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Paperback. Tracing the process by which an area seen as a war-zone was transformed by the actions of the Romans, this text examines the effects of imperial expansion, not only on those who were subjected to it but also on Rome itself, which was radically transformed by its experience as an imperial power. Series: A History of Spain. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA; HBTQ; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631209317
ISBN
9780631209317
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.19

Paperback. Num Pages: 420 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; JHMC; WD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 279 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1016.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Mage Publishers United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
420
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933823447
ISBN
9781933823447
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.15
€ 46.81

Hardcover. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLW; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 166 x 57. Weight in Grams: 1217.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Old Street Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905847075
ISBN
9781905847075
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.75

Paperback. This title examines the 76-hour battle to take Tarawa by the Americans in 1943. It recounts how a garrison of 3700 Japanese soldiers withstood the onslaught of some 3000 US marines in a pioneering amphibious invasion. Illustrator(s): Gerrard, Howard. Editor(s): Chandler, David. Series: Osprey Military Campaign S. Num Pages: 96 pages, 75 b&w and 13 colour illustrations, chronology, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJD; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 185 x 8. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841761022
ISBN
9781841761022
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.67

Paperback. The first new account of the legendary Cockleshell Raid in over fifty years. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWH; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 27. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857382412
ISBN
9780857382412
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; HBTB; JFC; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804778671
ISBN
9780804778671
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.82

Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 12, 9 black & white halftones, 2 maps, 1 tables. BIC Classification: 1DD; 3F; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 534.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801451713
ISBN
9780801451713
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.27

Paperback. China's rise has now entered a new phase, as it seeks to translate its considerable economic heft into a larger role on the world stage, challenging American supremacy. The author shows why China may struggle to unseat the West - its ambitious designs are provoking anxiety, especially in Asia, while America's global alliances have deep roots. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JM; HBJF; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 199 x 16. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
PENGUIN BOOKS
Condition
New
SKU
V9780718194628
ISBN
9780718194628
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.82

Paperback. Helps you discover what civil war, revolution and counter-revolution felt like from inside both camps. Num Pages: 624 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTD; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 614.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
624
Condition
New
SKU
V9780712660143
ISBN
9780712660143
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.53

Paperback. * Challenges previous assumptions about the 1670s. * Based on and quotes a wide range of manuscripts, newsletters, correspondence, contemporary diaries, poems, plays and other documents and printed works. * Includes literary sources not only to enrich the coverage of the period, but for interdisciplinary approach to the period. Series: History of Early Modern England S. Num Pages: 368 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631222538
ISBN
9780631222538
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.44

Hardcover. A four-volume edition of Horace Walpole's "Memoirs of the Reign of King George III". It provides Walpole's text in its entirety, unabridged and unexpurgated, with an introduction and annotation designed to help reassess the value of the memoirs as historical evidence. Series: The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. Num Pages: 1088 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; BM; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 137. Weight in Grams: 3178.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
1040
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300070149
ISBN
9780300070149
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 218.86
€ 170.78

Hardback. Num Pages: 520 pages, 213 color and 7 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; JFCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 43. Weight in Grams: 681.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292726611
ISBN
9780292726611
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.61

Paperback. Powerful testimonies by Holocaust survivors Editor(s): Rubenstein, Joshua; Rubenstein, Joshua. Num Pages: 496 pages, 20 b&w illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 1DVUA; GTB; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 839.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253222671
ISBN
9780253222671
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.15

Paperback. Examines the evolution of the modern Afghan state in the shadow of Britain's imperial presence in South Asia during the first half of the nineteenth century, and challenges the staid assumptions that the Afghans were little more than pawns in a larger Anglo-Russian imperial rivalry known as the 'Great Game'. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 280 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FCA; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230302372
ISBN
9780230302372
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.10

paperback. For the empires of Germany and Austria-Hungary the Great War - which had begun with such high hopes for a fast, dramatic outcome - rapidly degenerated as invasions of both France and Serbia ended in catastrophe. This book shows the history of the Great War and the major events from the perspective of Berlin and Vienna. Num Pages: 816 pages. BIC Classification: 1DF; 1DVH; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 199 x 42. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
9780141042039
ISBN
9780141042039
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 17.87

Paperback. Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of Rome (27 BC AD 14), brought peace and prosperity to his city after decades of savage civil war. Translator(s): Scott-Kilvert, Ian. Num Pages: 368 pages, maps, index. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 274.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140444483
ISBN
9780140444483
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.53

Hardcover. The Irish Times literary editor Fintan O'Toole selects 100 objects to narrate a history of Ireland. Num Pages: 250 pages, colour illustrations, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 182 x 26. Weight in Grams: 904.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Royal Irish Academy
Condition
New
SKU
9781908996152
ISBN
9781908996152
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.00
€ 22.92

Paperback. Series: Heritage. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; JPA; JPFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Toronto Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442613140
ISBN
9781442613140
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.94

Paperback. Collects the foremost aticles written about Jews and the Civil War in a single accessible volume Editor(s): Sarna, Jonathan D.; Mendelsohn, Adam D. Num Pages: 445 pages, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
445
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814771136
ISBN
9780814771136
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; DCF; HBJF1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 369.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Nightboat Books United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Edition
New
SKU
V9780984459872
ISBN
9780984459872
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.62

Hardcover. Szpiech draws on medieval Christian, Jewish, and Muslim polemics to investigate the role of narrative in the representation of conversion. By investigating conversion not as individual experience but as expression of communal visions of history, he shows how the narratives dramatize the conflict of ideas in disputational writing. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HBJD; HBLC1; HRCC2. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812244717
ISBN
9780812244717
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.89

Paperback. From the first recorded encounters with the native inhabitants of the Canary Islands in 1341 to Columbus' explorations in 1492 and Cabral's discovery of Brazil in 1500, western Europeans struggled to make sense of the existence of the people they met. This book explores the social lives of the inhabitants. Num Pages: 408 pages, 30 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1K; HBJK; HBLC; RGR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 636.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300158212
ISBN
9780300158212
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.51

Paperback. This is a biography of Peter the Great. It tells his life story in 12 chapters, including two final chapters on his legacy and posthumous reputation, with the aim of providing a vivid sense of the dynamics of his life and reign. Num Pages: 285 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JD; 3JF; BGH; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 516.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
285
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300103007
ISBN
9780300103007
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.25

Hardcover. Num Pages: 344 pages, 88 b&w illus., 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBJK; JFC; JHBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 178 x 14. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The MIT Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780262034050
ISBN
9780262034050
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.52
€ 58.98

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