Regional & national history
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Regional & national history
Paperback. This text, using contemporary memoirs, letters, newspapers and regimental order books, reconstructs the common man's version of the Moorland Battle and the repression and brutality that followed it for the highlanders. It challenges the rose-tinted legend of Bonnie Prince Charlie and Culloden. Num Pages: 368 pages, 8pp b/w halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBJD1; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 132 x 26. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Publisher
- Pimlico
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780712668200
- ISBN
- 9780712668200
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.76
€ 19.99
€ 14.76
Paperback. This book argues that regional food culture is intrinsic to how Chinese connect to the past, live in the present, and imagine their future. It focuses on Shanghai-a food lover's paradise-and identifies the importance of regional food culture at pivotal moments in the city's history, and in Chinese history more generally. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, maps, fig. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804786911
- ISBN
- 9780804786911
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.30
€ 34.99
€ 31.30
Hardcover. Num Pages: 264 pages, 7 halftones, 3 maps, 4 line drawings, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KJ; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226079356
- ISBN
- 9780226079356
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 35.64
€ 45.99
€ 35.64
Hardcover. "Publicado en colaboracion con la Fundacion Amparo y el David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies y el Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University." Editor(s): Carrasco, David; Sessions, Scott. Num Pages: 480 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 305 x 229 x 46. Weight in Grams: 2880.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press
- Edition
- Fol Har/Ma
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826350060
- ISBN
- 9780826350060
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.68€ 111.87
€ 124.68
€ 111.87
paperback. Num Pages: 239 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJC; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Monthly Review Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780853458906
- ISBN
- 9780853458906
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.27
€ 17.99
€ 16.27
Paperback. Series: Contemporary Cuba. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813061818
- ISBN
- 9780813061818
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.43
€ 26.99
€ 23.43
Paperback. Exploring the cultural politics of Cuba's epic military engagement in the Angolan civil war, this book narrates the transformation of Cuban national identity from Latin African to Caribbean through the experience of internationalism in Angola. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 243 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJH; JFC; JP; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 319.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349343706
- ISBN
- 9781349343706
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardback. Exploring the cultural politics of Cuba's epic military engagement in the Angolan civil war, this book narrates the transformation of Cuban national identity from Latin African to Caribbean through the experience of internationalism in Angola. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 243 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMA; 1KJC; 3JJP; HBJH; HBLW3; HBTV; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 244
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340930
- ISBN
- 9780230340930
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.23
€ 64.23
Paperback. In the 1960s and 1970s, religion exerted a major influence on the beliefs and actions of Cuban exiles as they integrated into US culture and tried at the same time to make sense of events in their homeland. This work provides insights for this community, and for other faith-based exile communities. Series: Latino Perspectives. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KL; HBJK; HBLW3; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268038335
- ISBN
- 9780268038335
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.67
€ 38.99
€ 35.67
Hardcover. In the 1960s and 1970s, catholicism offered Cuban exiles in US continuity: a community of faith, a place to gather, a sense of legitimacy as a people. Religion exerted a major influence on the beliefs and actions of Cuban exiles. This work provides insights for this community, and for other faith-based exile communities. Series: Latino Perspectives. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KL; HBJK; HBLW3; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268038328
- ISBN
- 9780268038328
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 141.91
€ 141.91
Paperback. Informative, pithy, and lucidly written, Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know, 3rd edition, is the best compact reference on Cuba's internal politics, its often fraught relationship with the United States, and its shifting relationship with the global community. Series: What Everyone Needs to Know. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJK; HBLW3; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 139 x 25. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190620370
- ISBN
- 9780190620370
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.36
€ 14.99
€ 12.36
Paperback. Series: Yale Nota Bene. Num Pages: 400 pages, 12 illus. BIC Classification: 1KJC; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780300111149
- ISBN
- 9780300111149
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.84
€ 21.99
€ 15.84
Hardback. "Originally published by the Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona Beach 1997."- Title page verso. Num Pages: 104 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJC; AC; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 812.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813049984
- ISBN
- 9780813049984
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.57
€ 45.99
€ 38.57
