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Paperback. "This volume is the first full-length study on pioneering sexologist and sexual rights activist, Magnus Hirschfeld, that examines his impact on the politics and culture of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Germany and the value of his rationalist humanist approach for contemporary debates on sexual rights"-- Series: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JFC; JFSJ; JHB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 339.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349288717
- ISBN
- 9781349288717
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Condition: New
€ 160.89
€ 160.89
Paperback. After establishing a feminist-historicist perspective on the tradition of biblical commentary, Tinkle develops in-depth case studies that situate scholars reading the bible in three distinct historical moments, and in so doing she exposes the cultural pressures that medieval scholars felt as they interpreted the bible. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBJD; HRAX; HRCG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349288885
- ISBN
- 9781349288885
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. A collection that focuses on the role of European law in colonial contexts andengages with recent treatments of this theme inknown works written largely from within the framework of postcolonial studies, which implicitly discuss colonial deployments of European law and politics via the concept of ideology." Editor(s): Hunter, I.; Dorsett, Shaunnagh. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD1; HBTB; HBTQ; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349289134
- ISBN
- 9781349289134
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBL; JPA; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 311.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 193
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349289158
- ISBN
- 9781349289158
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This book examines female lordship and the power of the political voice in medieval Northern Europe, focusing on three prominent, foreign-born queens of medieval Scandinavia - Agnes of Denmark (d. 1304), Eufemia of Norway (d. 1312) and Margareta of Denmark/Sweden (d. 1412) - who acted as cultural mediators and initiators of political change. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 247 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; JFSJ; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349289271
- ISBN
- 9781349289271
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
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
€ 66.34
€ 66.34
Paperback. This book explores the social origins of the Western preoccupation with health and environmental hazards. It looks at the rise of the dichotomy between the vulnerable 'in' and the threatening 'out' by examining the pathologies associated with weather, domestic space, ventilation, clothing, and travel in Britain at the turn of the 19th century. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 239 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBTB; MBX; PDZ; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 309.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349289349
- ISBN
- 9781349289349
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. The Emancipation signalled the beginning of Jewish integration in Italy, a process that continued until 1938 when the Racial Laws were put into effect. In this book, Bettin examines the debate between integration and assimilation in the early twentieth century andJewish culture to trace the 'rebirth of Judaism' that characterized the period." Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJF; HBL; HBTB; HRAX; HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349289363
- ISBN
- 9781349289363
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Contrary to the widespread view that women exercised economic autonomy only in widowhood, Hutton argues that marital status was not the chief determinant of women's economic activities in the mid-fourteenth century andthat women managed their own wealth to a far greater extent than previously recognized." Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 256 pages, 17 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBJD; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349289400
- ISBN
- 9781349289400
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
paperback. "Reason and Imagination in Chaucer, the Perle-poet, and the Cloud-author: Seeing from the Center investigates Chaucer, the Perle-poet, and the Cloud-author. From where they stand, these speakers make the case for seeing in the light of what they can know"-- Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- SKU
- V9781349289530
- ISBN
- 9781349289530
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Editor(s): Friedman, J. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 285 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBJD; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 423.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349289615
- ISBN
- 9781349289615
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Told from the perspective of its former Foreign minister, this is a uniquely candid account of Chechnya's struggle for independence and its two wars against Russia which will revise our understanding of the conflict and explain how it continues. Features new insights, intimate portraits of key personalities and a foreword by Zbigniew Brzezinski. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTJ; HBJ; HBL; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349289745
- ISBN
- 9781349289745
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.75
€ 54.75
Paperback. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; HBJH; JHB; JHM; JHMC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349289912
- ISBN
- 9781349289912
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.06
€ 66.06
Paperback. This work examines both the emergence of African literature and its institutionalization within nationalist African academies. Amoko analyzes the relationship between such institutions of literature and the processes of nationalist legitimization and between colonial and postcolonial school cultures and national cultures. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJH; JFC; JHB; JHMC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 215
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349289950
- ISBN
- 9781349289950
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; HBTB; HBTQ; HRAX; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 425.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 269
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349290048
- ISBN
- 9781349290048
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. The early modern period was rife with attempts to re-imagine the world and the human place within it. This volume looks at natural philosophers, playwrights, historians, and other figures in the period 1500-1700 as a means of accessing the plethora of world models that circulated in Europe during this era. Editor(s): Kavey, A. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349290147
- ISBN
- 9781349290147
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.73
€ 127.73
Paperback. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 429.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349290246
- ISBN
- 9781349290246
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Using the engaging case of British security policy between the world wars, this book argues that an effective balance of power, which is the key to a stable international system, is a deliberate act of policy and that leaders play a determinative role in building an effective balance. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBWQ; JFFS; JHB; JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 213
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349290369
- ISBN
- 9781349290369
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.73
€ 127.73
Paperback. Editor(s): Rohde, Achim. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTJ; HBJF; JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349290611
- ISBN
- 9781349290611
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.18
€ 127.18
Paperback. Considering a wide array of sources, this book reveals the tenacity with which Alfonso II (1162-1196) and his son Peter II (1196-1213) of the Crown of Aragon forged a tighter Mediterranean regional network and augmented their regional success. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBJD; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 277
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349290659
- ISBN
- 9781349290659
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Nyla Ali Khan, the granddaughter of the first Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, gives an insider's analysis on the political and social turmoil that has eroded the ethos and fabric of Kasmiri culture. She monitors the effects of nationalist, militant, and religious discourses and praxes on a gender-based hierarchy. Series: Comparative Feminist Studies. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; HRAX; HRH; JFFK; JFSJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349290758
- ISBN
- 9781349290758
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.28
€ 66.28
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349290956
- ISBN
- 9781349290956
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.01
€ 66.01
Paperback. Focusing on works by Shakespeare and Spenser, this study shows the connection between visuality and ethical action in early modern English literature. The book places early modern debates about the value of visual experience into dialogue with subsequent philosophical and ethical efforts. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349290970
- ISBN
- 9781349290970
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.34
€ 66.34
Paperback. This book examines the social and cultural consequences of a war normally looked at for its role in the story of Italian unification - the convergence of French, Austrian, and Piedmont-Sardinian armies in northern Italy in 1859, referred to in Italy as the "Second War for Independence." Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2010
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349291052
- ISBN
- 9781349291052
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.28
€ 66.28