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Hardback. Cosimo dei Medici stabilized ducal finances, secured his borders, doubled his territory, attracted scholars and artists to his court, academy, and universities, and dissipated fractious Florentine politics. These triumphs were far from a foregone conclusion, as Gregory Murry shows in this study of how Cosimo crafted his image as a sacral monarch. Series: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Num Pages: 360 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; HBJD; HRAM2; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 682.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674725478
- ISBN
- 9780674725478
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.78€ 57.18
€ 62.78
€ 57.18
Paperback. In 1831, Cholera swept from Asia across Continental Europe, killing millions and throwing the medical profession into confusion. John Snow worked out that cholera spreads through drinking water. Drawing on 19th century medical, political and personal records, this book presents various diversions into aspects of medical and social history. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; MBNS; MBX; MJCJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781862079373
- ISBN
- 9781862079373
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.07
€ 17.99
€ 13.07
Paperback. Explores the role of the media in the Rwandan genocide -- within the country and beyond. Editor(s): Thompson, Allan. Num Pages: 416 pages, 5 figs. BIC Classification: 1HFGR; 3JJPR; HBJH; HBLW3; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 28. Weight in Grams: 674.
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745326252
- ISBN
- 9780745326252
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.62
€ 40.99
€ 31.62
Hardback. Drawing on hundreds of unpublished court records, Marie Kelleher examines how women in the fourteenth-century Crown of Aragon engaged with patriarchal assumptions to shape their own legal identities, thus playing a crucial role in the formation of a gendered legal culture that shaped women's lives throughout Europe for centuries afterwards. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3H; HBJD; HBLC1; HBTB; JFSJ1; LAZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812242560
- ISBN
- 9780812242560
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.58
€ 76.58
Hardcover. Num Pages: 326 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLSX; HBJK; HBTB; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 297 x 228 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1198.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780884024033
- ISBN
- 9780884024033
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.64€ 67.91
€ 74.64
€ 67.91
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- St Martin´s Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781250114969
- ISBN
- 9781250114969
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 11.05
€ 26.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. Aizawa Kikutaro was born into the wealthiest family in Hashimoto, an agricultural village specializing in wheat and silk. Taking the biography of this villager as its focus and incorporating details of life drawn from Aizawa's diary, this book chronicles the transformation of Hashimoto against the background of Japan's rapid industrialization. Num Pages: 248 pages, 13 b/w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520258594
- ISBN
- 9780520258594
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.92
€ 33.99
€ 24.92
Paperback. This twentieth-century history of Guatemala begins with an analysis of the Grand Tikal Futura, a postmodern shopping mall with a faux-Mayan facade that is surrounded by a landscape of gated subdivisions, evangelical churches, motels, Kaqchikel-speaking villages, and some of the most poverty-stricken ghettos in the hemisphere. Num Pages: 328 pages, 8 photographs, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCG; GTF; HBJK; HBLW; JFFS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5906 x 3971 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822351313
- ISBN
- 9780822351313
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.62
€ 31.99
€ 28.62
paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; DSBB; HBJD1; HBLH; JFC; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 5. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780801485251
- ISBN
- 9780801485251
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.36
€ 40.99
€ 36.36
hardcover. Forceful and provocative, The Matter of Mind will encourage lively debate on the norms and discourses of seventeenth-century philosophy. Num Pages: 296 pages, 18. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; HPCD1; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 234 x 28. Weight in Grams: 672.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442643482
- ISBN
- 9781442643482
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.97
€ 86.97
Hardback. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 158 x 35. Weight in Grams: 912.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691158501
- ISBN
- 9780691158501
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.27
€ 40.99
€ 29.27
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- New, Translation
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198783435
- ISBN
- 9780198783435
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.39
€ 16.99
€ 13.39
Paperback. This book traces the history of the civil war that has blighted Liberia in the 1990s and looks at its roots in the way governments have been established in West Africa during the 20th century. Num Pages: 370 pages, illustrations maps, portraits. BIC Classification: 1HFDL; 3JJ; HBJH; HBT; HBW; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 26. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Publisher
- Hurst & Co Ltd
- Number of pages
- 370
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781850654179
- ISBN
- 9781850654179
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.18
€ 25.99
€ 24.18
Paperback. Examines the social and cultural significance of masculinity during the generations born between the Black Death and Protestant Reformation. This title discovers that social relations between men, founded on the ideals of honesty and self-restraint, were at least as important as their domination and control of women in defining their identities. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC1; HBTB; JFSJ2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226569574
- ISBN
- 9780226569574
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.83
€ 37.99
€ 29.83
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300083521
- ISBN
- 9780300083521
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.90
€ 52.99
€ 37.90
Paperback. Medieval Douai left an enormous archive of documents. This text reveals how these documents were produced in an effort to regulate property and gender relations. At the centre was a shift to a property regime based on contract. The book explores why the law changed and assesses its effects. Series: Women in Culture and Society Series. Num Pages: 292 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DDB; 3H; 3JB; HBJD; HBLC; JFFK; JHBK; LNCJ; LNS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226355160
- ISBN
- 9780226355160
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 33.56
€ 42.99
€ 33.56
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3H; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; HBJD; HBLC; HRCC7; HRJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- 3rd edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801485688
- ISBN
- 9780801485688
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.11
€ 38.99
€ 35.11
Hardcover. The decline and fall of the British aristocracy looked headlong and irreversible in the twentieth century yet many grandees tried to preserve their power, wealth and influence by every means - and with some success. This title places the Londonderrys in the context of the history and the political theory of aristocracy. Series: International Library of Twentieth Century History. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DB; HBJD1; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 26. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Publisher
- Tauris Academic Studies
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781850437260
- ISBN
- 9781850437260
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 153.79€ 136.24
€ 153.79
€ 136.24
Paperback. The history of the Reformation is illuminated by details of the careers of those who fled persecution under Mary Tudor. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 15th & 16th Centuries. Num Pages: 406 pages, 1 b/w illus. BIC Classification: HBJD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Cambridge Library Collection United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 406
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781108011266
- ISBN
- 9781108011266
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.01
€ 50.01
Hardcover. A brilliant history that goes beyond the dazzling "I Have a Dream" speech to explore the real significance of the massive march and the movement it inspired. Num Pages: 320 pages, 8 pages of photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393082852
- ISBN
- 9780393082852
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.74
€ 27.99
€ 24.74
Paperback.
- Publisher
- The History Press
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752471259
- ISBN
- 9780752471259
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.67
€ 23.99
€ 20.67
Paperback. The Many Rooms of this House is a story about the rise and decline of religion in Toronto over the past 160 years. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBCO; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HRAX; JFSF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781487520175
- ISBN
- 9781487520175
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 39.64
€ 44.99
€ 39.64
hardcover. The Many Rooms of this House is a story about the rise and decline of religion in Toronto over the past 160 years. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HRAX; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781487500276
- ISBN
- 9781487500276
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.86
€ 92.86
Hardback. The Many Meanings of Poverty is about poverty in a colonial context--it argues that the cultural meanings of poverty defined social compacts that served to bolster and undermine the sources of colonialism. Num Pages: 384 pages, 14 tables, 4 figures, 10 illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSE; HBJK; HBLH; HBTQ; HBTR; JFFA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 712. Weight in Grams: 653.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804751780
- ISBN
- 9780804751780
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.69
€ 86.69