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Regional & national history
Hardback. Focuses on Rome's historic Monti district and the wrenching dislocation caused by rapid economic, political, and social change. This book tells the story of the gentrification of Monti - once the architectural home of a community of artisans and shopkeepers now displaced by an invasion of rapacious real estate speculators, and corrupt officials. Num Pages: 368 pages, 6 halftones, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226329116
- ISBN
- 9780226329116
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.55€ 77.34
€ 94.55
€ 77.34
Hardcover. Focusin on two specific regions - Swabian Austria and the Electorate of Trier - this title provides an explanation of how the tensions between state power and communalism determined the course of witch hunts that claimed over 1,300 lives in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Germany. Translator(s): Stokes, Laura. Series: Studies in Early Modern German History. Num Pages: 312 pages, 9 b&w illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 1DFG; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; HRQX5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813928067
- ISBN
- 9780813928067
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
Paperback. Evil and barbarism continue to be associated with the totalitarian 'extremes' of twentieth-century Europe. Addressing domestic and imperial conflicts in modern Britain and beyond, as well as varied forms of representation, this volume explores the inter-relations of evil, atrocity and civilizational prejudice within liberal cultures of governance. Editor(s): Crook, Tom; Gill, Rebecca; Taithe, Bertrand. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD1; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349316977
- ISBN
- 9781349316977
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.15
€ 62.15
Paperback. Presents an overview of how the politics and policy decisions in the Islamic Republic of Iran have developed since the 1979 revolution and how they are likely to evolve in the near future. This title is suitable for undergraduates and the general public seeking to understand a country and regime that has mystified many outsiders for decades. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 figure, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJF1; HBLW3; HBLX; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781589019782
- ISBN
- 9781589019782
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.98
€ 70.98
Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 31. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 3JJ; 3JMC; HBJF1; HBLW; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801476754
- ISBN
- 9780801476754
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 34.56
€ 35.99
€ 34.56
Hardback. Num Pages: 232 pages, 16, 13 black & white halftones, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJG; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801449987
- ISBN
- 9780801449987
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.58
€ 62.58
Paperback. In this volume, Mudd reports on the results of an archaeological excavation undertaken during 1994, on an area of land at Melford Meadows, just outside Thetford. The excavation examined part of a Romano-British and early Saxon settlement occupying a low sandy ridge beside the River Thet. Series: East Anglian Archaeology S. Num Pages: 125 pages, 10 b/w pls, 63 b/w figs, 24 tbs. BIC Classification: 1DBKEAN; HBJD1; HBLA; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 297 x 210 x 7. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Oxford Archaeology United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 125
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780904220247
- ISBN
- 9780904220247
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.61
€ 26.61
Hardcover. Num Pages: 155 pages, 70 plates. BIC Classification: 1FBN; HBJF1; HBLA; HDDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 303 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1148.
