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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

Num Pages: 288 pages, 734 color & 180 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 3JJ; WCN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 312 x 238 x 32. Weight in Grams: 2200.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764345760
ISBN
9780764345760
Condition: New

€ 76.03
€ 58.00

Paperback. Analyzing the rise of art in the 18th century, this treatise demonstrates how painting, sculpture and literature were not regarded as valuable art forms before the emergence of a new bourgeois culture. The author reveals how Romantic poets and philosophers invented "art" as we know it today. Series: The Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms S. Num Pages: 224 pages, 5 illus. BIC Classification: 3JF; ABA; ACV; HPN; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 317.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231106016
ISBN
9780231106016
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Hardback. Provides an overview of French art circa 1500, a dynamic, transitional period when the country, resurgent after the dislocations of the Hundred Years' War, invaded Italy and all media flourished. Editor(s): Wolff, Martha. Series: Art Institute of Chicago. Num Pages: 208 pages, 190 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JB; ACND; AGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 312 x 239 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1484.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300170252
ISBN
9780300170252
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 38.20

Hardback. Cleansing Honor with Blood examines the daily experiences of interpersonal violence, the elaboration of masculine identities around honor and the practice of violence, and the contests for power and authority among free poor men from the hinterlands of the northeastern Brazilian province of Ceara between 1845 and 1889. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804774567
ISBN
9780804774567
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.16

Paperback. At 16, Martha collapses on the streets, suffering from starvation and exposure. She has reached rock bottom, but after Martha is taken to hospital, Lady Luck smiles kindly on her and she is given the opportunity to get off the streets for ever. Before long, Martha is on the way to leading the normal life she has so long dreamt of. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJPK; BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 22. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845967031
ISBN
9781845967031
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

Paperback. Presenting a view of working-class life in an enclosed community during the period, this book covers the decline of the docks, family life, work, housing and leisure as well as tackling more esoteric subjects such as health, gender roles and attitudes towards Jews. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JJ; BM; WQN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 164 x 12. Weight in Grams: 380.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752447094
ISBN
9780752447094
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 21.78

Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226314600
ISBN
9780226314600
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 36.61

Paperback. Exploring the effects of social change thrust upon communities against their will, this book examines the history of agrarian labour in Hungary from World War I to the early 1980s. It argues that socialist policies themselves played a crucial role in the development of capitalism. Num Pages: 410 pages, 45 tables. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1DVH; 3JJF; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; HBJD; JHBL; JPF; TV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 27. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226468303
ISBN
9780226468303
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.82

Paperback. Kumar's lively account of lessons learned and pitfalls encountered during past presidential transitions provides an essential road map for presidential aspirants and their advisers, as well as campaign workers, federal employees, and political appointees. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JMC; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 466.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421416595
ISBN
9781421416595
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 39.40

Paperback. How did individual Americans respond to the shock of President Lincoln's assassination? Diaries, letters, and intimate writings reveal a complicated, untold story Num Pages: 408 pages, 25 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBTB; HBWJ; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 578.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780300219753
ISBN
9780300219753
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 6.23

Paperback. Paul and Marie Pireaud, a young peasant couple from southwest France, were newlyweds when World War I erupted. With Paul in the army from 1914 to 1919, they were forced to conduct their marriage by correspondence. This book draws upon the hundreds of letters they wrote and tells their moving story and reveals a personal perspective on war. Num Pages: 352 pages, 6 halftones, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJF; BJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 139 x 23. Weight in Grams: 430.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674030510
ISBN
9780674030510
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.06

paperback. If you want to know about writing, about how to make others share the horror and intensity of an experience, try the first piece in this collection, Justice at Night Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DNJ; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 218 x 27. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Eland Publishing Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9781780601045
ISBN
9781780601045
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 13.91

