Regional & national history
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Regional & national history
Paperback. This tells the story of Douglas Engelbart's revolutionary vision, reaching beyond conventional histories of Silicon Valley to probe the ideology that shaped some of the basic ingredients of contemporary life. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 312 pages, 50 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JH; PDX; UBJ; UKP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804738712
- ISBN
- 9780804738712
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.12
€ 37.99
€ 34.12
Hardback. A gripping narrative non-fiction tale about the rise of the early drug culture in America, by the author of the acclaimed Can't Find My Way Home Num Pages: 448 pages, 16 pages black-&-white photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 237 x 40. Weight in Grams: 668.
- Publisher
- INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306824753
- ISBN
- 9780306824753
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 22.97
€ 33.99
€ 22.97
Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 76 colour photos & 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; HBJK; HBLW; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stackpole Books United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811703932
- ISBN
- 9780811703932
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.91
€ 26.99
€ 20.91
Paperback. A historical analysis of the conflicting ideas about race and national belonging held by Mexicans and Euro-Americans in southern New Mexico during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth. Num Pages: 392 pages, 9 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBWX; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822347972
- ISBN
- 9780822347972
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.60
€ 32.99
€ 29.60
Hardback. Num Pages: 480 pages, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKEY; HBJD1; HBLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 848.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748632787
- ISBN
- 9780748632787
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 136.66€ 130.72
€ 136.66
€ 130.72
Hardcover. Num Pages: 312 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBAH; HBJF; JPF; KCG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804799232
- ISBN
- 9780804799232
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.98
€ 75.98
Paperback. Highlighting race as both an overt and underlying force that shaped life in and beyond the Zone, this title details how local traditions and colonial policies interacted and frequently clashed. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 368 pages, 21 photographs, 1 table, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KL; GTB; HBJK; HBLL; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822356783
- ISBN
- 9780822356783
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.75
€ 32.99
€ 29.75
Hardback. Highlighting race as both an overt and underlying force that shaped life in and beyond the Zone, this title details how local traditions and colonial policies interacted and frequently clashed. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 368 pages, 21 photographs, 1 table, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KL; GTB; HBJK; HBLL; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 617.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822356660
- ISBN
- 9780822356660
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.33
€ 115.33
Hardcover. Borderlands of Slavery explores how the existence of two involuntary labor systems-Mexican peonage and Indian captivity-in the nineteenth-century Southwest impacted the transformation of America's judicial and political institutions during the antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras. Series: America in the Nineteenth Century. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16 illus. BIC Classification: HBJK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812249033
- ISBN
- 9780812249033
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.95€ 66.96
€ 106.95
€ 66.96
Paperback. Explores the daily lives and shifting racial boundaries between groups as disparate as Apache resistance fighters, Chinese merchants, Mexican-American homesteaders, Midwestern dry farmers, Mormon polygamists, Serbian miners, New York mine managers, and Anglo women reformers. Num Pages: 384 pages, 20 halftones, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 1KLCM; HBJK; JFFN; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674060531
- ISBN
- 9780674060531
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 30.97
€ 36.99
€ 30.97
Hardcover. This is the most comprehensive analysis to date of women's involvement in British political culture in the first half of the 19th century. Innovative in its attention to both urban and rural experiences of politics, the volume also challenges many assumptions about contemporary politics, including fresh insights into the Reform Act of 1832. Series: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs. Num Pages: 332 pages. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; JFSJ1; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 242 x 24. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780197264492
- ISBN
- 9780197264492
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 102.41
€ 102.41
Borderline Crime: Fugitive Criminals and the Challenge of the Border, ...
