Modern period, c 1500 onwards
Results 1873 - 1896 of 19992
Modern period, c 1500 onwards
Paperback. A selection from Susan Sontag's diaries (from 1947-1963) that takes us from early adolescence though to when Sontag was in her early thirties. It is an honest self-portrait which is also a revealing account of an artist and critic being born. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJPG; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141045191
- ISBN
- 9780141045191
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.88
€ 15.99
€ 11.88
Paperback. The Great Lakes region was an important site of cultural as well as economic exchange between native and European peoples in the colonial period. This study focuses on an often overlooked aspect of these interactions - the role played by Indian women who married French traders. Series: Native Americans of the Northeast: Culture, History & the Contemporary S. Num Pages: 264 pages, 8 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; 3J; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTB; JFFN; JFSL9; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781558493100
- ISBN
- 9781558493100
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 31.78
€ 37.99
€ 31.78
Hardback. In the voluminous scholarship that's been written on Paul Cezanne, little has been said about the 24 portraits in oil that Cezanne made of his wife, Hortense Fiquet Cezanne, over an extended twenty-year period. This title focuses on these paintings as a group and looks at the differences that render many of them unrecognizable as the same person. Num Pages: 320 pages, 18 color illustrations and 65 black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; ACV; AGB; AGHF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 259 x 214 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1252.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition /First Printing
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520257450
- ISBN
- 9780520257450
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.81€ 65.26
€ 84.81
€ 65.26
Paperback. In June 1846 Susan Shelby Magoffin, eighteen years old and a bride of less than eight months, set out with her husband, a veteran Santa Fe trader, on a trek from Independence, Missouri, through New Mexico and south to Chihuahua. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illus., map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3404 x 22. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803281165
- ISBN
- 9780803281165
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 22.71
€ 24.99
€ 22.71
Paperback. An entertaining cultural history of the American family vacation during the height of its popularity from 1945 to 1973. Reveals the ways in which the ritual of the family road trip, for most middle-class Americans became a way of defining what it meant to be (and become) American. Series: CultureAmerica. Num Pages: 240 pages, 35 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Univ Pr of Kansas
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700617593
- ISBN
- 9780700617593
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.83
€ 37.83
Hardback. Num Pages: 416 pages, 45 halftones. 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; 1KBBSM; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; JFFC; RNR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 245 x 165 x 31. Weight in Grams: 740.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691168838
- ISBN
- 9780691168838
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.77
€ 46.99
€ 33.77
Hardback. In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. This title charts how maps of epidemic disease, slavery, census statistics, the environment, and the past demonstrated the analytical potential of cartography, and in the process transformed the very meaning of a map. Num Pages: 272 pages, 47 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTP; RGV. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 189 x 265 x 24. Weight in Grams: 674.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226740683
- ISBN
- 9780226740683
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.48€ 78.93
€ 95.48
€ 78.93
Hardcover. Num Pages: 271 pages, illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; 3JJ; DN; DSB; HBG; HBJF; HBLL; JPQB; JPS; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 159 x 585. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780821412688
- ISBN
- 9780821412688
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.78
€ 52.78
Paperback. Presents a portrait of Karimpur, an Indian village, as it has changed over a sixty-year period. Using cultural documents such as songs and stories, as well as data on household budgets and farming practices, this title examines what it means to be poor or rich, female or male. Num Pages: 319 pages, 21 b&w illustrations, 10 tables, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; HBTB; JFSF; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 319
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520084070
- ISBN
- 9780520084070
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.80
€ 36.99
€ 26.80
Hardcover. The period of reform, revolution, and reaction that characterized seventeenth - and eighteenth-century Europe also witnessed an intensified interest in lesbians. The author demonstrates how intimacies between women became harbingers of the modern, bringing the sapphic into the mainstream of some of the most significant events in Western Europe. Num Pages: 344 pages, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1D; 3J; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL; JFSK1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 267 x 26. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226187563
- ISBN
- 9780226187563
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.86€ 80.83
€ 97.86
€ 80.83
Num Pages: 176 pages, 100 b&w, 200 colour. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBTW; JPQ; JWKW; JWMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 264 x 235 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1186. How the U.S. Government Misled Itself and Its People into Believing They Could Survive a Nuclear Attack. 176 pages, 100 b&w, 200 colour. Lays bare the buried truths of America's family fallout shelter obsession. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBTW; JPQ; JWKW; JWMN. Dimension: 264 x 235 x 24. Weight: 1186.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Pointed Leaf Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780982358573
- ISBN
- 9780982358573
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.83€ 51.59
€ 52.83
€ 51.59
Paperback. Elizabeth I was originally dubbed 'the pirate queen' by Philip II of Spain and acknowledged as such by the pope. Extravagant, whimsical, hot-tempered, sexually enticing and the epitome of power, Elizabeth I has never ceased to amaze, entertain, and educate through the centuries. Num Pages: 512 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 203 x 51. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780060820671
- ISBN
- 9780060820671
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.42
€ 19.42
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Severn House Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- First World Publication
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780727887115
- ISBN
- 9780727887115
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 11.53
€ 29.99
€ 11.53
Hardback. An in-depth look at the changing status of American artists in the 18th and early 19th century Num Pages: 316 pages, 90 color + 80 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; ACQ; ACV; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 190. .
