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Hardback. This volume reveals the complicated ways in which British and American media have influenced each other over the past two centuries. In doing so, it adds an important transatlantic dimension to media scholarship, while demonstrating the crucial and varied ways in which media have helped build an Anglo-American 'special relationship'. Num Pages: 321 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 25. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 321
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230521254
- ISBN
- 9780230521254
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.04
€ 68.04
The Chinese in Britain, 1800- Present. Economy, Transnationalism, Iden...
Benton, Gregor; Gomez, Edmund Terence
Hardback. This study points up the complex interplay of ethnic and national identities in the lives of Chinese in Britain, arguing that transnational studies reinforce essentialist conceptions of identity and cultural authenticity in diasporic communities, and thus frustrate the promotion of ethnic co-existence and social cohesion in multi-ethnic societies. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 485 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBJF; HBLW; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 33. Weight in Grams: 797.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 485
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230522299
- ISBN
- 9780230522299
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.03
€ 130.03
Hardback. An international collection of papers focused on media, culture and society in postcommunist Russia. Contributors deploy a wealth of primary data in examining the kinds of issues that are central to our understanding of the kind of system that has been established in the world's largest country after a period of far-reaching change. Editor(s): White, Stephen. Series: Studies in Central and Eastern Europe. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; HBLW3; JFC; JFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230524859
- ISBN
- 9780230524859
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Hardcover. In this significant intervention into the academic and institutional debate on European cultural identity, Monica Sassatelli examines the identity-building intentions and effects of the European Capital of Culture programme, and also looks at the work of the Council of Europe and the recent European Landscape Convention. Num Pages: 247 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; GTB; HBJD; HBTB; JFC; JFFS; JPSN2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230537422
- ISBN
- 9780230537422
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.66
€ 127.66
Hardback. Examines the controversial establishment of the first Anglican Church in Boston in 1686, and how later, political leaders John Adams, Samuel Adams, and John Wilkes exploited the disputes as political dynamite together with taxation, trade, and the quartering of troops: topics which John Adams later recalled as causes of the American Revolution. Series: Studies in Modern History. Num Pages: 345 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HRCC91. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 140 x 224 x 25. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 345
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230542976
- ISBN
- 9780230542976
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.36
€ 151.36
Hardback. This is the first comprehensive account of the diversity and complexity of censorship practices in Italy under the Fascist dictatorship. Through archival material it shows how practices of censorship were used to effect regime change, to measure and to shape public opinion, behaviour and attitudes in the twenty years of Mussolini's dictatorship. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; JFMD. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230543089
- ISBN
- 9780230543089
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Hardback. The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars affected millions of people's lives across Europe and beyond. Yet the extent to which the constant warfare of the period 1792-1815 shaped everyday experience has been little studied. This volume of essays discusses the formative experience of these wars for men and women, as soldiers, citizens and civilians. Editor(s): Forrest, Alan I.; Hagemann, Karen; Rendall, Jane. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBWH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230545342
- ISBN
- 9780230545342
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.03
€ 128.03
Hardback. In this innovative and original collection, people are seen as active agents in the development of new ways of understanding the past and creating histories for the present. Chapters explore forms of public history in which people's experience and understanding of their personal, national and local pasts are part of their current lives. Editor(s): Ashton, Paul; Kean, Hilda. Num Pages: 323 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBA; HBAH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 323
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230546691
- ISBN
- 9780230546691
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.44
€ 128.44
Hardback. This is a volume of scholarly essays that considers the meaning of Europe by examining aspects of Central European history as well as issues dealing with the EU's enlargement into Central Europe. These factors contribute to ideas of a definition of Europe that reflects the values and aspirations of all its citizens. Editor(s): Kirschbaum, Stanislav J. Series: Studies in Central and Eastern Europe. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; JPA; JPSN2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230549371
- ISBN
- 9780230549371
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Hardback. A history of 1950s and 1960s British political culture, Redefining British Politics interrogates ideas, movements and identities bordering social and political change: consumer organisations; campaigns about TV, morality and culture; Young Conservatism; and how party politics used media like TV and was represented in popular culture. Num Pages: 288 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPK; HBJD1; HBLW3; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230551244
- ISBN
- 9780230551244
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.77
€ 67.77
Ordinary People as Mass Murderers: Perpetrators in Comparative Perspec...
