Modern period, c 1500 onwards
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Modern period, c 1500 onwards
Hardback. It is one part corporate and industrial history, using the evolution of mortgage finance as a way to understand larger dynamics in the nation's political economy. This biography weaves together three engrossing stories. Num Pages: 368 pages, 25 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520273757
- ISBN
- 9780520273757
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.12
€ 40.99
€ 29.12
Hardback. Building Gotham thus demonstrates how a group of ambitious professionals overcame the limits of traditional means of decision-making and developed the city-building practices that enabled New York to become America's first mega-city. Num Pages: 344 pages, 16, 10 black & white halftones, 6 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801870736
- ISBN
- 9780801870736
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.41
€ 64.41
Paperback. From the years 2004 to 2008, Beijing and Shanghai witnessed the construction of an extraordinary number of new buildings, many of which were designed by architectural firms overseas. This title scrutinizes the growing phenomenon of transnational architecture and its profound effect on the development of urban space. Num Pages: 240 pages, 18 halftones, 4 maps, 15 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JMC; AM; JFFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226709819
- ISBN
- 9780226709819
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 33.37
€ 42.99
€ 33.37
Hardback. This work tells the tale of the prolific architect, inventor, farmer, writer and engineer, Gaetano Ciocca, whose career took him from the battlefronts of World War I to Stalin's Russia, Mussolini's Italy, FDR's America and finally to postwar liberal-democratic Italy. Num Pages: 312 pages, 42 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJ; AMB; BG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804748773
- ISBN
- 9780804748773
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.74
€ 99.74
Hardback. Focusing on experts in technology and science, Building Europe on Expertise delivers a new reading of European history. The authors show that modern Europe was built by experts using their unique knowledge to shape societies, set political agendas, and establish collaborations which proved decisive in integrating the continent. Series: Making Europe. Num Pages: 416 pages, 72 black & white halftones, 2 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJ; HBJD; HBTB; HBTK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 198 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1318.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230308053
- ISBN
- 9780230308053
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.04€ 46.69
€ 73.04
€ 46.69
Hardback. Focuses on backroom politics and gives readers an insider's perspective on the efforts of policymakers from three presidential administrations to get past the naysayers and effect real and lasting policy changes. This title offers an overview of policymaking during the Clinton and George W Bush administrations. Editor(s): Levin, Martin A.; DiSalvo, Daniel; Shapiro, Martin M. Num Pages: 416 pages, 7, 4 graphs, 3 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPR; 3JM; JPQ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421405087
- ISBN
- 9781421405087
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.51€ 63.18
€ 69.51
€ 63.18
Paperback. Focuses on backroom politics and gives readers an insider's perspective on the efforts of policymakers from three presidential administrations to get past the naysayers and effect real and lasting policy changes. This title offers an overview of policymaking during the Clinton and George W Bush administrations. Editor(s): Levin, Martin A.; DiSalvo, Daniel; Shapiro, Martin M. Num Pages: 416 pages, 7, 4 graphs, 3 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPR; 3JM; JPQ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421405094
- ISBN
- 9781421405094
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.59
€ 44.59
Paperback. This concise text explores the spread of settler colonies within the British Empire over the course of the nineteenth century, specifically those in New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, and Australia. Series: International Themes & Issues. Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442607521
- ISBN
- 9781442607521
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.72
€ 31.99
€ 28.72
Paperback. This work follows the evolution of the pattern book houses and how they represented the notion of home and community in American historical memory. The book also includes illustrations of such communities. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; AM; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761989639
- ISBN
- 9780761989639
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.28
€ 67.28
Hardcover.
