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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

Paperback. Series: Architecture, Landscape, and American Culture. Num Pages: 392 pages, 133 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBLW3; HBTB; KFFR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 254 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1089.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816654567
ISBN
9780816654567
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.73

Paperback. Accessible history of the controversial POW camp run during World War II in northern Ontario. Editor(s): Beaulieu, Michel S.; Ratz, David K. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBCO; 3JJH; HBJK; HBLW; HBWQ; JWXR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 580.
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Number of pages
300
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780888646736
ISBN
9780888646736
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 25.93

Paperback. On September 4, 1957, after the Supreme Court struck down racial segregation in public schools, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus called up the National Guard to surround Little Rock Central High School, preventing black students from going in. This title offers a landmark of American history. Series: Politics and Society in Modern America. Num Pages: 344 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW3; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691159614
ISBN
9780691159614
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.68

Paperback. This portrait of Somali life in Nairobi counters much of the recent media hype about East- leigh's role as a safe haven for Al-Shabaab and focuses instead on its function as an African economic hub. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; 3JM; HBJH; HBLX; JFSL1; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138. Weight in Grams: 500.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849044752
ISBN
9781849044752
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.63

Hardback. Series: Modernist Latitudes. Num Pages: 352 pages, 48 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 271 x 2. Weight in Grams: 646.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231179768
ISBN
9780231179768
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.27
€ 51.34

Paperback. From the 1920s through the 1960s, scores of small, independent record companies nurtured distinctly American music: jazz, blues, gospel, country, rhythm and blues, and the 1950s offspring of R&B, rock n' roll. This title profiles ten such companies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 33 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; AVG; AVX; HBTB; KNTF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 12. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253214348
ISBN
9780253214348
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.53

Publisher
Canada
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9781550023701
ISBN
9781550023701
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 21.95

Paperback. Against a background of government incompetence and financial scandal, Arthur Clennam searches for the key to the affairs of the Dorrit family, prisoners for debt in the Marshalsea. Mixing humour and pathos, irony and satire, Little Dorrit reveals a master of fiction in top form. This new edition includes all of Phiz's original illustrations. Editor(s): Sucksmith, Harvey Peter. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 912 pages, 41 black and white. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 42. Weight in Grams: 620.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
912
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199596485
ISBN
9780199596485
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJPK; FA; FF; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
KTG0020227
ISBN
9781509826582
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 8.70

Paperback. The first book to examine the "Little Blitz" of January 1944 and its effect on London Num Pages: 128 pages, 20 black and white. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB; HBWQ; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 9. Weight in Grams: 276.
Publisher
Fonthill Media Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781553084
ISBN
9781781553084
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.54

Hardback. In addition to chronicling the lively chain of events leading to and stemming from the declaration of independence, this text studies the essential components of rebirth: the creation of domestic, foreign and security policies and the revitalization of an independent economy. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUF; 3JJPR; HBTQ; HBTR; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780739100271
ISBN
9780739100271
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 148.29

Hardcover. Between the revolutions of 1830 and 1848, poverty reached new extremes in Germany, as in other European countries, and gave rise to a class of disaffected poor, leading to the widespread expectation of a social revolution. Whether welcomed or feared, it dominated private and public debate to a larger extent than is generally assumed.. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JH; DSBF; GTB; HBJD; HBLL; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 359.
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571819895
ISBN
9781571819895
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.65

Paperback. In this tetxt, Clive Bloom offers a radical and controversial guide to the possibilities for intellectual life, popular culture, literary production and political authority in multi-cultural Britain in 2000 and beyond. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JJPR; 3JM; DSBH; JFC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 138 x 217 x 15. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333778333
ISBN
9780333778333
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.68

Hardcover. In this text, Clive Bloom offers a radical and controversial guide to the possibilities for intellectual life, popular culture, literary production and political authority in multi-cultural Britain in 2000 and beyond. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JJPR; 3JM; DSBH; JFC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333778326
ISBN
9780333778326
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.37

Hardback. "Literature, Money and the Market" takes a fresh look at both the representation of money in English literature and the economic situation of writers. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSA; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333971352
ISBN
9780333971352
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.88

Hardcover. This book examines the impact of the new liberalism on English literary discourse from the fin-de-siecle to World War One. It maps out an extensive network of journalists, men of letters and political theorists, showing how their shared political and literary vocabularies offer new readings of liberalism's relation to an emerging modernist culture. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230391468
ISBN
9780230391468
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.12

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333773895
ISBN
9780333773895
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.89

hardcover. This book examines how the process of nation-building in Egypt helped transform Egypt from an Ottoman province to an Arabic speaking national community. Through the life and works of 'A'isha Taymur, Hatem gives insight into how literature and changing gender roles contributed to the definition and/or development of a sense of community. Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HBE; 3JH; DSK; HRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2011th Edition
Number of pages
249
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230113503
ISBN
9780230113503
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.66

Hardcover. Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine. Num Pages: 264 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; HBTB; JPA; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137593146
ISBN
9781137593146
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.97

Hardcover. Examining the production of 'people's literature' in China, this study provides a new interpretive framework with which to understand socialist literature and presents a sympathetic understanding of culture from a period in China's history in which people's lives were greatly and obviously affected by political events. Series: Chinese Literature and Culture in the World. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JJPG; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137306982
ISBN
9781137306982
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.06

hardcover. Analysing works by Lessing, Goethe, and Karamzin, among others, Literature on Trial brings a fresh theoretical perspective to the links between genre as a discursive strategy and socio-political life. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 2AGP; 2AGR; 3JF; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 614.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division Canada
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442643567
ISBN
9781442643567
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.42

Paperback. A collection of the most significant and enduring works of the most important Japanese literary critic of the 20th century. The selections reflect the wide range of Kobayashi's early work, from meditations on the nature of literature and of criticism to studies of individual Japanese and Western writers. Editor(s): Anderer, Paul. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; 3JJG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 12. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804741156
ISBN
9780804741156
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.56

Hardback. This new study rereads the literary response to a decade of trauma and transformation. Instead of separating the 1940s into before and after the war, it focuses on the entire decade and the themes which emerged from writers' involvement in and resistance to, the conflict. It examines popular and middlebrow writers, as well as literary authors. Series: Edinburgh History of Twentieth-century Literature in Britain. Num Pages: 288 pages, 10 B+W illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJH; 3JJPG; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 169 x 23. Weight in Grams: 620.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748627448
ISBN
9780748627448
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.81
€ 103.50

Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JD; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226291123
ISBN
9780226291123
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 40.43

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