Regional & national history
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Regional & national history
Paperback. Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction; the extraordinary and forgotten story behind the building of the First World War cemeteries. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white). BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN; JWTY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007456680
- ISBN
- 9780007456680
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.50
€ 15.99
€ 12.50
Hardcover. Catherine L. Phipps examines a largely unacknowledged system of "special trading ports" that operated under full Japanese jurisdiction in the shadow of the better-known treaty ports. Phipps demonstrates why the special trading ports were key to Japan's achieving autonomy and regional power during the pivotal second half of the nineteenth century. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; KCLT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 161 x 29. Weight in Grams: 564.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674417168
- ISBN
- 9780674417168
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.20
€ 45.99
€ 38.20
Hardback. A study of the role of family and trade networks in shaping the American West in the nineteenth century. Series: History of the American West. Num Pages: 648 pages, 43 illustrations, 12 maps. BIC Classification: 1KB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 163 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1100.
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803224056
- ISBN
- 9780803224056
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.32
€ 60.32
Paperback. A brilliant new history of the Caribbean. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 33. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Main Market Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447217282
- ISBN
- 9781447217282
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.29
€ 17.99
€ 14.29
Paperback. A history of the colonial tea plantation regime in Assam, which brought more than one million migrants to the region in northeast India, irrevocably changing the social landscape. Series: Radical Perspectives. Num Pages: 344 pages, 12 photographs, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; JFFN; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822350491
- ISBN
- 9780822350491
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.67
€ 32.99
€ 29.67
Paperback. Editor(s): Tyrrell, Ian; Sexton, Jay. Series: The United States in the World. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBAH; HBJK; HBTR; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 23. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801479199
- ISBN
- 9780801479199
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.51
€ 48.51
Hardback. A study of the late Mongol empire in Northeast Asia during mid-fourteenth century. It focuses on the themes such as: the need for a regional perspective encompassing all states and ethnic groups in the area; the process and consequences of pan-Asian integration under the Mongols; and, the need to see Koryo Korea as part of the wider Mongol empire. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 450 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1F; HBJF; HBLC1; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 161 x 38. Weight in Grams: 828.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 450
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780674036086
- ISBN
- 9780674036086
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 46.12
€ 54.99
€ 46.12
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099532392
- ISBN
- 9780099532392
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.47
€ 17.99
€ 13.47
Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: 1DFA; 3JF; ACQ; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 262 x 210 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1248.
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271037226
- ISBN
- 9780271037226
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.11€ 102.17
€ 123.11
€ 102.17
Paperback. A brand-new biography of one of the most extraordinary figures of Antiquity. Num Pages: 352 pages, 3 x 8pp colour plate sections. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; BGH; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 114 x 187 x 23. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857381637
- ISBN
- 9780857381637
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.35
€ 17.99
€ 13.35
Hardcover. Zenobia was acknowledged in her lifetime as beautiful and clever, gathering writers and poets, artists and philosophers around her at the Palmyrene court. This narrative explores the legendary queen and charts the progression of her unequivocal declaration, not only of independence of Rome, but of supremacy. Num Pages: 216 pages, 10 bw illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBS; BGH; HBJF; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 164 x 23. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publisher
- Continuum
- Number of pages
- 216
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847250346
- ISBN
- 9781847250346
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.20
€ 90.20
Hardback. Exploring the production of lack and desire through fine-grained ethnography, this volume examines how diagnoses of emptiness operate in a range of very different domains in contemporary China. Editor(s): Bregnbaek, Susanne; Bunkenborg, Mikkel. Num Pages: 200 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785335808
- ISBN
- 9781785335808
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.32
€ 154.32
Paperback. Today Israel's Separation Wall swallows land, separating Palestinian farmers from their fields, and Israeli settlements grow in the Occupied Territories. Revealing the Israel-Palestine landscape primarily as one of enclosure, this title sheds light on Israel's actions. Num Pages: 392 pages, 32 b/w photos, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FB; 1KBB; HBJD1; HBJF1; HBJK; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520291058
- ISBN
- 9780520291058
