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Regional & national history
Paperback. A study that illuminates the Egyptian experience of modernity by critically analyzing the foremost medium through which it was articulated: history. Covering more than one hundred years of mostly unexamined historical literature in Arabic, it explores Egyptian historical thought and examines the careers of numerous critical historians. Num Pages: 406 pages, 4 b/w photographs, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JJ; HBJF1; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 406
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520257337
- ISBN
- 9780520257337
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 31.26
€ 43.99
€ 31.26
Paperback. Recreates a time when World War III seemed imminent. This book explores a central dimension of American culture and politics - the postwar preoccupation with captivity. It reveals how 'menticide', the calculated destruction of individual autonomy, struck many Americans as a more immediate danger than nuclear annihilation. Num Pages: 352 pages, 29 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTW; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520257313
- ISBN
- 9780520257313
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.71
€ 38.99
€ 28.71
Hardback. Examines a pivotal period in the history of Europe and the near East. Spanning the ancient and medieval worlds, this title investigates the ideal of sacred kingship that emerged in the late Roman and Persian empires. It brings to life the courts of two global powers that affected the cultures of medieval Europe, Byzantium, Islam and South Asia. Series Editor(s): Brown, Peter. Series: Transformation of the Classical Heritage. Num Pages: 456 pages, 45 black-and-white photographs and 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAP; 1QDAR; ACG; ACK; HBJD; HBJF1; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 165 x 40. Weight in Grams: 906.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520257276
- ISBN
- 9780520257276
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.76€ 63.57
€ 82.76
€ 63.57
Paperback. Features a story of ethnic cleansing in California and the Pacific Northwest when the first Chinese Americans were rounded up and purged from more than three hundred communities by lawless citizens and duplicitous politicians. Num Pages: 432 pages, 79 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520256941
- ISBN
- 9780520256941
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.38
€ 33.99
€ 24.38
Hardback. Tells of the story of Beirut, a city that has stood at the crossroads of Mediterranean civilization for more than four thousand years. This title takes the reader from the ancient to the modern world, offering a panorama of the city's Seleucid, Roman, Arab, Ottoman, and French incarnations. Translator(s): DeBevoise, M. B. Num Pages: 656 pages, 115 b/w photographs, 17 maps. BIC Classification: 1FBL; HBJF1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1032.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- Text is Free of Markings
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520256682
- ISBN
- 9780520256682
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.78€ 47.92
€ 61.78
€ 47.92
Hardback. An atlas that presents the history of the American West through more than 600 full-color maps and captions. From the earliest human inhabitants and the first European explorers to the national parks and retirement resorts of today, it chronicles the West from uncharted territory to a well-populated Eden. Num Pages: 288 pages, 606 maps, 90 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK; HBTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 341 x 261 x 31. Weight in Grams: 2266. 288 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.). An atlas that presents the history of the American West through more than 600 full-color maps and captions. From the earliest human inhabitants and the first European explorers to the national parks and retirement resorts of today, it chronicles the West from uncharted territory to a well-populated Eden. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK; HBTP. Dimension: 341 x 261 x 31. Weight: 2270.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520256521
- ISBN
- 9780520256521
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 38.93
€ 49.99
€ 38.93
Paperback. Presents ancient Egypt in photographs and textual descriptions of Egyptian art, culture, and government. This book provides a view of the civilization as a whole, and includes a section on the history of Egyptology, the invasions and excavations, and a section on where the artifacts can be seen today. Series: Dictionaries of Civilization. Num Pages: 384 pages, 320 color illustrations, 17 b/w photographs, 17 line illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; GBC; HBJH; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 207 x 30. Weight in Grams: 690.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520256484
- ISBN
- 9780520256484
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.68
€ 38.99
€ 28.68
Paperback. A collection of essays on late imperial and modern Chinese history spans the brilliant forty-year career of the late Frederic E Wakeman, Jr. It offers narratives of critical historical events as well as analyses of China's place in world history. Editor(s): Wakeman, Lea H. Num Pages: 480 pages, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1F; 1FPC; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 29. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520256064
- ISBN
- 9780520256064
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.68
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Paperback. Presents a cultural analysis of the conservative shift in national politics that transformed the United States during the Reagan-Bush era. This work focuses on two fundamental aspects of this shift: the suburbanization of evangelicalism and the rise of Christian popular culture, especially popular music. Num Pages: 280 pages, 13 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HRCX6. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Printing
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520255968
- ISBN
- 9780520255968
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.45
€ 33.99
€ 24.45
Paperback. In the aftermath of the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, the discovery of unmarked mass graves revealed Europe's worst atrocity since World War II: the genocide in the UN "safe area" of Srebrenica. This title provides an account of the genetic technology developed to identify the eight thousand Bosnian Muslim (Bosniak) men and boys found in those graves. Num Pages: 352 pages, 13 b/w photographs, 1 line illustration, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DVWYB; 3JJPR; HBJD; HBLW3; HBWS; JWXK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 43. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520255753
