Modern period, c 1500 onwards
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Modern period, c 1500 onwards
Hardcover. Examines the transition from slavery to free labor during the tumultuous first months after the Civil War. This volume reveals the connection between developments in workplaces across the South and an intensifying political contest over the meaning of freedom and the terms of national reunification. Editor(s): Hahn, Steven; Miller, Steven F. (University of Maryland); O'Donovan, Susan Eva; Rodrigue, John C.; Rowland, Leslie S. Num Pages: 1056 pages, 15 illustrations, index. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 76. Weight in Grams: 1678.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807831472
- ISBN
- 9780807831472
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.85
€ 138.85
hardcover. This work analyzes the beliefs of the Republican Party during the Civil War, how those beliefs changed, and what those changes foreshadowed for the future. Michael Green shows how Republicans wielded federal power to stop a rebellion while maintaining their hold on that power - the intersection of policy and politics. Series: The North's Civil War. Num Pages: 398 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JPL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 704.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 398
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823222759
- ISBN
- 9780823222759
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.29
€ 107.29
Paperback. Here is an inspiring story that has been muted over the past 400 years. For much of this time, Mary Ward's role in changing the place of women in the Church was suppressed by Church authorities with their own unshakeable version of what women could (or could not) achieve. Num Pages: 2009 pages. BIC Classification: 3JD; BGX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Publisher
- ATF Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781921511530
- ISBN
- 9781921511530
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 21.39
€ 27.99
€ 21.39
Paperback. Editor(s): Yacovone, Donald. Num Pages: 570 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 34. Weight in Grams: 820.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Chicago Review Press United States
- Number of pages
- 570
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781556525216
- ISBN
- 9781556525216
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 21.94
€ 26.99
€ 21.94
hardcover. Unearths an unexpected bloom of liberty in an ex-slave's journal Num Pages: 219 pages, 8 figures/1 table/ 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JH; BJ; HBTS; TVS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 161 x 14. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814705100
- ISBN
- 9780814705100
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.04
€ 82.04
Hardcover. Freedom's Dawn is the first book devoted exclusively to John Brown during the six weeks between his arrest and execution. Louis A. DeCaro traces Brown's evolution from prisoner to convicted felon, to a prophetic figure, and then martyr, finally examining the rise of his legacy. Num Pages: 476 pages, 20 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 161 x 32. Weight in Grams: 776.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442236721
- ISBN
- 9781442236721
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.84
€ 82.84
Paperback. Offering an analysis of religion in the post - Civil War and twentieth-century South, this title puts race and culture at the center, describing southern Protestant cultures as both priestly and prophetic: as southern formal theology sanctified dominant political and social hierarchies, evangelical belief and practice subtly undermined them. Num Pages: 360 pages, 5 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HBWJ; HRCC2; HRCC9. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807858141
- ISBN
- 9780807858141
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 43.51
€ 43.99
€ 43.51
Hardcover. In the spring of 1915, Chicagoans elected the city's first black alderman, Oscar DePriest. This book tells the history of three generations of African American activists - the ministers, professionals, labor leaders, clubwomen, and entrepreneurs - who transformed twentieth-century urban politics. Num Pages: 304 pages, 11 halftones, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JJ; HBTB; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226135908
- ISBN
- 9780226135908
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.02€ 48.01
€ 55.02
€ 48.01
Hardback. In a series of case studies focusing on the Arab spring revolutions, the contributors to Freedom without Permission reveal the centrality of the intersections between body, gender, and space to the revolutions, showing how a diverse group of women and girls publicly disputed gender and sexual norms. Editor(s): Hasso, Frances S.; Salime, Zakia. Num Pages: 304 pages, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HB; 3JM; HBJF1; JFSJ; JHB; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 20. Weight in Grams: 545.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822362210
- ISBN
- 9780822362210
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.40
€ 116.40
Hardcover. Series: Historical Tours. Num Pages: 96 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBBE; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 142 x 13. Weight in Grams: 19.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- GPP Travel United States
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780762757411
- ISBN
- 9780762757411
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.07
€ 16.99
€ 15.07
In the postwar era, producers and consumers of cinema began to demand more freedom to make and view movies that accurately portrayed the complexities of real life. This work details the battles, fought largely in New York City, to secure "freedom of the screen" for film audiences. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJP; APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813124292
- ISBN
- 9780813124292
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 39.64
€ 39.64
Paperback. For many of the 200,000 black soldiers sent to Europe with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, encounters with French civilians and colonial African troops led them to imagine a world beyond Jim Crow. This title illuminates how World War I mobilized a generation. Num Pages: 336 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJF; HBJK; HBLW; HBWN; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674062054
- ISBN
- 9780674062054
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.97
€ 34.99
€ 29.97
Paperback. This saga opens with the enslavement of a woman from Senegambia, and then traces her family s quest, across five generations, for lives of dignity and equality. The story of Rosalie and her descendants unfolds against the background of three great antiracist struggles: the Haitian Revolution, the French Revolution of 1848, and the U.S. Civil War." Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KL; 3JH; HBJK; HBTB; HBWJ; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674416918
- ISBN
- 9780674416918
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.82
€ 27.99
€ 24.82
Hardback. Series: Apercus: Histories Texts Cultures. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; HBTB; JPVH2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 224 x 22. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611483666
- ISBN
- 9781611483666
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 143.90
€ 143.90
Paperback. Looks at five countries, in each of which a long struggle for freedom has taken place; in each the people, having shed blood and dreams, are still waiting. This book shows us the lives behind the headlines. Num Pages: 496 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JJP; HBJH; HBLW3; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552773324
- ISBN
- 9780552773324
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.11
€ 19.99
€ 15.11
Paperback. Winner of the Lincoln Prize. "Oakes brilliantly succeeds in [clarifying] the aims of the war with a wholly new perspective."-David Brion Davis, New York Review of Books Num Pages: 640 pages, 8 pages of illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 144 x 28. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 608
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393347753
- ISBN
- 9780393347753
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.65
€ 19.99
€ 18.65
Hardcover. A powerful history of emancipation that reshapes our understanding of Lincoln, the Civil War, and the end of American slavery. Num Pages: 596 pages, 8 pages illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 170 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1044.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- First
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393065312
- ISBN
- 9780393065312
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.95
€ 32.99
€ 27.95
Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BGA; HBJK; HBLL; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813933092
- ISBN
- 9780813933092
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.52
€ 79.52
Paperback. Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. Freedom from Fear tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities. Series: Oxford History of the United States. Num Pages: 992 pages, 65 halftones, 10 line figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 54. Weight in Grams: 1388.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 947
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195144031
- ISBN
- 9780195144031
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.16
€ 33.16
paperback. Collects writings from the Nobel Peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. Bringing together her powerful speeches, letters and interviews, this collection gives a voice to Burma's 'woman of destiny', whose fate remains in the hands of her enemies. Num Pages: 432 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMB; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW3; JFSJ1; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 81. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141039497
- ISBN
- 9780141039497
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.86
€ 20.99
€ 16.86