Old Is Gold
-
The Cambridge History of the First World War SetThe Cambridge History of the First World War is a comprehensive, three-volume work, which provides an authoritative account of the military, political, social, economic and cultural history of the Great War. Reflecting the very latest research in the field, the volumes provide a transnational...
- Dhs. 1,122.86 AED
- Dhs. 1,122.86 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
The Cambridge History of the First World War, Volume 1: Global WarThis first volume of The Cambridge History of the First World War provides a comprehensive account of the war's military history. An international team of leading historians charts how a war made possible by globalization and imperial expansion unfolded into catastrophe, growing year by...
- Dhs. 1,119.04 AED
- Dhs. 1,119.04 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
The Presidential Recordings: John F. Kennedy: Volumes 1-3, the Great Crises [With CD]These volumes provide a unique glimpse into the real workings of the Kennedy White House, presenting perhaps the most reliable record of the Kennedy presidency ever published. In the summer of 1962, President John F. Kennedy installed a secret taping system in the White...
- Dhs. 1,109.95 AED
- Dhs. 1,109.95 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
Operation Barbarossa: the Complete Organisational and Statistical Analysis, and Military Simulation, Volume IIAOperation Barbarossa: the Complete Organisational and Statistical Analysis, and Military Simulation includes full analyses of the Axis and Soviet armed-forces organisation, weapons, equipment, personnel, transport, logistics, war-production, mobilisation and replacements during 1941. Uniquely, the work employs a sophisticated military simulation methodology extending from the...
- Dhs. 1,107.02 AED
- Dhs. 1,107.02 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
Power and Urban Space in Pre-Modern Holland: Arenas of Appropriation in the Netherlands, 1500-1850Cities and urban societies have many faces. In this study, the pre-modern cities of Holland are presented as arenas where power relations between social classes are expressed in a more or less permanent appropriation of physical space and through discursive strategies. The continuity of...
- Dhs. 1,105.11 AED
- Dhs. 1,105.11 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
Informing Interwar Internationalism: The Information Strategies of the League of NationsExamining the public information strategies employed by the League of Nations between 1919 and 1940, this book brings together international history, intellectual history and the history of communications to tell the story of how officials in Geneva planned for a new kind of public...
- Dhs. 1,105.11 AED
- Dhs. 1,105.11 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
Biblical Wisdom and the Victorian Literary ImaginationExamining the creative thought that arose in response to 19th-century religious controversies, this book demonstrates that the pressures exerted by historical methods of biblical scholarship prompted an imaginative recovery of wisdom literature.During the Victorian period, new approaches to the interpretation of sacred texts called...
- Dhs. 1,105.11 AED
- Dhs. 1,105.11 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
Sacred Capital: Methodism and Settler Colonialism in the Empire of LibertyHow Methodist settlers in the American West acted as agents of empire In the early years of American independence, Methodism emerged as the new republic's fastest growing religious movement and its largest voluntary association. Following the contours of settler expansion, the Methodist Episcopal Church...
- Dhs. 1,105.11 AED
- Dhs. 1,105.11 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture After World War IIPostwar culture and anxiety over the reintegration of veterans into American society Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and had learned to kill and to quickly dispatch sexual urges were rapidly reintegrated into...
- Dhs. 1,105.11 AED
- Dhs. 1,105.11 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
Haunting Ecologies: Victorian Conceptions of WaterVictorians' views of water and its role in how the social fabric of Victorian Britain was imagined Water matters like few other substances in people's daily lives. In the nineteenth century, it left its traces on politics, urban reform, and societal divisions, as well...
- Dhs. 1,105.11 AED
- Dhs. 1,105.11 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
Black Reason, White Feeling: The Jeffersonian Enlightenment in the African American TraditionThe vital influence of Black American intellectuals on the legacy of Thomas Jefferson's ideas The lofty Enlightenment principles articulated by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, so central to conceptions of the American founding, did not emerge fully formed as a coherent set...
- Dhs. 1,105.11 AED
- Dhs. 1,105.11 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
Holocaust Memory in the Digital MediascapeThis is a comprehensive study of Holocaust memory in the digital age of social media and an important examination of how social technology affects the way history is made and circulated online. Social media has become a place where memories of the Holocaust take...
- Dhs. 1,105.11 AED
- Dhs. 1,105.11 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
Ararat in America: Armenian American Culture and Politics in the Twentieth CenturyHow has the distinctive Armenian-American community expressed its identity as an ethnic minority while 'assimilating' to life in the United States? This book examines the role of community leaders and influencers, including clergy, youth organizers, and partisan newspaper editors, in fostering not only a...
- Dhs. 1,105.11 AED
- Dhs. 1,105.11 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
Struggle for Change: Race and the Politics of Reconciliation in Modern RichmondA Black-majority city with a history of the most severe segregation and inequity, Richmond is still grappling with this legacy as it moves into the twenty-first century. Marvin Chiles now offers a unique take on Richmond's racial politics since the civil rights era by...
- Dhs. 1,105.11 AED
- Dhs. 1,105.11 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
Nazi Germany, Annexed Poland and Colonial Rule: Resettlement, Germanization and Population Policies in Comparative PerspectiveThis book examines Nazi Germany's expansion, population management and establishment of a racially stratified society within the Reichsgaue (Reich Districts) of Wartheland and Danzig-West Prussia in annexed Poland (1939-1945) through a colonial lens. The topic of the Holocaust has thus far dominated the scholarly...
- Dhs. 1,105.11 AED
- Dhs. 1,105.11 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
The Soviet-Polish War and Its Legacy: Lenin's Defeat and the Rise of StalinismThis detailed study traces the history of the Soviet-Polish War (1919-20), the first major international clash between the forces of communism and anti-communism, and the impact this had on Soviet Russia in the years that followed. It reflects upon how the Bolsheviks fought not...
- Dhs. 1,105.11 AED
- Dhs. 1,105.11 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
Botanical Entanglements: Women, Natural Science, and the Arts in Eighteenth-Century EnglandRecognizing such literary and artistic entanglement facilitates a more profound understanding of the multifaceted relationship between women and the natural world in eighteenth-century England.Author: Anna K. SagalPublisher: University of Virginia PressPublished: 08/18/2022Pages: 294Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.89dISBN: 9780813946955Review Citation(s): Choice...
- Dhs. 1,105.11 AED
- Dhs. 1,105.11 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
The Jews: A HistoryThe Jews: A History is a comprehensive and accessible text that explores the religious, cultural, social, and economic diversity of the Jewish people and their faith.Placing Jewish history within its wider cultural context, the book covers a broad time span, stretching from ancient Israel...
- Dhs. 1,105.11 AED
- Dhs. 1,105.11 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
The Presidency and the American State: Leadership and Decision Making in the Adams, Grant, and Taft AdministrationsAuthor: Stephen J. RockwellPublisher: University of Virginia PressPublished: 10/12/2023Pages: 352Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.58lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.94dISBN: 9780813950075
- Dhs. 1,105.11 AED
- Dhs. 1,105.11 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
The American Liberty Pole: Popular Politics and the Struggle for Democracy in the Early RepublicAuthor: Shira LuriePublisher: University of Virginia PressPublished: 10/09/2023Pages: 240Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9780813950105
- Dhs. 1,105.11 AED
- Dhs. 1,105.11 AED
- Unit price
- per