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A valuable document finely bound on the department of national archivestitle: les archives de la france, leurs vicissitudes pendant la révolution, leur régénération sous l'empirenice copy! biography and theme: archives particulières de l'assemblée - les archives dévolues à la nation - supression des armoiries - quinet s'élève contre ces lois - un archiviste courageux - lettre de garatinterior has some clear scattered foxingslight defects and frictionauthor: laborde, marquis deour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storea beautiful 19th century siecle binding! illustrations: nonecollation: viii, 448 ppformat: duodecimo (11 x 18 cm) binding: period binding, half-shagreen brown, ribbed spine adorned with fine cold-stamped nets, a piece of long grain leather with decorated with the golden title, head combed in colourcondition: faded spineweight: g read morereprint of the quarto edition of , with many additional noteslocation: publisher, date: paris: vve renouardare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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Peter capaldi stars as number 10's ferociously foul-mouthed policy enforcer malcolm tucker, whose job is to bully and cajole the wayward ministers of the department of social affairs and citizenship (dosac) through a catalogue of gaffes, crises, prime ministerial resignations and possible election datessee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop st albans the complete series 1-3 plus both specials of the award-winning bbc satirical political comedy drama written and directed by armando iannucci
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Peter capaldi stars as number 10's ferociously foul-mouthed policy enforcer malcolm tucker, whose job is to bully and cajole the wayward ministers of the department of social affairs and citizenship (dosac) through a catalogue of gaffes, crises, prime ministerial resignations and possible election datesoxfam music shop reading the complete series 1-3 plus both specials of the award-winning bbc satirical political comedy drama written and directed by armando iannuccisee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Peter capaldi stars as number 10's ferociously foul-mouthed policy enforcer malcolm tucker, whose job is to bully and cajole the wayward ministers of the department of social affairs and citizenship (dosac) through a catalogue of gaffes, crises, prime ministerial resignations and possible election datesoxfam shop crosby the complete series 1-3 plus both specials of the award-winning bbc satirical political comedy drama written and directed by armando iannuccisee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Published by the direction of the commissioners of national education, marlborough street londona treatise on mensuration for the use of schools 2nd editionbeige cover a little wornsome staining on some of the pages read more
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Using newly opened kremlin archives and his own experiences in the field, martin walker has written a brilliant analysis of the conflict that has shaped the contemporary worldas the united states became the national security state, california, which had a population of five million at the start of the cold war, grew to thirty million and, by the s provided one in every ten members of congress and two presidentssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreat the end of the s the fear was generated by communist expansion into eastern europe and china; in the s by the prospect of defeat in vietnamnow that it is over, it is crucial to our future to understand how the cold war has shaped us and, especially, to recognize it as the economic and political dynamic that determined the structure of today's global economy" so begins this wide-ranging narrative by award-winning political commentator martin walker, which is the first major study of the cold warfor more than forty years, as this detailed analysis makes clear, the outcome of the cold war was in doubtthe west continued to be alarmed by the prospect of defeat right up to the soviet empire's last breathfrom the origins of the marshall plan, which revived europe after world war ii, and the strategic decision to rebuild a defeated japan into a bulwark against china to the collapse of the berlin wall, this authoritative work reveals how the west was built into an economic alliance that overpowered the soviet economy while also unleashing global economic forces that today challenge the traditional nation-statein the s the failure of détente and the west's economic crisis brought a new generation of dedicated anti-communists to prominence"walker reminds us how easy it is to forget that there were many occasions for the late s on when victory seemed far from assured, and that lent a particular urgency to the efforts of postwar western leadersthe cold war was more of a global conflict than was either of this century's two major wars; far more than a confrontation between states or even empires, it was, as martin walker puts it, "a total war between economic and social systems, an industrial test to destructionwe also come to understand how the arms race caused new alignments and shifts in domestic poweroxfam bookshop cheltenham "the history of the cold war has been the history of the world since