Paperback. Find yourself plunged straight back into Madrid during the Spanish Civil War, feel the frozen ground of the Finno Russian war, the continent-wide Japanese invasion of China, the massacres in Java, the murderously naive intervention in Vietnam and the USA's dirty little wars in Central America. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DNJ; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 22. Weight in Grams: 406.
Publisher
Eland Publishing Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780601052
ISBN
9781780601052
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Hardback. The blood of the Hambletons is the blood of Maryland, a rich land stretching from the shores of the Atlantic Ocean to the tidal basins of the mighty Chesapeake to the mountains of the west, a poetic framework that illuminates one truly American family that continues its legacy of building new generations of strong Americans. Num Pages: 690 pages, 406, 181 black & white illustrations, 225 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFM; 3J; HBJK; WQH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Maryland Historical Society United States
Number of pages
690
Condition
New
SKU
V9780996594400
ISBN
9780996594400
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.05
€ 69.42

Paperback. Documents the lives and practices of mixed-race, Black, Spanish, and Maya women sorcerers, spell-casters, magical healers, and midwives in the social relations of power in Santiago de Guatemala, the capital of colonial Central America. Num Pages: 202 pages, 3 b&w illus., 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCG; 3JD; 3JF; HRQX; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 331. Weight in Grams: 596.
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292725492
ISBN
9780292725492
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Paperback. An exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. It shows that the entire foundation of Western classical singing, culminating in bel canto, was birthed from an unlikely and historically unique set of desires, public and private, aesthetic, economic, and political. Series: Ernest Bloch Lectures. Num Pages: 496 pages, 45 musical examples, 75 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DD; 3J; AVGC; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 229 x 35. Weight in Grams: 706.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520292444
ISBN
9780520292444
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Paperback. Documenting the work of graffiti writers who illegally painted subway cars in New York City, the authors recall how they gained entry to the New York graffiti community in the 1970s and 1980s and describe the techniques that they used to photograph it. Num Pages: 128 pages, 153 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJPN; ACXJ; AFJG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 338 x 11. Weight in Grams: 862.
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780500292129
ISBN
9780500292129
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.49

Hardcover. The opening of the ports of Japan in 1859 brought a flood of Japanese craft products to the world marketplace. For ivory it was a golden age. This book examines the role that ivory and ivory carvers played in the expression of nationalism and the development of sculpture in the later nineteenth and early twentieth century. Num Pages: 132 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJC; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 306.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137363329
ISBN
9781137363329
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.04

Paperback. Medieval Douai left an enormous archive of documents. This text reveals how these documents were produced in an effort to regulate property and gender relations. At the centre was a shift to a property regime based on contract. The book explores why the law changed and assesses its effects. Series: Women in Culture and Society Series. Num Pages: 292 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DDB; 3H; 3JB; HBJD; HBLC; JFFK; JHBK; LNCJ; LNS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226355160
ISBN
9780226355160
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 33.73

Hardcover. Banta draws upon essays in Vanity Fair by noted journalists, literary figures, and cultural critics in order to examine the manner by which major cultural and historical events in the United States and Britain led to the invention of previously non-existent words to express the rampant changes within society. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJF; 3JJG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 222 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230116979
ISBN
9780230116979
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.78

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGS; JFSJ1; JFSL3; WSJT. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781613736562
ISBN
9781613736562
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.37

Paperback. Editor(s): Suddaby, Steven. Translator(s): Suddaby, Allen. Num Pages: 504 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJF; HBJD; HBWN; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 803.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810856622
ISBN
9780810856622
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 139.25

Paperback. Officially known as the Land of Enchantment, New Mexico has also been the Land without Law, the Land of Heart's Desire, the Land of the Well Country, the Land of Pueblos, and the Land of Sunshine. This title presents a narrative history of New Mexico's 19th and 20th century identities. Num Pages: 224 pages, 55 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBWX; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 178 x 14. Weight in Grams: 478.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Museum of New Mexico Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780890135747
ISBN
9780890135747
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 30.31

Hardcover. Officially known as the Land of Enchantment, New Mexico has also been the Land without Law, the Land of Heart's Desire, the Land of the Well Country, the Land of Pueblos, and the Land of Sunshine. This title presents a narrative history of New Mexico's 19th and 20th century identities. Num Pages: 224 pages, 55 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 261 x 181 x 21. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Museum of New Mexico Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780890135730
ISBN
9780890135730
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 39.06

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