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Regional & national history

Paperback.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752407845
ISBN
9780752407845
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.22

Hardback. This newest volume in a long-running work of mapping the sources of Anglo-Saxon literary culture in England from 500 to 1100 CE takes up one of the most important authors of the period, the eighth-century monk-scholar known as the Venerable Bede. Editor(s): Wright, Charles. Series: Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture. Num Pages: 312 pages, 0 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9789462981324
ISBN
9789462981324
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.89

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 32 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGHA; HBJK; HBW; JWT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 228 x 27. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Naval Institute Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781682471883
ISBN
9781682471883
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.52

Paperback. Why does it matter that nations should care for their archives, and that they should develop a sense of shared identity? And why should these processes take place in the public domain? Editor(s): Mangcu, Xolela. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; HBJH; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 130. Weight in Grams: 200.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Wits University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781868145324
ISBN
9781868145324
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.22

Hardcover. Provides a better understanding of the modernist nation-building processes in post-Ottoman Turkey through a rare perspective in the field that stresses the social and cultural dimensions and everyday negotiations that occurred during the leadership of Mustafa Kemal. Num Pages: 328 pages, illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 3JJ; HBJF1; HBLW; JPFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815633174
ISBN
9780815633174
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 37.65

Paperback. Deepens our understanding of the modernist nation-building processes in post-Ottoman Turkey through the perspective of ordinary citizens. Series: Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East. Num Pages: 352 pages, 26 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 485.
Edition
Reprint
Publisher
Syracuse University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815634676
ISBN
9780815634676
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.44

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253008220
ISBN
9780253008220
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 29.12

Hardback. Reveals the ways in which many Minsk Jews acculturated to Soviet society in the 1920s and 1930s Series: The Modern Jewish Experience. Num Pages: 292 pages, 14 b&w illus., 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1DVUB; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; JFSR1; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 606.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253008138
ISBN
9780253008138
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.36

Paperback. Religion is commonly imagined as a timeless component of human inheritance, but in the Western Himalayas the community of Himachal Pradesh discovered their religion only after India became an independent secular state. This title shows that modern secularity is not so much the eradication of religion as the very condition for its emergence. Num Pages: 305 pages, 25 images. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HRAM2; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520290549
ISBN
9780520290549
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.42

Hardback. Although he came to power in 2000 on the most controversial of slender minorities, the presidency of George W. Bush has been marked by determined policy initiatives and organizational confidence. John P. Burke examines this transition to power. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9781588262929
ISBN
9781588262929
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.71
€ 50.86

Hardcover. After excluding women and African Americans from its ranks for most of its history, the New York City Police Department undertook an aggressive campaign of integration following World War II. This is the first comprehensive account of how and why the NYPD came to see integration as a highly coveted political tool, indispensable to policing. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JKSW1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 478.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137321930
ISBN
9781137321930
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.31

Paperback. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBL; HBTB; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Number of pages
299
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349458172
ISBN
9781349458172
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.03

Paperback. Explores the bond between generations of mothers and daughters, and illustrates the struggle between the need for independence and the search for continuity, the significant impact of childhood on adult life, the reshaping of personality in immigration, the importance of dreams in making us face reality, and the redemptive power of memory. Num Pages: 188 pages, colour & b/w illus. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canada
Number of pages
166
Condition
New
SKU
V9781554580309
ISBN
9781554580309
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.13

Hardback. Num Pages: 312 pages, 27, 18 black & white halftones, 3 tables, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 243 x 26. Weight in Grams: 610.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801452314
ISBN
9780801452314
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.22

Hardback. Drawing on popular media and medical works as well as archival records and oral histories, this book examines how notions of femininity and womanhood were reshaped in Denmark, a small, largely agrarian country that remained neutral during the war. It explores changes in the female body and personality and the redefinition of female respectability. Num Pages: 264 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DND; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691049274
ISBN
9780691049274
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.55
€ 73.37

Paperback. Presenting an examination of women writers and prewar ideology, this book investigates love as a critical aspect of Japanese culture during the early-mid-twentieth century. It focuses on same-sex love, love marriage, and maternal love. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJ; DSB; HBJF; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 165 x 13. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804761987
ISBN
9780804761987
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.00

Hardcover. Num Pages: 268 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DV; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875804224
ISBN
9780875804224
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 45.86

Paperback. In 1895 Japan acquired Taiwan as its first formal colony after a resounding victory in the Sino-Japanese war. This work examines the formation of Taiwanese political and cultural identities under the dominant Japanese colonial discourse of assimilation and imperialization (kominka) from the early 1920s to the end of the Japanese Empire in 1945. Num Pages: 263 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; 1FPJ; 3JJ; GTB; HBJF; HBLW; JPHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
263
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520225534
ISBN
9780520225534
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 25.28

Paperback. By examining how Indians formulated notions of citizenship across the British empire from the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth, Sujatha Banerjee theorizes modes of citizenship decoupled from the rights-conferring nation-state. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822346081
ISBN
9780822346081
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 29.31

Hardback. By examining how Indians formulated notions of citizenship across the British empire from the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth, Sujatha Banerjee theorizes modes of citizenship decoupled from the rights-conferring nation-state. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822345909
ISBN
9780822345909
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.03

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JF; HBJK; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
Annotated
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801473449
ISBN
9780801473449
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.13

Hardcover. In this significant intervention into the academic and institutional debate on European cultural identity, Monica Sassatelli examines the identity-building intentions and effects of the European Capital of Culture programme, and also looks at the work of the Council of Europe and the recent European Landscape Convention. Num Pages: 247 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; GTB; HBJD; HBTB; JFC; JFFS; JPSN2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230537422
ISBN
9780230537422
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.53

Paperback. It can be argued that elements of European heritage can be identified not only as a national strategy of the present but also as a process in prehistory - the cultural and political transformations of the third millennium BC in European prehistory sparking off this process. Editor(s): Prescott, Christopher; Glorstad, Hakon. Num Pages: 208 pages, col & b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1D; 1QDA; HBJD; HDDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 279 x 217 x 11. Weight in Grams: 688.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Oxbow Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781842174500
ISBN
9781842174500
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 39.73

Paperback. This work argues that the formation of the Campesino as both a political category and a cultural identity in Mexico was one of the most enduring legacies of the great revolutionary upheavals that began in 1910. It provides information through oral histories, archival documents, and newspapers. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBLW; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804743563
ISBN
9780804743563
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.86

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