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Hardback. Despite their historical importance, empires have received scant attention from social scientists. Now, Alexander J. Motyl examines the structure, dynamics, and continuing relevance of empire. Rejecting choice-centered theories of imperial decline, Motyl maintains that the very structure of empires promotes decay and that decay in turn facilitates the progressive loss of territory. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; JFFS; JPA; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231121101
- ISBN
- 9780231121101
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.33
€ 77.33
The Two Cities: A Chronicle of Universal History to the Year 1146
Otto, Bishop Of Otto, Bishop Of Freising
Paperback. The 12th-century bishop Otto of Freising was an outstanding historian of his century. "The Two Cities" was his masterwork, spanning in time from Adam and Eve to the coming of the last days - which he believed were imminent. Translator(s): Mierow, Charles Christopher. Series: Records of Western Civilization Series. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: 3D; 3F; HBG; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 151 x 29. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231126014
- ISBN
- 9780231126014
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.31
€ 58.31
Paperback. Argues that the West's attempts to remake foreign societies in its own image - even with the best of intentions - invariably fail. This title focuses on various operations in Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, East Timor, Afghanistan, and Iraq, comparing these cases to the colonial activities of Great Britain, France, and the United States. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 181 x 13. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231129121
- ISBN
- 9780231129121
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.29
€ 46.29
Hardback. Argues that the West's attempts to remake foreign societies in its own image - even with the best of intentions - invariably fail. This title focuses on various operations in Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, East Timor, Afghanistan, and Iraq, comparing these cases to the colonial activities of Great Britain, France, and the United States. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Printing
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231129138
- ISBN
- 9780231129138
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.70
€ 138.70
Hardback. Series: Columbia Studies in International and Global History. Num Pages: 480 pages, 16 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; JHBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 33. Weight in Grams: 822.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231147668
- ISBN
- 9780231147668
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.24
€ 97.24
Hardback. Series: Columbia Studies in International and Global History. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 tables. BIC Classification: HBG; KCBM; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231152525
- ISBN
- 9780231152525
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.89
€ 107.89
Hardback. Series: Columbia Business School Publishing. Num Pages: 368 pages, 6 illus., 16 tables. BIC Classification: HBG; KCL; KCZ; KJK; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 664.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- ADVANCED READER
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231153263
- ISBN
- 9780231153263
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.67
€ 41.67
Paperback. Editor(s): Lippit, Seiji M. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 272 pages, 3 illus.; 2 tables. BIC Classification: HBG; HPS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231157292
- ISBN
- 9780231157292
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.29
€ 46.29
Paperback. These essays suggest that influence and power may have paradoxically been available to women despite, and sometimes precisely because of, their subordinate position in society Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 163 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252065040
- ISBN
- 9780252065040
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.11
€ 54.11
Paperback. A harrowing account of Jewish refugees in the Philippines Num Pages: 248 pages, 30 photos; 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 3JJH; HBG; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; JFFD; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252075261
- ISBN
- 9780252075261
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.20
€ 29.20
Paperback. Investigating how intimacy is constructed across the restless world of empire Editor(s): Ballantyne, Tony; Burton, Antoinette. Num Pages: 368 pages, 7 photographs. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252075681
- ISBN
- 9780252075681
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.93
€ 39.93
Paperback. In the wake of Kristallnacht, November 9, 1938, the author and his parents fled their home in Germany and relocated to one of the few cities in the world that offered shelter without requiring a visa: the notorious pleasure capital, Shanghai. This title unfolds the Jewish life in the exotic sanctuary of Shanghai. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252076244
- ISBN
- 9780252076244
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.39
€ 29.39
Hardback. Explores a rare system of colonialism in Middle Belt Nigeria, where the British outsourced the business of the empire to Hausa-Fulani subcolonials because they considered the area too uncivilized for Indirect Rule. Num Pages: 294 pages, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1H; 1HFD; GTB; HBG; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253011602
- ISBN
- 9780253011602
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.07
€ 115.07
Paperback. " .. the best account we have of the World War II campaigns from Normandy to the Elbe." -American Historical Review" Num Pages: 822 pages, 10ill.23M. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBWQ; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 172 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1981
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 822
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253206084
- ISBN
- 9780253206084
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.29
€ 57.29
Paperback. Examines the feature film production of Fascist-era Italy Editor(s): Reich, Jacqueline. Num Pages: 384 pages, 25 b&w photos, 1 index. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJG; APFA; HBG; HBWQ; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253215185
- ISBN
- 9780253215185
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.48
€ 32.48
Hardcover. In October 1917, an invasion force of some 25,000 German soldiers, accompanied by a flotilla of 10 dreadnoughts, 350 other vessels, a half-dozen zeppelins, and 80 aircraft, attacked the Baltic islands at the head of the Gulf of Riga. This work presents an account of a little-known but dramatic World War I battle for control of the Baltic Islands. Series: Twentieth-Century Battles. Num Pages: 312 pages, 28 b&w photos, 9 maps. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTM; HBWN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 30. Weight in Grams: 685.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253349699
- ISBN
- 9780253349699
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.75
€ 48.75
Paperback. This study offers an overview of Jewish conditions in medieval Western Christendom, and discusses the changing patterns of Christian-Jewish polemical confrontation during the 12th and 13th centuries. Dahan analyzes the common literary genres through which Christians attempted to convert Jews. Translator(s): Gladding, Jody. Num Pages: 90 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBG; HBLC; HRAF; HRCM; HRJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 203 x 139 x 10. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268008307
- ISBN
- 9780268008307
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.67
€ 27.67
Paperback. Two interviews have been added to this second edition, in which Wiesel discusses religious faith in the face of evil and love, the moral responsibilities of Jews and non-Jews, the plight of the exiled, Jewish-Christian relations, antisemitism, and mystery and the ineffable. Translator(s): Rothschild, Jon; Gladding, Jody. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW; HRAB; HRAF; HRC; HRJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 299.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Univ of Notre Dame Pr
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268027582
- ISBN
- 9780268027582
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.40
€ 38.40
Hardcover. This text contains original essays by five leading scholars in the fields of history, art history, and literature on the ways in which communities were imagined and built between the 11th and 16th centuries. Editor(s): Howe, Nicholas. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3H; 3J; HBG; HRCX8; HRLP7; JFS; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268028626
- ISBN
- 9780268028626
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.28
€ 131.28
Paperback. Combining cultural, social, and political history, this volume measures the influence acquired by certain disciplines - in particular religious, literary, and legal - in the organization of European society. It looks at the evolution of social classes. Translator(s): Neal, Lisa. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; HBG; HBLC; HBTB; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press United States
- Edition
- English language ed
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268034511
- ISBN
- 9780268034511
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.99
€ 28.99