History: specific events & topics
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History: specific events & topics
Hardback. Offers a cultural history of the Pacific Northwest volcanoes and the environmental impact of outdoor recreation in this region. It probes the relationship betweenthese volcanoes and regional identity, particularly in the era of mass mountaineering and population growth in the Northwest. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 images. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK; HBTB; RBC; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 19. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780803265479
- ISBN
- 9780803265479
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.40
€ 56.40
Paperback. A searching meditation on our all-too-human capacity for inhumanity, "Evil Men" confronts atrocity head-on how it looks and feels, what motivates it, how it can be stopped. James Dawes s unflinchingly honest account, drawing on firsthand interviews, is not just about the things Japanese war criminals did, but about what it means to befriend them." Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: HBTZ; HBWQ; HPQ; JPVH; JWXK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674416796
- ISBN
- 9780674416796
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.17
€ 31.17
Hardback. Focuses on Rome's historic Monti district and the wrenching dislocation caused by rapid economic, political, and social change. This book tells the story of the gentrification of Monti - once the architectural home of a community of artisans and shopkeepers now displaced by an invasion of rapacious real estate speculators, and corrupt officials. Num Pages: 368 pages, 6 halftones, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226329116
- ISBN
- 9780226329116
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.37
€ 126.37
Paperback. Focuses on Rome's historic Monti district and the wrenching dislocation caused by rapid economic, political, and social change. This book tells the story of the gentrification of Monti - once the architectural home of a community of artisans and shopkeepers now displaced by an invasion of rapacious real estate speculators, and corrupt officials. Num Pages: 368 pages, 6 halftones, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226329123
- ISBN
- 9780226329123
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.47
€ 49.47
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 135 x 18. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publisher
- Blue Bike Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781926700441
- ISBN
- 9781926700441
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.82
€ 13.99
€ 10.82
Paperback. Japan was the only non-Western nation to industrialize before 1900 and its leap into the modern era has stimulated vigorous debates among historians and social scientists. This title considers daily life in the three centuries leading up to the modern era in Japan. Num Pages: 227 pages, 6 line drawings, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; HBLL; HBTB; JHM; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 227
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520218123
- ISBN
- 9780520218123
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.74
€ 44.74
Paperback. Showcases how small machines and consumer goods that originated in Europe and North America became objects of everyday use in India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The author examines how such technologies became integral to fresh ways of thinking about class, race, and gender, as well as about the politics of colonial rule. Series: science.culture. Num Pages: 232 pages, 22 halftones, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJ; HBTK; TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780226269375
- ISBN
- 9780226269375
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.55
€ 29.55
Hardcover. An account of how small machines and consumer goods that originated in Europe and North America became objects of everyday use in India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It examines the assimilation and appropriation of bicycles, rice mills, sewing machines, and typewriters in India. Series: science.culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, 22 halftones, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; HBTK; TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226922027
- ISBN
- 9780226922027
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.37
€ 126.37
Hardback. Joseph A. Amato offers a panoramic account of the evolution of our daily existence and reflects on the complex and changing textures of everyday life. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 224 x 27. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780236636
- ISBN
- 9781780236636
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.29
€ 31.29
Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages, 39, 13 black & white halftones, 25 black & white tables, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPKN; 3JJPG; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 26. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781501705687
- ISBN
- 9781501705687
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.64
€ 40.64
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253012548
- ISBN
- 9780253012548
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.84
€ 46.84
Hardback. Focuses on the formation and elaboration of gender, ethnicity, class, nationalism, and subjectivity. Editor(s): Chatterjee, Choi; Ransel, David L.; Cavender, Mary W.; Petrone, Karen. Series: Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian & East European Studies. Num Pages: 448 pages, 12 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 749.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253012456
- ISBN
- 9780253012456
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.20
€ 120.20
Paperback. Step back in time to medieval London to find out about the lives of those working and living there. Num Pages: 336 pages, 30. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 28. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445647005
- ISBN
- 9781445647005
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.29
€ 23.29
Paperback. How Soviet citizens in the 1920s and 1930s internalized Soviet ways of looking at the world and living their everyday lives. Editor(s): Kiaer, Christina; Naiman, Eric. Num Pages: 320 pages, 28 b&w photographs, 1 index. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; GTB; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253217929
- ISBN
- 9780253217929
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.31
€ 40.31
Paperback. A lively reader on the peoples and cultures of Central Asia Editor(s): Sahadeo, Jeff; Zanca, Russell. Num Pages: 424 pages, 24 b&w photos, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FC; GTB; HBTB; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 233 x 27. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253219046
- ISBN
- 9780253219046
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.54
€ 37.54
Paperback. This revised edition of Casson's engaging work, originally published in 1975 as Daily Life in Ancient Rome, includes two new chapters as well as full documentation of the sources. Num Pages: 184 pages, 15, 15 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBG; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 12. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Number of pages
- 184
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- Revised & enlarged
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801859922
- ISBN
- 9780801859922
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.10
€ 37.10
Paperback. Jean Bottero and his colleagues take the reader on a voyage of discovery into the public and private realms of the lives of our first civilized ancestors, looking at everyday life in Ancient Mesopotamia. Translator(s): Nevill, Antonia. Num Pages: 288 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAM; 3D; HBJF1; HBLA; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748613885
- ISBN
- 9780748613885
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.12
€ 42.99
€ 38.12
Paperback. Originally published in 1975 as The Horizon Book of Daily Life in Ancient Egypt, this revised edition includes a new chapter as well as full documentation of the sources. Num Pages: 176 pages, 10, 10 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; 3D; HBJH; HBLA; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 142 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- Revised & enlarged
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801866012
- ISBN
- 9780801866012
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.91
€ 36.91
Paperback. In this synthesis, Wasserman shows the link between ordinary Mexican men and women from Independence to the Revolution, combining explanations of social history, political and economic change, and gender relations. Series: Dialogos. Num Pages: 248 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826321718
- ISBN
- 9780826321718
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.67
€ 40.67
Paperback. Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic gives proof to the insights architecture offers into who we are culturally as a community, a region, and a nation. Num Pages: 424 pages, 344 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AMK; HBTB; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 269 x 217 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1046.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801853258
- ISBN
- 9780801853258
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.20
€ 54.20