Regional & national history
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Regional & national history
Paperback. Through the use of storytelling, linguistic analysis and journal entries from turn-of-the-century missionaries and traveling Russians in addition to many varieties of unconventional primary sources, this book explores unfamiliar terrain while examining the culture, identity and regional distinctiveness of the northern region and its people. Editor(s): Kim, Sun Joo. Series: Center for Korea Studies Publications. Num Pages: 415 pages, 3 illus. BIC Classification: 1FPK; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 684.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 415
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295990415
- ISBN
- 9780295990415
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.50
€ 52.50
Hardback. This is a study of the northern region of Korea through a person's life and work, highlighting how a writer from a marginalized region in early modern Korea became an advocate of regional subjectivity through various social, cultural, and intellectual activities, in particular through his conscientious historical writings. Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JD; 3JF; HBJF; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804783811
- ISBN
- 9780804783811
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.26
€ 80.26
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295989310
- ISBN
- 9780295989310
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.37
€ 46.37
The First Battle of the Marne 1914. The French 'miracle' Halts the Ger...
Sumner, Ian. Illus: Turner, Graham
Paperback. In 1914 the Germans launched an offensive that swept through Belgium and into France, threatening to crush French resistance in one fell swoop. However, through careful maneuvering and stubborn resistance, the French Army, aided by the BEF, blunted the assault, winning an important strategic victory that kept France in the war. Illustrator(s): Turner, Graham. Series: Campaign. Num Pages: 96 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 183 x 8. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846035029
- ISBN
- 9781846035029
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 20.85
€ 24.99
€ 20.85
Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 52 colour illus. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBW; JKSN1; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Fitness Information Technology, Inc, U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781935412502
- ISBN
- 9781935412502
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.89
€ 16.99
€ 16.89
Hardback. Offering a new contribution to debates about the British home front in WWII, this book addresses the way the Home Guard has been remembered in popular culture through examination of key films, as well as TV's Dad's Army. The authors also explore the personal memories of individuals who served in the Home Guard. Series Editor(s): Taithe, Bertrand; Gatrell, Peter; Jones, Max; Carden-Coyne, Ana. Series: Cultural History of Modern War. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations, black & white|Tables. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBTD; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 30. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719062018
- ISBN
- 9780719062018
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.04
€ 134.04
Paperback. Find out how fashionable eighteenth-century York became the capital of chocolate. Num Pages: 96 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYK; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; KNDF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 166 x 6. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445633466
- ISBN
- 9781445633466
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.55
€ 20.99
€ 16.55
Hardback. Series: Contemporary Asia in the World. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FKP; HBJF; JPS; JPV; JWMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231143745
- ISBN
- 9780231143745
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.95
€ 87.95
hardcover. History of the Three Saudi States (1157H/1744 - 1343H/1925) Num Pages: 456 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBXS; HBJF1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1030.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Medina Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780956708168
- ISBN
- 9780956708168
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 43.86
€ 51.99
€ 43.86
America in the Thirties (America in the Twentieth Century)
Sullivan, Marnie M., Olszowka, John, Sheridan...
Paperback. Series: America in the Twentieth Century. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815633785
- ISBN
- 9780815633785
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.61
€ 32.61
America in the Thirties (America in the Twentieth Century)
Sullivan, Marnie M., Olszowka, John, Sheridan...
Hardcover. Series: America in the Twentieth Century. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815633808
- ISBN
- 9780815633808
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.02
€ 66.02
Paperback. Num Pages: 360 pages, 24 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 23. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199930340
- ISBN
- 9780199930340
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.78
€ 55.78
paperback. It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, except for the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology. This is where Suki Kim has accepted a job teaching English. Life at the university is lonely. This book offers a glimpse of life inside the world's most inscrutable country. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPKN; 3JMG; BM; HBJF; HBLX; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 20. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- Rider
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846044830
- ISBN
- 9781846044830
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.31
€ 19.99
€ 14.31
Hardcover. Sukhee Lee posits an alternative understanding of the relationship between the state and social elites during the Southern Song and Yuan dynasties. Challenging the assumption of a zero-sum competition between the powers of the state and of local elites, Lee shows that state power and local elite interests were mutually constitutive and reinforcing. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 380 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: HBJF; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 158 x 29. Weight in Grams: 646.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674417144
- ISBN
- 9780674417144
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.86
€ 68.86
The Russian Revolution 1917. A Personal Record by N.N. Sukhanov.
Sukhanov, Nikolai Nikolaevich. Ed(S): Carmich...
Hardback. Editor(s): Carmichael, Joel. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 746 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBTV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 40. Weight in Grams: 942.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 746
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691640686
- ISBN
- 9780691640686
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 347.19
€ 347.19
Paperback. By examining how Indians formulated notions of citizenship across the British empire from the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth, Sujatha Banerjee theorizes modes of citizenship decoupled from the rights-conferring nation-state. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822346081
- ISBN
- 9780822346081
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.59
€ 37.59
Hardback. By examining how Indians formulated notions of citizenship across the British empire from the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth, Sujatha Banerjee theorizes modes of citizenship decoupled from the rights-conferring nation-state. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822345909
- ISBN
- 9780822345909
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.02
€ 150.02
Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 29 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPK; HBJF; JPSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231164825
- ISBN
- 9780231164825
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.38
€ 78.38
Hardcover. How did the British come to conquer South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? This title explores how the British organized the process of "islanding," aiming to create a separable unit of colonial governance and trade in keeping with conceptions of ethnology, culture, and geography. Num Pages: 344 pages, 33 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKS; HBJF; HBLL; HBTM; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 672.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226038223
- ISBN
- 9780226038223
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.19
€ 55.19
Hardcover. Exploring the complexities of remembrance Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 3JJPG; HBJF; HBWS1; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Nevada Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874179361
- ISBN
- 9780874179361
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.92
€ 51.92
The Sarashina Diary: A Woman´s Life in Eleventh-Century Japan
Sugawara No Takasue No Musume Sugawara No Tak...
Hardback. Translator(s): Arntzen, Sonja; Ito, Moriyuki. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 264 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, 3 maps, 2 recorded music items. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3H; BM; HBJF; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231167185
- ISBN
- 9780231167185
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.70
€ 62.70
Paperback. Chronicles the public careers and private lives of the men who wielded absolute power over Rome, from the foundation of the empire under Julius Caesar and Augustus, to the decline into depravity and civil war under Nero and the recovery that came with his successors. Editor(s): Rives, James B. Num Pages: 464 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- 9780140455168
- ISBN
- 9780140455168
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.71
€ 13.99
€ 11.71
Paperback. Includes a general introduction; chronology of major events; What the Romans Knew; Rome and Its Institutions; suggested further reading; and, maps, family trees, a glossary, and an index of historical names. Translator(s): Hurley, Donna W. Num Pages: 432 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 213 x 23. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781603843133
- ISBN
- 9781603843133
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.93
€ 20.99
€ 16.93
Paperback. Editor(s): Edwards, Catharine. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 448 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; BGH; HBJD1; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199537563
- ISBN
- 9780199537563
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.91
€ 14.99
€ 14.91