- Publisher
- Jysk Arkaeologisk Selskab Denmark
- Number of pages
- 155
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788788415070
- ISBN
- 9788788415070
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.17
€ 33.17
Hardback. Offers a cultural history of the Pacific Northwest volcanoes and the environmental impact of outdoor recreation in this region. It probes the relationship betweenthese volcanoes and regional identity, particularly in the era of mass mountaineering and population growth in the Northwest. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 images. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK; HBTB; RBC; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 19. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780803265479
- ISBN
- 9780803265479
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.67
€ 47.67
Hardback. The American Civil War helped to isolate Catholics further from the rest of American society. The service of Catholic soldiers in the Union Army did not eradicate nativism or anti-Catholicism because so many other Catholic northerners prominently opposed the war and emancipation. Series: The North's Civil War. Num Pages: 250 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBWJ; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823267538
- ISBN
- 9780823267538
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.87
€ 135.87
Paperback. The American Civil War helped to isolate Catholics further from the rest of American society. The service of Catholic soldiers in the Union Army did not eradicate nativism or anti-Catholicism because so many other Catholic northerners prominently opposed the war and emancipation. Series: The North's Civil War. Num Pages: 250 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HRCC7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780823268863
- ISBN
- 9780823268863
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 41.25
€ 41.99
€ 41.25
Paperback. This interdisciplinary book intergrates the historical practices regarding material excrement and its symbolic representation, concluding that excrement is a moral and ethical category deserving scrutiny. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC; HBG; HBJD; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349540167
- ISBN
- 9781349540167
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 119.13
€ 119.13
Hardcover. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DCF; DSBB; HBJD1; HBLC1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 218 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403984883
- ISBN
- 9781403984883
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.49
€ 119.49
An original study based on never before seen State Department documents, this book examines reactions around the world to the execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. Num Pages: 288 pages, 20 ills. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBTB; HBTW; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190265885
- ISBN
- 9780190265885
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 40.92
€ 41.99
€ 40.92
Paperback. Editor(s): Nachmias, D. Series: Advances in Political Science. Num Pages: 176 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; JFC; JPA; JPP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 251.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349417315
- ISBN
- 9781349417315
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 119.13
€ 119.13
Paperback. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3D; HBJF; HBLA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231163095
- ISBN
- 9780231163095
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 30.49
€ 42.99
€ 30.49
Hardback. Translator(s): Kinney, Anne Behnke. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3D; HBJF; HBLA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231163088
- ISBN
- 9780231163088
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.19€ 88.27
€ 118.19
€ 88.27
Paperback. Exotic animals were coveted commodities in nineteenth-century Britain. Spectators flocked to zoos and menageries to see female lion tamers and hungry hippos. Helen Cowie examines zoos and travelling menageries in the period 1800-1880, using animal exhibitions to examine issues of class, gender, imperial culture and animal welfare. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349480906
- ISBN
- 9781349480906
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 138.83
€ 138.83
hardcover. Henri Garidel was expelled from occupied New Orleans by Federal forces after refusing to pledge loyalty to the Union. This is his diary from 1863 to 1865, in which he relates the trials and discomforts - physical, emotional, spiritual and professional - of life in a city foreign to him. Series: Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era. Num Pages: 544 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JH; BGHA; BJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 34. Weight in Grams: 894.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813920184
- ISBN
- 9780813920184
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.12
€ 75.12
Paperback. This interdisciplinary anthology highlights exiled/alienated women in literature, history, and cinema. Contributors investigate when and how women from diverse backgrounds have been relegated to the margins in order to shed light on the state of alienhood that stems from gendered otherness. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBJD; JFSJ; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 193
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349342549
- ISBN
- 9781349342549
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Paperback. Stressing the relationship between tsarism's service-state ethos and its utilization of subjects, this study argues that economic and political, rather than judicial or penological, factors primarily conditioned Siberian exile's growth and development. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJ; HBJD; HBL; JKV; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349358694
- ISBN
- 9781349358694
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.03
€ 62.03
Paperback. Despite reports of exile proving disastrous to the region, 300,000 Russian subjects, from political dissidents to the elderly and mentally disabled, were deported to Siberia from 1823-61. Their stories of physical and psychological suffering, heroism and personal resurrection, are recounted in this compelling history of tsarist Siberian exile. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJ; HBJD; HBJF; HBTB; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 303
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349323791
- ISBN
- 9781349323791
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 118.77
€ 118.77
Hardback. Explores the cultural and political significance of ostracism in democratic Athens. This book argues that ostracism was primarily a symbolic institution whose meaning for the Athenians was determined both by past experiences of exile and by its role as a context for the ongoing negotiation of democratic values. Num Pages: 376 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 657.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 362
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691119755
- ISBN
- 9780691119755
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 88.64€ 66.90
€ 88.64
€ 66.90
The only full-length study of existentialism in America, this highly engaging and original work provides an invaluable guide to the history of American culture since the end of the Second World War. Num Pages: 368 pages, 18, 17 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; HBJK; HBLW; HPCF3; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 32. Weight in Grams: 732.
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801870378
- ISBN
- 9780801870378
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.42
€ 64.42