Regional & national history
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Regional & national history
Hardback. A book about the losers of the Meiji Restoration and the supporters who promoted their legacy. Using sources ranging from essays by former Tokugawa supporters like Fukuzawa Yukichi to postwar film and "lost decade" manga, it shows how shifting portrayals of Restoration losers have influenced the formation of national history. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 250 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3J; HBAH; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 161 x 28. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674726703
- ISBN
- 9780674726703
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.31
€ 44.99
€ 37.31
Paperback. In 1945, New York City stood at the pinnacle of its cultural and economic power. Taking into account both Social Register and slum, this title celebrates New York's Golden Age as a place where, for one unrepeatable moment in history, anything seemed possible. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 16. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Edition
- Main
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571241781
- ISBN
- 9780571241781
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.33
€ 14.99
€ 11.33
Paperback. Retells the standard history of the end of World War II in the Pacific. By integrating the three key actors in the story - the United States, the Soviet Union, and Japan - this work puts the last months of the war into international perspective. Num Pages: 432 pages, 44 halftones, 5 maps - as two 16-page inserts. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJH; HBJD; HBJF; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674022416
- ISBN
- 9780674022416
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.51
€ 34.99
€ 29.51
Paperback. What does it mean to live in the modern world? How different is that world from those that preceded it, and when did we become modern? This book argues that the world was made modern not by revolution, industrialization, or the Enlightenment. Series: Berkeley Series in British Studies. Num Pages: 184 pages, 11 b/w images, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 229 x 11. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520282049
- ISBN
- 9780520282049
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 21.09
€ 27.99
€ 21.09
Paperback. Num Pages: 278 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBWQ; JWD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Publisher
- Burford Books,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 278
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580800389
- ISBN
- 9781580800389
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.07
€ 20.07
Paperback. A history of the forging of the Scottish kingdom during the first three centuries of the second millennium. It describes the evolution of Scottish kingship and government during the period, in the process examining the character of Scottish feudalism and the manner of its imposition. Series: Edinburgh Classic Editions. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474401814
- ISBN
- 9781474401814
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.39
€ 32.99
€ 29.39
Paperback. The Ninjas are the stuff of myth and legend in comics, film and electronic games. But once they were real, the medieval equivalent of the SAS: spies, saboteurs, assassins. Could they fly? Make themselves invisible? In a journey to the heartland of the ninjas, the author takes you from their origins over 1,000 years ago, through their heyday. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552165341
- ISBN
- 9780552165341
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.29
€ 17.99
€ 13.29
Hardcover. Collector's item, landmark in the history of the tour guide, snapshot of Britain in the 1860s - Bradshaw's Handbook deserves a place on the bookshelf of any traveller, railway enthusiast, historian or anglophile. Series: Old House. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; WGF; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 131 x 42. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Publisher
- Old House Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Facsimile
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908402028
- ISBN
- 9781908402028
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.12
€ 17.99
€ 13.12
Paperback. The Royal Flying Corps Handbook 1914-18 Num Pages: 224 pages, 175 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 172 x 15. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750960052
- ISBN
- 9780750960052
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.35
€ 26.99
€ 23.35
Hardback. The story of Waterloo, the battle that finally ended Napoleon's imperial dreams: how it was fought, how it has been remembered, and what it has come to mean. Series: Great Battles. Num Pages: 240 pages, 18 b&w halftones and 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DDB; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBWH; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 149 x 22. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199663255
- ISBN
- 9780199663255
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.19
€ 30.99
€ 22.19
Paperback. Providing an up-to-date synthesis of the history of an extraordinary nation-one that has been shrouded in myths, many of its own making-France and Its Empire Since 1870 seeks both to understand these myths and to uncover the complicated and often contradictory realities that underpin them. Num Pages: 480 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 226 x 18. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199384440
- ISBN
- 9780199384440
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 135.97
€ 135.97
hardcover. This book explores the significance of the peach as a cultural icon and viable commodity in the American South. Series: Cambridge Studies on the American South. Num Pages: 316 pages, 29 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBFG; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJK; HBTB; KNAC; RN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 236 x 30. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107071728
- ISBN
- 9781107071728
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 46.84
€ 46.99
€ 46.84
Paperback. While the world looked the other way, Sri Lanka's Tamils, civilians and rebels alike, were systematically and pitilessly attacked by their own government for five relentless months. Survivors of the devastation tell their stories of sacrifice, cruelty and bravery Num Pages: 272 pages, maps (black and white). BIC Classification: 1FKS; 3JMC; HBJF; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 201.
- Publisher
- Granta Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846274701
- ISBN
- 9781846274701
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.40
€ 19.99
€ 14.40
Paperback. Authoritative and hugely informative, with over 170 contributors, this is an essential companion for students of British history, and for anyone interested in Scottish history. It includes Columba, Macbeth, and William Wallace; Burns Clubs, curling, and shinty; clans, Clearances and Covenanters. Editor(s): Lynch, Michael. Series: Oxford Quick Reference. Num Pages: 768 pages, 9 maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 47. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 768
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199693054
- ISBN
- 9780199693054
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.96
€ 23.99
€ 17.96
Paperback. Tracing China's course from the eighteenth-century Qing Dynasty to today's People's Republic, this title shows how the country's worldview has evolved. It explains how Chinese attitudes have been determined by both receptiveness and resistance to outside influence and presents the preoccupations that have set its foreign-relations agenda. Num Pages: 528 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 39. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099569596
- ISBN
- 9780099569596
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.74
€ 19.99
€ 14.74
Paperback. Large collection of rare photographs, many never previously published. A must for all aviation historians. Num Pages: 176 pages, 150 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 246 x 11. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783030224
- ISBN
- 9781783030224
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.79
€ 25.99
€ 22.79
Paperback. Explore the fascinating history of Scotland in an easy-to-read guide Want to discover how a small country on the edge of Northern Europe packs an almighty historical punch? Scottish History For Dummies is your guide to the story of Scotland and its place within the historical narratives of Britain, Europe and the rest of the world. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBJD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 188 x 235 x 20. Weight in Grams: 622.
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118676158
- ISBN
- 9781118676158
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.00
€ 25.99
€ 19.00
Hardcover. The material in this volume constitutes a philosophical commonplace book, compiled by Bentham in the mid-1770s, in which he worked out the foundational ideas for his new science of legislation. This provides a remarkable record of the evolving ideas of a major legal philosopher at a formative stage of his career. Editor(s): Long, Douglas G.; Schofield, Philip. Series: The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLL; JFCX; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 244 x 35. Weight in Grams: 918.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198782902
- ISBN
- 9780198782902
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 203.52
€ 203.52
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472812490
- ISBN
- 9781472812490
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.44
€ 20.99
€ 19.44
Paperback. Formed in 1868, and possessors of a proud history by the outbreak of the First World War, the men of the 9th (Glasgow Highland) Battalion, The Highland Light Infantry, were right at the heart of the cataclysmic events that unfolded between 1914 and 1918 on the Western Front. This title presents the history of the Glasgow Highlanders in the WWI. Num Pages: 432 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3JJF; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWN; JWTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 32. Weight in Grams: 710.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752452012
- ISBN
- 9780752452012
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.47
€ 26.99
€ 23.47