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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

For the people of the South, railroads were both an economic boon and a metaphor for industrialization. In this reconsideration of their part in southern culture, the author explores the depiction of the railroads in southern literature and their impact on southern culture. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; 3JJ; DSBH; HBTB; JFC; KCZ; WGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813122342
ISBN
9780813122342
Condition: New

€ 42.63

hardcover. Dividing the Nile counters that Egyptian entrepreneurs failed to develop a united economy or shared economic interests, guaranteeing Egypt's 'loss' of the Sudan. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 1HBS; 3JJ; HBJH; HBLW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 243 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 772.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press
Condition
New
SKU
9789774166389
ISBN
9789774166389
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 8.29

Paperback. Despite widespread claims to the contrary, Japan's high-tech industrial policies over the last two turbulent decades have proved to be neither cooperative nor successful. This book focuses on MITI and Japan's giant electronics firms-their ambitions and conflicts-to show that the policymaking process is torn by conflict and competition. Series: Studies in International Policy. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; KJK; KNDH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804731546
ISBN
9780804731546
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.56

Hardcover. Zuck argues that, in the decades between the ratification of the Constitution and the publication of Sutton Griggs s novel "Imperium in Imperio" in 1899, four populations were most often referred to as racial and ethnic nations within the nation: the Cherokees, African Americans, Irish Americans, and Chinese immigrants." Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; JFSL1; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 531.
Publisher
University of Georgia Press United States
Number of pages
304
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820345420
ISBN
9780820345420
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.89

Hardback. Based on archival research in four countries, this title uncovers important links between international power politics and everyday matters of rights, identity, and resistance to colonial authority, while re-interpreting the whole arc of French rule in Tunisia from the 1880s to the mid-20th century. Num Pages: 320 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1HBT; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJH; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 235 x 25. Weight in Grams: 570.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
365
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520279155
ISBN
9780520279155
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 19 b/w photos, 3 b/w maps. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DVP; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Helion & Company
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781911096641
ISBN
9781911096641
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.32

Paperback. Num Pages: 383 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 209 x 139 x 27. Weight in Grams: 344.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403961556
ISBN
9781403961556
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.39

paperback. When the Berlin wall fell and the reunification of Germany began, Willy Brandt predicted that 'what belongs together will now grow together.'This study of Berlin's police force in the aftermath of reunification shows that forty years of separation left the nation with deep rifts. Num Pages: 383 pages, 16 halftones, 8 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJP; GTB; HBJD; HBLW3; JKSW1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 536.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
383
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226297842
ISBN
9780226297842
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 33.73

Hardback. In 1944, a daily onslaught by V-1 jet-propelled flying bombs, heading for London and southern England, was countered in the skies of Kent and Sussex. This work details almost every known success by the defending pilots of over 13 nationalities, and where detected, records the locations and casualties of V-1 impacts in London and the south east. Num Pages: 256 pages, 16pp b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DBKES; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBJK; HBWQ; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 166 x 44. Weight in Grams: 886.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Grub Street United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904943396
ISBN
9781904943396
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.70
€ 53.76

Paperback. When eight-year-old Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana (1590-1662) entered one of the preeminent convents in Bologna in 1598, she had no idea what cloistered life had in store for her. This title retells the story of Vizzana and the nuns of Santa Cristina to elucidate the role that music played in the lives of these cloistered women. Num Pages: 280 pages, 32 halftones, 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JD; AV; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408. Nuns, Music, and Defiance in Seventeenth-century Italy. 280 pages, 32 halftones, 3 line drawings. When eight-year-old Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana (1590-1662) entered one of the preeminent convents in Bologna in 1598, she had no idea what cloistered life had in store for her. This title retells the story of Vizzana and the nuns of Santa Cristina to elucidate the role that music played in the lives of these cloistered women. Cateogry: (UF) Further/Higher Education. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JD; AV; HBJD; HBLH. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226535197
ISBN
9780226535197
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 30.01

Paperback. Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859 Num Pages: 472 pages, 12 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 157 x 30. Weight in Grams: 672.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
472
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807871591
ISBN
9780807871591
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.42

Paperback. Set against the backdrop of women's work experiences, friendships, and communities during World War I, this title draws on a substantial body of new archival material to expose the roadblocks still present in current practices and imagine new alternatives. It clarifies the ethical value and political purpose of identity history. Num Pages: 288 pages, 14 halftones, 4 line drawings. BIC Classification: 3JJF; HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSK1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226001616
ISBN
9780226001616
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.91

Hardback. Rather than simply tracing the rise of Modernism in the 19th century, this book reconstitutes the period's cultural milieu through a series of case studies written with an eye to overarching forces at play. It surveys the field as a whole and discusses the relationships between the various media in the context of an overall "visual economy". Num Pages: 224 pages, 10 colour images + 95 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; ACV; AFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 269 x 201 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1154.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300177275
ISBN
9780300177275
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.44
€ 44.78

hardcover. Offers a reassessment of the haphazard and regionally diverse process of state formation and market integration in early modern Spain, showing how local and regional agency paradoxically led to legitimate governance but economic backwardness. Series: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World. Num Pages: 320 pages, 18 line illus. 16 tables. 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JD; 3JF; KCG; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 244 x 175 x 24. Weight in Grams: 580.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780691144849
ISBN
9780691144849
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.99
€ 19.95

Paperback. What does it mean to live in the modern world? How different is that world from those that preceded it, and when did we become modern? This book argues that the world was made modern not by revolution, industrialization, or the Enlightenment. Series: Berkeley Series in British Studies. Num Pages: 184 pages, 11 b/w images, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 229 x 11. Weight in Grams: 266.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520282049
ISBN
9780520282049
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 21.55

Hardcover. The first part of a three-volume study, this work examines early Russian-American relations between the American Revolutionary War and the purchase of Alaska. The author argues that these early contacts were more extensive, important and congenial than has been reported before. Num Pages: 400 pages, 20 photographs. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBJK; HBLL; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 41. Weight in Grams: 862.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700604388
ISBN
9780700604388
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.17

Hardcover. As theatres expanded in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the distance between actor and audience became a telling metaphor for the distance emerging between writers and readers. Nuss explores the ways in which theatre helped authors imagine connecting with a new mass audience. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JF; AN; DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137291400
ISBN
9781137291400
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.93
€ 46.73

Paperback. Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Nazi Concentration Camp. Num Pages: 352 pages. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442615700
ISBN
9781442615700
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.30

Hardback. An innovative study of the ways in which Germans of different ages and life stages lived through the violent eruptions of the two world wars, and through the dictatorships of Nazism and then Communism that succeeded them. Num Pages: 528 pages, charts. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JPHX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 173 x 45. Weight in Grams: 946.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199287208
ISBN
9780199287208
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.60

paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 17 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; JNKS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Edition
Revised and Expanded
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253026682
ISBN
9780253026682
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

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