Modern period, c 1500 onwards
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Modern period, c 1500 onwards
Hardback. One hundred years ago in Brazil the rituals of Candomble were feared as sorcery and persecuted as crime. Addressing this history as a journey of objectification and appropriation, the author offers a fresh, and illuminating look at questions of syncretism, hybridity and cultural resistance in Brazil and in the Black Atlantic in general. Series: Remapping Cultural History. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JJ; ACX; AGR; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 442.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845453633
- ISBN
- 9781845453633
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Condition: New
€ 154.82
€ 154.82
Hardback. Aby Warburg (1866-1929), founder of Warburg Institute, was one of the influential cultural historians of twentieth century. Focusing on the period 1896-1918, this book presents a study of his response to German political, social and cultural modernism. Series: Monographs in German History. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; 3JJ; ABQ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 552.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845453695
- ISBN
- 9781845453695
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Condition: New
€ 155.55
€ 155.55
Hardback. Explores different attitudes and experiences of those women who sought to terminate an unwanted pregnancy and those who helped or hindered them. This study analyzes the dichotomy between medical theory and practice, and questions common assumptions that abortion was "a necessary evil," which needed strict regulation and medical control. Series: Monographs in German History. Num Pages: 298 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; JFMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 562.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845453893
- ISBN
- 9781845453893
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Condition: New
€ 155.77
€ 155.77
Hardback. Explains the process and outcome of reforms to the tasks and structure of the German Bundeswehr, demonstrating, in contrast to previous approaches, how the domestic political context and material factors were of crucial importance, despite adaptational pressures from the EU and NATO. Num Pages: 230 pages, 7 ills, bibliog., index. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; 3JMC; JPQB; JWK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845453923
- ISBN
- 9781845453923
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Condition: New
€ 154.88
€ 154.88
Hardback. The communist German Democratic Republic, founded in 1949 in the Soviet-occupied zone of post-war Germany is, for many people, epitomized by the Berlin Wall; Soviet tanks and surveillance by the secret security police, the Stasi, appear to be central. But is this really all there is to the GDR's history? Num Pages: 347 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBJD; HBLW3; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 598.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 347
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845454357
- ISBN
- 9781845454357
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Condition: New
€ 166.82
€ 166.82
Hardback. The Weimar Republic (1918-1933) was a crucial moment not only in German history but also in the history of both crime fiction and criminal science. This study approaches the period from a unique perspective - investigating the most notorious criminals of the time and the public's reaction to their crimes. Series: Monographs in German History. Num Pages: 169 pages, 15 ills. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; HBJD; HBTB; JFC; JKV. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 408.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 169
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845454395
- ISBN
- 9781845454395
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Condition: New
€ 154.60
€ 154.60
Hardback. The first German women's movement embraced the belief in a demographic surplus of unwed women, known as the FrauenuberschuA , as a central leitmotif in the campaign for reform. Proponents of the female surplus held that the advances of industry and urbanization had upset traditional marriage patterns.. Series: Monographs in German History. Num Pages: 304 pages, 26 tables, 23 figs. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD; HBTB; JFSJ1; JHBD. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 598.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845454807
- ISBN
- 9781845454807
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Condition: New
€ 155.80
€ 155.80
Hardback. In a work based on new archival, press, and literary sources, the author revises the picture of German imperialism as being the brainchild of a Machiavellian Bismarck or the "conservative revolutionaries" of the twentieth century. Instead, Fitzpatrick argues for the liberal origins of German imperialism.. Series: Monographs in German History. Num Pages: 237 pages, 8 ills. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; HBTQ; JPFN. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 237
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455200
- ISBN
- 9781845455200
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Condition: New
€ 154.88
€ 154.88
Hardback. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a uniquely reluctant and distinctly German Lutheran revolutionary. In this volume, the author, an Anglican priest and historian, argues that Bonhoeffer's powerful critique of Germany's moral derailment needs to be understood as the expression of a devout Lutheran Protestant. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; HRCM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455316
- ISBN
- 9781845455316
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Condition: New
€ 155.52
€ 155.52
Hardback. As Director of the Refugee Law Project at the University of Makerere, Kampala, Uganda, Dolan offers a behind-the-scenes, cross-disciplinary study of one of Africa's longest running and most intractable conflicts. This book offers an important analytical instrument for all those seeking entry points through which to address entrenched conflicts. Series: Human Rights in Context. Num Pages: 352 pages, 17 ills. BIC Classification: 1HFGU; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; 3JMC; JHMC; JPVH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455651
