History: specific events & topics
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History: specific events & topics
Paperback. The next chapter in Robert Douglas's remarkable life story picks up from the bestselling NIGHT SONG OF THE LAST TRAM Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKSC; BGA; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340898444
- ISBN
- 9780340898444
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.62
€ 14.99
€ 11.62
Paperback. The third volume in Robert Douglas's remarkable life story picks up from the bestselling SOMEWHERE TO LAY MY HEAD and brings us up to the present day. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBKSC; BGA; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340935309
- ISBN
- 9780340935309
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.76
€ 14.99
€ 11.76
Hardback. There has long been a view that the farming communities to be found in the Highlands prior to the Clearances were archaic forms. This study confronts this conflict over the question of continuity/discontinuity debate through an analysis of the cultural landscape. Num Pages: 320 pages, 12 b&w illustrations, 32 b&w line art. BIC Classification: 1DBKSH; HBL; HBTP; TV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474400749
- ISBN
- 9781474400749
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.65
€ 133.65
Hardback. A unique and overdue insight and study into how the landscape, institutions and collective memory has influenced the representation of the past on British television from 1946 to the present day, promoting a very singular view of what it means to be British. Series Editor(s): Richards, Jeffrey. Series: Studies in Popular Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DBK; APT; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 242 x 166 x 26. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719080920
- ISBN
- 9780719080920
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.76
€ 144.76
Paperback. This book demonstrates that territoriality for humans is not an instinct, but a powerful and often indispensable geographical strategy used to control people. Series: Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HBTP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521311809
- ISBN
- 9780521311809
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.25
€ 48.25
paperback. Robert Darnton explores the scandalous literature of libel and the colorful lives of libelers in eighteenth-century France. By doing so he shows how an ideological current eroded authority under the Old Regime and became absorbed in a new, more radical, political culture under Robespierre. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 552 pages, 47 illus. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTV2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 38. Weight in Grams: 912.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 552
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812221718
- ISBN
- 9780812221718
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.97
€ 57.97
Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 281.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674569515
- ISBN
- 9780674569515
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.20
€ 53.20
Paperback. In the eighteenth century, the Western world viewed circumcision as an embarrassing disfigurement peculiar to Jews. Why does circumcision usually mean circumcision of infants? Why does the pressure for health circumcision continue? This book offers essential background to the debates about the medical, ethical, and social aspects of circumcision. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBTB; JHBT; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226101101
- ISBN
- 9780226101101
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.96
€ 41.96
Hardcover. A new and holistic interpretation of one of the non-fiction sensations of the nineteenth century, Ernest Renan's Life of Jesus, this volume demonstrates how Renan's controversial work intervened in a remarkable range of debates in nineteenth-century French cultural life: not merely religious, but also social, intellectual, and cultural. Series: Oxford Historical Monographs. Num Pages: 288 pages, 7 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198728757
- ISBN
- 9780198728757
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 192.41
€ 192.41
Paperback. 'Anyone interested in military history or indeed history in general will find it fascinating to read.' The Spectator Num Pages: 448 pages, 25 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3B; 3D; 3F; 3H; 3J; HBG; HBT; JWA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- Pan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- Main Market
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780330487245
- ISBN
- 9780330487245
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.30
€ 21.99
€ 16.30
paperback. In 1984, America celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of the first successful roller coaster device erected at Coney Island. This book examines every phase of roller coaster history, from the use of the roller coaster by Albert Einstein to demonstrate his theory of physics, to John Allen's use of psychology in designing one. Num Pages: 258 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; WTHT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 621.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press United States
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780879723422
- ISBN
- 9780879723422
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.61
€ 46.61
Paperback. Suitable for those interested in African American studies, Caribbean studies, cultural studies, women's studies, and American studies, this book explores the paths taken by black nationalism in the United States and the Caribbean. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJ; HBTQ; HBTR; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822329732
- ISBN
- 9780822329732
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.10
€ 53.10
Paperback. In the mid-nineteenth century, American railroading was burgeoning--a growth too fast for safe operations. Despite the grim statistics of 19th and early 20th century train wrecks that resulted, one cannot help but find the photographs and public prints of the day interesting. Train buffs will see the antecedents of their hobby. Num Pages: 184 pages, 298 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; AJC; HBTB; WGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 276 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 898.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764301360
- ISBN
- 9780764301360
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 18.02
€ 25.99
€ 18.02
hardcover. Using primary documents, this work examines the characteristics of North Carolina's African-American population in order to explain the social and political factors that shaped economic opportunity for this group from the Civil War until 1915. Series: Carter G. Woodson Institute Series in Black Studies. Num Pages: 208 pages, 9 b&w illustrations, 26 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813917337
- ISBN
- 9780813917337
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Paperback. A major new global economic history that explains why the Industrial Revolution occurred in Britain. Series: New Approaches to Economic and Social History. Num Pages: 342 pages, 10 b/w illus. 21 tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTK; KCZ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 504. Series: New Approaches to Economic and Social History. 344 pages, 10 b/w illus. 21 tables. A major new global economic history that explains why the Industrial Revolution occurred in Britain. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTK; KCZ. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 16. Weight: 506.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 342
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521687850
- ISBN
- 9780521687850
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 34.87
€ 35.99
€ 34.87
Paperback. The Industrial Revolution was one of the great, transforming events of world history. Robert C. Allen explains what happened during this period, and why. He asks why the revolution occured in Britain rather than other countries, and looks at the impact of changing technology and business organizations on contemporary social structures. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 168 pages, 10 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBLL; HBT; HBTK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 114 x 174 x 11. Weight in Grams: 134.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198706786
- ISBN
- 9780198706786
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.61
€ 13.99
€ 11.61
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299227449
- ISBN
- 9780299227449
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.52
€ 49.52
Paperback. 'Masterly work .. undoubtedly a major study on the rabbinate. His controversial stand on many issues related to the Italian Renaissance has and will continue to stimulate fertile discussion.' Joanna Weinberg, Journal of Semitic Studies Translator(s): Chipman, Jonathan. Num Pages: 380 pages, 8 pages plates, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 135 x 22. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 380
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781874774174
- ISBN
- 9781874774174
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.83
€ 43.83
Hardcover. An exploration of time and space, rumors and silence, colors, tastes, and ideas that recreates the richness of Jewish life in Renaissance Italy. It points out that Jews were frequently uprooted and persecuted, and where stable communities did grow up, it was because the hostility of the Christian population had somehow been overcome. Translator(s): Oldcorn, Anthony. Num Pages: 336 pages, 20 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520073500
- ISBN
- 9780520073500
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.57
€ 92.57
Hardcover. Presents the practical treatment of the popular American phenomenon that dominated the United States photographic market during the first third of the twentieth century. This work addresses various aspects of the postcard from its history, origin, and cultural significance to practical matters like dating, purchasing, condition, and preservation. Num Pages: 288 pages, 367 black-&-white photographs, bibliography, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AJR; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1275.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815608516
- ISBN
- 9780815608516
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 39.48
€ 40.99
€ 39.48