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Paperback. Series: Studies in Early Modern German History. Num Pages: 224 pages, 12 back & white illustrations, 2 maps, 1 graph. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JB; BGH; BJ; HBJD; HBLH; JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813938707
ISBN
9780813938707
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.92

Hardback. Series: Studies in Early Modern German History. Num Pages: 224 pages, 12 back & white illustrations, 2 maps, 1 graph. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JB; BGH; BJ; HBJD; HBLH; JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813938691
ISBN
9780813938691
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.42

Hardback. Famous for its transparency, the Philip Johnson Glass House has nonetheless proven vexingly opaque to interpretation. Its architect, Philip Cortelyou Johnson, has been equally elusive. Dream House reveals how this superficially non-representational physical structure encodes aspects of its architect's aspirations, motivations, and conflicts. Num Pages: 248 pages, 17 colour illustrations, 71 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AGB; AM; B. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 178 x 33. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813938271
ISBN
9780813938271
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 36.10

Paperback / so. "Never Ask Permission" is a daughter's honest portrait of a charismatic and difficult woman who broke the threads of convention. Also in Elisabeth Scott Bocock readers recognize the flawed but feisty, enduring character of Richmond. 31 illustrations. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; BGA; HBJK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813933375
ISBN
9780813933375
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.55

Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BGA; HBJK; HBLL; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813933092
ISBN
9780813933092
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.42

Hardback. Includes two transcriptions of Mary Estelle Elizabeth Cutts's manuscript as well as a study of Cutts's authorship and women's historical writing in the nineteenth century. Editor(s): Allgor, Catherine. Series: Jeffersonian America (Hardcover). Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BGA; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813932989
ISBN
9780813932989
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.14

hardcover. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGB; KNTX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 149 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813931555
ISBN
9780813931555
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 25.53

hardcover. Editor(s): Miller, Melanie. Num Pages: 752 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; BJ; HBTV2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 56. Weight in Grams: 1737.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Edition
Annotated
Number of pages
752
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813929491
ISBN
9780813929491
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.44

Hardback. Editor(s): Molineux, Will. Num Pages: 216 pages, 18 b&w illustrations, 6 maps. BIC Classification: BG; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 445.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813929033
ISBN
9780813929033
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.95

Hardback. Explores how science shaped Thomas Jefferson's views on politics, religion, economics, and social developments in America. This book examines Jefferson's contributions to anthropology, ethnology, comparative linguistics, paleontology, and medicine. It also demonstrates Jefferson's scientific talents, interests, and accomplishments. Num Pages: 176 pages, 23 colour & 10 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; PD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813928548
ISBN
9780813928548
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 23.10

hardcover. Documents the period from 1 January through 30 April 1794, a time when Washington continued to focus his efforts as president on preventing the United States from becoming entangled in the continuing war between France and Great Britain. Editor(s): Hoth, David R. Num Pages: 784 pages, 2 maps, 2 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BJ; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 53. Weight in Grams: 1270.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Edition
New
Number of pages
784
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813928463
ISBN
9780813928463
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.11

Hardback. Documents the last four months of 1793 where George Washington and his administration remained chiefly involved with maintaining the neutrality of the United States. This volume also records the preparation of Washington's annual message - an extended process that involved input from each member of the cabinet. Num Pages: 712 pages, 4 b&w illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BJ; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1293.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
712
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813927596
ISBN
9780813927596
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 121.59

hardcover. Michael Field was the pseudonym used by Katherine Bradley (1846-1914) and Edith Cooper (1862-1913) - coauthors and lovers - for the poetry and verse drama they published. This book presents their love letters, which contain poems and insights into the dramas and their production and are supplemented by annotation and a biographical introduction. Editor(s): Bickle, Sharon. Num Pages: 336 pages, 14 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BJ; DSBF; JFSK1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813927510
ISBN
9780813927510
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.42

paperback. To many Americans, Thomas Jefferson is the architect of our freedom. This book takes into the Jefferson's world, to help us understand what it meant to be a man of his time. Num Pages: 376 pages, 48 b&w illustrations & 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 463.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813927329
ISBN
9780813927329
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.84

