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The Backcountry and the City: Colonization and Conflict in Early Ameri...

Ed White

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 345.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2005
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages: 320
Condition: New
SKU: V9780816645596
ISBN: 9780816645596

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€ 36.46

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A Revolution for Our Rights: Indigenous Struggles for Land and Justice...

Paperback. Providing a re-assessement of the cause of Bolivia's 1952 revolution, this book argues that the revolution had deeper roots in the indigenous struggles for land and justice that swept through Bolivia during the first half of the twentieth century. It demonstrates that rural indigenous activists helped shape populist projects of 1930s and 1940s. Num Pages: 416 pages, 26 b&w photos, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSL; HBTV; JFC; JFSL9; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 25. Weight in Grams: 581.

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Publication date: 2008
Publisher: Duke University Press
Condition: New
SKU: V9780822340676
ISBN: 9780822340676

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€ 50.95

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Colbert, Mercantilism, and the French Quest for Asian Trade

Glenn Ames

Paperback. Num Pages: 259 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1F; 3JD; HBJD; HBJF; HBT; KCLT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 522.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press United States
Number of pages: 259
Condition: New
SKU: V9780875807584
ISBN: 9780875807584

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€ 46.89

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The British Whaling Trade: 29 (Research in Maritime History)

Gordon Jackson

Paperback. Series: Research in Maritime History. Num Pages: 293 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 150. .

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Publication date: 2004
Publisher: International Maritime Economic History Association Canada
Number of pages: 293
Condition: New
SKU: V9780973007398
ISBN: 9780973007398

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€ 49.46

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In the Shadow of the Swastika

Hermann Wygoda

Paperback. Presents a memoir of a defiant Polish Jew who commanded Italian resistance fighters during the Holocaust. Throughout the years of the Holocaust, Hermann Wygoda lived a life of narrow escapes, daring masquerades, and battles that almost defy reason. This book celebrates the memory of this man who received decorations from three Western powers. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 345.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2003
Publisher: University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages: 224
Condition: New
SKU: V9780252071393
ISBN: 9780252071393

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€ 34.01

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History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth

Paul Cohen

Paperback. A comprehensive look at the Boxer Rebellion of 1898-1900, a bloody uprising in north China against native Christians and foreign missionaries. Num Pages: 428 pages, 36 photos. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; HBTV; HRC; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 228 x 23. Weight in Grams: 596.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 1998
Publisher: Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages: 428
Condition: New
SKU: V9780231106511
ISBN: 9780231106511

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€ 57.49

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The Choice of the Jews under Vichy: Between Submission and Resistance

Adam Rayski

Hardcover. The Choice of the Jews under Vichy is written from the joint perspective of a historian and a participant in the events he describes. An organizer of the communist faction of the Jewish resistance in France, Rayski buttresses his analysis of war-era archival materials with his own personal testimony. Translator(s): Sayers, Will. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; HBJD; HBTB; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 158 x 30. Weight in Grams: 762.

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2005
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: New
SKU: V9780268040215
ISBN: 9780268040215

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€ 196.89

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Useless to the State: "Social Problems" and Social Engineering in Nati...

Zwia Lipkin

Hardcover. In 1911, when a professor took his students to tour Nanjing's shantytowns, one student was grateful as his eyes had been opened to the poverty in his own city. Years later, when another professor showed his students a film on the poor quarters of Nanjing, they demanded his expulsion. This book explores the reasons for these different reactions. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 424 pages, 35 b/w figures, 5 maps, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJG; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 164 x 36. Weight in Grams: 758.

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2006
Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center
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SKU: V9780674021327
ISBN: 9780674021327

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€ 68.86

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Fishing Wars and Environmental Change in Late Imperial and Modern Chin...

Micah S. Muscolino

Hardback. Explores interactions between society and environment in China's most important marine fishery, the Zhoushan Archipelago off the coast of Zhejiang and Jiangsu, from its nineteenth - century expansion to the exhaustion of the most important fish species in the 1970s. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 300 pages, 11 illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBTB; KNAF; RNF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 616.

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2010
Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages: 300
Condition: New
SKU: V9780674035980
ISBN: 9780674035980

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€ 62.39

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From Nazism to Communism: German Schoolteachers under Two Dictatorship...

Charles B. Lansing

Hardback. Tracing teachers' experiences in the Third Reich and East Germany, this title analyzes developments in education of crucial importance to both dictatorships. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; HBTB; JN; JPFC; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 29. Weight in Grams: 656.

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2010
Publisher: Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages: 320
Condition: New
SKU: V9780674050532
ISBN: 9780674050532

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€ 144.35

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A Swindler´s Progress: Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty

Kirsten McKenzie

Hardback. Part Regency mystery, part imperial history, this title presents a tale of adventure and deceit across two worlds - British aristocrats and Australian felons - bound together in an emerging age of opportunity and individualism, where personal worth was battling power based on birth alone. It illuminates the darker side of this age of liberty. Num Pages: 368 pages, 16 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1M; BTC; HBJD1; HBJM; HBTB; JFSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 662.

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2010
Publisher: Harvard University Press United States
Edition: First Edition
Number of pages: 368
Condition: New
SKU: V9780674052789
ISBN: 9780674052789

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€ 45.37

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Oral History at the Crossroads: Sharing Life Stories of Survival and D...

Steven High

Paperback. Drawing on a collaborative research project, this book provides an alternative model for how oral and public histories should be recorded and curated. Series: Shared: Oral and Public History Series. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: GPS; HBTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 680.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages: 456
Condition: New
SKU: V9780774826846
ISBN: 9780774826846