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Regional & national history
Paperback. Despite the frequency with which criminals were sentenced to death, crime was still on the rise in England in the mid-1700s. Men were thrown in jail daily for everything from associating with gypsies to cutting down fruit trees and stealing sheep. This collection features the stories of the crimes committed and the subsequent punishments assigned. Num Pages: 176 pages, 55 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 529.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781626360440
- ISBN
- 9781626360440
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Condition: New
€ 17.10
€ 17.10
Paperback. One form of the new manly culture practised by American men in the late 19th century, developed out of the Protestant churches, was known as muscular Christianity. This study details how Protestant leaders promoted competitive sports and physical education to create an ideal of Christian manliness. Num Pages: 310 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HRCC9; JFSJ2; WS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674011250
- ISBN
- 9780674011250
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 33.13
€ 38.99
€ 33.13
Paperback. Examining various museums, this text argues that Americans built the institutions with the confidence that they could collect, organize, and display the sum of the world's knowledge. It discovers how they gave definition to different bodies of knowledge and how that knowledge was presented. Num Pages: 310 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; GM; HBJK; HBLL; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226114934
- ISBN
- 9780226114934
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 28.00
€ 34.99
€ 28.00
Paperback. Series: Public History in Historical Perspective. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GM; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781558499409
- ISBN
- 9781558499409
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.29
€ 40.29
Hardcover. In December 1863, Civil War soldiers took refuge from the dismal conditions of war and weather. This book examines the role of music in defining the social communities that emerged during this winter encampment. Num Pages: 360 pages, 23 photographs, 9 drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803245099
- ISBN
- 9780803245099
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.66
€ 59.66
Hardback. Music has been neglected by imperial historians, but this book shows that music is an essential aspect of identity formation and cross-cultural exchange. It explores the ways in which rational, moral, and aesthetic motives underlying the institutionalization of "classical" music converged and diverged in Britain and India from 1880-1940. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 232 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FKA; AVG; HBJD1; HBJF; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137311634
- ISBN
- 9781137311634
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Paperback. Over the past three centuries, supporters of German music ranging from music scholars to politicians have nurtured the notion that the German speaking world possesses a peculiar strength in the cultivation of music. This volume explores this notion and the role of music in identity Editor(s): Applegate, Celia; Potter, Pamela M. Num Pages: 296 pages, 7 line drawings, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DFG; AV; HBJD; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226021317
- ISBN
- 9780226021317
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.48
€ 40.99
€ 31.48
Paperback. Taken from Africa into slavery by the Portuguese, kidnapped by the British Navy and held captive aboard ship during the French wars of the 1790s before being abandoned in Falmouth, the story of Joseph Emidy deserves telling in its own right. Emidy became a prominent figure in the musical scene in Cornwall for his remaining years. Num Pages: 174 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; 3JH; AVGC5; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; HBTS; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 290.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 174
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780859893596
- ISBN
- 9780859893596
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.41
€ 39.41
Hardcover. CORK The aim of this book is to present a detailed account of music in Cork's civic life from the eighteenth century to 1900 and to examine the contexts in which it flourished. Num Pages: 277 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JF; 3JH; AVG; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Publisher
- Cork University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781782052203
- ISBN
- 9781782052203
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 39.00€ 31.26
€ 39.00
€ 31.26
Hardcover. Music and the Making of the Middle Class explores the making of middle-class culture by analyzing and comparing the ethos and organization of Leipzig's Gewandhaus and Birmingham's Triennial Festival. It employs a multidisciplinary approach to identify the social processes which formed the cultural configurations and meanings of art. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DFG; 3JH; AVGC4; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230545137
- ISBN
- 9780230545137
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.77
€ 66.77
Paperback. Num Pages: 308 pages, 2 line drawings, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1D; AV; HBJD; HBLH; HRQX2; HRQX5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 228 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226807928
- ISBN
- 9780226807928
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.91
€ 36.99
€ 29.91
