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Hardback. The decades following the French Revolution saw unprecedented political and social experimentation. This work offers a re-evaluation of the effects of the French Revolution, especially on women. It demonstrates that women remained highly visible in urban public life. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 274 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBLL; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 164 x 23. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674024595
- ISBN
- 9780674024595
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.58€ 68.36
€ 75.58
€ 68.36
Hardback. The ending of absolute, centralized monarchy and the beginning of political combat between nobles and commoners make the years 1787 to 1788 the first stage of the French Revolution. The author examines how the French people became engaged in a movement of opposition that culminated in demands for the public's role in government. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 518 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 38. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 518
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674025349
- ISBN
- 9780674025349
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.49€ 83.58
€ 94.49
€ 83.58
Hardback. On July 10, 1940, by a 570 to 80 margin, the representatives in the French parliament voted full powers to Philippe Petain, ending the Third Republic and paving the way for the collaborationist Vichy regime. This work offers a nuanced portrait of the individuals who determined the fate of France at this critical moment. Translator(s): Holoch, George. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 448 pages, 1 map, 48 tables. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; JPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 784.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674032613
- ISBN
- 9780674032613
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.22€ 65.48
€ 73.22
€ 65.48
Paperback. Series: Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1HB; 1HBM; BGH; HBJD; HBJH; HRAX; HRH; JPFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674035393
- ISBN
- 9780674035393
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.21
€ 23.99
€ 20.21
Hardback. Linking the study of business and politics, this book reconstructs the debate over the development of the book trade in 19th-century France. It shows how publishers succeeded in transforming the industry from a tightly controlled trade into a free enterprise, with dramatic but paradoxical consequences for literature in France. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 346 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; CBW; HBJD; JFCA; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 346
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674035768
- ISBN
- 9780674035768
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.95€ 58.43
€ 64.95
€ 58.43
Hardback. Combining the history of the Enlightenment, Atlantic history, and the history of the French Revolution, this title explores the political economy of globalization in eighteenth-century France. It presents an interpretation of the relationship between capitalism and the French Revolution. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages, 2 line illustrations, 2 graphs. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTV; HPS; KCCD; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 167 x 26. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674047266
- ISBN
- 9780674047266
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.31€ 60.41
€ 67.31
€ 60.41
Paperback. The Allied landings on the coast of Normandy on June 6, 1944, have assumed legendary status in the annals of World War II. This title offers a balanced, complete account that reveals the successes and weaknesses of the titanic enterprise. Translator(s): DeBevoise, M. B. Num Pages: 464 pages, 10 maps, 3 charts. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DDF; HBJD1; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 30. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674047471
- ISBN
- 9780674047471
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.26
€ 33.99
€ 28.26
Hardback. Explores how French queens and noblewomen of early modern France, used pleasure dairies to naturalize their status, display their cultivated tastes, and proclaim their virtue as nurturing mothers and capable estate managers. This title sheds light on architecture, self, and society in the ancient regime. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 336 pages, 82 color illustrations, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 243 x 23. Weight in Grams: 728.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674048997
- ISBN
- 9780674048997
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.58€ 56.42
€ 62.58
€ 56.42
Hardcover. David Drake chronicles the lives of ordinary Parisians during WWII, drawing on diaries and reminiscences of people who endured these years. From his account emerge the broad rhythms and shifting moods of the city and the contingent lives of resisters, collaborators, occupiers, and victims who, unlike us, could not know how the story would end. Num Pages: 520 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 247 x 45. Weight in Grams: 994.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Belknap Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674504813
- ISBN
- 9780674504813
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 39.73
€ 47.99
€ 39.73
Hardback. For six terror-filled weeks in 1870 German armies bombarded Strasbourg, killing hundreds of citizens, wounding thousands, and destroying landmarks. Rachel Chrastil tells how the city became the epicenter of a new kind of warfare whose indiscriminate violence shocked contemporaries and led to debates over the wartime protection of civilians. Num Pages: 268 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; HBJD; HBTB; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 157 x 27. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674728868
- ISBN
- 9780674728868
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 45.36
