Modern period, c 1500 onwards
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Modern period, c 1500 onwards
Paperback. Some Adventures, Dangers, and Sufferings of Joseph Plumb Martin. Series: Signet Classics. 269 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BGHA; BM; HBJK; HBLL; JW. Dimension: 171 x 114 x 21. Weight: 140.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Signet Classics
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 269
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780451531582
- ISBN
- 9780451531582
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.98
€ 8.98
Paperback. Examines the work experience, living conditions, and social relations of thousands of African men, women, and children on European-owned tobacco farms in colonial Zimbabwe from 1890 to 1945. Series: Ohio RIS Africa Series. Num Pages: 271 pages, photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1HFMW; 3JH; 3JJ; HBG; HBJH; HBLL; HBLW; KCF; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780896802032
- ISBN
- 9780896802032
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.62
€ 34.99
€ 31.62
Hardcover. The first social and economic history of the founding era of American railroads. Drawing on vast research especially in period newspapers Miner identifies antebellum Americans' hopes and fears sparked by the introduction and adoption of the Iron Horse. Reveals how and why a free society adapts to rapid technological change." Num Pages: 320 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700617555
- ISBN
- 9780700617555
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.33
€ 46.33
Hardback. Traces the path of electricity through early American culture, exploring how the relationship between human, natural, and divine powers was understood in the 18th Century. This book offers a view of the origins of American science and the cultural meaning of the American Enlightenment. It talks about the revolutionary New World of wonder. Num Pages: 378 pages, 15 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBTB; PDX; PHK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 150 x 30. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 378
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674022997
- ISBN
- 9780674022997
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 39.93
€ 47.99
€ 39.93
Hardback. A catalogue of items drawn from the "Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr Samuel Johnson", bequeathed to the library in 2004 by Mary Hyde Eccles. Num Pages: 130 pages, 50 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; GBCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 264 x 211 x 16. Weight in Grams: 638.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library United States
- Number of pages
- 130
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780981885827
- ISBN
- 9780981885827
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.80
€ 40.99
€ 33.80
Hardcover. This book examines Elizabeth's correspondence with several significant rulers, analyzing how her letters were constructed, drafted and presented, the rhetorical strategies used, and the role these letters played in facilitating diplomatic relations. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; BJ; HBJD1; HBLH; JPSD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137008350
- ISBN
- 9781137008350
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.88
€ 127.88
Paperback. The author was still a young man when he decided to fight for the Republican cause in Spain's civil war. But though he braved icy, storm-swept mountains alone to contact Republican sympathisers, he was immediately suspected of being a Nationalist spy. This title tells the story of his experiences as a Republican soldier. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJG; BM; HBWP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 114.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Re-issue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241953297
- ISBN
- 9780241953297
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.21
€ 11.99
€ 10.21
Paperback. This text addresses a central question in the history of modern France and modern colonialism: how did the Third Republic, highly regarded for its professed democratic values, allow itself to be seduced by the insidious and persistent appeal of a civilizing ideology with distinct racist overtones? Num Pages: 384 pages, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFD; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBJH; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804740128
- ISBN
- 9780804740128
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.19
€ 40.99
€ 36.19
Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 19, 16 black & white halftones, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781501705236
- ISBN
- 9781501705236
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.21
€ 38.21
Paperback. Casey was one of a group of Fenians arrested in 1865 in Cork and transported to Western Australia with other Fenians captured in the abortive 1867 Rising. This title includes Casey's account of his experiences as a convict on roadwork parties, as well as correspondence by Casey and other Fenians. Editor(s): Maume, Mairead; Maume, Patrick; Casey, Mary. Series: Classics of Irish History. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1MBF; 3JH; HBJD1; HBJM; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 184 x 121 x 25. Weight in Grams: 318. Casey was one of a group of Fenians arrested in 1865 in Cork and transported to Western Australia with other Fenians captured in the abortive 1867 Rising. A Mingling of Swans includes Casey’s unpublished account of his experiences as a convict on roadwork parties, as well as correspondence by Casey and other Fenians, and some articles by Casey on his impressions of Western Australia which were published in Dublin separatist newspapers. Casey portrays with humour and determination the harsh conditions endured by Fenian prisoners.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University College Dublin Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906359003
