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20th century
Hardcover. What did it mean to be Russian as the imperial era gave way to Soviet rule? The author turns to a unique art form produced in the village of Palekh to investigate how artists and craftsmen helped to reshape Russian national identity. This book follows the development of Palekh art as it adapted to dramatic changes in the Russian nation. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JH; 3JJ; ACB; AFT; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875803395
- ISBN
- 9780875803395
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.84
€ 53.84
Hardcover. Who ruled the countryside in late Imperial Russia? On the rare occasions that tsarist administrators dared pose the question so boldly, their discouraged answer was that peasants ruled. This title challenges this dominant paradigm of the closed village by investigating the ways peasants engaged tsarist laws and the local institutions. Num Pages: 281 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875803708
- ISBN
- 9780875803708
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.42
€ 55.42
Hardcover. Analyzes the ideas and activities of the parish clergy serving in St Petersburg, the capital of imperial Russia, in order to discover how the Russian Orthodox Church responded theologically and pastorally to the profound social, economic, and cultural changes that transformed Russia during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Num Pages: 307 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JH; 3JJC; HBTB; HRCC2; HRCC8. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 307
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875803821
- ISBN
- 9780875803821
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.76
€ 146.76
Hardcover. Num Pages: 361 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJC; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 694.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 361
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875804279
- ISBN
- 9780875804279
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 41.86
€ 41.99
€ 41.86
Hardcover. Recounting the creation of the West German Foreign Office, this study explores three of the central themes in the early history of the Federal Republic: the integration of the new state into the international community, the cooptation of German elites by the new political system, and the creation of government in a state under foreign occupation. Num Pages: 304 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJPG; HBJD; HBLW3; JPSD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 36. Weight in Grams: 758.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875804637
- ISBN
- 9780875804637
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.55
€ 62.55
Hardcover. For France, the decade and a half before the Great War were years of plenty. The author examines daily life, the prevailing national mood, and the attitudes of France's prime ministers in July 1914 and August 1939, the months preceding the two world wars. Num Pages: 189 pages, 14 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 142 x 22. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 189
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875804682
- ISBN
- 9780875804682
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.38
€ 30.38
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 450
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875804712
- ISBN
- 9780875804712
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.33
€ 61.33
Hardcover. One of the greatest Marxist philosophers of the Bolshevik Revolution and an integral force in the creation of the Red Army, Lev Trotsky was expelled from the Party by Joseph Stalin in 1927 and deported in 1929, first to France, then Turkey, and Norway soon after. This title offers an account of Trotsky's time in Oslo. Series: Russian Studies. Num Pages: 430 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DNN; 1DVUA; 3JJG; BGH; HBJD; HBLW; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 163 x 37. Weight in Grams: 780.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 430
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875804743
- ISBN
- 9780875804743
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.65
€ 47.65
Hardcover. Between 1945 and 1964, six to seven million members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union were investigated and reprimanded, demoted from full party membership, or expelled. This book offers study of the Communist Party's internal disciplinary system in the decades following World War II. Num Pages: 260 pages, 21 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; JPFC; JPL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 168 x 241 x 31. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875804897
- ISBN
- 9780875804897
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.55
€ 61.55
Paperback. Exploring the confrontation between atheism and the lower classes' traditional beliefs, this work offers a fresh interpretation of early Soviet efforts to create an atheistic, scientific society. Num Pages: 258 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HRQA5; JH; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875805955
- ISBN
- 9780875805955
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.39
€ 28.39
Paperback. Near the end of World War II, four days after Allied armies landed at Normandy, a unit of Waffen SS en route to the front surrounded the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane and, without warning, massacred its citizens. In an effort to come to grips with this tragedy, Jean-Jacques Fouche explores the massacre from several points of. Translator(s): Sices, David; Atkinson, James B. Num Pages: 286 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 3JJH; HBJD; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875806013
- ISBN
- 9780875806013
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 32.36
€ 32.99
€ 32.36
Paperback. Historians have long viewed the rural Midwest as a place more representative of "Real America" than any other region from New England to the Deep South. Though the rural Midwest contains many cultures, a commitment to modernity and progress are a common element among them. In this book, contributors present the myriad distinctions of the area. Num Pages: 335 pages, 22 halftones, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JFSF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 230 x 29. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 335
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875806945
- ISBN
- 9780875806945
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.22
€ 31.99
€ 30.22
