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Empires & historical states
Law and Transaction Costs in the Ancient Economy (Law and Society in t...
Kehoe, Dennis P., Ratzan, David, Yiftach, Uri
Hardcover. Editor(s): Kehoe, Dennis; Ratzan, David; Yiftach, Uri. Series: Law and Society in the Ancient World. Num Pages: 320 pages, 9 tables, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDA; HBLA1; KCZ; LAQ; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 237 x 33. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472119608
- ISBN
- 9780472119608
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.21
€ 101.21
Hardcover. The contributors to The Topography of Violence in the Greco-Roman World examine how topography shaped the perception and interpretation of violence in Greek and Roman antiquity. No other book either adopts the spatial theoretical framework or pairs the examination of different classes of violence in classical antiquity in this way. Editor(s): Riess, Werner; Fagan, Garrett G. Num Pages: 432 pages, 14 halftones, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; 3D; HBJD; HBLA1; HBW; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 236 x 40. Weight in Grams: 772.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472119820
- ISBN
- 9780472119820
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.21
€ 101.21
Paperback. The Great Karnak Inscription of Merneptah's 5th regnal year, the longest surviving continuous monumental text from Egypt, describes the combined Libyan and Sea People invasion of Egypt c.1208 BCE. This new study, the first complete commentary on this damaged text, begins with a translation of the text, accompanied by detailed notes. Series: Yale Egyptological Studies. Num Pages: 210 pages, 15 b/w pls. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; HDDG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 253 x 179 x 19. Weight in Grams: 698.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Yale Egyptological Seminar United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780974002507
- ISBN
- 9780974002507
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.29
€ 50.29
paperback. Suetonius has often been used as if he were an historian, and at the same time criticised for not being one. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 224 pages, p. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; BGH; HBAH; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 15. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856685385
- ISBN
- 9780856685385
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.36
€ 34.99
€ 31.36
Paperback. Text with translation, commentary and notes. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DN; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 11. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856685903
- ISBN
- 9780856685903
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.36
€ 34.99
€ 31.36
Paperback. This book follows four Seventeenth-century Englishmen on their journeys around the Ottoman Empire while the British were, for the first time in history, becoming important players in the Mediterranean. This book shows that hostility between East and West is neither historical nor inevitable, but rather the result of selective memory. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDT; HBG; HBJF; HBLH; HBLL; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230003262
- ISBN
- 9780230003262
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.15
€ 67.15
hardcover. Looking East examines how English encounters with the Ottoman Empire helped shape national identities and imperial ambitions. Engagingly written in an accessible style, this book demonstrates how the so-called 'conflict of civilizations' separating the Muslim East from the Christian West is a false and dangerous myth. Num Pages: 314 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDT; 2AB; DSBB; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 525.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2007th Edition
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230019676
- ISBN
- 9780230019676
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.45
€ 67.45
Hardback. A collection that focuses on the role of European law in colonial contexts and engages with recent treatments of this theme in known works written largely from within the framework of postcolonial studies, which implicitly discuss colonial deployments of European law and politics via the concept of ideology. Editor(s): Dorsett, Shaunnagh; Hunter, Ian. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDB; HBTQ; LAB; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230104556
- ISBN
- 9780230104556
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.21
€ 67.21
Hardback. The essays in this book analyze a range of genres and considers geographical areas beyond the Ottoman Empire to deepen our post-Saidian understanding of the complexity of real and imagined "traffic" between England and the "Islamic worlds" it encountered and constructed. Editor(s): McJannet, Linda; Andrea, Bernadette. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDT; 2AB; DSBD; HBJF1; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115422
- ISBN
- 9780230115422
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.21
€ 67.21
Hardback. This is the first transnational study of British, Norwegian, and Swedish engagement with the Antarctic. Rather than charting how Europeans unveiled the Antarctic, it uses the history of Antarctic activity as a window into the political and cultural worlds of twentieth-century Britain and Scandinavia. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 283 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DN; 1MTS; 1QDB; 3JJ; HBJD; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 222 x 22. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115910
- ISBN
- 9780230115910
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.03
€ 128.03
Hardback. While the gender and age of the girl may seem to remove her from any significant contribution to empire, this book provides both a new perspective on familiar girls' literature, and the first detailed examination of lesser-known fiction relating the emergence of fictional girl adventurers, castaways and 'ripping' schoolgirls to the British Empire. Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230272866
- ISBN
- 9780230272866
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.03
€ 67.03
Hardcover. This book by world-expert Barry Gough examines the period of Pax Britannica, in the century before World War I. Following events of those 100 years, the book follows how the British failed to maintain their global hegemony of sea power in the face of continental challenges. Series: Britain and the World. Num Pages: 408 pages, 27 figures. BIC Classification: 1QDB; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD1; HBTM; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 164 x 28. Weight in Grams: 764.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230354302
- ISBN
- 9780230354302
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.93
€ 52.93
Hardcover. Contains work by 20 contributors, representing six nations on three continents, reflecting the most recent research on a crusade which mobilized Europe on a larger scale than any expedition undertaken since the Roman Empire. Particular attention is paid to the role played by St Bernard. Editor(s): Gervers, Michael. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDA; 3H; HBG; HBLA; HBLC; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UA) A / AS level; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312056070
- ISBN
- 9780312056070
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.19
€ 128.19
Hardback. This case study of the causes of the Thirty Years' War suggests an alternative framework to that of Absolutism, and views statebuilding as an interactive bargaining process that can engender challenges to political authority. Series: Studies in Modern History. Num Pages: 344 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1QDU; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 143 x 25. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333572412
- ISBN
- 9780333572412
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.84
€ 67.84
Hardback. Suitable for philosophers in general, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students, this title offers an explanation of the origin of the Theory of Forms that is true both to the dialogues and to Plato's place in history. Series: Philosophical Studies Series. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 237
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792332756
- ISBN
- 9780792332756
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.12
€ 128.12
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 600
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137280855
- ISBN
- 9781137280855
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 198.24
€ 198.24
Paperback. This study of various female deities of Graeco-Roman antiquity is the first to provide evidence that primary goddesses were conceived of as virgin mothers in the earliest layers of their cults. By taking feminist analysis of divinities further, this book provides a fresh angle on our understanding of these deities. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; HBLA1; HRKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137293428
- ISBN
- 9781137293428
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.68
€ 38.68
Hardcover. This is a collection of twelve interdisciplinary essays from international scholars concerned with examining the British experience of Empire since the eighteenth century. It considers themes such as national identity, modernity, culture, social class, diplomacy, consumerism, gender, postcolonialism, and perceptions of Britain's place in the world. Editor(s): Farr, Martin. Series: Britain and the World. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1QDB; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 175 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137304179
- ISBN
- 9781137304179
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.24
€ 67.24
hardcover. This cultural and political study examines British perceptions and policies on India's Afghan Frontier between 1918 and 1948 and the impact of these on the local Pashtun population, India as a whole, and the decline of British imperialism in South Asia. Series: Britain and the World. Num Pages: 307 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 1FKA; 1FKP; 1QDB; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJF; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Number of pages
- 307
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137374004
- ISBN
- 9781137374004
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.18
€ 139.18
Hardcover. The Gentleman's House analyses the architecture, decoration, and furnishings of small classical houses in the eighteenth century. By examining nearly two hundred houses it offers a new interpretation of social mobility in the British Atlantic World characterized by incremental social change. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1QDB; 3JF; AMKD; AMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 245 x 20. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137378378
- ISBN
- 9781137378378
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.37
€ 129.37