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History
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861895189
- ISBN
- 9781861895189
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.85
€ 46.85
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861894335
- ISBN
- 9781861894335
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.09
€ 26.09
Paperback. The recent retirement of Fidel Castro turned the world's attention towards the island nation of Cuba and the question of what its future holds. Amid the talk and hypothesizing, it is worth taking a moment to consider how Cuba reached this point. The author provides this with his incisive history of Cuba since 1959. Series: Contemporary Worlds. Num Pages: 272 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861894021
- ISBN
- 9781861894021
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.12
€ 34.12
Paperback. Discusses the constructive aspect of drug use, and reviews the policies and interventions that make up the contemporary web of drug controls. This title traces the classification of substances to define 'drugs', and examines the links with both crime and addiction. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFFH1. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861893819
- ISBN
- 9781861893819
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.53
€ 27.53
Paperback. Tourist adverts and glossy publications present Thailand as an exotic country with a rich cultural heritage, strong religious traditions and a much-loved monarchy. This book challenges these commonplaces by offering a reinterpretation of the emergence and development of the Thai nation-state. Num Pages: 240 pages, 30 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMT; HBJF; WTH; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 569.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861893147
- ISBN
- 9781861893147
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.65
€ 40.65
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861893130
- ISBN
- 9781861893130
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.68
€ 32.68
Hardcover. The French Revolution was marked by a wealth of imagery and visual symbolism that inspired the masses to fight for freedom. This book surveys the rich and multifaceted visual culture of this time, exploring its creation and how it conveyed the new revolutionary sensibilities of the era. Translator(s): Attwood, Corinne. Series: Picturing History. Num Pages: 240 pages, 156 black & white illustrations, 30 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; ACQH; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 166 x 26. Weight in Grams: 878.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861893123
- ISBN
- 9781861893123
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.42
€ 59.42
Hardback. Charts how the heart has signified our essential desires, whether for love and passion in the medieval excesses of troubadour poetry and chivalric idealism, the body-soul dualism propounded by the Enlightenment, or even the modern notions of individualism expressed in the works of thinkers such as Nietzsche and Foucault. Num Pages: 256 pages, 20 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AG; HBTB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 555.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861893116
- ISBN
- 9781861893116
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.25
€ 38.25
Paperback. Explains and evaluates the historic and political roots of conflicts in South Asia in a systematic and thematic way. Series: Contemporary Worlds. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FK; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861892577
- ISBN
- 9781861892577
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.71
€ 33.71
Paperback. Part of the "Topographics" series, Bruce Begout's study presents a detailed and philosophical portrait of Las Vegas. Series: Topographics. Num Pages: 144 pages, 50 colour photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBWN; HBJK; JFC; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 407.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861891761
- ISBN
- 9781861891761
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.52
€ 26.52
Paperback. This text offers a wide-ranging survey of the notion of longevity. Lucian Boia looks at the many manifestations of one of humanity's most powerful dreams - the prolongation of life and youth with immortality as a final objective. Num Pages: 224 pages, 16 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: HBT; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861891549
- ISBN
- 9781861891549
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.60
€ 33.60
Paperback. In this work, Nancy Stepan explores the ways in which the Tropics, in particular tropical nature, places, animals and people, were imagined and presented in European culture from the 19th century on. Series: Picturing History. Num Pages: 288 pages, 89 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; AB; HBTB; JFC; RGBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 622.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861891464
- ISBN
- 9781861891464
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.35
€ 35.35
paperback. The Topographics series works in the reverse way to ordinary travel books. Each volume mingles analysis with anecdote to explore the creative collision between physical space or location and the human mind. Translator(s): Adams, Sarah. Series: Topographics. Num Pages: 144 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPCM; HBJF; HBLW3; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 12. Weight in Grams: 281.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books United Kingdom
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861891365
- ISBN
- 9781861891365
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.52
€ 26.52
Paperback. An architectural and social history that covers the globe from the 1830s to the 1930s, and also takes note of the most the refurbishments. It explores different aspects of this all-but-vanished world of opulence, from the entrepreneurs, architects and designers who made it possible to the ambitious individuals and dynasties that kept it going. Num Pages: 304 pages, 184 black & white illustrations, 216 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; AMC; AMK; HBG; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 275 x 220 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1355.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861891211
- ISBN
- 9781861891211
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.37
€ 51.37
hardcover. Provides an account of the mapping of the United States from its colonial origins to 1900. Many of the significant maps and mapmakers are discussed in a chronological narrative that begins with the first European mappings of the New Netherlands and concludes with the McNally atlases of the 1890s. Series: Picturing History. Num Pages: 312 pages, 80 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTB; HBTP; RGV. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 165 x 23. Weight in Grams: 702.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books United Kingdom
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861890863
- ISBN
- 9781861890863
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.19
€ 47.19
Hardcover. Down With the Crown! looks at the issue of anti-monarchism in British politics from the French revolution to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Series: Picturing History. Num Pages: 250 pages, 75 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; JPHC; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 777.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861890498
- ISBN
- 9781861890498
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.89
€ 58.89
Paperback. A history of Tel Aviv which presents it as a centre of immigration that contains reminders of each immigrant's mother country; as a catalyst between the East and the West; and, not least, as a place of transformation for Jews who fled from the Nazi terror. Translator(s): Atkins, Helen. Series: Topographics. Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 colour and 52 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB; JFSR1; WT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 756.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books London
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861890337
- ISBN
- 9781861890337
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.25
€ 46.25
Hardcover. Jeremy Black considers the causes of war from 1450 to the present, using global examples to illustrate his argument. This study bridges the disciplines of history, political science and international relations. Series: Globalities. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 3J; HBG; JPA; JPS; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 230 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861890177
- ISBN
- 9781861890177
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.84
€ 51.84
Hardback. Looks at the cultural and social role of animals from 1800 to the present at the way in which visual images and myths captured the popular imagination and encouraged sympathy for animals and outrage at their exploitation. Num Pages: 272 pages, 40 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFFZ; JPWD; JPWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 794.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861890146
- ISBN
- 9781861890146
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.33
€ 34.33
Hardback. Examines the significance of the female body, beauty and culture. This title shows how the female body is constantly being changed, and by various sometimes punishing means made to fit in with feminine physical ideals. Series: Picturing History. Num Pages: 232 pages, 185 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; AC; HBTB; JFCK; JFCX; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 714.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861890047
- ISBN
- 9781861890047
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.33
€ 34.33