Modern period, c 1500 onwards
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Modern period, c 1500 onwards
Paperback. Reveals how the figural Jew can function as a critical mechanism that exposes the political dangers of mythic allegiance, whether couched in universalizing or particularizing terms. This title provides a consideration of Jewish identity, modern Jewish thought, and continental philosophy. Series: Religion and Postmodernism. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJP; HPCF; HRAM2; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226315126
- ISBN
- 9780226315126
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.15
€ 37.99
€ 29.15
Paperback. J.M.W. Turner's The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to her Last Berth to be Broken Up (1838) was his masterpiece. Sam Willis tells the real-life story behind this remarkable painting. Series: Hearts of Oak Trilogy. Num Pages: 416 pages, 32pp colour plates. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD1; HBTM; HBWH; JWMV2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 134 x 30. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849162616
- ISBN
- 9781849162616
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.27
€ 23.99
€ 16.27
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMW; 3JJPL; BJ; HBJH; HBLW3; HBWS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 21. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Helion and Company
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910294963
- ISBN
- 9781910294963
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.54
€ 23.99
€ 17.54
Hardback. In World War I the 30th Infantry Division earned more Medals of Honor than any other American division. In World War II it spent more consecutive days in combat than almost any other outfit. Recruited mainly from the Carolinas and George and Tennessee, they were one of the hardest-fighting units the U.S. ever fielded in Europe. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJF; 3JJH; HBWN; HBWQ; JWD; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 236 x 28. Weight in Grams: 622.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Casemate Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612003016
- ISBN
- 9781612003016
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.50
€ 33.99
€ 30.50
Hardback. Series: American Institutions and Society. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7 black & white halftones, 2 tables, 3 maps, 4 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; JNB; JNL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781501700804
- ISBN
- 9781501700804
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.92
€ 52.92
Hardback. Though Massachusetts banned slavery in 1780, prior to the Civil War a law prohibiting marriage between whites and blacks reinforced the state's racial caste system. Amber Moulton recreates an unlikely collaboration of reformers who sought to rectify what they saw as an indefensible injustice, leading to the legalization of interracial marriage. Num Pages: 280 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; 3JH; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 243 x 28. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674967625
- ISBN
- 9780674967625
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.28€ 49.38
€ 54.28
€ 49.38
paperback. Muhammad Ali met George Foreman in the ring. Foreman's genius employed silence, serenity and cunning. He had never been defeated. His hands were his instrument, and 'he kept them in his pockets the way a hunter lays his rifle back into its velvet case'. This book focuses on the 1975 World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in Kinshasa, Zaire. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; 3JJPL; DNF; FA; WSTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141184142
- ISBN
- 9780141184142
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 10.33
€ 19.99
€ 10.33
Paperback. Covering the tumultuous period of the 1950s, this work explores the divorce of movie studios from their theater chains; the panic of the blacklist era; the explosive emergence of science fiction as the dominant genre; and the rise of television and Hollywood's response with widescreen spectacles. Series: History of the American Cinema S. Num Pages: 396 pages, 110 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; APF; KNTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 253 x 21. Weight in Grams: 836.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 396
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520249660
- ISBN
- 9780520249660
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 33.95
€ 47.99
€ 33.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 811 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; HBG; HBLW; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 210 x 48. Weight in Grams: 742.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 811
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780449909331
- ISBN
- 9780449909331
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.39
€ 21.99
€ 21.39
Hardcover. Num Pages: 448 pages, 474 photos, charts, drawings & 24 colour profiles. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; HBWQ; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 290 x 229 x 38. Weight in Grams: 2318.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764347382
- ISBN
- 9780764347382
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.58€ 56.69
€ 75.58
€ 56.69
Hardcover. Alarming levels of fear and suspicion developed in Australia following the German victories in Europe of 1940. It was believed the Nazis had prepared an army of subversives - a Fifth Column - to undermine the war effort. These suspicions plagued the Australian home front for much of the war. Num Pages: 229 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 3JJH; HBJM; HBLW; HBWQ; JWDG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137506665
- ISBN
- 9781137506665
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.13
€ 119.13
Paperback. "A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era."-Boston Globe Num Pages: 448 pages, 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations; 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 172 x 209 x 28. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393340662
- ISBN
- 9780393340662
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.20
€ 19.99
€ 18.20
Paperback. Contains a selection of prose and poetry from 38 contemporary British, Australian and New Zealand writers who fought during the Battle of the Somme. This work tells the stories of different men from different backgrounds. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJF; HBJD; HBWN; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750946148
- ISBN
- 9780750946148
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 9.02
€ 19.99
€ 9.02
hardcover. 'The Field and the Forge' offers an innovative approach to the pre-industrial history of Europe and the Mediterranean basin from Roman times through to the Industrial Revolution. It not only considers the who and what of history, but provides a clear demonstration of why things happened. Num Pages: 456 pages, numerous tables and figures. BIC Classification: 1D; 3D; 3F; 3J; HBJD; JHBD; JHM; JP; JW; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 844.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199249169
- ISBN
- 9780199249169
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.16
€ 115.16
Hardcover. This collection of essays explores the strange and intense relationship between history and artistic form during the 1940s. The essays cover a comprehensive range of issues, including the Blitz, demobilization, nostalgia for the pre-war years, addiction, and the formation of sexual identity. Editor(s): Reeve, N. H.; Mengham, Rod. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJH; 3JJPG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333918852
- ISBN
- 9780333918852
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.02
€ 119.02
Hardback. Charting the contours of the long turn of the century, from 1860 to 1940, and studying a range of writers, genres, and disciplines, this book moves back and forth from Victorian to modernist fields of study to show how the 19th-century European hypothesis of culture haunts the 20th-century fiction of geopolitics. Num Pages: 288 pages, 9 line diagrams 10 half-tones. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804737265
- ISBN
- 9780804737265
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 147.16
€ 147.16
Hardcover. Dutch Sailmaker and sailor Jan Struys' (c.1629-c.1694) account of his various overseas travels became a bestseller after its first publication in Amsterdam in 1676, and was later translated into English, French, German and Russian. This new book depicts the story of its author's life as well as the first singular analysis of the Struys text. Num Pages: 321 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JD; WTLC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 14. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230553187
- ISBN
- 9780230553187
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.04
€ 63.04
Paperback. The history of the Battle of Britain in the words of the pilots from a unique archive of first hand accounts. Num Pages: 320 pages, 129 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBWQ; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 300. The Story of the Battle of Britain in the Words of the Pilots. 320 pages, 129 illustrations. The history of the Battle of Britain in the words of the pilots from a unique archive of first hand accounts. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBWQ; JWG. Dimension: 199 x 128 x 24. Weight: 300.
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445607016
- ISBN
- 9781445607016
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.57
€ 18.57
Paperback. "Marvelous..THE FEUD is popular history as it ought to be written." ---Wall Street Journal Num Pages: 432 pages, 1 Map, 47 photos fully integrated & 16pp b/w photo section. BIC Classification: 1KBBFW; 1KBBSK; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 139 x 32. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Back Bay Books
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780316167079
- ISBN
- 9780316167079
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 19.48
€ 23.99
€ 19.48
Paperback. Two rival families. One East End. The explosive first novel in the Mitchells & O'Haras trilogy Series: The Mitchells and O'Haras Trilogy. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKES; 1DBKESL; 2AB; 3JJPR; FA; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 35. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780008228644
- ISBN
- 9780008228644
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.28
€ 14.99
€ 11.28