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c 1800 to c 1900
Hardback. The Civil War revealed what united as well as what divided Americans in the nineteenth century - not only in its deadly military conflict, but also in the broader battle of ideas, dueling moral systems, and competing national visions that preceded and followed. This title reveals a city at the heart of the cultural civil war. Num Pages: 352 pages, 22 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBNU; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674052888
- ISBN
- 9780674052888
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Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 44.50
€ 53.99
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Hardback. The admired American painter Winslow Homer rose to national attention during the Civil War. But one of his most important early images remained unknown for a century. "Near Andersonville" (1865-66) is the earliest and least known of these impressive images. This title reveals the long-hidden story of this remarkable Civil War painting. Series: The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures. Num Pages: 152 pages, 8 color illustrations, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBFG; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 327.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674053205
- ISBN
- 9780674053205
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.24
€ 26.99
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Hardback. Addresses how gender became a defining category in the political and social modernization of Japan. This book shows how 'a woman's place' in late-nineteenth-century Japan was characterized by contradictions and unexpected consequences, by new opportunities and new constraints. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 266 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; HBTB; JFSJ1; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674056053
- ISBN
- 9780674056053
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.31
€ 44.99
€ 37.31
Hardback. The French Revolution invented the notion of the citizen, but it also invented the noncitizen--the person whose rights were nonexistent. The South American outpost of Guiana became a depository for these outcasts of the new French citizenry, and an experimental space for the exercise of new kinds of power and violence against marginal groups. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 296 pages, 2 maps, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 242 x 24. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674057548
- ISBN
- 9780674057548
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Condition: New
€ 59.92€ 54.99
€ 59.92
€ 54.99
Hardback. Born in London in 1775 to a Maryland merchant and his English wife, Louisa recalls her childhood and education in England and France and her courtship with John Quincy. Her diaries reveal a reluctant but increasingly canny political wife. Her husband emerges in a fullness seldom seen--ambitious and exacting, yet passionate, generous, and gallant. Editor(s): Graham, Judith S.; Luey, Beth; Hogan, Margaret A.; Taylor, C. James. Series: Adams Papers. Num Pages: 960 pages, 21 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; BGHA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 165 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 960
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674058682
- ISBN
- 9780674058682
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 191.64€ 168.42
€ 191.64
€ 168.42
Paperback. Relations between the Choson and Qing states are often cited as the prime example of the operation of the 'traditional' Chinese 'tribute system.' This work contends that the motivations, tactics, and successes (and failures) of the late Qing Empire in Choson Korea mirrored those of other nineteenth-century imperialists. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPK; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674060739
- ISBN
- 9780674060739
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.45
€ 32.99
€ 27.45
Paperback. Between 1880 and 1930, close to 200 women were murdered by lynch mobs in the American South. This title provides a startling view into the Jim Crow South where the precarious and subordinate position of women linked black and white anti-rape activists together in fragile political alliances. Num Pages: 336 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JFFE; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674061859
- ISBN
- 9780674061859
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.21
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€ 26.21
Hardback. Maclachlan analyzes the institutions, interest groups, and leaders involved in the evolution of Japan's postal system from the early Meiji period until 2010. At the crux of her analysis is Prime Minister Koizumi Jun'ichiro's crusade to privatize Japan's postal services, one of the most astonishing political achievements in postwar Japanese history. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 378 pages, 13 halftones, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JMC; HBTB; JPQB; KNTT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 678.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 378
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674062450
- ISBN
- 9780674062450
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.63
€ 44.99
€ 37.63
Hardback. This book explores two important moments of dislocation in Chinese history, the early medieval period (317--589 CE) and the nineteenth century. Tian juxtaposes a rich array of materials from these two periods in comparative study, linking these historical moments in their unprecedented interactions, and intense fascination, with foreign cultures. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 398 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3D; 3JH; HBJF; HBLA; HBLL; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 690.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674062528
- ISBN
- 9780674062528
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.43
€ 44.99
€ 37.43
Hardback. The Emancipation Proclamation is responsible both for Lincoln's being hailed as the Great Emancipator and for his being pilloried by those who consider his once-radical effort at emancipation insufficient. Holzer examines the impact of Lincoln's announcement at the moment of its creation, and then as its meaning has changed over time. Series: The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures. Num Pages: 256 pages, 29 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674064409
- ISBN
- 9780674064409
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Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 39.30
€ 47.99
€ 39.30
Hardback. Caleb Smith explores the confessions, trial reports, maledictions, and martyr narratives that juxtaposed law and conscience in antebellum America's court of public opinion and shows how writers portrayed struggles for justice as clashes between human law and higher authority, giving voice to a moral protest that transformed American literature. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; DSB; HBJK; JPA; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674073081
- ISBN
- 9780674073081
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 39.28
€ 47.99
€ 39.28
Paperback. Aiming to reveal the role sailors played in helping forge new identities for black people in America and how they actively contributed to the Atlantic maritime culture, this book traces the history of black seamen to the end of the American Civil War. Num Pages: 320 pages, 37 halftones, 3 maps, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; HBTM; HBTS; JFSL3; KNGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Edition
- (4th)
