Regional & national history
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Regional & national history
Paperback. Editor(s): Boomgaard, P. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 328 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; HBTQ; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349462513
- ISBN
- 9781349462513
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 118.62
€ 118.62
Hardcover. Drawing on extensive new research, and bringing much new scholarship before English readers for the first time, this wide-ranging volume examines how knowledge was created and circulated throughout the Dutch Empire, and how these processes compared with those of the Imperial Britain, Spain, and Russia. Editor(s): Boomgaard, Peter. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 328 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDN; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 170 x 23. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137334015
- ISBN
- 9781137334015
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.26
€ 119.26
Made famous through Evans-Pritchard's ethnography, the Nuer are the second largest ethnic group in South Sudan. They were the object of Britain's last pacification campaign in Africa. The contemporary administrative reports and more recent interviews with Nuer and Dinka participants collected here cover significant events from 1898 to 1930. Editor(s): Johnson, Douglas H. Series: Fontes Historiae Africanae. Num Pages: 350 pages, 6 including 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1HBS; 3JJ; HBJH; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780197265888
- ISBN
- 9780197265888
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.69
€ 101.69
Hardback. Astronomy was a popular part of Victorian science, and British atronomers travelled to remote areas to watch the sun eclipsed by the moon. This book shows how the organization of science, advances in photography, and new printing technology remade the character of scientific observation. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 224 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; PDX; PGG; PGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804739252
- ISBN
- 9780804739252
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.81
€ 135.81
Hardback. Waziristan, a region on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, has in recent years become a flash point in the so-called 'War on Terror'. Series: Library of Middle East History. Num Pages: 320 pages, 6 bw integrated illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 134 x 25. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848858961
- ISBN
- 9781848858961
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.01€ 114.88
€ 130.01
€ 114.88
Hardback. The French Revolution invented the notion of the citizen, but it also invented the noncitizen--the person whose rights were nonexistent. The South American outpost of Guiana became a depository for these outcasts of the new French citizenry, and an experimental space for the exercise of new kinds of power and violence against marginal groups. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 296 pages, 2 maps, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 242 x 24. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674057548
- ISBN
- 9780674057548
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Condition: New
€ 60.22€ 54.99
€ 60.22
€ 54.99
Hardback. Explores the history of British Atlantic trading colonies Series: Early American Places. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1QDB; 3JD; 3JF; HBJD; HBTQ; KCLT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 648.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814748831
- ISBN
- 9780814748831
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.15
€ 47.15
Paperback. When the locals and the rest of the world say 'New York', they mean Manhattan, a crowded island of commercial districts and residential neighborhoods, skyscrapers and tenements, fabulously rich and abjectly poor cheek by jowl. This title tells the story of the dreams that inspired the changes in the landscape and the problems that eluded solution. Editor(s): Rosenzweig, Roy; Benson, Susan Porter; Brier, Stephen; Rozenweig, Roy. Series: Critical Perspectives on the Past Series. Num Pages: 352 pages, 73 b&w illustrations, 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; AMVD; HBJK; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 17. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592132355
- ISBN
- 9781592132355
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 47.99
€ 53.99
€ 47.99
Paperback. The dean of New York history brings together a wide-ranging, eclectic, and entertaining survey of the best writing about the city of New York and its people Editor(s): Jackson, Kenneth T.; Dunbar, David S. Num Pages: 1008 pages, 5 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 224 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 1008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231109093
- ISBN
- 9780231109093
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 32.94
€ 46.99
€ 32.94
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBLX; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691156071
- ISBN
- 9780691156071
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 26.97
€ 37.99
€ 26.97
Paperback. Essays written by Antoinette Burton since the mid-1990s trace her thinking about modern British history and engage debates about how to think about British imperialism in light of contemporary events. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822349020
- ISBN
- 9780822349020
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 32.34
€ 32.99
€ 32.34
Hardback. A large number of hill stations were developed by the British in the Indian colony and these were chosen as the summer capitals and seats of administrative authority of the Raj. This work looks at the way the Empire was built in the hills through the sites of the church, schools, and sport activities to imitate the lifestyle of the British. Num Pages: 456 pages, 27. BIC Classification: HBJF; HBLL; HBTQ. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 38. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199463558
- ISBN
- 9780199463558
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.70
€ 75.70
Hardcover. Starting from the analysis of the Irish characters in Kipling's Indian stories, this book shows that the representation of the British Empire was greatly indebted to analogies and comparisons made between colonies. It contrasts two different ways of making colonial analogies: 'imperialist' and 'nationalist'. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 240 x 22. Weight in Grams: 467. Good clean copy in dustwrapper with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Cork University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0004385
- ISBN
- 9781859184080
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781416502937
- ISBN
- 9781416502937
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.87
€ 19.99
€ 15.87
Paperback. Empire of Law shows how seventeenth-century Indian claimants, by litigating and petitioning before Mexico City tribunals, became full participants in an early modern cosmopolitan legality that gave rise to a colonial politics of justice that struggled, with some success, against the utter degradation of subject peoples. Num Pages: 392 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTQ; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804776622
- ISBN
- 9780804776622
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 39.99
€ 40.99
€ 39.99
Paperback. A magnificent new volume in the acclaimed Oxford History of the United States, written by the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Gordon S. Wood. Series: Oxford History of the United States. Num Pages: 800 pages, 40 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 234 x 53. Weight in Grams: 1102.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 800
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199832460
- ISBN
- 9780199832460
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.69
€ 20.99
€ 16.69
Hardcover. Integrating all aspects of life, from politics and law to the economy and culture, "Empire of Liberty" offers a marvelous account of this pivotal era when America took its first unsteady steps as a new and rapidly expanding nation. Series: Oxford History of the United States. Num Pages: 800 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 244 x 61. Weight in Grams: 1218.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195039146
- ISBN
- 9780195039146
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 44.22
€ 45.99
€ 44.22
Paperback. Series: Culture and Society After Socialism. Num Pages: 392 pages, 27. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801489082
- ISBN
- 9780801489082
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.49
€ 33.99
€ 30.49
Hardback. Series: Culture and Society After Socialism. Num Pages: 392 pages, 27. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 742.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801442735
- ISBN
- 9780801442735
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 148.71
€ 148.71
Hardcover. Provides a counterhistory of the academic study of religion, an alternative to standard accounts that have failed to link the field of comparative religion with either the power relations or the historical contingencies of the imperial project. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; HBJH; HRAC; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 28. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226117263
- ISBN
- 9780226117263
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.92€ 89.82
€ 109.92
€ 89.82
Paperback. How is knowledge about religion and religions produced, and how is that knowledge authenticated and circulated? The author aims to answer these questions. He shows that race, rather than theology, was formative in the emerging study of religion in Europe and North America. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; HBJH; HRAC; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 22. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226117430
- ISBN
- 9780226117430
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 32.05
€ 41.99
€ 32.05
Paperback. Explains how both distinctive features of American culture - being exceptionally religious and exceptionally violent - work together Num Pages: 274 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HRCX6; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814768952
- ISBN
- 9780814768952
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.26
€ 32.99
€ 31.26
Paperback. Examines the networks that linked academics across the British settler world in the age of 'Victorian' globalization. Drawing on extensive archival research, remaps the intellectual geographies of Britain and its empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Series: Studies in Imperialism. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1QDB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTQ; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719099304
- ISBN
- 9780719099304
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.71
€ 46.71
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Griffin
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781250023209
- ISBN
- 9781250023209
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.80
€ 27.99
€ 24.80