General & world history
Results 101 - 120 of 2226
General & world history
Paperback. A history of the rise to dominance of the West, exploring the links between cultural values and military success. It studies nine major clashes between West and non-West, arguing that the West won not just because of technology, but because of its focus on individualism and democratic rights. Num Pages: 512 pages, 25 line drawings. BIC Classification: HBG; HBT; JFC; JFFE; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 133 x 39. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 2nd trade pbk
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571216406
- ISBN
- 9780571216406
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.99€ 17.69
€ 22.99
€ 17.69
Paperback. Series: Studies in European History. Num Pages: 128 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Publisher
- Macmillan Education UK
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137385345
- ISBN
- 9781137385345
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 29.52
€ 33.99
€ 29.52
Paperback. This book makes a unique contribution to the renewed debate about empire and imperialism and will be of great interest to all those concerned with understanding the historical antecedents and wider implications of today's emergent liberal interventionism, and the various logics of international development. Editor(s): Duffield, Mark R.; Hewitt, Vernon. Num Pages: 226 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- James Currey
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847010773
- ISBN
- 9781847010773
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.11
€ 26.99
€ 23.11
Paperback. Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth-Century Cuba challenges conventional ideas about the roots of Cuban race relations. Verena Martinez-Alier proposes a relational model for the study of sexual values and social inequality. Series: Women & Culture S. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 136 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472064052
- ISBN
- 9780472064052
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.61
€ 30.61
hardcover. This study shows that modernity has its origins in the advancement of knowledge, not in the Scientific Revolution. Num Pages: 310 pages, 12 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; HBG; HBLH; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 310
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107110137
- ISBN
- 9781107110137
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.41
€ 108.41
Paperback. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Edition
- First Paperback
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813547053
- ISBN
- 9780813547053
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.73€ 51.68
€ 51.73
€ 51.68
hardcover. Complete new edition of the text volumes of this definitive work of reference. Series: Cambridge Ancient History. Num Pages: 16552 pages, 621 b/w illus. 278 maps 58 tables. BIC Classification: 1QDA; HBG; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 470 x 380 x 180. Weight in Grams: 99999.
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 16552
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Hardback
- SKU
- V9780521850735
- ISBN
- 9780521850735
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 3,858.93
€ 3,858.93
Hardcover. As railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor discrepancies in local time-telling became a global problem. Vanessa Ogle s chronicle of the struggle to standardize clock times and calendars from 1870 to 1950 highlights the many hurdles that proponents of uniformity faced." Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBG; JFFS; PDX; PGZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 244 x 26. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674286146
- ISBN
- 9780674286146
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 43.95
€ 52.99
€ 43.95
Paperback. Urban history starts in Mesopotamia: the earliest known cities developed there as a result of long indigenous processes. This work examines urban life in the period, investigating urban topography, the role of cities as centres of culture, political and social structure, economy and the arts. Num Pages: 286 pages, 19 figures, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1QDAM; HBG; HBJF1; HBLA; HDD; JFSG; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198152866
- ISBN
- 9780198152866
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 106.84
€ 106.84
Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 170 x 10. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780738509105
- ISBN
- 9780738509105
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 21.08
€ 26.99
€ 21.08
Paperback. This is the first study of the aims that motivated the major powers -- the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, Germany and Japan -- to fight in the Second World War. Series: Societies at War. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 3JJH; HBG; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748615032
- ISBN
- 9780748615032
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.59
€ 40.99
€ 36.59
Paperback. A translation of a key medieval Arabic text that bears directly on the Crusades and Crusader society and the Muslim experience of them. Editor(s): Cobb, Paul M. Translator(s): Cobb, Paul M. Num Pages: 400 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 3H; HBG; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140455137
- ISBN
- 9780140455137
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.13
€ 16.99
€ 13.13
Hardback. Bringing together an international range of experts in the history of China, Japan, India and the Ottoman Empire/Turkey, this pioneering volume demonstrates the importance of Asia in the multifaceted global transformations that revolved around the Paris Peace Conference and its aftermath. Editor(s): Zachmann, Urs Matthias. Series: Edinburgh East Asian Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 16 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBT; JH; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474417167
- ISBN
- 9781474417167
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.46€ 99.72
€ 103.46
€ 99.72
Paperback. This publication speaks to the people of our planet, Urantia, and offers an organized record of mankind's origin, history and destiny. It tells about Deity, the relationship of our planet to the universe, the genesis and destiny of man and his relation to God, and the teachings of Jesus Christ. Editor(s): Urantia Foundation. Num Pages: 2097 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HRCC2; HRCM; PGK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1214.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Urantia Foundation United States
- Edition
- 2nd
- Number of pages
- 2097
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780911560510
- ISBN
- 9780911560510
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.06
€ 25.06
Hardcover. Num Pages: 258 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1981
- Publisher
- Popular Press 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780879721800
- ISBN
- 9780879721800
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 24.37
€ 26.99
€ 24.37
Hardcover. Studies the effect of Rome's geographic worldview on its politics Series: Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures. Num Pages: 266 pages, 56 illustrations, photographs. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Edition
- y First printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472100965
- ISBN
- 9780472100965
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.38
€ 111.38
Paperback. Editor(s): Erler, Mary Carpenter; Kowaleski, Maryanne. Num Pages: 280 pages, 22. BIC Classification: 3F; DSBB; HBG; HBLC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801488306
- ISBN
- 9780801488306
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.76
€ 48.76
Hardback. Num Pages: 192 pages, 50 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJPL; HBG; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 135 x 20. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750959759
- ISBN
- 9780750959759
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.17
€ 13.99
€ 13.17
paperback. A summary of mediaeval aesthetic ideas, by Italian novelist and playwright Umberto Eco. Juxtaposing theology and science, poetry and mysticism, Eco explores the relationship that existed between the aesthetic theories and the artistic experience and practice of mediaeval culture. Translator(s): Bredin, Hugh. Series: Yale Nota Bene. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 3F; 3H; ABA; ACK; ACN; HBG; HBLC; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 130 x 196 x 25. Weight in Grams: 124.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780300093049
- ISBN
- 9780300093049
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 11.56
€ 19.99
€ 11.56
Hardcover. Num Pages: 336 pages, 84 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DFG; BG; HBG; HBWQ; TBX; WGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 165 x 53. Weight in Grams: 698. A View from the Other Side. 336 pages, 84 illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DFG; BG; HBG; HBWQ; TBX; WGM. Dimension: 242 x 165 x 53. Weight: 702.
- Publisher
- Crecy Publishing Ltd
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781872836003
- ISBN
- 9781872836003
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.46
€ 26.99
€ 19.46