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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

Hardcover. With a legendary beginning as a printing press floated up the Arkansas River in 1819, the "Arkansas Gazette" is inextricably linked with the state's history, reporting on every major Arkansas event until the paper's demise in 1991 after a long, bitter, and very public newspaper war. This title provides a remembrance of this great newspaper. Editor(s): Reed, Roy. Num Pages: 378 pages, 8 photographs, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBSR; 3JH; 3JJ; HBT; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557288998
ISBN
9781557288998
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 35.47

Paperback. An anthology that charts the development of this influential journal decade by decade, making clear that although it has close ties to a particular region, it has consistently maintained a national scope, publishing poets from all over the United States. It features 183 poems by nearly as many poets. Editor(s): Smith, James. Num Pages: 380 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; 3JM; DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557288936
ISBN
9781557288936
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.28

Paperback. Radicalized in a brutal era of repeated violence against hard-working men and women, Mother Jones criss-crossed the country to demand higher wages and safer working conditions. This work recounts her story explaining the dramatic times through which she lived and to which she contributed so much. Series: Women's Biography Series. Num Pages: 248 pages, 22 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; BGH; KNXB2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826348104
ISBN
9780826348104
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.78

Paperback. Examines a dramatic, complex episode in the early history of New Spain that stands as an instructive counterpoint to the much more familiar, triumphalist narrative of Spanish daring, resilience and victory embodied in the oft-told tale of the conquest of central Mexico. Series Editor(s): Johnson, Lyman L. Series: Dialogos. Num Pages: 344 pages, 16 halftones, 7 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JB; HBJK; HBLH; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826344939
ISBN
9780826344939
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.86

Paperback. The Witchcraft Outbreak at Abiquiu, New Mexico, occurred between 1756 and 1766, five decades after the witchcraft trials at Salem, Massachusetts. The Genizaro (hispanicized Indian) land grant of Abiquiu was the crown jewel of Governor Velez Cachupin's plan to achieve peace for the benefit of the early New Mexican colonists. Illustrator(s): Strock, Glen. Num Pages: 360 pages, 9 halftones, 19 drawings, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBWX; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HRQX5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826320322
ISBN
9780826320322
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.56

Hardcover. Editor(s): Shay, Michael E. Series: American Military Experience Series. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 1KBB; 3JH; BJ; HBJF; HBJK; HBLL; HBW; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Missouri
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826220080
ISBN
9780826220080
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.35

Paperback. Describes how the news media in the United States were fundamentally changed by the creation of academic departments and schools of journalism, by the founding of the National Press Club, and by developments that included early newsreels, the introduction of halftones to print, and even changes in newspaper design. Editor(s): Winfield, Betty Houchin. Num Pages: 352 pages, 25 illustrations, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJC; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Missouri
Edition
First Paperback Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826218131
ISBN
9780826218131
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.61

Paperback. Contains sixteen contemporary accounts by travelers who reached Alabama along what was known as the 'Old Federal Road'. This title deals with the rather remarkable array of impediments that faced travelers in Alabama in its first decades as a state. It describes the road, the inns, the travelling companions, and the few and raw communities. Series: Fire Ant Books. Num Pages: 176 pages, 4 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBSB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780817355500
ISBN
9780817355500
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.50

Hardcover. Editor(s): Kiddle, Amelia M.; Munoz, Maria L. O. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816529186
ISBN
9780816529186
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.05

Hardcover. Editor(s): Peart, Daniel; Smith, I. P. Num Pages: 288 pages, tables, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 825.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813937700
ISBN
9780813937700
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.84

Paperback. Editor(s): Leche, Christine Dumaine. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 1KBB; 3JMG; BTM; HBWS4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 6. Weight in Grams: 204.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813936611
ISBN
9780813936611
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.65

Paperback. Editor(s): McDonald, Robert M. S. Series: Jeffersonian America. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 748.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813936505
ISBN
9780813936505
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.43

Paperback. Editor(s): Hammond, John Craig; Mason, Matthew. Series: Jeffersonian America (Paperback). Num Pages: 313 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813933054
ISBN
9780813933054
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.76

Hardcover. Editor(s): Hammond, John Craig; Mason, Matthew. Series: Jeffersonian America. Num Pages: 320 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813931050
ISBN
9780813931050
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 89.23

