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Regional & national history
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Regional & national history
Paperback. This book argues that regional food culture is intrinsic to how Chinese connect to the past, live in the present, and imagine their future. It focuses on Shanghai-a food lover's paradise-and identifies the importance of regional food culture at pivotal moments in the city's history, and in Chinese history more generally. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, maps, fig. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804786911
- ISBN
- 9780804786911
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.73
€ 32.99
€ 29.73
Paperback. This text, using contemporary memoirs, letters, newspapers and regimental order books, reconstructs the common man's version of the Moorland Battle and the repression and brutality that followed it for the highlanders. It challenges the rose-tinted legend of Bonnie Prince Charlie and Culloden. Num Pages: 368 pages, 8pp b/w halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBJD1; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 132 x 26. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Publisher
- Pimlico
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780712668200
- ISBN
- 9780712668200
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.06
€ 19.99
€ 15.06
Hardback. The story of Culloden, one of the most important battles in Scottish history - how it was fought, how it has been remembered, and what it has come to mean Series: Great Battles. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HBW; HRAM9. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199664078
- ISBN
- 9780199664078
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.34
€ 30.99
€ 22.34
Hardback. Trevor Royle does for Culloden what Juliet Barker did for Agincourt, bringing us the definitive account of the battle and its wider role in the creation of the British Empire. Num Pages: 432 pages, 8pp b/w. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408704011
- ISBN
- 9781408704011
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 23.01
€ 33.99
€ 23.01
Paperback. This study questions the idea that the introduction of coffee to Latin America forced most people to become landless proles working on large plantations. It suggests that small and medium-sized growers in Nicaragua were vital to the economy, constituting the farming and land-owning majority. Series: Ohio RIS Latin America Series. Num Pages: 312 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCN; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; JFSF; KCZ; KNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 130 x 585. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780896802278
- ISBN
- 9780896802278
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.94
€ 34.99
€ 31.94
Hardback. The voices of Chinese immigrants who settled in the pre-1950s Canadian prairies come alive in this extraordinary record of migration, settlement, and community life. Series: Contemporary Chinese Studies. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774828000
- ISBN
- 9780774828000
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.30
€ 107.30
Hardback. Num Pages: 344 pages, 15. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801446290
- ISBN
- 9780801446290
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.12
€ 60.12
Paperback. Num Pages: 344 pages, 15, 15 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; JPFC; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801479748
- ISBN
- 9780801479748
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.26
€ 38.99
€ 35.26
Paperback. Combining archaeological and textual evidence, this book examines the eighth-century settlements that became the city-states of classical Greece (the polis). The author suggests that the Athenian model was probably the exception, not the rule, in the development of the polis. Num Pages: 176 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA; HDDK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 147 x 215 x 11. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226673349
- ISBN
- 9780226673349
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.96
€ 32.99
€ 25.96
Paperback. Demonstrates that speculation and capital, the commodity, the crowd, traffic, and the street, often thought to be historically specific to nineteenth-century urban culture, were in fact already at work in early modern London and Paris. This title challenges the notion of a rupture between premodern and modern societies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 30 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 1DDF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691141107
- ISBN
- 9780691141107
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 30.87
€ 42.99
€ 30.87
Hardback. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; HBJF; HBLL; JFC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 32. Weight in Grams: 953.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804740449
- ISBN
- 9780804740449
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.15
€ 103.15
Hardcover. Argues that destruction of Iraqi culture was aimed at remaking Iraq as US client state. Editor(s): Baker, Raymond William; Ismael, Shereen T.; Ismael, Tareq Y. Num Pages: 312 pages, 6 figures. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 3JMC; HBJF1; HBLX; HBTB; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780745328133
- ISBN
- 9780745328133
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 100.78€ 84.13
€ 100.78
€ 84.13
Hardcover. Num Pages: 344 pages, 88 b&w illus., 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBJK; JFC; JHBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 178 x 14. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780262034050
- ISBN
- 9780262034050
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.66€ 58.98
€ 61.66
€ 58.98
Hardback. Examines the army occupying Arizona and New Mexico in the nineteenth-century, its officers, their wives, and the enlisted men as agents of an American empire Num Pages: 360 pages, 9 photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBWX; 1KBBWZ; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JWD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 36. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780803232525
- ISBN
- 9780803232525
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.32
€ 60.32
Paperback. The history of the British-Spanish Society, an example of 'soft' or cultural diplomacy between countries. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DSE; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJD; HBTB; JHMC; JPSD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 234 x 18. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781781382752
- ISBN
- 9781781382752
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 6.23
€ 12.99
€ 6.23
Paperback. Series: Jews, Christians and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691176185
- ISBN
- 9780691176185
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.56
€ 26.99
€ 20.56
Paperback. Num Pages: 462 pages, 33 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTP; JFCX; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 178 x 22. Weight in Grams: 820.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 462
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226317588
- ISBN
- 9780226317588
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.91€ 48.72
€ 56.91
€ 48.72
Paperback. Editor(s): Rogge, Joerg. Num Pages: 260 pages, 12 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBTB; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag Germany
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837617245
- ISBN
- 9783837617245
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.66
€ 45.99
€ 32.66
Hardcover. Num Pages: 452 pages. BIC Classification: 1HF; HBJH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 267 x 216 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Publisher
- Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780884024101
- ISBN
- 9780884024101
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.41€ 55.56
€ 60.41
€ 55.56
Hardback. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; ACG; HBJD; HBLA1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Publisher
- Getty Trust Publications United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781606064627
- ISBN
- 9781606064627
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 88.93€ 68.43
€ 88.93
€ 68.43
Hardback. This book is a historical and archaeological examination of the prehispanic Isthmus Zapotec state, and the responses that its descendant populations made to the complex political, economic, and cultural changes introduced by Spanish colonialism. Num Pages: 352 pages, 1 table, 6 figures, 23 illustrations, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBLH; HDD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804733885
- ISBN
- 9780804733885
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.06
€ 92.06
Paperback. Num Pages: 360 pages, 33. BIC Classification: 1DVWR; 3JJG; HBJD; HBWN; JFC; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801486883
- ISBN
- 9780801486883
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.41
€ 41.99
€ 37.41
Hardback. Demonstrates that Polybius' work performs a literary and political balancing act of heretofore unappreciated subtlety and interest. This book shows how Polybius contrived to tailor his historiography for multiple audiences, comprising his fellow Greeks, whose freedom Rome had usurped in his own generation, and the Roman conquerors. Series: Hellenistic Culture and Society. Num Pages: 343 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 32. Weight in Grams: 684.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 343
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520237643
- ISBN
- 9780520237643
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.18€ 64.94
€ 84.18
€ 64.94
Paperback. Sets out to answer two empirical questions. Is there a substantively consistent and temporally persistent Chinese strategic culture? If so, to what extent has it influenced China's approaches to security? This work focuses on the Ming dynasty's grand strategy against the Mongols (1368-1644). Series: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics. Num Pages: 328 pages, 1 map 27 line illus. 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLC; HBLL; JFC; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 233 x 19. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 322
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691002392
- ISBN
- 9780691002392
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.66
€ 54.99
€ 39.66