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Regional & national history
Hardcover. From the Arab world comes a love story between an Arab man and an American woman that lasted more than half a century. Their lives spanned both sides of the Jordan River, and their love was tested by the traditions of an ancient and proud Christian tribe and the contrasts between their cultures. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBX; BM; HBJF1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 234 x 40. Weight in Grams: 878.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Medina Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909339354
- ISBN
- 9781909339354
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.35
€ 18.99
€ 17.35
Paperback. Offers a methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political content of archival forms. This title identifies the social epistemologies that guided perception and practice, revealing the problematic racial ontologies of that confused epistemic space. Num Pages: 336 pages, 8 halftones. 1 maps. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBJM; HBLL; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 135 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691146362
- ISBN
- 9780691146362
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.68
€ 49.68
Paperback. Investigates the matters of state in late 19th and early 20th century Indonesia, particularly the critical role played by sexual arrangements and affective attachments in creating colonial categories and distinguishing the ruler from the ruled. This work argues that social classification is not a benign cultural act but a potent political one. Num Pages: 376 pages, 42 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 2010 ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520262461
- ISBN
- 9780520262461
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 35.18
€ 40.99
€ 35.18
Paperback. A wonderful compendium of bizarre and curious stories from Scottish myth and history Num Pages: 256 pages, b/w illustrated throughout. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBJD1; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Publisher
- Birlinn General
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781780274096
- ISBN
- 9781780274096
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 10.45
€ 14.99
€ 10.45
paperback. Examines methods of information management in ancient and medieval Europe as well as the Islamic world and China, focusing on the organization, composition, and reception of Latin reference books in print in early modern Europe. Num Pages: 416 pages, 31 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: GLC; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 235 x 23. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300165395
- ISBN
- 9780300165395
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.66
€ 30.66
Hardback. Commerce by a Frozen Sea reveals Native Americans as industrious people and effective traders who achieved a standard of living in the eighteenth century higher than most workers in Europe. Num Pages: 264 pages, 25 illus. BIC Classification: HBJK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 584.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812242317
- ISBN
- 9780812242317
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.92
€ 69.92
Bibliography of Metropolitan Milwaukee (Urban Life)
Ann M. Graf, Amanda I. Seligman, Margo Anders...
Hardcover. Editor(s): Graf, Ann M.; Seligman, Amanda I.; Anderson, Margo. Series: Urban life. Num Pages: 345 pages. BIC Classification: GBA; HBJK; JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Marquette Univ Pr
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874620849
- ISBN
- 9780874620849
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.68
€ 35.68
Hardcover. In this volume, scholars from three continents trace the role of dreams in the cultural transitions of the early modern Atlantic world, illustrating how both indigenous and European methods of understanding dream phenomena became central to contests over religious and political power. Editor(s): Plane, Ann Marie; Tuttle, Leslie. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1K; HBJD; HBJK; HBLC; HBLH; HRQ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812245042
- ISBN
- 9780812245042
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.90
€ 86.90
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 17. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JD; 3JF; HBJK; HBLH; JFSL9; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801483639
- ISBN
- 9780801483639
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.85
€ 43.85
Hardcover. The first full study of the life of Margherita Datini illuminates the role and social standing of wives in early modern Italian society Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472119493
- ISBN
- 9780472119493
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.43
€ 103.43
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JHBZ; MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 30. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807076996
- ISBN
- 9780807076996
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.80
€ 26.99
€ 19.80
Hardcover. A study of an important class of ceramics from the key coastal colonial site of Cosa in southwest Tuscany, this work documents the rise of Republican Rome to dominance in central Italy in the third and second centuries BC. It catalogues and analyzes five deposits of black-glaze pottery from Cosa. Series: Supplements to the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. Num Pages: 304 pages, 351 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; AFPC; HBJD; HBLA; HDDK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1275.
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472115853
- ISBN
- 9780472115853
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.43
€ 116.43
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, 75 black & white halftones, 25 colour illustrations, 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 252 x 204 x 14. Weight in Grams: 721.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781608931750
- ISBN
- 9781608931750
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 34.79
€ 40.99
€ 34.79
Hardcover. KERRY Editor(s): O'Sullivan, Anne; Sheehan, John. Series: Archaeology/medieval studies. Num Pages: 480 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLA; HD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 294 x 206 x 0. Weight in Grams: 2060. 461pp
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Cork University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780902561847
- ISBN
- 9780902561847
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.00€ 43.61
€ 59.00
€ 43.61
Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; JF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231146623
- ISBN
- 9780231146623
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.22
€ 91.22
Paperback. Martin finds that objects not only reflect culture, they are the means to create it. Series: Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia. Num Pages: 288 pages, 50, 4 black & white line drawings, 34 black & white halftones, 12 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; HBJK; HBLL; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 236 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801898266
- ISBN
- 9780801898266
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.18
€ 42.18
hardcover. Papua New Guinea has experienced a remarkably rapid transition from scattered primitive societies to a modern unified nation. The dictionary covers major economic, social, political, and cultural developments, basic geographic information and biographies. With maps. Series: Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania and the Middle East. Num Pages: 416 pages, 2 maps, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; GBC; HBJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 146 x 29. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810839366
- ISBN
- 9780810839366
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 186.58
€ 186.58
Paperback. Throughout the 18th and early 19th centuries, illegitimate offspring of elite families in colonial Spanish America appealed to the Council of the Indies in Spain to purchase legitimations. This analysis provides a detailed picture of attitudes to illegitimacy in colonial Spanish America. Num Pages: 464 pages, 16 tables 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLS; 3J; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 158 x 29. Weight in Grams: 646.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804731485
- ISBN
- 9780804731485
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.37
€ 46.37
Paperback. A young man suddenly emerged claiming to be Richard of York, the younger of the Princes in the Tower. As such, he tormented Henry vii for eight years. He tried three times to invade England and behaved like a prince. Officially, however, he was proclaimed to be Perkin Warbeck, the son of a Flemish boatman. Num Pages: 624 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 39. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 624
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099449966
- ISBN
- 9780099449966
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.10
€ 24.99
€ 18.10
Paperback. Editor(s): Knudsen, Ann-Christina Lauring; Gram-Skjoldager, Karen. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD; HBLW; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Publisher
- Aarhus University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788771240573
- ISBN
- 9788771240573
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.59
€ 19.59
Hardback. Series: Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AC; AGC; AJC; DSB; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 206 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1157.
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271063317
- ISBN
- 9780271063317
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.35
€ 49.35
Paperback. This publication brings a new perspective to the study of ancient gold from U Thong, the highly significant corpus of early gold artefacts found in and around the moated city, the largest accumulation of such artefacts from any of the ancient muang of Thailand. Num Pages: 168 pages, 400 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMT; 3B; AFKG; HBJF; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 270 x 210. .
- Publisher
- River Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9786167339818
- ISBN
- 9786167339818
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.53
€ 40.99
€ 33.53
Hardcover. Rhetorics of Belonging describes the formation and operation of a category of Palestinian and Israeli "world literature" whose authors actively respond to the expectation that their work will "narrate" the nation, invigorating critical debates about the political and artistic value of national narration as a literary practice. Series: Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; HBJF1; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 18. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846319433
- ISBN
- 9781846319433
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.09
€ 54.09
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Windmill Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099592525
- ISBN
- 9780099592525
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.34
€ 24.99
€ 18.34