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Hardback. A first-hand account of the Western world on the threshold of a major global mutation, bridging art and intellect, culture and politics, Europe and America. Editor(s): Lotringer, Sylvere. Series: Semiotext(E) Journal. Num Pages: 356 pages, 310 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1164.
Publisher
Autonomedia
Number of pages
356
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Edition
New Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781584350798
ISBN
9781584350798
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.13

Paperback. An Exceptional Law showcases how the emergency law used to repress labour activism during the First World War became normalized with the creation of Section 98 of the Criminal Code, following the Winnipeg General Strike. Series: Canadian Social History Series. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; HBLL; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442629585
ISBN
9781442629585
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.60

Hardback. Mark E. Byington explores the formation, history, and legacy of ancient Puyo, the earliest archaeologically attested state to arise in northeastern Asia. He discusses how the legacy of Puyo contributed to modes of statecraft of later northeast Asian states and provided a basis for a developing historiographical tradition on the Korean peninsula. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 375 pages. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBJF; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178. .
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674737198
ISBN
9780674737198
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.26

Paperback. Stepping beyond traditional histories that have emphasized armed conflict from the view of victors, this work focuses on Morisco women. It argues that these women's lives offer insights on the experiences of Moriscos in general, and on how the politics of religion both empowers and oppresses. Series: Jews, Christians and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World. Num Pages: 224 pages, 8 halftones. 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DSE; HBJD; HBLH; HRAF; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691130545
ISBN
9780691130545
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.38

Paperback. The most detailed study of Soviet military-industrial espionage during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s spying aimed specifically at acquiring restricted information and materials relating to American industry, technology, and science." Num Pages: 384 pages, 19 photographs. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1KBB; HBG; HBLW; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 517.
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700615551
ISBN
9780700615551
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.73

Hardback. .
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719087318
ISBN
9780719087318
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 143.72

Hardcover. When Leon was eight years old, his grandfather took him to a one-man stage performance titled, "Papirena Kinder," or Paper Children. It told the story of a bereaved old man who, despite having raised five children, had been abandoned by all of them in his old age. Num Pages: 72 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 279 x 10. Weight in Grams: 456.
Publisher
Gefen Publishing House
Number of pages
72
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9789652296344
ISBN
9789652296344
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 19.25

Hardcover. Abraham Lincoln projects a larger-than-life image across American history owing to his role as the Great Emancipator. Yet this noble aspect of Lincoln s identity is the dimension that some historians have cast into doubt. The award-winning historian and Lincoln scholar Allen Guelzo offers a vigorous defense of America s sixteenth president." Series: The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBTS; HBWJ; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674286115
ISBN
9780674286115
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.27

Paperback. This account of the female revolutionaries during the French Revolution describes their lives within political, social, historical and gender-specific contexts. It highlights the importance of these women in creating their political and social roles as female citizens within the New Republic. Translator(s): Streip, Katherine. Series: Studies on the History of Society & Culture. Num Pages: 415 pages, 29. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; HBTV; JFSJ1; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 490.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
415
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520067196
ISBN
9780520067196
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.73

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 B&W drawings. BIC Classification: HBT; WBXD3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 215 x 319. Weight in Grams: 346.
Publisher
Greystone Books,Canada
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781771641197
ISBN
9781771641197
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.00

Paperback. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Ulster Historical Foundation
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
SKU
KOC0024881
ISBN
9781903688908
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 10.00

Hardback. George Ciccariello-Maher brings the work of Georges Sorel, Frantz Fanon, and Enrique Dussel together with contemporary Venezuelan politics to formulate a decolonized dialectics that is suited to the struggle against the legacies of slavery and colonialism while also breaking the impasse between dialectics and postcolonial theory. Series: Radical Americas. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSV; 3JM; HBTQ; HBTS; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 238 x 20. Weight in Grams: 500.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822362234
ISBN
9780822362234
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 187.11

Paperback. This work seeks to delve beneath the chaos and brutality of the Norse world to discover a complex interplay of ordering and disordering impulses. Num Pages: 420 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DNC; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 574.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
420
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226526805
ISBN
9780226526805
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.83

