Regional & national history
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Regional & national history
Paperback. From Jane Austen to Salman Rushdie, from Yeats to media coverage of the Gulf War, this title provides an account of the roots of imperialism in European culture. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLL; HBTQ; JFC; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Edition
- Later Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099967507
- ISBN
- 9780099967507
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.96
€ 19.99
€ 14.96
Paperback. Introduces the major cultural and intellectual trends of the decade by introducing and assessing the development of the primary cultural forms: namely, Fiction, Poetry and Drama, Music and Performance, Film and Radio, and Visual Art and Design. A fifth chapter focuses on the unprecedented rise in the 1920s of Leisure and Consumption. Series: Twentieth-century American Culture. Num Pages: 272 pages, 17 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; GTB; HBJK; HBLW; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748625222
- ISBN
- 9780748625222
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.83
€ 33.99
€ 30.83
Paperback. An entertaining trawl though the darker side of British military history Num Pages: 288 pages, b/w line drawings throughout. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Edition
- Digital original
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780749953942
- ISBN
- 9780749953942
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. Series: Scottish Clan Mini-book. Num Pages: 32 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBJD1; WQY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 104 x 4. Weight in Grams: 44.
- Publisher
- Lang Syne Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781852170950
- ISBN
- 9781852170950
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.75
€ 6.75
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 128 x 35. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Publisher
- Trinacria Editions LLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780615796949
- ISBN
- 9780615796949
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.57
€ 44.99
€ 37.57
Paperback. At the end of 1917 Britain and France faced a strategic nightmare. Their great offensives against Germany had been calamitous, leaving hundreds of thousands of young men dead and wounded for negligible territorial gains. This book retells the story of 1918. It goes to the very roots of this instrumental turning point in modern history. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 197 x 35. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Number of pages
- 736
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141020792
- ISBN
- 9780141020792
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 18.12
€ 25.99
€ 18.12
Paperback. The author of "The Bielski Brothers" offers this gripping true story of a controversial murder that casts new light on the Great Irish Famine, the greatest social disaster to strike 19th-century Europe. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 136 x 23. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Publisher
- HarperPerennial New York
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780060840518
- ISBN
- 9780060840518
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.63
€ 13.99
€ 10.63
Hardback. Num Pages: 488 pages, 19 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; HBJK; JPHL; JPP; JPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 36. Weight in Grams: 799.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253021038
- ISBN
- 9780253021038
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 43.62
€ 43.99
€ 43.62
Paperback. Clan Cleansing in Somalia deals with the transformative violence that helped cause the collapse of the Somali state in 1991. Kapteijns argues that public acknowledgment of the clan cleansing of this period is indispensable to social and moral repair and to the critical memory work required from Somalis on all sides of this conflict. Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1HFGS; 3JJPR; GTJ; HBJH; HBLW3; HBTZ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 172 x 21. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812223194
- ISBN
- 9780812223194
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.12
€ 37.99
€ 34.12
Paperback. Stones of Empire brings together two leading authors in a very personal investigation of the British architectural legacy in India. The text and photographs illustrate the buildings both as objects and as reflections of an empire's mingled emotions, charting a unique enterprise in architecture, engineering, and social adaptation. Num Pages: 244 pages, numerous halftones. BIC Classification: 1FKA; AM; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 190 x 15. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 244
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780192805966
- ISBN
- 9780192805966
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.33
€ 44.33
Paperback. Exposes the self-seeking ambitions of Cardinal Manning and the manipulative, neurotic Florence Nightingale. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; BGH; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140183504
- ISBN
- 9780140183504
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.86
€ 17.99
€ 15.86
Paperback. Editor(s): Canavan, Francis. Num Pages: 476 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; HBJD; HBLL; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 760.
- Publisher
- Liberty Fund Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 476
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780865971653
- ISBN
- 9780865971653
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.64
€ 15.99
€ 12.64
Paperback. Observers have been predicting the demise of China's Communist state since Mao's death. Yet policymakers have managed the fastest sustained economic expansion in world history. This book shows that many contemporary techniques of governance have their roots in experimental policy generation and implementation dating to the revolution and early PRC. Editor(s): Heilmann, Sebastian; Perry, Elizabeth J. Series: Harvard Contemporary China Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JPA; JPFC; JPHC; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674060630
- ISBN
- 9780674060630
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.71
€ 33.99
€ 28.71
Paperback. The many political lives of an Indian Ocean metropolis, as seen through the eyes of scholars, writers and activists. Editor(s): Khan, Nichola. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKP; HBJF; JFFE; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849047265
- ISBN
- 9781849047265
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.89
€ 33.99
€ 30.89
Paperback. In 1907, Grace Oakeshott faked her own death by drowning. Aged 35, she left a marriage and a successful professional life in England and fled with her lover, Walter Reeve, to New Zealand. What prompted her to do so? Jocelyn Robson traces her life story through social, political and religious reform movements of the fin de siecle period. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1MBN; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 397.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349672271
- ISBN
- 9781349672271
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.87
€ 39.87
Paperback. Shows what happened in eastern Europe between 1933 and 1945, when Nazi and Soviet policy brought death to some 14 million people. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784701482
- ISBN
- 9781784701482
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.44
€ 17.99
€ 13.44
Paperback. Burma is ruled by a harsh dictatorship unmoved by Western activists and sanctions. Drawing on his own family's stories and his years of hands-on political experience working with the UN, the author has written an illuminating account of how Burma's rich past informs its violent present, and of how the world might transform the country's future. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations, map, ports. BIC Classification: 1FMB; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 26. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571217595
- ISBN
- 9780571217595
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.95
€ 17.99
€ 12.95
Paperback. Deadlock and Disillusionment: American Politics Since 1968 is an insightful consideration of the events people, and policy debates that have shaped and continue to influence, even control, the current political era. Series: The American History Series. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118934357
- ISBN
- 9781118934357
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.48
€ 34.48
Hardback. Num Pages: 384 pages, over 140 b/w photographs, maps. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBWQ; JWH; JWXR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 283 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1506. SS Officers Who Ran the Nazi Concentration Camp System. 384 pages, 133ill.11M. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBWQ; JWH; JWXR. Dimension: 223 x 283 x 34. Weight: 1518.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764306365
- ISBN
- 9780764306365
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.36€ 46.30
€ 65.36
€ 46.30
Paperback. Brimming with verve and dramatic incident, this title offers insights into the life story of this Singapore island city-state through the personal experiences of the workers, adventurers, rulers and revolutionaries who have shaped its history over the last centuries. Num Pages: 464 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMS; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 238 x 33. Weight in Grams: 998.
- Publisher
- Editions Didier Millet Pte Ltd Singapore
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789814385169
- ISBN
- 9789814385169
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.31
€ 26.99
€ 20.31