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A very nice screen print of blake and mortimer, from the archive of ziller "archives internationales" the 10-colour screen print was created in and has been in the archives of archives internationales for 23 yearsthe choice is yoursthe item will be shipped by registered and insured postwe wish you a happy auction! comic store barabas read moreour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeinsured shipping in a tube which will be packaged in a tube box - so double protection! collection is preferred, however, to prevent creasing and rolling up of the printabsolute mint conditionyou can also come pick up the lot in our renewed storeare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablethis beautiful screen print has been completely sold out for a number of years
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A very nice screen print of blake and mortimer, from the archive of ziller "archives internationales" the 10 colour screen print was made in and has been in the archives of archives internationales for 23 yearsthe choice is yourswe wish you a happy auction! comic store barabas read moreour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storethe lot will be shipped properly packagedinsured shipping in a tube which will be packaged in a tube box - so double protection! collection is preferred, however, to prevent creasing and rolling up of the printabsolute mint conditionyou can also come pick up the lot in our renewed storeare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablethis beautiful screen print has been completely sold out for a number of years
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The 10-color silkscreen was made in and has been in the archives of archives internationales for 27 yearswill be shipped insured in a tube, which is also packaged in a tube boxvery nice screen print of tintin, from the archive of ziller "archives internationales" size: 50 x 70 cmcompletely new conditionthis beautiful silkscreen has been completely exhausted for a number of yearsstay healthy and happy auction! strip shop barabas read moreour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeso double protectionare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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A very nice screen print of blake and mortimer, from the archive of ziller "archives internationales" the 10-colour screen print was created in and has been in the archives of archives internationales for 30 yearsthe choice is yoursour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeinsured shipping in a tube which will be packaged in a tube box - so double protection! collection is preferred, however, to prevent creasing and rolling up of the printabsolute mint conditionhappy bidding and stay healthy! comic shop barabasare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablethis beautiful screen print has been completely sold out for a number of years
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Two very beautiful screen prints by jacobs, from the archive of ziller "archives internationales" the 10-colour screen print was made in and has been in the archives for over 20 yearsthe choice is yoursthese beautiful screen prints have been completely sold out for a number of yearsour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeinsured shipping in a tube which will be packaged in a tube box - so double protection! collection is preferred, however, to prevent creasing and rolling up of the printabsolute mint conditionhappy bidding and stay healthy! comic shop barabasare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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Oxfam bookshop henley-on-thames precis of the archives of the cape of good hope - letters despatched from the cape, , volume iii corners and edges rubbed and bumped, boards marked, ex-library, with stamps, endpapers browned, contents otherwise clean and bright, small loss at the bottom corner of closing pagessee oxfam website for delivery information read morealso added land grants, attestations, journal of voyage to tristan da cunha, names of freemen, &cbrown cloth, gilt titles
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department of transport "investigation into the clapham junction railway accident" of
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department of the air forceoxfam shop malvern wedgwood 24% lead cyrstal paperweight  see oxfam website for delivery information read more  in very fine condition
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Oxfam books & music beeston originality and initiative the arts and crafts archives at cheltenham edited by mary greensted and sophia wilson the third catalogue produced on the arts and crafts movement collections at cheltenham art gallery and museumpublished by cheltenham art gallery and museum in association with lund humphries paperback book in nearly new conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Makdisi's book is important to our understanding of lebanese society today, but it also makes a significant contribution to the discussion of the importance of religious discourse in the formation and dissolution of social and national identities in the modern worldmakdisi highlights how european colonialism and orientalism, with their emphasis on christian salvation and islamic despotism, and ottoman and local nationalisms each created and used narratives of sectarianism as foils to their own visions of modernity and to their own projects of colonial, imperial, and national developmentsee oxfam website for delivery information read more condition good, some minor warping to front cover as can be seen in digital imagethe ottoman reform movement launched in and the growing european presence in the middle east