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Paperback. Editor(s): Purtschert, Patricia; Fischer-Tine, Harald. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 345 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 345
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349495207
- ISBN
- 9781349495207
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 160.46
€ 160.46
Paperback. In 1940, the USSR occupied and annexed Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, leading to calls by many that the Soviets had violated international law. This book examines British, US, and Soviet policies toward the Baltic states, placing the true significance of the Baltic question in its proper geopolitical context. Series: The World of the Roosevelt's. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJK; HBL; HBWQ; JPS; JPSD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349495047
- ISBN
- 9781349495047
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Condition: New
€ 66.28
€ 66.28
Paperback. Gossip is one of the most common, and most condemned, forms of discourse in which we engage - even as it is often absorbing and socially significant, it is also widely denigrated. This volume examines fascinating moments in the history of gossip in America, from witchcraft trials to People magazine, helping us to see the subject with new eyes. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBTB; JHB; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349495023
- ISBN
- 9781349495023
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.13
€ 127.13
Paperback. Providing imaginatively contextualized close readings, this study focuses on three key eighteenth-century writers - Haywood, Hill and Fowke. Wilputte traces the development of the passionate language of these writers whose lives, writing careers, and interests intersected from 1720 to 1724 in the "Hillarian" coterie. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HBL; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 249
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349494989
- ISBN
- 9781349494989
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.89
€ 65.89
Paperback. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; DS; HBJD; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349494965
- ISBN
- 9781349494965
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.01
€ 66.01
Paperback. Telling West Indian Lives: Life Narrative and the Reform of Plantation Slavery Cultures 1804-1834 draws historical and literary attention to life story and narration in the late plantation slavery period. Drawing on new archival research, it highlights the ways written narrative shaped evangelical, philanthropic, and antislavery reform projects. Series: New Caribbean Studies. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; HBJK; HBW; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 329.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349494682
- ISBN
- 9781349494682
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.92
€ 65.92
paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJM; HBL; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- SKU
- V9781349494491
- ISBN
- 9781349494491
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.61
€ 66.61
Paperback. Num Pages: 335 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; HBW; JPA; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 335
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349494439
- ISBN
- 9781349494439
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.76
€ 66.76
Paperback. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBJD1; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 329.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349494354
- ISBN
- 9781349494354
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.92
€ 65.92
Paperback. 60 years after independence, African nations still find it difficult to face a number of challenges, from establishing meaningful democratic institutions to establish social structures centered on the advancement of gender equality. This volume approaches these contemporary African challenges while combating a reflexive and facile Afro-Pessimism. Editor(s): Falola, Toyin; Mbah, Emmanuel M. Series: African Histories and Modernities. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJH; HBJK; HBTB; JFC; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 277
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349494132
- ISBN
- 9781349494132
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 138.15
€ 138.15
The Surveillance Imperative: Geosciences during the Cold War and Beyon...
Turchetti, Simone; Roberts, P.
paperback. Surveillance is a key notion for understanding power and control in the modern world, but it has been curiously neglected by historians of science and technology. Using the overarching concept of the "surveillance imperative," this collection of essays offers a new window on the evolution of the environmental sciences during and after the Cold War. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 290 pages, 22 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBL; JPA; PDX; RB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- SKU
- V9781349494071
- ISBN
- 9781349494071
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.66
€ 66.66
Paperback. From the outset, Silvio Berlusconi's career was expected to be short, and he has been considered finished several times, only to have reemerged victorious. This fascinating political and historical study shows that Berlusconi's success and resilience have lain in his ability to provide answers to longstanding questions in Italian history. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTB; JFC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 275.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Number of pages
- 209
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349494057
- ISBN
- 9781349494057
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.58
€ 65.58
Paperback. The 18th-century French leather industry was a strategically important manufacturing sector, one vital to both civilian and military life. This study examines the production of leather in the Bordeaux trades during the 18th and 19th centuries, illuminating the realities of a craft economy and its relation to the wider French political economy. Num Pages: 311 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 401.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Number of pages
- 311
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349493999
- ISBN
- 9781349493999
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.16
€ 127.16
Paperback. Most scholars agree that reading a play is absolutely unlike live performance, but everything else about their relationship beyond this premise has proven contestable. Focusing on the editorial and textual history of Shakespeare, this book navigates these debates by exploring how textual distortions enrich a play's performance potentialities. Series: History of Text Technologies. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; DS; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349493937
- ISBN
- 9781349493937
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.89
€ 65.89
Paperback. This monograph makes clear how the format of the literary folio played a fundamental role in book history by encapsulating the unstable negotiation between commerce, cultural prestige, and the fundamental nature of the printed book. Series: History of Text Technologies. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJD1; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349493913
- ISBN
- 9781349493913
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.89
€ 65.89
Paperback. Traditional histories of war have typically explored masculine narratives of military and political action, leaving private, domestic life relatively unstudied. This volume expands our understanding by looking at the relationships between mothers and children, and the varied roles both have assumed during periods of armed conflict. Editor(s): Phelan, Claire. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; HBW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 359.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349493883
- ISBN
- 9781349493883
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.10
€ 66.10
paperback. This volume explores how international organizations became involved in the making of global development policy, and looks at the driving forces and dynamics behind that process, critically assessing the consequences their policies have had around the world. Editor(s): Frey, M.; Kunkel, S.; Unger, C. R. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; HBG; HBL; JPA; KCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- SKU
- V9781349493845
- ISBN
- 9781349493845
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 116.26
€ 116.26
Paperback. Series: Rhetoric, Politics and Society. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; HBTQ; JPA; JPB; JPVH; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349493746
- ISBN
- 9781349493746
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.22
€ 66.22
Paperback. Although freedom is America's core value, few Americans have a clear idea of what it means or - worse - enjoy much freedom in any of its conventional meanings. Drawing from republican tradition, the book critiques the contemporary American value of freedom as it appears in politics, the economy, and culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349493289
- ISBN
- 9781349493289
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.89
€ 65.89
Paperback. This work explores the reasons for the Allied intervention into Russia at the end of the Great War and examines the military, diplomatic and political chaos that resulted in the failure of the Allies and White Russians to defeat the Bolshevik Revolution. Num Pages: 330 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJ; HBJD; HBJD1; HBJK; HBW; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349493241
- ISBN
- 9781349493241
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 139.14
€ 139.14