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Regional & national history
Hardcover. Hundreds of thousands of workers toiled in Bohemian factories over the course of World War I, and their lives were inescapably shaped by the conflict. This study reconstructs their collective experience through explorations of food, labor, gender, and protest to assemble a fascinating case study in twentieth century social history. Num Pages: 224 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVKC; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; HBWN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 236 x 16. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785331282
- ISBN
- 9781785331282
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.22
€ 161.22
Paperback. Analyses how Victorians used the pathology of disease to express deep-seated anxieties about a rapidly industrialising England's relationship to the material world. Drawing on medicine, literature, political economy, sociology, anthropology, and popular advertising, the author explores the industrial logic of disease. Series: Body, Commodity, Text. Num Pages: 288 pages, 50 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822326168
- ISBN
- 9780822326168
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 20.31
€ 32.99
€ 20.31
Hardcover. "Published in collaboration with the Ca'anada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies." Num Pages: 520 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1DSE; BGH; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 167 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1008.
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 520
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845195359
- ISBN
- 9781845195359
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.14
€ 130.14
Hardcover. Editor(s): Brown, Nicholas; Kanouse, Sarah E. Series: Culture, Politics and the Built Environment. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AJ; HBJK; JFSL9; RG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 885.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Pittsburgh Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822944379
- ISBN
- 9780822944379
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.50€ 51.66
€ 52.50
€ 51.66
Paperback. Num Pages: 270 pages, 12 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 374. 270 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 16. Weight: 368.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 270
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520274426
- ISBN
- 9780520274426
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.05
€ 33.99
€ 25.05
Hardcover. This book demonstrates that many domestic and regional sociopolitical and cultural changes credited to the 1952 revolutionaries began decades before the July coup. Arguing against the view of the pre-revolutionary era in Egypt as one of decay, the volume considers the 1919-1952 years as integral to nation-state formation and social transformation. Editor(s): Goldschmidt, Arthur; Johnson, Amy J.; Salmoni, Barak A. Num Pages: 448 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; HBJH; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 164 x 236 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1034.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The American University in Cairo Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9789774249006
- ISBN
- 9789774249006
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 6.75
€ 24.99
€ 6.75
Hardcover. This volume traces continuities between the medieval and early modern period in the Nordic realm, enabling the Reformation and its changes to be seen in a new light. Editor(s): Lehtonen, Tuomas M. S.; Kaljundi, Ms Linda. Series: Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Num Pages: 482 pages, 41 full color. BIC Classification: 1DN; 1DVUC; 1DVUE; 1DVUF; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 162 x 31. Weight in Grams: 900.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Amsterdam University Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789089647375
- ISBN
- 9789089647375
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 203.27
€ 203.27
Paperback. The bestselling story of Britain's most courageous and most famous flyer, the Second World War hero Sir Douglas Bader. Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks. Num Pages: 384 pages, 8. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD1; HBWQ; JWG; WGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Publisher
- Phoenix
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780304356744
- ISBN
- 9780304356744
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.48
€ 17.99
€ 13.48
Hardcover. This study focuses on workers, women and peasants, and the ways in which their reading was constructed as a social and political problem, to analyze the fear of reading in 19th century France. The author presents a series of case studies of actual readers. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; CFC; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 459.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333921265
- ISBN
- 9780333921265
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.67€ 138.06
€ 146.67
€ 138.06
Hardback. The first book-length intellectual history of autodidacticism, this novel, thought-provoking work will interest a wide range of historians, including scholars of the history of science, philosophy, literature, Europe, and the Middle East. Num Pages: 208 pages, 31, 30 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: D; HBJD; HPDC; PDX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801897399
- ISBN
- 9780801897399
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.81
€ 77.81
Hardcover. A pathbreaking consideration of the intertwined critical responses to Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass, giants of abolitionist literature. Num Pages: 196 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571135773
- ISBN
- 9781571135773
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.58
€ 98.58
Hardback. This book examines the activities of William Blundell, a seventeenth-century Catholic gentleman, and using the approaches of the history of reading provides a detailed analysis of his mindset. The findings of the study challenge a historical determinism which removes Catholics from the mainstream of early-modern society. Series Editor(s): Lake, Peter; Milton, Anthony; Peacey, Jason; Gajda, Alexandra. Series: Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, black & white|Tables. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719080241
- ISBN
- 9780719080241
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.25
€ 156.25
Hardback. An investigation into the connections between military and literary culture in the late medieval period, and how warfare shaped such texts as Malory's Morte. Num Pages: 198 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; DSBB; HBJD1; HBLC1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843843245
- ISBN
- 9781843843245
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.45
€ 98.45
Hardback. Shows how hundreds of thousands of clay tablets testify to the history of an ancient society that communicated broadly through letters to gods, insightful commentary, and sales receipts. This book includes many passages, offered in translation, that allow readers an illuminating glimpse into the lives of Babylonians. Translator(s): Todd, Jane Marie. Num Pages: 336 pages, 46 halftones, 7 line illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1QDAB; 3D; CFLA; HBJF1; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 144 x 26. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Translation
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674049680
- ISBN
- 9780674049680
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.02€ 46.46
€ 50.02
€ 46.46
Hardcover. In Reading Arabia, Long explores the change in the tradition of British Orientalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He examines the role of mass print culture, including travel literature, newspapers, and silent films, in the construction of the British publics perception of Arabia Num Pages: 264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJF1; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd)
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815633235
- ISBN
- 9780815633235
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.29
€ 47.29
Paperback. This volume examines how gender, social class and ethnicity colour the storylines of those who experienced the horrors of Auschwitz, and asks whether we can or should make sense of Auschwitz. Series: Ethnographic Alternatives. Num Pages: 184 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSA; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761991878
- ISBN
- 9780761991878
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.31
€ 61.31
paperback. "An important collection of original articles, so full of insight that summarizing them seems an impossible task..The research is exciting and engaging." - American Historical Review Editor(s): Brown, Jennifer S. H.; Vibert, Elizabeth. Num Pages: 504 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1K; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 720.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 504
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551115436
- ISBN
- 9781551115436
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.32
€ 37.99
€ 34.32
Hardcover. Up until the end of the eighteenth century, the way Ottomans used their clocks conformed to the inner logic of their own temporal culture. This book unravels the complexity of Ottoman temporal culture and tells the story of its transformation. It presents us with a new understanding of the relationship between time and modernity. Num Pages: 312 pages, 14 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1QDT; 3JH; HBJF1; HBLL; HBTB; PGZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 15. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226257723
- ISBN
- 9780226257723
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.24€ 48.63
€ 57.24
€ 48.63
Hardcover. Asks how 'reading for the law' as literary history contributes to the progressive educational purposes of the Law and Literature movement. This title demonstrates the relevance of literary history to feminist jurisprudence and suggests how literary history might contribute to other forms of 'outsider jurisprudence'. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3J; DSB; HBJD; HBL; HBTB; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813928937
- ISBN
- 9780813928937
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.50
€ 72.50
paperback. Thoroughly-revised edition of best-selling one-year introductory course in ancient Greek for students and adults. Series: Reading Greek. Num Pages: 557 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 246 x 175 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1090. Grammar and Exercises. Series: Reading Greek. 560 pages. Thoroughly-revised edition of best-selling one-year introductory course in ancient Greek for students and adults. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA. Dimension: 246 x 175 x 27. Weight: 1096.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 560
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521698528
- ISBN
- 9780521698528
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.37
€ 41.37