Paperback. In this study, Erik Levi explores the ambiguous relationship between music and politics during one of the darkest periods of recent cultural history. Utilizing material drawn from contemporary documents, journals and newspapers, he traces the place of music in the Third Reich. Num Pages: 317 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; AVGC6; HBJD; HBLW; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 317
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333646939
- ISBN
- 9780333646939
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Condition: New
€ 183.03
€ 183.03
Paperback. Num Pages: 418 pages, 28 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; AV; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 792.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 418
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226489025
- ISBN
- 9780226489025
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 41.39
€ 52.99
€ 41.39
Paperback. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSA; HBJD1; HBL; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349515929
- ISBN
- 9781349515929
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.37
€ 126.37
Paperback. Drawing upon the philosophical insights of Friedrich Schlegel, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and Blixa Bargeld, this book explores the persistence of a critical-deconstructive approach to musical production, consumption, and reception in the German cultural sphere of the last two centuries. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AV; DSA; HBJD; HPN; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349497638
- ISBN
- 9781349497638
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.56
€ 126.56
Paperback. In Musicians in Transit Matthew B. Karush examines the careers of seven major twentieth-century Argentine popular musicians in the transnational context to show how their engagement with foreign genres, ideologies, and audiences helped them create innovative new music and shape new Argentine cultural and national identities. Num Pages: 280 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; AVGW; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822362364
- ISBN
- 9780822362364
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.67
€ 29.99
€ 27.67
Hardback. In Musicians in Transit Matthew B. Karush examines the careers of seven major twentieth-century Argentine popular musicians in the transnational context to show how their engagement with foreign genres, ideologies, and audiences helped them create innovative new music and shape new Argentine cultural and national identities. Num Pages: 280 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; AVGW; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822362166
- ISBN
- 9780822362166
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.46
€ 111.46
Paperback. Editor(s): Over, Berthold. Num Pages: 432 pages, 17 b/w & 7 colour illus. BIC Classification: 1D; AVGC3; AVGC4; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 149 x 27. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837635041
- ISBN
- 9783837635041
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 37.31
€ 50.99
€ 37.31
Hardcover. Num Pages: 754 pages, 16 colour illus. BIC Classification: 1DND; AVA; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 249 x 177 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1782.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press
- Number of pages
- 754
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788763505871
- ISBN
- 9788763505871
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.07€ 62.72
€ 80.07
€ 62.72
Hardback. Seema Alavi challenges the idea that all pan-Islamic configurations are anti-Western or pro-Caliphate. A pan-Islamic intellectual network at the cusp of the British and Ottoman empires became the basis of a global Muslim sensibility--a political and cultural affiliation that competes with ideas of nationhood today as it did in the last century. Num Pages: 501 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; 1QDT; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 170 x 43. Weight in Grams: 910.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674735330
- ISBN
- 9780674735330
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.12€ 50.06
€ 54.12
€ 50.06
hardcover. Series: Indiana Series in Middle East Studies. Num Pages: 294 pages, 20 charts, 12 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 1HBE; 1QDT; HBJF1; JFFS; JFSR2; JPB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253022813
- ISBN
- 9780253022813
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.27
€ 91.27
Paperback. Series: Indiana Series in Middle East Studies. Num Pages: 294 pages, 20 charts, 12 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 1HBE; 1QDT; HBJF1; JFFS; JFSR2; JPB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253023094
- ISBN
- 9780253023094
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.36
€ 36.99
€ 34.36
Paperback. Drawing on international and multidisciplinary expertise, this pioneering edited collection analyzing Islam in contemporary Ethiopia challenges the popular notion of a 'Christian Ethiopia' imagined as the century-old, never colonized Abyssinia, isolated in the highlands and dominated by Orthodox Christianity. Num Pages: 267 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJH; HRAC; HRAX; HRH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349459315
- ISBN
- 9781349459315
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.12
€ 66.12
Hardcover. Drawing on international and multidisciplinary expertise, this pioneering edited collection analyzing Islam in contemporary Ethiopia challenges the popular notion of a 'Christian Ethiopia' imagined as the century-old, never colonized Abyssinia, isolated in the highlands and dominated by Orthodox Christianity. Num Pages: 267 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJH; HRAC; HRH; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 27. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137325297
- ISBN
- 9781137325297
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86