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Hardcover. Offers an overview of the ways in which Middle Eastern cities can be studied. This book includes essays that explore the interconnectedness between religion and its geography. It defines and maps out urban social history in the Middle East from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. Editor(s): Sluglett, Peter. Series: Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East. Num Pages: 344 pages, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815631941
ISBN
9780815631941
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.10

Paperback. This study describes the development of urban planning ideas since the end of World War II to the 1990s. It outlines the main theories of planning, from the traditional view of urban planning as an exercise in physical design, to more recent views of planning as a form of "communicative action". Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations facsimiles, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJP; AMVD; HBJD1; HBLW3; JFSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 310.
Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761960935
ISBN
9780761960935
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.63

Hardback. This study of politics in early modern England uses the relations between provincial towns, the landed elite, and the crown to argue that the growth of connections, as much as of conflict, explains the development of early modern government. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLC; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 655.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804735872
ISBN
9780804735872
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.50

Paperback. In medieval Europe, how did people live, and why did some towns grow into major urban centres while others did not? Drawing on original research, as well as the work of medieval historians, urban archaeologists and historical geographers, this book addresses these difficult questions. Series: European Culture & Society Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
311
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333712498
ISBN
9780333712498
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.49

Hardcover. Num Pages: 328 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3J; HBJK; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 237 x 25. Weight in Grams: 618.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804796118
ISBN
9780804796118
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.09

Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages, 30 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; TV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816528202
ISBN
9780816528202
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.98

Hardback. The idea of English medieval towns and cities as filthy, muddy and insanitary is here overturned in a pioneering new study. Num Pages: 445 pages, 32, 28 black & white illustrations, 4 black & white line drawings, 28 black and white, 4. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC1; HBTB; MBNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 165 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1134.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
445
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843838364
ISBN
9781843838364
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 175.01

Paperback. Series: Historical Studies of Urban America. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 229 x 25. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226322674
ISBN
9780226322674
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.04

Hardcover. Drawn from the farms and towns of Otsego and Herkimer counties, the 121st New York State Volunteer Infantry Regiment served with the Sixth Corps in the Army of the Potomac throughout the Civil War. This book chronicles the epic story of this heroic 'band of brothers'. Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 592 pages, 40 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JWTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1030.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700616459
ISBN
9780700616459
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 90.35

Paperback. How dissident artists became cultural emissaries during the early decades of the Cold War Series: Culture, Politics & the Cold War. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AN; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781558499034
ISBN
9781558499034
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.01

Paperback. With the stroke of a pen at the Potsdam Conference following the Allied victory in 1945, Breslau, the largest German city east of Berlin, became the Polish city of Wroclaw. This work examines the long-term psychological and cultural consequences of forced migration in 20th-century Europe through the experiences of Wroclaw's Polish inhabitants. Num Pages: 552 pages, 90 halftones. 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 235 x 30. Weight in Grams: 926.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
552
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691152912
ISBN
9780691152912
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 73.01

Hardcover. In this story of one man's encounter with an indigenous people of Peru, Michael Brown guides his readers upriver into a contested zone of the Amazonian frontier, where more than 50,000 Awajun--renowned for pugnacity and fierce independence--use hard-won political savvy, literacy, and digital skills to live life on their own terms, against long odds. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 145 x 211 x 29. Weight in Grams: 496.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674368071
ISBN
9780674368071
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.26

Hardback. Tracing journeys of Cantonese migrants along the West River and its tributaries, Steven B. Miles describes the circulation of people through one of the world's great river systems between the late sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: HBJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 22 x 15 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674975200
ISBN
9780674975200
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.86

Hardback. For centuries, Africa's Upper Guinea Coast region has been the site of regional and global interactions. This book examines how such encounters have continued into the present day, identifying the disruptions and continuities in social phenomena that have resulted. Editor(s): Knorr, Jacqueline; Kohl, Christoph. Series: Integration and Conflict Studies. Num Pages: 364 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDU; GTB; HBJH; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 161 x 268 x 23. Weight in Grams: 634.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
364
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785330698
ISBN
9781785330698
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.58

Paperback. Editor(s): Henrickson, Elizabeth F.; Thuesen, Ingolf. Series: Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications. Num Pages: 478 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAM; HBJF1; HBLA; HDDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 169 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1104.
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
478
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772890708
ISBN
9788772890708
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 84.58
€ 65.17

Hardcover. Tamar Herzog studies the judiciary in Quito, during 17th and 18th centuries, and shows that in this remote Spanish colony, order was a communal enterprise. The dominant rules were social and theological rather than legal. She reveals the intimacy of relations between the state and this early modern society. Series: History, Languages & Cultures of the Spanish & Portuguese Worlds S. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSE; 3JD; 3JF; HBJK; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 160 x 30. Weight in Grams: 535.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472113750
ISBN
9780472113750
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.37

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 10. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 133 x 25. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Vintage Canada
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780307399885
ISBN
9780307399885
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.50

Paperback. Provides a grounded, yet poignant, description of what it was like to grow up during the 1930s and 1940s on a sharecropper's farm Series: Indians of the Southeast. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 genealogy. BIC Classification: 1KBBFN; 3JJG; BM; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780803235366
ISBN
9780803235366
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.67

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1MBF; HBJM; HBTB; J; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 233 x 11. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Monash University Publishing Australia
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780980651263
ISBN
9780980651263
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.41

paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 3JH; BGH; HBJM; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 220 x 25. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
NewSouth Australia
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781742235066
ISBN
9781742235066
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.33

