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Paperback. Bronwen Everill offers a new perspective on African global history, applying a comparative approach to freed slave settlers in Sierra Leone and Liberia to understand their role in the anti-slavery colonization movements of Britain and America. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD1; HBJH; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349440016
- ISBN
- 9781349440016
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 143.30
€ 143.30
Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 187 x 20. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Pearson Education (US) United States
- Edition
- 6th Edition
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780205050246
- ISBN
- 9780205050246
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 90.64
€ 90.64
hardcover. This book analyzes the relationship between the many and the few in the formation of a republican polity. It studies the case of Buenos Aires in the 1860s and 1870s, when the inauguration of a new national order in Argentina entailed a radical change, by exploring the different forms of participation of the people in the public life of the city. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; HBG; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804739436
- ISBN
- 9780804739436
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.18
€ 157.18
Paperback. The question explored in this book is: if women once had access to effective means of birth control, why was this knowledge lost to them in modern times? The book examines the widespread knowledge of herbal treatments, theories behind them, and the loss of this knowledge. Num Pages: 352 pages, 8 tables, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: HBG; JFSJ1; JHBD; MBNH4; MX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674270268
- ISBN
- 9780674270268
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.34
€ 44.99
€ 37.34
paperback. Studies the relationship between the environment and human history. This book examines world civilizations from Sumeria to ancient Egypt, from Easter Island to the Roman Empire and it argues that human beings have repeatedly built societies that have grown and prospered by exploiting the Earth's resources. Num Pages: 464 pages, app 20 integrated maps and drawings. BIC Classification: HBG; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 194 x 131 x 28. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099516682
- ISBN
- 9780099516682
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.60
€ 15.99
€ 11.60
paperback. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBJD1; HBTB; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 339.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- SKU
- V9781349470037
- ISBN
- 9781349470037
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 153.84
€ 153.84
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Praeger
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780275944384
- ISBN
- 9780275944384
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.17€ 61.48
€ 67.17
€ 61.48
Hardcover. With original ideas and insights, this title is suitable for students of the Jewish past. It will also attract readers with the widest possible range of interests. Num Pages: 408 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520077027
- ISBN
- 9780520077027
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.17€ 52.56
€ 67.17
€ 52.56
Hardback. In this volume, one of the greatest medieval historians of our time continues his rich and illuminating enquiry into the lives of twelfth-century women. Georges Duby bases his account here on a twelfth-century genre which commemorated the virtues of noblewomen who had died, and the roles they had played in the history of their lineage. Num Pages: 160 pages, geneal tables. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HBG; HBLC; HBTG; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Volume 2
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745617893
- ISBN
- 9780745617893
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.72
€ 52.72
Paperback. Editor(s): Thomsen, Ole. Series: Classica et Mediaevalia - Revue Danoise de Philologie et D'Histoire. Num Pages: 346 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; 3F; 3H; HBG; HBJD; HBLA; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 346
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772897721
- ISBN
- 9788772897721
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.00€ 51.43
€ 66.00
€ 51.43
Paperback. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJ; HBJD; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
- Number of pages
- 277
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349509355
- ISBN
- 9781349509355
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Paperback. This comprehensive study analyses slavery in early colonial South Africa under the Dutch East India Company (1652-1795). Series: African Studies. Num Pages: 222 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3J; HBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780521152662
- ISBN
- 9780521152662
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.52
€ 41.52
Frigidity: An Intellectual History (Genders and Sexualities in History...
Cryle, Peter, Moore, Alison
Hardcover. This first major study of a curiously neglected term in the history of sexuality will intrigue students, scholars and enthusiasts alike. The authors take us through a journey across four centuries, showing how notions of sexual coldness and frigidity have been thought about by legal, medical, psychiatric, psychoanalytic and literary writers. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 323 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JHBK5; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 144 x 24. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230303454
- ISBN
- 9780230303454
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.66
€ 123.66
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Number of pages
- 412
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812212396
- ISBN
- 9780812212396
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.98
€ 46.99
€ 41.98
Hardcover. In reading popular films of the Weimar Republic as candid commentaries on Jewish acculturation, Ofer Ashkenzi provides an alternative context for a re-evaluation of the infamous 'German-Jewish symbiosis' before the rise of Nazism, as well as a new framework for the understanding of the German 'national' film in the years leading to Hitler's regime. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 250 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; HBG; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230341364
- ISBN
- 9780230341364
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.26
€ 64.26
Paperback. This interdisciplinary book intergrates the historical practices regarding material excrement and its symbolic representation, concluding that excrement is a moral and ethical category deserving scrutiny. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC; HBG; HBJD; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349540167
- ISBN
- 9781349540167
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 122.90
€ 122.90
paperback. A detailed analysis of the relationship between history and biography in times of political change. Num Pages: 234 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521604697
- ISBN
- 9780521604697
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 42.91
€ 44.99
€ 42.91
Hardback. Series: Studies in Modern History. Num Pages: 332 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312234751
- ISBN
- 9780312234751
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.39
€ 123.39
Hardcover. A Companion to Intellectual History provides an in-depth survey of the practice of intellectual history as a discipline. Forty newly-commissioned chapters showcase leading global research with broad coverage of every aspect of intellectual history as it is currently practiced. Series: Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History. Num Pages: 472 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 170. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118294802
- ISBN
- 9781118294802
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 172.86
€ 172.86
Paperback. Num Pages: 343 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 453.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1969
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 343
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349003464
- ISBN
- 9781349003464
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 112.02
€ 112.02
Hardback. Num Pages: 425 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; JNT; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 743.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 425
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403961174
- ISBN
- 9781403961174
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.91
€ 124.91
Paperback. Explores both the material culture of slavery as well as its representation in literature. This book considers the place of slaves in Plato's "Meno", Aristotle's "Politics", Aesop's "Fables", Aristophanes' "Wasps", and Euripides' "Orestes". Num Pages: 312 pages, 24 halftones. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLA; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226167893
- ISBN
- 9780226167893
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.91
€ 36.99
€ 28.91
Paperback. A study of the contentious issue of the public's right to know in time of war or limited conflict. Analysis of the relationship between the media and the military in the Falklands, Grenada, Panama and the Gulf reveals a central theme of the battle between the military and their political masters. Num Pages: 391 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; JFD; JPVH2; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333719053
- ISBN
- 9780333719053
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.96
€ 69.96
Paperback. Adolf Hitler, Monty, Mussolini, Rommel (who?) - all played their modest parts in the Second World War and the shaping of human destiny, but we all know where the real action was.. The most scurrilous, bizarre and certainly the most hilarious military career embarked upon by any bombardier of the 56th heavy regiment, royal artillery, ever. Num Pages: 432 pages, illustrations, portraits. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; HBG; HBWQ; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 182 x 112 x 29. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- V9780140110821
- ISBN
- 9780140110821
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.21
€ 21.99
€ 17.21