History: earliest times to present day
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History: earliest times to present day
Paperback. Divided into 4 parts, this book examines the cause of the demise of the slave trade to Bahia (a province of Brazil) by 1851. It traces Bahia's abolitionist movement through the enactment of the Law of the Free Womb in 1871, and focuses on the role of Candomble, an African religion practiced by the Africans of Brazil, in ending slavery in the area. Series: Dialogos. Num Pages: 324 pages, 13 halftones, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826340511
- ISBN
- 9780826340511
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.12
€ 43.12
Hardcover. In 1968, at the peak of the Vietnam War, Congressman Melvin Laird agreed to serve as Richard Nixon's secretary of defense. Lampooned as a "missile head," but decisive in crafting an exit strategy, he pursued his program of Vietnamization. This biography reveals his role in managing the crisis of national identity sparked by the Vietnam War. Num Pages: 648 pages, 40 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1030.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299226800
- ISBN
- 9780299226800
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 33.83
€ 35.99
€ 33.83
Hardback. Num Pages: 384 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; LAF; LN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 742.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801439568
- ISBN
- 9780801439568
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.79
€ 125.79
hardcover. Medieval Monsters shows how strange creatures sparked artists' imaginations to remarkable heights. Half-human hybrids of land and sea mingle with bewitching demons, blemmyae, cyclops and multi-headed beasts of nightmare and comic grotesques. Over 100 wondrous and terrifying images offer a fascinating insight into the medieval mind. Num Pages: 96 pages, 100 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3F; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC1; HBTB; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 198 x 16. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- British Library
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780712357906
- ISBN
- 9780712357906
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.19
€ 17.99
€ 13.19
Paperback. Churchill's SOE and the Race to Stop the Nazi Bomb Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781786482105
- ISBN
- 9781786482105
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.69
€ 14.99
€ 11.69
paperback. The thrilling untold story of Churchill's private army. Num Pages: 416 pages, 8 page b/w plate section. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848668553
- ISBN
- 9781848668553
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.23
€ 17.99
€ 13.23
hardcover. Prejudice and Pride examines and compares how English and French Canadian intellectuals viewed American society from 1891 to 1945. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBC; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442640450
- ISBN
- 9781442640450
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.39
€ 77.39
Hardcover. There has been a tendency amongst scholars to view Switzerland as a unique case, and comparative scholarship on the radical right has therefore shown little interest in the country. Yet, as the author convincingly argues, there is little justification for maintaining the notion of Swiss exceptionalism.. Num Pages: 480 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFH; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; JPFM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 32. Weight in Grams: 800.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455804
- ISBN
- 9781845455804
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 198.64
€ 198.64
Paperback. Georgian London evokes images of elegant buildings and fine art, but it was also a city where prostitution was rife. Examining the nature of the sex trade, this title offers an insight into the impact of prostitution to give a vivid portraits of some of the women who became involved in its world. Num Pages: 672 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps, ports. (some col.). BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 44. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Number of pages
- 672
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099527961
- ISBN
- 9780099527961
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.79
€ 21.99
€ 15.79
Hardcover. Chronicles twentieth century history as "universal civil war" between a succession of conflicting dualisms such as freedom and equality, race and class, capitalism and communism, liberalism and fascism, East and West. Series: George L. Mosse Series In Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 581.
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299223502
- ISBN
- 9780299223502
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.46
€ 48.46
Hardback. Argues that Islam's cultural stasis is not due to the Muslim faith itself, but to the nature of the sacred it is infused with and that penetrates every aspect of life - spiritual and material. This book shows how the sacred in Islam suspends the acceleration of social time, hinders change, and circumvents secularization and modernity. Translator(s): Rendall, Steven. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1QFM; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; JFSR2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 280. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691129112
- ISBN
- 9780691129112
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.70
€ 41.70
Paperback. What was the Enlightenment? Seeking to recover where, when, and how the concept of 'the Enlightenment' first emerged, this title departs from genealogies that trace it back to political and philosophical developments in England and the Dutch Republic. Num Pages: 184 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: DSBD; HBJD; HBLL; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 14. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226184494
- ISBN
- 9780226184494
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.21
€ 40.21
Hardcover. Argues that the revolutionaries of eighteenth-century France used the natural right concept of the 'enemy of the human race' - an individual who has transgressed the laws of nature and must be executed without judicial formalities - to authorize three-quarters of the deaths during the Terror. Num Pages: 350 pages, 6 halftones, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTV2; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 237 x 28. Weight in Grams: 698.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226184388
- ISBN
- 9780226184388
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.62
€ 72.62
Hardback. What was the Enlightenment? Seeking to recover where, when, and how the concept of 'the Enlightenment' first emerged, this title departs from genealogies that trace it back to political and philosophical developments in England and the Dutch Republic. Num Pages: 184 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: DSBD; HBJD; HBLL; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226184470
- ISBN
- 9780226184470
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.37
€ 126.37
paperback. Argues that the revolutionaries of eighteenth-century France used the natural right concept of the 'enemy of the human race' - an individual who has transgressed the laws of nature and must be executed without judicial formalities - to authorize three-quarters of the deaths during the Terror. Num Pages: 350 pages, 6 halftones, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTV2; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 2. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780226184395
- ISBN
- 9780226184395
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.99€ 28.09
€ 39.99
€ 28.09
Hardback. La Vraie Cronicque D'Escoce, The Scottis Originale, The Chronicle of the Scots, The Ynglis Chronicle, Nomina Omnium Regum Scotorum, The Brevis Chronica, The St Andrews Chronicle. Series: Medieval Chronicles S. 408 pages, black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Embree, Dan; Kennedy, Edward Donald; Daly, Kathleen. Edition, with facing translation, of chronicles from the late medieval/early modern period, concerning the history of Scotland. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBJD1; HBLC1. Dimension: 161 x 242 x 32. Weight: 844.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843837459
- ISBN
- 9781843837459
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 170.36
€ 170.36
Paperback. A riveting story about the murder that changed a nation: the assassination of the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Num Pages: 320 pages, 16 pages of illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 3JJPR; HBJF1; HBLW3; JPHL; JPWL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 208 x 21. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393353242
- ISBN
- 9780393353242
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.26
€ 17.99
€ 16.26
hardcover. A riveting story about the murder that changed a nation: the assassination of the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16 pages of illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 3JJPR; 3JM; HBJF1; HBLW3; HBLX; JPWL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 29. Weight in Grams: 604. Fine in fine dust wrapper. DW showing light shelf wear, remains very fine
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KSG0031718
- ISBN
- 9780393242096
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 6.23
€ 6.23
Hardback. Num Pages: 144 pages, 150+ b/w photos & line drawings. BIC Classification: 3JJG; HBG; HBLW; JWMV; WGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 286 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1020.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764301469
- ISBN
- 9780764301469
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 34.80
€ 52.99
€ 34.80
Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBJF; HBLW; HBWS2; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 204 x 47. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780062375124
- ISBN
- 9780062375124
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.52
€ 19.99
€ 18.52