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Modern period, c 1500 onwards
Paperback. Includes facts such as how Lincoln hated to hunt but loved to fire guns near the unfinished Washington monument, how he was the only president to own a patent, and how he recited Scottish poetry to relieve stress. Num Pages: 640 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 35. Weight in Grams: 847.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781628737516
- ISBN
- 9781628737516
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.62
€ 22.62
Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, B&W photos throughout. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; ASZH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 228 x 31. Weight in Grams: 484.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781629144962
- ISBN
- 9781629144962
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.08
€ 18.99
€ 18.08
Paperback. Full of intrigue and swashbuckling adventure, this is the story of an Australian journalist who was at the heart of the most turbulent period in Chinese history. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 30. Weight in Grams: 537.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin Australia
- Edition
- Main
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781742377971
- ISBN
- 9781742377971
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.34
€ 25.34
Paperback. The moving and extraordinary story of an unheralded and virtually unknown Anzac action that occurred during the period of the landing at Gallipoli and how the truth of what happened was corrupted by a noted historian. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, black & white plates, colour plates. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 3JJF; HBWN; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 232 x 29. Weight in Grams: 541.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781743317709
- ISBN
- 9781743317709
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.07
€ 32.99
€ 29.07
Paperback. A memoir of Michael Quealey's six years in the Basilian order in the 1960s. During his priesthood, Quealey was director of the Newman Centre at the University of Toronto and engaged in Church reform. This is a story that blends Toronto history with Catholic Church history and an inside look at 1960s counterculture. Publisher territorial rights Num Pages: 228 pages, 25 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJPK; BGX; HRCC7; HRLP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 399.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781771122429
- ISBN
- 9781771122429
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.40
€ 32.40
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Poetry Wales Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781720684
- ISBN
- 9781781720684
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.88
€ 20.99
€ 18.88
Hardcover. The Communist Party dictatorships in Hungary and East Germany sought to win over the "masses" with promises of providing for ever-increasing levels of consumption. This policy - successful at the outset - in the long-term proved to be detrimental for the regimes because it shifted working class political consciousness to the right.. Num Pages: 376 pages, 5 ills, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; 1DVH; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 26. Weight in Grams: 648.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782380252
- ISBN
- 9781782380252
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 175.32
€ 175.32
Hardcover. In 1915, the Armenians were exiled from their land, and in the process of deportation 1.5 million of them were killed. The 1915-1916 annihilation of the Armenians was the archetype of modern genocide, in which a state adopts a specific scheme geared to the destruction of an identifiable group of its own citizens. Num Pages: 856 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUR; 3JJF; HBJD; HBJF; HBLW; HBTZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 226 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1288.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782381433
- ISBN
- 9781782381433
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 218.50
€ 218.50
Hardcover. The issues around settlement, belonging, and poor relief have for too long been understood largely from the perspective of England and Wales. This volume offers a pan-European survey that encompasses Switzerland, Prussia, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Britain. Editor(s): King, Steven; Winter, Dr. Anne, Ph.D. Series: International Studies in Social History. Num Pages: 326 pages, 14 ills, 11 tables. BIC Classification: 1D; 3J; JFC; JFFN; JHB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 24. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782381457
- ISBN
- 9781782381457
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.33
€ 163.33
Hardcover. Everyday life in the Crown colony of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) was characterized by a direct encounter of people with modernity through the consumption and use of foreign machines - in particular, the Singer sewing machine, but also the gramophone, tramway, bicycle and varieties of industrial equipment. Num Pages: 176 pages, 20 ills. BIC Classification: 1FKS; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 16. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782382423
- ISBN
- 9781782382423
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.16
€ 162.16
Hardcover. Jens Gieseke tells the story of the Stasi, a feared secret-police force and a highly professional intelligence service. He inquires into the mechanisms of dictatorship and the day-to-day effects of surveillance and suspicion. Masterful and thorough at once, he takes the reader through this dark chapter of German postwar history.. Translator(s): Burnett, David. Num Pages: 278 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; JPVR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782382546
- ISBN
- 9781782382546
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.91
€ 162.91
Hardcover. Bohemia and Moravia, today part of the Czech Republic, was the first territory with a majority of non-German speakers occupied by Hitler's Third Reich on the eve of the World War II. Tens of thousands of Jewish inhabitants in the so called Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia soon felt the tragic consequences of Nazi racial politics. Series: Making Sense of History. Num Pages: 264 pages, 14 ills. BIC Classification: 1DVK; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782382942
- ISBN
- 9781782382942
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.68
€ 162.68
Hardcover. Why was there such a far-reaching consensus concerning the utopian goal of national homogeneity in the first half of the twentieth century? Ethnic cleansing is analyzed here as a result of the formation of democratic nation-states, the international order based on them, and European modernity in general. Translator(s): Kreutzmuller, Charlotte. Series: War and Genocide. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJD; HBLW3; HBLX; HBTZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782383024
- ISBN
- 9781782383024