Paperback. Argues that the Haitian Revolution nonetheless had an enduring cultural and political impact, particularly on peoples and communities that have been marginalized in the historical record and absent from the discourses of Western historiography. This book interrogates the literary, historical, and political discourses that the Revolution produced. Editor(s): Garraway, Doris L. Num Pages: 296 pages, 2 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJH; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813926865
ISBN
9780813926865
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 30.87

Paperback. Exploring violence as part of political economy and rejecting stereotypical explanations of African violence as endemic or natural to African cultures, this work examines a continent where the boundaries on acceptable force are always shifting and the distinction between violence by the state and against the state is not always clear. Editor(s): Bay, Edna G.; Donham, Donald L. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1HF; 3JMC; JFFE; JFSP2; JPWS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813925776
ISBN
9780813925776
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.45

Hardcover. Concentrating on the use of illustration in Victorian literature - especially novels, poems and children's books - the essays collected in this text address a wide chronological and stylistic range of work. Topics include the century's best-known illustrators and the use of words as images. Editor(s): Maxwell, Richard. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 448 pages, 125 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; ACV; AKLB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 37. Weight in Grams: 953.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813920979
ISBN
9780813920979
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.47

Paperback. Brings together scholars from a broad variety of disciplines, who offer fresh insights on the Vietnam War's psychological, economic, artistic, political, and environmental impacts. Each essay examines a different facet of the war, from its representation in Marvel comic books to the experiences of Vietnamese soldiers exposed to Agent Orange. Editor(s): Boyle, Brenda M.; Lim, Jeehyun. Series: War Culture Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, 6 photographs. BIC Classification: 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBJF; HBLW3; HBWS2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813579931
ISBN
9780813579931
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.14

Paperback. Brings together twelve original essays that document and explore competing explanations for how and why conversion has occurred. This volume pays close attention to who converts, under what circumstances, the meaning of conversion to the individual, and how the change affects converts' beliefs and actions. Editor(s): Steigenga, Timothy J.; Cleary, Edward L. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JJP; HRCS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813542027
ISBN
9780813542027
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.82

Paperback. Captures in words and pictures the emotions that circled around one man in Chicago in the early 1980s: Harold Washington. This book gives readers a window onto a man who won over an entire city. Num Pages: 120 pages, colour photographs throughout. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JJPN; AJCR; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 889.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810124462
ISBN
9780810124462
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.42

Paperback. A collection of essays discussing contemporary writings and differing perspectives on the role of philosophy (and its relation to "non-philosophy") since the death of Merleau-Ponty, including Sartre, Barthes, Heidegger, Lacan, Foucault, Lyotard, and Derrida. Editor(s): Silverman, Hugh J. Num Pages: 188 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 3JJPK; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810114982
ISBN
9780810114982
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.42

Hardcover. Few American Civil War operations matched the controversy, intensity, and bloodshed of Confederate general John Bell Hood's ill fated 1864 campaign against Union forces in Tennessee. In the first ever anthology on the subject, The Tennessee Campaign of 1864, fourteen prominent historians and emerging scholars examine this operation. Editor(s): Woodworth, Steven E.; Grear, Charles D. Series: Civil War Campaigns in the Heartland. Num Pages: 296 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBSN; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JWXV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 525.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780809334520
ISBN
9780809334520
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.52

Hardcover. From mid-August to mid-September 1863, Union major general William S Rosecrans' Army of the Cumberland maneuvered from Tennessee to north Georgia in a bid to rout Confederate general Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee and blaze the way for further Union advances. This title covers every angle of the campaign, from its prelude to its denouement. Editor(s): Woodworth, Steven E. Num Pages: 192 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBSN; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 445.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780809329809
ISBN
9780809329809
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 23.57

Hardcover. Presenting papers pertaining to Grant's first term in office, this volume covers areas such as his climb-down over the annexation of Santo Domingo, legislation to facilitate federal intervention in the persecution of blacks in the South, his Indian policy and the Treaty of Washington. Editor(s): Ferraro, William M.; Lisec, Aaron M.; Dotson, Sue E. Num Pages: 544 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BG; HBJK; HBLL; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 247 x 164 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1365.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780809321971
ISBN
9780809321971
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.52

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