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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

Hardback. A rich source of information about the members of Congress, their lives in New York, their concerns about their families, and the services they performed for their constituents, the documents from these three new volumes will be incorporated into The Early Republic, an innovative online reference hosted by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Editor(s): United States Congress; Bickford, Charlene Bangs; Bowling, Kenneth R.; DiGiacomantonio, William Charles; Veit, Helen E. Series: Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791. Num Pages: 992 pages, 6, 6 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; JPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 62. Weight in Grams: 1566.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
992
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801894473
ISBN
9780801894473
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.97
€ 115.04

Hardback. Rather than exploring the Dada movement from the usual perspective of its strategies of shock and opposition, this book gives us a new picture of Dada art and writings as a lucid reflection on history and the role of art therein. Num Pages: 120 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; ACXD7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 224 x 13. Weight in Grams: 278.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804794244
ISBN
9780804794244
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.88

Paperback. Countless attempts have been made to appropriate the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche for diverse cultural and political ends, but nowhere have these efforts been more sustained and of greater consequence than in Germany. This title offers a magisterial chronicle of the philosopher's presence in German life and politics. Series: Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 337 pages, 20 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; 3JJ; HPC; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 26. Weight in Grams: 570.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
337
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520085558
ISBN
9780520085558
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 27.35

Hardback. This work examines the British government's negotiation of the Treaty on European Union. On the basis of documentary and interview-based evidence of leading participants from Britain and Europe, it offers an insight into the objectives and motivations of the British government. Series: St Antony's Series. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1QFE; 3JJPR; JPQB; JPSN2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 435.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333731703
ISBN
9780333731703
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 3JJH; BGH; HBJF; HBWQ; JWKF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 303 x 28. Weight in Grams: 534.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781613734308
ISBN
9781613734308
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.86

Paperback. Num Pages: 505 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press United States
Number of pages
505
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780875807355
ISBN
9780875807355
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 43.35

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691155463
ISBN
9780691155463
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.39

Paperback. This series of books offers accounts of the literary careers of widely read British and Irish authors. Volumes follow the outline of the writers' working lives tracing the professional, publishing and social contexts which shaped their writing. This book is about the Irish author James Joyce. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 163 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 10. Weight in Grams: 216.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
163
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333487372
ISBN
9780333487372
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99

Hardback. In the midst of a resurgence of pride in Ireland's history during the 18th century, William Burton, later Conyngham (1733-1796), strove to emulate his British counterparts in producing albums of engravings illustrating the beauties of the country's heritage. This catalogues more than 600 drawings, which he was known to have secured by about 1780. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 244 pages, 100 color + 20 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; ACQ; AFF; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 293 x 256 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1542. Fine clean copy in dustwrapper. DW has some edge wear including some short tears
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KRA0005620
ISBN
9780300180725
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 30.00

Hardback. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801447419
ISBN
9780801447419
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.40

Paperback. Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees. Num Pages: 165 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JD; HPCD; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 285.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
Number of pages
165
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319381886
ISBN
9783319381886
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Paperback. This is a collection of a linguistic autobiographiesa by 23 British linguists who played a major role in the development of the subject in Britain during the second half of the twentieth century. aeo Includes contributions from 23 major British linguists. aeo Provides an overview of the rapid growth of linguistics in the last 50 years. Editor(s): Brown, Keith; Law, Vivien. Series: Publications of the Philological Society. Num Pages: 200 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJP; CF; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631234760
ISBN
9780631234760
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.94

Paperback. Challenges many assumptions about gender and politics in the French Revolution. This title shows how revolutionary politics and laws brought about a social revolution within households and created space for thousands of French women and men to reimagine their most intimate relationships. Series: Studies on the History of Society & Culture. Num Pages: 474 pages, 16 b/w photographs, 2 maps, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
474
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520248168
ISBN
9780520248168
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 28.10

Paperback. Between 1890 and 1920 over one-third of the peasants of Mount Lebanon left their villages and traveled to the Americas. This book traces the journeys of these villagers from the ranks of the peasantry into a middle class of their own making. Num Pages: 271 pages, 2 line illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FBL; 1KB; 3JH; 3JJ; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 59.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520227408
ISBN
9780520227408
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 27.21

Hardcover. The killing of new-born children is an intensely emotional and emotive subject. The hidden nature of this crime has made it an area incredibly difficult subject area for historians to approach up until now. This work provides the first detailed history of infanticide in mainland Britain from 1600 to the modern era. Num Pages: 348 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3J; HBTB; JFSP1; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 136 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230547070
ISBN
9780230547070
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 120.18
€ 83.48

Paperback. Primary source engravings, drawings and paintings with 100 images from the Great War period. Num Pages: 128 pages, 250 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 189. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9781473837812
ISBN
9781473837812
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 5.70

Paperback. Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences. Num Pages: 314 pages. BIC Classification: 3JM; KCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Haymarket Books United States
Number of pages
314
Condition
New
SKU
V9781608462407
ISBN
9781608462407
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 21.52

Paperback. In 1895 Japan acquired Taiwan as its first formal colony after a resounding victory in the Sino-Japanese war. This work examines the formation of Taiwanese political and cultural identities under the dominant Japanese colonial discourse of assimilation and imperialization (kominka) from the early 1920s to the end of the Japanese Empire in 1945. Num Pages: 263 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; 1FPJ; 3JJ; GTB; HBJF; HBLW; JPHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
263
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520225534
ISBN
9780520225534
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.77

Hardcover. In a life full of momentous episodes, Theodore Roosevelt's fifteen-month post-presidential odyssey to Africa and Europe has never been given its due place. A tale of daring adventure, international celebrity, a friendship lost, and a political legacy transformed, Theodore Roosevelt Abroad is the first full account of this important time in history. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; 1K; 3JJ; HBTB; WTL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230102774
ISBN
9780230102774
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 29.93

Hardback. In this book we encounter the real men and combat missions on which Catch 22 was based. Blending fact, fancy, and history with full-blown original illustrations and rare, previously unpublished photos, the work includes twelve men of the Bomb Group relating twelve richly told tales of their own. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrated throughout. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; FZC; HBJK; HBWQ; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 508. The Real Men and Missions of Joseph Heller's 340th Bomb Group in World War II. 288 pages, illustrated throughout. In this book we encounter the real men and combat missions on which Catch 22 was based. Blending fact, fancy, and history with full-blown original illustrations and rare, previously unpublished photos, the work includes twelve men of the Bomb Group relating twelve richly told tales of their own. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; FZC; HBJK; HBWQ; JWG. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 21. Weight: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Casemate Publishers
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781612001036
ISBN
9781612001036
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 23.31

Hardback. Presents a story of the battle over the Thirteenth Amendment, and of James Ashley, the unsung Ohio congressman who proposed the amendment and steered it to passage. This book takes you to the floor of Congress and to the back rooms where deals were made. It brings to life the messy process of legislation and more. Num Pages: 320 pages, 45 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; LAZ; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226178202
ISBN
9780226178202
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 26.68

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
SKU
V9781402063213
ISBN
9781402063213
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.65

Paperback. Series: Women in American History. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; JFMX; JFSJ1; MBNH4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252082467
ISBN
9780252082467
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.41

Paperback. Num Pages: 428 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; AVGJ; AVGK; JFFK; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 134 x 27. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Random House USA Inc United States
Edition
1st Vintage Books Ed
Number of pages
428
Condition
New
SKU
V9780679771265
ISBN
9780679771265
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.29

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