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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

Paperback. The fall of the Spanish Empire: that period in the nineteenth century when it lost its colonies in Spanish America and the Philippines. How did it happen? What did the process of the "end of empire" look like? Empire's End considers Spain's imperial legacy beyond this period, all the way up to the present moment. Editor(s): Tsuchiya, Akiko; Acree, William, Jr. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 525.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826520777
ISBN
9780826520777
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.04

Hardcover. The fall of the Spanish Empire: that period in the nineteenth century when it lost its colonies in Spanish America and the Philippines. How did it happen? What did the process of the "end of empire" look like? Empire's End considers Spain's imperial legacy beyond this period, all the way up to the present moment. Editor(s): Tsuchiya, Akiko; Acree, William, Jr. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 825.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826520760
ISBN
9780826520760
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.88

Hardback. Spanning academic and public debates, Empire's Ally opens a new line of argument on why the mission has entered a stage of crisis. Num Pages: 432 pages, 5. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 1KBC; 3JM; HBJF; HBJK; HBLX; HBWS4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 33. Weight in Grams: 800.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442645158
ISBN
9781442645158
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.86

Hardback. In the early fifteenth century, when Romans discovered ancient marble sculptures and inscriptions in the ruins, they often melted them into mortar. This book examines the 'long' fifteenth century, a critical period in the history of antiquities collecting that has received scant attention. Num Pages: 288 pages, 50 colour images & 220 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; 3JB; ACND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 264 x 200 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1704.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300154214
ISBN
9780300154214
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.60
€ 51.98

Paperback. The New York Times bestselling history of the Comanches in the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Num Pages: 496 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 33. Weight in Grams: 420.
Edition
Reprint
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849017039
ISBN
9781849017039
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.13

Hardback. Leading writer Boris Kagarlitsky offers an ambitious account of 1000 years of Russian history. Translator(s): Clarke, Renfrey. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3H; 3J; HBJD; JPFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 660.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745326825
ISBN
9780745326825
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.92
€ 49.36

Paperback. Num Pages: 364 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 171 x 23. Weight in Grams: 818.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Dementi Milestone Publishing United States
Number of pages
364
Condition
New
SKU
V9780988909946
ISBN
9780988909946
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 19.29

Hardback. Kim explores the dynamic relationship between Korean and Japanese Buddhists in the years leading up to the Japanese annexation of Korea. Conventional narratives portray Korean Buddhists as complicit in the religious annexation of the peninsula, but this view fails to account for the diverse visions, interests, and strategies that drove both sides. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 350 pages, 19 halftones; 1 black and white illustration; 2 maps; 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1FPK; 3JH; 3JJC; HRE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674065758
ISBN
9780674065758
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 44.51

Paperback. How did Britain so lose the plot that today there is not a single aircraft manufacturer of any significance in the country? The author captures that season of glory in a book that fuses his own memories of being a schoolboy plane spotter with a ruefully realistic history of British decline. It is the story of machines and men who flew them. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPN; 3JMC; HBJD1; HBTK; KNDV; WGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571247950
ISBN
9780571247950
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. A sensational history of love, politics and corruption in the Jazz Age Num Pages: 416 pages, 6. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3JJG; AVGJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 124. .
Publisher
Amberley Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781445651231
ISBN
9781445651231
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.30

Paperback. Examines the networks that linked academics across the British settler world in the age of 'Victorian' globalization. Drawing on extensive archival research, remaps the intellectual geographies of Britain and its empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Series: Studies in Imperialism. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1QDB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTQ; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 420.
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719099304
ISBN
9780719099304
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.53

Examines the networks that linked academics across the British settler world in the age of 'Victorian' globalization. Drawing on extensive archival research, remaps the intellectual geographies of Britain and its empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Series Editor(s): Thompson, Andrew; MacKenzie, John. Series: Studies in Imperialism. Num Pages: 256 pages, Tables, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1QDB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTQ; JFCX; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 235 x 25. Weight in Grams: 574.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719085024
ISBN
9780719085024
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 152.82

Hardback. The 1960s were a period of global media revolution: communication satellites compressed time and space, television spread around the world, and images circulated through print media in expanding ways. This book examines how U.S. policymakers exploited these changes. Series: Explorations in Culture and International History. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; JFD; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782388425
ISBN
9781782388425
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 159.05

Hardback. Series: Culture and Society After Socialism. Num Pages: 392 pages, 27. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 742.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801442735
ISBN
9780801442735
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 145.70

Paperback. Series: Culture and Society After Socialism. Num Pages: 392 pages, 27. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801489082
ISBN
9780801489082
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.15

Paperback. A magnificent new volume in the acclaimed Oxford History of the United States, written by the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Gordon S. Wood. Series: Oxford History of the United States. Num Pages: 800 pages, 40 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 234 x 53. Weight in Grams: 1102.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
800
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199832460
ISBN
9780199832460
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.56

Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 30 colour, 45 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBA; 3JH; ACV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 228 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1152.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780271034430
ISBN
9780271034430
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.20
€ 103.34

Hardback. Interprets the explosion of German body culture between the two wars - nudism and nude dancing, gymnastics and dance training, dance photography and criticism, and diverse genres of performance from solo dancing to mass movement choirs. This book presents the work of such well-known figures as Rudolf Laban, Mary Wigman, and Oskar Schlemmer. Series: Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 439 pages, 84. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; ASD; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 153 x 37. Weight in Grams: 890.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
439
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Edition
y First printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520206632
ISBN
9780520206632
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.18
€ 52.29

Paperback. For about 900 years, from 1000 to 1900, cotton was the world's most important manufacturing industry. It remains a vast business - if all the cotton bales produced in 2013 had been stacked on top of each other they would have made a somewhat unstable tower 40,000 miles high. This is a history of the cotton in dictating the shape of our world. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: 3H; 3J; HBTK; HBTQ; KNDD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 196 x 29. Weight in Grams: 438.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141979984
ISBN
9780141979984
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.66

Paperback. Essays written by Antoinette Burton since the mid-1990s trace her thinking about modern British history and engage debates about how to think about British imperialism in light of contemporary events. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 578.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822349020
ISBN
9780822349020
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 32.17

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBLX; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691156071
ISBN
9780691156071
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 24.30

Hardback. The first truly transnational history of cinema's role in decolonization, this powerful book weaves a unified historical narrative out of the experiences of three colonial powers in diverse geographic settings. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJPG; APFA; HBLW3; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 160 x 32. Weight in Grams: 726.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421416410
ISBN
9781421416410
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.32

Hardback. Explores the history of British Atlantic trading colonies Series: Early American Places. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1QDB; 3JD; 3JF; HBJD; HBTQ; KCLT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 648.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814748831
ISBN
9780814748831
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.20

Hardback. Waziristan, a region on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, has in recent years become a flash point in the so-called 'War on Terror'. Series: Library of Middle East History. Num Pages: 320 pages, 6 bw integrated illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 134 x 25. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848858961
ISBN
9781848858961
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.43
€ 113.44

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