contributed to the disintegration of the traditional lebanese social order based on a hierarchy that bridged religious differencesoxfam bookshop knutsford focusing on ottoman lebanon, ussama makdisi shows how sectarianism was a manifestation of modernity that transcended the physical boundaries of a particular countrymakdisi argues that sectarianism represented a deliberate mobilization of religious identities for political and social purposeshis study challenges those who have viewed sectarian violence as an islamic response to westernization or simply as a product of social and economic inequities among religious groupsthe religious violence of the nineteenth century, which culminated in sectarian mobilizations and massacres in , was a complex, multilayered, subaltern expression of modernization, he says, not a primordial reaction to it
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The allies sought to use the league to safeguard imperial authority, but that authority was undermined by the mechanisms for international oversight they had themselves createdas imperial politicians wearied of continual scandals and crises - revolts in south west africa, syria, samoa, and palestine; famine in rwanda; labour abuses in new guinea; extortionate oil contracts in iraq - they began to question whether independent states might be easier to deal with than territories subject to international scrutinydrawing on research in four continents and dozens of archives, and bringing to life a global network of nationalists, humanitarians, international bureaucrats, and imperial statesmen, the guardians offers an entirely new interpretation of the importance of international organizations in the emergence of the modern world orderat the paris peace conference of , the allies agreed reluctantly to govern their new conquests according to international and humanitarian norms and under 'mandate' from the league of nationssee oxfam website for delivery information read morenew states emerged from the great european land empires, while germany's african and pacific colonies, and the ottoman provinces in the middle east fell into allied handsbritain, france, belgium, japan, and the british dominions wanted to keep the new states, but woodrow wilson and the millions converted to the ideal of self-determination thought otherwisethe pages are clean and tight and appear unreadas the guardians shows, this decision had enormous consequencescolonial nationalists and humanitarians exploited new rights of petition or opportunities for publicity to expose abuses or scandals; germans resentful of the loss of their colonies and italians eager to found a new empire arrived in geneva to demand a repartition of the spoilsthe first world war threw the imperial order into crisisminor signs of shelf wearoxfam bookshop bath a paperback in very good condition
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Taking a comparative national perspective, the book examines agricultural practices in a broad sense, including the practices and disciplines devoted to land management, forestry, soil science, and the improvement and management of crops and livestockwithout close attention to this zone it is not possible to understand the emergence of new disciplines and transformation of old disciplines, to evaluate the role and impact of such major figures of science as humboldt and mendel, or to appreciate how much of the history of modern biology has been driven by national ambitions and imperialist expansion in competition with rival nationsoxfam books & music crouch end this volume explores problems in the history of science at the intersection of life sciences and agriculture, from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centurysee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe book shows that the investigation of the border zone of life sciences and agriculture raises many interesting questions about how science developsthe life sciences considered include genetics, microbiology, ecology, entomology, forestry, and deal with us, european, russian, japanese, indonesian, chinese contextsin particular it challenges one to re-examine and take seriously the intimate connection between scientific development and the practical goals of managing and improving - perhaps even recreating - the living world to serve human ends
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At this point getting a man in space became a national imperative, leading to the creation of the national aeronautics and space administration, otherwise known as nasanasa's history is a familiar story, one that typically peaks with neil armstrong taking his small step on the moon insee oxfam website for delivery information read moreone of the key figures in this period was wernher von braun, an engineer who designed the rockets that became the devastating v-2breaking the chains of gravity tells the story of america's nascent space program, its scientific advances, its personalities and the rivalries it caused between the various arms of the us militaryit was assembled from pre-existing parts, drawing together some of the best minds the non-soviet world had to offerbut america's space agency wasn't created in a vacuumoxfam bookshop swanage the incredible story of spaceflight before the establishment of nasain the s, rockets were all the rage in germany, the focus both of scientists hoping to fly into space and of the german armed forces, looking to circumvent the restrictions of the treaty of versaillesmeanwhile, the us air force was looking ahead to a time when men would fly in space, and test pilots like neil armstrong were flying cutting-edge, rocket-powered aircraft in the thin upper atmosphereas the war came to its chaotic conclusion, von braun escaped from the ruins of nazi germany, and was taken to america where he began developing missiles for the us army
