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Hardback. 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: 1DST; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108134
- ISBN
- 9780230108134
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardback. Weimar Culture Revisited is the first book to offer an accessible cross-section of new cultural history approaches to the Weimar Republic. This collection uses an interdisciplinary approach and focuses on the everyday workings of Weimar culture to explain the impact and meaning of culture for German's everyday lives during this fateful era. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230109421
- ISBN
- 9780230109421
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardback. This book looks critically at various constructions of the Indian citizen from 1991 to 2007, the period when economic liberalization became established government policy. Examining differing images of citizenship and its rules and rituals, Chowdhury sheds light on the complex interactions between culture and political economy in the New India. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJPR; 3JMC; HBJF; HBLW3; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230109513
- ISBN
- 9780230109513
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. This book brings together fascinating testimonies from thirty inhabitants of the 'Kommunalka,' the communal apartments that were the norm in housing in the cities of Russia during the whole history of the Soviet Union. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 184 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVU; HBTB; HBTD; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 289 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110168
- ISBN
- 9780230110168
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Hardback. This book focuses on the western Balkans in the period 1820-1912, in particular on the peoples and social groups that the later national history would claim to have been Albanians, providing a revisionist exploration of national identity prior to the establishment of the nation-state. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1DV; 3JH; HBJD; HBTB; HBTK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110182
- ISBN
- 9780230110182
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.90
€ 127.90
Hardcover. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF1; JPA; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 181 x 235 x 22. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110434
- ISBN
- 9780230110434
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.48
€ 127.48
Hardback. An examination of a pivotal moment in the history of science through the career and cultural impact of the historically neglected Victorian physicist John Tyndall,establishing him as an important figure of the period, whose scientific discoveries and philosophy of science in society are still relevant today. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBTB; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 22. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 279
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110533
- ISBN
- 9780230110533
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Hardback. Folk singer and labor organizer John Handcox was born to illiterate sharecroppers, but went on to become one of the most beloved folk singers of the prewar labor movement. This beautifully told oral history gives us Handcox in his own words, recounting a journey that began in the Deep South and went on to shape the labor music tradition. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 244 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AVGH; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; HBTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230111271
- ISBN
- 9780230111271
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.65
€ 67.65
Paperback. Folk singer and labor organizer John Handcox was born to illiterate sharecroppers, but went on to become one of the most beloved folk singers of the prewar labor movement. This beautifully told oral history gives us Handcox in his own words, recounting a journey that began in the Deep South and went on to shape the labor music tradition. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 244 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AVGH; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; HBTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 173 x 15. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230111288
- ISBN
- 9780230111288
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.73
€ 71.73
Hardback. Twenty years after its fall, the wall that divided Berlin and Germany presents a conceptual paradox: on one hand, Germans have sought to erase it completely; on the other, it haunts the imagination in complex and often surprising ways Editor(s): Gerstenberger, Katharina; Braziel, Jana Evans. Num Pages: 305 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JMC; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 222 x 22. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 305
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230111929
- ISBN
- 9780230111929
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.28
€ 67.28
Hardcover. Offers readers a telling glimpse of the social world in which militants are made, explaining how group physical training and technico-ethical experiments with it have created a powerful religious nationalist movement in Gujarat that has been held responsible for carrying out spectacular episodes of ethnic cleansing against Indian minorities. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; JFSR; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112575
- ISBN
- 9780230112575
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.79
€ 67.79
Paperback. In this book, Weikart helps unlock the mystery of Hitler's evil by vividly demonstrating the surprising conclusion that Hitler's immorality flowed from a coherent ethic. Hitler was inspired by evolutionary ethics to pursue the utopian project of biologically improving the human race. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBTZ1; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112735
- ISBN
- 9780230112735
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.19
€ 128.19
Hardback. This volume seeks to revise the Saidian analytical framework which dominated research on the subject of colonial knowledge for almost two decades, which emphasized colonial knowledge as a series of representations of colonial hegemony. It seeks to contribute to research in the field by analyzing knowledge in colonial India as a dynamic process. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FK; 1FM; 3JH; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 215 x 21. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113374
- ISBN
- 9780230113374
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Paperback. From Freud onward, psychoanalytic thinkers have looked to history for insights into the human mind, while historians have been much more ambivalent about the value of psychoanalysis. The interdisciplinary contributions gathered here offer an invaluable survey of this complex and contested field. Editor(s): Alexander, Sally; Taylor, Barbara. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 354 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113855
- ISBN
- 9780230113855
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 139.43
€ 139.43
Hardback. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJ; HBTB; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114104
- ISBN
- 9780230114104
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardback. Neither a case study of a particular genocide nor a work of comparative genocide, this book explores the political constraints and imperatives that motivate debates about genocide in the academic world and, to a lesser extent, in the political arena. The book is an analysis of the ways that political interests shape discourse about genocide. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTZ; JPS; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 229 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114142
- ISBN
- 9780230114142
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.52
€ 67.52
Hardback. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJH; JHB; JNB; JNMT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 203
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114166
- ISBN
- 9780230114166
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.40€ 47.19
€ 53.40
€ 47.19
Hardback. The essays in this book analyze a range of genres and considers geographical areas beyond the Ottoman Empire to deepen our post-Saidian understanding of the complexity of real and imagined "traffic" between England and the "Islamic worlds" it encountered and constructed. Editor(s): McJannet, Linda; Andrea, Bernadette. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDT; 2AB; DSBD; HBJF1; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115422
- ISBN
- 9780230115422
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.23
€ 67.23
Hardback. This is the first transnational study of British, Norwegian, and Swedish engagement with the Antarctic. Rather than charting how Europeans unveiled the Antarctic, it uses the history of Antarctic activity as a window into the political and cultural worlds of twentieth-century Britain and Scandinavia. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 283 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DN; 1MTS; 1QDB; 3JJ; HBJD; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 222 x 22. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115910
- ISBN
- 9780230115910
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.05
€ 128.05
Hardback. This book explores the expectations, experiences, and reactions of Allied servicemen and women who served in the wartime Pacific and viewed the South Pacific through the lens of Hollywood's South Seas. Based on extensive archival research, it explores the intersections between military experiences and cultural history. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1MKP; 3JJH; APF; HBJM; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116566
- ISBN
- 9780230116566
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13