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Hardcover. Using a transnational approach, this volume surveys the origins of Irish terrorism and its impact on the Anglo-Saxon community during an era of intense imperialism. While at times it posed sharp disagreements between Britain and the United States, their ideological repulsion to terrorism later led to cooperation in counter-terrorism strategies. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 359 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1KBB; HBJD1; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JPS; JPWL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 138 x 223 x 23. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke, UK
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230538122
- ISBN
- 9780230538122
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.57
€ 128.57
Hardcover. Against conventional views of the unchallenged hegemony of a modernizing monarchy, this book argues that power was continuously contested in Riza Shah's Iran. Cronin excavates the successive challenges to Riza Shah's regime posed by a range of subaltern social groups and seeks to restore to these groups a sense of their historical agency. Num Pages: 340 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB; HBW; JPW. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 224 x 134 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540. Opposition, Protest and Revolt, 1921-1941. 344 pages, 13 black & white illustrations. Against conventional views of the unchallenged hegemony of a modernizing monarchy, this book argues that power was continuously contested in Riza Shah's Iran. Cronin excavates the successive challenges to Riza Shah's regime posed by a range of subaltern social groups and seeks to restore to these groups a sense of their historical agency. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 1FBN; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB; HBW; JPW. Dimension: 224 x 134 x 25. Weight: 540.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230537941
- ISBN
- 9780230537941
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.05
€ 129.05
Hardcover. Sets out to explore the history of Palestinian nationalism by asking if there were historical antecedents of this identity prior to the twentieth century, and whether this nationalism existed on every social level. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBP; HBJF1; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230537019
- ISBN
- 9780230537019
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.51
€ 67.51
Hardcover. Stressing the relationship between tsarism's service-state ethos and its utilization of subjects, this study argues that economic and political, rather than judicial or penological, factors primarily conditioned Siberian exile's growth and development. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1FCS; 3JD; 3JF; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230536937
- ISBN
- 9780230536937
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.36
€ 67.36
Hardcover. For millennia, war was viewed as a supreme test. In the period 1750-1850 war became much more than a test: it became a secular revelation. This new understanding of war as revelation completely transformed Western war culture, revolutionizing politics, the personal experience of war, the status of common soldiers, and the tenets of military theory. Num Pages: 401 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBW; JW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 27. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2008th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230536920
- ISBN
- 9780230536920
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 195.45
€ 195.45
Hardcover. This is the first book-length study of the relationship between early modern drama and sacramental ritual and theology. It examines dramatic forms, such as morality plays. Offering new insights into the religious practices on which early modern subjectivity is founded. Coleman offers radical new ways of reading canonical Renaissance plays. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; DSBD; DSG; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230535831
- ISBN
- 9780230535831
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.40
€ 66.40
Hardcover. This book traces the changes in the organization of the British economy following the War of American Independence, which unleashed a political crisis and popular movement in Britain based on demands for 'economical reform'. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; KCP; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230526204
- ISBN
- 9780230526204
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. Examines the political development of Portugal between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. Taking place amid the struggle between Christendom and the Islamic world for control over the Iberian Peninsula, the formation of Portugal also depended on the growing European influence felt throughout the peninsula during these centuries. Num Pages: 340 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSP; 3H; HBJD; HBLC1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 342
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230525610
- ISBN
- 9780230525610
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.73
€ 194.73
Hardcover. Eglantyne Jebb was a teacher, social investigator and founder of the Save the Children Fund. Her 'Declaration of the Rights of the Child', adopted by League of Nations, shows evolution from Charity Organization Society model to philosophy of international mutual responsibility, children's rights and humanitarianism. Num Pages: 303 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JH; HBLL; HBTB; JKSB1; JKSN1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230525603
- ISBN
- 9780230525603
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.48
€ 67.48
