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Hardcover. A pathbreaking consideration of the intertwined critical responses to Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass, giants of abolitionist literature. Num Pages: 196 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571135773
ISBN
9781571135773
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.32

Hardcover. Provides the first comprehensive analysis of the history of returning German POWs after the Second World War, explored as a history of memory both during Germany's division and after unification. Num Pages: 368 pages, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWXR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 237 x 30. Weight in Grams: 696.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139047
ISBN
9781571139047
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.41

Paperback. Despite the voluminous literature on the central figure in American history, no other book in the field of political science compares to Lincoln's American Dream. It addresses comprehensively the overarching themes of Lincoln's political thought and leadership through provocative and divergent interpretations from leading scholars. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBG; HBJK; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 41. Weight in Grams: 756.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc United States
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
SKU
V9781574885897
ISBN
9781574885897
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.34

Hardcover. Explores the complex interactions between French medicine and Vietnamese childbirth traditions, documenting the emergence of a plural system of maternity services that incorporated both biomedical knowledge and local birthing traditions. Num Pages: 254 pages, 18 black & white illustrations, 22 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 19. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580465687
ISBN
9781580465687
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.22

Paperback. An experienced Native voice tells the story of Abenaki culture and history. Num Pages: 328 pages, 44 photos. 5 figs. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9781584650591
ISBN
9781584650591
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.06

Paperback. A blend of the light and the serious, the enlightening and the entertaining that have formed part of the Dartmouth story since Eleazar Wheelock went into the wilderness." Num Pages: 339 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
339
Condition
New
SKU
V9781584652267
ISBN
9781584652267
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.83

Hardback. This is a journey into the world of women in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community of Jerusalem toward the end of Ottoman rule in the Holy Land. Margalit Shilo sheds new light on female society of the time, a subject nearly untouched by historians. Series: Brandeis Series on Jewish Women. Num Pages: 360 pages, 11 illus. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJF1; HBLL; HBLW; JFSJ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156. Weight in Grams: 703.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9781584654834
ISBN
9781584654834
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.79
€ 52.69

Hardcover. An anthology of Jewish diaspora nationalist thought across the ideological spectrum Editor(s): Rabinovitch, Simon. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9781584657613
ISBN
9781584657613
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.81
€ 67.93

Paperback. An anthology of Jewish diaspora nationalist thought across the ideological spectrum Editor(s): Rabinovitch, Simon. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 449.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9781584657620
ISBN
9781584657620
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.84

Hardback. A lively look at magazine ads during World War II and their roles in sustaining morale and promoting home-front support of the war, with lots of illustrations Num Pages: 340 pages, 70 illus. (10 colour). BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; HBWQ; JFDV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
SKU
V9781584657682
ISBN
9781584657682
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 40.97

Paperback. A history of the complex relationship between a school and a people Num Pages: 280 pages, 28 illus. 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBEH; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9781584658443
ISBN
9781584658443
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.85

Paperback. A remarkable, in-depth study of Jewish history, culture, and memory in a historic and contemporary German city Num Pages: 328 pages, 46 illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9781584659228
ISBN
9781584659228
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 33.41

Hardcover. A comprehensive account of early papermaking in America Num Pages: 436 pages, 105 illus. BIC Classification: GBCT; HBJK; KN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1225.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
436
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781584659648
ISBN
9781584659648
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 142.60
€ 116.55

Paperback. A provocative look at the centrality of desire for "the Land" among early settlers in pre-state Israel Num Pages: 264 pages, 29 illus. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HBJF1; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781584659686
ISBN
9781584659686
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.83

Paperback. Examines a critical period in American politics and labor history, beginning with the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939 through the wave of major industrial strikes that followed the war and accompanied the reconversion to a peacetime economy. Series: Labor in Crisis. Num Pages: 344 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JHBL; JPFF; KNXB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592131976
ISBN
9781592131976
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.07

Paperback. Presents the attacks on the United States in historical perspective. This volume comments on the dangers of seeing the events of September 11 as splitting the nation's history into "before" and "after." It argues eloquently that no useful understanding of the present is possible without an unobstructed view of the past. Editor(s): Rosenzweig, Roy. Series: Critical Perspectives on the Past Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 19 b&w illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; GTB; HBJK; HBLX; JFSR2; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781592132034
ISBN
9781592132034
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 30.71

Paperback. When the locals and the rest of the world say 'New York', they mean Manhattan, a crowded island of commercial districts and residential neighborhoods, skyscrapers and tenements, fabulously rich and abjectly poor cheek by jowl. This title tells the story of the dreams that inspired the changes in the landscape and the problems that eluded solution. Editor(s): Rosenzweig, Roy; Benson, Susan Porter; Brier, Stephen; Rozenweig, Roy. Series: Critical Perspectives on the Past Series. Num Pages: 352 pages, 73 b&w illustrations, 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; AMVD; HBJK; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 17. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592132355
ISBN
9781592132355
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 42.86

Paperback. Details the transformation of alcohol from virtue to vice and back again, how it was thought of as both scourge and medicine. This title tells us how the great American thirst developed over the centuries, and how reform movements and laws (some of which, the author says, were "comic masterpieces of the legislator's art") sprang up to combat it. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JHBT; WBXD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3963 x 21. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592132690
ISBN
9781592132690
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.03

paperback. Taking a look at white supremacy, this work argues that racism is a matter of interests as well as attitudes, a problem of property as well as pigment. This work shows how whiteness works in respect to Asian Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans. It also analyzes the centrality of whiteness to US culture. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 1K; GTB; HBJK; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Edition
Revised, Expanded ed.
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592134946
ISBN
9781592134946
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.91

Paperback. The history of civil rights for people with intellectual disabilities in 20th century America Num Pages: 286 pages, 30 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: HBJK; JFFG; JHBA; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592136988
ISBN
9781592136988
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 34.25

Paperback. Offering an introduction to and an overview of postwar social science in the United States, this title explores a critical period in the evolution of American sociology's professional identity. It contends that from the late 1940s through the early 1960s leading sociologists encouraged a professional secession from public engagement. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLW3; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592137145
ISBN
9781592137145
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 32.92

Paperback. During the Second World War, Chinese Americans contributed to the war effort by joining the armed forces and working in the defense industries. This title traces the history of the 14th Air Service Group, a segregated outfit of Chinese Americans sent to China in support of the American Army Air Corps and the Chinese Air Force. Series: Asian American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; HBWQ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592138401
ISBN
9781592138401
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

Hardback. A valuable reference guide to Ohio in the Civil War Editor(s): Miller, Richard F. Num Pages: 932 pages, 3 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBNH; 3JH; GBC; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 262 x 179 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1179.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
932
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611686883
ISBN
9781611686883
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.71
€ 92.70

hardcover. This new, factually rich and visually stunning publication is the first major history of Birmingham for more than four decades. Editor(s): Dick, Malcolm; Chinn, Carl. Num Pages: 344 pages, 210 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEMW; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 256 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781781382462
ISBN
9781781382462
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.40

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