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Regional & national history
Paperback. A masterful account of one of the most disastrous missteps in in American foreign policy, The Bay of Pigs gives the engrossing story of the US-backed invasion of Cuba in April of 1961 by 1400 exiled Cubans. Series: Pivotal Moments in American History. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJC; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199754250
- ISBN
- 9780199754250
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.72
€ 20.99
€ 19.72
Paperback. Series: Pivotal Moments in American History. Num Pages: 288 pages, 30 halftones. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLL; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199754243
- ISBN
- 9780199754243
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.39
€ 40.39
Paperback. Why America Fights explores how the U.S. government has sold war aims designed to rally public support throughout the 20th century. Num Pages: 352 pages, 53 halftones. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLW; HBWS; JPVN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199753963
- ISBN
- 9780199753963
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99
€ 54.99
Num Pages: 360 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; JPVH1; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 166 x 28. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199752027
- ISBN
- 9780199752027
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 91.87
€ 91.87
Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages, 12 pages b/w plates, 22 b/w halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 235 x 35. Weight in Grams: 622.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199751570
- ISBN
- 9780199751570
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.54
€ 22.54
Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages, 24 black and white photos. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JPWL; JWXK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199744695
- ISBN
- 9780199744695
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.54
€ 52.54
Hardcover. One hundred and fifty years ago the Civil War began, and its hold on the American imagination has not abated since. This volume offers a concise history of the era, and serves as a necessary introduction to dramatic events that fundamentally reshaped the nation. Num Pages: 136 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199740482
- ISBN
- 9780199740482
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.45
€ 21.99
€ 20.45
Leading historian G.W. Bowersock provides a narrative account of a fascinating but overlooked chapter in pre-Islamic Arabian history - the holy war between Christian Ethiopians and Jewish Arabs in the sixth century AD. Series: Emblems of Antiquity. Num Pages: 208 pages, 8 illus. 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FBX; 3F; HBJF1; HBLC; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199739325
- ISBN
- 9780199739325
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.15
€ 62.15
Hardcover. Series: Woodrow Wilson Center Book. Num Pages: 544 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; HRAX; HRCC8. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 165 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1046.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199736133
- ISBN
- 9780199736133
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.75
€ 109.75
This is the first modern critical edition of Alexander Barclay's translation of Sallust's Bellum Jugurthinum, a history of the war between the Romans and Jugurtha, King of Numidia. Published in 1522, it was one of the first translations of a classical text into English. Editor(s): Waite, Gregory. Series: Early English Text Society Original Series. Num Pages: 550 pages, 2 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: DB; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 40. Weight in Grams: 716.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 550
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199688197
- ISBN
- 9780199688197
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.41
€ 135.41
In this volume, an international group of leading academics undertake an examination of epit=edeumata ('way of life') in Greek history, looking at cultural practices as acts which relate meaningfully to perceived sequences of past acts. Editor(s): Moreno, Alfonso; Thomas, Rosalind. Num Pages: 288 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; 3D; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 22. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199668885
- ISBN
- 9780199668885
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 168.77
€ 168.77
The story of the mass bombing of British and German cities in World War II - and how these two very different societies tried to cope with the material devastation and psychological trauma that was visited upon them. Num Pages: 736 pages, 9 black and white in-text half-tones. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 168 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1208.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 736
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199668519
- ISBN
- 9780199668519
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.95
€ 75.95
The Unbridled Tongue is a book about talking too much and why it was considered not just inadvisable but dangerous in sixteenth-century Europe. Drawing on a wide range of sources and approaches, it is the first book to address Renaissance literary portrayals of gossip and rumour in a social, religious, political, and historical frame. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; DSBD; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199662302
- ISBN
- 9780199662302
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.91
€ 150.91
The first history of the Joint Intelligence Bureau - an organisation designed to preserve and advance British capability in military intelligence for the Cold War - shedding light on the largely unknown world of military and economic intelligence after 1945, and how this intelligence influenced British policies throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 black and white image. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBJD1; HBLW3; HBTW; JPSH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199657025
- ISBN
- 9780199657025
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 169.21