- ISBN
- 9781906359003
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.57
€ 26.99
€ 23.57
Paperback. Tells the story of America's women prospectors - from the California gold rush through the mid-twentieth century. Num Pages: 375 pages, Illus., maps. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3734 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 375
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780803299160
- ISBN
- 9780803299160
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 23.95
€ 25.99
€ 23.95
Paperback. Provides an overview of the military history of South Asia since 1700, covering the areas including states of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. This book offers introductions to topics ranging from the rise of the East India Company, to the rise of national armies and the tensions between India and Pakistan. Editor(s): Marston, Daniel P., D. Phil.; Sundaram, Chandar S. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 b&w photos, 7 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 16. Weight in Grams: 437.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253219992
- ISBN
- 9780253219992
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.28
€ 27.99
€ 26.28
Hardback. The first comprehensive history of over two centuries of warfare and international conflict in Afghanistan, including the Anglo-Afghan wars of the nineteenth century, the early twentieth century struggles over modernization, the fall of the last monarchy, the Soviet-Afghan War, and the twenty-first century US Global War on Terror. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700624072
- ISBN
- 9780700624072
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 88.24
€ 88.24
hardcover. The former mayor--the son of a barber and a domestic who grew up in Harlem and Trenton--discusses his journey to becoming the 106th mayor of New York City. Num Pages: 408 pages, Including an 8-pp. B/W photo insert on gloss. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJPR; BGHA; JPHL; JPR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 244 x 33. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- PublicAffairs United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781610393010
- ISBN
- 9781610393010
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.58
€ 33.99
€ 28.58
Hardcover. Details the surveillance by the British security service MI5 of anti-Nazi refugees who came to Britain fleeing political persecution in Germany and Austria Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJP; JFFD; JWKF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 160 x 27. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719090790
- ISBN
- 9780719090790
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.43
€ 157.43
Paperback. Domesticity is generally treated as an aspect of women's history. This study of the 19th-century middle class shows how profoundly men's lives were conditioned by the Victorian ideal and how they negotiated its many contradictions. It looks at the experience of boyhood, married life, sex, and fatherhood in the early decades of the 19th-century. Num Pages: 272 pages, 16 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; HBTB; JFSC; JFSJ2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 38. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300123623
- ISBN
- 9780300123623
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.85
€ 21.99
€ 17.85
Hardback. This study shows how the British Admiralty, over the space of two centuries, struggled to master the intractable problems of organisation and management presented by the Royal Dockyards. Num Pages: 256 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTM; KJM; KNGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Publisher
- University Press of America
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780819194619
- ISBN
- 9780819194619
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.11
€ 117.11
Paperback. Series: The Press UWI biography series. Num Pages: 120 pages, 1 facsim., 1 map, 1 plan, ports. BIC Classification: 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; BG; DSBH; DSC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 259.
- Publisher
- University of the West Indies Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9789766400347
- ISBN
- 9789766400347
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. Probes regional cartography, choerography, and statecraft to redefine restoration (ishin) in modern Japanese history. This title argues that both the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate (1600-1868) and the reformers of the Meiji era (1868-1912) recruited the classical map to serve the cause of administrative reform. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 340 pages, 16 color maps, 20 b/w maps, 5 line drawings, 14 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3J; HBJF; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520272767
- ISBN
- 9780520272767
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 30.31
€ 41.99
€ 30.31
Paperback. Boyd Hilton examines the changes in politics and society in the years 1783-1846, showing how the raffish and rakish style of eighteenth-century society, having reached a peak in the Regency, then succumbed to the new norms of respectability popularly known as 'Victorianism'. Series: New Oxford History of England. Num Pages: 784 pages, 8pp plates. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1116.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 784
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199218912
- ISBN
- 9780199218912
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.42
€ 69.42