Hardback. When newly elected Virginia governor Linwood Holton escorted his children into an integrated Richmond public school in 1970, he delivered the coup-de-grace to the Byrd machine. This memoir offers a behind-the-scenes account of his private and public life at a critical juncture in the political history of Virginia and the nation. Num Pages: 256 pages, 21 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; BGHA; HBJK; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813927206
ISBN
9780813927206
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 27.53

Paperback. Focused on the inside story of law reform, this book contains portraits of some figures, including Thurgood Marshall, William Kuntsler, and the black law professor Derrick Bell, as well as of movers and shakers such as the attorney C B King of Albany, Georgia, and Margaret Burnham. Num Pages: 336 pages, 15 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; BGA; JPVH1; LAT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813926957
ISBN
9780813926957
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.15

hardcover. Widely debated in feminist, poststructuralist, and literary theory is the relationship between subjectivity and the body. This book states that yet, autobiographical criticism - an obvious place for testing this conceptual relationship - has lagged behind queries about the embodied self. It analyzes the genre of terminal illness autobiographies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 29 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: BGA; DSK; VFJB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
New
SKU
V9780813926643
ISBN
9780813926643
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.06

Hardback. As his presidency drew to a close, Woodrow Wilson came to realize the claim history would soon have on the documentary record of his life and work. This work looks not just at Wilson's life and career, but also at the way Wilson was represented by Baker and other biographers, as well as in the media. Num Pages: 248 pages, 2 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLW; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813926544
ISBN
9780813926544
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.20

Hardback. Covers five months that encompass the end of Jefferson's first administration and point toward his second. Editor(s): Hackett, Mary A.; Stagg, J. C. A.; Colony, Anne Mandeville; Cross, Jeanne Kerr; Johnson, Mary Parke; Kreider, Angela; Perry, Wendy Ellen. Num Pages: 634 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BJ; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 44. Weight in Grams: 816.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
634
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813926353
ISBN
9780813926353
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 120.86

hardcover. Documents the period from 1 June through 31 August 1793, a time when Washington focused his efforts as president on keeping the United States neutral during the war between France and Great Britain. The greatest challenge came from the presence in US ports of both British and French privateers and their prizes. Editor(s): Crackel, Theodore J.; Patrick, Christine Sternberg. Series: Presidential Series. Num Pages: 672 pages, 1 figure, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BJ; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1107.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
672
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813926346
ISBN
9780813926346
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 120.86

hardcover. Offers a collection of essays that seeks to historicize one of our nation's founding fathers. Challenging attempts to appropriate Jefferson to serve all manner of contemporary political agendas, this work argues that historians must look at Jefferson's language and life within the context of his own place and time. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 535.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813925783
ISBN
9780813925783
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.85

Hardback. A young girl sees her neighborhood transformed into a ghetto populated by skeletal figures both alive and dead. This work takes you on a journey of both loss and endurance, from a carefree adolescence in upper-middle class Warsaw to the horrors of the Final Solution. It illustrates the historical responsibilities of the survivors' descendants. Num Pages: 208 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJH; BGA; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813925134
ISBN
9780813925134
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.67

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 27 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; 3JJP; BGA; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813925103
ISBN
9780813925103
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.55

hardcover. Offers an account of how as a lawyer for Muhammad Ali, for the doctors who ended Jim Crow at American hospitals, and for scores of death row inmates, the author became a deeply involved activist in the civil rights movement. This book is useful to lawyers and to students of the history of the 1960s, civil rights, and African American studies. Num Pages: 336 pages, 15 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; JPVH1; LAS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 585.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780813925011
ISBN
9780813925011
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.17

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