Hardback. Hugh Casey was one of the most colorful members of the iconic Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1940s. He played with the likes of Jackie Robinson, Dixie Walker, Joe Medwick, and Pete Reiser, and along the way he helped redefine the role of the relief pitcher. This book covers Casey's life and career in great detail, the first to truly do so. Num Pages: 288 pages, 6 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; BGS; HBTB; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442277595
ISBN
9781442277595
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.18

Hardback. How African writers reconstructed the biblical narrative to form a new identity Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 2AB; DSBF; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 508.
Publisher
Baylor University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781602585317
ISBN
9781602585317
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 55.23

Hardback. Explores the changing aspirations, attitudes and identities of English Catholics in the late eighteenth century Num Pages: 288 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 292 x 23. Weight in Grams: 638.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783271320
ISBN
9781783271320
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.69

Hardback. As readers of Russian literature know, the nineteenth century was a time of pervasive financial anxiety. Russians of all classes were enmeshed in networks of credit and debt, and borrowing and lending shaped perceptions of material and moral worth. Sergei Antonov recreates this imperial world of borrowers, bankrupts, lenders, and loan sharks. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 350 pages, 6 halftones, 14 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBTB; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 243 x 35. Weight in Grams: 718.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674971486
ISBN
9780674971486
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.88

Hardcover. Num Pages: 452 pages. BIC Classification: 1HF; HBJH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 267 x 216 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
Publisher
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780884024101
ISBN
9780884024101
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.27

Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, 25 illus. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJK; HBLL; HBTQ; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 562.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780190638733
ISBN
9780190638733
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 70.54

Paperback. In May 1937, seventy thousand workers walked off their jobs at four large steel companies known collectively as "Little Steel." The strikers sought to make the companies retreat from decades of antiunion repression, abide by the newly enacted federal labor law, and recognize their union. This book tells a different story about the conflict. Num Pages: 416 pages, 31 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; KNXB1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. .
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520285613
ISBN
9780520285613
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.67

Paperback. Paris is the most personal of cities. There is a Paris for the medievalist, and another for the modernist - a Paris for expatriates, philosophers, artists, romantics, and revolutionaries of every stripe. The author brings these multiple perspectives into focus throughout this history of the City of Light. Series: From the Ground Up. Num Pages: 352 pages, 105 color illustrations, 30 halftones, 10 maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; AM; HBJD; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 630.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674057388
ISBN
9780674057388
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 81.27

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FPC; 3H; HBG; HBJD; HBJF; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118880074
ISBN
9781118880074
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.32

Paperback. Gender and the City before Modernity presents a series of multi-disciplinary readings that explore issues relating to the role of gender in a variety of cities of the ancient, medieval, and early modern worlds. Editor(s): Foxhall, Lin; Neher, Gabriele. Series: Gender and History Special Issues. Num Pages: 266 pages, Illustrations, maps, plans. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 172 x 13. Weight in Grams: 538.
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
266
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118234433
ISBN
9781118234433
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 27.01

Hardback. This fascinating study explores the emergence of a significant Sunni community on the margins of Shia Iran and delineates a 'Sunni arc' stretching from Central Asia southwards through the Iranian provinces of Khorasan and Baluchistan Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 3JM; HBJF1; HBLX; JFSR2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Weight in Grams: 512.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849047081
ISBN
9781849047081
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.69
€ 67.55

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Hoover Institution Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780817919849
ISBN
9780817919849
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.98

Hardback. Editor(s): Bannet, Eve Tavor; Wheeler, Roxann. Num Pages: 304 pages, 12, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421422145
ISBN
9781421422145
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.64

Paperback. Europe's imperial projects were often predicated on a series of legal and scientific distinctions that were frequently challenged by the reality of social and sexual interactions between the colonized and the colonizers. This title reveals the unacknowledged but central role of race in the definition of French nationality. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBTQ; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 478. Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies. 352 pages. Europe's imperial projects were often predicated on a series of legal and scientific distinctions that were frequently challenged by the reality of social and sexual interactions between the colonized and the colonizers. This title reveals the unacknowledged but central role of race in the definition of French nationality. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBTQ; JFSL; JHMC. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 19. Weight: 480. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226733081
ISBN
9780226733081
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.47

Hardcover. Hand-illuminated scrolls by Cora Healy-Tobin commemorate members of The Alberta Order of Excellence--Alberta's highest honour. Illustrator(s): Healy-Tobin, Cora. Editor(s): Sivak, Allison. Series: Northern Reference Series. Num Pages: 188 pages, colour plates. BIC Classification: 1KBCL; HBTG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 285 x 312 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1634.
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Number of pages
168
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780888644855
ISBN
9780888644855
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.72
€ 74.81

