Modern period, c 1500 onwards
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Modern period, c 1500 onwards
Paperback. Series: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century. Num Pages: 394 pages, 25 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 26. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813168463
- ISBN
- 9780813168463
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.21
€ 34.21
Hardcover. The story of commercial activities in the Yellowstone National Park from the 1870s through to the 1960s. It examines the place of business in the development of America's national parks, demonstrating the prominent role played by profit-driven entrepreneurs in shaping the physical landscape. Series: Development of Western Resources S. Num Pages: 248 pages, 25 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBWY; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; KN; RNF; RPG; WN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 585.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Univ Pr of Kansas
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700611676
- ISBN
- 9780700611676
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.17
€ 65.17
Hardback. Traces the social history of early modern Japan's sex trade, from its beginnings in seventeenth-century cities to its apotheosis in the nineteenth-century countryside. Drawing on legal codes, diaries, town registers, petitions, and criminal records, this title describes how the work of selling women transformed communities across the archipelago. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 282 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3J; HBJF; HBLH; HBTB; JFMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 534. Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. 282 pages, Illustrations. Traces the social history of early modern Japan's sex trade, from its beginnings in seventeenth-century cities to its apotheosis in the nineteenth-century countryside. Drawing on legal codes, diaries, town registers, petitions, and criminal records, this title describes how the work of selling women transformed communities across the archipelago. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3J; HBJF; HBLH; HBTB; JFMX. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 22. Weight: 534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520270909
- ISBN
- 9780520270909
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.24€ 63.14
€ 82.24
€ 63.14
Paperback. Examining "folk revivals" in the early 20th century, this book reveals the cultural politics surrounding the re-emergence of Southern Appalachian handicrafts. The author shows how this revival had not so much to do with recapturing tradition as fufilling the desires of middle-class taste. Num Pages: 360 pages, 37 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; AFT; HBJK; HBLW; JFC; JHBT; TDP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807847152
- ISBN
- 9780807847152
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.26
€ 51.26
Hardback. This book studies the transition from local to national timekeeping, inthe USA, aprocess that led to Standard Time the world-wide system of timekeeping by which everyone lives. Num Pages: 328 pages, 26 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; PGZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 255 x 186 x 28. Weight in Grams: 834.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804738743
- ISBN
- 9780804738743
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.92€ 62.95
€ 68.92
€ 62.95
Hardcover. Tells the story of how black Chicagoans were at the center of a national movement in the 1940s and '50s, a time when African Americans across the country first started to see themselves as part of a single culture. This book offers interpretations of such events as the 1940 American Negro Exposition. Series: Historical Studies of Urban America. Num Pages: 280 pages, 31 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226306414
- ISBN
- 9780226306414
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.13€ 44.62
€ 52.13
€ 44.62
Paperback. Tells the story of how black Chicagoans were at the center of a national movement in the 1940s and '50s, a time when African Americans across the country first started to see themselves as part of a single culture. This book offers interpretations of such events as the 1940 American Negro Exposition. Series: Historical Studies of Urban America. Num Pages: 320 pages, 31 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JJH; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226306407
- ISBN
- 9780226306407
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.28
€ 31.99
€ 25.28
Hardback. Through an examination of election campaign propaganda and various public relations campaigns, this work explores how conservative political and economic groups sought to construct and sell a political meaning of the Social Market Economy and the Economic Miracle in West Germany during the 1950s. Series: Monographs in German History. Num Pages: Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFGW; 3JJPG; KCZ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845452230
- ISBN
- 9781845452230
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.98
€ 158.98
Provides a study of European pro-empire propaganda in Belgium, with particular emphasis on the period 1908-60. Matthew G. Stanard questions the nature of Belgian imperialism in the Congo and considers the Belgian case in light of literature on the French, British, and other European overseas empires. Num Pages: 408 pages, 10 illustrations, 1 chart. BIC Classification: 1DDB; 1HFJZ; 3JJ; HBJH; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 235 x 34. Weight in Grams: 736.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803237773
- ISBN
- 9780803237773
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.07
€ 77.07
Hardback. Between 1880 and 1940, California cities were in the vanguard in creating comprehensive city plans and zoning ordinances that came to characterize modern American city growth. This book reveals the means by which property-owning middle-class women achieved entry into the male-dominated sphere of urban planning. Num Pages: 232 pages, 19 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804748759