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 316
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300214611
- ISBN
- 9780300214611
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.67€ 46.89
€ 59.67
€ 46.89
Hardback. Charles R. Cockerell (1788-1863) was one of the most significant nineteenth-century British architects and a major player in the cultural shift from the Georgian eighteenth to the Victorian nineteenth century. Num Pages: 322 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1QRM; 3JH; AMB; BJ; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 23 x 15 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783272068
- ISBN
- 9781783272068
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.84
€ 62.84
Paperback. A fascinating glimpse of real life for a London family in the early 19th century Num Pages: 112 pages, 80 colour illustrations, 20 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 136 x 11. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Publisher
- Pimpernel Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910258446
- ISBN
- 9781910258446
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.40
€ 17.99
€ 14.40
Hardcover. CORK The aim of this book is to present a detailed account of music in Cork's civic life from the eighteenth century to 1900 and to examine the contexts in which it flourished. Num Pages: 277 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JF; 3JH; AVG; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Publisher
- Cork University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781782052203
- ISBN
- 9781782052203
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 39.00€ 31.26
€ 39.00
€ 31.26
Hardback. This analysis of the causes of racial and ethnic conflict in American cities between 1877-1914 presents evidence that suggests that the explanation for ethnic unrest is to be found in competition processes. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804720281
- ISBN
- 9780804720281
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.55
€ 144.55
Paperback. George Gallup's polling techniques achieved fame when he predicted that Franklin D Roosevelt would be reelected president in 1936. This work traces Gallup's intellectual and methodological developments, examining his comprehensive approach to market research. It takes a look at the film industry's use of opinion polling in the 1930s and '40s. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; APF; KJSM; KNTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 160 x 15. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231121330
- ISBN
- 9780231121330
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.67
€ 37.99
€ 27.67
Hardcover. This breathtakingly detailed book presents dress patterns, construction details, embroidery and making instructions for fifteen garments and accessories from a seventeenth-century woman's wardrobe. Full step-by-step drawings of the construction sequence are given for each garment alongside photographs of the objects and x-ray photography. Editor(s): North, Susan; Tiramani, Jenny. Num Pages: 160 pages, 350 colour, 700 line drawings. BIC Classification: 3JD; AKTH; WFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 312 x 279 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1492.
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- V&A Publishing
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781851776313
- ISBN
- 9781851776313
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 32.10
€ 46.99
€ 32.10
Sheet map, folded. Series: Old Ordnance Survey Maps - Inch to the Mile. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYK; 3JH; WQH; WTRM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 123 x 3. Weight in Grams: 26. One Inch Sheet 54. Series: Old Ordnance Survey Maps - Inch to the Mile. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBKEYK; 3JH; WQH; WTRM. Dimension: 210 x 123 x 3. Weight: 24.
- Publisher
- Alan Godfrey Maps
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841518756
- ISBN
- 9781841518756
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 7.07
€ 7.07
Sheet map, folded. Series: Old Ordnance Survey Maps - Yard to the Mile. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYK; 3JH; HBTP; RGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 120 x 2. Weight in Grams: 25. Kingston Upon Hull Sheet 8. Series: Old Ordnance Survey Maps - Yard to the Mile. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBKEYK; 3JH; HBTP; RGB. Dimension: 210 x 120 x 2. Weight: 25.
- Publisher
- Alan Godfrey Maps
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847842480
- ISBN
- 9781847842480
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 7.03
€ 7.03
Paperback. The first major biography of 18th century France's most mysterious woman, the daughter of Marie Antoinette, who vanished from public view during the tumultuous last days of the ancien regime Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.), map. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; BGH; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747596660
- ISBN
- 9780747596660
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.39
€ 23.99
€ 16.39
Hardback. Examines the mechanisms through which 17th-century musicians simulated extreme affective states - desire, divine rapture, and ecstatic pleasure. This book demonstrates how major genres of the period, from opera to religious music to instrumental pieces based on dances, were part of this striving for heightened passions by performers and listeners. Num Pages: 360 pages, 75 music examples. BIC Classification: 3JD; AVGC3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520247345
- ISBN
- 9780520247345
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.81€ 65.32
€ 84.81
€ 65.32