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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Dundurn Press Canada
Edition
Annotated
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9781550028676
ISBN
9781550028676
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 35.91

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
New Africa Books (Pty) Ltd South Africa
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
SKU
V9780864864420
ISBN
9780864864420
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 14.11

Paperback. Modi: The Wheels of Change is a biography of Narendra Damodardas Modi, the 15th and current Prime Minister of India. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJP; 3JM; BGH; HBJF; HBLW3; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 135. .
Publisher
Parthian Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910901700
ISBN
9781910901700
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 13.92

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLL; HBWP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 15. Weight in Grams: 312.
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845198107
ISBN
9781845198107
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 34.90

Hardcover. Offers a short history of Spain during a crucial period, the reign of Alfonso XIII (1902-1931). This book provides fresh insight into the period as one that was actually characterised by extensive modernisation in Spanish society and politics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 442.
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845195052
ISBN
9781845195052
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.03

Paperback. Series: Princeton Studies on the Near East. Num Pages: 430 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJH; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 22. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
430
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691623641
ISBN
9780691623641
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 76.84

Hardback. Series: Princeton Studies on the Near East. Num Pages: 430 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJH; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691650289
ISBN
9780691650289
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 204.16

Hardback. This work examines the lives of people caught in the dynamics of changing mores, rapid urbanization and public health issues in 19th century Buenos Aires. "Modernity in the Flesh" shows the costs Argentines paid for the establishment of liberal democracy between 1880 and 1910. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 3JH; 3JJC; GTB; HBTB; JFC; JPFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804748711
ISBN
9780804748711
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.56

Paperback. Num Pages: 880 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPG; HBJD1; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 304 x 132 x 61. Weight in Grams: 648.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408844380
ISBN
9781408844380
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 15.98

hardcover. Challenging much received wisdom about nation-states - how they form, what sustains them, why they fail - this study of subaltern social groups in the Chachapoyas region of Peru analyzes the emergence of the modern nation-state from below. Num Pages: 420 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; JPA; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 800.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
462
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804727822
ISBN
9780804727822
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 177.52

Paperback. Challenging much received wisdom about nation-states - how they form, what sustains them, why they fail - this study of subaltern social groups in the Chachapoyas region of Peru analyzes the emergence of the modern nation-state from below. Num Pages: 420 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; JPA; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 625.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
420
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780804729581
ISBN
9780804729581
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.74

Paperback. This is the first book to chart the evolution of the Baha'i faith--a millenarian movement led by the nineteenth-century Iranian prophet Baha'u'llah (meaning "the Glory of God")--and its transformation against the backdrop of modernity. Series: History & Society of the Modern Middle East. Num Pages: 400 pages, 18 photos. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3JH; HBJF1; HBLL; HRKB; JFC; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231110815
ISBN
9780231110815
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.74

Paperback. Between the 1890s and the 1920s, cities in the vast region stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean were experiencing political, social, economic and cultural changes. This study provides a comparative analysis of contested versions of the concept of modernity. Editor(s): Fawaz, Leila; Bayly, C. A. Num Pages: 432 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1QSM; 1QSN; 3JH; 3JJ; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231114271
ISBN
9780231114271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 30.19

paperback. What does it mean to be modern? Jerrold Seigel offers a magisterial account of the development of European modernity. Num Pages: 638 pages, 10 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DDF; 1DFG; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 228 x 28. Weight in Grams: 996. Society, Politics and Culture in England, France and Germany Since 1750. 638 pages, 10 b/w illus. What does it mean to be modern? Jerrold Seigel offers a magisterial account of the development of European modernity. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DDF; 1DFG; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Dimension: 152 x 228 x 28. Weight: 996.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
638
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107666788
ISBN
9781107666788
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 31.54

Paperback. Tracing the history of modernism in cinema, this study provides readings of a range of classic films made between 1925 and 1980 by such filmmakers as Carl Dreyer, Ingmar Bergman and Robert Bresson. It argues that the act of vision and visual experience are problematized in literary modernism. Num Pages: 262 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; APFA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231071833
ISBN
9780231071833
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.70

Paperback. * Challenges the idea that Modernism was conservative and reactionary. * Relates the modernist impulse to broader cultural and historical crises and movements. * Provides a guide to the development of Modernist literature. * Covers women writers, writers of the Harlem Renaissance and openly gay and lesbian writers. Num Pages: 264 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631213079
ISBN
9780631213079
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.79

Paperback. This anthology is a guide to the Modernist movement in literature providing students, researchers and teachers of Modernism with a comprehensive documentary resource. Covering a wide range of intellectual concerns of the period 1850-1940 in Britain, Europe and America the anthology brings together contemporary essays, reviews, articles and manifestos of the political and aesthetic avant-garde. Editor(s): Kolocotroni, Vassiliki; Goldman, Jane A.; Taxidou, Olga. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 174 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1112.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
576
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748609734
ISBN
9780748609734
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 32.10

Hardback. A lavishly illustrated catalogue that is the first to explore the role of modernism in 20th- century American silver design Editor(s): Tucker, Kevin W.; Venable, Charles L. Num Pages: 384 pages, 80 b&w + 300 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; ACXD2; AFKG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 304 x 228 x 30. Weight in Grams: 2191.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300109276
ISBN
9780300109276
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.57
€ 61.91

paperback. Focuses on the development of modern architecture in the Middle East. Ranging from Jerusalem at the turn of the 20th century to Libya under Italian colonial rule, post-war Turkey, and on to Iraq, this title looks around the historical encounter between the politics of nation-building and architectural modernism's materials, methods, and motives. Editor(s): Isenstadt, Sandy; Rizvi, Kishwar. Series: Studies in Modernity and National Identity. Num Pages: 320 pages, 76 illus. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3JJ; AM; GTB; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295987941
ISBN
9780295987941
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.40

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Edition
n
Number of pages
380
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295981529
ISBN
9780295981529
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.32

Hardcover. Editor(s): O'Malley, Therese; Wolschke-Bulmahn, Joachim. Series: Studies in the History of Art Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, 75 color + 173 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 3JJ; AMV; AMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 289 x 34. Weight in Grams: 2058.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
NGW-Stud Hist Art
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300196399
ISBN
9780300196399
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.36
€ 49.05

Paperback. The essays in Modernism and Colonialism offer revisionary accounts of major British and Irish literary modernists relation to colonialism. Editor(s): Begam, Richard; Moses, Michael Valdez. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3963 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822340386
ISBN
9780822340386
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.18

Hardback. Argues that references to theology and traditional Christian iconography in the works of Picasso and Apollinaire are not mere symbolic gestures; rather, they are complex responses to the symbolist art and poetry of figures important to them, including Paul Gauguin, Charles Morice, and Santiago Rusinol. Num Pages: 384 pages, 16 color, 17 b/w. BIC Classification: 3JJ; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 264 x 185 x 23. Weight in Grams: 858.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520282469
ISBN
9780520282469
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.36
€ 45.40

Paperback. An exploration of the ideas, groupings and the social tensions that shaped the transformation of life caused by the changes of modernity in art, science, politics and philosophy. Editor(s): McFarlane, James Walter; Bradbury, Malcolm. Num Pages: 688 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 472.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
688
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1978
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140138320
ISBN
9780140138320
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.21

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