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Modern period, c 1500 onwards
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Modern period, c 1500 onwards
Paperback. The tale of Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci, 18th century castrato, celebrity, and heart-throb, and his elopement and love affair with his teenage pupil Doroethea Maunsell, a story that opens up a new history of attitudes towards sex and celebrity in Georgian Britain, and explores questions about the meaning of marriage that resonate in our own time. Num Pages: 336 pages, 8pp black and white plates. BIC Classification: 3JF; AVGC9; AVH; HBTB; JHBK5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780199655267
- ISBN
- 9780199655267
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 6.12
€ 13.99
€ 6.12
Hardcover. This text seeks to reassess the reputation of Joseph Johnson, who was unfairly condemned in the late 18th century as a dangerously "radical" publisher. It also looks at how far the works he published tended to promote the case for religious and political reform. Num Pages: 258 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333983942
- ISBN
- 9780333983942
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.90
€ 127.90
Hardback. Examining theatre economics, rhetorical acting, cross-dressing, the staging of 'self', and the alignment of motherhood and work, this book reveals how actresses drew on changing models of gender to achieve phenomenal levels of success over the eighteenth-century. By doing so it sheds new light on the cultural significance of female performance. Num Pages: 201 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JF; AN; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 15. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230298330
- ISBN
- 9780230298330
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.78
€ 127.78
Paperback. In medieval England, man was the ruler of woman, and the King was the ruler of all. How, then, could royal power lie in female hands? This title offers the stories of four exceptional women who, while never reigning queens, held great power: Matilda, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Isabella of France and Margaret of Anjou. Num Pages: 496 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.), map. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; 3JB; HBJD1; HBLC1; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 34. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571237067
- ISBN
- 9780571237067
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Hardcover. Exotic animals were coveted commodities in nineteenth-century Britain. Spectators flocked to zoos and menageries to see female lion tamers and hungry hippos. Helen Cowie examines zoos and travelling menageries in the period 1800-1880, using animal exhibitions to examine issues of class, gender, imperial culture and animal welfare. Num Pages: 272 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, 1 graphs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; ASZX; HBTB; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 222 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137384430
- ISBN
- 9781137384430
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.99
€ 149.99
Paperback. Series: Read and Learn: Important Events in History. Num Pages: 24 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; 5AF; YQH. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 193 x 220 x 5. Weight in Grams: 90.
- Publisher
- Capstone Global Library Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474714464
- ISBN
- 9781474714464
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.03
€ 10.99
€ 10.03
Paperback. An insight into the impact GIs had on the British during the Second World War - from stockings to gum Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 171 x 9. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 122
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752450230
- ISBN
- 9780752450230
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.61
€ 17.99
€ 16.61
Paperback.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752461793
- ISBN
- 9780752461793
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.49
€ 13.99
€ 13.49
Hardback. Reveals the impact of Tanzania's land law reforms and the ways in which women's rights to land ownership have been overridden in spite of law. Series: Eastern Africa Series. Num Pages: 216 pages, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1HFGT; 3JJPR; 3JMC; JFSJ1; JPVH3; LNSH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Publisher
- James Currey
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847011138
- ISBN
- 9781847011138
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.73
€ 98.73
Hardback. What did it mean to run a large, commercialized agrarian polity according to the best Confucian principles? This book is intended as a contribution to both intellectual and political history. It offers a detailed view of members of an ostensibly Confucian government pursuing divergent agendas around the question of "state or merchant?" Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 550 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JF; JP; KCP; KCZ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 44. Weight in Grams: 888.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674022621
- ISBN
- 9780674022621
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.60€ 50.74
€ 54.60
€ 50.74
Paperback. The second in the terrifying DI Callanach crime series. Fans of M.J. Arlidge will be hooked from the very first page. Series: A DI Callanach Thriller. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBKS; 2AB; 3JMG; FF; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780008181581
- ISBN
- 9780008181581
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. This major best-selling memoir of a poverty-stricken childhood in Liverpool is one of the most harrowing but uplifting books you will ever read. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKENL; 3JJG; BGA; JFFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780008180966
