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Hardback. If George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are the saints in America's civil religion, then the twenty-ninth president, Warren G Harding, is our sinner. This title explores how Harding's name became synonymous with corruption, cronyism, and incompetence and how it is used as an example of what a president should not be. Num Pages: 296 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; JPHL; JPZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821418185
- ISBN
- 9780821418185
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.56
€ 52.56
Hardback. Multicultural China in the Early Middle Ages exposes a number of long-hidden "foreign" elements in Chinese culture that represent the legacy of the Tuoba, a former nomadic group originally from central Asia. Series: Encounters with Asia. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: HBJF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812243703
- ISBN
- 9780812243703
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.35
€ 91.35
Paperback. Selling the American Way documents how U.S. officials defined and defended the "American Way of Life" in a quest to promote democratic capitalism and discredit communism, but faced great difficulties in reconciling their symbolic America with the complex political, economic, and strategic realities of the Cold War. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: HBJK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 401.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812221190
- ISBN
- 9780812221190
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.82
€ 32.99
€ 29.82
hardcover. This rhetorical and historical analysis of sermons in the reign of James I argues that the official polemic of Jacobean government belies its claim to religious consensus and political moderation in pre-Civil War England. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH; HRCC91. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 20. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804732215
- ISBN
- 9780804732215
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.02
€ 86.02
paperback. A veteran writer on Russia and the Soviet Union explains why Russia refuses to draw the lessons of its past and what this portends for the future Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 508.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300192377
- ISBN
- 9780300192377
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.59
€ 30.99
€ 22.59
paperback. Considers how we remember historical instances of suffering and atrocity, framing its central questions to show larger cultural shifts in how we position ourselves in relation to history, performance, and memory. Series: Unnatural Acts: Theorizing the Performative. Num Pages: 176 pages, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: AN; APFA; DSG; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 12. Weight in Grams: 1062.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253212924
- ISBN
- 9780253212924
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.45
€ 16.99
€ 16.45
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFGA; HBJH; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252064326
- ISBN
- 9780252064326
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.40
€ 30.99
€ 27.40
Paperback. Nearly a decade of fiercely divisive debate over foxhunting in Britain culminated with passage of the Hunting with Dogs Act of 2004. This book recounts the long and colourful history of hunting in Britain, offers a fresh perspective on the conflicts, and concludes with a critique of the hunting controversies. Num Pages: 296 pages, 32 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBT; WSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300145458
- ISBN
- 9780300145458
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.00€ 17.11
€ 19.00
€ 17.11
The Portrayal of Czechoslovakia in the American Print Media, 1938-1989
Galush, William J.. Ed(S): Ference, Gregory C...
hardcover. Tells the history of a tiny country caught up in four major world crises from 1938 to 1989 and how the American print media presented these events to its readers. This book also discusses how American journalists and political cartoons portrayed, and in some cases stereotyped, Czechoslovakia during this period. Editor(s): Ference, Gregory C. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVK; 1KBB; HBJD; HBLW; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- East European Monographs United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780880335904
- ISBN
- 9780880335904
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.74
€ 33.99
€ 24.74
paperback. Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the English throne, claimed to be Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York & Norfolk. This book looks at who Warbeck really was, how he was used by those in power in Burgundy, France, Italy, Scotland and Ireland, and the progress of the conspiracy itself. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750939898
- ISBN
- 9780750939898
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.60
€ 19.99
€ 18.60
paperback. Editor(s): Bauer, Brian S. Translator(s): Bauer, Brian S.; Smith, Vania. Series: Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American & Latino Art & Culture. Num Pages: 284 pages, 63 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 165 x 21. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292714854
- ISBN
- 9780292714854
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.70
€ 34.99
€ 31.70
Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 41 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HBJF1; RNK; WT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 563.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253019363
- ISBN
- 9780253019363
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.97
€ 86.97
paperback. Series: Sport and Society. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; WSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 28. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252013256
- ISBN
- 9780252013256
