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Regional & national history
hardcover. Beyond the Nation? outlines how German-Canadians invented ethnicity under Canadian expectations, and provides moving case studies of how notable immigrant groups integrated into Canadian society. Num Pages: 320 pages, 10 Figures, 2 Maps. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1KBC; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 27. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442642782
- ISBN
- 9781442642782
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.86
€ 76.86
Paperback. How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that swept across modern China? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? How did the citizens of Shanghai cope with the epic upheavals - revolution, war, and again revolution - that shook their lives? In this carefully researched study, Hanchao Lu weaves rich. Num Pages: 473 pages, 36 b/w photographs, 2 maps, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 473
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520243781
- ISBN
- 9780520243781
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 31.19
€ 43.99
€ 31.19
Paperback. Beyond the Palio is an interdisciplinary collection of essays examining the components and importance of ritual events and ceremonies in Renaissance Siena. * Brings together studies based upon diverse disciplinary and methodological approaches to a common theme. Editor(s): Jackson, Philippa; Nevola, Fabrizio. Series: Renaissance Studies Special Issues. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 9. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405155724
- ISBN
- 9781405155724
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.84
€ 28.84
Hardback. The "Second Sophistic" traditionally refers to a period at the height of the Roman Empire's power that witnessed a flourishing of Greek rhetoric and oratory, and since the 19th century it has often been viewed as a defense of Hellenic civilization against the domination of Rome. This book proposes a very different model. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; 3D; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 151 x 25. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 295
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520276819
- ISBN
- 9780520276819
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 38.89
€ 54.99
€ 38.89
Paperback. Through moving oral histories, Ji-Yeon Yuh tells an important, at times heartbreaking, story of Korean military brides. She takes us beyond the stereotypes and reveals their roles within their families, communities, and Korean immigration to the U.S. Series: Nation of Nations. Num Pages: 283 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 1KBB; HBJF; HBJK; HBLW3; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 224 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814796993
- ISBN
- 9780814796993
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.18
€ 28.18
Hardback. This book challenges the usual ways in which development and change are regarded in rural Africa and provides a corrective to state-centred studies of development. Series: International African Library. Num Pages: 224 pages, 3 maps, 9 black & white illustrations, 6 black & white tables, 1 map, 9 b+w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFGU; HBJH; JFC; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748635184
- ISBN
- 9780748635184
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.61€ 111.86
€ 117.61
€ 111.86
Paperback. From Jewish clothing merchants to Bangladeshi curry houses, ancient docks to the 2012 Olympics, the area east of the City has always played a crucial role in London's history. The East End was the home to Shakespeare's first theatre and to the early stirrings of a mass labour movement. This book offers an illustrated history of this district. Num Pages: 384 pages, 50 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 198 x 33. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300187755
- ISBN
- 9780300187755
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.77
€ 20.99
€ 16.77
Paperback. Examining imperial efforts to police urban space from the late sixteenth century onward, the author shows how the production of urban space was explicitly centered on the politics of racial exclusion and social control. Num Pages: 296 pages, 24 b/w. BIC Classification: 1KJC; HBJK; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520286047
- ISBN
- 9780520286047
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.94
€ 40.99
€ 28.94
Hardback. Examining imperial efforts to police urban space from the late sixteenth century onward, the author shows how the production of urban space was explicitly centered on the politics of racial exclusion and social control. Num Pages: 296 pages, 24 b/w. BIC Classification: 1KJC; HBJK; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520286030
- ISBN
- 9780520286030
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.08€ 71.58
€ 94.08
€ 71.58
Paperback. * First published in 1986 as WINTER IN THE MORNING, this edition has been updated and expanded by the author. *'A profound and moving book which everyone ought to read' Alan Sillitoe, New Statesman Series: VMC. Num Pages: 304 pages, Section: 8, b/w. BIC Classification: 1DVP; BGH; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844083190
- ISBN
- 9781844083190
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.74
€ 14.99
€ 11.74
Hardback. Timbuktu is famous as a center of learning from Islam's Golden Age. Yet it was one among many scholarly centers to exist in precolonial West Africa. Ousmane Kane charts the rise of Muslim learning in West Africa from the beginning of Islam to the present day and corrects lingering misconceptions about Africa's Muslim heritage and its influence. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: HBJH; HRH; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674050822
- ISBN
- 9780674050822
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 41.71
€ 49.99
€ 41.71
Paperback. These essays rethink the nature of Stalinism and Nazism and establish a new methodology for viewing their histories. Editor(s): Geyer, Michael E.; Fitzpatrick, Sheila. Num Pages: 552 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1DVUA; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 36. Weight in Grams: 776.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780521723978
- ISBN
- 9780521723978
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.58
€ 36.99
€ 31.58
Paperback. The Nigerian civil war of the late 1960s was one of the first occasions when Western consciences became aware of the suffering and atrocity being played out in the African Continent. This book talks about this incident. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrated. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; 3JJPK; HBJH; HBLW3; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844155231
- ISBN
- 9781844155231
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.07
€ 17.99
€ 14.07
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books Inc.
