Modern period, c 1500 onwards
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Modern period, c 1500 onwards
Hardback. Kathryn Allamong Jacob's engaging account shows how the "kingearned his crown through cookery and conversation and how this son of wealth and privilege helped to create a questionable profession in a city that then, as now, rested on power and influence. Num Pages: 240 pages, 20, 20 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780801893971
- ISBN
- 9780801893971
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 41.94
€ 49.99
€ 41.94
hardcover. Drawing on newly available archival case records, this book demonstrates that Chinese women's rights to property changed substantially from the Song through the Qing dynasties, and even more dramatically under the Republican Civil Code of 1929-30. Series: Law, Society & Culture in China. Num Pages: 256 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3H; 3J; HBJF; HBTB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804735261
- ISBN
- 9780804735261
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.12
€ 127.12
Hardcover. Examining rents and taxes in 19th- and 20th-century China, this text shows how in real terms, tax burdens on landlords rose due to higher state levies. Simultaneously, rents earned by landlords fell due to state interference and peasant resistance, csusing a progressive weakening of landlord power. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804718806
- ISBN
- 9780804718806
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.66
€ 112.66
Paperback. Documents the trading relationship in the eighteenth century between the Creek Indians and the Anglo-American peoples who settled in what is now the southeastern US. This book is the first to examine extensively the Creek side of this trade, especially the impact of commercial hunting on all aspects of Indian society. Series: Indians of the Southeast. Num Pages: 13 images; 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; JFSL9; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803218567
- ISBN
- 9780803218567
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.07
€ 23.99
€ 22.07
Hardback. The massive drought/famine that killed at least ten million people in north China during the late 1870s remains one of China's most severe disasters and provides a window through which to study the social side of a nation's tragedy. This book presents the history of a horrific famine that took place and focuses on cultural responses to trauma. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 360 pages, 9 b/w photographs, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; HBTB; JFFC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520253025
- ISBN
- 9780520253025
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.52€ 64.14
€ 84.52
€ 64.14
Paperback. A celebration of contemporary American fiction. It explores how estrangement from America has shaped the fiction of a literary generation. In breaking down the divisions among standard categories of race, religion, ethnicity, and gender, it identifies shared core concerns, values, and techniques among seemingly disparate and unconnected writers. Num Pages: 376 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; 3JM; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252070570
- ISBN
- 9780252070570
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.99
€ 33.99
€ 30.99
Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJH; BTP; HBWQ; JFSJ1; JWXR. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 152 x 227 x 24. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Publisher
- Chicago Review Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781613731680
- ISBN
- 9781613731680
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.73
€ 21.99
€ 20.73
Hardback. This book examines major sports, both professional and intercollegiate, from baseball, football, and basketball to golf, tennis, stock car racing, and extreme sports, to explain how sports became a multibillion-dollar industry as well as a major influence on and reflection of American society. Jay also shows how sports have helped shape racial, gender, national, and class identities. Series: Columbia Histories of Modern American Life. Num Pages: 304 pages, 25 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; HBT; WS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 166 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780231125345
- ISBN
- 9780231125345
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.19€ 77.41
€ 101.19
€ 77.41
Paperback. Editor(s): Sklar, Kathryn Kish; Schuler, Anya; Strasser, Susan; Schuler, Anja. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFFK; JPWD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press New York
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801484698
- ISBN
- 9780801484698
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 45.66
€ 50.99
€ 45.66
Hardback. Through the prisms of leadership, women, and power, this book traces the Wendat diaspora beyond a discourse of destruction and into a new world of rejuvenation and hope. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774825559
- ISBN
- 9780774825559
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.50
€ 107.50
Hardcover. Series: State & Society in East Asia. Num Pages: 306 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, 34 black & white halftones, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJH; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 161 x 26. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442223523
- ISBN
- 9781442223523
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.24
€ 70.24
Hardcover. A study of how the role of party agents grew and became professionalised in local political parties. Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 25. Weight in Grams: 684.
- Publisher
- Royal Historical Society
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780861933402
- ISBN
- 9780861933402
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.50
€ 116.50
Paperback. An exploration into representations of the Amazon, and how they were essential to homoerotic and heterosexual social constructions in early English texts. This book takes up a range of literary, historical, and theoretical texts in order to examine the relationship between Amazon myth and the social conventions that governed gender and sexuality. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 304 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3J; DSBD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBLL; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press Durham
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822325994
- ISBN
- 9780822325994
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.75
€ 37.99
€ 33.75
Paperback. Discover what it was like to be a barber surgeon in the sixteenth century and why it was a terrible time for people to be sick. Sharpen your saw before amputating an infected leg, learn how to make false noses and ears for patients injured on the battlefield and don't treat victims of the plague without your special mask! Illustrator(s): Antram, David. Series: You Wouldn't Want to be.. Num Pages: 40 pages, Full colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; YNH. Category: (JC) Children's (6-12). Dimension: 240 x 190 x 3. Weight in Grams: 162.
- Publisher
- Salariya Book Company Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 32
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909645295
- ISBN
- 9781909645295
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.39
€ 10.99
€ 9.39
Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 57 color illus. 188 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JJ; AGC; AMB; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 241. Weight in Grams: 245.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691167220
- ISBN
- 9780691167220
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.48€ 51.27
€ 65.48
€ 51.27
Paperback. Extensive primary research and a rubric that can be applied to burgeoning democracies offer readers valuable tools and information. Editor(s): Stoner, Kathryn; McFaul, Michael. Num Pages: 456 pages, 9, 9 graphs. BIC Classification: 3JJ; JPA; JPB; JPHV. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 160 x 33. Weight in Grams: 678.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Printing
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421408149
- ISBN
- 9781421408149
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.98
€ 45.98
Paperback. A major reinterpretation of Gandhi's life, politics, religion and nation Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJ; BGH; BGX; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 161 x 28. Weight in Grams: 634.
- Publisher
- Verso Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781681015
- ISBN
- 9781781681015
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.91
€ 34.91
Paperback. Looks at important decades in recent history using family memories to contrast life 'then' and 'now'. Series: My Family Remembers. Num Pages: 32 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPL; 4KHJ; 5AH; YNH. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 213 x 265 x 5. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Publisher
- Hachette Children´s Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Illustrated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445143552
- ISBN
- 9781445143552
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.31
€ 11.99
€ 10.31
Hardback. Editor(s): McKnight, Kathryn Joy; Garofalo, Leo J. Num Pages: 304 pages, 15. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3J; HBJK; JFSL3; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Edition
- Translation
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781624664014
- ISBN
- 9781624664014
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 38.14
€ 52.99
€ 38.14
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 60 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJP; BGS; WSZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Publisher
- Rocky Mountain Books,Canada Canada
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781894765374
- ISBN
- 9781894765374
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.76
€ 15.99
€ 11.76