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Oxfam bookshop hove thirty years after lyndon johnson declared a war on poverty, the united states still lags behind most western democracies in national welfare systems, lacking such basic programs as national health insurance and child care supportsome critics have explained the failure of social programs by citing our tradition of individual freedom and libertarian values, while others point to weaknesses within the working classin the s, the united states embarked on a journey to resolve the "american dilemmathe "american creed" of liberty, justice, and equality clashed with a history of active racial discrimination, says quadagnoat the same time, affirmative action clashed openly with organized labor, and equal housing raised protests from the white suburban middle-class, who didn't want their neighborhoods integratedthis shift of emphasis eventually alienated white, working-class americans, who had some of the same needs-for health care, subsidized housing, and job training opportunities-but who got very little from these programsquadagno shows that nixon, who initially supported many of johnson's programs, eventually caught on that the white middle class was disenchantedturning to lyndon johnson's "unconditional war on poverty," she contends that though anti-poverty programs for job training, community action, health care, housing, and education have accomplished much, they have not been fully realized because they became inextricably intertwined with the civil rights movement of the s, which triggered a white backlashhe realized that his grand plan for welfare reform, the family assistance plan, threatened to undermine wages in the south and alienate the republican party's new constituency-white, southern democrats-and therefore dropped it" yet instead of finally instituting full democratic rights for all its citizens, the policies enacted in that turbulent decade failed dismallysee oxfam website for delivery information read morein the color of welfare, jill quadagno takes exception to these claims, placing race at the centre of the "american dilemma," as swedish economist gunnar myrdal did half a century agodrawing on extensive primary research, quadagno shows, for instance, how roosevelt, in need of support from southern congressmen, excluded african americans from the core programs of the social security actthe color of welfare reveals the root cause of this failure-the inability to address racial inequalityjob training programs, for instance, became affirmative action programs, programs to improve housing became programs to integrate housing, programs that began as community action to upgrade the quality of life in the cities were taken over by local civil rights groupsit is racism that has undermined the war on poverty, and america must come to terms with this history if there is to be any hope of addressing welfare reform todayfrom reconstruction to lyndon johnson and beyond, quadagno reveals how american social policy has continually foundered on issues of race
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The game of love in georgian england brings together love letters, diaries, valentines, and proposals of marriage from sixty courtships sourced from thirty archives and museum collections, alongside an extensive range of sources including ballads, conduct literature, court cases, material objects, newspaper reports, novels, periodicals, philosophical discourses, plays, poems, and prints, to create a vivid social and cultural history of romantic emotionsthe book concludes with the rituals of disintegration when engagements went awry, and pursuit of damages for breach of promise in the civil courtsit also charts the increasing modernization of romantic customs over the georgian era - most notably with the arrival of the printed valentine's card - revealing how love developed into a commercial industrythis volume brings to life the emotional experience of courtship using the words and objects selected by men and women to navigate this potentially fraught processsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe book demonstrates the importance of courtship to studies of marriage, relationships, and emotions in history, and how we write histories of emotions using objectscourtship in georgian england was a decisive moment in the life cycle, imagined as a tactical game, an invigorating sport, and a perilous journey across a turbulent seait provides new insights into the making and breaking of relationships, beginning with the formation of courtships using the language of love, the development of intimacy through the exchange of love letters, and sensory engagement with love tokens such as flowers, portrait miniatures, and locks of hairlove emerges as something that we do in practice, enacted by couples through particular socially and historically determined ritualsoxfam bookshop clifton very good condition; some shelf wear
