History: specific events & topics
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History: specific events & topics
Paperback. This anthology makes available to students and general readers the rich variety of Victorian magazines for women. The extracts range from fashion magazines to feminist journals, from serious works for Christian mothers to tales of romance and passion for 'sweethearts'. Editor(s): Beetham, Margaret; Boardman, Kay. Num Pages: 242 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; DNF; GBCS; HBT; JFC; JFSJ1; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 171 x 13. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719058790
- ISBN
- 9780719058790
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.87
€ 33.87
Hardback. Presents readers with scholarship on public celebrations and popular culture throughout Mexican history. This book discusses aspects of Mexico's popular culture from the seventeenth century onwards. It examines a range of Mexican expression, including Corpus Christi celebrations, New Spain, stone murals, and folk theater. Editor(s): Beezley, William H.; etc.; Martin, Cheryl E. (University of Texas, El Paso, USA); French, William E. (University of British Columbia, Canada). Series: Latin American Silhouettes. Num Pages: 374 pages, photographs, further reading. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3J; HBTB; JFC; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 699.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 374
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780842024167
- ISBN
- 9780842024167
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 153.26
€ 153.26
Hardback. Examines the Independence holiday, exploring how this most important public festival in the civic calendar has given Mexicans a rich tradition of national celebration that is part creation myth, part official pomp, and part popular merrymaking. This work looks at how Independence Day festivities have provided a medium for informal education. Editor(s): Beezley, William H.; Lorey, David E. Series: Latin American Silhouettes. Num Pages: 261 pages, photographs, index. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; ASZP; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780842029148
- ISBN
- 9780842029148
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 165.34
€ 165.34
Hardback. Editor(s): Berenson, Edward; Duclert, Vincent; Prochasson, Christophe. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJ; HBJD; HBTB; JPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 685.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801449017
- ISBN
- 9780801449017
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 159.79
€ 159.79
paperback. Culture does not become 'culture' until it is consumed. This is a radical new interpretation of early modern social history by leading specialists from North America and Europe, who explore a wide variety of topics. Editor(s): Bermingham, Ann; Brewer, John. Num Pages: 664 pages, 61 black & white halftones, 54 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 3JD; 3JF; HBG; HBLH; HBTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 174 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 664
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415159975
- ISBN
- 9780415159975
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 134.06
€ 134.06
This book examines a decade of extraordinary ferment in ideas, and the battles about those ideas out of which emerged the Britain of the late-twentieth century. Editor(s): Black, Lawrence; Pemberton, Hugh; Thane, Pat. Num Pages: 288 pages, Line drawings, black & white|Tables, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPL; HBJD1; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 164 x 28. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719088148
- ISBN
- 9780719088148
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 164.90
€ 164.90
Paperback. Editor(s): Blowen, Sarah; Demossier, Marion; Picard, Jeanine. Series: Contemporary France Series. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBTD; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571814999
- ISBN
- 9781571814999
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.73
€ 44.73
Paperback. Editor(s): Boesen, Elisabeth; Lentz, Fabienne; Margue, Michel; Scuto, Denis; Wagener, Renee. Series: Histoire. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 b/w. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag Germany
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837621167
- ISBN
- 9783837621167
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 34.63
€ 48.99
€ 34.63
Hardback. Sugar was the single most valuable bulk commodity traded internationally before oil became the world's prime resource. This book questions some major assumptions about the nexus between sugar production and colonial societies in the Caribbean and Southeast Asia, especially in the second (post-1800) colonial era. Editor(s): Bosma, Ulbe; Guisti-Cordero, Juan A.; Knight, G. Roger. Series: International Studies in Social History. Num Pages: bibliog., index. BIC Classification: 1F; 1K; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTQ; KNAC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845453169
- ISBN
- 9781845453169
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.51
€ 158.51
Hardback. This book argues that, despite the scholarly emphasis on 20th-century congressional history, it is necessary to study the nation's first 150 years in order to understand more fully the evolution and functioning of the modern Congress. Editor(s): Brady, David; McCubbins, Mathew D. Series: Social Science History. Num Pages: 576 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBT; JPA; JPHC; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 36. Weight in Grams: 866.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804745703
- ISBN
- 9780804745703
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 257.07
€ 257.07
Paperback. The Renaissance Conscience presents one of the first modern studies to explore the variety of ways in which people during the Renaissance conversed with - and let themselves be guided by - their conscience. Editor(s): Braun, Professor Harald E.; Vallance, Edward. Series: Renaissance Studies Special Issues. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLH; HBTB; HPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 8. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444335668
- ISBN
- 9781444335668
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.58
€ 39.58
The World of John Winthrop. England and New England, 1588-1649.