- ISBN
- 9781845455651
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 166.82
€ 166.82
Hardback. Imperial Germany's governing elite frequently sought to censor literature that threatened established political, social, religious, and moral norms in the name of public peace, order, and security. It claimed and exercised a prerogative to intervene in literary life that was broader than that of its Western neighbors.. Series: Monographs in German History. Num Pages: 316 pages, 5 ills. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBJD; HBTB; JFMD. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455705
- ISBN
- 9781845455705
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Condition: New
€ 166.77
€ 166.77
Hardback. The account of the author's life, spent between Europe and America, is at the same time an account of his generation, one that came of age between the two World Wars. Recalling not only circumstances of his own situation but that of his friends, the author shows how this generation faced a reality that seemed fragmented.. Num Pages: 200 pages, 20 ills. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1KBB; 3JJ; BM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455842
- ISBN
- 9781845455842
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Condition: New
€ 154.54
€ 154.54
Hardback. The number of studies discussing the labour relationship under industrial capitalism is overwhelming, but the literature on labour and its concrete, day-today shop-floor practices is much less abundant. How and by whom workers were supervised is one of the neglected aspects in the history of labour relations. Editor(s): Eeckhout, Patricia van den. Series: International Studies in Social History. Num Pages: 272 pages, 25 ills. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; KND; KNXB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845456009
- ISBN
- 9781845456009
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.94
€ 154.94
Hardback. The mining of diamonds, their trading mechanisms, their financial institutions, and, not least, their cultural expressions as luxury items have engaged the work of historians, economists, social scientists, and international relations experts. Based on previously unexamined historical documents found in archives in Belgium, England, Israel.. Num Pages: 368 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 3JJH; 3JJPG; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB; KNAT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 163 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845456337
- ISBN
- 9781845456337
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 167.40
€ 167.40
Hardback. Labor historians have long noted that members of various occupational groups in nineteenth and twentieth century France had distinct political identities, but few have explored how these identities were constructed and reproduced across generations. Series: International Studies in Social History. Num Pages: 282 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JHBL; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845456450
- ISBN
- 9781845456450
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.63
€ 155.63
Hardback. A captivating time, the 60s and 70s now draw more attention than ever. The first substantial work by historians has appeared only in the last few years, and this volume offers an important contribution. These meticulously researched essays offer new perspectives on the Cold War and global relations in the 1960s and 70s. Editor(s): Davis, Belinda J.; Mausbach, Wilfried; Klimke, Martin. Series: Protest, Culture and Society. Num Pages: 358 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFGW; 1KBB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBJD; HBJK; HBLW3; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 170 x 241 x 26. Weight in Grams: 652.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 358
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845456511
- ISBN
- 9781845456511
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Condition: New
€ 167.34
€ 167.34
Hardback. In Europe, love has been given a prominent place in European self-representations from the Enlightenment onwards. The category of love, stemming from private and personal spheres, was given a public function and used to distinguish European civilization from others. Editor(s): Passerini, Luisa; Ellena, Liliana; Geppert, Alexander C. T. Series: Making Sense of History. Num Pages: 334 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 166 x 26. Weight in Grams: 622.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 334
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845457365
- ISBN
- 9781845457365
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 167.12
€ 167.12
Hardback. In 1926/27 the Soviet Central Statistical Administration initiated several year-long expeditions to gather primary data on the whereabouts, economy, and living conditions of all rural peoples living in the Arctic and sub-Arctic at the end of the Russian civil war. Editor(s): Anderson, David G. Num Pages: 348 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MTN; 3JJG; HBJQ; HBLW; JHBD; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 160 x 236 x 26. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845457662
- ISBN
- 9781845457662
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 167.06
€ 167.06
hardcover. Erudite and enlightening, Frye's comments on politics are as relevant today as they were when he wrote them, and this volume will be a valuable reference for understanding the essential Frye. Editor(s): Gorak, Jan. Series: Collected Works of Northrop Frye. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DN; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 39. Weight in Grams: 835.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802036964
- ISBN
- 9780802036964
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.33
€ 120.33
hardcover. A Heritage of Light is of equal importance to collectors and historians in the United States and Canada. This newly reprinted edition of Russell's classic 1968 study has a new introduction by Janet Holmes. Series: Rich: Reprints in Canadian History. Num Pages: 352 pages, 191 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 223 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1050.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802037657
- ISBN
- 9780802037657
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.07
€ 96.07