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Paperback. Situated at the intersection of political history, intellectual history, and the history of U.S. foreign policy, this book offers an in-depth examination of the development of neoconservative foreign policy from the end of the Cold War to the election of George W. Bush in 2000. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBL; HBTB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2010
Number of pages
273
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349289301
ISBN
9781349289301
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Hardcover. Explores the role played by artists and intellectuals who constructed and disseminated various competing images of national identity which polarised Spanish society prior to the Civil War. This title exposes the paradoxes facing Madrid's cultural vanguards. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJ; HBJD; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 672.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845193843
ISBN
9781845193843
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.80

Num Pages: 8 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 22. Weight in Grams: 590.
Publication date
1996
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
8
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813119601
ISBN
9780813119601
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.27

Hardback. Analyzes the experiences of Filipino men in Los Angeles's Little Manila, from the 1920s to the end of World War II. This book discusses Filipino boxers' challenge to white America's assumptions about race; the meanings behind zoot suit fashions; and taxi dance halls, where Filipino men crossed racial boundaries by dancing with Anglo women. Series: Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives. Num Pages: 280 pages, 7 b& w halftones, 9 color halftones, 6 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JJG; HBTB; JFSJ; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231115926
ISBN
9780231115926
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.73
€ 79.61

Paperback. An analysis of the Portuguese royal court in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, first published in 2003. Translator(s): Aiken, Alison. Num Pages: 516 pages, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1DSP; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 30. Weight in Grams: 760.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
516
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521036955
ISBN
9780521036955
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.59

Paperback. This is a concise history of the Revolution of 1905, a critical juncture in the history of Russia when several possible paths were opened up for the country. This book by a leading scholar in the field explores the event and its ramifications for the political future of Russia. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJC; HBJD; HBLW; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 331.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804750288
ISBN
9780804750288
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.52

This discussion of women's entry into the male-dominated world of sports chronicles the evolution of public attitudes and private ambitions from the 1950s to the present. It identifies the intricacies of equality, difference and self-determination that have shaped women's participation in sport. Num Pages: 400 pages, 25 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JFSJ1; WS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 726.
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231101622
ISBN
9780231101622
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 78.59
€ 64.81

Paperback. Series: Critical Caribbean Studies. Num Pages: 232 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJD; 1KJH; 1KJP; HBJK; HBTR; JFSL3; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813571997
ISBN
9780813571997
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 43.50

Paperback. Num Pages: 364 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBTZ1; JFFJ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Independent Institute,U.S. United States
Number of pages
364
Condition
New
SKU
V9781598131628
ISBN
9781598131628
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 24.74

Hardback. Irish culture is obsessed with the past, and this book asks why and how. In an innovative reading of Irish culture since 1980, Emilie Pine provides a new analysis of theatre, film, television, memoir and art, and interrogates the anti-nostalgia that characterizes so much of contemporary Irish culture. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBJD1; HBTB; JFCA; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382. 8vo.Very good copy. First edition. Irish Politics and Politicans. 20th Century Ireland.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KEX0310259
ISBN
9780230247413
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 45.00

Hardcover. A smart, provocative account of the erotic current running just beneath the surface of a stuffy and stifling Victorian London. Num Pages: 336 pages, 8 pages four-color and 5 black-and-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 217 x 28. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393068320
ISBN
9780393068320
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.84

Paperback. In "The Real American Dream" the author searches out the symbols and stories by which Americans have reached for something beyond worldly desire. It is a spiritual history ranging from the first English settlements to the present day. Series: The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; HR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 181 x 120 x 11. Weight in Grams: 146.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674003835
ISBN
9780674003835
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.58

