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Paperback. Empires - vast states of territories and peoples united by force and ambition - have dominated the political landscape for more than two millennia. This title departs from conventional European and nation-centered perspectives to take a look at how empires relied on diversity to shape the global order. Num Pages: 528 pages, 44 halftones. 34 line illus. BIC Classification: 1QD; HBG; HBJQ; HBL; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 179 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1128.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- unknown
- Number of pages
- 528
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691152363
- ISBN
- 9780691152363
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.79
€ 36.99
€ 26.79
Hardcover. Stalingrad's outskirts provided Isaak Kobylyanskiy, a 19-year-old Jew from Ukraine, with his first exposure to combat and initiated his long odyssey in the Great Patriotic War against Germany. This work charts one warrior's epic journey that deepen our understanding of what it was like for Russian soldiers on the Eastern Front. Editor(s): Britton, Stuart. Num Pages: 328 pages, 36 photographs. BIC Classification: BGHA; HBG; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700615667
- ISBN
- 9780700615667
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Condition: New
€ 71.07
€ 71.07
Hardback. Offers an account of the interplay of politics and economics in Chile in three successive administrations ending with the 1973 coup suggests that social class plays a major role in determining the outcome of economic policies in Latin America. Num Pages: 316 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJP; HBG; JFS; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 161 x 26. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1978
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804709781
- ISBN
- 9780804709781
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Condition: New
€ 91.41
€ 91.41
Paperback. This book offers the first complete overview of the intellectual history of one of the most significant contemporary cultural trends the apocalyptic expectations of European and American evangelicals in an account that guides readers into the origins, its evolution, and its revolutionary potential in the modern world." Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; HBTQ; HRAB; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 217
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349283835
- ISBN
- 9781349283835
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Condition: New
€ 153.61
€ 153.61
Paperback. This volume is an ambitious study of efforts by twentieth-century states to reshape-either through social policy or brute force-their societies and populations according to ideologies based on various theories of human perfectibility. Num Pages: 360 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJ; HBG; HBJD; HBLW; JHBD; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 481.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804746304
- ISBN
- 9780804746304
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 45.57
€ 46.99
€ 45.57
Paperback. In this major intellectual history, Ira Katznelson examines the works of Hannah Arendt, Robert Dahl, Richard Hofstadter, Harold Lasswell, Charles Lindblom, Karl Polanyi, and David Truman, detailing their engagement with the larger project of reclaiming the West's moral bearing. Series: Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW3; HPQ; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231111959
- ISBN
- 9780231111959
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.81
€ 36.99
€ 26.81
Paperback. Num Pages: 178 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLC; JWXZ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- FreeLance Academy Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781937439033
- ISBN
- 9781937439033
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Condition: New
€ 28.99
€ 28.99
Hardback. This study examines the lives of many 19th century individuals, revealing the nuances of courtship, marriage and common law in Victorian England. Evidence is drawn from 875 actual breach-of-promise cases to show that they functioned to repair lives damaged by the conditions caused by gender. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 260 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBG; HBLH; JFSJ1; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813916101
- ISBN
- 9780813916101
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.71
€ 76.71
Paperback. Historian Blumenson examines the 1943 Battle of Anzio, which turned into a disaster for the Allies. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJH; HBG; HBJD; HBWQ; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815411291
- ISBN
- 9780815411291
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.09
€ 18.99
€ 18.09
Paperback. A significant contribution to memory studies and part of an emergent strand of work on global memory. This book offers important insights on topics relating to memory, globalization, international politics, international relations, Holocaust studies and media and communication studies. Editor(s): Conrad, S. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JFD; JHB; JHBA; JMR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349323562
- ISBN
- 9781349323562
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 101.41
€ 101.41
paperback. What drove Russia to its disastrous war with Japan in 1904? This book attempts to find the answer in Russia's erratic and confused diplomacy. It explains how the key to understanding tsarist involvement in East Asia lies in the ideologies of the Russians who competed to impose their visions of imperial destiny on the East. Num Pages: 345 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1FPJ; 3JJC; HBG; HBLW; HBTQ; JPS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 345
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875806129
- ISBN
- 9780875806129
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 32.26
€ 35.99
€ 32.26
Paperback. Features the essays that consider how Western societies think about and use goods, how goods shape female, as well as male, identities, how labor in the family came to be divided between a male breadwinner and a female consumer, and how fashion and cosmetics shape women's notions of themselves and the society in which they live. Editor(s): Grazia, Victoria De; Furlough, Ellen. Num Pages: 443 pages, 44 b&w photographs, 13 tables. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 499.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 443
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520201972
- ISBN
- 9780520201972
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.65