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.00
€ 163.00
Hardcover. Significant recent research on the German Right between 1918 and 1933 calls into question received narratives of Weimar political history. The German Right in the Weimar Republic examines the role that the German Right played in the destabilization and overthrow of the Weimar Republic. Num Pages: 316 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; JPFM; JPFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 157 x 232 x 27. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782383529
- ISBN
- 9781782383529
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 175.05
€ 175.05
Hardcover. This collection of essays examines German-language cultural production pertaining to modern China and Japan, and explicitly challenges orientalist notions by proposing a conception of East and West not as opposites, but as complementary elements of global culture, thereby urging a move beyond national paradigms in cultural studies. Editor(s): Shen, Qinna; Rosenstock, Martin. Series: Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association. Num Pages: 316 pages, 32 illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1F; 3JJ; 3JM; HBG; HBLW; JFC; JFFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 231 x 22. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782383604
- ISBN
- 9781782383604
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.95
€ 162.95
Hardcover. This deliberate reinterpretation of the American idea of the national park was innovative and radical, but its consequences were not limited to Switzerland. The Swiss park became the prime example of a "scientific national park," thereby influencing the course of national parks worldwide. Translator(s): Weiss, Giselle. Num Pages: 272 pages, 20 ills, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1DFH; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJD; HBLW; HBLX; RNK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 158 x 232 x 23. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782383734
- ISBN
- 9781782383734
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.95
€ 162.95
Hardcover. Offering a sweeping transatlantic perspective, this book explains the current obsession with automobiles by delving deep into the motives of early car users. It provides a synthesis of our knowledge about the emergence and persistence of the car, using a broad range of material including novels, poems, films, and songs.. Series: Explorations in Mobility. Num Pages: 820 pages, 37 ills, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KB; 3JJ; HBG; HBLW; HBTB; PDR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 160 x 263 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782383772
- ISBN
- 9781782383772
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 241.21
€ 241.21
Hardcover. Exploring the effects the protest movement of 1968 had on the political, social, and symbolic order of the societies they called into question, this volume focuses on the consequences and echoes of 1968 from different perspectives, including history, sociology, and linguistics. Editor(s): Gilcher-Holtey, Ingrid. Series: New German Historical Perspectives. Num Pages: 232 pages, 16 ills, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJPK; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 158 x 231 x 19. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782383796
- ISBN
- 9781782383796
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.37
€ 162.37
Hardcover. Based on archival materials and featuring memoirs of Holocaust survivors, this volume offers a rich array of both tragic and inspiring studies of the sanctification of life as practiced by Jewish medical professionals. Editor(s): Grodin, Michael A. Num Pages: 316 pages, 15 ills. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBTZ1; MBN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 708.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782384175
- ISBN
- 9781782384175
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.36
€ 163.36
Hardcover. This book contributes to our understanding of modern European history through the lens of sound by examining diverse subjects such as performed and recorded music, auditory technologies like the telephone and stethoscope, and the ambient noise of the city. Editor(s): Morat, Daniel. Num Pages: 320 pages, 17 ills. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 716.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782384212
- ISBN
- 9781782384212
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 175.17
€ 175.17
Hardcover. John Quincy Adams warned Americans not to search abroad for monsters to destroy, yet such figures have frequently habituated the discourses of U.S. foreign policy. This collection of essays focuses on counter-identities in American consciousness to explain how foreign policies and the discourse surrounding them develop. Editor(s): Cullinane, Michael Patrick; Ryan, David. Series: Transatlantic Perspectives. Num Pages: 276 pages, 3 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3J; HBJK; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782384397
- ISBN
- 9781782384397
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.71
€ 162.71
Hardcover. For many years, histories of the Holocaust focused on its perpetrators, & only recently have more scholars begun to consider in detail the experiences of victims & survivors, as well as the documents they left behind. This title provides an introduction and overview of Jewish narratives of the Holocaust. Editor(s): Goda, Norman J. W. Series: Making Sense of History. Num Pages: 314 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782384410
- ISBN
- 9781782384410
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.24
€ 163.24
Hardcover. Between 1935 and 1940, the Nazis incorporated large portions of Europe into the German Reich. The contributors to this volume analyze the evolving anti-Jewish policies in the annexed territories and their impact on the Jewish population, as well as the attitudes and actions of non-Jews, Germans, and indigenous populations. Editor(s): Gruner, Wolf; Osterloh, Jorg. Series: War and Genocide. Num Pages: 416 pages, 21 illus., 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 33. Weight in Grams: 774.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782384434
- ISBN
- 9781782384434
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 175.83
€ 175.83
Hardcover. he "forgotten majority" of German merchants in London between the end of the Hanseatic League and the end of the Napoleonic Wars became the largest mercantile Christian immigrant group in the 18th century. Using previously neglected and little used evidence, this book assesses the causes of their migration, the establishment of their businesses.. Translator(s): Klohr, Cynthia. Series: Studies in British & Imperial History. Num Pages: 372 pages, 15 illus., 28 tables. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLH; HBLL; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 157 x 231 x 23. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Edition
- Tra
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782384472
- ISBN
- 9781782384472
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.33
€ 163.33