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Hardcover. This book examines London's transformation from the mid-Victorian "miracle" of low crime to a high-crime society, treating six different types of misdeed as representative of phases in the evolution of crime to argue that lawbreaking must be explained by connecting all types of offenses to their social and economic contexts. Num Pages: 243 pages, 4 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBTB; JKV; KFFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114906
- ISBN
- 9780230114906
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.23
€ 64.23
Hardcover. Num Pages: 277 pages. BIC Classification: HBJF1; HBTV; JHB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Lynne Rienner Publishers
- Edition
- Exp Rev Up
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781626371712
- ISBN
- 9781626371712
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 25.46
€ 29.99
€ 25.46
Paperback. Christian Axboe Nielsen uses extensive archival research to explain the failure of King Aleksandar's dictatorship's program of forced nationalization in the interwar era. Num Pages: 400 pages, 1, 1 figure, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DVWY; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 169 x 23. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442627505
- ISBN
- 9781442627505
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 39.64
€ 44.99
€ 39.64
Hardback. Gleans from more than 400 genealogy and history periodicals articles listing military men in America's wars from the Colonial era to the Spanish-American War. Num Pages: 1118 pages. BIC Classification: HBTG; WQY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 148 x 64. Weight in Grams: 1371.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 1118
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810821668
- ISBN
- 9780810821668
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 332.04
€ 332.04
Paperback. Series: Ohio RIS Latin America Series. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCN; HBTV; JPA; JPHV; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 407. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896801974
- ISBN
- 9780896801974
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.22
€ 33.99
€ 30.22
Thirty Years Into Yesterday: A History of Archaeology at Grasshopper P...
Reid, Jefferson, Whittlesey, Stephanie
Hardcover. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWZ; HBT; HD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 263 x 184 x 24. Weight in Grams: 751.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Arizona Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816524020
- ISBN
- 9780816524020
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.29€ 46.80
€ 50.29
€ 46.80
Paperback. Slaves focused their energy and attention, however, not on making money, as slaveholders increasingly did, but on keeping their kin out of the human coffles of the slave trade. Series: Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia. Num Pages: 296 pages, 2, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421400365
- ISBN
- 9781421400365
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.92
€ 42.92
Hardback. Ernesto Bassi examines the lives of those who resided in the Caribbean between 1760 and 1860 to trace the configuration of a dynamic geographic space he calls the transimperial Greater Caribbean, where residents made their own geographies and futures while trade, information, and people circulated freely across borders. Num Pages: 360 pages, 27 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JF; HBJK; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822362203
- ISBN
- 9780822362203
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.03
€ 124.03
Hardcover. Editor(s): Mladek, Klaus. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JKSW1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403979865
- ISBN
- 9781403979865
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.55
€ 64.55
Paperback. This cultural and political study examines British perceptions and policies on India's Afghan Frontier between 1918 and 1948 and the impact of these on the local Pashtun population, India as a whole, and the decline of British imperialism in South Asia. Series: Britain and the World. Num Pages: 292 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBJF; HBL; HBTQ; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349476787
- ISBN
- 9781349476787
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 133.52
€ 133.52
Paperback. Focuses on political, social, and institutional processes governed by the dynamics of power. The author shows how the corporation started as a quasi-public device used by governments to create and administer public services like turnpikes and canals. He conducts a historical inquiry into the rise of the large publicly traded American corporation. Num Pages: 360 pages, 8 line illus. 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JH; KCP; KJV; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691010342
- ISBN
- 9780691010342
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.21€ 44.25
€ 56.21
€ 44.25
Paperback. "A frank, thorough history and review of service--learning. Service--Learning is a critical piece of the large service--learning movement. It is an ideal guide for new service--learning professionals, faculty members, academic or service administrators, and hopefully, public policymakers. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBT; JH; JNM; KJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780787943172
- ISBN
- 9780787943172
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.76
€ 46.76
Hardback. Editor(s): Muller, Frank. Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy. Num Pages: 319 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 319
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137592088
- ISBN
- 9781137592088
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.62
