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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

Hardback. This history of the Afrikaner peoples begins with their arrival in Southern Africa in 1652 and leads up to the present day. The account covers the establishment of the Dutch East India trading post in the Cape, the Great Trek of the 1830s and the democratic elections of 1994. Series: Peoples of Africa S. Num Pages: 288 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3J; HBJH; HBTB; JFSL; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 602.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631182047
ISBN
9780631182047
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 89.74

Paperback. Series: Stackpole Military History Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 18 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stackpole Books United States
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811735353
ISBN
9780811735353
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 17.46

hardcover. A study of British foreign policy following the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. Policy towards Western and Eastern Europe, Russia, Turkey, the Middle East, USA and the Far East is examined alongside themes such as the role of Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary and Cabinet in policy formulation. Series: Studies in Military and Strategic History. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJG; HBJD1; HBLW; JPQB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
Edition
1995th Edition
SKU
V9780333642771
ISBN
9780333642771
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 226.75

Paperback. In a world increasingly defined by prose, poets adapted the new forms, characters, and moral themes of the novel in order to reinvigorate poetic practice. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; DSBD; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 452.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421418223
ISBN
9781421418223
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.61

Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 3 maps, 1 recorded music items, 11 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JD; HBJF; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 512. Scandal, Shipwreck, and Salvation in Seventeenth-Century Japan. 280 pages, 3 maps, 1 recorded music items, 11 colour illustrations. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JD; HBJF; HBLH. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 23. Weight: 512.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
280
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231158541
ISBN
9780231158541
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.47
€ 42.58

Hardcover. Num Pages: 120 pages, 30 illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1DFG; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBW; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 166 x 14. Weight in Grams: 344.
Publisher
Helion and Company
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909982567
ISBN
9781909982567
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.35
€ 46.12

Paperback. Shows how seemingly irrational business decisions, inspired in part by the self-interest of the owners but also by their nostalgia for the game, transformed baseball into the national pastime. Num Pages: 384 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBTB; JFC; KNSP; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691058856
ISBN
9780691058856
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.47
€ 42.58

Hardback. Considers the evolution of women's role in the Conservative Party since the time of Disraeli, and tries to assess whether it has always been one of progress. This book considers women at all levels, from that of the voter to the grassroots organization to national politics. Series: St Antony's Series. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; JFSJ1; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 475.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
251
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333686959
ISBN
9780333686959
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.09

Hardback. More than three centuries later, Jonathan Swift's writing remains striking and relevant. In this engaging study, Atkins brings forty-plus years of critical experience to bear on some of the greatest satires ever written, revealing new contexts for understanding post-Reformation reading practices and the development of the modern personal essay. Num Pages: 111 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JD; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 294.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
111
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137311627
ISBN
9781137311627
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.92

Hardcover. Here, G. Douglas Atkins offers a fresh new reading of the past century's most famous poem in English, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922). Using a comparatist approach that is both intra-textual and inter-textual, this book is a bold analysis of satire of modern forms of misunderstanding. Num Pages: 86 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJG; DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 145 x 12. Weight in Grams: 258.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137375742
ISBN
9781137375742
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.68

Hardback. Combining military and cultural history, the book explores British soldiers' travels and cross-cultural encounters in Spain and Portugal, 1808-1814. It is the story of how soldiers interacted with the local environment and culture, of their attitudes and behaviour towards the inhabitants, and how they wrote about all this in letters and memoirs. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 315 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBWH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 138 x 24. Weight in Grams: 510.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
318
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137323828
ISBN
9781137323828
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.75

Hardback. First published in 1879, this book has been identified as a lost publication and provides rare insight into the thinking of Victorian Engineers, written as a contemporary text. Num Pages: 240 pages, 40 period photographs and drawings. BIC Classification: 3JH; TBX; WGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 241 x 18. Weight in Grams: 592.
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781473823235
ISBN
9781473823235
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.35

