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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
James Clarke & Co Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
342
Condition
New
SKU
V9780227680049
ISBN
9780227680049
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.09

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 3JJ; 3JM; YNM; YNWA. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 131 x 198 x 26. Weight in Grams: 268.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Random House Australia
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143780922
ISBN
9780143780922
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.09

Paperback. Num Pages: 1 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJ; 3JMG; BGS; WSD; WSWY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 212 x 33. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Penguin Canada
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143196020
ISBN
9780143196020
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.09

Paperback. Num Pages: 608 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 232 x 41. Weight in Grams: 686.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Penguin Putnam Inc
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143189558
ISBN
9780143189558
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.31

Paperback. Num Pages: 356 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWZ; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 24. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Penguin Putnam Inc United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143116219
ISBN
9780143116219
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.09

Hardcover. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJP; DNF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 237 x 37. Weight in Grams: 620.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Ecco
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062564504
ISBN
9780062564504
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 25.74

Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; BM; JPS; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 238 x 29. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062385499
ISBN
9780062385499
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 23.29

Hardcover. Tells the true story of their three-decade long love affair and its aftermath, a sweeping saga of passion, adventure, danger, betrayal and tragedy. Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 162 x 36. Weight in Grams: 698.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Ecco
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062219718
ISBN
9780062219718
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 25.60

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGB; KNSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 228 x 27. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Harper Paperbacks
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062108081
ISBN
9780062108081
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.29

Hardcover. An awkward, curious girl growing up in a foreign country, the author finds solace and security in strange and beautiful objects. In this book, her journey reveals the magic of seemingly ordinary objects to distract us from our lives, construct order in an unpredictable world, and reveal the power of stories to shape and reflect who we are. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJPR; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 185 x 134 x 22. Weight in Grams: 278.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780061963896
ISBN
9780061963896
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 20.75

Paperback. Offers a look inside a country torn apart - from corrupt officials to warlords and child brides - while revisiting the author's own family's deep roots to the land. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 3JM; HBJF; HBLX; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 204 x 23. Weight in Grams: 292.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780061934704
ISBN
9780061934704
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.29

Hardback. This study seeks to lay bare the relationship between the sociopolitical structures that shaped peasant lives in Manchuria (northeast China) during the Qing dynasty and the development of that region's economy. Num Pages: 440 pages, 13 tables, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 708.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804752718
ISBN
9780804752718
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.07

hardcover. In this book, Tang addresses how public opinion is shaped in China's political, economic, and social environment and how it affects decision making and political change. Num Pages: 268 pages, 8 tables, 33 figures, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; JPH; JPVK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804752190
ISBN
9780804752190
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.45

hardcover. This book investigates the origins and mechanics of recent Chinese migration, focusing on the work and life of Fujianese migrants in the United Kingdom, Hungary, and Italy, and exploring the many transnational spaces that connect Fujianese across Europe, the United States, and China. Num Pages: 272 pages, 7 illustrations, 3 maps, references, index. BIC Classification: 1D; 1F; 3JJPR; 3JM; GTB; JFFN; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804749947
ISBN
9780804749947
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.45

hardcover. This book focuses on the lives, struggles, and contrasting perspectives of the 60,000 workers, military administrators, and technical staff employed in the largest, most strategic industry of the Nationalist government, the armaments industry based in China's wartime capital, Chongqing. Num Pages: 480 pages, 22 tables, 3 maps, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJH; HBTB; KNDM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 31. Weight in Grams: 757.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804748964
ISBN
9780804748964
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.02

hardcover. This is the story of how the women's movement in China took advantage of the government's official efforts to position women in the rural economic reforms of the 1980s to achieve a significant and ever-increasing role in China's developing turn toward a market economy, which was not the state's intent. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; JFFK; JHMC; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804744058
ISBN
9780804744058
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.45

hardcover. This book is a detailed study of the modern silk industry in a county in the Yangzi delta. It reopens and restructures the grand debate on Chinese economic development, combining quantitative analysis of both industry and agriculture with study of how local politics, class, culture, and gender also shaped the modern Chinese economy. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; 3JJ; KCZ; KND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 31. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804729987
ISBN
9780804729987
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.02

hardcover. This volume presents a broad range of writings on literature from the period of the inception of literary modernity in China. Editor(s): Denton, Kirk A. Num Pages: 572 pages, reference material. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 38. Weight in Grams: 979.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
572
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804725583
ISBN
9780804725583
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 231.66

hardcover. This study of northern Taiwan during the period 1840-1895 explores the social significance of the traditional Chinese legal system and investigates how individuals utilized the courts to resolve criminal and civil disputes. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; 3JH; HBT; LNB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 28. Weight in Grams: 600.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804722728
ISBN
9780804722728
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.00

Hardback. This social history of China during the first half of the 20th century focuses on the Shanghai labour movement. It draws on abundant sources and studies which have appeared in the People's Republic of China since the early 1980s and which have not been systematically used in Western historiography. Num Pages: 344 pages, 15 half-tones 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; 3JJ; KCF; KNXB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 158 x 25. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804720632
ISBN
9780804720632
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 148.79

hardcover. Focuses on the dialogue between the American anthropological tradition and Korea, from Korea's first treaty with the United States to the end of World War II, with the goal of rereading anthropology's history and theoretical development through its Pacific frontier. Series: Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology. Num Pages: 450 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBJK; HBLW; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 29. Weight in Grams: 807.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
450
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803285613
ISBN
9780803285613
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.00

paperback. To explain why Russia took the course it did, McCauley examines the period through the prism of government, including Yeltsin's shadow government, and looks at the military, police, security and intelligence services. Num Pages: 480 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 694.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780582357648
ISBN
9780582357648
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.56

Paperback. Provides an alternative overview of the 18th-century British economy. Recent macroeconomic history has presented a male industrial revolution as the general experience, but new textiles and metal industries were primarily employers of women. This edition covers these industries. Num Pages: 352 pages, 17 line drawings, 18 figures, 19 tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; KCB; KCZ; KND. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 550.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415069359
ISBN
9780415069359
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.02

Paperback. A.J.P. Taylor was arguably the most influential and popular British historian of the 20th century. This biography explores Taylor's activities as historian, Oxford don, broadcast journalist, husband and friend during a brilliant life punctuated by success, failure and frequent controversy. Num Pages: 498 pages, 24 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JJ; BG; HBAH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 150 x 228 x 37. Weight in Grams: 732.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300094534
ISBN
9780300094534
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.99

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