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Paperback. When Siraj, the ruler of Bengal, overran the British settlement of Calcutta in 1756, he allegedly jailed 146 European prisoners overnight in a cramped prison. Of the group, 123 died of suffocation. This title follows the ever-changing representations of this historical event and founding myth of the British Empire in India. Num Pages: 440 pages, 23 halftones. 5 line illus. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FKA; 3JF; HBJF; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 615.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
440
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691152011
ISBN
9780691152011
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.55

Paperback. Includes bibliographical references and index. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 452.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231152211
ISBN
9780231152211
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.35

Paperback. Looks at the results of nationalist imagination in Asia and Africa that are posited not on identity but on difference with the nationalism propagated by the West. This title shows how anticolonialist nationalists produced their own domain of sovereignty within colonial society well before beginning their political battle with the imperial power. Series: Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: HBTQ; HBTR; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691019437
ISBN
9780691019437
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.29
€ 42.46

Hardback. Includes bibliographical references and index. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231152204
ISBN
9780231152204
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 146.15

Paperback. In 1921, a traveling religious man appeared in Bengal, who was later, began to be identified as none other than the Second Kumar of Bhawal. So began one of the most extraordinary legal cases in Indian history. This title evaluates this case of the man claiming to be the long-lost Kumar. The story unfolds alongside decades of Indian history. Num Pages: 456 pages, 7 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBLW; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 628.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691090313
ISBN
9780691090313
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.29
€ 42.35

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226532394
ISBN
9780226532394
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.74

Paperback. .
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
2nd ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780817352752
ISBN
9780817352752
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 14.37

Paperback. Decline and Fall of the Sasanians has already been praised as one of the most intellectually exciting books about ancient Persia to have been published for years. Num Pages: 552 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 3D; 3F; HBJF; HBLA; HBLC; JFSR2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. .
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784537470
ISBN
9781784537470
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 26.88

Hardback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: BGX; HRG; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 489.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
400
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062342997
ISBN
9780062342997
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.44

Paperback. In a challenging and authoritative analysis, Parvin Paidar considers how Iranian women have been affected, and their position redefined, by the political transformations of twentieth-century Iran. Editor(s): Tripp, Charles. Series Editor(s): Clancy-Smith, Julia A.; Gershoni, Israel; Owen, Roger; Sayigh, Yezid; Tucker, Judith E. Series: Cambridge Middle East Studies. Num Pages: 424 pages, 7 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1FBN; HBJF1; HBLW; JFFK; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521595728
ISBN
9780521595728
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.78

Paperback. In 2002, after an altercation between Muslim vendors and Hindu travelers at a railway station in the Indian state of Gujarat, fifty-nine Hindu pilgrims were burned to death. This title provides a riveting ethnographic account of this collective violence. Num Pages: 320 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HRG; HRH; JFSR; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691151779
ISBN
9780691151779
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.27

Hardback. Parviz Tanavoli, the prominent Iranian artist and sculptor, here brings together a definitive collection of print media from 19th century Persia featuring unique images of European women on paper and postcards. Num Pages: 248 pages, Colour throughout. BIC Classification: 1FBN; ACB; AGH; HBJF1; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 265 x 228. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784535070
ISBN
9781784535070
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 142.11
€ 126.76

Hardback. The notion of belief figures prominently in contemporary philosophy of language and mind and in cognitive science. This work features essays that address a range of issues concerning the complexity of our belief attitudes, their contents, and the influence of motivational factors on beliefs. Editor(s): Engel, Pascal. Series: Philosophical Studies Series. Num Pages: 307 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1360.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
307
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792362388
ISBN
9780792362388
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.16

Paperback. Fascism, communism, genocide, slavery, racism, and imperialism - the West has no shortage of reasons for guilt. And, indeed, since the Holocaust and the end of World War II, Europeans in particular have been consumed by remorse. This title argues that obsessive guilt has obscured important realities. Translator(s): Rendall, Steven. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 138 x 213 x 10. Weight in Grams: 302.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Tra
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691154305
ISBN
9780691154305
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.63

Hardback. Money is an evil that does good, and a good that does evil. It is wise to have money, says Pascal Bruckner, and wise to think and talk about it critically. One of the world's great essayists guides us through the commentary that money has generated since ancient times, as he builds an unfashionable defense of the worldly wisdom of the bourgeoisie. Translator(s): Rendall, Steven. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 20 x 13. .
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674972278
ISBN
9780674972278
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.27

Hardback. How has a liberating principle of the Enlightenment - the right to pursue happiness - become the unavoidable and burdensome responsibility to be happy? How did we become unhappy about not being happy - and what might we do to escape this predicament? This book considers these questions. Translator(s): Rendall, Steven. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 420.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691143736
ISBN
9780691143736
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.98

Hardback. The sexual revolution is justly celebrated for the freedoms it brought. The author argues that the contradictions of modern love, our new freedoms have also brought new burdens and rules - without, however, wiping out the old rules, emotions, desires, and arrangements. Translator(s): Randall, Steven. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 221 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 436.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691149141
ISBN
9780691149141
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 31.01

Paperback.

The planet is sick. Human beings are guilty of damaging it. Wehave to pay. Today, that is the orthodoxy throughout the Westernworld. Translator(s): Rendall, Steven. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; RNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 272.

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Polity
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745669779
ISBN
9780745669779
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.20

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: HP; WSTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 139 x 9. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Inner Traditions
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780892818822
ISBN
9780892818822
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.24

Paperback. The Battle of Bull Run took place in July 1861 and although when all was said and done, its impact was relatively limited, it did have a far-reaching effect on the American Civil War itself. Series: Men & Battles. Num Pages: 80 pages, 50 photographs, 14 uniform plates. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 199 x 7. Weight in Grams: 362.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Histoire & Collections France
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
SKU
V9782352501534
ISBN
9782352501534
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.99

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