History: specific events & topics
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History: specific events & topics
Hardcover. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780809333950
- ISBN
- 9780809333950
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.96
€ 51.96
Paperback. This book details the French colonial experience in Illinois from 1720 to 1770 through vivid depictions of the places, people, and events around the fort and its neighboring villages. The biographies and historical narrative in the volume illuminate the challenges that shaped the French colonies in America. " Num Pages: 264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 525.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780809334605
- ISBN
- 9780809334605
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.91
€ 37.91
Hardcover. After the defeat of Germany in World War II, 140,000 Jewish survivors of the Holocaust were transported to camps maintained by the Allies for displaced persons (DPs). In this study, two historians offer an administrative, social and cultural history of the DP camps. Translator(s): Broadwin, John A. Series: Jewish Lives S. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJPG; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810114760
- ISBN
- 9780810114760
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.45
€ 81.45
Paperback. A collection of 19 essays focusing on how various fields of study can open new perspectives on the Holocaust. Culture and politics in Germany after 1933 are examined, and the memorialization of those years, and the shocking denials of the Holocaust are addressed. Num Pages: 280 pages, 280. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1; JFC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 227 x 26. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810116665
- ISBN
- 9780810116665
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.66
€ 43.66
Hardback. A challenging account of the systematic and brutal slaughter of Jews in Latvia during the Second World War. Translator(s): Mazzarins, Laimdota. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUC; 3JJH; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 333.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810117280
- ISBN
- 9780810117280
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.18
€ 70.18
Hardcover. Recalling his experience of the ghetto at six years old, Michal Glowinski, attentive to the distance between a child's experience and an adult's reflection, revisits the images and episodes of his childhood. He explores the horror of those years, the fragility of existence, and the fragmented nature of memory itself. Translator(s): Shore, Marci. Series: Jewish Lives S. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVP; BG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810119581
- ISBN
- 9780810119581
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.02
€ 70.02
Paperback. 'Bridges of Memory' tells of those in Chicago who left social, political, and economic oppression for political freedom and opportunity as had never been known - and of forms of prejudice and segregation. These recollections comprise a record of a neighbourhood, a city, a society, and a people undergoing unprecedented changes. Num Pages: 616 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; HBTB; HBTD; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 255 x 178 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1116.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 616
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810123151
- ISBN
- 9780810123151
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 34.86
€ 35.99
€ 34.86
Paperback. "First published 2006 by PublicAffairs under the title The First and Final Nightmare of Sonia Reich: A Son's Memoir." Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; BM; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810127951
- ISBN
- 9780810127951
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.20
€ 19.99
€ 19.20
Hardcover. Num Pages: 67 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Marlboro Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810160200
- ISBN
- 9780810160200
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.77
€ 60.77
Paperback. This text is the memoir of a French girl whose mother was taken by the SS in 1944 and interned in Aushwitz. On her return at the end of the war, the mother's health was irreparably damaged, but she wanted to talk. Unwilling to put her story in writing herself, the task was left to her daughter. Translator(s): Wainhouse, Austryn. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJH; BG; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Marlboro Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810160774
- ISBN
- 9780810160774
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 25.66
€ 30.99
€ 25.66
Hardcover. Focuses on the discrepancy between the representation and the reality of children's experiences within welfare institutions. This book argues that this discrepancy stems from conflicts over middle and working-class notions of citizenship. It urges readers to reconsider the stereotypically dire situation of families living in poverty. Num Pages: 288 pages, 24 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JH; HBTB; JFFA; JKSB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813537221
- ISBN
- 9780813537221
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.06
€ 76.06
Paperback. Presenting an illustrated history, this book calls upon several photographs and newspaper clippings that uncover the story of how the Irish in New Jersey maintained their cultural roots. It is suitable for those interested in the cultural heritage of a proud and accomplished people. Num Pages: 240 pages, 181 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEJ; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 13. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813538600
- ISBN
- 9780813538600
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.11
€ 34.99
€ 29.11
Paperback. The 1960s are commonly considered to be the beginning of a distinct "teenage culture" in America. But did this highly visible era of free love and rock 'n' roll really mark the start of adolescent defiance? This title follows the roots of American teenage identity further back, to the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Num Pages: 224 pages, 29 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFFN; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813543109
- ISBN
- 9780813543109
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.12
€ 47.12
Paperback. In 1978, residents of predominantly African American Warren County, North Carolina, were horrified to learn that the state planned to build a landfill in their country to hold forty thousand cubic yards of soil that was contaminated with PCBs from illegal dumping. This book traces the approaches that residents took to contest environmental racism. Num Pages: 220 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFN; HBJK; HBTB; RNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813546780
- ISBN
- 9780813546780
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.06
€ 45.06
Paperback. This volume of essays provides a portrait of antebellum slave life in the American South. Contributions from historians such as Drew Gilpin Faust, Charles Joyner and Theresa A. Singleton reveal the everyday horrors and inspiring stories of survival that characterized slave life. Editor(s): Campbell, Edward D.C.; Rice, Kym S.; Campbell Jr., Edward D.C. (Director, Archival and Information Services Division, Library of Virginia, Richmond, USA). Num Pages: 300 pages, 125 b&w illustrations, 25 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 798.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813913322
- ISBN
- 9780813913322
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.40
€ 38.40
Paperback. This work brings together 16 essays in cultural history. Taken together, the essays aim to provide a reassessment of the complex process of cultural adjustment among the settler societies of colonial British and revolutionary America. Editor(s): Greene, Jack P. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 689.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813914084
- ISBN
- 9780813914084
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.05
€ 45.05
Paperback. During the 16th century close to 30 German dukes, landgraves, margraves and counts, plus one Holy Roman emperor, were known as mad - so mentally disordered that steps had to be taken to remove them from office or to obtain medical care for them. This book studies them as a group and in context. Series: Studies in Early Modern German History. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JB; HBTB; JFC; MBX; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813915012
- ISBN
- 9780813915012
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.97
€ 36.97
Paperback. These essays, drawn from the author's work since 1964, address three themes in American history in the century preceding the 1760s: authority in colonial British America; the political and constitutional development of these colonial entities; and shifting constitutional tensions within the empire. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTQ; HBTR; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 821.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813915173
- ISBN
- 9780813915173
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.05
€ 45.05
Paperback. From racial disturbances in Miami has emerged the image that Blacks, Hispanics and Anglos are pitted against one another for resources. This text explores the construction of ethnic identities and ethnic group conflict, including interviews with politicians, journalists and business people. Series: Race, Ethnicity and Politics. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPN; HBTB; JFF; JFSL1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813917054
- ISBN
- 9780813917054
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.76
€ 39.76
Paperback. Addresses the role of Southern women during the Civil War; topics include the experiences of female slaves, the lives of rural and non-elite refugee women, the effects of the post-war era on African-American women and the legacy of the Civil War in women's suffrage movements. Editor(s): Campbell, Edward D.C.; Rice, Kym S.; Campbell Jr, Edward D.C. (Director of Archival and Information Services, Library of Virginia, Richmond, USA). Series: The Museum of the Confederacy. Num Pages: 236 pages, 70 b&w illustrations, 20 colour photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HBWJ; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 13. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813917399
- ISBN
- 9780813917399
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.23
€ 41.23