- ISBN
- 9780804748759
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.69
€ 90.69
Paperback. Selling the Church: The English Parish in Law, Commerce, and Religion, 1350-1550 Series: Studies in Legal History. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; 3JB; HBJD1; HBLC1; HBTB; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781469615028
- ISBN
- 9781469615028
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.64
€ 54.64
Hardcover. Textiles are a key component of the industrial and consumer revolutions, yet we lack a coherent picture of how the marketing of textiles varied across the long 18th century and between different regions. This book provides important new insights into the ways in which changes in the supply of textiles related to shifting patterns of demand. Editor(s): Stobart, Jon; Blonde, Bruno. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DD; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 237 x 20. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137295200
- ISBN
- 9781137295200
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.03
€ 65.03
Paperback. Finnegan's pathbreaking study of woman suffrage from the 1850s to the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 reveals how activists came to identify with consumer culture and employ its methods of publicity to win popular support through carefully crafted images of enfranchised women as "personable, likable, and modern." Series: Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives. Num Pages: 240 pages, 33 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFFJ; JFSJ1; JPHF; JPVH; JPWD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 146 x 12. Weight in Grams: 317.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231107396
- ISBN
- 9780231107396
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.16
€ 48.16
Hardback. Besieged during the Franco-Prussian War, its buildings damaged, its finances mired in debt, Paris was a city in crisis. Alexia Yates chronicles the private actors and networks, practices and politics, that spurred the largest building boom of the nineteenth century, turning city-making into big business in the French capital. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 165 x 28. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674088214
- ISBN
- 9780674088214
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.02€ 54.03
€ 59.02
€ 54.03
Paperback. Drawing on the analysis of counterterrorism in the years after 9/11 - including the issuance of terror alerts and the decision to invade Iraq - this title presents a case that the Bush administration hyped fear, while obscuring civil liberties abuses and concrete issues of preparedness. Series: Chicago Studies in American Politics. Num Pages: 248 pages, 50 line drawings, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JMC; JFD; JPV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226567198
- ISBN
- 9780226567198
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.96
€ 36.99
€ 28.96
Hardcover. Drawing on the analysis of counterterrorism in the years after 9/11 - including the issuance of terror alerts and the decision to invade Iraq - this title presents a case that the Bush administration hyped fear, while obscuring civil liberties abuses and concrete issues of preparedness. Series: Chicago Studies in American Politics. Num Pages: 248 pages, 50 line drawings, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JMC; JFD; JPV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 549.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226567181
- ISBN
- 9780226567181
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.67€ 76.71
€ 92.67
€ 76.71
Hardback. Rather than disappearing along with the Old Regime, the commerce of cosmetics, reimagined and redefined, flourished in the early 19th century, as political ideals and Enlightenment philosophies radically altered popular sentiment. Series: Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. Num Pages: 240 pages, 13, 13 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; KNSX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801893094
- ISBN
- 9780801893094
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.96
€ 72.96
Paperback. Tells the story of South Africa's shocking propaganda campaign which sold apartheid across the world Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JJP; HBJH; HBLW3; JPVL; JPVN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 230 x 21. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Publisher
- Pluto Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745399140
- ISBN
- 9780745399140
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.22
€ 21.99
€ 16.22
Hardcover. Selim Aga was eight years old when he was abducted from the Nuba Mountains of Sudan and sold into slavery and auctioned 2000 miles away in Egypt to the highest bidder. Born around 1827, Selim was killed in a war in Liberia in 1875. Here, the author has pieced together the life of this remarkable man, using Selim's own narrative. Num Pages: 208 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBS; 3JH; BGH; HBJH; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 157 x 32. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Luath Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905222179
- ISBN
- 9781905222179
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.25
€ 21.99
€ 16.25
Paperback. Offering the story of African American self-education, this title examines African Americans' relationship to literacy during slavery, during the Civil War, and in the first decades of freedom. Series: John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture. Num Pages: 320 pages, 7 illustrations, 1 table, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBTS; JFSL3; JN. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807858219
- ISBN
- 9780807858219
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.25
€ 40.25