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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

Paperback. Of one-and-a-half million photographs related to Nazi concentration camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers. This book reveals that these photos of Auschwitz, taken clandestinely by one of the Jewish prisoners forced to help carry out the atrocities there, were made as a potent act of resistance. Translator(s): Lillis, Shane B. Num Pages: 248 pages, 30 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; AJCR; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 350. Four Photographs from Auschwitz. 248 pages, 30 halftones. Of one-and-a-half million photographs related to Nazi concentration camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers. This book reveals that these photos of Auschwitz, taken clandestinely by one of the Jewish prisoners forced to help carry out the atrocities there, were made as a potent act of resistance. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; AJCR; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 13. Weight: 302. Translator(s): Lillis, Shane B.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226148175
ISBN
9780226148175
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.14

Paperback. Oliver Cromwell ranks as one of the most hotly debated figures in the whole of English history. This complex historiography has left us today with many different versions of Cromwell as man, general and statesman and the conflicting images are the subject of this book. Editor(s): Richardson, R. C.; Richardson, R. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 334.
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719097546
ISBN
9780719097546
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.15

Hardback. The medieval clergy, aristocracy, and commercial classes tended to regard peasants as objects of contempt and derision, yet, at the same time, they were not viewed like other condemned groups. This text examines these conflicting images from the post-Carolingian period to the German Peasants' War. Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 484 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; HBJD; HBLC; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 34. Weight in Grams: 840.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
484
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804733724
ISBN
9780804733724
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 171.35

Paperback. Num Pages: 112 pages, 120ill. BIC Classification: 3JJH; HBJD; HBWQ; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 191 x 8. Weight in Grams: 352.
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844150861
ISBN
9781844150861
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.10

Paperback. This book is a history of the future. It shows how our contemporary understanding of the Net is shaped by visions of the future that were put together in the 1950s and 1960s. Num Pages: 336 pages, 15 drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; GPF; JPA; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 213 x 136 x 24. Weight in Grams: 518.
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745326603
ISBN
9780745326603
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.81

Hardback. This book is a history of the future. It shows how our contemporary understanding of the Net is shaped by visions of the future that were put together in the 1950s and 1960s. Num Pages: 336 pages, 15 drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; GPF; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 28. Weight in Grams: 624.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745326610
ISBN
9780745326610
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.00
€ 84.39

Hardback. While the Jesuits claimed Xu as a convert, he presented the Jesuits as men from afar who had traveled from the West to China to serve the emperor. Num Pages: 384 pages, 17, 15 black & white halftones, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JB; 3JD; PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 696.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421406060
ISBN
9781421406060
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.16

Hardback. Focusing on one landmark catastrophic event in the history of an emerging modern nation - the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo and surrounding areas in 1923, this volume examines the history of the visual production of the disaster. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 400 pages, 99 color illustrations, 101 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJG; ACX; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 259 x 186 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1192. Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. 400 pages, Illustrationsstrations. Focusing on one landmark catastrophic event in the history of an emerging modern nation - the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo and surrounding areas in 1923, this volume examines the history of the visual production of the disaster. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJG; ACX; HBJF; HBLW. Dimension: 259 x 186 x 27. Weight: 1192.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
Tion
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520271951
ISBN
9780520271951
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.35
€ 51.34

Hardback. Num Pages: 344 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1KBB; 2ADS; 3JH; DSB; HBJD; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 23. Weight in Grams: 580.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137352798
ISBN
9781137352798
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.81

Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 7, 6 black & white halftones, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 1DFG; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 237 x 26. Weight in Grams: 604.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781501704444
ISBN
9781501704444
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.04

Paperback. Drawing on a wide variety of contemporary journals, newspapers, films, and popular songs, Alan M. Ball compares American social, political, and cultural influence in two newborn Russian states: the young Soviet Union and the modern Russian Republic. Num Pages: 328 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1KBB; 3JJ; GTB; HBJD; HBLW; JFC; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742527935
ISBN
9780742527935
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 82.34

