Modern period, c 1500 onwards
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Modern period, c 1500 onwards
Paperback. "American Bandstand", one of the most popular television shows ever, broadcast from Philadelphia in the late fifties, a time when that city had become a battleground for civil rights. This book reveals how the program directed at teens discriminated against black youth and how black teens and civil rights advocates protested this discrimination. Series: American Crossroads. Num Pages: 312 pages, 27 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; 3JJPG; APT; JFCA; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520272088
- ISBN
- 9780520272088
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.67
€ 41.67
Paperback. Examines the pitched battles over busing at a national scale, focusing on cities such as Boston, Chicago, New York, and Pontiac, Michigan. This book shows how school officials, politicians, the courts, and the media gave precedence to the desires of white parents who opposed school desegregation over the civil rights of black students. Series: American Crossroads. Num Pages: 260 pages, 35 b/w images. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; JFSL3; JNFR; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520284258
- ISBN
- 9780520284258
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.98
€ 35.98
Hardback. When Alex Haley's book Roots was published by Doubleday in 1976, it became an immediate bestseller. The television series, broadcast by ABC in 1977, became the most popular miniseries of all time. This book looks at the importance, contradictions, and limitations of mass culture and examines how Roots pushed the boundaries of history. Num Pages: 280 pages, 22 b/w images. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; HBJK; HBTB; JFD; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 147 x 24. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520291324
- ISBN
- 9780520291324
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.62
€ 38.62
Paperback. Editor(s): Jackson, Paul; Feldman, Matthew. Series: Columbia Business School Publishing. Num Pages: 336 pages, fig: 3, b&w. BIC Classification: 3JJH; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2020
- Publisher
- ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783838205540
- ISBN
- 9783838205540
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 31.74
€ 44.99
€ 31.74
Hardcover. Matthew Fraleigh examines the life and works of Narushima Ryuhoku (1837-1884): Confucian scholar, world traveler, pioneering journalist, and irrepressible satirist. This is the first book-length study of Ryuhoku in a Western language and one of the first Western-language monographs to examine Sinitic poetry and prose composition in modern Japan. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 500 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 190 x 263 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1070.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674425224
- ISBN
- 9780674425224
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.40
€ 87.40
Paperback. Presents the comprehensive history of the meteoric rise and precipitous decline of the United Farm Workers, the most successful farm labor union in United States history. Based on little-known sources and one-of-a-kind oral histories with many veterans of the farm worker movement, this book revises much of what we know about the UFW. Num Pages: 368 pages, 18 b/w photographs, 1 map, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBTK; JPWQ; KNXB2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520283855
- ISBN
- 9780520283855
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.70
€ 41.70
Paperback. Provides the analysis of the political, religious and social rationale which underlay Huguenot support for William of Orange in 1688. This book serves as a source of biographical information about hundreds of Huguenot soldiers in British, Dutch and Brandenburg service in the period 1670 to 1700. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBW; JWL. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 228
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845191450
- ISBN
- 9781845191450
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.30
€ 46.30
Hardcover. Provides an analysis of the political, religious, and social rationale, which underlay Huguenot support for William of Orange in 1688. In the context of the Huguenot exodus from France and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, the role of the Huguenot soldiers within an international Protestant political context is also explained. Num Pages: 230 pages, genealogy table. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 230
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781902210827
- ISBN
- 9781902210827
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.54
€ 157.54
Paperback. Num Pages: 496 pages, 26 Black and White Photos Throughout. BIC Classification: 3JH; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 132 x 28. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780345527271
- ISBN
- 9780345527271
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.79
€ 19.99
€ 15.79
Hardback. Presents a comparative overview of the cultural imaginations of nuclear weapons and the anticipation of nuclear destruction. It considers representations of elements of the Cold War in popular culture and thought across Europe, Japan, USSR and the USA, providing a significant addition to Cold War historiography. Editor(s): Grant, Matthew; Ziemann, Benjamin. Series Editor(s): Jones, Max. Series: Cultural History of Modern War. Num Pages: 320 pages, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJP; HBG; HBLW3; HBTW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 223 x 29. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784994402
- ISBN
- 9781784994402
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.91
€ 152.91
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Portobello Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846273315
- ISBN
- 9781846273315
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.73
€ 17.99
€ 12.73
Paperback. Latin America is home to emerging global powers such as Brazil and Mexico and has important links to other titans including China, India, and Africa. This book examines a range of historical events and cultural forms in Latin America that continue to influence peoples' lives far outside the region. Editor(s): Gutmann, Matthew C.; Lesser, Jeffrey. Series: Global Square. Num Pages: 376 pages, 4 maps, 30 b/w. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JM; HBJK; JFFN; JHMC; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780520277731
