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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

Hardback. Militarism has traditionally been regarded as a phenomenon of the political right. As this book demonstrates, however, various groups on the political left in Britain during the years before the Great War were able to accommodate, and even assimilate, militaristic ideas, sentiments, and policies to a remarkable degree. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJC; HBJD1; HBLW; HBW; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
264
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137274120
ISBN
9781137274120
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.23

Hardback. A clothier and a deeply religious man, Joseph Ryder faithfully kept a diary from 1733 until his death in 1768. The author interprets Ryder's diary, which provides a real-life perspective on the relationship between capitalism and Protestantism at a time when Britain was rapidly changing from a traditional to a modern society. Series: The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History. Num Pages: 288 pages, 15 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 242 x 26. Weight in Grams: 606.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300169614
ISBN
9780300169614
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.26
€ 59.26

Paperback. Embarks on a journey through author's ancestor's footsteps, travelling through places they lived, and landscapes they survived, to provide an account of these extraordinary people and their unique history. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
Vintage Books
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099515999
ISBN
9780099515999
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.65

Paperback. Describes the formation of a masculine ideology in the decades prior to the war, and shows how it thrived - on the job, and through union politics. This title provides a context for our ideas of postwar masculinity and whiteness and finally returns the men of the home front to our reckoning of the Greatest Generation and the New Deal era. Num Pages: 360 pages, 29 halftones, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1KBBWM; 3JJH; HBJK; HBTB; HBWQ; KNAT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226044194
ISBN
9780226044194
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.77

Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DDF; 3JD; 3JF; CF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801448478
ISBN
9780801448478
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.48

Hardcover. Matthew Lenoe traces the origins of Stalinist mass culture to newspaper journalism in the later 1920s. In examining the transformation of Soviet newspapers during the New Economic Policy and the First Five Year Plan, Lenoe tells a dramatic story of purges, political intrigues, and social upheaval. Series: Russian Research Center Studies. Num Pages: 326 pages, 6 halftones, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JFC; JPFC; JPVN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 242 x 27. Weight in Grams: 618.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
326
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674013193
ISBN
9780674013193
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.03
€ 84.71

Hardback. .
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783463060
ISBN
9781783463060
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.29

Hardback. Paper Memory tells of one man's mission to preserve for posterity the memory of everyday life in sixteenth-century Germany. Lundin takes us inside the mind of an undistinguished German burgher, Hermann Weinsberg, whose early-modern writings sought to make sense of changes that were unsettling the foundations of his world. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 352 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JB; BM; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 236 x 25. Weight in Grams: 654.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674065949
ISBN
9780674065949
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.75
€ 56.15

Paperback. .
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719070556
ISBN
9780719070556
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 19.53

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843838159
ISBN
9781843838159
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.97

Hardback. "The Pilgrim and the Bee makes a broad claim about a reading-centered history, reclaiming for this purpose a distinctive body of texts. Brown's analysis marks an important step toward a better history of reading."-David D. Hall, Harvard University Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 288 pages, 20 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; 3JB; CFC; DSBD; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 608.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812240153
ISBN
9780812240153
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.56

Hardback. In a work based on new archival, press, and literary sources, the author revises the picture of German imperialism as being the brainchild of a Machiavellian Bismarck or the "conservative revolutionaries" of the twentieth century. Instead, Fitzpatrick argues for the liberal origins of German imperialism.. Series: Monographs in German History. Num Pages: 237 pages, 8 ills. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; HBTQ; JPFN. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
237
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845455200
ISBN
9781845455200
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.88

Paperback. This lively and entertaining book tells the stories of con artists, gamblers, swindlers, and other nefarious characters who stampeded west in the quest to make money off the men and women who stampeded west in search of land and gold. Num Pages: 320 pages, 22 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBWZ; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
TwoDot
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780762789658
ISBN
9780762789658
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.13

Paperback. At the beginning of the 1650s, England was in ruins - wrecked by plague and civil war. Yet shimmering on the horizon was a vision of paradise: Willoughbyland. This book fetures an untold story of Willoughbyland's spectacular rise and fall, set at a pivotal moment in British and world history. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLS; 3JD; HBJK; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099559399
ISBN
9780099559399
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.77

paperback. Explores the lives and experiences of those whose fortunes rose and fell with the West Indian empire. From the ambitious and brilliant entrepreneurs, to the grandees wielding power across the Atlantic, this title presents the story of how a few small islands and a handful of families decisively shaped the British Empire. Num Pages: 480 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 160 x 30. Weight in Grams: 362.
Publisher
Windmill Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099558453
ISBN
9780099558453
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. Series: Working Class in American History. Num Pages: 280 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HRAX; HRC; JFSC; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 228 x 22. Weight in Grams: 384.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252081897
ISBN
9780252081897
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Hardcover.
Publisher
Irish Academic Press Ltd
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780716529897
ISBN
9780716529897
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.00
€ 28.42

Hardback. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBWQ; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 510.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137544162
ISBN
9781137544162
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 156.52

Paperback. This Very Short Introduction examines the Spanish conquistadors who invaded the Americas in the sixteenth century, as well as the Native American Kingdoms they invaded. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 144 pages, 10 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: 1K; 3JB; 3JD; HBJK; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 114 x 8. Weight in Grams: 114.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195392296
ISBN
9780195392296
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.24

Paperback. This work is a social and cultural history of the Maya peoples of the province of Yucatan in colonial Mexico, spanning the period from shortly after the Spanish conquest of the region to its incorporation as part of an independent Mexico. Num Pages: 476 pages, 1 figure 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 1KLS; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5893 x 3937 x 26. Weight in Grams: 645.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
476
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804736589
ISBN
9780804736589
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.22

Hardback. The Black Middle is the first book-length study of the interaction of black slaves and other people of African descent with Mayas and Spaniards in the Spanish colonial province of Yucatan (southern Mexico). Num Pages: 456 pages, 39 tables, 4 figures, 13 illustrations, 11 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 30. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804749831
ISBN
9780804749831
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.24

Hardback. .
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Edition
F First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848842106
ISBN
9781848842106
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.61

Hardback. How and why do listeners come over time to 'feel the nation' through particular musical works? Series: Music in Society and Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, 12 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 3J; AVGC; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 242 x 27. Weight in Grams: 622.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783271429
ISBN
9781783271429
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 33.76

Paperback. "An exploration of Russia's modern history focused on the particular and peculiar ways in which the sensory has translated into Russian culture and society"-- Editor(s): Romaniello, Professor Matthew P.; Starks, Tricia. Num Pages: 320 pages, 30 BW Illus. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; HBLX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 160 x 333 x 18. Weight in Grams: 496.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474263122
ISBN
9781474263122
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 30.75

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