Regional & national history
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Regional & national history
Paperback. Provides a detailed and sophisticated understanding of the Cuba of yesterday, today, and tomorrow. In addition to its concise narrative history, Cuba details the current political climate, economy, and the regime's future. Jaime Suchlicki discusses the domestic and international events that have affected this island nation in recent years. Num Pages: 278 pages, 11 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJC; HBJK; JPS; JPW; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc United States
- Edition
- 5th ed.
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781574884364
- ISBN
- 9781574884364
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 29.10
€ 29.99
€ 29.10
Paperback. The 1959 Cuban Revolution remains one of the signal events of modern political history. A tiny island, once a de facto colony of the United States, declared its independence, not just from the imperial behemoth ninety miles to the north, but also from global capitalism itself. Num Pages: 456 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJC; HBJK; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 210 x 34. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Publisher
- Monthly Review Press,U.S.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 3rd Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781583676059
- ISBN
- 9781583676059
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.35
€ 26.99
€ 23.35
Paperback. Series: Yale Nota Bene. Num Pages: 400 pages, 12 illus. BIC Classification: 1KJC; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780300111149
- ISBN
- 9780300111149
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.57
€ 21.99
€ 17.57
Paperback. Informative, pithy, and lucidly written, Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know, 3rd edition, is the best compact reference on Cuba's internal politics, its often fraught relationship with the United States, and its shifting relationship with the global community. Series: What Everyone Needs to Know. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJK; HBLW3; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 139 x 25. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190620370
- ISBN
- 9780190620370
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.44
€ 14.99
€ 12.44
Hardcover. In the 1960s and 1970s, catholicism offered Cuban exiles in US continuity: a community of faith, a place to gather, a sense of legitimacy as a people. Religion exerted a major influence on the beliefs and actions of Cuban exiles. This work provides insights for this community, and for other faith-based exile communities. Series: Latino Perspectives. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KL; HBJK; HBLW3; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268038328
- ISBN
- 9780268038328
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 141.73
€ 141.73
Paperback. In the 1960s and 1970s, religion exerted a major influence on the beliefs and actions of Cuban exiles as they integrated into US culture and tried at the same time to make sense of events in their homeland. This work provides insights for this community, and for other faith-based exile communities. Series: Latino Perspectives. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KL; HBJK; HBLW3; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268038335
- ISBN
- 9780268038335
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 35.75
€ 36.99
€ 35.75
paperback. Num Pages: 239 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJC; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Monthly Review Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780853458906
- ISBN
- 9780853458906
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.23
€ 17.99
€ 16.23
Hardcover. Num Pages: 264 pages, 7 halftones, 3 maps, 4 line drawings, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KJ; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226079356
- ISBN
- 9780226079356
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 35.66
€ 46.99
€ 35.66
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€ 31.30
€ 32.99
€ 31.30
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€ 14.75
€ 19.99
€ 14.75
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€ 22.19
€ 30.99
€ 22.19
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€ 22.47
€ 33.99
€ 22.47
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€ 33.59
€ 34.99
€ 33.59
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
€ 113.18
€ 113.18
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
€ 63.82
€ 63.82
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€ 37.94
€ 38.99
€ 37.94
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€ 25.62
€ 32.99
€ 25.62
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
€ 108.91
€ 108.91
Hardback. Editor(s): Martin, Scott C. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742527706
- ISBN
- 9780742527706
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 177.87
€ 177.87
Paperback. Editor(s): Martin, Scott C. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 167 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742527713
- ISBN
- 9780742527713
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.45
€ 70.45