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History
Paperback. Explores how the sugar beet industry transformed the rural Midwest by introducing large factories, contract farming, and foreign migrant labour. Identifying rural areas as centres for modern American industrialism, this study contributes to a re-orientation of labour history from urban factory workers to rural migrant workers. Series: The Working Class in American History. Num Pages: 336 pages, 14 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; HBTB; HBTK; KCF; KNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252076671
- ISBN
- 9780252076671
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.25
€ 36.99
€ 33.25
Paperback. The origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender are examined in this book. The author argues that gender was both a basic social relationship and a model for other social hierarchies, and assesses its role in the construction of racism in Virginia. Num Pages: 584 pages, 10 illustrations, 2 maps, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLH; HBTS; JFFJ; JFSJ; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 32. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807846230
- ISBN
- 9780807846230
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.69
€ 52.69
Series: Envisioning Cuba (Paperback). Num Pages: 339 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 1KL; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781469607139
- ISBN
- 9781469607139
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.14
€ 46.14
Paperback. Rebound in full modern cloth with paper title label on the spine.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Harvard Univ Pr U.S.A.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1967
- SKU
- KEX0180105
- ISBN
- 9789998611160
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 68.67
€ 68.67
Hardback. Rev. George D. Byers, Presbyterian missionary at Kachek, Hainan island, China, was murdered by bandits in 1924. Based on American and British consular archives and those of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and members of the Hainan mission, this is the story of how Mrs. Byers and Mrs. Mabel Roys got the government and their church to take action. Series: Studies in Christianity in China. Num Pages: 199 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; 3JJG; HBG; HBLW; HRCC9; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 199
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780934223737
- ISBN
- 9780934223737
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.61
€ 114.61
Paperback. An overview of the cultures and histories of Northeastern Indian people that surveys the key scholarly debates that shape this field and offers an alphabetical listing of important individuals and places of significant cultural or historic meaning. Series: Columbia Guides to American Indian History and Culture S. Num Pages: 352 pages, 25 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 168 x 17. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231114530
- ISBN
- 9780231114530
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.50
€ 46.50
Paperback. Translator(s): Freeman, Kathleen. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA; L. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 11. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872203068
- ISBN
- 9780872203068
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.25
€ 25.99
€ 19.25
Paperback. Tinkering takes a fresh look at early automotive design from the bottom up, as a process that included manufacturers, engineers, designers, advice experts, and consumers, from savvy buyers to grass-roots inventors. Num Pages: 232 pages, 22 illus. BIC Classification: HBJK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812221589
- ISBN
- 9780812221589
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.18
€ 34.99
€ 31.18
Hardback. Gossip is one of the most common, and most condemned, forms of discourse in which we engage - even as it is often absorbing and socially significant, it is also widely denigrated. This volume examines fascinating moments in the history of gossip in America, from witchcraft trials to People magazine, helping us to see the subject with new eyes. Editor(s): Feeley, Kathleen; Frost, Jennifer. Num Pages: 284 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3J; HBJK; HBTB; JFFP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137442291
- ISBN
- 9781137442291
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.76
€ 122.76
Hardback. For two weeks in the fall of 1909, New York City threw itself the biggest party it had ever seen - attracting millions of people to a sprawling festival, from Brooklyn up the Hudson River to Albany. This event, the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, was meant to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Henry Hudson's discovery of the river bearing his name. Num Pages: 204 pages, 17 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJC; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 221 x 23. Weight in Grams: 973.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823230211
- ISBN
- 9780823230211
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.50
€ 71.50
Num Pages: 256 pages, 15. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJPR; HBJD; HBLW3; JPA; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801439636
- ISBN
- 9780801439636
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.53
€ 71.53
Paperback. Num Pages: 238 pages, 18. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 457.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801475962
- ISBN
- 9780801475962
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.67
€ 49.67
Hardback. In 1956 Khrushchev stunned Communists by reciting a litany of Stalin's abuses. His bid to rejuvenate the Party opened the door to upheaval, as Soviet citizens asked where the system had gone astray. Kathleen Smith contends that the year's brief thaw set in motion a cycle of reform and retrenchment that would recur until the Soviet Union's collapse. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 23 x 15. .
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674972001
- ISBN
- 9780674972001
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 39.05
€ 46.99
€ 39.05
Paperback. "Moving beyond an 'Indians and Europeans' story, DuVal looks instead at competing and overlapping stories involving multiple Native groups who operate from different positions with different strategies and experiences, and incorporate an array of outsiders."-Colin G. Calloway, Dartmouth College Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 336 pages, 20 illus. BIC Classification: HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 27. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812219395
- ISBN
- 9780812219395
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.40
€ 38.99
€ 35.40
Paperback. Seasons of Misery offers a boldly original account of early English settlement in American by placing catastrophe and crisis at the center of the story. Donegan argues that the constant state of suffering and uncertainty decisively formed the colonial identity and produced the first distinctly colonial literature. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBAH; HBJK; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812223774
- ISBN
- 9780812223774
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.10
€ 34.99
€ 31.10
Hardcover. First published 1956." Includes bibliographical references. 255 p. illus. 23 cm. Hardback. Firmly bound, title in gilt on spine, general wear to boards with slightly sunned spine. Very good copy."
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Hale
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1956
- SKU
- KEX0104249
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 13.99€ 4.99
€ 13.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 106 includes "A Picnic, a Tomb, and a Crow: Hesiod's Cult in the Works and Days"; "Sapphica"; "A New Manuscript of Classical Authors in Spain"; "The Dates of the Dramatists of the Fabula Togata"; "The Coroebus Episode in Virgil's Aeneid"; "Herod's Last Days"; and other essays. Editor(s): Coleman, Kathleen M. Series: Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. Num Pages: 374 pages, 8 halftones, 2 line illustrations, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 151 x 32. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Harvard Department of the Classics
- Number of pages
- 374
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674072015
- ISBN
- 9780674072015
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 45.05
€ 53.99
€ 45.05
paperback. 8vo. North of Ireland.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- O'Brien Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- SKU
- KEX0293093
- ISBN
- 9780862782948
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 18.00
€ 18.00
Paperback. A compelling and genuine first hand account of an activist during the most exciting and turbulent period of Irish history - the only first person account of 1916 ever published. Num Pages: 368 pages, 32 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBR; BGA; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- O'Brien Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847170590
- ISBN
- 9781847170590
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.21
€ 14.99
€ 13.21
Paperback. For most of the 20th century, considered opinion in the US regarding Palestine has favored the inherent right of Jews to exist in the Holy Land. That Palestinians, as a native population, could claim the same right has been largely ignored. This book shows how the endurance of such assumptions has impeded a resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Num Pages: 399 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJF1; HBLW; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition, Updated Edition with a New Afterwor
- Number of pages
- 399
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520217188
- ISBN
- 9780520217188
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 25.97
€ 35.99
€ 25.97