Regional & national history
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Regional & national history
Paperback. China is a vast nation comprised of hundreds of distinct ethnic communities, each with its own language, history, and culture. This book recounts the history of the most sweeping attempt to sort and categorize the nation's enormous population: the 1954 Ethnic Classification project (minzu shibie). Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 line illustration, 4 maps, 22 tables. BIC Classification: 1F; HBJF; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 362. Ethnic Classification in Modern China. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. 256 pages, Illustrations, maps. China is a vast nation comprised of hundreds of distinct ethnic communities, each with its own language, history, and culture. This book recounts the history of the most sweeping attempt to sort and categorize the nation's enormous population: the 1954 Ethnic Classification project (minzu shibie). Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1F; HBJF; JFSL. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 16. Weight: 350.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520272743
- ISBN
- 9780520272743
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.26
€ 40.99
€ 29.26
Hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; BGH; HBJF1; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 164 x 26. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471789611
- ISBN
- 9780471789611
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.64
€ 27.99
€ 24.64
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781590218
- ISBN
- 9781781590218
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.42
€ 33.99
€ 24.42
Paperback. Rudolph Hoess was Commandant of Auschwitz during the war. He was taken prisoner by the British. Between his trial and his execution he was ordered to write his autobiography. This is it. Num Pages: 256 pages, 13. BIC Classification: 1DVP; BGHA; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 136 x 22. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicholson
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781842120248
- ISBN
- 9781842120248
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.86
€ 15.99
€ 11.86
Paperback. "Nobody describes a naval battle better than Taylor a flawless demonstration of the biographer s craft." Jan Morris, The Guardian" Num Pages: 384 pages, 8 pages of illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; BGH; HBJD1; HBLL; JWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 142 x 25. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393347067
- ISBN
- 9780393347067
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.73
€ 18.99
€ 17.73
Hardback. Long interested in Nazi Germany, Dixon, now an investigator for the London police, presents his first book on it, emphasizing what is most important to him: the personalities of the people involved. He profiles 162 SS officers who served at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, of whom some served during the entire time the camp was in operation, Num Pages: 256 pages, over 130 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; JWD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 287 x 228 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1426. The SS Officers Who Ran the Largest Nazi Concentration Camp, 1940-1945. 256 pages, Illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; JWD. Dimension: 287 x 228 x 24. Weight: 1420.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764321757
- ISBN
- 9780764321757
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.36€ 46.30
€ 65.36
€ 46.30
paperback. This volume contains the letters written during the Civil War by Colonel Patrick R. Guiney, of the Ninth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. This is the sixth volume in a series exploring "The Irish in the Civil War". Series: Irish in the Civil War. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; BJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HBWJ; JWTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 20. Weight in Grams: 479.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- SKU
- V9780823218134
- ISBN
- 9780823218134
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.12
€ 37.99
€ 34.12
Hardback. This volume contains the letters written during the Civil War by Colonel Patrick R. Guiney, of the Ninth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. This is the sixth volume in a series exploring "The Irish in the Civil War". Series: Irish in the Civil War. Num Pages: 280 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; BJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HBWJ; JWTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 22. Weight in Grams: 613.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823218127
- ISBN
- 9780823218127
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.45
€ 106.45
Hardback. Commander A.F.C. Layard, RN, wrote almost daily in his diary from 1913 until 1947. The pivotal 1943-45 years of this edited volume offer an extraordinarily full and honest chronicle, revealing Layard's preoccupations, both with the daily details and with the strain and responsibility of wartime command at sea. Editor(s): Whitby, Michael. Series: Studies in Canadian Military History. Num Pages: 320 pages, 30 b/w photos, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 3JJH; BGX; HBJK; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 4039. Weight in Grams: 699.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780774811934
- ISBN
- 9780774811934
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 43.58
€ 43.99
€ 43.58
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 189 x 23. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762787906
- ISBN
- 9780762787906
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.91
€ 20.99
€ 20.91
hardcover. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBW; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 196 x 31. Weight in Grams: 46.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Lyons Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780762782239
- ISBN
- 9780762782239
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 23.07
€ 30.99
€ 23.07
Paperback. Weaving together official documents, new research and veterans' own accounts, 'Commando' reveals the exhilarating full story of World War II's most formidable fighting force. Num Pages: 448 pages, Section: 16, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 124 x 29. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Digital original
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349123622
- ISBN
- 9780349123622
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.47
€ 17.99
€ 13.47
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 19 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; AM; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816683000
- ISBN
- 9780816683000
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.31
€ 30.99
€ 27.31
Paperback. Exploring the political and cultural layers of memory and commemoration Num Pages: 216 pages, 19 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252077883
- ISBN
- 9780252077883
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.29
€ 27.99
€ 26.29
Paperback. Commemorating the Irish Famine: Memory and the Monument explores the history of the 1840s Irish Famine in visual representation, commemoration and collective memory from the 19th century until the present, across Ireland and the nations of its diaspora, explaining why since the 1990s the Famine past has come to matter so much in our present. Series: Reappraisals in Irish History. Num Pages: 344 pages, 45 colour illustrations, 15 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBJD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 27. Weight in Grams: 768.
