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Hardcover. This book focuses on how the political, cultural, and technical networks within the field of engineering provided the space within which an important professional middle class prospered in the city of Sao Paulo and made lasting contributions to the development of modern Brazil. Num Pages: 287 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; HBTB; JFSG; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 220 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230103023
- ISBN
- 9780230103023
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. This book provides a more accurate and comprehensive account of Jung's controversial opinions about art, politics, and race. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; HBTB; JMAJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 209 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416. Avant-garde Conservative. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. 282 pages. This book provides a more accurate and comprehensive account of Jung's controversial opinions about art, politics, and race. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; HBTB; JMAJ. Dimension: 209 x 147 x 20. Weight: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230102965
- ISBN
- 9780230102965
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.31
€ 67.31
Hardcover. Through a close analysis of key texts and the larger historical contexts within which they were composed, this study explores George Berkeley's engagement with the social and economic threats facing Ireland and Britain, highlighting his belief that virtue and religion could play crucial roles in alleviating these problems. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JF; HBTB; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230102804
- ISBN
- 9780230102804
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Hardcover. In a life full of momentous episodes, Theodore Roosevelt's fifteen-month post-presidential odyssey to Africa and Europe has never been given its due place. A tale of daring adventure, international celebrity, a friendship lost, and a political legacy transformed, Theodore Roosevelt Abroad is the first full account of this important time in history. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; 1K; 3JJ; HBTB; WTL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230102774
- ISBN
- 9780230102774
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.46
€ 59.46
Hardcover. Through a shrewd analysis of the historical experience of imperialism and settler colonialism, Limbrick draws new conclusions about their effect on cinematic production, distribution, reception and filmic discourse. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1MBF; 1MBN; APF; HBTQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 218 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230102644
- ISBN
- 9780230102644
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.23
€ 67.23
Hardcover. This book is a study of the relations between the US and Spain, particularly during the period from 1943 to 1945, when the Roosevelt Administration and the Joint Chiefs of Staff decided to challenge the Pro-Franco Regime, culminating in the Battle of Wolfram and the embargo of petroleum products. Series: The World of the Roosevelt's. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1KBB; 3JJH; HBLW; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230102170
- ISBN
- 9780230102170
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.15
€ 128.15
Hardcover. This book examines women's experiences along the Italian Front during World War I to understand how the war affected cultural ideas about femininity. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJF; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418. Femininity Under Fire in Italy. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. 282 pages, Illustrations, map, ports. This book examines women's experiences along the Italian Front during World War I to understand how the war affected cultural ideas about femininity. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJF; HBTB; JFSJ1. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 19. Weight: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230100404
- ISBN
- 9780230100404
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Hardcover. This book looks at a United States that continues to be driven by racial and cultural divisions, from the disproportionately high number of incarcerated African Americans to heartfelt disagreements over the true nature of marriage and the proper role of faith in public policy. Editor(s): Brooten, Bernadette J. Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Num Pages: 358 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTS; HRA; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230100169
- ISBN
- 9780230100169
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.37
€ 129.37
Hardcover. This book is about redemption for people on the right and left of the political spectrum who can be proud of two politicians, Senator's Barry Goldwater and George McGovern, who demonstrated that defeat can be accepted with decency and honor. Num Pages: 268 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW3; JPL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396. Shifting Party Paradigms. 268 pages, Illustrations, maps. This book is about redemption for people on the right and left of the political spectrum who can be proud of two politicians, Senator's Barry Goldwater and George McGovern, who demonstrated that defeat can be accepted with decency and honor. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW3; JPL. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 18. Weight: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230100039
- ISBN
- 9780230100039
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardcover. Through a study of the readership of the most popular commercial daily newspaper in China during the early twentieth century, Reading Shenbao investigates ideas of nationalism, consumerism and individuality, looking at the relationship between advertising, modern lifestyles and changing social attitudes in China as it underwent modernization. Num Pages: 270 pages, 22 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB; KNTJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438. Nationalism, Consumerism and Individuality in China 1919-37. 272 pages, 29 black & white illustrations, 1 charts. Through a study of the readership of the most popular commercial daily newspaper in China during the early twentieth century, Reading Shenbao investigates ideas of nationalism, consumerism and individuality, looking at the relationship between advertising, modern lifestyles and changing social attitudes in China as it underwent modernization. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB; KNTJ. Dimension: 224 x 136 x 21. Weight: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230019829