Paperback. Traditional histories of war have typically explored masculine narratives of military and political action, leaving private, domestic life relatively unstudied. This volume expands our understanding by looking at the relationships between mothers and children, and the varied roles both have assumed during periods of armed conflict. Editor(s): Phelan, Claire. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; HBW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 359.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
287
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349493883
ISBN
9781349493883
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Paperback. In this survey of the modern American Christmas, Waits shows how this holiday emerged, tracing its evolution from the days prior to 1880 to the present day. In addition, he examines the differing traditions of giftgiving to friends, employees, the poor, and among communtys. Series: The Modern Christmas in America. Num Pages: 290 pages, 77 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFC; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780814792841
ISBN
9780814792841
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.59

Paperback. This critical edition of Princess Fatima Massaquoi's memoirs begins with her birth in southern Sierra Leone, continues through her childhood in Liberia, moves on to Hamburg, Germany, where she lived and experienced the rise of the Nazi movement, and ends with her life in the United States. Editor(s): Abraham, A.; Seton, Vivian; Tuchscherer, Konrad. Num Pages: 297 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJH; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Number of pages
297
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349376155
ISBN
9781349376155
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 147.92

Paperback. A study of the role of marriage in national policy, law and political rhetoric. This book examines the political history of marriage, analyzing the shaping of the accepted model of consensual, lifelong monogamy by legislators and judges throughout American history. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674008755
ISBN
9780674008755
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.73

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 434 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBJD; HBTV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
434
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691643694
ISBN
9780691643694
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 164.62
€ 124.26

Paperback. The first survey in the English language of the history of naturalistic monism in the works of Haeckel, Spinoza, and others. Contributors demonstrate that, to a greater extent than previously shown, monism provided an essential epistemological framework for numerous religious, political and cultural movements between the 1840s and 1940s. Editor(s): Weir, T. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTB; HPC; HPCF; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 401.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
267
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349295487
ISBN
9781349295487
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Hardcover. This book celebrates the greatest of English novelists by illustrating his abiding preoccupations. It reproduces extracts from the novels alongside a selection of the original covers, their illustrations and all the paraphernalia of nineteenth-century advertising, breathing life into the vibrant world of Dickens and his characters. Num Pages: 112 pages, 95 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; DSBF; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 197 x 15. Weight in Grams: 478. 112 pages, 95 colour illustrations. This book celebrates the greatest of English novelists by illustrating his abiding preoccupations. It reproduces extracts from the novels alongside a selection of the original covers, their illustrations and all the paraphernalia of nineteenth-century advertising, breathing life into the vibrant world of Dickens and his characters. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 3JH; DSBF; HBTB. Dimension: 195 x 197 x 15. Weight: 478.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9781851243846
ISBN
9781851243846
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.48

Paperback. This warm and humorous memoir of the nineteenth-century Bluegrass recalls a special moment in Kentucky's past. It was a time of self-sufficient country estates; a time when, as Thomas D Clark writes in his introduction, "every Bluegrass farm gate was the entryway into a ruggedly independent domain." Wildwood was such a domain, ruled by Uncle Will. Illustrator(s): Foose, Robert James. Num Pages: 128 pages, 33 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBSK; BGH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 191.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813191478
ISBN
9780813191478
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.35

Paperback. Series: Arts & Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFCV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 222 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231151177
ISBN
9780231151177
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 17.27

hardcover. Integrates the analysis of sanctity with that of pilgrimage, offering important new insights into society, cross-cultural interaction and faith. Num Pages: 322 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB; HRAX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 586.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107000285
ISBN
9781107000285
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.68

Paperback. Although the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City symbolically mark the start of the gay rights movement, individuals came together long before the modern era to express their same-sex romantic and sexual attraction toward one another. This title seeks to uncover the many iterations of same-sex desire in colonial America and the early Republic. Editor(s): Foster, Thomas A. Num Pages: 414 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFFJ; JFSJ; JHBK5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 549.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
NYU Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814727508
ISBN
9780814727508
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.74

Hardback. Translator(s): Anidjar, Gil. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTZ; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 149 x 23. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231149082
ISBN
9780231149082
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.85
€ 31.50

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