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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822353126
ISBN
9780822353126
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.30

Hardback. From whitened doorsteps to polished boots, starched pinafores to scrubbed floors, this title tells the story of how Victorians and Edwardians engaged in the pursuit of cleanliness and the battle against grime in domestic life. It reveals how cleanliness and dirt were perceived and understood at this period of history. Num Pages: 256 pages, 30 integrated b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 241 x 167 x 25. Weight in Grams: 524.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848850521
ISBN
9781848850521
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.15
€ 125.03

Hardcover. On July 14, 1789, a crowd of angry French citizens en route to Bastille broke into the Paris Opera and helped themselves to any sturdy weapons they could find. This title tells the story of how this legendary opera house, despite being a lightning rod for charges of tyranny and waste, weathered the dramatic political upheaval in European history. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 colour plates, 19 halftones, 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; AVGC9; HBJD; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226401959
ISBN
9780226401959
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.46
€ 48.66

Paperback. Beneath the surface lies a terrible secret.. Hollywood, 1975: Tragedy sends troubled film star Vivien Lockhart into the arms of Giovanni Moretti, and it seems her fortunes have finally changed. Until she meets his sister, and learns that dark shadows haunt her new husband's past.. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJPL; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 127 x 32. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
KSG0014918
ISBN
9781848455009
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Beneath the surface lies a terrible secret.. Hollywood, 1975: Tragedy sends troubled film star Vivien Lockhart into the arms of Giovanni Moretti, and it seems her fortunes have finally changed. Until she meets his sister, and learns that dark shadows haunt her new husband's past.. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJPL; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 127 x 32. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
KSG0013281
ISBN
9781848455009
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Beneath the surface lies a terrible secret.. Hollywood, 1975: Tragedy sends troubled film star Vivien Lockhart into the arms of Giovanni Moretti, and it seems her fortunes have finally changed. Until she meets his sister, and learns that dark shadows haunt her new husband's past.. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJPL; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 127 x 32. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
KEX0296053
ISBN
9781848455009
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Beneath the surface lies a terrible secret.. Hollywood, 1975: Tragedy sends troubled film star Vivien Lockhart into the arms of Giovanni Moretti, and it seems her fortunes have finally changed. Until she meets his sister, and learns that dark shadows haunt her new husband's past.. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJPL; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 127 x 32. Weight in Grams: 332.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
KEX0295839
ISBN
9781848455009
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Focuses on how the fascist dictatorship defined the place of women in modern Italy and how women experienced the Duce's rule. This work offers a detailed characterization of Italian women's ambiguous and ambivalent experience of a regime that promised modernity, yet denied women emancipation. Num Pages: 368 pages, 16 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 604. Italy, 1922-1945. 384 pages, 16 b&w illustrations. Focuses on how the fascist dictatorship defined the place of women in modern Italy and how women experienced the Duce's rule. This work offers a detailed characterization of Italian women's ambiguous and ambivalent experience of a regime that promised modernity, yet denied women emancipation. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBTB; JFSJ1. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 23. Weight: 604.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520074576
ISBN
9780520074576
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 27.84

Paperback. The most significant conquest of the twentieth century may well have been the triumph of American consumer society over Europe's bourgeois civilization. This book gives an account of how the American standard of living defeated the European way of life and achieved the global cultural hegemony that is both its great strength and its key weakness. Num Pages: 608 pages, 45 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 818.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
608
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674022348
ISBN
9780674022348
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 34.57

Paperback. Guardian journalist Victoria Brittain presents a moving account of the years of civil war, foreign invasions and landmines which have decimated Angola. Num Pages: 128 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1HFMA; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; HBJH; HBLW3; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135. Weight in Grams: 273.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Pluto Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745312477
ISBN
9780745312477
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 20.95

Paperback. This volume explores the dramatic struggle between Nazism and the German Confessing Church - a group of outraged Christians who sought to establish a church untainted by Nazi ideology. The author's research included interviews with more than 60 Germans who were active in the Confessing Church. Num Pages: 384 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW3; HRCC99; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 618.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195121186
ISBN
9780195121186
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.25

This book tells, for the first time, the story of bronze in Renaissance Venice. Previously unpublished documents provide an invaluable resource for the study of bronze objects and the people who commissioned and made them. The numerous illustrations include recently-restored works of art, and unpublished historical photographs. Series: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs. Num Pages: 700 pages, 424 including 161 in colour, in a 176 page plate section. BIC Classification: 1DST; ACN; AFKB; HBLC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 284 x 219 x 43. Weight in Grams: 2144.
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
700
Condition
New
SKU
V9780197264966
ISBN
9780197264966
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 159.85

Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; 3JM; BGR; HBJD1; HBLW; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780750966160
ISBN
9780750966160
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.16

Paperback. Editor(s): Sedgwick, Peter. Translator(s): Sedgwick, Peter. Num Pages: 532 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTV4; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 802.
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781608462674
ISBN
9781608462674
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 25.16

Paperback. .
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590174517
ISBN
9781590174517
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 13.87

Paperback. A compelling account of a crucial year in post-war history, in the tradition of Margaret MacMillan's award-winning and bestselling The Peacemakers. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJPG; HBG; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 31. Weight in Grams: 352.
Publisher
Pan Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main Market
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330544856
ISBN
9780330544856
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.74

Paperback. 'A compelling and illuminating account of a great drama in the history of our times which showed once again that ordinary men and women really can change the world' Jonathan Dimbleby, MAIL ON SUNDAY Num Pages: 480 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.), ports. (chiefly col.). BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJPN; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 390.
Publisher
Phoenix
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Mass Market Paperback
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753827093
ISBN
9780753827093
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.31

Paperback. In Metroimperial Intimacies Victor Roman Mendoza shows how America's imperial incursions into the Philippines fostered social and sexual intimacies between Americans and native Filipinos, that along with representations of Filipinos as sexually degenerate, were crucial to regulating both colonial subjects and gender norms at home. Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe. Num Pages: 312 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FM; 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJF; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822360346
ISBN
9780822360346
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 30.33

Paperback. Following 1917, a new artistic-social avant-garde emerged aiming to engage the artist in the building of social life. Through close readings of the works of three artists, this book examines the way in which they negotiated the changing relations between their social ideals and political realities. Num Pages: 276 pages, 107 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJF; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; ACX; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 496.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226505169
ISBN
9780226505169
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.01

Hardback. A compelling new narrative about how two Great Powers of the early twentieth century did battle, both openly and in the shadows Series: History of British Intelligence. Num Pages: 339 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DVU; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; JPSH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 158 x 27. Weight in Grams: 760.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843838951
ISBN
9781843838951
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.41

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