History: specific events & topics
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History: specific events & topics
hardcover. Analyzes the processes of nation-building in nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Southeastern Europe. This work represents a coordinated interpretation based on ten varied academic cultures and traditions. Editor(s): Mishkova, Diana. Num Pages: 380 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVW; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Central European University Press Hungary
- Number of pages
- 380
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789639776289
- ISBN
- 9789639776289
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 223.52
€ 223.52
paperback. What happened to the classical ideas of close relations when they were transmitted to philosophers, clerical and monastic thinkers, state officials or other people in the medieval and early modern period? To what extent did friendship transcend the distinctions between private and public that then existed? This book addresses these questions. Series: Natalie Zemon Davies Annual Lectures. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: HBLC1; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 202 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Central European University Press Hungary
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789639776609
- ISBN
- 9789639776609
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 75.47
€ 75.47
hardcover. A monograph that investigates the origins of state policy toward population and the family in Eastern Europe. It reconstructs the evolution of state legislation in the field of social policy toward the family in Bulgaria between the two World Wars, colored by concerns about the national good and demographic considerations. Series: CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVWB; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBTB; JHBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Central European University Press Hungary
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9789639776661
- ISBN
- 9789639776661
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 192.49
€ 192.49
hardcover. A non-fiction book about the social engineering operated in rural Eastern Europe by the Communist regime, based on the history of two villages in Romania. This book is mostly about the consequences of unlimited state power over people and communities. Translator(s): Jianu, Angela. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DV; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 232 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Central European University Press Hungary
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789639776784
- ISBN
- 9789639776784
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 175.41
€ 175.41
paperback. Explores the streets, shops, back alleys, and gardens of Elizabethan London where a boisterous and diverse group of men and women shared a keen interest in the study of nature. This book examines six episodes of scientific inquiry and dispute in sixteenth-century London, bringing to life the individuals involved and the challenges they faced. Num Pages: 384 pages, 20 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JB; HBJD1; HBTB; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 560. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSK0000524
- ISBN
- 9780300143164
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
paperback. This study describes how two late 19th-century electronic technologies - the telephone and the electric light - were publicly envisaged both by specialized engineering trade journals and the popular media. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14 pp halftone plates. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; THRS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 134 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSK0000529
- ISBN
- 9780195063417
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
paperback. Nicholas Whyte's study of the role of science in Ireland examines the activities of Irish scientists during the period 1890 to 1930. It reveals the impact that Irish political events had on the fate of a number of distinguished Irish institutions. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTQ; HBTR; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 307. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Cork University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSK0000532
- ISBN
- 9781859181850
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
Paperback. What is postcolonial studies? What are its achievements, strengths and weaknesses? This book deals with one of the most important issues with special emphasis on neo-liberalism within world poverty and the 'third world'. It clarifies: the territory of postcolonial studies; how identity and postcolonialism relate; and more. Series: Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTQ; HBTR; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 151 x 12. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761971627
- ISBN
- 9780761971627
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 51.59
€ 51.99
€ 51.59
paperback. Few people realize that the Web was born at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, and that it was invented by an Englishman, Tim Berners-Lee. This account tells how the idea first came about, how it was developed, and how it was handed over for free for the world to use. Num Pages: 392 pages, numerous line illustrations. BIC Classification: HBT; TBX; UDB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 422. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTS0035912
- ISBN
- 9780192862075
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
paperback. Lena Orlin paints a dense picture of everyday life in Renaissance England, with an emphasis on personal privacy, the built environment, and the life story of a remarkable undiscovered woman - merchant's wife and mother of four, Alice Barnham - with a central role in some of the most important untold stories of sixteenth-century women. Num Pages: 392 pages, 45 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: DSBD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1722.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, U.S.A. United Kingdom
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199577385
- ISBN
- 9780199577385
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.16
€ 68.16
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
paperback. Examining love, sex and gender in the ancient Greek world, David Halperin documents the existence in ancient Greece of a radically unfamiliar set of attitudes and behaviours, institutions and social pratices. Num Pages: 244 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 388. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0035496
- ISBN
- 9780415900973
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
paperback. An exploration of philosophical and mystical sources of iconography in Renaissance art. Num Pages: 346 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; AC; HBG; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1969
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton and Company, Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 346
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised
- SKU
- V9780393004755
- ISBN
- 9780393004755
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.81
€ 37.81
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
hardcover. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLC; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 220 x 140. Weight in Grams: 425. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1971
- Publisher
- Vallentine Mitchell
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0035649
- ISBN
- 9780853030430
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
paperback. Makes important inroads into the widely discussed topic of historical memory, evoking the everyday lives of eleventh-century people and both their written and nonwritten ways of preserving the past. This title unearths a range of approaches to preserving the past as it was or formulating the past that an individual or group prefers to imagine. Num Pages: 264 pages, 3 maps. 14 halftones. 4 figs. 3 tables. BIC Classification: HBA; HBG; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 236 x 14. Weight in Grams: 398. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0035772
- ISBN
- 9780691026039
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
paperback. Janusz Korczak devoted himself to the care of orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto after the Nazi occupation of Poland. This volume constitutes his grimly inspiring ghetto diary, and is accompanied by a new introduction by Betty Jean Lifton, the author of a biography of Korczak. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; BGHA; BJ; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 217 x 9. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780300097429
- ISBN
- 9780300097429
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.93
€ 18.99
€ 15.93
hardcover. Hugh Crow was the captain of a slave-trading vessel which made one of the last legal journeys across the Atlantic with its 'human cargo'. This is a highly engaging, rare, first-hand account written by a staunch defender of the slave trade. Crow depicts himself as an enlightened practitioner of the trade, concerned with the welfare of his 'negroes'. Num Pages: 224 pages, 11 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 231 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781851243211
- ISBN
- 9781851243211
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.93
€ 18.99
€ 15.93
paperback. Was Jesus a Freemason? This book raises questions that have challenged some of Western civilisation's most cherished beliefs. Based on the discovery of evidence of the most secret rites of Freemasonry in an ancient Egyptian tomb, it sheds light on Masonic ceremony, and on the understanding of history. Num Pages: 512 pages, 16pp b&w halftones. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFH; JFSV1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 112 x 29. Weight in Grams: 292. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0035934
- ISBN
- 9780099699415
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
Paperback. An examination of British and German processes of cultural transfer, as spearheaded by feminist reformists, from 1714 to 1837 Num Pages: 242 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DFG; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472035946
- ISBN
- 9780472035946
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.88
€ 41.88