History: specific events & topics
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History: specific events & topics
Paperback. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813571324
- ISBN
- 9780813571324
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.32
€ 53.32
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ASZM; HBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 10. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486449036
- ISBN
- 9780486449036
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.54
€ 11.99
€ 10.54
Paperback. The kinds of punishment used in a society have been considered an important criterion in judging whether a society is civilized or barbaric, advanced or backward, modern or premodern. This title asks how such distinctions have affected our understanding of the past and contributed to the proliferation of kinds of barbarity in the modern world. Num Pages: 312 pages, 17 halftones. 1 line illus. 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; HBTB; JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691130309
- ISBN
- 9780691130309
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
paperback. This work synthesizes various source materials including newspapers, mortician trade journals, and popular magazines, to offer a historical study of cremation in the United States. The changing view of cremation from a universally condemned practice, to accepted necessity is examined. Num Pages: 280 pages, 20 b/w photographs, 2 line illustrations, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBT; JHBZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520236882
- ISBN
- 9780520236882
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.95
€ 41.95
Paperback. Philosophical consideration of genocide Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: HBTZ; JPA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 27. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849043939
- ISBN
- 9781849043939
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.69
€ 33.99
€ 30.69
Hardback. Epstein reveals the modern view of cultural, ethnic, and religious purity in the early modern Mediterranean as a mirage, and he offers new insights into how present-day conceptions about creed, color, ethnicity, and language originated. Series: Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. Num Pages: 264 pages, 4, 3 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1QRM; 3H; HBG; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801884849
- ISBN
- 9780801884849
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.72
€ 83.72
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814725450
- ISBN
- 9780814725450
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.05
€ 45.05
Paperback. What does it mean to be queer and Asian-American at the turn of the century? This title considers how Asian-American racial identity and queer sexuality interconnect in mutually shaping and complicating ways. It gathers an array of voices and experiences that represent the communities of a queer Asian-America. Editor(s): Eng, David L.; Hom, Alice Y. Series: Asian American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 445 pages, 13 b&w photographs, 7 cartoons. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFSK1; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 794.
- Publisher
- Temple University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566396400
- ISBN
- 9781566396400
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.34
€ 58.34
Hardback. Offers a collection of fifteen insightful essays that examines the complexity and diversity of Quaker antislavery attitudes across three centuries, from 1658 to 1890. This volume seeks to correct that oversight, offering accessible and provocative insights on a key chapter of religious, political, and cultural history. Editor(s): Carey, Brycchan; Plank, Geoffrey. Num Pages: 280 pages, 3 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTS; HRCC97. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 166 x 27. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252038266
- ISBN
- 9780252038266
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.47
€ 64.47
paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 236 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTS; HRCC97. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691601113
- ISBN
- 9780691601113
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.11
€ 57.11
Paperback. Presenting the history of twentieth-century physics, this book takes us from the discovery of X rays in the mid-1890s to superstring theory in the 1990s. It also shows how the revolutionary discoveries of scientists ranging from Einstein, Planck, and Bohr to Stephen Hawking have been built on the great traditions of earlier centuries. Num Pages: 512 pages, 34 tables 22 line illus. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBT; PDX; PDZ; PH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 33. Weight in Grams: 690.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 510
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691095523
- ISBN
- 9780691095523
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 96.16
€ 96.16
Hardcover. The Queen Alexander Hosptial Home Num Pages: 144 pages, 61 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBTB; JFFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 256 x 180 x 15. Weight in Grams: 572. Good copy in dustwrapper 4to Illustrated. The History of Nursing and Hospital Histories.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Phillimore
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KEX0304569
- ISBN
- 9781860770555
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 25.00
€ 25.00
Hardback. As the wife of King George II, Caroline of Ansbach became queen of England in 1727. This volume intends to survey Caroline's significant contributions to the arts and culture and the ways in which she used her patronage to strengthen the royal family's connections between the recently installed House of Hanover and English society. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 232 pages, 120 colour images + 40 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; AB; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 272 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1318.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300197778
- ISBN
- 9780300197778
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.77
€ 64.77
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 538 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 914.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 538
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691642512
- ISBN
- 9780691642512
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 256.32
€ 256.32
Paperback. The only book to investigate the sudden appearance of the haemophilia gene in the Royal Family. Num Pages: 190 pages, 32 illustrations, tables, map, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; BGR; HBTG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 20. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publisher
- Sutton Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750911993
- ISBN
- 9780750911993
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.11
€ 14.99
€ 14.11
Hardcover. Sissy home boys or domestic outlaws? Through a series of vivid case studies taken from across the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Matt Cook explores the emergence of these trenchant stereotypes and looks at how they play out in the home and family lives of queer men. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 344 pages, 20 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKESL; 3JJ; HBTB; HBTD; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 220 x 24. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230221390
- ISBN
- 9780230221390
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.10
€ 57.10
Paperback. Offers a collection of essays exploring ideologies and discourses that center on sexual otherness in medieval Iberian cultures, Martyred saints, Moors, Jews, viragoes, hermaphrodites, sodomites, kings, queens, and cross-dressers that comprise the mosaic of historical and imaginative figures unearthed in Queer Iberia. Editor(s): Blackmore, Josiah; Hutcheson, Gregory S. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 488 pages, 3 illustrations, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1DSP; HBTB; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5741 x 3963 x 36. Weight in Grams: 803.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822323495
- ISBN
- 9780822323495
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.95
€ 50.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 398 pages, 11 halftones, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; HBTB; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 29. Weight in Grams: 634.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 398
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226354620
- ISBN
- 9780226354620
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.69
€ 36.69
Paperback. Uses comparative narratives to explore the dualism between marginalization and the desire for roots within a rooted identity Num Pages: 330 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables. BIC Classification: DSA; HBTG; JFSK; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472053162
- ISBN
- 9780472053162
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.29
€ 54.29
Hardback. Uses comparative narratives to explore the dualism between marginalization and the desire for roots within a rooted identity Num Pages: 330 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables. BIC Classification: DSA; HBTG; JFSK; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472073160
- ISBN
- 9780472073160
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.57
€ 122.57