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781381694
- ISBN
- 9781781381694
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 32.90
€ 36.99
€ 32.90
Hardback. This is a study of the relationship between public commemoration and national identity in Egypt over the course of the twentieth century. By analyzing nationalism through the prism of public commemoration, the work extends our understanding of the shaping of national identity and the evolution of national imagining in modern Egypt. Series: Chicago Studies on the Middle East. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1HBE; HBJF1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 30. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Chicago, Middle East Documentation Center United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780970819918
- ISBN
- 9780970819918
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.97
€ 63.97
Hardback. The bloody events of the Paris Commune in 1871 traumatized France. In this study of cultural memory, the author draws on a range of sources to understand the resonating questions about the terrible year. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 22. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823226030
- ISBN
- 9780823226030
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.56
€ 81.56
Paperback. The third and final volume of Simon Hornblower's magisterial commentary on the history of the first 20 years of the Peloponnesian War written by the great fifth-century BC Greek historian Thucydides. Volume III covers the years 421-411 BC (Books 5.25 to 8.109). All Greek is translated, and there is a thematic Introduction. Num Pages: 1128 pages, Frontispiece, 6 figures, 8 maps. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 1128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199594450
- ISBN
- 9780199594450
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.68
€ 126.68
Hardback. Illuminates the relationship between Hume the political thinker, Hume the historian, and Hume the political economist and highlights the social, economic and institutional changes which he wove into an innovative theory of causation Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBAH; HBJD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783271870
- ISBN
- 9781783271870
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.32
€ 97.32
Hardback. Commerce by a Frozen Sea reveals Native Americans as industrious people and effective traders who achieved a standard of living in the eighteenth century higher than most workers in Europe. Num Pages: 264 pages, 25 illus. BIC Classification: HBJK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 584.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812242317
- ISBN
- 9780812242317
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.10
€ 66.10
Paperback. This edition of Francoise Pascal's collection epistolary highlights a rare, innovative and entertaining work by a woman writer unknown today, but in her time a distinguished playwright, poet and painter. Now in its first modern edition, this text provides new insights into seventeenth-century life and the discourses of galanterie and preciosite. Editor(s): Steinberger, Deborah. Series: Exeter French Texts. Num Pages: 78 pages, 1ill. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DN; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 115.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 78
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859896672
- ISBN
- 9780859896672
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.02
€ 50.02
Hardback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; DSB; HBJH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231164542
- ISBN
- 9780231164542
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.38€ 50.98
€ 65.38
€ 50.98
Paperback. Re-envisages what we know about African political economies through its examination of one of the key questions in colonial and African history, that of commercial agriculture and its relationship to slavery. Num Pages: 288 pages, 5 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1HFD; 3J; HBJH; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Publisher
- James Currey
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847011367
- ISBN
- 9781847011367
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 32.57
€ 33.99
€ 32.57
Hardback. Re-envisages what we know about African political economies through its examination of one of the key questions in colonial and African history, that of commercial agriculture and its relationship to slavery. Editor(s): Law, Robin; Schwarz, Suzanne; Strickrodt, Silke. Series: Western Africa Series. Num Pages: 290 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJH; HBLL; HBTQ; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 656.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- James Currey
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847010759
- ISBN
- 9781847010759
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.32
€ 97.32