History: specific events & topics
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History: specific events & topics
Hardback. A study of the development of human society in Yucatan during the colonial period, this book poses a challenge to a variety of accepted views, including the notion that Yucatan was isolated from the main part of Spain's New World empire and thus from international markets and the world economy. Num Pages: 344 pages, 7 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 28. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804720625
- ISBN
- 9780804720625
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.18
€ 93.18
Paperback. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBTG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 118 x 4. Weight in Grams: 40.
- Publisher
- Lang Syne Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781852173203
- ISBN
- 9781852173203
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.61
€ 6.61
Hardback. This book follows the lives and careers of two Jewish boxers, Max Baer and Barney Ross. Fighting in the 1920s and 1930s when anti-Semitism was rampant, American Jews found symbols of strength and courage in these two world champions. This book provides a vivid picture of Baer and Ross as they fought opponents in the ring and prejudice outside it. Num Pages: 224 pages, 10 black & white halftones, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 3JJG; BGS; HBT; WSTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 237 x 24. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442269323
- ISBN
- 9781442269323
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.89
€ 56.89
Paperback. Semco is one of Latin America's fastest-growing companies, acknowledged to be the best in Brazil to work for, and with a waiting list of thousands of applicants waiting to join it. Here, the author shares his secrets, and tells how he tore up the rule books. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; HBTB; KJMD; KND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Publisher
- Random House Business Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780712678865
- ISBN
- 9780712678865
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.27
€ 19.99
€ 14.27
Paperback. Num Pages: 316 pages, Colour and black & white. BIC Classification: 1MBN; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 171 x 23. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Auckland University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781869407315
- ISBN
- 9781869407315
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.34
€ 52.34
Hardcover. In 1944, a number of Sonderkommando-"special squads" of Jewish prisoners who kept the gas chambers running smoothly-buried on the grounds of Auschwitz a series of remarkable eyewitness accounts. This study reconstructs their history and textual content, revealing literary works that raise troubling questions about the nature of testimony. Num Pages: 276 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782389989
- ISBN
- 9781782389989
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.23
€ 149.23
Hardcover. This volume reassesses maternalism by providing critical reflections on prior usages of the concept, and by expanding its meaning to encompass geographical areas, political regimes, and cultural concerns that scholars have rarely addressed. Editor(s): Klein, Marian van der; Plant, Rebecca Jo; Sanders, Nichole; Weintrob, Lori. Series: International Studies in Social History. Num Pages: 288 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBLW; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857454669
- ISBN
- 9780857454669
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 147.89
€ 147.89
Hardback. Medicine was transformed in the eighteenth century. Aligning the trajectories of intellectual and material wealth, this book uncovers how medicine acquired a new materialism as well as new materials in the context of global commerce and warfare. Series Editor(s): Thompson, Andrew; MacKenzie, John. Series: Studies in Imperialism. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 1FK; 1KJW; 3JF; HBTQ; MBX. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 243 x 166 x 22. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719083129
- ISBN
- 9780719083129
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.14
€ 144.14
Paperback. Material Strategies brings together scholars from different disciplines to explore what dress and textiles can tell us about gender history. * Broad in scope -- covers women, men, social groupings and nations from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Editor(s): Burman, Barbara; Turbin, Carole. Series: Gender and History Special Issues. Num Pages: 280 pages, 0. BIC Classification: AKTA; HBTB; JFCK; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405109062
- ISBN
- 9781405109062
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.21
€ 40.21
Paperback. In the 1930s, hundreds of barges sailed the crowded waters of the Thames estuary carrying up to 100 tons of every sort of cargo - wheat and barley, coal, gun powder, cement and gravel. These remarkable craft were worked by a crew of two - skipper and mate. Here, the shipmate tells his story. Num Pages: 168 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: HBTM; KNGS; WGG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780850364446
- ISBN
- 9780850364446
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.72
€ 11.72
Paperback. Matanzas - the name means 'slaughters' - is the Cuban city nearest the United States. Known at the heyday of the nineteenth-century sugar boom as the 'Athens of Cuba', it is renowned for its art, its music, and its rich African heritage. It is also the place where Latin American baseball began. This title presents the history of the town. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813038100
- ISBN
- 9780813038100
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.60
€ 21.99
€ 21.60
paperback. Exposes the real nature of state power. This volume features arguments of empire up to critical examination and shatters the myths of those who protect the power and privilege of the few against the interests and needs to the many. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: HBTQ; HPS; JPA; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 18. Weight in Grams: 130.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241972786
- ISBN
- 9780241972786
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.33
€ 14.99
€ 11.33
Paperback. This collection presents 122 top-level Soviet, European and American records on the superpowers' role in the annus mirabilis of 1989. Editor(s): Savranskaya, Svetlana; Blanton, Thomas; Zubok, Vladislav M. Series: National Security Archive Cold War Readers. Num Pages: 782 pages, black-andwhite photos. BIC Classification: 3JJPN; HBLW3; HBTW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 237 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Central European University Press Hungary
- Number of pages
- 782
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9786155053405
- ISBN
- 9786155053405
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 158.06
€ 158.06
Hardcover. Examines the inspirations and foundations for James MacQueen's geographical theory as well as its reception, arguing that Atlantic slavery and ideas for alternatives to it helped produce geographical knowledge, while geographical discourse informed the struggle over slavery. Num Pages: 320 pages, 28 halftones. BIC Classification: 1H; HBJH; HBTP; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226078069
- ISBN
- 9780226078069
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.41
€ 72.41
Paperback. A study that exposes the impact of the entangled relations among master, mistress, slave adults and slave children on the sense of identity of individual slave narrators. It explores the ways in which our of the social, psychological, biological - and literary - crossings and disruptions slavery engendered. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814726532
- ISBN
- 9780814726532
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.37
€ 46.37
Hardback. Veins of iron run deep in the history of America. Yet it was Great Britain that became the Atlantic world's dominant low-cost, high-volume producer of iron. The author argues that the prolonged development of the American iron industry was largely due to geographical problems the British did not face. Num Pages: 336 pages, 66 colour plates, 10 halftones, 2 line drawings, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBTK; KNJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1247.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226448596
- ISBN
- 9780226448596
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.48
€ 74.48
In 1948, just as the Cold War was settling into the form it would maintain for nearly half a century, major antagonists the United States and Russia began maneuvering into a series of dangerously hostile encounters. Into this difficult situation the Americans placed General William Henry Tunner. Num Pages: 312 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLW3; HBTW; HBW; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780817316921
- ISBN
- 9780817316921
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.35
€ 68.35
Hardcover. In the postcolonial era, Arab societies have been ruled by a variety of authoritarian regimes. Focusing on his native Morocco and building on the work of Foucault, the author of this text explores the ideological and cultural foundations of this persistent authoritarianism. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBM; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC; JFSL; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226315270
- ISBN
- 9780226315270
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.37
€ 126.37
Paperback. In the postcolonial era, Arab societies have been ruled by a variety of authoritarian regimes. Focusing on his native Morocco and building on the work of Foucault, the author of this text explores the ideological and cultural foundations of this persistent authoritarianism. Num Pages: 218 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBM; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC; JFSL; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 115 x 12. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226315287
- ISBN
- 9780226315287
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.30
€ 43.30
Paperback. Num Pages: 168 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 16.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- TwoDot Books United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762744534
- ISBN
- 9780762744534
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 13.49
€ 15.99
€ 13.49