Hardcover. Maoists at the Hearth details the ways that inhabitants of a hill village in central Nepal managed their everyday activities following the arrival of Maoist insurgents in the late 1990s, exploring their changing social relationships with fellow villagers and the parties to the conflict both during and after the civil war. Series: The Ethnography of Political Violence Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, 6 illus. BIC Classification: 1FKN; HBJF; HBW; JFFE; JHMC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Number of pages
200
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812244922
ISBN
9780812244922
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.93

Paperback. A poignant, facsimile manual showing how to dig a trench, mount a bayonet charge, aim a field artillery piece and bury the dead from official books supplied by the War Office during the First World War Num Pages: 288 pages, 40. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJF; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWN; JWD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 124. .
Publisher
Amberley Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781445638225
ISBN
9781445638225
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.44

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JKV; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 216 x 9. Weight in Grams: 213.
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486779997
ISBN
9780486779997
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.30

Hardcover. Timothy J. Van Compernolle reconsiders the rise of the modern novel in Japan by connecting the genre to new discourses on ambition and social mobility, arguing that social mobility is the privileged lens through which Meiji novelists explored abstract concepts of national belonging, social hierarchy, and the new space of an industrializing nation. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; DS; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674659797
ISBN
9780674659797
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 55.20

Paperback. The United Arab Emirates have had their share of criminals, accidents, natural disasters and downright weird incidents. Most of these events merit a few pages in the papers before disappearing from history. This book brings the tragic, strange and illuminating stories from the 1970s in a compilation of 168 of the best, from past UAE newspapers. Editor(s): Yates, Dr Athol. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBXU; 3JJPL; HBJF; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 253 x 212 x 16. Weight in Grams: 582.
Publisher
Medina Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909339903
ISBN
9781909339903
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.08

Hardback. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the court was the crucial site where expanding Eurasian states and empires met and made sense of one another. Richly illustrated, Courtly Encounters provides a fresh cross-cultural perspective on early modern Islam, Counter-Reformation Catholicism, Protestantism, and a newly emergent Hindu sphere. Series: Mary Flexner Lecture Series of Bryn Mawr College. Num Pages: 336 pages, 18 halftones, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 1F; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD; HBJF; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 178 x 27. Weight in Grams: 504.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
336
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674067059
ISBN
9780674067059
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.58

Hardback. Editor(s): Smith, Andrew; Barton, Anna. Series: Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JM; DSBF; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784995102
ISBN
9781784995102
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.00

Paperback. A study of the life, career, beliefs and motives of Cavour, first prime minister of Italy. This was a position which he created, as it did not exist when his career began. Topics covered include the argument that Cavour was more interested in increasing Piedmont's power than in Italian unification. Series: Profiles in Power. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 137 x 12. Weight in Grams: 302.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Pearson Education Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
238
Publication date
1994
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780582019034
ISBN
9780582019034
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 74.28

Hardcover. Editor(s): Adorno, Rolena; Boserup, Ivan. Num Pages: 450 pages, 103 colour plates & 47 b/w plates. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 165. .
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
450
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9788763542708
ISBN
9788763542708
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.49
€ 58.34

Hardback. Num Pages: 432 pages, 16, 7 black & white halftones, 4 maps, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1DDN; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 41. Weight in Grams: 748.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801450457
ISBN
9780801450457
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 48.42

Hardback. This innovative microhistory of a fascinating yet neglected city shows how its loyalty to Venice was tested by military attack, economic downturn, and demographic collapse. Despite these trials, Brescia experienced cultural revival and political transformation, which Bowd uses to explain state formation in a powerful region of Renaissance Italy. Series: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Num Pages: 374 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DD; 1DST; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 680.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
374
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674051201
ISBN
9780674051201
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.00

Paperback. The kinds of punishment used in a society have been considered an important criterion in judging whether a society is civilized or barbaric, advanced or backward, modern or premodern. This title asks how such distinctions have affected our understanding of the past and contributed to the proliferation of kinds of barbarity in the modern world. Num Pages: 312 pages, 17 halftones. 1 line illus. 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; HBTB; JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691130309
ISBN
9780691130309
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.20