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Regional & national history
paperback. Illustrates the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. Translator(s): Scott-Kilvert, Ian. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DNF; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 226. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1960
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034158
- ISBN
- 9780140441024
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.65
€ 5.65
paperback. Num Pages: 472 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University South Carolina Pr United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611171921
- ISBN
- 9781611171921
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.08
€ 36.08
Paperback. Challenges the paradigm of the societal decline as inadequate for understanding the Ottoman society and state during this period. This book evaluates the established historical view of the Ottoman Empire as an Eastern despotic nation-state in decline, and instead analyzes it as a modern state comparable to contemporary states in Europe and Asia. Series: Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms. Num Pages: 172 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1QDT; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815630852
- ISBN
- 9780815630852
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.54
€ 24.54
Paperback. During the Middle Ages, travellers in Africa and Asia reported that "monstrous races" thrived beyond the boundaries of the known world. This work offers an introspective look at these races and their interaction with Western art, literature and philosophy. Num Pages: 288 pages, 62 b&w photographs, notes, index, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; AB; HBJD; HBLC; JFC; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815628262
- ISBN
- 9780815628262
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.86
€ 35.86
Paperback. The history of the slave trade. Num Pages: 208 pages, 10 b&w photos, 3 maps, 3 tables, glossary, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBJK; HBLH; HBTB; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida United States
- Edition
- annotated ed
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813029061
- ISBN
- 9780813029061
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.13
€ 33.13
paperback. In 1899 the United States launched a brutal war of imperial conquest against the Philippine Republic. US imperialists justified their colonial empire by crafting novel racial ideologies. This book reveals how racial politics served US empire, and how empire-building in turn transformed ideas of race and nation in both the US and the Philippines. Num Pages: 536 pages, 31 illustrations, 1 map, notes, bibl., index. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 1KBB; HBJF; HBJK; HBLW; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 38. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University North Carolina Pr United States
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 536
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807856536
- ISBN
- 9780807856536
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.76
€ 54.76
paperback. Suitable for an introductory American history instructor who wants to make the subject more appealing, this book focuses on "personalized history" presented through biographies of famous and less-well-known figures from the colonial period to 1877. Num Pages: 320 pages, photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Routledge United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780765619181
- ISBN
- 9780765619181
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.24
€ 61.24
hardcover. China s late-imperial history has been framed as a long coda of decline, played out during the Qing dynasty. Reappraising this narrative, Stephen Halsey traces the origins of China s current great-power status to this so-called decadent era, when threats of war with European and Japanese empirestriggered innovative state-building and statecraft." Num Pages: 308 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JPS; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 243 x 32. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674425651
- ISBN
- 9780674425651
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.64€ 55.26
€ 59.64
€ 55.26
paperback. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Weight in Grams: 1632.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415995610
- ISBN
- 9780415995610
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 197.62
€ 197.62
hardcover. Explores an episode in seventeenth-century history, revealing the involvement of a great modern thinker in secret and dangerous machinations of international politics. Num Pages: 240 pages, 2 halftone plates. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBLH; HPCD; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- OXFORD UNIV PR
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034079
- ISBN
- 9780199215935
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.65
€ 5.65
hardcover. Conventional wisdom suggests that the Platonist philosophers of Late Antiquity neglected the political dimension of their Platonic heritage in their concentration on an otherworldly life. This work presents a reappraisal of these thinkers, arguing that their otherworldliness involved rather than excluded political ideas. Num Pages: 262 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLA; HPCA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 533. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0033942
- ISBN
- 9780199257584
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.91
€ 5.91
hardcover. In this text Stacey traces the formative impact of Seneca's political philosophy upon medieval and Renaissance thinking about princely government. Series Editor(s): Skinner, Quentin; Daston, Lorraine; Ross, Dorothy; Tully, James. Series: Ideas in Context. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBLC; HPS; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 161 x 24. Weight in Grams: 714. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0033933
- ISBN
- 9780521869898
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.91
€ 5.91
hardcover. A 2003 examination of the evidence for literacy in early medieval Italy under the 'barbarian' Lombards. Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series. Num Pages: 402 pages, 12 b/w illus. 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DST; CFC; CFL; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 777. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0033814
- ISBN
- 9780521819053
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.91
€ 5.91
hardcover. A study of the origins and rise of the Radical Enlightenment, an important part of the revolutionary process of change during the 17th and 18th centuries. This book analyzes the enlightenment's role in the demolition of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought and belief. Num Pages: 832 pages, 16 pp plates, 5 halftones, map. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL; HPCD; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 166 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1344. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0033780
- ISBN
- 9780198206088
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.91
€ 5.91
hardcover. Ancient Greek thought provides the basis for the intellectual, ethical and political civilization of the West. This collection of over 60 essays explores the full length and breadth of Greek thought - showing the Greeks looking at themselves, their knowledge, poetics and rhetoric. Editor(s): Brunschwig, Jacques; Lloyd, G. E. R. Translator(s): Porter, Catherine. Series: Harvard University Press Reference Library. Num Pages: 1056 pages, 76 color illustrations, 5 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; 3D; HBJD; HBLA; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 261 x 181 x 58. Weight in Grams: 2126. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- The Belknap Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0033649
- ISBN
- 9780674002616
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 7.74
€ 7.74
hardcover. An intellectual biography of Van Helmont (1579-1644), showing a scholarly appreciation of his creative insights. Series: Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine. Num Pages: 229 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD. Dimension: 228 x 152. Weight in Grams: 52. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0033632
- ISBN
- 9780521248075
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.91
€ 5.91
![Marsilio (Translation By Michael J.B. Allen) Ficino - Platonic Theology: Volume I Books I-IV (The I Tatti Renaissance Library) [Volume I only] - 9780674003453 - KSG0033626](https://www.kennys.ie/products/thumbs/9780674003453.jpg "Marsilio (Translation By Michael J.B. Allen) Ficino - Platonic Theology: Volume I Books I-IV (The I Tatti Renaissance Library) [Volume I only] - 9780674003453 - KSG0033626")
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hardcover. This volume presents the visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino. His Platonic evangelizing was successful and influential, and his "Platonic Theology" is one of the keys to understanding the art, thought, culture, and spirituality of the Renaissance. Translator(s): Allen, Michael J.B.; Warden, John. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLC; HPCA; HPCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 143 x 23. Weight in Grams: 488. Volume I only. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0033626
- ISBN
- 9780674003453
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.91
€ 5.91
Paperback. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLC; HPDF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 287. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1939
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0033542
- ISBN
- 9780804711692
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 21.99€ 20.64
€ 21.99
€ 20.64
hardcover. Many analyses of Ireland's past and present are couched in colonial terms. For some, it is the only framework for understanding Ireland, others reject the label. This study evaluates and analyzes the situation, ranging from ancient and medieval past to 1990s literary and postcolonial theory. Num Pages: 342 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBJD1; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 648. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- OXFORD UNIV PR
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0033526
- ISBN
- 9780198208259
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.91
€ 5.91
hardcover. The Pure Land sect of Japanese Buddhism is one of the strongest Buddhist sects in Japan, with three and a half million followers. In this book, the author provides a detailed, objective account in English of the life and thought of its founder, Honenbo Genku (1133-1212), known as Honen. Editor(s): Mentzas, Ioannis. Translator(s): Mentzas, Ioannis. Num Pages: 212 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; BGH; HBJF; HBLC; HPD; HRE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0033506
- ISBN
- 9780520211797
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.91
€ 5.91