- ISBN
- 9780520255753
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.68
€ 38.99
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Hardback. First constructed in Nevada in 1924, the gas chamber, a method of killing sealed off and removed from the sight and hearing of witnesses, was originally touted as a 'humane' method of execution. Delving into science, war, industry, medicine, law, and politics, the author overturns this mythology for good. Num Pages: 344 pages, 18 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520255623
- ISBN
- 9780520255623
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.78€ 48.25
€ 61.78
€ 48.25
Paperback. Guantanamo has become a symbol of what has gone wrong in the War on Terror. This history of the women and men who worked on the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay tells the story of US-Cuban relations from a fresh perspective, and at the same time, shows how neocolonialism, empire, and revolution transformed the lives of everyday people. Series: American Crossroads. Num Pages: 344 pages, 16 b/w photographs, 2 maps, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJC; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTQ; JPS; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 22. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520255401
- ISBN
- 9780520255401
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.71
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Paperback. Presents the history of Israel's occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Looking at a wide range of topics, from control of water and electricity to health care and education and surveillance and torture, this title reveals a fundamental shift from a politics of life to a macabre politics characterized by an increasing number of deaths. Num Pages: 344 pages, 6 maps, 4 graphs, 2 tables, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 3JJP; HBJF1; HBLW3; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520255319
- ISBN
- 9780520255319
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.72
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Paperback. Offers a rereading of the early history of Chan Buddhism (Zen). This work focuses on the narrative logics of the early Chan genealogies - the seventh-and eighth-century lineage texts that claimed that certain high-profile Chinese men were descendents of Bodhidharma and the Buddha. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; HBJF; HRE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1556.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520254855
- ISBN
- 9780520254855
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.68
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Hardback. Tells two intertwined stories: how, in early twentieth-century Iran, an emerging middle class used scientific knowledge as its cultural and economic capital, and how, along with the state, it employed biomedical sciences to tackle presumably modern problems like the stress of everyday life, people's defective willpower and demographic stagnation. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1FBN; HBJF1; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520254473
- ISBN
- 9780520254473
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.76€ 63.57
€ 82.76
€ 63.57
Paperback. Investigates the military, economic, and intellectual dimensions of China's influence. This book provides a different perspective from which to assess China - how its strengths are changing, where vulnerabilities and uncertainties lie, and how the rest of the world, not least the United States, should view it. Num Pages: 384 pages, 11 b/w photographs, 2 charts, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 534. Might, Money, and Minds. 384 pages, illustrations. Investigates the military, economic, and intellectual dimensions of China's influence. This book provides a different perspective from which to assess China - how its strengths are changing, where vulnerabilities and uncertainties lie, and how the rest of the world, not least the United States, should view it. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JP. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 23. Weight: 534.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520254428
- ISBN
- 9780520254428
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.71
€ 38.99
€ 28.71
Paperback. By 1853 Japan had been transformed from a sparsely populated land of nonliterate tribal peoples into an elaborately structured commercial society sustaining massive cities and a array of sophisticated cultural production. This work examines the origins of Japanese civilization and explores in the classical, medieval, and early-modern epochs. Num Pages: 260 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 2Rev Ed
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520254077
- ISBN
- 9780520254077
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.68
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Hardback. Analyzing lecture transcripts, administrative guidelines, didactic tales, and diaries, this title abandons the facile explanation that charity was a response to poverty and social unrest. It examines the social and economic changes that stimulated the fervor for doing good. Num Pages: 424 pages, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1F; 1FPC; HBJF; JKSN1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520253636
- ISBN
- 9780520253636
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.76€ 63.57
€ 82.76
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Paperback. A companion to "Luminous Debris", this title offers readings of late Roman and early Christian ruins in the author's adopted region of Provence, sifting through iconographic, architectural, and sacramental vestiges to shed light on nothing less than the existential itself. Num Pages: 264 pages, 19 b/w photographs, 5 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBLC; HDDM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 54.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520253353
- ISBN
- 9780520253353
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.71
€ 38.99
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Paperback. Soon after Alexander Gardner's "Photographic Sketch Book" was published, in 1866, it became the Civil War's best-known visual record and helped define how viewers would come to know the war. This study of a pivotal American historical document, approaching it from the perspective of visual studies as well as American literature and history. Series: Defining Moments in American Photography. Num Pages: 128 pages, 27 duotones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; AJCR; HBAH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 49.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520253315
- ISBN
- 9780520253315
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.45
€ 33.99
€ 24.45