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c 1800 to c 1900
Paperback. In the early nineteenth century China remained almost untouched by British and European powers - but as new technology started to change this balance, foreigners gathered like wolves around the weakening Qing Empire. This book explains the roots of China's complex relationship with the West. Num Pages: 512 pages, 16pp colour. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 200 x 15. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Publisher
- Penguin Press/Classics
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141015859
- ISBN
- 9780141015859
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.26
€ 21.99
€ 16.26
Paperback. This is a study of machines for writing and reading at the end of the 19th century in America. Its aim is to explore writing and reading as culturally contingent experiences, and at the same time to broaden our view of the relationship between technology and textuality. Num Pages: 304 pages, 22 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; DSB; TDPB; TDPP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 136 x 13. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804738729
- ISBN
- 9780804738729
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.59
€ 36.99
€ 33.59
Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 34. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Stackpole Books
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811714983
- ISBN
- 9780811714983
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.29
€ 19.99
€ 17.29
paperback. Recovers one woman's compelling history through a modern-day family's adventures into realms of ultimately timeless experiences Series: American Lives. Num Pages: 328 pages, 14 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JH; BGH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803236387
- ISBN
- 9780803236387
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.66
€ 21.99
€ 21.66
Paperback. "I intend to fight it out along this line if it takes all summer," Union commander Ulysses S. Grant wrote to Washington after he'd opened his Overland Campaign in the Spring of 1864. His resolve entirely changed the face of warfare. Series: Emerging Civil War Series. Num Pages: 168 pages, 171 illustrations and 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Savas Beatie United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611211481
- ISBN
- 9781611211481
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.19
€ 17.99
€ 17.19
Paperback. At the beginning of the 20th century it was still necessary for women to ask lawmakers, 'Are women persons?' The rights and treatment of women in their homes, workplaces, and government were issues that men often preferred to ignore. But women refused to remain silent. This volume looks at women who are shapers of history, as well as its victims. Editor(s): Moynihan, Ruth Barnes; Russett, Cynthia; Crumpacker, Laurie. Num Pages: 404 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 32. Weight in Grams: 851.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 404
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803281998
- ISBN
- 9780803281998
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.45
€ 34.99
€ 31.45
Paperback. Offers a comparative history of European girlhood from 1750 to 1960, with a focus on Britain, France, and Germany. This volume covers diverse issues in the lives of girls, from sexuality and leisure to social roles in the family and the economy. Editor(s): Maynes, Mary Jo; Soland, Birgitte; Benninghaus, Christina. Num Pages: 328 pages, 20 b&w photos, 2 figures, 1 index. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 235 x 22. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253217103
- ISBN
- 9780253217103
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.05
€ 29.99
€ 27.05
Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 133 x 26. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Publisher
- Three Rivers Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781400079230
- ISBN
- 9781400079230
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.27
€ 21.99
€ 17.27
Hardcover. Mil Penner was brought up on a Mennonite family farm in Section 27 in McPherson County, Kansas. In this collection of vignettes, he traces the influence of pioneer roots on the present generation as he chronicles the transformation of the land from untouched prairie to productive farm. Num Pages: 232 pages, 25 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBNK; 3JH; 3JJ; BGB; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; HRCZ; KNAC; TV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700611966
- ISBN
- 9780700611966
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 42.44
€ 42.44
Hardcover. Offers an account of religion and society in nineteenth-century America. Exploring the eruptions of religion in New York's penny presses, the budding fields of anthropology and phrenology, and Moby-Dick, this book challenges the strict separation between the religious and the secular that remains integral to discussions about religion. Series: Religion and Postmodernism. Num Pages: 344 pages, 23 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HRAM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226533230
- ISBN
- 9780226533230
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.53€ 77.34
€ 93.53
€ 77.34
Hardback. By 1830, many other important national concerns had become critically entangled with land disposition, creating points of ideological tension among rival regions, parties, and interests in the early years of the republic-particularly in Jacksonian America. Series: Reconfiguring American Political History. Num Pages: 312 pages, 5, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; 1KBBW; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421412757
- ISBN
- 9781421412757
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.54€ 50.94
€ 55.54
€ 50.94
Hardback. Carlson views the Lewis and Clark expedition as just one of several schemes to seize Western lands from foreign powers and extend the United States. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 b&w maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566634908
- ISBN
- 9781566634908
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.97
€ 26.99
€ 23.97
Hardback. In attempting to steer young adults safely away from the dangers of market-driven society, reformers in early America created values that came to define the emerging urban middle class. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 264 pages, 9 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812238792
- ISBN
- 9780812238792
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.63
€ 76.63
Hardcover. Following the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Kansas Territory was a national issue that dominated America's press. This book offers a study of national media coverage devoted to the beleaguered territory, unearthing examples of what Americans were saying about Kansas and showing how those words affected the course of national events. Num Pages: 304 pages, 10 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBNK; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700616121
- ISBN
- 9780700616121
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.40
€ 73.40
Paperback. Throughout the eighty-year period of tram transport (1873-1953), Birmingham grew appreciably as a city. Based on the Birmingham's twenty-eight tram routes in operation during 1937, this title takes readers on an illustrated variety of tram journeys, with places and points of interest being identified on the way. Num Pages: 128 pages, 200 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEMW; 3JH; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 166 x 9. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752427874
- ISBN
- 9780752427874
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.29
€ 19.99
€ 18.29
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
€ 107.79
€ 107.79
Paperback. Chronicles media's role in shaping American life during the tumultuous nineteenth century by focusing specifically on the presentation of race and gender in the newspapers and magazines of the time. This book examines the ways in which American women were portrayed in the national media as they assumed a greater role in public and private life. Editor(s): Sachsman, David B.; Rushing, S. Kittrell; Morris, Roy. Num Pages: 330 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; JFD; JFSJ; JFSL; KNTJ. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557535085
- ISBN
- 9781557535085
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.74
€ 33.99
€ 30.74
Paperback. Blues recording artist and critic Adam Gussow begins his story in the 1890s, when the spectacle lynching of blacks became an insidious part of Southern life. Gussow identifies veiled references to real life incidents of these lynchings within the words of Blues songs and literature. Num Pages: 336 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; 2ABM; 3JH; 3JJ; AVGK; DSBF; DSBH; GTB; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226310985
- ISBN
- 9780226310985
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 32.82
€ 42.99
€ 32.82
Paperback. Focuses on the means employed by former slaves in Charleston, South Carolina to adjust to their status as a free people and to battle attempts by whites to regain control over them. This study attempts to understand how the freedmen saw themselves in the new order and to shed light on their hopes and aspirations. Series: Blacks in the Diaspora. Num Pages: 256 pages, 30 b&w photos, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: 1KBBFS; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; HBWJ; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 20. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253216090
- ISBN
- 9780253216090
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 23.67
€ 25.99
€ 23.67
Hardback. All the correspondence selected for this volume - most of it hitherto unpublished - relates to Bernard Shaw's theatre dealings and theatrical interest, at the same time attesting to the 'histrionic instinct' and 'theatrified imagination' (his own phrases) of the man who penned them. Editor(s): Laurence, Dan H. Series: Selected Correspondence of Bernard Shaw. Num Pages: 254 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; BG; DSBF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802030009
- ISBN
- 9780802030009
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.71
€ 60.71