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c 1800 to c 1900

Hardback. Born in 1852 in the last years of serfdom, Vera Figner came of age as Imperial Russian society was being rocked by the massive upheaval that culminated in the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. At first champion of populist causes and champion of women's higher education, Figner later became a leader of the terrorist party The People's Will. Num Pages: 352 pages, 6 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JH; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 362 x 27. Weight in Grams: 626.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253012845
ISBN
9780253012845
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.27

Hardback. By the end of Queen Victoria's reign, factories had become an inescapable part of the townscape. This book looks at the architecture, planning and design of those factories that were part of the second wave of the industrial revolution. It covers the Victorian and Edwardian eras, 1837- 1910, and the period leading up to the First World War. Num Pages: 160 pages, 150 colour and black & white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; AMG; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 255 x 16. Weight in Grams: 644.
Publisher
The Crowood Press Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785001895
ISBN
9781785001895
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 25.73

Paperback. Examines the folklore of Mary Ellen Pleasant's real and imagined powers. Addressing the lack of a historical record of black women's lives, this book argues that the silences and mysteries of Pleasant's past, whether never recorded or intentionally omitted, reveal as much about her life as what has been documented. Series: Women in American History. Num Pages: 224 pages, 14 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780252075278
ISBN
9780252075278
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 24.77

Paperback. This study argues that morphology was integral to the life sciences of the 19th century. It traces the development of morphological research in German universities and illuminates significant institutional as well as intellectual changes in 19th-century German biology. Num Pages: 428 pages, 9 halftones, 1 map, 7 line drawings, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; HBTB; JNU; PDX; PSVD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 700.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226610887
ISBN
9780226610887
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.77
€ 44.94

paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 330 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; JFC; JFSV1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
330
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691612263
ISBN
9780691612263
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.77
€ 41.44

hardcover. This book is a detailed study of the modern silk industry in a county in the Yangzi delta. It reopens and restructures the grand debate on Chinese economic development, combining quantitative analysis of both industry and agriculture with study of how local politics, class, culture, and gender also shaped the modern Chinese economy. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; 3JJ; KCZ; KND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 31. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804729987
ISBN
9780804729987
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.05

Hardcover. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
SKU
V9781600219610
ISBN
9781600219610
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.09

Paperback. There is an extraordinary range of material in this anthology. Lincoln's Gettysburg address is here and so too is a contemporary account of a visit from the Ku Klux Klan. The primary sources reproduced are both visual and written, and the secondary present a remarkable breadth and quality of relevant scholarship. . Editor(s): Cullen-Sizer, Lyde (Sarah Lawrence College USA); Cullen, Jim. Num Pages: 464 pages, 2. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 35. Weight in Grams: 800.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405106917
ISBN
9781405106917
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.61

Paperback. A series of short stories, related by the author, handed down from generation to generation of the Lakota tribe. This work honours the buffalo, the dog, the horse, the eagle, and the wolf as workaday helpers and agents of divine intervention; the wisdom of the medicine man; and the heroism and resourcefulness of individual men and women. Num Pages: 82 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBNR; 3JH; JFHF; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 205 x 134 x 11. Weight in Grams: 142.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
New
Number of pages
82
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803293359
ISBN
9780803293359
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.95

Paperback. A memoir of life, experience, and education of a Lakota child in the late 1800s. The author describes the home life and education of Indian children. Like other boys, he played with toy bows and arrows in the tipi before learning to make and use them and became schooled in the ways of animals and in the properties of plants and herbs. Num Pages: 198 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBNR; 3JH; BG; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3429 x 13. Weight in Grams: 250.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
New
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803293342
ISBN
9780803293342
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.06

Hardcover. A compelling history of nineteenth-century economic, social, and cultural life, Capitalism by Gaslight explores the blurred boundary between legitimate and illegitimate economic activity, describing the dealings of prostitutes, dealers in dirty books and used goods, mock auctioneers, illegal slavers, and other entrepreneurs. Editor(s): Luskey, Brian P.; Woloson, Wendy A. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 328 pages, 19 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; KCZ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 237 x 32. Weight in Grams: 668.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812246896
ISBN
9780812246896
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.85

Hardcover. Based on original research from Charles Urban's own papers, this is the first biography of this influential film maker and innovator. It is also a historical study of the development of the non-fiction film in Britain and America in the early years of cinema, told through the experiences of the leading pioneer of the form. Series: Exeter Studies in Film History. Num Pages: 256 pages, 25 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; APFB; APFX. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 241 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 552.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859898829
ISBN
9780859898829
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.26

Paperback. The first ever biography of slave turned bare-knuckle boxing legend Bill Richmond (1763-1829). Num Pages: 264 pages, 27. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; BGS; JFSL3; WSTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 368.
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781445644899
ISBN
9781445644899
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.65

paperback. This collection of essays exposes how meaning has been produced around the Great Exhibition. Critics and historians of art, culture, design and literature have been brought together to examine the objects, the images, the documents and the fictions of 1851. Editor(s): Purbrick, Louise. Series Editor(s): Wallace, Jeff; Whale, John. Series: Texts in Culture. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBT; KJP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780719055928
ISBN
9780719055928
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 19.04

Hardback. Series: The American South Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813938745
ISBN
9780813938745
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.56

Paperback. After examining in volume 1 and 2 the hardware artillery implemented by Gunners from the end of the Old Regime to First Empire, this third volume discusses some topics of specialists uniformology, and of the materials used for the men of the "Armes savantes". Num Pages: 84 pages, Colour illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; HBLL; HBW; JWM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 201 x 8. Weight in Grams: 290.
Publisher
Histoire and Collections
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
2nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9782352504320
ISBN
9782352504320
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.31

Paperback. Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian revolutionary leader and popular hero, was among the best-known figures of the nineteenth century. This book seeks to examine his life and the making of his cult, to assess its impact, and understand its surprising success. Num Pages: 496 pages, 33 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 42. Weight in Grams: 758.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300144239
ISBN
9780300144239
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.16

paperback. Num Pages: 218 pages, 5. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 280.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
1 New ed
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801473425
ISBN
9780801473425
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 35.80

Paperback. Reveals the decorative seams, refined stitching, voluptuous drapery, strict corseting and slashing and stamping that make up some of the garments in the V&A's superlative 19th-century fashion collection. This title gives the reader a unique opportunity to examine historical clothing that is often too fragile to be on display. Series: Victoria and Albert Museum. Num Pages: 240 pages, 478 illustrations, 163 in colour. BIC Classification: 3JH; AKTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 290 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1196.
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780500292648
ISBN
9780500292648
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.25

paperback. Takes readers on a tour of London's most formative age - the age of love, sex, intellect, art, great ambition and fantastic ruin. This book is about the Georgians who called London their home, from dukes and artists to rent boys and hot air balloonists meeting dog-nappers and life-models along the way. Num Pages: 400 pages, 24pp b&w and colour. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 200 x 30. Weight in Grams: 394.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780670920143
ISBN
9780670920143
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.86

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