- ISBN
- 9780230019829
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.88
€ 127.88
Hardcover. The regime of Primo de Rivera in Spain was one of the major dictatorships of the interwar period. Making Spaniards examines how the military regime created nationalist doctrine, rituals and symbols and how these were transmitted throughout Spanish society in an attempt to 'make' new authoritarian Spaniards and halt democratic reform. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 465.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230019683
- ISBN
- 9780230019683
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardcover. From Dreams to Disillusionment is the first book to cover the planning experiment of the 1960s in full historical detail. Other countries' planners made the approach seem successful, however, the experiment eventually failed, doomed to disappoint given unrealistic expectations, lack of time and an overburdened government. Num Pages: 309 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPK; HBJD1; HBLW3; JP; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 220 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230013476
- ISBN
- 9780230013476
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardcover. This study traces the resurgence of a conservative suffrage leadership, questions the inevitability of the narrow franchise granted to women in 1918, and suggests that something important was lost, especially to the Labour party and to feminism, when a broad vision of democracy and patriotism became a casualty of war, self-interest and jingoism. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230013353
- ISBN
- 9780230013353
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardcover. This study suggests that it was the representation of anxiety, rather than trauma and memory, that emerged most forcefully in mid-century wartime culture. Thinking about anxiety, Lyndsey Stonebridge argues, was a way of imagining how it might be possible to stay within a history that frequently undermined a sense of self and agency. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 184 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSA; DSBH; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 162 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230013278
- ISBN
- 9780230013278
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.38
€ 66.38
Hardcover. This book explores the lives, careers, and social and political activism of a diverse group of women historians in Ireland, contributing to the study of the Irish historical tradition and the study of women historians in an international context. It addresses debates about gender and history, modern Irish historiography and Irish women's history. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBJD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230009042
- ISBN
- 9780230009042
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.26
€ 66.26
Hardcover. This collection gathers many of the best-known names in the field of Anglo-French relations and provides an authoritative survey of the field. Starting with the crucial period of the First World War and ending with the equally complex question of the second Iraq War, the study has an emphasis on British perceptions of the Entente. Editor(s): Capet, Antoine. Series: Studies in Military and Strategic History. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DDF; HBJD1; HBLW; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 147 x 222 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230009028
- ISBN
- 9780230009028
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.77
€ 66.77
Hardcover. An examination of Irish society and politics, providing a wide-ranging introduction to the involvement of the middle classes in Irish political life and the public sphere accrosss the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. Combines analytical surveys and case/area studies to offer new perspectives on crucial movements and figures in Irish history. Editor(s): Lane, Fintan. Num Pages: 306 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke, UK
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230008267
- ISBN
- 9780230008267
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.37
€ 67.37
Hardcover. In the beginning of the 21st century, European theatre-makers have sought to consider the disastrous events of the 20th century as the unfinished business of the contemporary. In this book, Kear argues that by thinking through the logic of the event, contemporary performance offers an affective interrogation of 'the event' of the European century. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; AN; AS; DSG; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230008083
- ISBN
- 9780230008083
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. This interdisciplinary study explores how book culture functioned in the life and milieu of one of the nineteenth century's most complex figures. Spanning the statesman's long life, it presents key case studies illuminating the constant and fundamental interplay between reading, life and politics which characterised Gladstone's world. Num Pages: 346 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 649.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230007659
- ISBN
- 9780230007659
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.04
€ 129.04
Hardcover. Forgotten Lives explores the lives and work of Lenin's sisters, Anna, Ol'ga and Mariia, and the role they played in the Russian Revolution. It traces their early revolutionary careers and contributions to the underground movement, their work for the Party and the State after October 1917, and their relationship with Lenin and Stalin. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 170 x 19. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230007628
- ISBN
- 9780230007628
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04