Bradley The Osgoode Society; Miller
hardcover. Borderline Crime examines how law reacted to the challenge of the border in British North America and post-Confederation Canada.Miller also reveals how the law remained confused, amorphous, and often ineffectual at confronting the threat of the border to the rule of law. Series: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JKV; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781487501273
- ISBN
- 9781487501273
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.60
€ 67.60
Paperback. Editor(s): Lechevalier, Arnaud; Wielgohs, Jan. Num Pages: 270 pages, 2 colour illus. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; JFFS; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag Germany
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837624427
- ISBN
- 9783837624427
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 37.21
€ 51.99
€ 37.21
Paperback. The definitive word on Boris Johnson, the UK's most colourful politician who led the country to Brexit but missed out on becoming PM Num Pages: 432 pages, 3 x 8pp colour photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJP; 3JM; BGH; HBJD1; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 209 x 30. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781471162343
- ISBN
- 9781471162343
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.46
€ 15.99
€ 11.46
Paperback. When hundreds of thousands of Scots-Irish migrated to America in the eighteenth century, they brought with them long experience as rebels and outcasts as well as unparalleled skills as frontiersmen and guerrilla fighters. This book chronicles the epic journey of this remarkable ethnic group. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 1DBR; 1KBB; HBJD1; HBJK; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 154 x 29. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845964979
- ISBN
- 9781845964979
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.00€ 16.77
€ 19.00
€ 16.77
Paperback. The companion reader to the most readable, highly regarded, and affordable history of Latin America for our times. Editor(s): Chasteen, John Charles. Translator(s): Chasteen, John Charles. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBJK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2020
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- Second
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393283068
- ISBN
- 9780393283068
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.20
€ 26.99
€ 25.20
Paperback. An oral history of the Japanese American saga. It details the lives of first- and second-generation Japanese Americans before World War II with images drawn from interviews, songs, novels and newspaper articles. The heart of the story is the tragedy that followed the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Series: Pacific Formations: Global Relations in Asian & Pacific Perspectives. Num Pages: 432 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 149 x 29. Weight in Grams: 671.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742518520
- ISBN
- 9780742518520
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 74.93
€ 74.93
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; BTM; HBJF; HBLW; HBWS2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 209 x 17. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Akashic Books
- Edition
- 40th Anniversary ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781617754692
- ISBN
- 9781617754692
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.92
€ 17.99
€ 15.92
Paperback. This is a personal account of the Cultural Revolution. As a student, the author was caught up in dramatic events as, with jeers and chants, students-turned-Red Guards held mass rallies. The interplay between the perceptions of father and son offer an additional, unusual, perspective. Num Pages: 416 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPK; HBJF; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 137 x 26. Weight in Grams: 606.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804713696
- ISBN
- 9780804713696
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.25
€ 37.99
€ 34.25
Kennedy's systematic and thoughtful study distinguishes southern approaches to childbirth and motherhood from northern ones, showing how slavery and rural living contributed to a particularly southern experience. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; HBJK; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801894176
- ISBN
- 9780801894176
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 79.48
€ 79.48
Paperback. Kennedy's systematic and thoughtful study distinguishes southern approaches to childbirth and motherhood from northern ones, showing how slavery and rural living contributed to a particularly southern experience. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; HBJK; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421405803
- ISBN
- 9781421405803
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 32.74
€ 38.99
€ 32.74
hardcover. From literary journalist Sara Mansfield Taber comes a deep and wondrous memoir of her exotic childhood as the daughter of a covert CIA operative. Born under an Assumed Name portrays the thrilling and confusing life of a girl growing up abroad in a world of secrecy and diplomacy - and the heavy toll it takes on her and her father. Num Pages: 396 pages, 64 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BM; HBJK; HBTM; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 716.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Potomac Books United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 396
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597976985
- ISBN
- 9781597976985
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.30
€ 38.30
Paperback. The battle of Borodino was one of the greatest encounters in European history, and one of the largest and most sanguinary in the Napoleonic Wars. This title covers the events of Napoleon's disastrous Russian campaign of 1812 in its entirety, with the set-piece battle of Borodino proving the focal point of the book. Series: Campaign. Num Pages: 96 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.). BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWH; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 186 x 8. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849086967
- ISBN
- 9781849086967
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.00€ 15.59
€ 19.00
€ 15.59
Hardcover. The minutes of the Corporation provide fascinating detail of the social and economic life of the town. Num Pages: 456 pages, 16 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEAL; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 162 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1106.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910653029
- ISBN
- 9781910653029
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 50.25
€ 52.99
€ 50.25