Paperback. Explores the whole sweep of Cuban history from the British capture of Havana in 1762 through the years of Spanish and United States domination, down to the twentieth century and the extraordinary revolution of Fidel Castro. This book analyses the political, economic and social events that have shaped Cuban history with insight and panache. Num Pages: 1184 pages, 12 pp b/w. BIC Classification: 1KJC; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 52. Weight in Grams: 820.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 1184
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141034508
- ISBN
- 9780141034508
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.73
€ 26.99
€ 18.73
Paperback. This book is the first examination of the Cuban military in the context of Cuba's political and economic challenges in the aftermath of the collapse of the USSR - and therefore of Soviet economic, political and psychological support. It provides important historical and political contexts of the development and engagement of the military. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 351 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBW; JFC; JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2005
- Number of pages
- 351
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349533367
- ISBN
- 9781349533367
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 374 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 3JJP; 3JMC; HBJK; HBLW3; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Publisher
- Haymarket Books United States
- Number of pages
- 374
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781608461394
- ISBN
- 9781608461394
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.64
€ 33.64
Paperback. Series: Theater in the Americas. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJC; ANF; DSG; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780809333080
- ISBN
- 9780809333080
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.04€ 52.74
€ 57.04
€ 52.74
Paperback. This collection examines Cuban cultural production during the Special Period of the 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet bloc. Contributors address the cultural forms; and the associated ethics and practices of labour, leisure, and bureaucratic organization that arose in the transformation of the socialist cultural infrastructure. Editor(s): Hernandez-Reguant, Ariana. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 236 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 3JJPR; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 162 x 15. Weight in Grams: 322. Culture and Ideology in the 1990s. Series: New Concepts in Latino American Cultures. 240 pages, illustrations. Editor(s): Hernandez-Reguant, Ariana. This collection examines Cuban cultural production during the Special Period of the 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet bloc. Contributors address the cultural forms; and the associated ethics and practices of labour, leisure, and bureaucratic organization that arose in the transformation of the socialist cultural infrastructure. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 3JJPR; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JPFC. Dimension: 218 x 140 x 15. Weight: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230104792
- ISBN
- 9780230104792
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.37€ 44.42
€ 51.37
€ 44.42
Paperback. The recent retirement of Fidel Castro turned the world's attention towards the island nation of Cuba and the question of what its future holds. Amid the talk and hypothesizing, it is worth taking a moment to consider how Cuba reached this point. The author provides this with his incisive history of Cuba since 1959. Series: Contemporary Worlds. Num Pages: 272 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861894021
- ISBN
- 9781861894021
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.44
€ 34.44
Paperback. The 1959 Cuban Revolution remains one of the signal events of modern political history. A tiny island, once a de facto colony of the United States, declared its independence, not just from the imperial behemoth ninety miles to the north, but also from global capitalism itself. Num Pages: 456 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJC; HBJK; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 210 x 34. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Publisher
- Monthly Review Press,U.S.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 3rd Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781583676059
- ISBN
- 9781583676059
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.27
€ 26.99
€ 23.27
Paperback. The first oral history of Cuba's revolutionary influence on governments across Latin America and an expose of the Departamento America. Num Pages: 304 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 1KL; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 244 x 314 x 31. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Publisher
- Zed Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783608027
- ISBN
- 9781783608027
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 27.43
€ 31.99
€ 27.43
Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.), col. maps. BIC Classification: 1KJ; HBJK. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 236 x 165 x 13. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Chelsea House Publishers United States
- Edition
- 2
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781604136227
- ISBN
- 9781604136227
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 33.59
€ 38.99
€ 33.59
Paperback. Num Pages: 433 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 1996
- Number of pages
- 433
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349244195
- ISBN
- 9781349244195
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.95
€ 64.95
Paperback. Provides a detailed and sophisticated understanding of the Cuba of yesterday, today, and tomorrow. In addition to its concise narrative history, Cuba details the current political climate, economy, and the regime's future. Jaime Suchlicki discusses the domestic and international events that have affected this island nation in recent years. Num Pages: 278 pages, 11 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJC; HBJK; JPS; JPW; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc United States
- Edition
- 5th ed.
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781574884364
- ISBN
- 9781574884364
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.14
€ 31.99
€ 29.14