History: specific events & topics
Results 9421 - 9440 of 9501
History: specific events & topics
Hardcover. The book aims to understand work participation in the workplace or worker voice by examining the inter-war experience in Australia, Canada, Germany, the UK and the US. Series: Studies in Labour History. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJD; HBTK; KNXB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781382684
- ISBN
- 9781781382684
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.42
€ 57.42
hardcover. This book focuses on the lives, struggles, and contrasting perspectives of the 60,000 workers, military administrators, and technical staff employed in the largest, most strategic industry of the Nationalist government, the armaments industry based in China's wartime capital, Chongqing. Num Pages: 480 pages, 22 tables, 3 maps, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJH; HBTB; KNDM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 31. Weight in Grams: 757.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804748964
- ISBN
- 9780804748964
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.52
€ 106.52
Paperback. Combining theories from the anthropology of consumption, cultural studies, and gender studies with the methodologies of social, cultural, and oral histories, Natalia Milanesio shows the exceptional cultural and social visibility of low-income consumers in postwar Argentina along with their unprecedented economic and political influence. Num Pages: 320 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBJK; HBTB; JFCA; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826352422
- ISBN
- 9780826352422
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.67
€ 36.67
Hardback. Seeking to historicize today's "Great Recession," this volume includes essays that uses examples from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia to situate the current economic crisis and its impact on workers in the context of previous abrupt shifts in the modern-day capitalist marketplace. Editor(s): Fink, Leon; McCartin, Joseph A.; Sangster, Joan. Series: Working Class in American History. Num Pages: 320 pages, 17 charts, 3 tables, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 166 x 29. Weight in Grams: 668.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252038174
- ISBN
- 9780252038174
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 166.02
€ 166.02
Paperback. The workhouse is an institution which has left a emotional scar on the British nation. Its study can illuminate the understanding of the social, political, and medical history of Britain. This volume focuses on the northern part of England, covering the old counties of Cumberland, Durham, Lancashire, Northumberland, Westmorland and Yorkshire. Num Pages: 128 pages, Approx 150. BIC Classification: 1DBKEY; HBTB; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 165 x 10. Weight in Grams: 306. Very good copy.The History of Nursing and Hospital Histories.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KEX0304332
- ISBN
- 9780752440019
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 20.00
€ 20.00
paperback. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: HBTD; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 136 x 41. Weight in Grams: 708.
- Publisher
- The New Press
- Number of pages
- 640
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781565843424
- ISBN
- 9781565843424
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 24.45
€ 24.99
€ 24.45
Hardcover. Working Hard for the American Dream examines the various economic, social, and political developments that shaped labor history in the United States from World War I until the present day. The labor history presented here includes consideration of the importance of women workers, ethnic America, and post-World War II workers. Series: The American History Series. Num Pages: 302 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJK; HBTB; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118541401
- ISBN
- 9781118541401
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.50
€ 126.50
Paperback. Working Hard for the American Dream examines the various economic, social, and political developments that shaped labor history in the United States from World War I until the present day. The labor history presented here includes consideration of the importance of women workers, ethnic America, and post-World War II workers. Series: The American History Series. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118541494
- ISBN
- 9781118541494
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.79
€ 42.79
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 4th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612057323
- ISBN
- 9781612057323
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 99.62€ 63.06
€ 99.62
€ 63.06
Paperback. First published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 3JD; HBLH; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 143 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415865272
- ISBN
- 9780415865272
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.01
€ 65.01
Hardback. As a deeply researched history, Working Mothers and the Child Care Dilemma reveals how, for over 100 years, a persistent political uneasiness with the role of mothers in the workforce has contributed to the lack of affordable, quality child care services in British Columbia. Num Pages: 564 pages, 5 b&w photos. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 825.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 564
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780774829236
- ISBN
- 9780774829236
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.58
€ 131.58
paperback. Challenges readers to alter their conceptual frameworks about Africans by looking at them as workers who, through the course of the Atlantic slave trade and plantation labor, shaped the development of the Americas Series: Culture, Labor, History. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; 3J; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814763698
- ISBN
- 9780814763698
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.61
€ 46.61
Hardback. Examines nineteenth and twentieth century life along the Mississippi from St. Louis to Memphis showing how workers changed the river and were in turn changed by it. Each chapter focuses on representative personnel: captains and pilots, gamblers and musicians, cooks and craftsmen from Mark Twain to Louis Armstrong." Num Pages: 208 pages, 24 illustrations, notes. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Missouri Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826220530
- ISBN
- 9780826220530
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.43
€ 70.43
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719065903
- ISBN
- 9780719065903
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.06
€ 144.06
Hardback. An original study seeking to challenge the negativity associated with council estates. It will be of interest not only to historians but to anyone interested in housing, housing policy, and key issues in urban studies. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DBKESB; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJD1; HBTB; JFSC; JFSG. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 237 x 165 x 20. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719079511
- ISBN
- 9780719079511
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.16
€ 144.16
Paperback. The astonishing story of the 1930s project that gave birth to Mass Observation Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKENL; 3JJG; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 21. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780227801
- ISBN
- 9781780227801
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.16
€ 17.99
€ 13.16
Paperback. Starting from the assumption that the human story has to be seen in the round, this history examines the evolution of humans, their lives as hunters and gatherers and their eventual adoption of agriculture, before looking at the emergence of civilization across the globe. Num Pages: 944 pages, maps, charts. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 59. Weight in Grams: 1400.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 944
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780712665728
- ISBN
- 9780712665728
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.09
€ 33.99
€ 24.09
paperback. Series: Historical Studies of Urban America. Num Pages: 403 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFL; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 403
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226378428
- ISBN
- 9780226378428
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.40
€ 40.40
Paperback. Shows how the interwar exhibitions heralded the arrival of modern America - a new empire of abundance built on old foundations of inequality. Rydell demonstrates how the fairs reached their height of popularity following the crash of 1929 by offering a vision of recovery from the Depression. Num Pages: 280 pages, 58 halftones. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW; HBTB; KCZ; TB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226732374
- ISBN
- 9780226732374
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.47
€ 49.47
Paperback. Traces the story of Eastern Europe's Jews to America and offers a rich portrayal of the East European Jewish experience in New York. It is useful reading for those interested in understanding why these forebears to many American Jews made the decision to leave their homelands, and the challenges these new Jewish Americans faced. Num Pages: 768 pages, 74 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 164 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1186.
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- Anniversary
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814736852
- ISBN
- 9780814736852
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.28
€ 54.28