- ISBN
- 9780008180966
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.73
€ 13.99
€ 10.73
Paperback. The second volume of Helen Forrester's powerful, painful and ultimately uplifting four-volume autobiography of her poverty-stricken childhood in Liverpool during the Depression. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKENL; 3JJG; BGA; JFFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 199 x 24. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780008180959
- ISBN
- 9780008180959
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
Paperback. The third volume in the classic story of Helen Forrester's childhood and adolescence in poverty-stricken Liverpool during the 1930s. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKENL; 3JJG; BGA; JFFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 22. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780008180935
- ISBN
- 9780008180935
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. The fourth and final part of Helen Forrester's bestselling autobiography continues the moving story of her early poverty-stricken life with an account of the war years in Blitz-torn Liverpool Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKENL; 3JJH; BGA; JFFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 29. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780008180942
- ISBN
- 9780008180942
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.73
€ 13.99
€ 10.73
Paperback. In Spain today the civil war remains 'the past that will not pass away'. The author explores the origins, nature and long-term consequences of this exterminatory war in Spain, charting the resonant forms of political, social and cultural resistance to it and the memory/legacy these have left behind in Europe and beyond. Num Pages: 256 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBWP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845195113
- ISBN
- 9781845195113
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.81
€ 36.99
€ 33.81
Hardcover. In Spain today the civil war remains 'the past that will not pass away'. The author explores the origins, nature and long-term consequences of this exterminatory war in Spain, charting the resonant forms of political, social and cultural resistance to it and the memory/legacy these have left behind in Europe and beyond. Num Pages: 256 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBWP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845195106
- ISBN
- 9781845195106
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.58
€ 130.58
Hardback. Did William Shakespeare ever meet Queen Elizabeth I? This title explores the history of invented encounters between the poet and the Queen, and examines how and why the mythology of these two charismatic and enduring cultural icons has been intertwined in British and American culture. Num Pages: 320 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; DSGS; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691128061
- ISBN
- 9780691128061
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.41€ 46.96
€ 59.41
€ 46.96
Paperback. Provides a new model of comparative race studies by situating contemporary questions of differential racial formations within a long genealogy of anti-racist discourse constrained by liberal notions of inclusion Series: Nation of Nations. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JMC; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814742983
- ISBN
- 9780814742983
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
Paperback. Betsy's failed quest to win royal status for her son and grandsons consumed the remainder of her seventy-four years, decades that transformed her from the glamorous "belle of Baltimoreinto a shrewd and successful businesswoman determined to protect her family. Num Pages: 244 pages, 24, 24 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBBFM; 3JF; BGH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Maryland Historical Society United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780984213504
- ISBN
- 9780984213504
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.06
€ 39.06
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843830382
- ISBN
- 9781843830382
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 29.03
€ 33.99
€ 29.03
Hardback. The criminal lives of 100 Victorian convicts based on the official records of the police and prison authorities. Num Pages: 224 pages, 50 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; BTC; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781473823730
- ISBN
- 9781473823730
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.35
€ 26.99
€ 20.35
Hardcover. The Group Theatre, a groundbreaking ensemble collective, started the careers of many top American theatre artists of the twentieth century and founded what became known as Method Acting. This book is the definitive history, based on over thirty years of research and interviews by the foremost theatre scholar of the time period, Helen Chinoy. Editor(s): Wilmeth, Don B.; Barranger, Milly S., Ph.D. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 296 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; A; AN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137294593
- ISBN
- 9781137294593
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.93€ 48.08
€ 52.93
€ 48.08
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, colour illus. BIC Classification: 1MBN; 3JJ; HBJM; HBT; JFCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 270 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1186.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Otago University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781877578373
- ISBN
- 9781877578373
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.87
€ 30.99
€ 22.87