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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

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
€ 16.87

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

€ 142.93

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

€ 71.13

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
€ 17.35

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

€ 11.90

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

€ 53.44

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
€ 33.81

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

€ 86.24

Hardback. List of tables and figures; List of Illustrations; Glossary; Note on Shetland dialect; Map; Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Pasts, peoples, selves; 2. Stories; 3. Place; 4. Work; 5. Culture; 6. Sexualities; 7. Power; 8. Reflections; Bibliography; Index Series Editor(s): Sharpe, Pamela; Summerfield, Penny; Abrams, Lynn; Beattie, Cordelia. Series: Gender in History. Num Pages: 264 pages, 6 figures, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKSHJ; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719065927
ISBN
9780719065927
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 158.39

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

€ 53.02
€ 45.64

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
€ 26.45

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

€ 38.38

Paperback. Num Pages: 564 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 37. Weight in Grams: 484.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Penguin Putnam Inc
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143127031
ISBN
9780143127031
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.05

Hardcover. Pittsburgh has a rich theatrical tradition, from early frontier performances by officers stationed at Fort Pitt through experimental theater at the end of the twentieth century. This work offers a comprehensive history of theater in Pittsburgh, placing it within the context of cultural development in the city and the history of theater nationally. Num Pages: 320 pages, 51 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; 3JH; 3JJ; AN. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822943303
ISBN
9780822943303
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 41.82

Paperback. Exposes the self-seeking ambitions of Cardinal Manning and the manipulative, neurotic Florence Nightingale. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; BGH; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 216.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140183504
ISBN
9780140183504
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.42

Paperback. Eminent Victorians is a groundbreaking work of biography that raised the genre to the level of high art. It replaced reverence with scepticism and Strachey's wit, iconoclasm, and narrative skill liberated the biographical enterprise. His portraits of Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold, and General Gordon changed perceptions of the Victorians for a generation. Editor(s): Sutherland, John. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 336 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; BGH; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 238.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199555017
ISBN
9780199555017
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.58

Hardcover. Num Pages: 206 pages, 7 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBTQ; HBW; JWT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 165 x 19. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Helion and Company
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909982819
ISBN
9781909982819
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 32.81

Paperback. Surveys 100 years of military inefficiency from the Crimean War, through the Boer conflict, to the campaigns of the First World War and the calamities of the Second. This book examines the social psychology of military organizations, offers case studies of individual commanders and identifies an alarming pattern in the causes of military disaster. Num Pages: 448 pages, diagrams. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; JMJ; JWK; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 136 x 33. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Pimlico
Condition
New
SKU
9780712658898
ISBN
9780712658898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 15.10

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Helion and Company
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909982659
ISBN
9781909982659
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.85
€ 45.49

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