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.53
€ 41.99
€ 37.53
hardcover. Nothing is considered more natural than the connection between Isaac Newton's science and the modernity that came into being during the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. This study challenges the claim that Isaac Newton's solitary genius is the reason for his iconic status as the father of modern physics and the philosophe movement. Num Pages: 464 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; PDX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 167 x 41. Weight in Grams: 928.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226749457
- ISBN
- 9780226749457
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.30€ 59.65
€ 71.30
€ 59.65
Hardcover. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 150. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Zubaan Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789384757830
- ISBN
- 9789384757830
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.61
€ 40.99
€ 31.61
Paperback. The first anthology of modern Middle Eastern Jewish thought Editor(s): Behar, Moshe; Ben-Dor Benite, Zvi. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3JJ; HBJF1; HBLW; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- EUROSPAN
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781584658856
- ISBN
- 9781584658856
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.85
€ 32.99
€ 25.85
Hardback. For almost three decades the troubles in Northern Ireland raged, claiming over 3,600 lives, with civilians accounting for almost half the fatalities. In this book, Jonathan Tonge examines the reasons for that conflict; the motivations of the groups involved and explores the prospects for a post-conflict Northern Ireland. Series: Global Political Hot Spots. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; HBJD1; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 495.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745631400
- ISBN
- 9780745631400
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.48
€ 72.48
Hardcover. Focusing on Japan's Kwantung Leasehold and Railway Zone in China's northeastern provinces, Emer O'Dwyer traces the history of Japan's prewar Manchurian empire over four decades to show how South Manchuria was naturalized as a Japanese space and how this process contributed to the success of the Japanese army's early 1930s takeover of Manchuria. Num Pages: 526 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPJ; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 238 x 41. Weight in Grams: 864.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674504332
- ISBN
- 9780674504332
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.36€ 54.57
€ 59.36
€ 54.57
Paperback. Studies of collaboration have changed how the history of World War II in Europe is written, but for China and Japan this aspect of wartime conduct has remained largely unacknowledged. This work talks about the sensitive topic of wartime collaboration between the Chinese and their Japanese occupiers. Num Pages: 302 pages, 13 halftones, 2 line illustrations, 3 maps, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPJ; 3JJH; HBJF; HBWQ; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674023987
- ISBN
- 9780674023987
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 32.88
€ 38.99
€ 32.88
Hardback. An innovative study of the ways in which Germans of different ages and life stages lived through the violent eruptions of the two world wars, and through the dictatorships of Nazism and then Communism that succeeded them. Num Pages: 528 pages, charts. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JPHX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 173 x 45. Weight in Grams: 946.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 528
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199287208
- ISBN
- 9780199287208
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.14
€ 132.14
Paperback. 'The excellence of his book lies .. in the high quality of scholarship, the sensitivity to nuance, the desire to map the entire Jewish response to the crisis of the empire in all its complexity.' New York Review of Books Num Pages: 712 pages, 8 pages plates, 3 text figures, 1 map. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLL; JFSR1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 142 x 45. Weight in Grams: 952.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 712
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904113492
- ISBN
- 9781904113492
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 39.49
€ 44.99
€ 39.49
Paperback. Part of the "Men-at-Arms" series, this book details the various flags used in the American Civil War. Series: Men-at-Arms. Num Pages: 48 pages, colour and b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 184 x 211 x 4. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Osprey Publishing United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 48
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781855322707
- ISBN
- 9781855322707
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.57
€ 17.99
€ 16.57
Hardback. Maggie Clinton traces the history and cultural politics of the fascist organizations operating under the umbrella of the Chinese Nationalist Party (GMD) in the 1920s and 1930s, showing how the GMD's rightward shift was based on a nativist discourse that emphasized Confucianism's compatibility with industrial modernism. Num Pages: 280 pages, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JPHX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822363620
- ISBN
- 9780822363620
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.87
€ 109.87
Paperback. The Spread of Zulu Ethnicity in Colonial South Africa. Series: Politics, History, & Culture. 312 pages, 3 maps. A thorough history of Zulu ethnicity during the colonial period. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1HFM; GTB; HBJH; HBTQ. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 19. Weight: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822353096
- ISBN
- 9780822353096
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.42
€ 31.99
€ 28.42