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Paperback. Focuses on the state of liberty and shows how longstanding restraints against tyranny - and the rights of habeas corpus, trial by jury, and due process of law, and the prohibition of torture - are abridged. This book demonstrates how these ancient rights are laid aside when the greed of privatization and the ambition of empire seize a state. Num Pages: 376 pages, 13 b/w photographs, 1 line illustration, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 400. Liberties and Commons for All. 376 pages, Illustrations. Focuses on the state of liberty and shows how longstanding restraints against tyranny - and the rights of habeas corpus, trial by jury, and due process of law, and the prohibition of torture - are abridged. This book demonstrates how these ancient rights are laid aside when the greed of privatization and the ambition of empire seize a state. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC; LND. Dimension: 201 x 131 x 23. Weight: 384.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 376
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Abridged edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520260009
- ISBN
- 9780520260009
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.64
€ 33.99
€ 24.64
Paperback. Culzean Castle on the Ayrshire coast is the most visited property of the National Trust for Scotland. This lavishly illustrated book tells the whole history of the castle. Num Pages: 288 pages, 124 color photos, 24 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKSC; AMKL; HBJD1; HBTB; HBTG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 184 x 21. Weight in Grams: 946.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748617234
- ISBN
- 9780748617234
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 38.09
€ 43.99
€ 38.09
Paperback. Since the Pikes Peak gold rush in the mid-nineteenth century, women have gone into the mountains of Colorado to hike, climb, ski, homestead, botanize, act as guides, practice medicine, and meet a variety of other challenges, whether for sport or for livelihood. This book recounts their exploits. Num Pages: 276 pages, 2 maps, 65 photographs, chronology, glossary, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBWC; HBJK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803289956
- ISBN
- 9780803289956
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.38
€ 17.99
€ 17.38
Hardcover. The story of the Indian soldiery in the Great War needs a new telling and one important chapter of it will be about the Maharajah of Bikaner: Dashing, autocratic and a formidable public speaker, commander his own camel corps, he fought on the Western Front and in Egypt, became the first Indian general in the British Indian army. Series Editor(s): Sharp, Alan. Series: Makers of the Modern World. Num Pages: 224 pages, maps, black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 208 x 137 x 21. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Publisher
- Haus Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905791804
- ISBN
- 9781905791804
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.37
€ 17.99
€ 13.37
Paperback. An exceptionally dramatic life of Joan of Arc and her previously unchronicled mentor, Yolande of Aragon. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3H; HBJD; HBLC1; HBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 24. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780220291
- ISBN
- 9781780220291
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.81
€ 15.99
€ 11.81
Paperback. Looks at the Turkish territory of Northern Cyprus, a self-defined state, which is actually imaginary (because it is only recognized by Turkey). This title examines the sense of haunted property and objects lost and gained in the partition, along with people's relation to the fictive remapping of places and history by this new state. Num Pages: 296 pages, 12 photographs. BIC Classification: 1DVP; HBJF1; JPSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822352044
- ISBN
- 9780822352044
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.99
€ 37.99
€ 33.99
Paperback. Presents nine biographies that illuminate the careers, personalities and military campaigns of some of Rome's greatest statesmen, whose lives span the earliest days of the Republic to the establishment of the Empire. This title includes prominent figures who achieved fame for their pivotal roles in Roman history. Translator(s): Scott-Kilvert, Ian. Num Pages: 368 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; BGH; DNF; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140441581
- ISBN
- 9780140441581
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.29
€ 17.99
€ 13.29
Paperback. A history of the social and political changes over the course of the first millenieum AD, charting the leadership of tribal chiefs and Roman Generals, and how the initiative was seized after their departure by the dynamic warrior kings of the Picts, Scots, Vikings, Britons, and Anglo-Saxons. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Publisher
- Birlinn General
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780271736
- ISBN
- 9781780271736
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.19
€ 16.19
Hardback. This reassessment of the critical issues in modern Chinese history traces social, economic and ecological change in northern China during the late Qing Dynasty. It maps changes in local finance, farming, transportation, taxation and popular protest, and analyzes their consequences. Num Pages: 368 pages, 7 b&w illustrations, 5 tables, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 29. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520080515
- ISBN
- 9780520080515
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.14€ 49.55
€ 63.14
€ 49.55
Hardback. Daniel Siemens here provides a fascinating and gripping account of the background to Horst Wessel's murder and uncovers how and why the Nazis made him a political hero. At the same time it is a portrait of the Nazi propaganda machine at its most effective and most chilling. Num Pages: 320 pages, 30 integrated bw illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 31. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780760773
- ISBN
- 9781780760773
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.58€ 49.20
€ 53.58
€ 49.20
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691173726
- ISBN
- 9780691173726
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.34
€ 40.99
€ 29.34
