Regional & national history
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Regional & national history
Paperback. Series: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HBJF1; JFFJ; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804788007
- ISBN
- 9780804788007
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 29.14
€ 29.99
€ 29.14
Hardback. Num Pages: 568 pages, illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour). BIC Classification: 1DDN; 1DSP; 1KLSB; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 53. Weight in Grams: 4468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804787215
- ISBN
- 9780804787215
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 147.88
€ 147.88
Paperback. This book argues that regional food culture is intrinsic to how Chinese connect to the past, live in the present, and imagine their future. It focuses on Shanghai-a food lover's paradise-and identifies the importance of regional food culture at pivotal moments in the city's history, and in Chinese history more generally. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, maps, fig. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804786911
- ISBN
- 9780804786911
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.30
€ 32.99
€ 31.30
Hardback. This book, which features the autobiographical narrative of Mistress Mary Hampson, a 17th-century woman in an abusive and violent marriage, reconstructs the events in and around this harrowing tale and rescues a compelling and complicated voice from the past. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804786287
- ISBN
- 9780804786287
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.77
€ 106.77
Hardback. This is a study of German historical novels about Jewish history from the 1800s through the Holocaust. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 280 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804786072
- ISBN
- 9780804786072
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.15
€ 92.15
Paperback. This book offers a nuanced understanding of the contexts, culturally conditioned rationality, local networks, and innovation in contentious action across the Middle East and North Africa to give the reader a substantive understanding of events in the Arab world before and since 2011. Editor(s): Beinin, Joel; Vairel, Frederic. Series: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; JHB; JPVN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 228 x 20. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804785693
- ISBN
- 9780804785693
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.30
€ 32.99
€ 31.30
Hardback. This book examines the enormous riskiness of transatlantic trade in 18th century Spain and argues that many of the long-condemned commercial practices were vital accommodations to pervasive risk and uncertainty. Series: Social Science History. Num Pages: 408 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLL; HBTQ; KCLT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804785426
- ISBN
- 9780804785426
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.58
€ 97.58
Hardback. The book analyzes the official and popular celebrations on the Brazilian empire's days of national festivity to elucidate elite and popular understandings of the imperial state in the capital city. Num Pages: 576 pages, illustrations (black and white), 1 map (black and white). BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 36. Weight in Grams: 907.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804785266
- ISBN
- 9780804785266
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.61
€ 92.61
Hardback. This is a study of the northern region of Korea through a person's life and work, highlighting how a writer from a marginalized region in early modern Korea became an advocate of regional subjectivity through various social, cultural, and intellectual activities, in particular through his conscientious historical writings. Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JD; 3JF; HBJF; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804783811
- ISBN
- 9780804783811
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.03
€ 81.03
Paperback. This book completely transforms our understanding of the actual roles that each of the principal EXCOMM members played in the decision making process that led to a peaceful resolution of the Cuban missile crisis. Series: Stanford Nuclear Age Series. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJ; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 230 x 14. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804783774
- ISBN
- 9780804783774
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 29.11
€ 29.99
€ 29.11
Hardback. A collection of essays that analyze the recent evidence concerning the history of the European state system of the last century, offering an array of insights across countries and across time. Editor(s): Haslam, Jonathan; Urbach, Karina. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLW; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804783590
- ISBN
- 9780804783590
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.66
€ 85.66
Paperback. is a comparative study of how British, French, and America diplomats serving in Germany in the 1930s assessed the domestic and foreign policies of the Nazis, in reports that were readily available to government leaders in London, Paris, and Washington. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; JPFQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804783569
- ISBN
- 9780804783569
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 36.08
€ 36.99
€ 36.08
Paperback. A rich ethnography of men in a low-income neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt, this book gives the reader a vivid sense of the meaning of masculinity and the multiple agents who contribute to the making of men in the Middle East. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBE; HBJH; JFSJ2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804783293
- ISBN
- 9780804783293
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.17
€ 29.99
€ 27.17
Paperback. Back Stories looks at the production of U.S. news during the second Intifada, highlighting the unrecognized and unexamined work of Palestinian journalists and its effects on Palestinian society and politics. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HBJF1; JFD; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804781411
- ISBN
- 9780804781411
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.27
€ 32.99
€ 31.27
Paperback. Comparing Egypt and Syria, this book argues that Arab states where executive power is more centralized are better at adapting to prevent regime change than states where decentralized relationships prevails. Series: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; JPB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 228 x 13. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804780636
- ISBN
- 9780804780636
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 29.11
€ 29.99
€ 29.11
Hardback. Editor(s): Falk, Candace; Pateman, Barry. Num Pages: 880 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; JPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 272 x 187 x 54. Weight in Grams: 1716.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Number of pages
- 656
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804778541
- ISBN
- 9780804778541
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.29
€ 92.29
Paperback. Examining politics in a small Afghan town that managed to remain relatively peaceful in the years following the fall of the Taliban, this book calls examines how and when violence erupts and calls into question the international community's approach to developing stability in Afghanistan. Series: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; JFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804776721
- ISBN
- 9780804776721
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 29.10
€ 29.99
€ 29.10
Paperback. Empire of Law shows how seventeenth-century Indian claimants, by litigating and petitioning before Mexico City tribunals, became full participants in an early modern cosmopolitan legality that gave rise to a colonial politics of justice that struggled, with some success, against the utter degradation of subject peoples. Num Pages: 392 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTQ; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804776622
- ISBN
- 9780804776622
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 39.99
€ 40.99
€ 39.99
Paperback. Drawing on the author's firsthand experience of the Iranian Revolution in 1978-1979 and subsequent trips between 2003 and 2008, this book presents a historical and ethnographic study of local-level politics, connections with national-level politics and revolution, and the changing political dynamics in Iran. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3JJ; HBJF1; HBL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 611. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804775687
- ISBN
- 9780804775687
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 35.64
€ 36.99
€ 35.64
Hardback. "Originally published in French under the title Hypotheses sur l'Europe: Un essai de philosophie." Translator(s): Irizarry, Christine. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 661. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804773850
- ISBN
- 9780804773850
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 168.83
€ 168.83
Hardback. A clear-eyed exploration of the world's most glamorous city as a historical composite of several different Parises, each with its own dreamlike imagery and its own attractions, each contributing to the mystique of the whole. Num Pages: 296 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804770927
- ISBN
- 9780804770927
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.37
€ 127.37
Paperback. Examines the increasingly complex ethnic challenges facing the expanding European Union. This title includes essays that tackle such issues as labor migration, strains on welfare economies, the durability of local traditions, the effects of globalized cultures, and the role of Islamic diasporas, separatist movements, and threats of terrorism. Editor(s): Hsu, Roland. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1QFE; HBJD; HBTB; JFSL1; JPSN2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804769471
- ISBN
- 9780804769471
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.47
€ 33.99
€ 33.47
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 608
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804762069
- ISBN
- 9780804762069
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 168.96
€ 168.96
Hardback. "Sergo Mikoyan, who died in 2010, was a historian specializing in Latin America and in Soviet-Latin American relations. Svetlana Savranskaya is a research fellow at the National Security Archive at George Washington University." Editor(s): Savranskaya, Svetlana. Series: Cold War International History Project. Num Pages: 616 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 41. Weight in Grams: 975.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804762014
- ISBN
- 9780804762014
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 169.04
€ 169.04