€ 112.62
Paperback. Bringing together new research, this book advances current theoretical understandings of punishment and control in society. It provides a critical analysis of institutions, punishment and the law, and explores the delivery of punishment and experience of incarceration in Western societiesfrom the early-nineteenth century." Editor(s): Johnston, H. B. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JKV; JKVP; JKVQ2; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 419.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 269
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349361809
- ISBN
- 9781349361809
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Paperback. Asserting that the organization of sexual difference is a social, not natural, phenomenon, Poovey shows how representations of gender took the form of a binary opposition in mid-Victorian culture. Series: Women in Culture & Society S. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- SKU
- V9780226675305
- ISBN
- 9780226675305
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 36.34
€ 47.99
€ 36.34
Paperback. The Civil War has long been described as a war pitting 'brother against brother'. The divided family is an enduring metaphor for the divided nation, but it also accurately reflects the reality of America's bloodiest war. This title provides a social and cultural history of the divided family in Civil War America. Series: Civil War America. Num Pages: 336 pages, 9 illustrations, 1 table, notes, bibl., index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807861868
- ISBN
- 9780807861868
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 41.60
€ 49.99
€ 41.60
Paperback. First book to present a broad account of the Mexican Revolution in its several different phases Series: Texas Pan American Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, 184 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBLW; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 181 x 22. Weight in Grams: 644.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Edition
- New Edition
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292790247
- ISBN
- 9780292790247
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.33
€ 34.99
€ 31.33
Hardcover. This book by world-expert Barry Gough examines the period of Pax Britannica, in the century before World War I. Following events of those 100 years, the book follows how the British failed to maintain their global hegemony of sea power in the face of continental challenges. Series: Britain and the World. Num Pages: 408 pages, 27 figures. BIC Classification: 1QDB; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD1; HBTM; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 164 x 28. Weight in Grams: 764.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230354302
- ISBN
- 9780230354302
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.89
€ 50.89
Paperback. This book explores early modern English attitudes toward the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth century. Num Pages: 314 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJD; HBJF; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349285785
- ISBN
- 9781349285785
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.14
€ 64.14
Paperback. Throughout history, Western culture has often viewed disease as punishment for sin. "The Wages of Sin" offers a remarkable history of this perception and explains how these ancient views continue to shape contemporary life and public policy. Num Pages: 226 pages, 14 halftones. BIC Classification: HBTB; JH; MBX; MJC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226014616
- ISBN
- 9780226014616
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 24.50
€ 30.99
€ 24.50
Hardcover. Kistiakovsky's life was devoted to the development of a government based on respect for national minorities, human rights and constitutional federalism. This study shows a fresh urgency of Kistiakovsky's ideas as Russia and other former Soviet countries seek to establish values he put forth. Series: Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies. Num Pages: 242 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780916458614
- ISBN
- 9780916458614
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 32.30
€ 37.99
€ 32.30
Paperback. Editor(s): Kampmark, Binoy. Num Pages: 109 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTZ1; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 7. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 109
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781624178610
- ISBN
- 9781624178610
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 99.52€ 69.31
€ 99.52
€ 69.31
Hardcover. In 1828 a strange youth, barely able to speak or walk appeared in Nuremberg. The case excited widespread curiosity; was the "wild man", as many claimed, the rightful heir to the Grand Duchy of Baden, or simply an ingenious fraud? This book examines the many ramifications of this case. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; BGH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333962145
- ISBN
- 9780333962145
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.76
€ 122.76
The Singer Secret Service Corps developed and deployed submarines, underwater weaponry, and explosive devices during the US Civil War. In Confederate Saboteurs , Mark K. Ragan presents the untold story of the Singer corps. Ragan also examines the complex personalities and relationships behind the Confederacy's use of torpedoes and submarines. Series: Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series. Num Pages: 398 pages. BIC Classification: HBTM; TRL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 825.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Texas A & M University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 398
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781623492786
- ISBN
- 9781623492786
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.66
€ 45.99
€ 38.66