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Regional & national history
Paperback. This work covers politics in Britain during the period of industrialization, focusing on how political meanings were sustained. It covers the goal of defining a middle ground between E.P. Thompson's concept of cultural materialism and the postmodern view of culture as a system of signs and codes. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 327.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804747882
- ISBN
- 9780804747882
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.59
€ 33.99
€ 33.59
Paperback. A critique of how New Deal laws (and later policies in their spirit) ostensibly written to protect women, actually subjegated them financially in the following generations. Num Pages: 384 pages, 22 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 234 x 25. Weight in Grams: 598.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780195158021
- ISBN
- 9780195158021
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.23
€ 35.23
Hardcover. Num Pages: 415 pages, maps. BIC Classification: HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 150. Weight in Grams: 726. Hardback in very good condition. With dustjacket. Some shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press
- Number of pages
- 415
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- KRF0026801
- ISBN
- 9780817303174
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Num Pages: 512 pages, 24 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTB; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 237 x 37. Weight in Grams: 816.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231172165
- ISBN
- 9780231172165
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.20
€ 46.99
€ 33.20
Paperback. Denise Lett argues that South Korea's contemporary urban middle class not only exhibits upper-class characteristics, but also has a culturally inherited disposition to seek high status. Combined with a favourable political and economic climate, many Koreans have thus been able to achieve it. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 270 pages, 3 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPKS; HBJF; HBLW; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674007819
- ISBN
- 9780674007819
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.36
€ 23.99
€ 20.36
Hardcover. This text reconstructs the history of the Sufi Naqshbandi brotherhood and its impact on the North Caucasus (Chechnya and Daghestan) in the early 19th century. It draws on Naqshbandi Arabic sources to explain the pivotal role of Sufism in transforming mountain society. Num Pages: 288 pages, 4 maps, b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FC; HBJD; HBJF; HBLL; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 763.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781850653844
- ISBN
- 9781850653844
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.09€ 57.85
€ 59.09
€ 57.85
paperback. Num Pages: 480 pages, 32 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 1KBB; HBJF; HBJK; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 134 x 29. Weight in Grams: 551.
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- Vintage ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780679767497
- ISBN
- 9780679767497
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.63
€ 23.99
€ 17.63
Hardcover. Almost unimaginably immense, North America stretches from a few degrees short of the North Pole to a few degrees shy of the equator. Archaeologists are now racing to unravel the mysterious past of the forgotten peoples who once inhabited this sprawling land. Num Pages: 228 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBJK; HBLC; HDDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471042372
- ISBN
- 9780471042372
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.15
€ 37.99
€ 29.15
Paperback. In the 1960s, Mississippi was the heart of white southern resistance to the civil-rights movement. This work shows how Mississippi leaders strategically accommodated themselves to the demands of civil-rights activists and the federal government seeking to end Jim Crow, and in so doing contributed to a vibrant conservative countermovement. Series: Politics and Society in Modern America. Num Pages: 384 pages, 26 halftones. 6 tables. 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBBS; HBJ; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691140940
- ISBN
- 9780691140940
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 30.67
€ 42.99
€ 30.67
Paperback. Through a combined philosophical, historical, and socio-legal methodology, this volume investigates the changing nature of criminal responsibility in English law from the mid-18th Century to the early 21st Century, arguing that ideas of character responsibility are enjoying a renaissance in the modern criminal law. Series: Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law & Justice. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKW; HBJD1; JKV; LAR; LNFX1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 158 x 234 x 15. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199248216
- ISBN
- 9780199248216
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 76.72
€ 76.72
Hardcover. On 29 July 1776, Franciscan friars Francisco Atanasio Dominguez and Silvestro Velez de Escalante embarked on an expedition to seek an overland route from Santa Fe, New Mexico to Monterey, California. This title presents accounts of the expedition alongside their photographic narrative. Num Pages: 232 pages, 145 b/w photos & 5 maps. BIC Classification: HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 287 x 236 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Museum of New Mexico Press United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780890135297
- ISBN
- 9780890135297
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.45€ 47.69
€ 61.45
€ 47.69
paperback. Relates the author's childhood in Palestine, the flight to Britain after the catastrophe of 1948, and coming of age in the coffee-bars of Golders Green, the middle-class Jewish quarter in North London. Num Pages: 452 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 3JJP; BGA; HBJF1; HBLW3; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 38. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781844673681