. Ed(S): Bremer, Francis J.; Botelho, Lynn A.
Paperback. When John Winthrop, first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, emigrated from Stuart England to America, he and the colonists who accompanied him carried much of their culture with them. This title includes the essays that assert a unity to the transatlantic and Puritan, Anglo-American sphere, integrating the English and colonial stories. Editor(s): Bremer, Francis J.; Botelho, Lynn A. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; 3JB; HBJK; HBLH; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Massachusetts Historical Society United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780934909969
- ISBN
- 9780934909969
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.02
€ 52.02
Paperback. Presents the documented history of how the Navajo people lived, how they worked and how they died waiting for compassionate federal compensation for laboring in the most hazardous conditions imaginable, and which were known at the time yet concealed from them. Editor(s): Brugge, Doug; Benally, Timothy; Yazzie-Lewis, Esther. Num Pages: 230 pages, 13 halftones, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSL9; KNAT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826337795
- ISBN
- 9780826337795
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 22.82
€ 26.99
€ 22.82
Paperback. In this volume a cast of experts demonstrates that it is time to recognize human trafficking as an issue of human rights and social justice, rooted in larger structural issues relating to the global economy, human security, U.S. foreign policy, and labor and gender relations. Editor(s): Brysk, Alison; Choi-Fitzpatrick, Austin. Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights. Num Pages: 280 pages, 2 illus. BIC Classification: HBTS; JKVM; JPVH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812222760
- ISBN
- 9780812222760
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.70
€ 43.70
Paperback. The effects of floods, droughts, hurricanes, and earthquakes and tsunamis have destroyed people's lives and their built environments, and changed land forms, such as mountains, rivers, forests, and canyons. This collection of essays focuses on earthquakes in Latin America since the mid-nineteenth century. Editor(s): Buchenau, Jurgen; Johnson, Lyman L. Series Editor(s): Johnson, Lyman L. Series: Dialogos. Num Pages: 272 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBJK; HBTB; RNR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826346230
- ISBN
- 9780826346230
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.79
€ 40.79
Paperback. Crime has played a complicated role in the history of human social relations. This volume focuses on Mexico's social and cultural history through the lens of celebrated cases of social deviance from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Each essay centers on a different crime story and explores the documentary record of each case. Editor(s): Buffington, Robert; Piccato, Pablo. Series Editor(s): Johnson, Lyman L. Series: Dialogos. Num Pages: 312 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBTB; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826345295
- ISBN
- 9780826345295
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.16
€ 41.16
Refugees from Nazi Germany and the Liberal European States
. Ed(S): Caestecker, Frank; Moore, Dr. Bob
Hardback. The exodus of refugees from Nazi Germany in the 1930s has received far more attention from historians, social scientists, and demographers than many other migrations and persecutions in Europe. Editor(s): Caestecker, Frank; Moore, Dr. Bob. Num Pages: 360 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 166 x 26. Weight in Grams: 664.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455873
- ISBN
- 9781845455873
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 168.76
€ 168.76
Editor(s): Carter, Sarah; Nugent, Late Maria. Series Editor(s): Thompson, Andrew; MacKenzie, John. Series: Studies in Imperialism. Num Pages: 280 pages, 4 maps, Illustrations, black & white|Maps. BIC Classification: 1QDB; 3JH; HBLL; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 282 x 25. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784991401
- ISBN
- 9781784991401
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.23
€ 162.23
Authority, Identity and the Social History of the Great War
. Ed(S): Coetzee, Frans; Coetzee, Marilyn She...
Hardback. The unprecedented scope and intensity of the First World War has prompted an enormous body of retrospective scholarship. However, efforts to provide a coherent synthesis about the war's impact and significance have remained circumscribed, tending to focus either on the operational outlines of military strategy and tactics or on the cultural legacy. Editor(s): Coetzee, Frans; Coetzee, Marilyn Shevin. Num Pages: 384 pages, Bibliog., Index. BIC Classification: 3JJF; HBG; HBJD; HBTB; HBWN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 593.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571810175
- ISBN
- 9781571810175
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 169.75
€ 169.75