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General & world history

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General & world history

paperback. History is a rich, varied and fascinating subject, so it's rare to find the whole lot in one book .. until now. Author Emma Marriott pulls it all together, from the world's earliest civilizations to the founding of the United Nations in 1945, passing by the likes of Charlemagne, the Ottoman Empire and the Crimean War, to name a few. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 164. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
O Mara Books Ltd.
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0021728
ISBN
9781782437079
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 10.00

Paperback. How Pearl Harbor has been written about, thought of, and manipulated in American culture. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 248 pages, 15 b&w photos. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJK; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 136 x 16. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822336372
ISBN
9780822336372
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.87

Hardback. Between 1870 and 1945, advances in communication and transportation simultaneously expanded and shrank the world. In five interpretive essays, A World Connecting goes beyond nations, empires, and world wars to capture the era's defining feature: the profound and disruptive shift toward an ever more rapidly integrating world. Series: A History of the World. Num Pages: 1168 pages, 62 halftones, 16 maps, 16 tables. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBG; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 171 x 61. Weight in Grams: 1638.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
1168
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674047211
ISBN
9780674047211
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.94
€ 47.16

Paperback. Emily Rosenberg examines the social and cultural networks that emerged from global exchanges between 1870 and 1945. Transnational connections were being formed many decades before "globalization" became a commonplace term in economic and political discourse, and these currents underscore the fluidity of spatial and personal identifications. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBG; HBLL; HBLW; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 210 x 17. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publisher
Belknap Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674281332
ISBN
9780674281332
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.07

Hardcover. "A superb piece of scholarship."--Anthony Long, author of "Hellenistic Philosophy" Series: Sather Classical Lectures. Num Pages: 271 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 1QSM; HBG; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 230 x 25. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520073029
ISBN
9780520073029
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.44
€ 47.93

Hardback. -- Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University Series: New Directions in World Politics. Num Pages: 497 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW3; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 165. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
497
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231072786
ISBN
9780231072786
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.92
€ 87.64

hardcover. Editor(s): Elvin, Mark; Skinner, G. William. Num Pages: 472 pages, figs.tabs.M. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150. Weight in Grams: 955.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1974
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
472
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804708531
ISBN
9780804708531
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.58

Hardcover. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; JFCD; WCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 261 x 18. Weight in Grams: 746.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781935623809
ISBN
9781935623809
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 39.40

Paperback. A Woman's Place is based upon Elizabeth Roberts's interviews with 160 elderly people from the towns of Barrow, Lancaster and Preston. They recall their memories of family life as children, youths and adults in the period between the last decade of the nineteenth century and the outbreak of the Second World War. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JFSG; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 222 x 17. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
Reissue
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631147541
ISBN
9780631147541
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.02

Paperback. Num Pages: 270 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1MBF; HBG; HBLW; JFSJ1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 247 x 176 x 21. Weight in Grams: 738.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Aboriginal Studies Press Australia
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780855753139
ISBN
9780855753139
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 21.79

Hardback. Focusing on the socio-cultural as well as the political dimensions of the Sergius cult, this study sheds light on the lives of the ordinary faithful, as well as on religion's place in the strategic calculations of hostile empires. It discusses Arab Christianity in the context of late Roman culture in the East. Series: Transformation of the Classical Heritage. Num Pages: 246 pages, 17 figures, including b/w photographs and line illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; HBG; HBJF; HBLA; HRKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 166 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520216853
ISBN
9780520216853
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.87
€ 55.68

Paperback. Offers an insight into Victorian England's criminal past and the characters that were forced to spend time in the unforgiving environment of a 19th-century gaol. This book focuses on the photographic documentation of convicts, and contains over 350 images of prisoners, recording the evolution of criminal records. Num Pages: 128 pages, ports. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 166 x 11. Weight in Grams: 352.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752451299
ISBN
9780752451299
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.24

Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; HBG; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801441165
ISBN
9780801441165
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 102.37

Paperback. An illustrated history of the pastoral nomadic way of life in Mongolia, this book examines the many challenges that Mongolian herders continue to face in the struggle over natural resources in the post-socialist free market era. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBJF; HBL; HBTB; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2012
Number of pages
239
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349444038
ISBN
9781349444038
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 122.03

Paperback. This study explores the extraordinary afterlife of the Spanish legend of King Roderick and La Cava in plays, poems, novels and operas from the Eighth century to the present day. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBG; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349534951
ISBN
9781349534951
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.83

Hardback. Num Pages: 252 pages, illus. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Germany
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9783525534564
ISBN
9783525534564
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.77

Paperback. The author turns a critical lens on prejudice, surveying the study of prejudice since World War II. She suggests an approach that distinguishes between different types of prejudices, the people who hold them, the social and political settings that promote them, and the human needs they fulfill. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW3; JFF; JFSL1; JPVK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 39. Weight in Grams: 810.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
640
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674031913
ISBN
9780674031913
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.09

Paperback. Through their diaries, letters and memoirs, meet the women who defied convention and followed their convictions to defend the less fortunate and fight for their country. Num Pages: 288 pages, 40 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 3JJF; HBG; HBWN; JFSJ1; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780750979504
ISBN
9780750979504
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.10

Hardcover. A pioneering investigation into the practices and methodologies used in the search for and exhumation of dead bodies resulting from mass violence. Editor(s): Anstett, Elisabeth; Dreyfus, Jean-Marc. Series Editor(s): Anstett, Elisabeth. Series: Human Remains and Violence. Num Pages: 264 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HDW; JFFE; JKVF1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 26. Weight in Grams: 450.
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719097560
ISBN
9780719097560
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 164.10

Paperback. Focusing on the British empire, this book assesses the extent to which Jews participated in the institution of slavery through investment in slave trading companies, ownership of slave ships, commercial activity as merchants who sold slaves upon their arrival from Africa, and direct ownership of slaves. Series: New Perspectives on Jewish Studies. Num Pages: 386 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLH; HBLL; HBTS; JFSL3; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
386
Condition
New
Edition
New Ed
SKU
V9780814726396
ISBN
9780814726396
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 30.65

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