Regional & national history
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Regional & national history
Paperback. Presents a guided tour through centuries of history of Italy. This book examines Machiavelli and Mussolini, popes, pilgrims and prostitutes, cliques and conspiracies, Casanova and the crippling power of the Church. It also shows us a divided nation, injustice, ignorance, poverty and fear. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140145953
- ISBN
- 9780140145953
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.21
€ 17.99
€ 13.21
Paperback. Sublime and maddening, fascinating yet baffling, Italy is a country of endless paradox and seemingly unanswerable riddles. This book is suitable for anyone seeking to understand contemporary Italy and the unique character of the Italians. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; GTB; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241957622
- ISBN
- 9780241957622
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.70
€ 14.99
€ 11.70
Hardcover. KERRY Editor(s): O'Sullivan, Anne; Sheehan, John. Series: Archaeology/medieval studies. Num Pages: 480 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLA; HD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 294 x 206 x 0. Weight in Grams: 2060. 461pp
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Cork University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780902561847
- ISBN
- 9780902561847
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.00€ 49.45
€ 59.00
€ 49.45
Paperback. Meyers's book is a major study in Jacksonian democracy and in the art of analyzing political communications. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 20. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1967
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- SKU
- V9780804705066
- ISBN
- 9780804705066
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.33
€ 34.99
€ 31.33
Hardback. The cultural, political and specifically religious experiences of these adventurers had an effect on British history that is impossible to overestimate, with the influence most strongly evident in the art, architecture and furniture styles of the Jacobean period. Num Pages: 336 pages, 70 bw integrated, 12 colour in 8pp plates, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 164 x 38. Weight in Grams: 706.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780767833
- ISBN
- 9781780767833
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.06€ 53.45
€ 58.06
€ 53.45
Paperback. Series: Studies in Modern History. Num Pages: 317 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
- Number of pages
- 317
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349511532
- ISBN
- 9781349511532
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 122.32
€ 122.32
Hardback. Series: Studies in Modern History. Num Pages: 317 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 507.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 317
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403912916
- ISBN
- 9781403912916
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.11
€ 123.11
Paperback. A clear and demythologised account of the military campaigns waged by the Jacobites against the Hanoverian monarchs. Num Pages: 224 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLH; HBLL; HRAM9; JWLF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781902930299
- ISBN
- 9781902930299
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.94
€ 36.94
Hardcover. Following the Glorious Revolution the court of the exiled Stuarts was for many years based in France, until after the failure of the Jacobite rising of 1715, it was forced to move, eventually to be established in Rome. This book provides the first study of the court in transition, when exiled King James III lived in the Palazzo Ducale at Urbino. Series: Studies in Modern History. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230220041
- ISBN
- 9780230220041
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.53
€ 64.53
Hardback. The Jacquinot Zone, in Shanghai, is the first example in history of a successful safe zone that provided protection and security to half a million Chinese refugees living in a battle zone during wartime. Num Pages: 224 pages, 29 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPJ; GTB; HBJF; HBWQ; JFFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804757935
- ISBN
- 9780804757935
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.53
€ 45.53
Paperback. The true story behind one of the most audacious raids of World War Two. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784290177
- ISBN
- 9781784290177
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.27
€ 17.99
€ 13.27
Paperback. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 1FBQ; HBJF1; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474426374
- ISBN
- 9781474426374
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.30
€ 31.99
€ 29.30
Paperback. From the fifteenth to the sixteenth century, the janissaries were the scourge of Europe. Their loyalty to their corps was infinite, as the Ottomans conquered the Balkans as far as the Danube, and Syria, Egypt and Iraq. Who were they? Why were they an elite? Why did they decline and what was their end? This book aims to answer these questions. Num Pages: 288 pages, 18 Ill. BIC Classification: HBJF; HBLL. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Publisher
- Saqi Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780863567407
- ISBN
- 9780863567407
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.38
€ 19.99
€ 18.38
Paperback. Series: Contemporary Asia in the World. Num Pages: 240 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1FPK; HBJF; JPS; JPSD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231171717
- ISBN
- 9780231171717
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 21.99
€ 29.99
€ 21.99
Hardback. Translator(s): Grimwade, Karen. Series: Asia Perspectives: History, Society and Culture. Num Pages: 376 pages, 27 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBAH; HBJF; HBWQ; JFCA; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231177023
- ISBN
- 9780231177023
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.99€ 56.24
€ 71.99
€ 56.24
Paperback. Drawing on recent scholarship this study effectively re-examines Japan's policies in Korea from 1910 to 1945 and contributes to the growing field of historical revisionism in Korean colonial history. Num Pages: 250 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1FPK; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- MerwinAsia United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781937385705
- ISBN
- 9781937385705
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 43.75
€ 51.99
€ 43.75
paperback. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; HBJK; HBL; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001
- Number of pages
- 209
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349394685
- ISBN
- 9781349394685
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 121.83
€ 121.83
Hardcover. This study redraws the world of the overseas Japanese. Using the Japanese language press of Brazil, it explains the development of a community with its own, often aggressively independent or ironic views of identity, institutions, education, leisure, and on Japan itself. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JJ; HBJF; HBJK; HBLW; JFFN; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333636862
- ISBN
- 9780333636862
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.47
€ 122.47
Paperback. In early 1920 in Hawaii, Japanese sugar cane workers, faced with spiraling living expenses, defiantly struck for a wage increase to $1.25 per day. The event shook the traditional power structure in Hawaii. This book demonstrates that the event had consequences reaching all the way up to the eve of World War II. Editor(s): Duus, Peter. Translator(s): Cary, Beth. Num Pages: 386 pages, 6 b/w photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJK; HBLW; JFSL; KNXB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 481. Good clean copy with some minor reader wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- SKU
- KTM0009107
- ISBN
- 9780520204850
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Editor(s): Duus, Peter; Myers, Ramon H.; Peattie, Mark R. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 494 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLL; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 857.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2019
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 494
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691632629
- ISBN
- 9780691632629
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 193.92€ 146.13
€ 193.92
€ 146.13
Hardback. '..a tightly argued and excellent book.' - William D. Wray, Journal of Japanese Studies How did Japan, despite her lack of natural resources, become the world's leading iron and steel producing country? This book examines how the collaboration between government and industry created this economic miracle. Series: Studies in the Modern Japanese Economy. Num Pages: 346 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; KCC; KCZ; KNJH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 591.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 346
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333611319
- ISBN
- 9780333611319
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 187.07
€ 187.07
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 202 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; HBTB; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 457.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691634951
- ISBN
- 9780691634951
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.66
€ 103.66
Paperback. A work on modern Japanese colonialism and imperialism. It includes essays that seek to illuminate some of the significant processes and institutions during the period when the empire was at war. Editor(s): Duus, Peter; Myers, Ramon H.; Peattie, Mark R. Num Pages: 432 pages, 8 halftones, 12 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 235 x 25. Weight in Grams: 616.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691145068
- ISBN
- 9780691145068
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 33.13
€ 45.99
€ 33.13
Paperback. During the mid-1790s, citizens of the newly formed US became embroiled in a divisive debate over a proposed commercial treaty with Great Britain. This book argues that the debate over the ratification of the Jay Treaty represented more than a clash over foreign policy between pro-treaty Federalists and anti-treaty Jeffersonian Republicans. Series: Political Development of the American Nation: Studies in Politics and History. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Edition
- Studies in Politics and History series
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781558496699
- ISBN
- 9781558496699
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.33
€ 39.33