History: specific events & topics
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History: specific events & topics
Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 134 x 21. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1976
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226204772
- ISBN
- 9780226204772
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.63
€ 46.63
Hardcover. After its early introduction into the English colonies in North America, slavery in the United States lasted as a legal institution until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865. This book demonstrates that slavery was indeed an essential part of the foundation of the nascent republic. Num Pages: 408 pages, 1 line drawing, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JPHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 28. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226846682
- ISBN
- 9780226846682
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.58
€ 119.58
Paperback. After its early introduction into the English colonies in North America, slavery in the United States lasted as a legal institution until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865. This book demonstrates that slavery was indeed an essential part of the foundation of the nascent republic. Num Pages: 408 pages, 1 line drawing, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226846705
- ISBN
- 9780226846705
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.23
€ 35.23
Paperback. The extraordinary story of a young Sudanese girl who was kidnapped and sold into slavery and how she finally escaped to freedom. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBS; BGA; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 125 x 22. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844081165
- ISBN
- 9781844081165
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.62
€ 14.99
€ 11.62
Paperback. The human drama of the slave trade told from a new perspective, from the decks of the slave ship Num Pages: 464 pages, 1 x 16pp inset, 8 maps plus integrated illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JF; HBG; HBLL; HBTM; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 139 x 197 x 29. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719563034
- ISBN
- 9780719563034
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.03
€ 17.99
€ 13.03
Paperback. Challenges the orthodoxy and argues that there were many more slave revolts than is usually assumed and they were far from insignificant historically. This book argues that we need to look beyond the canonical sources and episodes to see a bigger history of long-term resistance of slaves to their enslavement. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 3D; HBG; HBLA; HBTS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 141 x 215 x 16. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844651023
- ISBN
- 9781844651023
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.20
€ 52.20
Paperback. Slave Religion remains the preeminent sythesis of the religious life of slaves in the United States. This new edition will consider the developments in the study of slavery, the religious encounter, religious culture, and reactions to the books over the past twenty five years, as well as the ways the author would write it differently today. Num Pages: 416 pages, numerous halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBTS; JFSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 136 x 19. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Edition
- Updated ed
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195174120
- ISBN
- 9780195174120
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.51
€ 23.99
€ 21.51
paperback. Joao Jose Reis draws on hundreds of police and trial records in which Africans, despite obvious intimidation, spoke out about their cultural, social, economic, religious, and domestic lives in Salvador. Translator(s): Brakel, Arthur. Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture. Num Pages: 304 pages, 21, 21 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JH; HBTS; HBTV; JFSR2; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801852503
- ISBN
- 9780801852503
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.14
€ 39.14
Paperback. Editor(s): Rudisel, Christine. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486780610
- ISBN
- 9780486780610
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.58
€ 10.58
Paperback. Series: Modern Library Classics. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTS; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 149 x 25. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Publisher
- Random House Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780679783282
- ISBN
- 9780679783282
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.24
€ 14.99
€ 14.24
Paperback. Tying together legal, historical, social, political and literary strands to show how the law itself was implicated in the persistence of slavery, this work sheds new light on slavery and Southern history, as it probes the conscience of a troubled jurist incapable of fully transcending his times. Series: Landmark Law Cases and American Society. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTS; LA; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 12. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Univ Pr of Kansas
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700612710
- ISBN
- 9780700612710
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.18
€ 30.18
Paperback. This study addresses the question of why the troubling figure of Aunt Jemima has endured in American culture. The author traces the evolution of the mammy from her roots in Old South slave reality and mythology to Aunt Jemima's symbolic role in the Civil Rights movement. Series: American South Series. Num Pages: 221 pages, Illustrations, port. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFC; JFSL3; KJSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813918112
- ISBN
- 9780813918112
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.29
€ 37.29
Paperback. Tells the tragic story of how slavery expanded in a new nation dedicated to the principle of equality among free men. This book reveals the enormous significance and consequences of its spread into the region that became the Deep South. Num Pages: 312 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; HBJK; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 209 x 21. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674024168
- ISBN
- 9780674024168
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.94
€ 42.94
Paperback. Investigates how African Americans have narrated, remembered, and represented slave-breeding practices. Smithers argues that while social and economic historians have downplayed the significance of slave breeding, African Americans have refused to forget the violence and sexual coercion associated with the plantation South. Num Pages: 270 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBTS; JFSL3; JHBK5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 234 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida United States
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813049601
- ISBN
- 9780813049601
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.80
€ 33.80
Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTK; KNDF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226123097
- ISBN
- 9780226123097
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.16
€ 40.16
Paperback. Num Pages: 148 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HBTB; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 182 x 125 x 10. Weight in Grams: 188. 148 pages, Illustrations, maps. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: HBTB; KCZ. Dimension: 182 x 125 x 10. Weight: 186.
- Publisher
- Llygad Gwalch Cyf
- Number of pages
- 148
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845240684
- ISBN
- 9781845240684
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.13
€ 14.13
Paperback. In this illustrated history, Alastair Cameron explores the history and heritage of the slate mining industry in the Lake District. Num Pages: 96 pages, 180. BIC Classification: 1DBKENM; HBJD1; HBTK; KNAT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 165. .
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445651309
- ISBN
- 9781445651309
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.49
€ 20.99
€ 16.49
Paperback. Examines the history of military aerospace power, discussing technical developments between both World Wars and the use of air power in specific wars in the latter part of the twentieth century, including the recent conflict with Iraq. This book analyses the military and civil applications of airpower in the contemporary world. Series: Contemporary Worlds. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HBT; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 14. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861891891
- ISBN
- 9781861891891
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.27
€ 29.27
Paperback. Contemplates modern history from the perspective of Tibetan women. This book uncovers stories of Tibetan women's courage, resourcefulness, and spiritual strength in the face of the loss and hardship since the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1950. Num Pages: 278 pages, 30 illus. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; 3JJ; 3JMC; HBTD; JFSJ1; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295989532
- ISBN
- 9780295989532
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.04
€ 41.04
paperback. In 1892 a stocky Danish immigrant named Magnus Jensen rode into south-central Montana. He liked what he saw and staked his future on the ranch he would carve out there. Today, the author and his wife, Emily, live on the ranch built by Jensen, Emily's grandfather. This illustrated book bears poetic witness to the myth and reality that are the West. Num Pages: 288 pages, 33 drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBBWM; BM; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Bison Books United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803216365
- ISBN
- 9780803216365
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.67
€ 27.67