€ 169.21
Hardback. This volume presents six essays by notable scholars examining fine bindings, provenances, historical associations and technical aspects of the holdings of the Arcadian Library, London. With its precise scholarship, detailed information, original research and lavish illustration, it will be a standard work for bibliophiles and book scholars. Editor(s): Mandelbrote, Giles; de Bruijn, Willem. Series: Studies in the Arcadian Library. Num Pages: 408 pages, c. 730 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; WCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 328 x 249 x 48. Weight in Grams: 2880.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199654819
- ISBN
- 9780199654819
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 312.19
€ 312.19
Hardcover. The history of Oxford University Press spans five centuries of printing and publishing. This third volume begins with the establishment of the New York office in 1896. It traces the expansion of OUP in America, Australia, Asia, and Africa, and far-reaching changes in the business and technology of publishing up to 1970. Editor(s): Louis, Wm Roger. Series: History of Oxford University Press. Num Pages: 912 pages, 229 b/w illustrations in text, 8pp colour plates. BIC Classification: 1DBKESF; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBTB; HBTK; KJZ; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 245 x 56. Weight in Grams: 1752.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 904
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199568406
- ISBN
- 9780199568406
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 264.07
€ 264.07
Hardback. A landmark study which reconsiders in fresh and illuminating ways the classic themes of the nation's history since the sixteenth century, as well as a number of new topics which are only now receiving detailed attention. Places the Scottish experience firmly in an international historical experience. Editor(s): Devine, T.; Wormald, Jenny. Series: Oxford Handbooks. Num Pages: 720 pages, 2 maps and 5 black and white images. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBJD1; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 177 x 253 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 720
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199563692
- ISBN
- 9780199563692
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 243.97
€ 243.97
Hardcover. The latest from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography-authoritative and accessible biographies of more than 800 people who shaped national life and who died from 2001 onwards, with over 250 portrait images. This volume extends the coverage of the Oxford DNB, first published as a 60-volume print set in 2004. Editor(s): Goldman, Lawrence. Num Pages: 1280 pages, numerous halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BGH; GBCB; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 196 x 53. Weight in Grams: 2022.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199562442
- ISBN
- 9780199562442
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 241.97
€ 241.97
This book concerns a polyglot medical manuscript, Kitab al-Musta'ini, by Jewish physician, Ibn Baklarish for his Muslim patron, al-Musta'in bi-llah (reg. Saragossa 1085 - 1110). Tables give properties, uses, and names in other languages, of over 700 medicinal substances. Latin and Romance annotations attest to Christian readers. Editor(s): Burnett, Charles. Series: Studies in the Arcadian Library. Num Pages: 216 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HRAF; MBX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 326 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1734.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199543069
- ISBN
- 9780199543069
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 246.50
€ 246.50
This book analyses the social, cultural and political consequences of the telegraph in British India between 1850 and 1930. It demonstrates in how far the telegraph influenced and changed newspaper reportage in British India and, at the same time, to what extend it influenced the Indian national movement after the turn of the nineteenth century. Num Pages: 324 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBTQ; KNTJ; KNTT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Publisher
- OUP India India
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199472178
- ISBN
- 9780199472178
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.23
€ 70.23
Hardcover. Num Pages: 413 pages, 9 Maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJH; HBJF; HBLW; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199463534
- ISBN
- 9780199463534
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.17
€ 111.17
Hardcover. Num Pages: 336 pages, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDA; 3D; HBJD; HBJF; HBLA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- OUP India India
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199460854
- ISBN
- 9780199460854
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.88
€ 73.88
Hardcover. The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru is the single most important, authoritative, and reliable source on Nehru's life, work, and thought. This volume includes lectures, writings, letters, speeches, and other literary works of Nehru during November 1959. Editor(s): Palat, Madhavan K. Series: Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru. Num Pages: 726 pages, 27 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBLW3; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 171 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1320.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199451296
- ISBN
- 9780199451296
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.78
€ 92.78
Hardcover. The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru is the single most important, authoritative, and reliable source on Nehru's life, work, and thought. This volume includes lectures, writings, letters, speeches, and other literary works of Nehru during September 1959. Editor(s): Palat, Madhavan K. Series: Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru. Num Pages: 366 pages, 17 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBLW3; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 170 x 28. Weight in Grams: 784.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199451272
- ISBN
- 9780199451272
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90