Paperback. During Kaiser Wilhelm II's reign, nature gained a role of central importance to the German national experience. Using interpretive methods drawn from the history of science and science studies, the author shows how popular health and hygiene movements shaped German ideas about progress and modernity, nature, health, and the body. Num Pages: 235 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; 3JJC; HBTB; MBP; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 217 x 15. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875807041
- ISBN
- 9780875807041
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 41.49
€ 41.99
€ 41.49
Hardcover. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; BGS; BK; WSJS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 290 x 227 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1026.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875807591
- ISBN
- 9780875807591
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 41.86
€ 41.99
€ 41.86
Paperback. Taking a look at the diverse nationalities inhabiting western provinces and the Kingdom of Poland during an era of intensifying national feeling, this book shows that the Russian government, even at the height of its empire, never came to terms with the question of nationality. Num Pages: 310 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875809861
- ISBN
- 9780875809861
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.22
€ 31.99
€ 30.22
Paperback. Ordinary working people, convinced their life could be better than it was, demanded a share in Mexico's progress and also to be respected for their contribution to that progress. This study demonstrates how the workers resisted the radical ideology of foreign revolutionary dogmas and based their demands on indigenous sociopolitical traditions. Num Pages: 431 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps, charts. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JJC; HBJK; HBLW; HBTK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 431
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875809922
- ISBN
- 9780875809922
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.63
€ 33.99
€ 33.63
Paperback. Addresses the tension between expectations for the traditional woman, whose primary value to the state was reproductive, and those for the modern consumer-housewife ideal that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s. This book offers insights to the gender dynamics of authoritarian states. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJ; HRCC7; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 18. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875809977
- ISBN
- 9780875809977
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 32.78
€ 32.99
€ 32.78
Hardcover. An invaluable collection of studies on major social and political issues in post-World War II Poland as reflected in the Polish novel. Series: East European Monographs S. Num Pages: 289 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 2AG; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; DSBH; DSK; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- East European Monographs United States
- Number of pages
- 289
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780880331661
- ISBN
- 9780880331661
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.68€ 49.96
€ 64.68
€ 49.96
Hardcover. Exploring how the early 1970s were years of crucial significance in the bipolar world which prevailed until the collapse of the Soviet Union, this volume reveals this period as a stage of the decomposition of the Soviet empire. Series: East European Monographs S. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1KBB; 3JJPL; HBJD; HBJK; HBLW3; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146. Weight in Grams: 317.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- East European Monographs United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780880334242
- ISBN
- 9780880334242
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.92€ 41.45
€ 52.92
€ 41.45
Hardcover. This is the first systematic study of the Sovietization of northern Transylvania, ceded to Hungary by the Vienna Diktat of 1940. This historiography of that transitional period fills an imortant gap in the existing research. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVH; 1DVWR; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- East European Monographs United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780880334969
- ISBN
- 9780880334969
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 32.94
€ 46.99
€ 32.94
Hardcover. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVWR; 3JJH; HBJD; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 149 x 26. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- East European Monographs United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780880335461
- ISBN
- 9780880335461
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.04
€ 54.99
€ 39.04
Hardcover. This book depicts, from the uniquely personal perspective of Ion Iliescu, former president of Romania, the historical drama of the global clash of political systems in the 20th century. Num Pages: 528 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVWR; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 181 x 32. Weight in Grams: 817.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- East European Monographs United States
- Number of pages
- 528
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780880335508
- ISBN
- 9780880335508
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.70
€ 40.99
€ 28.70
Hardcover. Balawyder explores how cultural, academic, commercial, and scientific exchanges with Canada played an important role in the "confidence building" that led to independence throughout Eastern Europe. This volume also contains interviews with eleven Canadian diplomats who served in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Num Pages: 200 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1KBC; 3JJP; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- East European Monographs United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780880335676
- ISBN
- 9780880335676
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 32.94
€ 46.99
€ 32.94
Hardcover. Examines the Soviet state's attempt to rebuild following World War II by offering support to families and encouraging women to enter the work force. This book also scrutinizes a society that proclaimed sexual equality, but was unable to achieve these goals because of the failure of the state to provide the structures necessary for equality. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJPG; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- East European Monographs United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780880335805
- ISBN
- 9780880335805
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 32.90
€ 46.99
€ 32.90