€ 37.99
€ 27.65
Paperback. 1001 Battles That Changed the Course of History is the essential guide to the most intense, dramatic, important, and extraordinary conflicts that have occurred over the last five millennia. Editor(s): Grant, R. G. Series: 1001. Num Pages: 960 pages, 600 colour and black & white images. BIC Classification: HBG; HBW; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 163 x 72. Weight in Grams: 1926. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Cassell
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- KKD0000693
- ISBN
- 9781844036967
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 7.13
€ 7.13
Hardcover. Covering two hundred years, this groundbreaking book brings together essays on borderlands by leading experts in the modern history of the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia to offer the first historical study of borderlands with a global reach. Editor(s): Readman, Paul; Radding, Cynthia; Bryant, Chad. Num Pages: 360 pages, 15 maps, 4 figures. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; 3JJC; HBG; HBLL; HBTP; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137320575
- ISBN
- 9781137320575
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.13
€ 66.13
Hardback. Presents a collection of contemporary letters, poems, addresses and newspaper reports that demonstrate the remarkable esteem in which Washington was held. This selection of materials shows that in his life Washington had already become the Father of his country and was acclaimed for his sense of honor, his heroism, and his wisdom. Editor(s): Kaminski, John P.; McCaughan, Jill Adair. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 141 x 25. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780945612100
- ISBN
- 9780945612100
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.64
€ 35.64
Paperback. Two volumes of essays dedicated to the memory of Saki Ruth Dockrill, Professor of Contemporary History and International Security at King's College, London. Editor(s): Young, J.; Pedaliu, Effie; Kandiah, M. Series: Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD1; HBL; JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 249
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349347728
- ISBN
- 9781349347728
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.62
€ 63.62
Paperback. Presents the history of Anglophone political science which argues that the field's transformation shouldn't be mistaken for a case of simple progress and increasing scientific precision. This book shows that political science is deeply historically contingent, driven both by its own inherited ideas and by the history in which it has developed. Editor(s): Adcock, Robert; Bevir, Mark; Stimson, Shannon C. Num Pages: 392 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; HBG; HBLW; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691128740
- ISBN
- 9780691128740
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 35.26
€ 49.99
€ 35.26
Hardback. A History of Southeast Asia: Critical Crossroads presents a comprehensive history of Southeast Asia from our earliest knowledge of its civilizations and religious patterns up to the present day. Series: Blackwell History of the World. Num Pages: 476 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJM. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 251 x 173 x 22. Weight in Grams: 966.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 476
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631179610
- ISBN
- 9780631179610
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.34
€ 90.34
paperback. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSY; HBG; HBTB; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 285.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2004
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349517732
- ISBN
- 9781349517732
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 111.85
€ 111.85
Paperback. Wonderful . . . a thoughtful discussion of what made [the Greeks] so important, in their own time and in ours. Natalie Haynes, Independent" Num Pages: 336 pages, 2 maps; 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBG; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 141 x 25. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393351163
- ISBN
- 9780393351163
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.15
€ 17.99
€ 17.15
paperback. Editor(s): Durham, M.; Power, Margaret. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJK; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 275.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2010
- SKU
- V9781349385058
- ISBN
- 9781349385058
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Paperback. Containing significant revelations about cultural treasures previously thought lost, this book should be of interest to all those interested in the contemporary rebuilding of cultural and intellectual institutions in Eastern Europe. Series: Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies. Num Pages: 230 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: 1DVUK; GLH; GLM; HBG; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 58. Weight in Grams: 1160.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780916458768
- ISBN
- 9780916458768
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.08
€ 21.99
€ 20.08
Hardback. As the cold war took shape during the late 1940s, policymakers in the United States and Great Britain displayed a marked tendency to regard international communism as a 'monolithic' conspiratorial movement. This book explains the cold war mindset that determined global policy for much of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 318 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJPG; HBG; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 692.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674031791
- ISBN
- 9780674031791
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.99€ 66.01
€ 72.99
€ 66.01
Hardcover. The Battle of Midway was one of the most famous battles of World War Two. This book offers an interpretation of this great naval engagement. Making use of Japanese primary sources which correct previous accounts and assumptions, the authors re-assess the battle in detail and within the context of the Imperial Navy's doctrine and technology. Num Pages: 568 pages, 78 b&w photos & maps. BIC Classification: HBG; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 260 x 179 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1516.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc United States
- Edition
- First
- Number of pages
- 568
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781574889239
- ISBN
- 9781574889239
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 44.77
€ 46.99
€ 44.77