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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

hardcover. Emerging in 1918 from the devastation of WWI, the modern pacifist movement expanded rapidly and soon became organized on a transnational basis. These essays present aspects of the movement's development to the end of WWII. Editor(s): Brock, Peter; Socknat, Thomas P. Num Pages: 560 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 3JJG; 3JJH; GTJ; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 41. Weight in Grams: 895.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780802043719
ISBN
9780802043719
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.37

hardcover. Offering an approach to the history of the modern state, this text concentrates on the 18th century and on two cases, those of Britain and Germany. Using a comparative study, it deconstructs certain cliches about the two states and forces one to rethink how to study states in the early modern era. Editor(s): Brewer, John; Hellmuth, Eckhart. Series: Studies of the German Historical Institute, London. Num Pages: 412 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DFG; 3JF; JFCX; JPA; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 30. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
412
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199201891
ISBN
9780199201891
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 165.82

This four-volume collective project by a team of leading scholars offers a vivid portrait of Jewish history in German-speaking countries over nearly four centuries. This series is sponsored by the Leo Baeck Institute, established in 1955 in Jerusalem, London, and New York for the purpose of advancing scholarship on the Jews in German-speaking lands. Editor(s): Brenner, Michael; Meyer, Michael Andrew; Mendes-Flohr, Paul; Lowenstein, Steven M. Series: German-Jewish history in modern times. Num Pages: 466 pages, With a new Preface. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 33. Weight in Grams: 862.
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
466
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231074780
ISBN
9780231074780
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.67

Hardback. The idea behind this series is to introduce scientific work on population issues in the Low Countries. Subjects in this volume include: ageing and the socio-medical infrastructure; and population and sustainable development, population policy and fundamental rights in relation to procreation. Editor(s): Brekel, Hans van den; Deven, F. Series: European Studies of Population. Num Pages: 162 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDN; 3JJPR; JHBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
162
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792339458
ISBN
9780792339458
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 131.15

Hardback. Editor(s): Braun, Harald; Vallance, Edward. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 475.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403915658
ISBN
9781403915658
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.88

hardcover. A collection of essays that examines the idea of future in early modern European literature, politics, religion, science, and social life. Investigating how both elite and popular writers represented their access to or control over the future, it proposes fresh insights into one of the defining characteristics of modernity. Editor(s): Brady, Andrea; Butterworth, Emily. Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 262 pages, 5 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 3J; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780415995405
ISBN
9780415995405
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 187.92

Hardback. Sugar was the single most valuable bulk commodity traded internationally before oil became the world's prime resource. This book questions some major assumptions about the nexus between sugar production and colonial societies in the Caribbean and Southeast Asia, especially in the second (post-1800) colonial era. Editor(s): Bosma, Ulbe; Guisti-Cordero, Juan A.; Knight, G. Roger. Series: International Studies in Social History. Num Pages: bibliog., index. BIC Classification: 1F; 1K; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTQ; KNAC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845453169
ISBN
9781845453169
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 162.40

Hardback. This volume compares one of the largest instances of 'ethnic cleansing' - the German expellees from the East (Vertriebene) - with the most important case of decolonization migration - the French repatriates of Algeria (pieds-noirs). Editor(s): Borutta, Manuel; Jansen, Jan C. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1DFG; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; JFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 25. Weight in Grams: 518.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137508409
ISBN
9781137508409
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.01

Hardback. Studying the interaction of political and economic institutions in Mexico during the period of 1870-1930, this book shows how institutional change can foment economic growth. Editor(s): Bortz, Jeffrey; Haber, Stephen H. Series: Social Science History. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JH; 3JJ; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804742078
ISBN
9780804742078
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 180.74

Paperback. Where do most of the former members of Congress go after leaving office? This book is a chronicle of where former members are living, what they are doing, how they happened to leave Congress-voluntarily or not-and what they see for themselves in the future. Editor(s): Borders, Rebecca; Dockery, C.C. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; JPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780819198204
ISBN
9780819198204
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.49

Hardback. Bringing together major thinkers including Francis Fukuyama, Benjamin Barber, Noam Chomsky, Bhikhu Parekh and Fred Halliday among others, "Worlds in Collision" sets the agenda for the debate about the future of the world order in the wake of international terrorism and the war in Afghanistan. Editor(s): Booth, Ken; Dunne, Tim. Num Pages: 386 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JM; JPS; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 32. Weight in Grams: 511.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
386
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333998045
ISBN
9780333998045
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.81

Hardback. Editor(s): Bonvalet, Catherine; Lelievre, Eva. Series: INED Population Studies. Num Pages: 207 pages, 38 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJ; JFF; JHBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 479.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319246826
ISBN
9783319246826
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.12

Hardback. Editor(s): Boicu, Ruxandra; Branea, Silvia; Stefanel, Adriana. Series: Political Campaigning and Communication. Num Pages: 291 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; 3JMG; JPHF; JPVL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 519.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
291
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137585905
ISBN
9781137585905
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.19

Hardback. Editor(s): Boeckh, Katrin; Rutar, Sabine. Num Pages: 350 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVW; 1F; 3JJC; HBAH; HBJD; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 606.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319446417
ISBN
9783319446417
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.50

Hardback. Editor(s): Blanchard, Jean-Marc F.; Lin, Kun-Chin. Num Pages: 214 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 7 colour illustrations, 7 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJF; JP; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137022844
ISBN
9781137022844
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.19

This book examines a decade of extraordinary ferment in ideas, and the battles about those ideas out of which emerged the Britain of the late-twentieth century. Editor(s): Black, Lawrence; Pemberton, Hugh; Thane, Pat. Num Pages: 288 pages, Line drawings, black & white|Tables, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPL; HBJD1; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 164 x 28. Weight in Grams: 596.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719088148
ISBN
9780719088148
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 168.91

Hardback. Throughout the 1990s, major banking and currency crises occurred in many countries around the world. This book contains papers and comments from a conference held to identify and discuss the lessons to be learned from these crises, such as their causes and how to prevent their reoccurrence. Editor(s): Bisignano, Joseph; Hunter, W. Curt; Kaufman, George G. Num Pages: 457 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJPR; KCL; KFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 840.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
457
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792378655
ISBN
9780792378655
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 203.35

Hardback. Rethinking the history of women's writing and literary history itself, this new volume examines the diversity of early women's writing (from verse and songs to household records and recipes), offering a new paradigm for understanding women's shaping roles in the literary, religious, and political movements of the sixteenth century. Editor(s): Bicks, Caroline; Summit, Jennifer. Series: History of British Women's Writing. Num Pages: 376 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 26. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230218345
ISBN
9780230218345
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.77

Hardback. In 1900, China chose to take on imperialism by fighting a war with the world on the parched north China plain. This multi-disciplinary volume explores the causes behind what is known as the Boxer war, examining its particular cruelties and its impact on China, foreign imperialism in China, and on the foreign imagination. Editor(s): Bickers, Robert; Tiedemann, R. G. Num Pages: 260 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJC; HBJF; HBLW; HBW; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742553941
ISBN
9780742553941
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 159.34

Hardback. Editor(s): Berthezene, Clarisse; Vinel, Jean-Christian. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBG; JFCX; JPFM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319402703
ISBN
9783319402703
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.10

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