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Hardback. From outlawing bowling in colonial America to regulating violent video games and synthetic drugs today, Mark Stein's Vice Capades examines the US's relationship with the actions, attitudes, and antics that have defined morality. This humorous and quirky history reveals that American views of vice are formed not merely by morals but by power. Num Pages: 312 pages, 11 photographs, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; HPQ; JFC; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781612348940
ISBN
9781612348940
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.81

Paperback. This book examines the colonial state's approach to venereal disease and 'vice'-driven health risks in the first half of the nineteenth century. Further, it shows that these decisions had wide-ranging and often surprising consequences not simply for the army itself, but for India and the empire more broadly. Shortlisted for the 2014 Templer Award. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBJF; HBTB; HBTQ; JPS; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 369.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
285
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349444519
ISBN
9781349444519
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.16

paperback. Presents an examination of the political and social construction of gender under the Vichy regime. This book argues that the regime used symbolic violence to reshape a liberal culture once based on individual rights into one of deference to hierarchical authority. Translator(s): Johnson, Kathleen A. Num Pages: 400 pages, 20 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 3JJH; HBJD; HBTB; HBWQ; JFSJ; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 234 x 30. Weight in Grams: 588.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822327745
ISBN
9780822327745
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.98

paperback. A disturbing account of the Vichy period, demonstrating how in the interests of stability, French national feeling favored collboration with the German-controlled regime. Num Pages: 438 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: 3JJH; HBJD; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 141 x 33. Weight in Grams: 570. Old Guard and New Order. 438 pages, portraits. A disturbing account of the Vichy period, demonstrating how in the interests of stability, French national feeling favored collboration with the German-controlled regime. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 3JJH; HBJD; HBWQ. Dimension: 209 x 141 x 33. Weight: 548.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
438
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231124690
ISBN
9780231124690
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.52

hardcover. Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France raises fundamental and disturbing questions about the ease with which democratic legal systems can be subverted. Num Pages: 472 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1; JFSR1; LNDA; LNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 725.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
472
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9783718658923
ISBN
9783718658923
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 175.17

Paperback. Explores the complexities of some of the most provocative episodes of Vichy's curious persistence in France's national consciousness. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803270947
ISBN
9780803270947
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.47

paperback. Tells the story of the series of campaigns the Union conducted on land and water to conquer Vicksburg and of the many efforts by the Confederates to break the siege of the fortress. Series: Great Campaigns of the Civil War. Num Pages: 242 pages, Illus., maps. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLL; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 341.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803293441
ISBN
9780803293441
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 22.10

Paperback. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
Number of pages
281
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349515844
ISBN
9781349515844
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.46

Hardback. Num Pages: 292 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; 1DVP; 1DVUA; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; JFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403932204
ISBN
9781403932204
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.41

Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 3JH; HBJK; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 168 x 8. Weight in Grams: 209.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Univ Tennessee Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781572333253
ISBN
9781572333253
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.77

Paperback. Series: Working Class in American History. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; AGB; AJB; AMB; BG; HBJK; JPF; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963. .
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252082306
ISBN
9780252082306
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

Hardback. Victor Considerant (1808-1893), a follower of the great utopian thinker Charles Fourier, played an important role in the creation of a Fourierist movement and the development of socialist journalism. This study offers a life story of one of the engaging figures among the French romantic intellectuals of the 1840s. Num Pages: 600 pages, 33 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; GTB; HBJD; HBLW; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 44. Weight in Grams: 939.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
600
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520222977
ISBN
9780520222977
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.72
€ 57.47

Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 171 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
Publisher
Gefen Publishing House Israel
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9789652294104
ISBN
9789652294104
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 15.90

Hardback. Series: African Histories and Modernities. Num Pages: 263 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, 1 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1HFMW; 3JJ; HBJH; HBTB; HBTQ; KNAT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
263
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137596918
ISBN
9781137596918
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.87

Paperback. Editor(s): Clark, Brenda; Kilburn, Nicole; Russell, Nick. Num Pages: 144 pages, colour & b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; HD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 8. Weight in Grams: 292.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Harbour Publishing Canada
Edition
Ill
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9781550174199
ISBN
9781550174199
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.00
€ 23.67

Hardcover. Victoria's Madmen is the story of those who were outcasts by temperament and choice; the non-conformists of the Victorian Age. Clive Bloom's readable account of the dark underbelly of Victoria's Britain captures the unrest bubbling under the surface of strait-laced Victorian society. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 161 x 30. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230313828
ISBN
9780230313828
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.53

Paperback. Num Pages: 319 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; HPC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
319
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349339327
ISBN
9781349339327
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.92

Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; G; HBJH; JPQ; JPS; JPVK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761809920
ISBN
9780761809920
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.65

paperback. Explores the early part of Queen Victoria's reign, when the British Empire was well on the way to becoming the greatest empire the world had ever seen. This title shows how Britain ruthlessly exploited her position as the world's only superpower to expand her empire. Num Pages: 560 pages, 24pp b&w inset. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 38. Weight in Grams: 406.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
paperback / softback
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141005553
ISBN
9780141005553
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.08

Paperback. The first comprehensively researched biography of Queen Victoria ever, by one of Britain's best biographers. This magnificent biography sheds new light on Victoria not just as a queen, but as a woman. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; BGH; BGR; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 58. Weight in Grams: 626.
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848879584
ISBN
9781848879584
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.06

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