- ISBN
- 9780520277731
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 32.82
€ 37.99
€ 32.82
Paperback. In this history of the British surveys of India, the author relates how imperial Britain employed modern scientific survey techniques to create and define the spacial image of its Indian empire, and to legitimize its colonialist activities as triumphs of liberal, rational science. Num Pages: 474 pages, 31 halftones, 5 maps, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JF; 3JH; HBTP; PDX; RGV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 27. Weight in Grams: 750.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 474
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226184883
- ISBN
- 9780226184883
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.39
€ 54.39
Hardback. Offers a study of polyandry, wife-selling, and a variety of related practices in China during the Qing dynasty. This book explores the functions played by marriage, sex, and reproduction in the survival strategies of the rural poor under conditions of overpopulation, worsening sex ratios, and shrinking farm sizes. Num Pages: 499 pages, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJF; HBTB; JFSL3; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 238 x 37. Weight in Grams: 806.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520287037
- ISBN
- 9780520287037
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.45
€ 106.45
Paperback. This study of the regulation of sexuality in the Qing dynasty explores the social context for sexual behavior criminalized by the state, showing how regulation shifted away from status to a new regime of gender that mandated a uniform standard of sexual morality and criminal liability for all people, regardless of their social status. Series: Law, Society & Culture in China. Num Pages: 440 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ; LNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804745598
- ISBN
- 9780804745598
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.47
€ 41.47
Paperback. This book examines how competing narratives about the Haitian Revolution influenced American public culture during the Civil War. It argues that both antislavery and proslavery groups appropriated the symbols of Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution in their attempts to determine the fate of slavery in the United States. Num Pages: 248 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812221848
- ISBN
- 9780812221848
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.64
€ 40.64
Hardcover. 223pp. Keywords: Irish Abroad. These essays examine diverse elements of the Irish American Experience in the fifteen years after World War II. It emphasises the transition through which the diaspora were moving with focus on social and political developments
- Publisher
- Irish Academic Press Ltd Dublin
- Number of pages
- 276
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780716529873
- ISBN
- 9780716529873
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.00€ 42.11
€ 60.00
€ 42.11
Hardcover. Using the story of cinchona bark, and drawing on extensive archival research, Matthew Crawford shows how indigenous healers, labourers, merchants, colonial officials, and creole elites contested European science and thwarted imperial reform by asserting their authority to speak for the natural world. Num Pages: 336 pages, 7 Illusrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; 3JD; 3JF; HBLL; MBX; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publisher
- University of Pittsburgh Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822944522
- ISBN
- 9780822944522
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.26
€ 70.26
Paperback. Over recent decades much has been written on the complexities of Imperial Germany. More is known today about the politics, society, economy and culture of the German Empire than ever before. However, the sheer volume of new scholarship makes it increasingly challenging to synthesize all the available information. Series: Contesting the Past. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405129978
- ISBN
- 9781405129978
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.58
€ 55.58
paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJP; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 269 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226317960
- ISBN
- 9780226317960
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.07
€ 57.07
Paperback. Embarks on a journey through author's ancestor's footsteps, travelling through places they lived, and landscapes they survived, to provide an account of these extraordinary people and their unique history. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099515999
- ISBN
- 9780099515999
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.53
€ 21.99
€ 17.53
Paperback. Describes the formation of a masculine ideology in the decades prior to the war, and shows how it thrived - on the job, and through union politics. This title provides a context for our ideas of postwar masculinity and whiteness and finally returns the men of the home front to our reckoning of the Greatest Generation and the New Deal era. Num Pages: 360 pages, 29 halftones, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1KBBWM; 3JJH; HBJK; HBTB; HBWQ; KNAT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226044194
- ISBN
- 9780226044194
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.91
€ 46.91
Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DDF; 3JD; 3JF; CF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801448478
- ISBN
- 9780801448478
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.08
€ 89.08
Hardcover. Matthew Lenoe traces the origins of Stalinist mass culture to newspaper journalism in the later 1920s. In examining the transformation of Soviet newspapers during the New Economic Policy and the First Five Year Plan, Lenoe tells a dramatic story of purges, political intrigues, and social upheaval. Series: Russian Research Center Studies. Num Pages: 326 pages, 6 halftones, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JFC; JPFC; JPVN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 242 x 27. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674013193
- ISBN
- 9780674013193
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.41
€ 126.41