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Modern period, c 1500 onwards
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Modern period, c 1500 onwards
Hardback. Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) was highly a acclaimed Japanese poet and translator from classical Japanese. She was also a prominent feminist. In 1928 she was invited to travel around areas with a strong Japanese presence in China's northeast. This is her account of that journey. Translator(s): Fogel, Joshua A. Num Pages: 128 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPJ; 3JJG; GTB; JFSJ1; WTH; WTL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231123181
- ISBN
- 9780231123181
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.80
€ 133.80
Hardback. In 1974 Roland Barthes travelled in China as part of a small delegation of distinguished French philosophers and literary figures. They arrived in China just as the last stage of the Cultural Revolution was getting underway - the campaign to criticize Lin Biao and Confucius. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPL; WTL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 148 x 23. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745650807
- ISBN
- 9780745650807
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardback. This is an extended study of the touring practices and performances of Elizabethan and Jacobean travelling players. It examines the lively, competitive world of professional touring theatre through to its decline in the 1620s. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; AN; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333968208
- ISBN
- 9780333968208
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.97
€ 127.97
Paperback. How colonial mapping traditions were combined with practices of nineteenth-century visual culture in the first maps of independent Mexico, particularly in those created by the respected cartographer Antonio Garcia Cubas. Num Pages: 352 pages, 91 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JH; RGV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 46. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822349914
- ISBN
- 9780822349914
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
This book studies "armchair" travel writers who journeyed to Europe during the interwar period of 1919-1939. It focuses on travel conversations writers experienced as they sought the real Europe stripped of press reports and government propaganda. They encountered a continent where a cherished past was colliding with an ominous future. Num Pages: 274 pages, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761860242
- ISBN
- 9780761860242
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 130.74
€ 130.74
Hardcover. This collection reveals the variety of literary forms and visual media through which travel records were conveyed in the long nineteenth century, bringing together a group of leading researchers from a range of disciplines to explore the relationship between travel writing, visual representation and formal innovation. Editor(s): Murray, Brian H. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 262 pages, 21 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137543387
- ISBN
- 9781137543387
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.73
€ 127.73
Hardcover. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF; DSK; HBJD1; HBLL; WTL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403942869
- ISBN
- 9781403942869
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Paperback. Editor(s): Bohls, Elizabeth A.; Duncan, Ian. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 35. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 560
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199537525
- ISBN
- 9780199537525
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKENL; 3JH; TVS; WMB; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 205 x 12. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Publisher
- Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780884023890
- ISBN
- 9780884023890
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 34.17
€ 40.99
€ 34.17
Hardcover. This study considers how a range of prose texts register, and help to shape, the early modern cultural debate between theoretical and experiential forms of knowledge as centered on the subject of travel. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230602984
- ISBN
- 9780230602984
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.90
€ 66.90
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DSA; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- First edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816634590
- ISBN
- 9780816634590
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
The disappearance and imprisonment behind the Iron Curtain of the American brothers Noel and Hermann Field in 1949, followed by that of Noel's wife and their foster daughter, was one of the most publicized international mysteries of the Cold War. This dual memoir gives an intensely human dimension to that struggle. Num Pages: 488 pages, 18 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1DV; 3JJPG; BG; HBJK; HBLW3; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 35. Weight in Grams: 780.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804735902
- ISBN
- 9780804735902
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 119.48
€ 119.48
Transposition of the Great Arteries 25 Years After Rashkind Balloon Se...
. Ed(S): Vogel, M.; Buehlmeyer, K.
Paperback. An overview of current medical knowledge of pre- and post-natal diagnosis, the medical and surgical treatment and the post-operative evaluation of the great arteries. It also offers an historical perspective of the 25 years since Rashkind's atrial septal defect transposition technique. Editor(s): Vogel, M.; Buehlmeyer, K. Num Pages: 173 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJPK; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; MBX; MFC; MJD. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 10. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Steinkopff Darmstadt Germany
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992
- Number of pages
- 173
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783798508958
- ISBN
- 9783798508958
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. In this exploration of the era of the Grand Tour, contributors from the fields of history, art history, literary history and theory, science history and anthropology investigate the experiences of travellers and their ways of understanding and representing their encounter with the foreign. Editor(s): Chard, Chloe; Langdon, Helen. Series: Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 350 pages, 100 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JD; 3JF; AC; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1271.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Paul Mellon Centre BA
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300063820
- ISBN
- 9780300063820
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.51€ 42.58
€ 53.51
€ 42.58
Focusing on Manchester, this book shows that canals were at the heart of the self-styled Cottonopolis. Not only did canals move the key commodities of Manchester's industrial revolution -coal, corn, and cotton - but canal banks also provided the key sites for the factories that made Manchester the 'shock city' of the early Victorian age. Num Pages: 320 pages, 13 maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKENL; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTK; KNG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 29. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719083600
- ISBN
- 9780719083600
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.00
€ 158.00
Hardback. Interpreting the German-Polish relationship according to a paradigm of 'synthesis' between nations, this book examines the process and socio-political effects of how conflict and contradiction between Germans and Poles gave rise to mentalities and behaviours that were 'transnational'; representing the harmonization of the national dichotomy. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 maps, 21 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DV; 3JJC; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 218 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230284166
- ISBN
- 9780230284166
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.72
€ 67.72
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature. Num Pages: 361 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JM; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 361
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319504834
- ISBN
- 9783319504834
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.71
€ 139.71
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUK; 3JMG; HBJD; HBLX; JPFN; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Germany
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783838209647
- ISBN
- 9783838209647
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.45
€ 46.45
Hardback. "Recognition" is a critical concept for social movements, and while its theoretical and empirical dimensions have usually been studied separately, this collection focuses on both against a transnational backdrop. Editor(s): Gosewinkel, Dieter; Rucht, Dieter. Series: Studies on Civil Society. Num Pages: 332 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJ; HPS; JPVH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785333118
- ISBN
- 9781785333118
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 148.01
€ 148.01
Hardcover. Combining a diverse range of case studies with discussion between leading scholars in star studies and transnational cinema, this book analyzes stars as sites of cross-cultural contestation and the essays in this collection explore how the plasticity of stars helps disparate peoples manage the shifting ideologies of a transnational world. Editor(s): Meeuf, Russell; Raphael, Raphael. Series: Global Cinema. Num Pages: 302 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JM; APB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137268273
- ISBN
- 9781137268273
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.03
€ 128.03
Hardback. This book addresses the impact that transnational cooperation of political parties has on European politics and policy-making. Looking specifically at western European socialist parties, it argues that transnational party cooperation through informal networks was an important factor in the emerging European governance system in the 1970s. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJPL; HBJD; HBLW3; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 475.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137551191
- ISBN
- 9781137551191
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 3JJPK; HBJM; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137529138
- ISBN
- 9781137529138
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.70
€ 127.70
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 296 pages, 10 colour illustrations, 24 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; BGF; HBJD; HBTB; JKSN1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 219 x 22. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319291260
- ISBN
- 9783319291260
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Paperback. The execution of 49-year-old British matron Edith Cavell on 12 October 1915 in Belgium by occupying German forces was portrayed by the allied cause as one of the key atrocities of the First World War, and stories of her fate flashed around the world. This book recovers and interprets the enormous worldwide reaction to Cavell's death. Num Pages: 292 pages, 32 black & white halftones, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDB; 3JJC; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137556189
- ISBN
- 9781137556189
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.40
€ 66.40