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With access to the most extensive amphora collections worldwide and recently unearthed archives and records from the czech republic, the authors - all three specialists in their fields - piece together a fascinating story of talent, ambition, family ties and innovationsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreincluded are hundreds of specially commissioned photographs with detailed descriptions, chapters on collecting, care and conservation, and a lengthy study of marks, signatures and the amphora numbering systemthey journey from amphora's beginnings in the turn-teplitz region of what was once bohemia, to foreign markets where their artworks garnered mass appeal and on to the world's largest art exhibitions of the late 19th and early 20th centuriescognizant that all works of art reflect the times from which they emerge, the authors discuss the vital relationship between the ceramic workshops and the many movements - political, economic and artistic - that swept through europe and the rest of the world at that timeoxfam bookshop victoria here is the definitive account of the house of amphora, the innovative ceramic artworks bearing that name in fact or by association, and the five workshops that produced them
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They all appropriated, and in some cases perverted, the regionalist message showing that strong regional identities would ultimately reinforce national unityregional identities, like national identities, were created and sometimes even invented; and this was equally the case in france, germany and spainsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop kingston upon thames this pioneering book studies the rise, heyday and demise of regionalism from the belle aepoque until the eve of the second world warthis book offers new perspectives to specialists of regionalism and nationalism, but will also be of interest to students of the cultural history of france, germany and spain and to specialists from the fields of politics, ethnology, art history, cultural studies and architectural historylater on regionalism was used at international exhibitions by widely differing regimes, such as the primo de rivera dictatorship in spain, the popular front government in france, and the hitler-regime in germanyduring the s painters began to apply the regionalist ideology by producing images of a presumably harmonious and authentic rural societyby using a novel comparative perspective it gives a fresh view of the relationship between cultural regionalism, political regionalism and nationalismartists, architects and international exhibitions played a highly influential role in this processstorm further illuminates how during the first decades of the twentieth century the culture of regionalism slowly lost the battle against its main rival: the avant-gardeshortly afterwards they were followed by architects, who constructed villas and garden cities inspired by vernacular cottages
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department of truth ( - third printing - new bagged
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Autograph with certificate of authenticity (coa-r), registered in our archivesletter signed by napoleon iii of france, president of the french republic from to and emperor of the french from toour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storethe letter comes with an envelope handwritten by napoleon iii with the recipient's headera handwritten letter with original signature of napoleon iii of france, in which he thanks the king of prussia, his cousin, for the christmas wishes he received and in which he reiterates his particular affection for him and the familythe letter is countersigned by foreign minister edouard drouyn de lhuysare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableletter written in paris on 30 january
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Oxfam bookshop newport the story of a yorkshire woman who was called upon by the ministry of labour and national service to be directed to work of national importancegiven the choice between working in a factory or going into transport, she chose the latter and became a conductress on a trama heart-warming and touching collection of anecdotes about life as a clippie, and how it impacted upon her life at homesee oxfam website for delivery information read morerear free endpaper has been torn outminor foxing to edges of text block, which is otherwise lightly but evenly tannedendpapers discolouredshelf wear to top and bottom edges of spineblue cloth covered boards with gilt text to spinevarious scuffs, marks and discolouration
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Once again, the author's unprecedented access to the lucasfilm archives has yielded a mother lode of fascinating and often unexpected revelations from behind the scenes of a blockbuster in the making
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Collector's item! this is probably one of the most famous photos on the front of national geographic and we just relocated it in the attic! bids over 50 considered
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Receipts of direct contribution (extraordinary and ordinary) for the payment of taxes at the department of montenotte (liguria) during the napoleonic empirethe documents show the dates from to and are confirmed with punctures that formalized the paymentour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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Jeremy aynsley heads the department of design history at the royal college of art in londonsince , he has been director of the arts and humanities research council centre for the study of the domestic interiorshe has curated several exhibitions relating to twentieth-century art, decorative arts, and designabout the author sarah schleuning is a curator at the wolfsonian-florida international university
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