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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

Paperback. In the years following its near-bankruptcy in 1976 until the end of the 1980s, New York City came to epitomize the debt-driven of the Reagan era. This book asks why a city with a large minority population and a long tradition of liberalism elected a conservative mayor who promoted real-estate development and belittled minority activists. Series: City in the Twenty-First Century. Num Pages: 320 pages, 26 tables 7 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; HBTB; JPR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691036731
ISBN
9780691036731
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.29
€ 55.72

Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJC; FRH; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9780008220099
ISBN
9780008220099
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. The only English translation available of the reflections of the son of Peig Sayers, the last of the Great Blasket poets and storytellers. Translator(s): Enright, Tim. Num Pages: 160 pages, 8 halftones, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; BG; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 174.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
Condition
New
SKU
9780192813206
ISBN
9780192813206
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 9.99

Paperback. A Place Apart is a remarkable geographical and psychological travelogue that rises above history, politics, theology and economics. Num Pages: 316 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 3JJPL; WSQ; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publisher
Eland Publishing Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780600116
ISBN
9781780600116
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.83

Hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJP; APF; AVGM; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226301808
ISBN
9780226301808
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 28.00

Hardback. Addresses how gender became a defining category in the political and social modernization of Japan. This book shows how 'a woman's place' in late-nineteenth-century Japan was characterized by contradictions and unexpected consequences, by new opportunities and new constraints. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 266 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; HBTB; JFSJ1; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674056053
ISBN
9780674056053
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.32

Paperback. Accompanying a year-long exhibition at the University of Kentucky Art Museum, this work explores the distinctiveness of southern landscape painting from the early 19th century through to the 1940s. Num Pages: 84 pages, 31 colour and b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 3JH; 3JJ; AFC; AGC; AGN; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 267 x 241 x 10. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Condition
New
SKU
V9781882007172
ISBN
9781882007172
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.96

Paperback. From the double Man Booker prize-winner comes an extraordinary work of historical imagination - this is Hilary Mantel's epic novel of the French Revolution. Num Pages: 880 pages. BIC Classification: 3J; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 57. Weight in Grams: 622.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007250554
ISBN
9780007250554
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Paperback. .
Publisher
Menin House
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908336989
ISBN
9781908336989
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 13.67

hardcover. Written to educate American soldiers on Vietnam's history, culture, politics, infrastructure, geography, and people, this is an eloquent and compelling document of a seminal decade, the legacy of which continues to resonate. As relevant today as when it was first written. Adopts similar format to the bestselling 'Instructions' series. Num Pages: 112 pages, 38 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 3JJPK; HBJF; HBLW3; HBWS2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 110 x 15. Weight in Grams: 134.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The Bodleian Library
Condition
New
SKU
9781851242856
ISBN
9781851242856
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 6.49

Hardcover. This book explains what happened in the years before and after the Rising, as well as providing an exciting day-by-day account of the events themselves, and biographies of the leading figures Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJF; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Edition
Poc
Condition
New
SKU
9780717169306
ISBN
9780717169306
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 7.80

Paperback. Reflecting Birmingham in the 1940s and 1950s, this work tells of the games played then in the streets: hopscotch, queenie, marbles, skipping, roller skating. It takes us back to school life during and after the war, to what it was like to be sick before the advent of the NHS and antibiotics; and more. Num Pages: 144 pages, 20 photos and drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBKEM; 3JJPG; BGA; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 210 x 8. Weight in Grams: 280. A Birmingham Childhood of the 1940s and 1950s. 144 pages, 20 photos and drawings. Reflecting Birmingham in the 1940s and 1950s, this work tells of the games played then in the streets: hopscotch, queenie, marbles, skipping, roller skating. It takes us back to school life during and after the war, to what it was like to be sick before the advent of the NHS and antibiotics; and more. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBKEM; 3JJPG; BGA; WQH. Dimension: 149 x 210 x 8. Weight: 274.
Publisher
Brewin Books
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781858582931
ISBN
9781858582931
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.11

Hardcover. Tackling topics such as globalization and political activism, this book traces engaged poetics in 20th century American poetry. Spahr provides a comprehensive view of activist poetry, starting with the Great Depression and the Harlem Renaissance and moving to the Beats and contemporary writers such as Amiri Baraka and Mark Nowak. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 255 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137568304
ISBN
9781137568304
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.00

Paperback. Samuel Waters served as an officer in the Irish Constabulary in all four provinces. His recollections encompass the Fenian Rising, the Land War and the 1916 insurrection. Series: Irish Narratives S. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JH; 3JJ; BGHA; DNF; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; JKSW1; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 128 x 0. Weight in Grams: 135.
Publisher
Cork University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859181898
ISBN
9781859181898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.64

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
330
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843835714
ISBN
9781843835714
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 50.94

Hardcover. This revolutionary study recounts the political history through which manuscripts of 1845-46, famously abandoned by Marx and Engels, were fabricated into a book The German Ideology in the 1920s. Series: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3J; JPFC; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 236 x 17. Weight in Grams: 478.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137471154
ISBN
9781137471154
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.97

Hardback. This book takes a fresh and thorough look at the House of Lords, the upper chamber of the British Parliament, in the critical period from 1811 to 1846. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKW; 3JH; JPFM; JPQ; LNA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 712. Weight in Grams: 1030.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804757638
ISBN
9780804757638
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.45

Hardcover. This ground-breaking political history of the two Irish States provides unique new insights into the 'Troubles' and the peace process. It examines the impact of the fraught dynamics between the competing identities of the Nationalist-Catholic-Irish Community on the one hand and the Unionist-Protestant-British community on the other. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 1DBR; 3JJ; GTJ; HBJD1; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230301665
ISBN
9780230301665
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.51

Hardcover. Leon Gambetta is renowned as a founder of the French Third Republic. This unique study of his correspondence with his lover, Leonie Leon, provides a fascinating insight into their intimate and political partnership. It brings to life Gambetta as lover and politician, the unknown figure of Leon, and the political and cultural world of 1870s Paris. Num Pages: 330 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; HBJD; HBTB; HBTV2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 24. Weight in Grams: 516.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230206861
ISBN
9780230206861
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.53

Paperback. One of the most significant literary works of the twentieth century, and one of the most innovative. Young Irish Catholic, Stephen Dedalus, rejects religion and national ties to develop unfettered as an artist. Stronly autobiographical, the novel is one of the founding texts of Modernism and the precursor of Ulysses. Editor(s): Johnson, Jeri. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBD; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 246.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780199536443
ISBN
9780199536443
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 9.61

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