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 390
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580465052
- ISBN
- 9781580465052
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.97
€ 132.97
Hardback. Fascinating profiles of the leading architects of the 1930s during a crucial period in the evolution of modernism Series: Yale School of Architecture. Num Pages: 192 pages, 124 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJ; AMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 203 x 18. Weight in Grams: 812.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300115659
- ISBN
- 9780300115659
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.74€ 53.53
€ 67.74
€ 53.53
Hardback. An exploration of the history, ideology and aesthetics of China's left-wing cinema movement, a quixotic film culture that was as political as commercial, as militant as sensationalist. The author demonstrates that the movement was a product of the era's social, economic and political discourses. Num Pages: 304 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJG; APF; HBJF; HBLW; JFC; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 603.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742509450
- ISBN
- 9780742509450
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 183.67
€ 183.67
Hardcover. Based on extensive multi-archival research, this study combines analysis of French policy-making with an inquiry into the evolution of political language, highlighting the significance of the new concept of a political European identity. Series: Berghahn Monographs in French Studies. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1KBB; 3JJPL; HBJD; HBLW3; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 536. France, the United States, and the Oil Shock, 1973-1974. Series: Berghahn Monographs in French Studies. 244 pages, black & white illustrations. Based on extensive multi-archival research, this study combines analysis of French policy-making with an inquiry into the evolution of political language, highlighting the significance of the new concept of a political European identity. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1KBB; 3JJPL; HBJD; HBLW3; JPS. Dimension: 228 x 160 x 21. Weight: 536.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857452252
- ISBN
- 9780857452252
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.11
€ 164.11
Drawing on extensive research in published and unpublished documents - including associational records, newspapers, periodicals, government documents, guidebooks, exhibition catalogues, memoirs, and private letters - Steven C. Soper provides a complex account of Italian liberalism during Europe's age of association. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 26. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442645035
- ISBN
- 9781442645035
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.62
€ 93.62
Explores how science became increasingly important in nineteenth-century British culture and how the systematic study of insects permitted entomologists to engage with the most pressing questions of Victorian times: the nature of God, mind, and governance, and the origins of life. Num Pages: 384 pages, 48 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBTB; JFCX; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 165 x 34. Weight in Grams: 672.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300150919
- ISBN
- 9780300150919
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 31.58
€ 43.99
€ 31.58
paperback. Born in a small village in the Everglades in 1920, Buffalo Tiger grew up immersed in the traditional customs and language of the Miccosukees. As the modern world encroached on the Miccosukees and the Everglades shrank around them, he became an energetic and outspoken leader of the community. This is the biography of a tireless leader. Series: Indians of the Southeast. Num Pages: 208 pages, 14 photographs, map. BIC Classification: 1KBBFL; 3JJ; BGA; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 4039 x 13. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803218857
- ISBN
- 9780803218857
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.38
€ 17.99
€ 17.38
paperback. African-American soldiers played a decisive role in the US Army on the western frontier during the Plains Wars. Nicknamed the 'buffalo soldiers' by their Cheyenne and Comanche enemies, these brave soldiers fought many enemies over the years, including Sitting Bull and Geronimo. Illustrator(s): Hook, Richard. Series: Elite. Num Pages: 64 pages, 55 b&w and 8 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JWT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 185 x 7. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Osprey Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 64
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781841767567
- ISBN
- 9781841767567
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.46
€ 19.99
€ 18.46
Paperback. In the tradition of Black Elk's Vision, this is the only children's book about Buffalo Bird Woman, a Native American gardener Num Pages: 56 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBNR; 3JH; 5AG; YNH; YNM. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 255 x 257 x 7. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Abrams United States
- Number of pages
- 56
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781419718380
- ISBN
- 9781419718380
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.29
€ 12.29
Hardback. The travel journal of the wealthy young Englishman, Evelyn Booth, weaves a factual, enthralling, and entertaining narrative that follows his escapades throughout the United States of the late nineteenth century. Num Pages: 160 pages, 20 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 14. Weight in Grams: 381.
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442246591
- ISBN
- 9781442246591
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.79
€ 25.99
€ 22.79
Paperback. Reveals that the globalization of American mass culture that seems unstoppable today began as early as the mid-nineteenth century. This book narrates how the circuses, amusement parks, vaudeville, mail-order catalogs, dime novels, and movies that developed after the Civil War actually doubled as agents of American cultural diplomacy abroad. Num Pages: 232 pages, 37 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBTB; JFCA; JFFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226007120
- ISBN
- 9780226007120
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 24.70
€ 31.99
€ 24.70