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Regional & national history
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Bedford/St. Martin's
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312558130
- ISBN
- 9780312558130
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.62
€ 46.99
€ 41.62
Remembering Brown at Fifty: The University of Illinois Commemorates Br...
. Ed(S): Burton, Orville Vernon; O'Brien, Dav...
paperback. Original interpretations of Brown v. Board of Education's impact, fifty years later Editor(s): Burton, Orville Vernon; O'Brien, David. Num Pages: 456 pages, 21 Black & White photographs, 9 Color photographs, 9 charts, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 28. Weight in Grams: 748.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780252076657
- ISBN
- 9780252076657
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.03
€ 38.99
€ 35.03
Paperback. An amazingly rich window onto a lost world of African American history Num Pages: 464 pages, 33 photographs; 5 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; 1KBBES; 3JH; BGHA; HBJK; HBLL; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 865. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252074400
- ISBN
- 9780252074400
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.33
€ 30.99
€ 27.33
paperback. Demonstrates that Jamaica's troubles were caused not by lazy blacks but by the incompetence of absentee white planters operating within an obsolete colonial system. This book also shows that although large plantations languished, many former slaves worked tirelessly and became successful small-scale landowners. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KJWJ; HBJK; HBLL; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 209 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252073274
- ISBN
- 9780252073274
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.33
€ 30.99
€ 27.33
paperback. Traces the political journey of a leading worker radical whose life and experiences encapsulate radicalism's rise and fall in the United States. Integrating indigenous and international factors that determined the fate of American communism, this book provides an understanding of the basis for radicalism among twentieth-century American workers. Series: Working Class in American History. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252070518
- ISBN
- 9780252070518
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.83
€ 23.99
€ 21.83
paperback. Explores how unionized wage-earning women led the struggle to place women's employment rights on the national agenda, decisively influencing both the contemporary labor movement and second-wave feminism. This title unravels a complex history of how labor leaders accommodated and resisted working women's demands for change. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFSJ1; JHBL; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 22. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252068348
- ISBN
- 9780252068348
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.62
€ 33.99
€ 30.62
paperback. The customary picture of the World War II era in California has been dominated by accounts of the Japanese American concentration camps, African Americans, and women on the home front. This title examines significant wartime changes in the circumstances of immigrant groups that have been largely overlooked by historians. Editor(s): Lotchin, Roger W. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 graphs. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JJH; HBJK; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 381.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780252068195
- ISBN
- 9780252068195
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.83
€ 23.99
€ 21.83
paperback. Series: Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 712. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780252067075
- ISBN
- 9780252067075
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.62
€ 33.99
€ 30.62
paperback. Traces the care of dependent, delinquent, and disabled children in Illinois from the early nineteenth century onwards, focusing on the dilemmas raised by both public intervention and the lack of it. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252064111
- ISBN
- 9780252064111
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.92
€ 37.99
€ 33.92
Paperback. Num Pages: 166 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 330. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 166
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252064005
- ISBN
- 9780252064005
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.83
€ 23.99
€ 21.83
hardcover. Medieval Monsters shows how strange creatures sparked artists' imaginations to remarkable heights. Half-human hybrids of land and sea mingle with bewitching demons, blemmyae, cyclops and multi-headed beasts of nightmare and comic grotesques. Over 100 wondrous and terrifying images offer a fascinating insight into the medieval mind. Num Pages: 96 pages, 100 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3F; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC1; HBTB; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 198 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- British Library
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780712357906
- ISBN
- 9780712357906
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.77
€ 12.99
€ 10.77
paperback. The text presented here remains as faithful to the original Middle English as possible, without sounding archaic. Editor(s): Staley, Lynn. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 328 pages, bibliography, map. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DNF; HBJD1; HBLC; HRCS1; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 128 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Edition
- Critical
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780393976397
- ISBN
- 9780393976397
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Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.10
€ 21.99
€ 17.10
hardcover. Brings together a broad community of scholars to explore the history of illicit and alternative sexualities in Latin America's colonial and early national periods. This title examines how "the unnatural" came to inscribe certain sexual acts and desires as criminal and sinful, and more. Editor(s): Tortorici, Zeb. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 b/w, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBJK; JMU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- California University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520288140
