Modern period, c 1500 onwards
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Modern period, c 1500 onwards
Hardcover. Dutch Sailmaker and sailor Jan Struys' (c.1629-c.1694) account of his various overseas travels became a bestseller after its first publication in Amsterdam in 1676, and was later translated into English, French, German and Russian. This new book depicts the story of its author's life as well as the first singular analysis of the Struys text. Num Pages: 321 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JD; WTLC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 14. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230553187
- ISBN
- 9780230553187
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Hardcover. This book investigates Russia's transformation into a European Power by way of the activities of the tsarist translator and official Andrei Vinius, who became an important advisor to Peter the Great. Vinius emerges as an influential conduit of Western culture and technology, who played a key role in transforming Muscovy into Russia. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JD; 3JF; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137323668
- ISBN
- 9781137323668
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. Situating the politics of invention at the intersection of politics, law, and technology, Gispen (U. of Mississippi) describes how it occupied German inventors, industrial scientists, patent experts, business executives, and sometimes even the country's political leaders for the better part of a cen Series: Monographs in German History. Num Pages: 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; PDX; TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 27. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571812421
- ISBN
- 9781571812421
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 174.76
€ 174.76
Hardcover. Kees van Dijk traces the emergence of superpowers during the colonial race and analyzes their conduct as they struggled for territory. Series: Global Asia. Num Pages: 526 pages, 0 black and white; 36 full color. BIC Classification: 1F; 1MK; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJF; HBJQ; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 240 x 34. Weight in Grams: 916.
- Publisher
- Amsterdam University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789089644206
- ISBN
- 9789089644206
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 197.86€ 194.97
€ 197.86
€ 194.97
American War Cinema and Media since Vietnam: Politics, Ideology, and C...
Keeton, Patricia, Scheckner, Peter
Hardcover. No other cinematic genre more sharply illustrates the contradictions of American society - notions about social class, politics, and socio-economic ideology - than the war film. This book examines the latest cycle of war films to reveal how they mediate and negotiate the complexities of war, class, and a military-political mission largely gone bad. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; APFA; APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137277886
- ISBN
- 9781137277886
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.60
€ 127.60
Paperback. A study of the development of the hospital as a economic, medical and voluntary institution in the second half of the nineteenth century. Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History. Num Pages: 264 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 12 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Publisher
- Royal Historical Society
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780861933310
- ISBN
- 9780861933310
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 34.20
€ 34.99
€ 34.20
Paperback. Num Pages: 408 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3J; HBTB; MBX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 408
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403946935
- ISBN
- 9781403946935
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.95
€ 49.95
Paperback. David Litvinoff was one of the great mythic characters of '60s London. Litvinoff's determination to live without trace means that his life has always eluded biographers, until now. This book deals with his work. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJP; AVGP; BGH; HBJD1; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 30. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099584445
- ISBN
- 9780099584445
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.90
€ 14.99
€ 11.90
Hardcover. Reviews and analyzes the impact of the May 1968 events in France, initially through a narrative account of the events themselves and then through a systematic survey of the various manners in which they have been interpreted and reproduced in France - in political, sociological and fictional texts. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJPK; JFC; JH; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- 1993rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333497579
- ISBN
- 9780333497579
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 193.95
€ 193.95
Paperback. Dont Look Back, a documentary film of Bob Dylan's 1965 England tour, is recognised as a landmark work in the field of documentary film-making, contributing to the cultural life of an era. This text examines the aesthetic, thematic and social dynamics of the film in order to elucidate how and why it was a groundbreaking piece of documentary cinema. Series: BFI Film Classics. Num Pages: 88 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBNT; 3JJP; APFR; AVH; BGF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 137 x 188 x 8. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844577613
- ISBN
- 9781844577613
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.32
€ 17.99
€ 14.32
Paperback. Why did early modern nobilities remain so powerful? In this volume, the author argues that in spite of the changes brought about by the Reformation, by the recovery of crown authority and by the regal union between England and Scotland, the huge power exercised by the nobility remained fundamentally unaltered. Num Pages: 344 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLC; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748664665
- ISBN
- 9780748664665
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 35.47
€ 40.99
€ 35.47
Paperback. Examines the relationship between national history, identity, and politics in twentieth-century Macedonia. This work focuses on the reverberating power of events surrounding an armed uprising in August 1903, when a revolutionary organization challenged the forces of the Ottoman Empire by seizing control of the mountain town of Krusevo. Num Pages: 320 pages, 13 halftones. 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVWYM; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691099958
- ISBN
- 9780691099958
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.81
€ 46.99
€ 33.81
Paperback. This is a collection of a linguistic autobiographiesa by 23 British linguists who played a major role in the development of the subject in Britain during the second half of the twentieth century. aeo Includes contributions from 23 major British linguists. aeo Provides an overview of the rapid growth of linguistics in the last 50 years. Editor(s): Brown, Keith; Law, Vivien. Series: Publications of the Philological Society. Num Pages: 200 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJP; CF; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631234760
- ISBN
- 9780631234760
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.38
€ 32.38
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 30 b&w photos, 2 b&w charts/graphs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; APFB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781477309087
- ISBN
- 9781477309087
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.67
€ 29.99
€ 27.67
Hardback. Building Gotham thus demonstrates how a group of ambitious professionals overcame the limits of traditional means of decision-making and developed the city-building practices that enabled New York to become America's first mega-city. Num Pages: 344 pages, 16, 10 black & white halftones, 6 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801870736
- ISBN
- 9780801870736
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.59
€ 64.59
Paperback. This book explores the means used by government officials, police officers, church representatives, and ordinary settlers to facilitate and justify colonization, their effects on Indigenous economic, political, social, and spiritual lives, and how they were resisted. Series: The West Unbound: Social and Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JFSL9; JPFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- AU Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781897425398
- ISBN
- 9781897425398
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.59
€ 40.99
€ 36.59
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, , figures. BIC Classification: 3JD; PBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 170 x 15. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The Perseus Books Group United States
- Edition
- First Trade Paper Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780465018963
- ISBN
- 9780465018963
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.16
€ 26.16
Paperback. Follows the events leading to the horrible moment when Mark David Chapman - the paunchy, mentally ill Beatles fan - calmly fired his Charter Arms 38 Special into the rock icon, realizing his perverse fantasy of attaining perennial notoriety. This title includes the epilogue examines the aftermath of the killing - the moment. Num Pages: 256 pages, One 8-Page Insert. BIC Classification: 3JJPN; AVGP; AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 369. The Day John Lennon Died. 256 pages, One 8-Page Insert. Follows the events leading to the horrible moment when Mark David Chapman - the paunchy, mentally ill Beatles fan - calmly fired his Charter Arms 38 Special into the rock icon, realizing his perverse fantasy of attaining perennial notoriety. This title includes the epilogue examines the aftermath of the killing - the moment. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 3JJPN; AVGP; AVH; BGF. Dimension: 221 x 145 x 18. Weight: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Backbeat
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781617130892
- ISBN
- 9781617130892
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.69
€ 20.99
€ 19.69
Paperback. Editor(s): Eubank, Keith. Series: European History S. Num Pages: 196 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 136 x 15. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Harlan Davidson Inc United States
- Edition
- 3 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780882952284
- ISBN
- 9780882952284
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.31
€ 27.31
Paperback. This textbook provides an introduction to the theory and practice of citizenship in modern Britain. Num Pages: 224 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; JFFN; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 559. Very good copy with light shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0016245
- ISBN
- 9780748609895
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99