History
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History
Hardcover. This volume's juxtaposition of the empires of Germany and France in 1806, at the dissolution of The Holy Roman Empire, allows a comparison of their transition towards modernity, explored through the themes of Empire, monarchy, political cultures, feudalism, war and military institutions, nationalism and identity, and everyday experience. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 525.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230008939
- ISBN
- 9780230008939
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.35
€ 150.35
hardcover. Immediately after the Second World War, the radio was the best-preserved medium of mass communication in Germany. This book explores the implications of this dominance by asking how everyday broadcasting constructed ideas of 'normal' times, people and places in the destroyed, divided and occupied zones of what would become the Federal Republic. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFGW; 3JJPG; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB; KNTD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 1. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2008th Edition
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230009035
- ISBN
- 9780230009035
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.31
€ 67.31
The Discursive Construction of History. Remembering the Wehrmacht's Wa...
Fligelstone, Steven; Heer, Hannes; Manoschek,...
Hardback. How do democratic and pluralistic societies cope with traumatic events in their past? This interdisciplinary volume analyzes in detail for the first time the history and image of the German 'Wehrmacht' and the debates in Austria and Germany surrounding two highly contested exhibitions about the war crimes of the 'Wehrmacht' during World War II. Num Pages: 347 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFG; HBJD; HBTZ1; JPFQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 565.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 347
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230013230
- ISBN
- 9780230013230
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.71
€ 67.71
hardcover. Looking East examines how English encounters with the Ottoman Empire helped shape national identities and imperial ambitions. Engagingly written in an accessible style, this book demonstrates how the so-called 'conflict of civilizations' separating the Muslim East from the Christian West is a false and dangerous myth. Num Pages: 314 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDT; 2AB; DSBB; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 525.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2007th Edition
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230019676
- ISBN
- 9780230019676
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.43
€ 67.43
The Religions of the Book. Christian Perceptions, 1400-1660.
. Ed(S): Dimmock, Dr Matthew; Hadfield, Andre...
Hardback. This is the first study to explore the relationship between Christianity, Judaism and Islam in the Early Modern period. Contributors debate the complicated terms in which these 'Religions of the Book' interacted. The collection illuminates this area of European culture from the late Middle Ages to the end of the Seventeenth century. Editor(s): Dimmock, Dr Matthew; Hadfield, Andrew. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; HBJD; HBJF; HBLH; HBLL; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230020047
- ISBN
- 9780230020047
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.74
€ 66.74
Paperback. This book presents waste as an aesthetic category that introduces an arsy-versy world where detritus is precious. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 252 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3F; DSB; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230100398
- ISBN
- 9780230100398
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 93.81
€ 93.81
Hardback. This book breaks new ground in understanding how modern society has shaped women's knowledge system in Africa and deconstructs long-held myths about the position of ordinary women in the construction of knowledge. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230102484
- ISBN
- 9780230102484
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardback. This book is a cultural and intellectual history of anti-Catholicism in the period 1840-1870. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1KBB; 3JH; HBTB; HRCC7; JFFJ; JFSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230102873
- ISBN
- 9780230102873
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
The American Bourgeoisie. Distinction and Identity in the Nineteenth C...
. Ed(S): Rosenbaum, Julia; Beckert, Sven
Hardback. This volume engages a fundamental disciplinary question about this period in American history: how did the bourgeoisie consolidate their power and fashion themselves not simply as economic leaders but as cultural innovators and arbiters? It also explains how culture helped Americans form both a sense of shared identity and a sense of difference. Editor(s): Rosenbaum, Julia; Beckert, Sven. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 293
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230102941
- ISBN
- 9780230102941
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.36
€ 128.36
Hardcover. This latest volume in the definitive six-volume biography of Herbert Hoover tracks Hoover's life and career from 1918 to 1928 - a period defined largely by his role as United States Secretary of Commerce and leading directly to his election as the thirty-first President of the United States. Num Pages: 607 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; BGH; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JPHL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 246 x 165 x 45. Weight in Grams: 982.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 624
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230103085
- ISBN
- 9780230103085
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.71
€ 131.71
Hardback. Num Pages: 262 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APF; HBTB; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230104082
- ISBN
- 9780230104082
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardback. This book provides a political, economic, sociological, and cultural history of Italy that looks at its difficulties with the task of nation-building. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBTB; HBTV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230104136
- ISBN
- 9780230104136
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardback. A collection that focuses on the role of European law in colonial contexts and engages with recent treatments of this theme in known 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): Dorsett, Shaunnagh; Hunter, Ian. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDB; HBTQ; LAB; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230104556
- ISBN
- 9780230104556
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.23
€ 67.23
Hardback. America According to Colbert: Satire as Public Pedagogy post 9/11 argues that, in contrast to the anti-intellectualism, the sensationalism, and the punditry that tend to govern most mass media today, Stephen Colbert's program offers his audience the opportunity to understand the context through which most news is reported and to be critical of it. Series: Education, Politics and Public Life. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JN; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 231
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230104662
- ISBN
- 9780230104662
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.40€ 46.88
€ 53.40
€ 46.88
Hardback. This moving and beautifully illustrated book, developed from an award-winning research project, examines the experience of African-American GIs in Germany since 1945 and the unique insights they provide into the civil rights struggle at home and abroad. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1KBB; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230104723
- ISBN
- 9780230104723
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.85
€ 67.85
hardcover. Through the speeches, essays and interviews of some of the most compelling individuals in American history who stood against the key conflicts of their lifetimes, this book gives remarkable insight into wartime dissent in the U.S. from the revolutionary war to the war on terror. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2010th Edition
- Number of pages
- 223
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230104846
- ISBN
- 9780230104846
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.28
€ 67.28
Hardback. Covering topics such as the Soviet monopoly over information and communication, violence in the gulags, and gender relations after World War II, this festschrift volume highlights the work and legacy of Sheila Fitzpatrick offers a cross-section of some of the best work being done on a critical period of Russia and the Soviet Union. Editor(s): Alexopoulos, Golfo; Tomoff, Kiril; Hessler, Julie. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJ; HBAH; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230105492
- ISBN
- 9780230105492
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.37
€ 67.37
Hardback. 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, Allison B. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3J; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 279
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230105881
- ISBN
- 9780230105881
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.02
€ 139.02
Hardback. The first full-length study of Madrid's transformation from the dreary home of a former dictatorship to a modern and vibrant city. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJPN; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230106413
- ISBN
- 9780230106413
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.71
€ 67.71
Hardback. Holocaust as Fiction seeks to explain and critically evaluate the extraordinary success of Schlink's internationally acclaimed novel, The Reader, the widely read "Selb" detective trilogy, and two popular films based closely on his work. Num Pages: 268 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JJH; DSBH; DSK; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 172 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108073
- ISBN
- 9780230108073
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.82
€ 116.82