Paperback. Presents us with an imaginative and appealing picture of the early society of pre-literary Rome - as a free and uninhibited world in which the arts and popular entertainments flourished. This book consists of eighteen attempts to find such material and make sense of it. Num Pages: 376 pages, 54 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA; HDDK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 22. Weight in Grams: 690.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780859898232
ISBN
9780859898232
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.47

Paperback. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: 1MBF; HBJM; JFSL9. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 202 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Aboriginal Studies Press Australia
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
SKU
V9780855753160
ISBN
9780855753160
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.89

Paperback. Uncovers the history of Canada's first casualties of the Great War - men who tried to enlist, were deemed "unfit for service," and then lived with shame, guilt, and ostracism. Series: Studies in Canadian Military History. Num Pages: 7 photos, 3 charts, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780774828895
ISBN
9780774828895
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.86

Hardcover. A history of elite women who were concubines and wives of powerful slave-soldiers, known as Mamluks, who dominated Egypt both politically and militarily in the eighteenth century. Series: Syracuse Uni Press: Middle East Beyond Dominant Paradigms. Num Pages: 344 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JF; HBJH; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Syracuse University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815632931
ISBN
9780815632931
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 55.26

Paperback. Num Pages: 550 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJK; JPHC; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 171 x 279 x 2. Weight in Grams: 806.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226418261
ISBN
9780226418261
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.70

Hardback. When Thomas Jefferson struck a deal for the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, he knew he was adding a new national power to those specified in the Constitution, but he also believed his actions were in the nation's best interest. This book reveals that the president to be the nation's most important law interpreter and and more. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJK; JPHC; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 35. Weight in Grams: 875.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226211107
ISBN
9780226211107
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 120.81

Paperback. American urban ruins have become increasingly prominent, whether in debates about home foreclosures, images of 9/11, or postapocalyptic movies. Recovering numerous scenes of urban desolation, this title argues that this association between American cities and ruins dates back to a much earlier period in the nation's history. Num Pages: 416 pages, 76 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 568.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226946641
ISBN
9780226946641
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.63

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
PM Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
SKU
V9781604867947
ISBN
9781604867947
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 30.41

Paperback. Until the Last Man Comes Home: POWs, MIAs, and the Unending Vietnam War Num Pages: 433 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 1KBB; HBJF; HBJK; HBLW; HBWS2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 252 x 29. Weight in Grams: 600.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
433
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807872727
ISBN
9780807872727
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.74

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JMC; HBJK; HBLX; JPWL2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231158992
ISBN
9780231158992
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.61

Collects interviews with survivors, bystanders, and emergency workers during the September 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, focusing on the different "zones of sadness" affected by the attack. Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: HBJK; JKSN; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 550.
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231158985
ISBN
9780231158985
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.40

Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781510717794
ISBN
9781510717794
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.70

Paperback. The Navajo Code was the only battlefield code that Japan never deciphered. This book details the history of the men who created this secret code and used it on the battlefield to help the United States win World War II in the Pacific. Num Pages: 144 pages, 17 images, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KB; 3JJH; HBJK; HBLW; HBWQ; JFSL9; JWKF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 167 x 7. Weight in Grams: 186.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780803224568
ISBN
9780803224568
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.98

Paperback. The nearly half-million American airmen who served during World War II have almost disappeared. And so have their stories. In Unsung Eagles, award-winning writer and former fighter pilot Jay Stout has saved an exciting collection of those accounts from oblivion. Num Pages: 288 pages, 32pp photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; BTM; HBJK; HBWQ; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Casemate Books United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781612003948
ISBN
9781612003948
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.38

Hardback. Unspeakable Violence argues that racialized and gendered violence in the U.S. Mexico borderlands from the mid-nineteenth century through the early twentieth was fundamental to U.S., Mexican, and Chicano/a nationalisms. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 400 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963. Weight in Grams: 685.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350576
ISBN
9780822350576
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 165.65

Paperback. Unspeakable Violence argues that racialized and gendered violence in the U.S. Mexico borderlands from the mid-nineteenth century through the early twentieth was fundamental to U.S., Mexican, and Chicano/a nationalisms. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 400 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 563.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350750
ISBN
9780822350750
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.28

Paperback. Poor migrants made up a growing class of workers in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. This book is an ambitious attempt to reconstruct the everyday lives of these dispossessed people. It offers a portrait of unsettledness in early modern England that includes the homeless and housed alike. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 tables, 34halftones. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226269566
ISBN
9780226269566
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.97

Hardcover. During the First World War it was the task of the US Department of Justice, using the Espionage Act and its later Sedition Act amendment, to prosecute and convict those who opposed America's entry into the conflict. This book shows that the Justice Department did not stop at this official charge but went much further. Series: Studies in American Thought and Culture. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJF; HBJK; HBWN; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780299228903
ISBN
9780299228903
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 30.31

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 24. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801483189
ISBN
9780801483189
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.70

Hardback. Explores the exceptional roles that women played in the vibrant cultural and political life of medieval Byzantium. Drawing on a diverse range of sources, this title focuses on the importance of marriage in imperial statecraft, the tense coexistence of empresses in the imperial court, and the critical relationships of mothers and daughters. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 3H; HBJD; HBLC1; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 628.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691153216
ISBN
9780691153216
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.65