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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

Hardcover. This text opens at the point when Washington was immersed in creating a military force to deal with the threat of war with France. Despite this he found time to build houses on Capitol Hill, seek the funds to put his financial affairs in order, and lament the divided state of American politics. Series: Retirement Series. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BJ; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 38. Weight in Grams: 989.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813918389
ISBN
9780813918389
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 157.95

Paperback. 10 years later, a unique look at Ground Zero from across the street Num Pages: 293 pages, 66 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JMC; JFFC; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 478.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
New York University Press
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814740859
ISBN
9780814740859
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.98

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, 8 black & white plates. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 498.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780750961615
ISBN
9780750961615
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.72

Paperback. A disturbing look at the dark side of the liberal welfare state, Separate Beds reveals a history of racism and negligence in health care for Canada's First Nations that should never be forgotten. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJ; JFSL9; MBP; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442613867
ISBN
9781442613867
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.28

Hardcover. A pictorial history of the Indian Air Force Num Pages: 180 pages, 320 colour and b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 370 x 270 x 20. Weight in Grams: 2040.
Publisher
Spellmount Publishers
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9781862270978
ISBN
9781862270978
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.49
€ 52.96

Paperback. In the wake of American independence, it was clear that the new United States required novel political forms. Moving beyond traditional accounts of social unrest, republican and liberal ideology, and the rise of the autonomous individual, this work offers an interpretation of the American Revolution as a transformation of self and society. Num Pages: 352 pages, 12 illustrations, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807859186
ISBN
9780807859186
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.68

Hardcover. Series: Macmillan Collector's Library. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; FC; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 93. .
Publisher
Macmillan Collector's Library
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909621695
ISBN
9781909621695
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

Hardback. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198807452
ISBN
9780198807452
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.02

Hardcover. Explores the role played by the Female Section of the Spanish Fascist Party (Seccion Femenina de la Falange - SF) in promoting women's political and professional rights within the authoritarian Franco regime in Spain. This title demonstrates how the SF's national leadership promoted an autonomous social and political agenda. Num Pages: 160 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJH; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; JFSJ1; JPFQ; JPL; JPW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 15. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845193140
ISBN
9781845193140
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.08

Hardcover. Senator Thomas Hart Benton was a towering figure in Missouri politics. Elected in 1821, he was the new state's first senator, and he served in Washington, DC for thirty years. This book provides a portrait of Senator Benton. It evaluates his career in light of his attitudes toward slavery, Mexican borderlands, and Indian removal, among others. Series: Early American Places. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 28. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875804798
ISBN
9780875804798
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.15

Hardback. Drawing on archival materials, secondary sources, and eyewitness accounts of the brave men and women who marched, this gripping account offers a brief and nuanced narrative of this critical phase of the black freedom struggle. Series: Witness to History. Num Pages: 160 pages, 10, 10 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBSB; 3JJPK; HBJK; JFFJ; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781421421599
ISBN
9781421421599
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 44.51

Paperback. Drawing on archival materials, secondary sources, and eyewitness accounts of the brave men and women who marched, this gripping account offers a brief and nuanced narrative of this critical phase of the black freedom struggle. Series: Witness to History. Num Pages: 160 pages, 10, 10 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBSB; 3JJPK; HBJK; JFFJ; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 153 x 228 x 12. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421421605
ISBN
9781421421605
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.78

Paperback. When Dr. Martin Luther King arrived in Selma, Alabama, in January, 1965 to organize peaceful demonstrations against discriminatory voting, Sheyann Webb was aged eight and Rachel West Nelson aged nine. This is their account of the events of the winter of 1965 which changed American history. Num Pages: 168 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; BG; HBJK; HBLW3; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780817308988
ISBN
9780817308988
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.18

Paperback. Series: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century. Num Pages: 394 pages, 25 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 26. Weight in Grams: 534.
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813168463
ISBN
9780813168463
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99

Hardback. Traces the social history of early modern Japan's sex trade, from its beginnings in seventeenth-century cities to its apotheosis in the nineteenth-century countryside. Drawing on legal codes, diaries, town registers, petitions, and criminal records, this title describes how the work of selling women transformed communities across the archipelago. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 282 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3J; HBJF; HBLH; HBTB; JFMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 534. Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. 282 pages, Illustrations. Traces the social history of early modern Japan's sex trade, from its beginnings in seventeenth-century cities to its apotheosis in the nineteenth-century countryside. Drawing on legal codes, diaries, town registers, petitions, and criminal records, this title describes how the work of selling women transformed communities across the archipelago. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3J; HBJF; HBLH; HBTB; JFMX. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 22. Weight: 534.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520270909
ISBN
9780520270909
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.39
€ 64.81

Hardback. This book studies the transition from local to national timekeeping, inthe USA, aprocess that led to Standard Time the world-wide system of timekeeping by which everyone lives. Num Pages: 328 pages, 26 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; PGZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 255 x 186 x 28. Weight in Grams: 834.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804738743
ISBN
9780804738743
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.52
€ 63.85

Hardcover. Tells the story of how black Chicagoans were at the center of a national movement in the 1940s and '50s, a time when African Americans across the country first started to see themselves as part of a single culture. This book offers interpretations of such events as the 1940 American Negro Exposition. Series: Historical Studies of Urban America. Num Pages: 280 pages, 31 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 586.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780226306414
ISBN
9780226306414
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.49
€ 45.65

Hardback. Through an examination of election campaign propaganda and various public relations campaigns, this work explores how conservative political and economic groups sought to construct and sell a political meaning of the Social Market Economy and the Economic Miracle in West Germany during the 1950s. Series: Monographs in German History. Num Pages: Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFGW; 3JJPG; KCZ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845452230
ISBN
9781845452230
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.78

Hardback. Between 1880 and 1940, California cities were in the vanguard in creating comprehensive city plans and zoning ordinances that came to characterize modern American city growth. This book reveals the means by which property-owning middle-class women achieved entry into the male-dominated sphere of urban planning. Num Pages: 232 pages, 19 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 445.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804748759
ISBN
9780804748759
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.04

Hardback. Besieged during the Franco-Prussian War, its buildings damaged, its finances mired in debt, Paris was a city in crisis. Alexia Yates chronicles the private actors and networks, practices and politics, that spurred the largest building boom of the nineteenth century, turning city-making into big business in the French capital. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 165 x 28. Weight in Grams: 680.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674088214
ISBN
9780674088214
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.56
€ 55.76

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