Hardcover. This book examines an Austrian identity based on a civic, rather than an ethnic conception of a national community. It analyzes the ideas of Joseph Samuel Bloch, an Austrian Jewish writer and politician, and compares them to those of other Austrian political thinkers of various ethnic and political backgrounds in order to discover how these individuals imagined a supraethnic Austrian nation. Num Pages: 220 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; JFSL; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
East European Monographs United States
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780880335294
ISBN
9780880335294
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

Hardcover. Drawing its impetus from the conviction that death is a central yet curiously understudied preoccupation for Edmund Spenser and John Milton, this is a collection of essays on the topic of death in these two monumental representatives of the early modern canon. Editor(s): Bellamy, Elizabeth Jane; Cheney, Patrick; Schoenfeldt, Michael. Num Pages: 227 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333983980
ISBN
9780333983980
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.66

Hardcover. Combines historical literary analysis and political theory in order to demonstrate that democratic practices of deliberation are rooted in the civic rhetoric that flourished in the early American republic. This title offers a mode of historical and textual analysis that displays the wide range of resources imaginative language. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSB; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 249.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226311296
ISBN
9780226311296
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.41
€ 50.94

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571135483
ISBN
9781571135483
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.73

Paperback. Before, during and after the invasion of Iraq a large number of literary texts were produced, circulated and received as taking a position for or against the invasion, or as contributing political insights. This topical new book provides an in-depth survey of such texts and examines what they reveal about the condition of literature. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 2AB; 3JM; DSBH; HBWS5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 220 x 162 x 14. Weight in Grams: 306.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230278776
ISBN
9780230278776
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.82

Rich in cultural and literary analysis, Anderson's argument will be of interest to students and scholars of the eighteenth century, religious studies, theater, and the history of gender. Num Pages: 296 pages, 21, 21 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; DSBF; HRCC95. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 235 x 24. Weight in Grams: 508.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421404806
ISBN
9781421404806
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 84.81

Hardback. This essay collection builds on the latest research on the topic of theatre audiences in early modern England. In broad terms, the project answers the question, 'How do we define the relationships between performance and audience?'. Editor(s): Low, Jennifer A.; Myhill, Nova. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; 3JD; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
227
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230110649
ISBN
9780230110649
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.24
€ 80.48

Paperback. By returning to a pivotal moment in South African history - the Cape Colony in the period 1770-1830 - this book addresses current debates about nationalism, colonialism and neo-colonialism, and postcolonial/post-apartheid culture. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JH; DSBF; HBJH; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 13. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748664894
ISBN
9780748664894
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Hardback. This book identifies the forces behind the explosive growth in Asian American literature. It charts its emergence and explores both the unique place of Asian Americans in American culture and what that place says about the way Americanness is defined. Series: Asian America. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 26. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804734004
ISBN
9780804734004
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.33
€ 115.32

Hardback. In 911, the French king ceded land along the river Seine to Rollo the Viking, on condition that he convert to Christianity. This work advances our understanding of early Normandy and the Vikings' transformation from pagan raiders to Christian princes. It also sheds light on the intersection of religious tradition, identity, and power. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 map, 1 genealogical chart. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JB; HBJD; HBLH; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 538.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674024434
ISBN
9780674024434
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.95
€ 107.68

Hardcover. This exciting interdisciplinary volume, featuring contributions from a group of leading international scholars, reflects on the long history of representations of transatlantic slaves and slavery, encompassing a broad chronological range, from the eighteenth century to the present day. Editor(s): Kaplan, Cora; Oldfield, Dr. J. R. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230578203
ISBN
9780230578203
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.64

paperback. Uses the under-studied genre of melodrama as a critical prism for understanding Russian/Soviet history, politics and culture - in particular, the uses to which popular culture was put in the Soviet period. Editor(s): McReynolds, Louise; Neuberger, Joan. Num Pages: 352 pages, 35 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; AN; DSG; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5893 x 3963 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822327905
ISBN
9780822327905
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. Major Mark Hammond was awarded the DFC, which ranks third after the VC, for remarkable feats in Afghanistan in his Chinook helicopter. Three times on the night of 6 September 2006 he flew into hostile zones to pick up injured soldiers. This title presents an account of the combat and provides readers with insights on the brutal realities of war. Num Pages: 336 pages, 16pp colour photographic inset. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 3JMC; HBJF1; HBLX; HBWS4; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141039046
ISBN
9780141039046
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.31

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