€ 54.99
€ 45.36
Paperback. Using a historical analysis of Vermeer's method of production and a close reading of his art, this book explores the originality of Vermeer in the context of 17th-century Dutch painting. It suggests that his confrontation with painting represented a very personal effort to define a new pictorial practice within the classical tradition of his art. Translator(s): Grabar, Terry. Num Pages: 208 pages, 14 color plates 45 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDN; ACN; AFC; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 233 x 11. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691029306
- ISBN
- 9780691029306
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.00€ 49.96
€ 65.00
€ 49.96
Hardback. Presents the history of the Dutch economy in the nineteenth century. This book shows how institutional factors combined to make the Dutch economy a victim of its own success and traces its subsequent emergence as a modern industrial economy. It argues that the economic and political development of the Netherlands can be understood only in tandem. Translator(s): Cressie, Ian. Series: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World. Num Pages: 416 pages, 32 line illus. 54 tables. BIC Classification: 1DDN; 3JH; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 720.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 402
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691114385
- ISBN
- 9780691114385
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.83€ 97.08
€ 128.83
€ 97.08
Paperback. Does globalization menace our cities? Are cities able to exercise democratic rule and strategic choice when international competition increasingly limits the importance of place? This book looks at the political responses of ten cities in North America and Western Europe as they grappled with the forces of global restructuring. Num Pages: 552 pages, 15 halftones. 31 line illus. 24 tables. BIC Classification: 1DD; 1KB; JFSG; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 31. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691120140
- ISBN
- 9780691120140
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.19€ 41.59
€ 53.19
€ 41.59
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691121208
- ISBN
- 9780691121208
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.82€ 58.48
€ 76.82
€ 58.48
Paperback. Explores what the interrogations reveal about the individual and communal lives of those interrogated and how the interrogations themselves shaped villagers' perceptions of those lives. This book shows how heretical and orthodox beliefs flourished side by side and what life was like in one particular time and place. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBLC; HRAM9; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691123714
- ISBN
- 9780691123714
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.40
€ 46.99
€ 33.40
Hardback. Aims to debunk the myth that Britain was a free-trade nation during and after the industrial revolution, by revealing how the British used tariffs as a mercantilist tool to politically weaken France. This book shows that Britain did not transform smoothly from a mercantilist state in the 18th century to a bastion of free trade in the late 19th. Series: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World. Num Pages: 192 pages, 29 line illus.35 tables. BIC Classification: 1DB; 1DDF; 3JF; 3JH; KCLT; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 165 x 6. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691129174
- ISBN
- 9780691129174
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.73€ 44.15
€ 56.73
€ 44.15
Hardback. Looks at the relationship between torture and colonial domination through a examination of the French army's coercive tactics during the Algerian war from 1954 to 1962. This book presents an anatomy of torture - its methods, justifications, functions, and consequences. It also shows how torture was central to guerre revolutionnaire. Series: Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity. Num Pages: 360 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1HBA; 3JJPG; HBW; JWKT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 242 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 634.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691131351
- ISBN
- 9780691131351
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.91€ 54.20
€ 70.91
€ 54.20
Hardback. Tells how Jan Jeroenszoon, through great personal courage and faith in the rule of law, managed to survive gruesome torture and vindicate himself by successfully arguing at trial that the authorities remained subject to the law even in times of war. Translator(s): Grayson, J. C. Num Pages: 312 pages, 15 halftones. 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DDN; 1DSE; HBJD; HBLH; HRAM9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 166 x 241 x 28. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691135649
- ISBN
- 9780691135649
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.91€ 54.20
€ 70.91
€ 54.20
Paperback. The Dutch government had funded separate schools, housing projects and community organizations for Muslim immigrants, all under the umbrella of multiculturalism. But the reality of terrorism and radicalization of Muslim immigrants has shattered that dream. This work demonstrates that there are deep conflicts of values in the Netherlands. Num Pages: 176 pages, 15 line illus. 19 tables. BIC Classification: 1DDN; JFFJ; JFFN; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691141015
- ISBN
- 9780691141015
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 26.99
€ 37.99
€ 26.99
Paperback. Demonstrates that speculation and capital, the commodity, the crowd, traffic, and the street, often thought to be historically specific to nineteenth-century urban culture, were in fact already at work in early modern London and Paris. This title challenges the notion of a rupture between premodern and modern societies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 30 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 1DDF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691141107
- ISBN
- 9780691141107
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 30.81
€ 42.99
€ 30.81