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c 1800 to c 1900
Paperback. This study of the regulation of sexuality in the Qing dynasty explores the social context for sexual behavior criminalized by the state, showing how regulation shifted away from status to a new regime of gender that mandated a uniform standard of sexual morality and criminal liability for all people, regardless of their social status. Series: Law, Society & Culture in China. Num Pages: 440 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ; LNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804745598
- ISBN
- 9780804745598
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.10
€ 33.99
€ 31.10
Paperback. This book examines how competing narratives about the Haitian Revolution influenced American public culture during the Civil War. It argues that both antislavery and proslavery groups appropriated the symbols of Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution in their attempts to determine the fate of slavery in the United States. Num Pages: 248 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812221848
- ISBN
- 9780812221848
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. Over recent decades much has been written on the complexities of Imperial Germany. More is known today about the politics, society, economy and culture of the German Empire than ever before. However, the sheer volume of new scholarship makes it increasingly challenging to synthesize all the available information. Series: Contesting the Past. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405129978
- ISBN
- 9781405129978
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.41
€ 46.41
Hardback. In a work based on new archival, press, and literary sources, the author revises the picture of German imperialism as being the brainchild of a Machiavellian Bismarck or the "conservative revolutionaries" of the twentieth century. Instead, Fitzpatrick argues for the liberal origins of German imperialism.. Series: Monographs in German History. Num Pages: 237 pages, 8 ills. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; HBTQ; JPFN. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 237
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455200
- ISBN
- 9781845455200
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.35
€ 162.35
Paperback. This lively and entertaining book tells the stories of con artists, gamblers, swindlers, and other nefarious characters who stampeded west in the quest to make money off the men and women who stampeded west in search of land and gold. Num Pages: 320 pages, 22 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBWZ; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- TwoDot
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762789658
- ISBN
- 9780762789658
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.12
€ 20.99
€ 20.12
Hardcover.
- Publisher
- Irish Academic Press Ltd
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780716529897
- ISBN
- 9780716529897
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.00€ 28.42
€ 35.00
€ 28.42
Paperback. This work is a social and cultural history of the Maya peoples of the province of Yucatan in colonial Mexico, spanning the period from shortly after the Spanish conquest of the region to its incorporation as part of an independent Mexico. Num Pages: 476 pages, 1 figure 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 1KLS; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5893 x 3937 x 26. Weight in Grams: 645.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 476
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804736589
- ISBN
- 9780804736589
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.59
€ 40.99
€ 36.59
Hardback. The Black Middle is the first book-length study of the interaction of black slaves and other people of African descent with Mayas and Spaniards in the Spanish colonial province of Yucatan (southern Mexico). Num Pages: 456 pages, 39 tables, 4 figures, 13 illustrations, 11 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 30. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804749831
- ISBN
- 9780804749831
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.74
€ 160.74
Paperback. "An exploration of Russia's modern history focused on the particular and peculiar ways in which the sensory has translated into Russian culture and society"-- Editor(s): Romaniello, Professor Matthew P.; Starks, Tricia. Num Pages: 320 pages, 30 BW Illus. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; HBLX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 160 x 333 x 18. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474263122
- ISBN
- 9781474263122
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.18
€ 49.18
Hardback. This study explores how magazines became the first mass medium in the USA and how they expressed a new American culture built on dreams of a better future. The author argues that the birth of the popular magazine at the turn of the 20th century laid the foundations of the modern consumer culture. Num Pages: 357 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFC; JFD; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 357
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231082907
- ISBN
- 9780231082907
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.76€ 57.47
€ 73.76
€ 57.47
Hardcover. Explores the overlap and shift between theistic and naturalistic science through a parallel study of two major scientific figures: James Clerk Maxwell, a devout Christian physicist, and Thomas Henry Huxley, the iconoclast biologist who coined the word agnostic. Num Pages: 336 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HRAM3; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 230 x 25. Weight in Grams: 646.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226164878
- ISBN
- 9780226164878
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.17€ 79.41
€ 95.17
€ 79.41
Paperback. Suppose that everything we think we know about 'The Victorians' is wrong? That we have persistently misrepresented the culture of the Victorian era, perhaps to make ourselves feel more satisfyingly liberal and sophisticated? What if they were much more fun than we ever suspected? This book provides the answers for us. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571206636
- ISBN
- 9780571206636
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
Paperback. Canadian woman writes of teaching in concentration camps following South African War in 1902. Editor(s): Dawson, Michael; Gidney, Catherine; Klausen, Susanne M. Series: Wayfarer. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JH; 3JJC; BM; HBJH; HBWM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Publisher
- University of Alberta Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781772120462
- ISBN
- 9781772120462
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.43
€ 40.99
€ 29.43
Hardback. Presses an understanding of the roles of women in public life and offers a history of urban America. This book also offers evidence that women established a broad and durable solidarity that spanned differences of race, class, and political experience. Num Pages: 336 pages, 24 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JFSJ1; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691095394
- ISBN
- 9780691095394
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.22€ 68.68
€ 89.22
€ 68.68
Paperback. Buttressed by historical documentary sources, and by painstaking linguistic researches, Maureen Warner-Lewis offers a re-issue and thematic expansion of her classic collection of essays on the forced and voluntary migration to Trinidad of West and West-Central Africans during the 1800s, extending through both the slavery and post-emancipation eras. Num Pages: 260 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJWWT; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; HBTS; JFC; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of the West Indies Press
- Edition
- 2nd Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789766405052
- ISBN
- 9789766405052
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.60
€ 60.60
hardcover. Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy (1833-1918) was one of the most significant pioneers of the British women's emancipation movement. Wolstenholme Elmy referred to herself as an 'initiator' of movements, and she was at the heart of every campaign Victorian feminists conducted. This title presents a portrait of this 'Insurgent woman'. Series Editor(s): Sharpe, Pamela; Summerfield, Penny; Abrams, Lynn; Beattie, Cordelia. Series: Gender in History. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; BGH; HBJD1; HBTB; JFFK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 221 x 139 x 30. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780719081095
- ISBN
- 9780719081095
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.80
€ 156.80
Hardcover. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1,000 illus. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; JFCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 293 x 228 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1624.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764351327
- ISBN
- 9780764351327
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.42€ 46.95
€ 65.42
€ 46.95
Hardback. Translator(s): Rosenwald, Lawrence. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 508 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; BGH; DNF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1085.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 508
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691632162
- ISBN
- 9780691632162
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 257.88
€ 257.88
Paperback. Michel Foucault observed that 'the birth of philology attracted far less notice in the Western mind than did the birth of biology or political economy.' This book shows that philology left an indelible mark on Western visions of history and contributed directly to some of the most horrifying ideologies of the twentieth century. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; CF; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 228
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674030626
- ISBN
- 9780674030626
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.85
€ 27.99
€ 24.85
This book brings to light the first Jewish fiction in French and reveals how the first generation of Jews born as French citizens used fiction as a laboratory for experimenting with modern forms of Jewish identity. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 336 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804763844
- ISBN
- 9780804763844
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.82
€ 38.82