Paperback. .
Publisher
Alan Godfrey Maps
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Edition
Facsim.of 1905 Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780850544251
ISBN
9780850544251
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.07

Hardback. Using a wide range of student testimony and oral history, Georgina Brewis sets in international, comparative context a one-hundred year history of student voluntarism and social action at UK colleges and universities, including such causes as relief for victims of fascism in the 1930s and international development in the 1960s. Series: Historical Studies in Education. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBTB; JKSN1; JNKS; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 478.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
2014th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137370136
ISBN
9781137370136
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.93
€ 46.40

Paperback. Espinoza's work illuminates how education was the site of ideological and political struggle in Peru during its early years as an independent state. Spanning 100 years and discussing both urban and rural education, it shows how school funding, curricula, and governance became part of the cultural process of state-building in Peru. Series: Historical Studies in Education. Num Pages: 295 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLL; JNB; JNLB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137538246
ISBN
9781137538246
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 33.77

Hardcover. An examination of US and UK approaches, in the late 1950s, towards the major alliances in Europe, the Middle East and South East Asia. The work analyzes the military relationship between the US and UK and the extent to which they co-operated with allies in countering threats to Western security. Series: Southampton Studies in International Policy S. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FB; 1FM; 1KBB; 3JJPG; HB; JPS; JWK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333626696
ISBN
9780333626696
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.12

Hardback. Discusses the complexities of a trading network in this period, outling commodity chains, links between colonies and colonial centres, and tensions between local polities and competing empires. Series: Worlds of the East India Company. Num Pages: 208 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FM; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; HBTQ; KCLT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783270699
ISBN
9781783270699
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.73

Paperback. Beginning with the Zealots of the first century CE, this book features contributors who go on to discuss the Assassins of the Middle Ages, the 1789 Terror movement in Europe, Bolshevik terrorism during the Russian Revolution, Stalinism, "resistance" terrorism during World War II, and Latin American revolutionary movements of the late 1960s. Editor(s): Chaliand, Gerard; Blin, Arnaud. Num Pages: 536 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; HBTV; JFFE; JPWL; JWK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 33. Weight in Grams: 734.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Updated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520292505
ISBN
9780520292505
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Paperback. The Medieval Theologians provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the period through an examination of the key individual theologians of the time. Chronologically arranged, it allows students to explore this crucial period when so many important theological developments took place. Editor(s): Evans, G. R. Series: The Great Theologians S. Num Pages: 408 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 3J; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 247 x 170 x 23. Weight in Grams: 676.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
408
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631212034
ISBN
9780631212034
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 50.93

Hardcover. Learning From Foreign Wars examines how the Russian army interpreted and what lessons it learned from the wars in Europe between 1859 and 1871, and the American Civil War. This was a time marked by rapid change - political, social, economic and technological. Series: Helion Studies in Military History. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBW; JWK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Helion & Company United Kingdom
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908916983
ISBN
9781908916983
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.23
€ 54.72

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Taschen
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9783836544344
ISBN
9783836544344
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.06

Hardback. Editor(s): Sutton, Gerard K.; Cassalli, Joseph A. Num Pages: 155 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JMG; HBJF; HBLX; RNR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 257 x 181 x 14. Weight in Grams: 504.
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
155
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781614703358
ISBN
9781614703358
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 221.00
€ 151.27

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Number of pages
372
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843838548
ISBN
9781843838548
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.64

Paperback. This reader provides two centuries of historical context to debates on health inequality. Extracts from classic texts, information about authors and an introduction draw together important themes of change and continuity. It is a key text for students on a range of policy courses and an excellent resource for anyone interested in poverty. Editor(s): Davey-Smith, George; Dorling, Daniel; Shaw, Mary. Series: Studies in Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion Series. Num Pages: 464 pages, illustrations facsim., maps, portraits. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; JFFA; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 173 x 26. Weight in Grams: 778.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9781861342119
ISBN
9781861342119
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 43.93

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