Hardback. Provides an interpretation of the emergence of British socialism in the late 19th century. This title shows that British socialists responded to the dilemmas of economics and faith against a background of diverse traditions, melding economic theories opposed to capitalism with theologies which argued that people were bound in divine fellowship. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 164 x 28. Weight in Grams: 656.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691150833
- ISBN
- 9780691150833
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.48€ 50.75
€ 65.48
€ 50.75
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 314 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 19. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691640648
- ISBN
- 9780691640648
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.78€ 96.99
€ 129.78
€ 96.99
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 314 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JF; HBJF; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 17. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691612744
- ISBN
- 9780691612744
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.58€ 41.74
€ 53.58
€ 41.74
Paperback. This volume explores the processes and nature of change in the making of early medieval Indian society from the seventh to the thirteenth century AD. This edition comes with an extensive introduction highlighting a new framework for understanding early medieval India. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3F; 3H; HBJF; HBLC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 148 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198077251
- ISBN
- 9780198077251
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.11
€ 42.11
paperback. A wave of internal conquest, settlement and economic growth in Europe during High Middle Ages transformed it from a world of small separate communities into a network of powerful kingdoms. This book shows how Europe was itself a product of colonization, as much as it was later a colonizer, and what this did to shape the continent and the world. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140154092
- ISBN
- 9780140154092
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.37
€ 16.99
€ 12.37
Paperback. In this work, Christopher Dawson concludes that the period called the Dark Ages was not a barren prelude to the creative mediaeval world. Instead, he argues that it is better described as "ages of dawn", for it was in this period that the foundation of a unified European culture was laid. Series: Works of Christopher Dawson. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; HBJD; HBLC; JFC; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Catholic University of America Press
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813210834
- ISBN
- 9780813210834
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.56
€ 39.56
The Making of European Consumption. Facing the American Challenge.
. Ed(S): Lundin, Per; Kaiserfeld, Thomas
Paperback. American ideals and models feature prominently in the master narrative of post-war European consumer societies. This book demonstrates that Europeans did not appropriate a homogenous notion of America, rather post-war European consumption was a process of selective appropriation of American elements. Editor(s): Lundin, Per; Kaiserfeld, Thomas. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBJK; HBTB; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349476800
- ISBN
- 9781349476800
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.03
€ 69.03
Hardback. This is the first English language source reader that deals with post-war (West) Germany. Over 160 commented sources describe the political, social and economic developments that changed Germany from the abyss of Nazism into a prosperous ally of the West and into one of the driving forces of European integration. Series Editor(s): Bennett, Harry. Series: Documents in Modern History. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, black & white|Maps. BIC Classification: 1DFGW; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBJD; HBLW3; JPHV. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 30. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719080760
- ISBN
- 9780719080760
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.44
€ 117.44
The Making of History. Essays Presented to Irfan Habib.
. Ed(S): Panikkar, K. N.; Byres, Terence J.; ...
Hardback. Editor(s): Panikkar, K. N.; Byres, Terence J.; Patnaik, Utsa. Series: Anthem South Asian Studies. Num Pages: 650 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FK; HBJF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1293.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Anthem Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 650
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843310532
- ISBN
- 9781843310532
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.53€ 22.64
€ 59.53
€ 22.64
Paperback. The 500-year story of how, and why, our homes have come to be what they are, from the bestselling author of The Victorian City and The Victorian House. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; HBJD; HBJK; HBTB; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848878006
- ISBN
- 9781848878006
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.39
€ 19.99
€ 14.39
Hardcover. Num Pages: 448 pages, Integrated photographs throughout. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3J; HBJF; HBLH; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472924827
- ISBN
- 9781472924827
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 23.98
€ 36.99
€ 23.98
Paperback. An accessible history of Ireland from the earliest records. Lydon recounts, in colourful detail, the waves of settlers, missionaries and invaders which have gone to Ireland since pre-history and offers a perspective on Irish history up to present. Num Pages: 436 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBJD1; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 794. Very good copy. Press reviews pasted to inside front cover and end paper. Some pen scoring, text not affected, remains a very good copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0028524
- ISBN
- 9780415013482
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Explores the history of Japanese imperialism in Manchuria from the acquisition of a railway concession following the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5 to the founding of the puppet state of Manchoukuo in 1932. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 544 pages, 11 maps, 12 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPJ; 3JJ; GTB; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 25. Weight in Grams: 734.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674012066
- ISBN
- 9780674012066
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.92
€ 33.99
€ 28.92