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674076273
- ISBN
- 9780674076273
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.20
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€ 22.20
Hardcover. This selection of letters represents every major private and public event in Adams's life from 1858 to 1918 and confirms his reputation as one of the greatest letter writers of his time. The letters are to an array of correspondents including American presidents, Henry James and young children. Num Pages: 608 pages, 16 halftones and 2 line drawings on a 12-page black & white insert. BIC Classification: 2ABM; 3JH; 3JJ; BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1044.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 608
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674387577
- ISBN
- 9780674387577
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.44€ 74.52
€ 83.44
€ 74.52
Paperback. This text, Volume Four in a series on the evolution of private life, covers the development of self-consciousness from the tumult of the French Revolution to the outbreak of World War I, a century and a quarter of rapid, ungovernable change culminating in a conflict that altered life in the West. Editor(s): Aries, Philippe; Duby, Georges. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur. Series: History of private life. Num Pages: 744 pages, 16 color illustrations, 406 halftones. BIC Classification: 1Q; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBG; HBTB; JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 178 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 744
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674400030
- ISBN
- 9780674400030
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.04€ 50.01
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Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 210 x 25. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674416833
- ISBN
- 9780674416833
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.23
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€ 23.23
Paperback. "Gentlemen Bankers" focuses on the social and economic circles of one of America s most renowned and influential financiers, J. P. Morgan, to tell a closely focused story of how economic and political interests intersected with personal rivalries and friendships among the Wall Street aristocracy during the first half of the twentieth century." Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; KFFK; KJZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 26. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674416901
- ISBN
- 9780674416901
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.23
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Paperback. This saga opens with the enslavement of a woman from Senegambia, and then traces her family s quest, across five generations, for lives of dignity and equality. The story of Rosalie and her descendants unfolds against the background of three great antiracist struggles: the Haitian Revolution, the French Revolution of 1848, and the U.S. Civil War." Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KL; 3JH; HBJK; HBTB; HBWJ; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674416918
- ISBN
- 9780674416918
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.23
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Hardcover. Hiraku Shimoda places the origin of modern Japanese regionalism in the tense relationship between region and nation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This study shows that "region," often seen as a hard, natural place that impedes national unity, is in fact a supple spatial category that can be made to reinforce nationalist sensibilities. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 180 pages, map. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674492011
- ISBN
- 9780674492011
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.31
€ 44.99
€ 37.31
Hardcover. In Defensive Positions, Noell Wilson shows how control of coastal defense by regional domains exacerbated the shogunate's inability to respond to major military and political challenges as Japan transitioned from an early modern system of parcelized, local maritime defense to one of centralized, national security in the nineteenth century. Num Pages: 257 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; HBW; JWK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 341 x 25. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674504349
- ISBN
- 9780674504349
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.43
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Hardcover. No U.S. president has faced the problems Lincoln confronted, nor expressed himself with such eloquence on issues of great moment. Harold Holzer and Thomas Horrocks explore his writings on slavery, emancipation, racial equality, the legality of secession, civil liberties in wartime, and the meaning of the terrible suffering caused by the Civil War. Num Pages: 624 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGHA; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Number of pages
- 624
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674504837
- ISBN
- 9780674504837
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.43
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Paperback. The 15 essays in this volume apply the methods of the new economic history to the history of the Latin American economies since 1800. The authors combine the historian's sensitivity to context and contingency with modern or "neoclassical" economic theory and quantitative method. Editor(s): Coatsworth, John H.; Taylor, Alan M. Num Pages: 496 pages, 16 graphs, 85 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; 3JH; 3JJ; KCL; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 34. Weight in Grams: 810.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674512818
- ISBN
- 9780674512818
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.41
€ 27.99
€ 24.41
Hardcover. Examines the rise, development and ultimate failure of the German Social Democrats, the largest of the European socialist parties, from 1887 to 1912. Prominent figures are discussed but the book focuses primarily on the younger generation - Paul Kampffmeyer, Max Schippel, Conrad Schmidt and others. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLL; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 671.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674551237
- ISBN
- 9780674551237
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.20€ 84.58
€ 95.20
€ 84.58
Hardback. John Compton shows how evangelicals, not New Deal reformers, paved the way for the most important constitutional developments of the twentieth century. Their early-1800s crusade to destroy property that made immorality possible challenged founding-era legal protections of slavery, lotteries, and liquor sales and opened the door to progressivism. Num Pages: 260 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HRAM2; JPHC; LAZ; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 165 x 24. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674726796
- ISBN
- 9780674726796
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.39€ 51.33
€ 56.39
€ 51.33
Hardback. For six terror-filled weeks in 1870 German armies bombarded Strasbourg, killing hundreds of citizens, wounding thousands, and destroying landmarks. Rachel Chrastil tells how the city became the epicenter of a new kind of warfare whose indiscriminate violence shocked contemporaries and led to debates over the wartime protection of civilians. Num Pages: 268 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; HBJD; HBTB; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 157 x 27. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674728868
- ISBN
- 9780674728868
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 45.36
€ 54.99
€ 45.36