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Paperback. Takes readers inside the wily world of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century pirates. With swashbuckling irreverence and devilish wit, this book uncovers the hidden economics behind pirates' notorious, entertaining, and sometimes downright shocking behavior. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 halftones. 1 table. BIC Classification: HBLL; HBTM; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 208 x 136 x 17. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691150093
- ISBN
- 9780691150093
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.43
€ 18.99
€ 15.43
Paperback. This collection of essays applies the most current thinking in literature and urban studies to an examination of visual culture of 19th century France - painting, caricature, illustrated magazines, posters - resulting in a subtle map of the gendered topography of Parisian modernity, the stomping ground of the flaneur. Editor(s): D'Souza, Aruna; McDonough, Tom. Series: Critical Perspectives in Art History. Num Pages: 224 pages, 40 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; ACV; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 162 x 12. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719079429
- ISBN
- 9780719079429
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.91
€ 26.99
€ 26.91
Paperback. Presenting an appraisal of the Ku Klux Klan's strong links to mainstream society and it's role as a medium of corrective civic action, this title examines local Klan chapters in Denver, Salt Lake City, El Paso, Anaheim and, in Oregon, Eugene and La Grande. It aims to provide insight into the complex reasons for the Klan's popularity. Editor(s): Lay, Shawn. Num Pages: 248 pages, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252071713
- ISBN
- 9780252071713
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.04
€ 22.04
Paperback. A dazzling portrait of America on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the tumultuous political and economic times of the 1970s. Num Pages: 880 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPL; HBJK; HBLW3; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 250 x 42. Weight in Grams: 922.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781476782423
- ISBN
- 9781476782423
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 17.65
€ 25.99
€ 17.65
Paperback. Marwan Bishara, the chief policy analyst for Al Jazeera English and presenter of the show "Empire", looks at the roots of pro-democracy revolutions in the Arab world and offers an original analysis of what went right, why this moment is paramount, and how Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 141 x 22. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Avalon Publishing Group United States
- Edition
- First Trade Paper Edition
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781568589749
- ISBN
- 9781568589749
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.29
€ 25.99
€ 19.29
Paperback. This study attempts to survey the historiography, history and central interpretative problems surrounding the issue of investiture and the clashes between church and monarchy during the Middle Ages. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 216 pages, 4 illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; 3H; HBAH; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB; HRCC1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812213867
- ISBN
- 9780812213867
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.51
€ 32.99
€ 29.51
Hardcover. It is hard to imagine nowadays that, for many years, France and Germany considered each other as "arch enemies." And yet, for well over a century, these two countries waged verbal and ultimately violent wars against each other. Series: Studies in Contemporary European History. Num Pages: Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJC; HBJD; HBLW; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 158 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571816696
- ISBN
- 9781571816696
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.76
€ 160.76
Paperback. Masuzawa also explores the complex relation of "world religions" to Protestant theology, from the hierarchical ordering of religions typical of the Christian supremacists of the nineteenth century, to the aspirations of early twentieth-century theologian Ernst Troeltsch, who embraced the pluralist logic of "world religions" and. Num Pages: 384 pages, 1 halftone, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: HRAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 183 x 215 x 23. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 4/15/05
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226509891
- ISBN
- 9780226509891
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.47
€ 37.47
paperback. A fascinating study of ritual and symbolism which poses new questions for the understanding of our history. Editor(s): Hobsbawm, Eric; Ranger, Terence. Series: Canto Classics. Num Pages: 324 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 136 x 17. Weight in Grams: 464. Series: Canto Classics. 326 pages. Editor(s): Hobsbawm, Eric; Ranger, Terence. A fascinating study of ritual and symbolism which poses new questions for the understanding of our history. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: HBTB; JHBT. Dimension: 210 x 136 x 17. Weight: 468.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 324
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107604674
- ISBN
- 9781107604674
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.45
€ 23.45
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield International
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781786600493
- ISBN
- 9781786600493
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.95€ 22.15
€ 139.95
€ 22.15
Paperback. A characteristically robust and controversial account of Scotch myth and Scottish history by one of Britain's greatest historians. Num Pages: 304 pages, 12 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 24. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300208580
- ISBN
- 9780300208580
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.50
€ 17.99
€ 14.50
Hardcover. Written by three experts in the field, The Invention of Satanism examines contemporary religious Satanism as the product of historical, ideological, and social processes. Num Pages: 272 pages, 8 illustratons. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRQX9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195181104
- ISBN
- 9780195181104
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.15
€ 95.15
Paperback. The timely and gripping story of Russia since the collapse of Communism, by The Economist's Moscow bureau chief. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; 3JM; HBJD; HBLW3; HBLX; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 33. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857891600
- ISBN
- 9780857891600
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.54
€ 14.99
€ 11.54
Paperback. Argues that the conventional wisdom on religion makes sense only as a strategy of intellectual and political control. It examines how nationalists, officials, missionaries and scholars in the West and the colonis defined and redefined the relationship between the political and religious. Editor(s): Peterson, Derek R.; Walhof, Darren. Num Pages: 240 pages, 11 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: HRA; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 16. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780813530932
- ISBN
- 9780813530932
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.46
€ 42.46
Paperback. Through most of its long history, Japan had no concept of what we call "religion." In this book, the author reveals how Japanese officials invented religion in Japan and traces the sweeping intellectual, legal, and cultural changes that followed. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; HRAX; HRKN3; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 227 x 24. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226412344
- ISBN
- 9780226412344
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.48
€ 49.48
Paperback. There was racism in the ancient world, after all. This book refutes the common belief that the ancient Greeks and Romans harbored "ethnic and cultural," but not racial, prejudice. It considers themes in the history of discrimination. It provides analysis of proto-racism and prejudices toward particular groups of foreigners in Greco-Roman world. Num Pages: 592 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; HBG; HBLA; HBTB; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 157 x 32. Weight in Grams: 808.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 590
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691125985
- ISBN
- 9780691125985
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.83
€ 54.99
€ 39.83
Paperback. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2BM; DSB; HBJF; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 214 x 23. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231174398
- ISBN
- 9780231174398
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.65
€ 36.99
€ 27.65
Paperback. By emphasizing the ways the Bishops of Rome first leveraged the cult of St. Peter to their advantage, George E. Demacopoulos constructs an alternate account of papal history that challenges the dominant narrative of an inevitable and unbroken rise in papal power from late antiquity through the Middle Ages. Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCC2. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780812223699
- ISBN
- 9780812223699
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.33
€ 36.99
€ 34.33
Paperback. The extraordinary history of news and its dissemination, from medieval pilgrim tales to the birth of the newspaper Num Pages: 456 pages, 64 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTB; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 35. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300212761
- ISBN
- 9780300212761
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 18.02
€ 21.99
€ 18.02
Paperback. Num Pages: 442 pages, colour illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: 1DBR; BGH; BM; HBJD1; WQY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 36. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Publisher
- Daunt Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781907970528
- ISBN
- 9781907970528
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.62
€ 19.99
€ 14.62