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780345314277
- ISBN
- 9780345314277
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.05
€ 20.99
€ 19.05
paperback. BIC Classification: HBJF1; JPVH3. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Cune Press, LLC United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781614571353
- ISBN
- 9781614571353
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 21.04
€ 31.99
€ 21.04
Paperback. For over 100 years, the Regina Public Library has served its community with innovative programming, but the full story of this venerable institution has never been told-until now. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJQ; JK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 171. .
- Publisher
- University of Regina Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780889774827
- ISBN
- 9780889774827
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.46
€ 36.99
€ 31.46
Hardcover. Num Pages: 925 pages, dust jacket. BIC Classification: 1DVH; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 235 x 55. Weight in Grams: 1378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- East European Monographs United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 925
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780880336871
- ISBN
- 9780880336871
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.08€ 71.25
€ 94.08
€ 71.25
Paperback. This fascination selection of photographs, collected over recent years from people whose families have spent their lives in Biddulph, recreates those heady, often hard days, when men toiled in the coalmines and ironworks and woman supplemented the family income spinning cotton and silk, and cutting fustain, in the local textile mills. Series: Archive Photographs. Num Pages: 128 pages, 200ill. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; WQH; WQP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 173 x 9. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752410173
- ISBN
- 9780752410173
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.27
€ 17.99
€ 16.27
Paperback. A history of Bideford Series: Britain in Old Photographs. Num Pages: 128 pages, photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 165 x 10. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Publisher
- Sutton Pub
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750911559
- ISBN
- 9780750911559
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.35
€ 17.99
€ 16.35
Paperback. Num Pages: 227 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 136 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Publisher
- Canadian Plains Research Center
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780889771963
- ISBN
- 9780889771963
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.22
€ 19.99
€ 18.22
Hardback. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; HBJK; VXQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 24. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stackpole Books United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811711166
- ISBN
- 9780811711166
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 20.73
€ 25.99
€ 20.73
Hardback. Big Brother, Little Brother provides a fascinating case study of the impact of American culture on South Korea during the Johnson administration. Num Pages: 168 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBJF; HBLW3; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739104354
- ISBN
- 9780739104354
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 136.23
€ 136.23
Paperback. Bestselling author of NATHANIEL'S NUTMEG, Giles Milton takes us on another fascinating and extraordinary historical adventure. Num Pages: 432 pages, B/W maps and illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1KB; 1QDB; 3JB; HBJD1; HBLH; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 29. Weight in Grams: 292. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- paperback / softback
- SKU
- KKD0005696
- ISBN
- 9780340748824
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. In 2016 the University of Nebraska Press celebrates its 75th anniversary. In honour of this anniversary, the Press has produced Big House on the Prairie, which features a narrative of press highlights, profiles of key historical employees, and lists its 75 most significant books, 30 journals, and 75 most noteworthy book covers. Num Pages: 96 pages, 18 photographs. BIC Classification: HBJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 7. Weight in Grams: 168.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803288126
- ISBN
- 9780803288126
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.42
€ 11.42