- ISBN
- 9781844673681
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.44
€ 38.44
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 310 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; 3J; HBJD; HBLC1; HPCB; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 19. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691639055
- ISBN
- 9780691639055
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.72
€ 146.72
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 310 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1KBB; HBJD; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 17. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691611013
- ISBN
- 9780691611013
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.19€ 41.59
€ 53.19
€ 41.59
Paperback. The twenty-nine essays in this book are insightful and sympathetic analyses of various facets of Gandi's multi-dimensional personality. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; BGH; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 311.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195672039
- ISBN
- 9780195672039
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.10
€ 39.10
Paperback. Presents the re-emerging sense of community within the German-speaking Jewish population of Germany and Austria in the two decades after World War I. This book shows that while Jews may have experienced a deepening sense of impending crisis and economic decline, a renewal of Jewish communal life took place as new groupings sprang up. Editor(s): Brenner, Michael; Penslar, Derek J. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 1DFG; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 21. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253212245
- ISBN
- 9780253212245
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.95
€ 26.99
€ 26.95
Paperback. Kazakhstan is the most surprising country on earth, and certainly one of the most tolerant. The only thing most people know about Kazakhstan is that it is homeland to Borat - and he isn't even real. Num Pages: 304 pages, maps & illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FCZ; HBJF; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Profile Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861971098
- ISBN
- 9781861971098
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 11.48
€ 12.99
€ 11.48
Hardback. The extraordinary life of Gertrude Bell was marked by myriad achievements. Although best known for her desert travels and her part in the creation of the modern state of Iraq, she also made a significant contribution to the field of archaeology. This book explores Bell's achievements, emphasizing the tenacious, inquisitive side of her personality. Num Pages: 192 pages, 80 bw integrated, line drawings. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1QDAM; 1QDT; AMGD; HBJF1; HBLW; HDDC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848854987
- ISBN
- 9781848854987
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.19€ 48.87
€ 53.19
€ 48.87
Hardback. A collection of essays that traces the post-cold-war transformation of Eastern Europe. Composed of history, memoir, and political critique, it shines a spotlight on the changes in Poland and the Eastern Bloc in the post-1989 years. Editor(s): Gross, Irena Grudzinska. Translator(s): Czarny, Roman S. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1DV; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520269231
- ISBN
- 9780520269231
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 29.54
€ 41.99
€ 29.54
Hardback. Reveals a significant Irish contribution beginning with the Golden Age of Alpine Mountaineering when the first ascents of mountains like the Eiger and Weisshorn and the first traverse of the Matterhorn from Italy were by Irish climbers. The varied backgrounds of Irish Alpine pioneers provide absorbing insights into nineteenth-century Irish society. Num Pages: 320 pages, Colour and b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1DFHA; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD1; WSZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 180 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1086.
- Publisher
- The Collins Press
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848891784
- ISBN
- 9781848891784
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.44
€ 19.99
€ 16.44
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Quest Books,U.S. United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 374
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780835607414
- ISBN
- 9780835607414
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.20
€ 30.99
€ 27.20
Paperback. Reflecting recent historical, textual and archaelogical research, this revised and updated edition of Michael Wood's classic book overturns preconceptions of the Dark Ages as a shadowy and brutal era, showing them to be a richly exciting and formative period in the history of Britain. Num Pages: 288 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3F; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Publisher
- BBC Books
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New Reprinted Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780563522768
- ISBN
- 9780563522768
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.33
€ 17.99
€ 13.33
Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages, 7 maps, 150 colour and bw illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 173 x 244 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1114.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781472530264
- ISBN
- 9781472530264
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 31.66
€ 31.99
€ 31.66
Paperback. Num Pages: 206 pages, B&W photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 203 x 17. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- City Lights Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872866478
- ISBN
- 9780872866478
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.84
€ 16.99
€ 15.84