. Ed(S): Jensen, Olaf; Szejnmann, Claus-Chris...
hardcover. Since the 1990s scholars have focused heavily on the perpetrators of the Holocaust, and have presented a complex and diverse picture of perpetrators. This book provides a unique overview of the current state of research on perpetrators. The overall focus is on the key question that it still disputed: How do ordinary people become mass murderers? Editor(s): Jensen, Olaf; Szejnmann, Claus-Christian W. Series: The Holocaust and its Contexts. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 465.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2008th Edition
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230552029
- ISBN
- 9780230552029
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Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardback. This work offers the first full-length study of the only armed rebellion in Elizabethan England. Addressing recent scholarship on the Reformation and popular politics, it highlights the religious motivations of the rebel rank and file, the rebellion's afterlife in Scotland, and the deadly consequences suffered in its aftermath. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230553194
- ISBN
- 9780230553194
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.78
€ 127.78
Hardback. The Mass Image situates the creation of the first photographically illustrated magazines within the social relations of the emerging popular culture of late Victorian London. It demonstrates how photomechanical reproduction allowed the illustrated press to envisage modern life on a much more intense scale than ever before. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JH; AJCR; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 148 x 226 x 23. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230553279
- ISBN
- 9780230553279
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.44
€ 128.44
Hardback. This provocative new work examines the years between the Nazi book fires and the publication of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 (1953), a period when book burning captured the popular imagination. It explores how embedded the myths of book burning have become in our cultural history, and illustrates the enduring appeal of a great cleansing bonfire. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 166 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230553286
- ISBN
- 9780230553286
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.99
€ 55.99
Hardback. Men -- as accused witches, witch-hunters, werewolves and the demonically possessed -- are the focus of analysis in this collection of essays by leading scholars of early modern European witchcraft. The gendering of witch persecution and witchcraft belief is explored through original case-studies from England, Scotland, Italy, Germany and France. Editor(s): Rowlands, Alison. Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Num Pages: 270 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLH; HRQX5. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230553293
- ISBN
- 9780230553293
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 183.29
€ 183.29
Hardback. Examines the evolution of the modern Afghan state in the shadow of Britain's imperial presence in South Asia during the first half of the nineteenth century, and challenges the staid assumptions that the Afghans were little more than pawns in a larger Anglo-Russian imperial rivalry known as the 'Great Game'. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 3JH; HBJF1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 505.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 277
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230554214
- ISBN
- 9780230554214
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.28
€ 67.28
Hardback. The first study of how Genevan Etienne Dumont, and his traumatic experience of the French Revolution, shaped the reception and presentation of 'Benthamism' and masked the true face of Jeremy Bentham, one of the architects of modern society who visualised a new world based on the values of transparency, accountability, and economy. Num Pages: 454 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; JPA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 454
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230554221
- ISBN
- 9780230554221
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.57
€ 68.57
Hardback. This new study demonstrates the precision of Bronte's historical setting of Jane Eyre. Thomas addresses the historical worlding of Bronte and her characters, mapping relations of genre and gender across the novel's articulation of questions of imperial history and relations, reform, racialization and the making of Englishness. Num Pages: 181 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 181
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230554252
- ISBN
- 9780230554252
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Presenting a communicational perspective on the British empire in India during the 20th century, the book seeks to examine how, and explain why, British proconsuls, civil servants and even the monarch George V, as well as Indian nationalists, interacted with the media, primarily British and American, and with what consequences. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14 figures, 2 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FKA; 3JJ; GTC; HBJQ; HBLW; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230572584
- ISBN
- 9780230572584
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Saint-Simonians were a group of young engineers and doctors who proposed original solutions to the social and banking crises of the early nineteenth century. Through an examination of the lives, ideals and activities of these men and women, the book analyses the influence of the Saint-Simonians on nineteenth-century French society. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 maps, 6 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230574731
- ISBN
- 9780230574731
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76