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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

Hardcover. Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for History This searing story of slavery and freedom in the Chesapeake by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian reveals the pivot in the nation's path between the founding and civil war. Num Pages: 624 pages, 35 illustrations; 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 242 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1072.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
624
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393073713
ISBN
9780393073713
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.59

Paperback. "An important, revealing story, exceptionally well told."-Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Num Pages: 416 pages, 8 pages of black-and-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393338874
ISBN
9780393338874
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.94

Paperback. "Thought-provoking.. [Allen] writes without sanctimony and never simplifies the people in his book or the moral issues his story inevitably raises."-Wall Street Journal Num Pages: 400 pages, 35 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 209 x 27. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393351040
ISBN
9780393351040
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 25.26

Paperback. Num Pages: 374 pages, 2 maps, 8 line illustrations, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; HBT; JFFN; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 133 x 22. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1969
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
374
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674715011
ISBN
9780674715011
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.60

paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 5. BIC Classification: 1KBBFM; 3JJP; JNFR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Edition
1.
SKU
V9780801476525
ISBN
9780801476525
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.99

paperback. "Buffalo Bill" Cody describes his Wild West exhibition, the show that offered audiences a mythic experience of the American frontier Editor(s): Christianson, Frank. Series: The Papers of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody. Num Pages: 256 pages, 24 photographs, 46 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1KBB; 3JH; ASZ; BGHA; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780803240544
ISBN
9780803240544
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.31

paperback. The story of four Wabanaki Indian women, spanning the 17th to the 20th centuries. Num Pages: 152 pages, Illus., map. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; 3J; HBJK; HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5741 x 3556 x 9. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780803282773
ISBN
9780803282773
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.01

hardcover. Placing women at the center of the High Qing era shows how gender relations shaped the economic, political, social, and cultural changes of the age, and gives us a sense of what women felt and believed, and what they actually did, during this period. Num Pages: 340 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; JFC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 690.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804727433
ISBN
9780804727433
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 143.88

hardcover. For seven years in the 1970s, the author lived in a village in northeast China as a farmer. In 1989 he returned as an anthropologist to begin the span of 11 years' fieldwork that has resulted in this work - an account of family change and the transformation of private life in rural China. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJP; JFSF; JHBK; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 26. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804733090
ISBN
9780804733090
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.26

hardcover. When famine struck Bolshevik Russia in 1921, the US responded with a two-year relief mission that battled starvation and disease, and saved millions of lives. The tale told here is largely derived from the diaries, memoirs and letters of the American participants. Num Pages: 832 pages, 94 illustrations, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1KBB; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1429.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
832
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804744676
ISBN
9780804744676
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 176.64

hardcover. The first comprehensive history of a major Muslim rebellion and the rise and fall of an independent Islamic state within China during the second half of the nineteenth century-in Xinjiang, where potentially separatist Islamic movements still worry the Chinese state. Num Pages: 320 pages, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; HRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804748841
ISBN
9780804748841
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.26

hardcover. Drawing on data sets and applying the theoretical tools of both sociology and economics, this book examines the substantive issues, challenges, and problems confronting the diverse and in many ways fragile book publishing industry in the United States, and presents the social and economic analysis of its state and future trends. Num Pages: 280 pages, 87 tables, 6 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 256 x 184 x 21. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804750318
ISBN
9780804750318
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 90.51

Hardcover. This book is a study of everyday life in rural north China in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century told through the story of one man's life. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; BGH; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804750684
ISBN
9780804750684
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.28

hardcover. This book is an anthology of essays by Yuji Ichioka, the foremost authority on Japanese American history, which studies Japanese American life and politics in the interwar years. Editor(s): Chang, Gordon G.; Azuma, Eiichiro; Dirlik, Arif. Series: Asian America. Num Pages: 392 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 653.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804751476
ISBN
9780804751476
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.58

hardcover. This book provides a new understanding of German twentieth-century history by using the lens of citizenship to explore issues of nationality, belonging, and constructions of German nationhood. Editor(s): Eley, Geoff; Palmowski, Jan. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; JPFN; JPVH1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804752046
ISBN
9780804752046
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.26

hardcover. This volume provides an in-depth history of Navy high-level decision making during the challenging initial decade of the Cold War. Num Pages: 728 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW; HBW; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1089.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
728
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804756662
ISBN
9780804756662
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.36

hardcover. Local Liberalisms shows how early nineteenth-century Mexicans-be they indigenous villagers, government officials, or local elites-worked to incorporate the institutions of liberalism into their daily political lives, and how those local institutions interacted with a national liberal movement that often contradicted them. Num Pages: 304 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JH; HBJK; JFSL4; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804757645
ISBN
9780804757645
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.11

hardcover. Traces the links between the development of modern Egyptian identity and the burgeoning Islamic modernist movement from the mid-1870s until the 1910s. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JH; 3JJC; HBTB; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 169 x 22. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804758888
ISBN
9780804758888
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.52

hardcover. A new generation of China scholars offers a fresh look at the unusual cross-cultural territory constituted by China's missionary-established Christian colleges before 1950 in this fascinating work. Num Pages: 432 pages, 2 tables, 14 figures, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; HBJF; HBTB; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804759489
ISBN
9780804759489
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 165.71

hardcover. Men and the Making of Modern British Feminism calls fresh attention to the forgotten but foundational contributions of men to the creation of modern British feminism. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804763110
ISBN
9780804763110
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.43

hardcover. Rather than envision themselves as agents of state-sponsored repression, the royal book censors of eighteenth-century France wished, through their reports and decisions, to guide the literary traffic of the Enlightenment and expand public awareness of progressive thought. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JFMD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 661. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804763592
ISBN
9780804763592
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.43

hardcover. This student-friendly text details the fascinating history of how Asia has evolved from being little more than a geographic expression to becoming a vibrant, assertive region with an increasing impact on global political, economic, and security affairs. Num Pages: 336 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1F; 3JJP; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 23. Weight in Grams: 794.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804771504
ISBN
9780804771504
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 143.88

hardcover. This book tracks the development of biomedicine in South Korea following liberation from Japan in 1945, covering the transition from Japanese imperial models of practice to an approximation of American and international models of health. Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPKS; 3JJH; HBJF; MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804784115
ISBN
9780804784115
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.58

Paperback. A contribution to the history of the blues and of Afro-American culture in general. Writing from a black/feminist standpoint, Harrison shows the joys, trials, heartbreaks and enduring influence of such singers as Victoria Spivey and Alberta Hunter. Num Pages: 314 pages, photographs, discography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; AVGJ; AVGK; JFFK; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813512808
ISBN
9780813512808
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 45.46

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