- ISBN
- 9780520288140
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.87€ 54.12
€ 69.87
€ 54.12
Paperback. Num Pages: 386 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; HBLW; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 31. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Haymarket Books United States
- Number of pages
- 386
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781608464647
- ISBN
- 9781608464647
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 28.43
€ 32.99
€ 28.43
Hardcover. Examines the origins and development of early medieval commerce through an analysis of the dirham hoards from European Russia and the Baltic - between 750-900 - when Viking and Rus' merchants took fur and slaves south through European Russia to the markets of Khazaria and the 'Abbasid caliphate. Series: Variorum Collected Studies. Num Pages: 352 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1DV; 3F; HBG; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 782.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Ashgate Publishing Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780860786573
- ISBN
- 9780860786573
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.50
€ 194.50
Paperback. Jacobs travelled to Holocaust sites across Europe to explore representations of women. She reveals how these memorial cultures construct masculinity and femininity, as well as the Holocaust's effect on stereotyping on grounds of race or gender. Num Pages: 224 pages, 12 integrated bw illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848851030
- ISBN
- 9781848851030
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.04
€ 43.04
hardcover. A unique compilation of diverse sources, many in English translation for the first time, this book documents the Mexican Revolution, explains its popular and agrarian nature, and helps to clarify its often perplexing conflicts, alliances, and issues. Series: Fighting Words. Num Pages: 287 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLC; HBJK; HBLW; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 168 x 27. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Greenwood United States
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846450372
- ISBN
- 9781846450372
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.69
€ 80.69
Paperback. Num Pages: 340 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBBS; HBJK; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Lean Marketing Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781604732467
- ISBN
- 9781604732467
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.96
€ 42.96
paperback. Num Pages: 326 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; 3JJPK; HBJH; HBLW3; HBW; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 214 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- AFRICA WORLD PRESS United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592214730
- ISBN
- 9781592214730
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.66
€ 37.66
Black Portsmouth: Three Centuries of African-American Heritage (Revisi...
Sammons, Mark J.; Cunningham, Valerie
paperback. Few people think of a rich Black heritage when they think of New England. In ' Black Portsmouth', Mark J. Sammons and Valerie Cunningham celebrate it, guiding the reader through more than three centuries of New England and Portsmouth social, political, economic, and cultural history as well as scores of personal and site-specific stories. Series: Revisiting New England S. Num Pages: 280 pages, 56 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; HBJK; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 21. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of New Hampshire Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781584652892
- ISBN
- 9781584652892
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.85
€ 30.85
Paperback. Presents a chronological and topical description of the founding and growth of cities in the United States, from the first European settlements until 1920, addressing the economic, social, and political aspects of urban development. This book is useful for undergraduates enrolled in American history survey courses. Num Pages: 174 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Krieger Publishing Company
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781575241654
- ISBN
- 9781575241654
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.59
€ 28.59
paperback. This set of diaries (1841-1864) brings to light the journal notations of James Henry Hammond, a prominent South Carolina planter and slaveholder. They reveal a man whose fortune and intellect combined to make him an important leader, but whose flaws kept him from true greatness. Num Pages: 372 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGHA; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University South Carolina Pr United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 372
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781570032226
- ISBN
- 9781570032226
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.31
€ 30.31
paperback. Covering the full spectrum of political, economic, diplomatic as well as cultural and intellectual history, this classroom resource offers insight not only into the past but also into Japan's contemporary civilisation. This volume (the first of two) covers up to the late 18th century. Num Pages: 322 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3D; 3F; 3H; 3J; HBJF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Routledge United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 322
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781563249075
- ISBN
- 9781563249075
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 86.26
€ 86.26
Paperback. In the 10th-century, Bukhara was a cultural center that rivaled Baghdad, and was known as "the dome of learning in the East." It was a dynamic metropolis, capital of the semi-independent dynasty that ruled Iran and Central Asia. This work presents insights into life in Eastern Iran and Central Asia during a period of change in the Islamic world. Editor(s): Frye, R. N. Translator(s): Frye, R. N. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBN; HBJF1; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Markus Wiener Publishing Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781558764194
- ISBN
- 9781558764194
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.38
€ 31.38