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.82
€ 33.99
€ 24.82
Paperback. Reprint of a primary source which gives important insights into the Danish conquest of England in the early eleventh century. Editor(s): Campbell, Alistair. Series: Camden Classic Reprints. Num Pages: 268 pages, 5 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; BGR; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Revised
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521626552
- ISBN
- 9780521626552
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.46
€ 43.46
Paperback. Num Pages: 392 pages, 7 bw line; 57 bw halftone. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190624545
- ISBN
- 9780190624545
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.70
€ 63.70
Hardcover. Bringing together key historical and innovative ethnographic materials on the peoples of the South-West Province of Cameroon and the Nigerian borderlands, this volume presents critical and analytical approaches to the production of ethnic, political, religious, and gendered identities in the region. Editor(s): Fowler, Ian; Fanso, Verkijika G. Series: Cameroon Studies. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1HFJA; HBJH; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845453367
- ISBN
- 9781845453367
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.80
€ 155.80
Hardback. The text studies how various Western, Japanese, and Chinese businesses struggled with the persistent dilemma in China of how to retain control over corporate hierachies while adapting to dramatic changes in Chinese society, politics and foreign affairs from 1880-1937. Num Pages: 269 pages, 11 b/w photographs, 15 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; 3JJ; GTB; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; KCZ; KJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 269
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520216259
- ISBN
- 9780520216259
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.03€ 45.45
€ 58.03
€ 45.45
Paperback. Encountering Ellis Island lays bare the profound and sometimes-victorious story of people chasing the American Dream: leaving everything behind, facing a new language and a new culture, and starting a new American life. Series: How Things Worked. Num Pages: 184 pages, 10, 10 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFFN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 152 x 229 x 11. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- 1st Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421413686
- ISBN
- 9781421413686
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.58
€ 27.99
€ 24.58
Hardcover. This collection of essays focuses on multiple aspects of textiles and dress, their making, meaning, and representation and explores the impact of international trade and other forms of cultural exchange. They include perspectives of archaeology, economics, religion and material culture. Editor(s): Koslin, Desiree G.; Snyder, Janet. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; 3H; AFW; HBJD1; HBLC; JFCK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 433.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 2003rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312293772
- ISBN
- 9780312293772
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.44
€ 134.44
Paperback. It shows how the very presence of Saint-Dominguan refugees stirred in Americans as many questions about themselves as about the future of slaveholding, stimulating some of the earliest debates about nationalism in the early republic. Series: Early America: History, Context, Culture. Num Pages: 280 pages, 11, 11 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJH; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421405810
- ISBN
- 9781421405810
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.65
€ 37.65
Paperback. Presents a survey of the methods and means of the exchange of goods within the Byzantine empire. Num Pages: 64 pages, 80 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3H; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 180 x 8. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Publisher
- D Giles Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 64
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904832270
- ISBN
- 9781904832270
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.84
€ 9.99
€ 8.84
Paperback. The Mandan Indians, iconic plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the centre of the North American universe. Why don't we know more? Who were they, really? This book retrieves their history by piecing together important discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, geology, climatology, and more. Num Pages: 480 pages, 73 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 141 x 41. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Hill and Wang
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780374535117
- ISBN
- 9780374535117
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.35
€ 23.99
€ 20.35
Hardback. During the three decades from 1945 to 1975, the Catholic Church in West Germany employed a broad range of methods from empirical social research. Statistics, opinion polling, and organizational sociology, as well as psychoanalysis and other approaches from the "psy sciences," were debated and introduced in pastoral care. Translator(s): Evans, Andrew. Series: Studies in German History. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFGW; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; HRCC2; HRCC7. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 220 x 26. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782383444
- ISBN
- 9781782383444
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 166.94
€ 166.94
Hardcover. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; GBC; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 149 x 40. Weight in Grams: 852.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- New Dawn Press United States
- Edition
- 5 Revised
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781932705492
- ISBN
- 9781932705492
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 26.79
€ 40.99
€ 26.79