
€ 30.55
Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white halftones, maps. BIC Classification: 1MTNG; HBJQ; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 203 x 29. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- International ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780062133403
- ISBN
- 9780062133403
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.18
€ 19.99
€ 18.18
Hardcover. Editor(s): Jackson, Tim. Num Pages: 295 pages, Colour and black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; GLMA; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 243 x 38. Weight in Grams: 776.
- Publisher
- Lilliput Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843516750
- ISBN
- 9781843516750
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.00€ 37.47
€ 50.00
€ 37.47
Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBG; HBJD; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813109435
- ISBN
- 9780813109435
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.87
€ 30.87
Paperback. The Spanish Civil War still captures the popular imagination, but this is the first guidebook to put the conflict at the centre of its guide to Madrid Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBWP; WTHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Publisher
- Signal Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909930094
- ISBN
- 9781909930094
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.46
€ 17.99
€ 17.46
Paperback. Editor(s): Robertshaw, Andrew. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 234 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- The History Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752476650
- ISBN
- 9780752476650
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.57
€ 17.99
€ 16.57
Paperback. Offers a comprehensive history of the achievements and failures of the United States Regular and Volunteer Armies that confronted the Indian tribes of the West in the two decades between the Mexican War and the close of the Civil War. The author describes many of these skirmishes in consummate detail, including descriptions of garrison life. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illus., maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBW; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 176 x 24. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1981
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803295506
- ISBN
- 9780803295506
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.49
€ 27.99
€ 26.49
Paperback. Provides a survey of the history of the American West, from the first contacts between Native Americans and Europeans to the beginning of the twenty-first century. This title introduces the diverse peoples and cultures of the American West and explores how men and women of different ethnic groups were affected when they met, mingled and clashed. Series: The Lamar Series in Western History. Num Pages: 288 pages, 32-page insert. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 179 x 253 x 19. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Edition
- abridged edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300136203
- ISBN
- 9780300136203
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.73
€ 24.99
€ 18.73
Hardcover. Will the settlement of Mars prove much different from the settlement of the West? This study shows us how the ways we remember the past greatly influence our ability to imagine multiple futures - in distant universes that appear very strange and yet utterly familiar. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK; JHM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 176 x 21. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700614301
- ISBN
- 9780700614301
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.75
€ 70.75
Paperback. Yet the very permeability of the frontiers, Whittaker contends, permitted a transformation of Roman society, breathing new life into the empire rather than causing its complete extinction. Series: Ancient Society and History. Num Pages: 341 pages, 55, 55 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 23. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Number of pages
- 341
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801857850
- ISBN
- 9780801857850
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.84
€ 40.99
€ 33.84
Hardback. This bold inter-disciplinary study analyses the history, retention and development of frontier processes in the Eastern Caribbean multi-island state of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Series Editor(s): Bhambra, Gurminder K. Series: Theory for a Global Age. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJWWV; HBJK; HBTB; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 11. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781526113740
- ISBN
- 9781526113740
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.24
€ 157.24
Hardcover. A collection of essays that explores the self-expression of travel writers like Isabella Bird by giving geographic context to their work. It examines relationships among nineteenth-century American expansionism, discourses about gender, and writings of women who traveled and lived in the American West in the late nineteenth century. Series: Space, Place, and Society. Num Pages: 272 pages, 18 black-&-white illustrations, notes, references, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTP; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815631675
- ISBN
- 9780815631675
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.24
€ 45.24
Hardcover. Examines how Catholics in the early nineteenth-century Ohio Valley - despite the evangelical success of the Protestant faith during the Second Great Awakening - expanded their church, strengthened their connections to Rome, and sought fellowship with their non-Catholic neighbors. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK; HRCC2; HRCC7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University Press of Kentucky
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813124865
- ISBN
- 9780813124865
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.39
€ 50.39
Hardcover. This book compares the cultural politics of the U.S. space and Antarctic programs during the Cold War. It analyzes how culturally salient terms, especially the nationalist motif of the frontier, were used to garner public support for these strategic initiatives and, more generally, United States internationalism during this period. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 284 pages, 9. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTW; TBX; TRP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137507860
- ISBN
- 9781137507860
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.69
€ 67.69
Hardcover. Detroit's industrial health has long been crucial to the American economy. Today's troubles not withstanding, Detroit has experienced multiple periods of prosperity, particularly in the second half of the 18th century, when the city was the center of the thriving fur trade. This book details this seldom-discussed chapter of Detroit's history. Series: American Beginnings, 1500 - 1900. Num Pages: 288 pages, 19 halftones, 1 map, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226096704
- ISBN
- 9780226096704
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 43.19
€ 54.99
€ 43.19
hardcover. Xiaoyuan Liu shows how the history of the Chinese Communist Party was, from the Yan'an period onward, intertwined with the ethnopolitics of the Chinese "periphery." As a Han-dominated party, the CCP had to adapt to an inhospitable political environment, particularly among the Hui (Muslims) of northwest China and the Mongols of Inner Mongolia. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJF; HBLW; HBT; JPFC; JPL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 549.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804749602
- ISBN
- 9780804749602
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.16
€ 76.16
Paperback. Examines how the breeding ground for global jihad developed and flourishes today in the borderlands between Pakistan and Afghanistan Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 1FKP; HBJF; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849041836
- ISBN
- 9781849041836
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.03
€ 40.99
€ 36.03
Paperback. Num Pages: 234 pages, 34 black & white illustrations, 4 maps, 34 b&w illus., 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FM; HBJF; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295741734
- ISBN
- 9780295741734
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.99
€ 36.99
€ 33.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; HBJK; HDD; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813061337
- ISBN
- 9780813061337
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.28
€ 29.28