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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

Hardback. In this history of the last year of the war in the Pacific, award-winning historians Waldo Heinrichs and Marc Gallicchio examine all the issues facing the Allies in their fight against the Japanese, and whether unconditional surrender was inevitable. Num Pages: 728 pages. BIC Classification: 1QSP; 3JJH; HBJM; HBLW; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780190616755
ISBN
9780190616755
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 39.46

Hardback. More radically than had any contemporary English author's work, Thomas Gray's two Pindaric odes of 1757, effectively challenged readers' powers of comprehension, posing problems of reference as well as distinctly Pindaric problems of coherence. Solving those problems calls for knowledge not widely had then, now, or in between. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611494143
ISBN
9781611494143
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 137.38

Paperback. Centring her analysis around several major Puerto Rican anti-prostitution campaigns, the author exposes the race-related double standards of sexual norms and practices in Puerto Rico between 1870 and 1920, the period that witnessed Puerto Rico's shift from Spanish to US colonialism. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 328 pages, 15 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KJP; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 150 x 25. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822323969
ISBN
9780822323969
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.42

Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 492.
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Format
Hardback
SKU
V9780801448638
ISBN
9780801448638
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 48.36

Hardback. This book uses the writings of T. S. Eliot and Walter Benjamin to examine the fraught relationship between literary and historical form during the modernist period. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 238 x 21. Weight in Grams: 532.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804799041
ISBN
9780804799041
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.98

Paperback. Traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in US immigration policy - a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth century. Series: Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America. Num Pages: 416 pages, 14 halftones. 3 line illus. 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFFN; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 586.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Updated edition with a New Foreword
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691160825
ISBN
9780691160825
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.15

Paperback. With Jackie in a pill-box hat and Marilyn crooning to the president, the 1960s opened with women hovering at the fringes of the public imagination - and ended with a feminist movement that outpaced anything NASA could concoct. A compelling story, but did it really happen that way? Yes and no, argue Lauri Umansky and Avital Bloch. Editor(s): Bloch, Avital H.; Umansky, Lauri. Series: American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 342 pages, photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; JFCA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
342
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814799109
ISBN
9780814799109
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.71

Hardback. Offers a thrilling selection of tales illustrating how victories were achieved against the odds from the Peninsula War of 1811 to Vietnam in 1967. Num Pages: 224 pages, 16 pages of black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBG; HBW; JWLF; JWTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 241 x 26. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9781473847491
ISBN
9781473847491
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 7.28

Paperback. "Unflinchingly illustrates the reality of life during this extraordinary moment in American history."-Dinitia Smith, The New York Times Editor(s): Gordon, Linda; Okihiro, Gary Y. Num Pages: 224 pages, 104 black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; 3JJH; AJCR; HBJK; HBWQ; JWXR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 179 x 14. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393330908
ISBN
9780393330908
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.60

Paperback. Exploring the themes of leisure and entertainment that dominated the years of Impressionist painting between 1865 and 1885, the author shows how Impressionism was integrated into the social and cultural life of its times. Num Pages: 344 pages, 153 colour illustrations, 167 b&w illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 3JH; ACVT; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 284 x 253 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1514.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300050837
ISBN
9780300050837
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.72

Paperback. A novel look at the relationship between Impressionist painting and photography and the forging of a national identity in France between 1850 and 1880 Series: Saint Louis Art Museum. Num Pages: 320 pages, 359 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; ACVT; AFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 286 x 247 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1754.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300196955
ISBN
9780300196955
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.92

Hardcover. Martin Sandler breaks new ground with an in depth look at Japanese internment during WWII Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJK; HBWQ; JFSL1; JWXR. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 272 x 226 x 18. Weight in Grams: 962.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802722775
ISBN
9780802722775
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.33

Paperback. Correspondence between a Japanese couple separated in different internment camps in the US during WWII reveals the human side of this tragic and shameful episode in US history. Early chapters detail their lives in Japan, their arrival in Seattle in 1919, and their lives in the US up until 1941. Inc Series: The Scott & Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies. Num Pages: 316 pages, 32 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJD; HBJK; HBTB; HBWQ; JFSL; JHBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295976457
ISBN
9780295976457
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.18

hardcover. The first systematic treatment of the spatial dimensions of the colonization of the prairie west, Improved Earth is a unique and thorough study certain to provoke new debates about the way space and time are imagined. Num Pages: 280 pages, 9 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBCS; 3JH; 3JJ; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 165 x 19. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802087829
ISBN
9780802087829
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.74

Paperback. A vast archive of documents, unread since the sixteenth century, revises the portrait of Spain's best-known king Num Pages: 456 pages, 45 col. illus. & 14 figs. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JB; BGH; BGR; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 217 x 38. Weight in Grams: 644.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300216950
ISBN
9780300216950
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.73

Paperback. From the No.1 ebook bestselling author of The Woman Next Door, comes a dark and twisty psychological thriller in which a young woman's dream home quickly becomes her worst nightmare. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 1DBKEWC; 2AB; 3JM; FF; FH. Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270. Good clean copy with some light shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
SKU
KRS0029608
ISBN
9780008248956
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

paperback. Editor(s): Tracy, Robert. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FKC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 270.
Edition
Annotated
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199537983
ISBN
9780199537983
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.95

Hardback. The Japanese invasion of Shanghai in 1937 led 30 million Chinese to flee their homes in terror, and live--in the words of artist and writer Feng Zikai--"in a sea of bitterness" as refugees. Keith Schoppa paints a comprehensive picture of the refugee experience in one province, Zhejiang, where the Japanese launched notorious campaigns. Num Pages: 360 pages, 12 maps, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPJ; 3JJG; HBJF; HBLW; HBTD; JFFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 242 x 27. Weight in Grams: 670.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674059887
ISBN
9780674059887
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 42.02

Hardcover. Num Pages: 336 pages, over 600 color/bw images. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 285 x 226 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1998.
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764337611
ISBN
9780764337611
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.58
€ 73.76

Paperback. KILDARE
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Merrion Press
Condition
New
SKU
9781908928856
ISBN
9781908928856
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.42

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