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Hardcover. Series: The Dickens Companions. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Helm Information Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781873403563
ISBN
9781873403563
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 190.60

Paperback. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 334.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
25th
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241293645
ISBN
9780241293645
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.66

Paperback. This book provides an historical account of feminism, exploring its earliest roots and key issues such as voting rights and the liberation of the sixties. Margaret Walters brings the subject completely up to date by providing a global analysis of the situation of women, from Europe and the United States to Third World countries. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 176 pages, numerous halftones. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 114 x 10. Weight in Grams: 136.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780192805102
ISBN
9780192805102
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. An expansive new biography of Sojourner Truth, charismatic preacher and activist Num Pages: 520 pages, 38 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: BG; HBJK; HBTS; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 346 x 236 x 34. Weight in Grams: 914.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
520
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252078019
ISBN
9780252078019
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.39

paperback. Num Pages: 424 pages, 16 pp. color + 87 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBTB; JFSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 217 x 33. Weight in Grams: 584.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300212358
ISBN
9780300212358
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.36

Paperback. Examines how people acquired and read books from the sixteenth century to the present, focusing on the personal relationships between readers and the volumes they owned. This title also investigates the means by which books were sold, and lends insights into the ways booksellers and publishers marketed their wares. Num Pages: 304 pages, 90 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: GL; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 596.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Yale University Press
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300164046
ISBN
9780300164046
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.23

Hardback. "Overview of student protests from across the world in 1968."--Provided by publisher. Editor(s): Carey, Elaine. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBLW; HBTB; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 224 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781624665271
ISBN
9781624665271
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.16
€ 46.48

Paperback.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752460918
ISBN
9780752460918
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.45

Paperback. Tales of child sacrifice, demon lovers, incestual relations, and returns from the dead are part of English and Irish gothic literature. This book shows how Anglo-Irish gothic works written from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries reflect the destructive effects of imperialism on the children. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822324140
ISBN
9780822324140
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.42

Paperback. #1 New York Times Bestseller NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Oscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA's African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America's space program. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780008201326
ISBN
9780008201326
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.37

Hardcover. Traces the history of the concepts of civility and civilization in nineteenth-century Europe and Asia and explores why and how emotions were an asset in civilizing peoples and societies - their control and management, but also their creation and their ascription to different societies and social groups. Series: Emotions in History. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 1F; 3JH; HBLL; HBTB; JMQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 167 x 242 x 29. Weight in Grams: 716.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198745532
ISBN
9780198745532
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 187.81

Paperback. A portrait of the author's pioneer father that grew out of the hours of listening behind the stove or the wood box. This book contains the accounts of the hunts, of the fights with the cattlemen and the sheepmen, of the scarcity of women, when a man had to 'marry anything that got off the train,' of the droughts, storms, wind and isolation. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 136 x 24. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803293243
ISBN
9780803293243
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.72

Paperback. Tells the remarkable story of the bagel's journey from the tables of seventeenth-century Poland to the freezers of middle America, a story of often surprising connections between a cheap market-day snack and centuries of Polish, Jewish, and American history. Num Pages: 242 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 292.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300158205
ISBN
9780300158205
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.86

Paperback. The political upheaval in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala had a devastating human toll at the end of the twentieth century. Many of those who survived the wars chose temporary refuge in neighboring countries such as Honduras and Costa Rica. This book tells the story of that migration. Num Pages: 289 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; HBTB; JFFN; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 63.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
289
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520247017
ISBN
9780520247017
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Yale University Press
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300176056
ISBN
9780300176056
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.90
€ 61.48

Hardback. Brings together work by area specialists and the research on the sea itself in the early modern period, the maritime trade that flourished there, the ships which travelled it and the men who sailed them. This book is suitable for those interested in maritime history, naval history, and the history of the early modern world. Editor(s): Fusaro, Maria; Heywood, Colin; Omri, Mohamed-Salah. Series: International Library of Historical Studies. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 140 x 32. Weight in Grams: 542.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
336
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848851634
ISBN
9781848851634
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 153.81
€ 137.06

Paperback. In Indian Given Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo provides a sweeping historical and comparative analysis of racial ideologies in Mexico and the United States from 1550 to the present to show how indigenous peoples provided the condition of possibility for the emergence of each nation. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 352 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL4; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 524.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822360148
ISBN
9780822360148
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Hardback. In Indian Given Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo provides a sweeping historical and comparative analysis of racial ideologies in Mexico and the United States from 1550 to the present to show how indigenous peoples provided the condition of possibility for the emergence of each nation. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 352 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL4; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 613.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822359883
ISBN
9780822359883
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.33

Hardcover. This gorgeous companion book to the PBS series illuminates an important, overlooked part of American history. Num Pages: 320 pages, 150 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 280 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1226.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393241297
ISBN
9780393241297
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 31.92

Paperback. The first book to tackle the controversial history of prostitution in modern Ireland. Num Pages: 368 pages, 13 b/w illus. 2 maps 12 tables. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 596.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
9780521709057
ISBN
9780521709057
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.77

paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 201 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 202 x 12. Weight in Grams: 531.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Globe Pequot United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781493019366
ISBN
9781493019366
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.07

Hardback. Technology was key to European colonialism. Via technology, Europeans mapped non-European territories - and controlled the flow of people and resources, goods and information. Read stories of technologies introduced and creatively adapted. Discover how globalization as we know it differs from what Europeans once intended. Series: Making Europe. Num Pages: 312 pages, 68 b & w photos. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBTQ; JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 192. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230279636
ISBN
9780230279636
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.48

Hardcover. By 1989 it was obvious that the majority of Hungary's population wanted fundamental political, economic and social changes. These essays examine the components of the peaceful transition that over a ten-year period led to democracy in Hungary. Editor(s): Schmidt, Maria; Toth, Laszlo. Series: EEM Atlantic Studies on Society in Change. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJPR; HBJD; HBTB; JPHV; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 147 x 39. Weight in Grams: 817.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
East European Monographs United States
Edition
EEM #574
Number of pages
640
Condition
New
SKU
V9780880334723
ISBN
9780880334723
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.90
€ 59.90

Hardback. Drawing on hundreds of unpublished court records, Marie Kelleher examines how women in the fourteenth-century Crown of Aragon engaged with patriarchal assumptions to shape their own legal identities, thus playing a crucial role in the formation of a gendered legal culture that shaped women's lives throughout Europe for centuries afterwards. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3H; HBJD; HBLC1; HBTB; JFSJ1; LAZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812242560
ISBN
9780812242560
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.26

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