Hardcover. Through close examination of dozens of electoral contests in carefully chosen constituencies, the author demonstrates that the fundamental division separating the burgeoning liberal and conservative parties in England in the 1830s and 1840s was religion, and that this controversy was what created a perceptible two-party system in British politics. Series: Studies in Modern History. Num Pages: 311 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230525405
- ISBN
- 9780230525405
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.39
€ 67.39
Hardcover. This new edition offers an extensive editor's introduction, a fully annotated text of the first edition of Vindicia Gallica and an appendix which includes the significant substantive revisions that Mackintosh made to Vindicia Gallica in the late summer of 1791. Editor(s): Garratt, Edmund. Series: Studies in Modern History. Num Pages: 236 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; DNF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230525399
- ISBN
- 9780230525399
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.90
€ 66.90
Hardcover. This volume explores the history of reading in the British Isles during a period in which the printed word became all pervasive. From wealthy readers of 'amatory fiction', through to men and women reading surreptitiously at the Victorian railway bookstall, it argues that a variety of new reading communities emerged during this period. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JF; 3JH; CFC; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 135 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230525382
- ISBN
- 9780230525382
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.88
€ 66.88
Hardcover. This volume provides a lucid, concise analysis of the development of British policy in Southeast Asia in the twenty years following the defeat of Japan. The principal themes concern nationalism and communism and how Britain worked to achieve accommodation with nationalism while containing communist challenges. Series: Global Conflict and Security Since 1945. Num Pages: 324 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBJF; HBLW3; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 149 x 24. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230524873
- ISBN
- 9780230524873
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.51
€ 67.51
Hardcover. This innovative book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Shakespearean theatre, presented in a series of imaginative readings of plays from every period of the playwright's career, from Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Taming of the Shrew to King Lear and The Tempest, mapping a new approach to ideas of the theatre as an institution. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 180 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSBD; DSGS; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230524804
- ISBN
- 9780230524804
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Boys at Sea is a study of homoerotic life in the Royal Navy during the age of sail. The book traces every feature of sexual life at sea, including seduction, rape, prostitution, courts martial, and the punishments meted out to those convicted of violating the stern moral code set down in the Articles of War. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBLL; HBTM; HBW; JFSK2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230522282
- ISBN
- 9780230522282
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.90
€ 127.90
Hardcover. The greatest threat to Western unity in the 1960s came not from a communist enemy but from an ally: France. De Gaulle challenged the dominance of the US by bringing crises to the EEC and NATO and seeking detente with the Soviet bloc. As this book shows, the US and Britain cooperated successfully to ensure that his plans did not prosper. Series: Global Conflict and Security Since 1945. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBG; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 475.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230522176
- ISBN
- 9780230522176
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Voluntary Action and Illegal Drugs: Health and Society in Britain Sinc...
Mold, Alex, Berridge, Virginia
Hardcover. A unique exploration of the changing ideas about the place of voluntarism and health care within society in Britain since the 1960s. By considering the work of voluntary organisations with illegal drug users, the authors provide a lens through which wider developments in the relationship between the state and civil society are examined. Series: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Num Pages: 252 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBLW3; HBTB; JFFH1; JKSN1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230521407
- ISBN
- 9780230521407
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.90
€ 66.90
Hardcover. This work offers a major new interpretation of the Stalin's role in the gestation of the Cold War. Based on important new evidence, Dimitrov reveals Stalin's genuine efforts to preserve his World War II alliance with the US and Britain and to encourage a degree of cooperation between communists and democratic parties in Eastern Europe. Series: Global Conflict and Security Since 1945. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1DVWB; HBJD; HBLW; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 147 x 218 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230521384
- ISBN
- 9780230521384
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.03
€ 67.03
Gender, Labour, War and Empire: Essays on Modern Britain (Genders and ...
Levine, Philippa, Grayzel, Susan R.
Hardcover. A lively collection of essays on the cultures of nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain. Topics range from prostitution and slavery to the effect of war on fashion magazine reporting to inter-racial marriage in the postwar years. Particular areas of focus include the Second World War, its legacies and the reactions to postwar decolonization. Num Pages: 295 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 505.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230521193
- ISBN
- 9780230521193
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.27
€ 67.27
Hardcover. This book examines the Great Exhibition as a decisive moment in the formation of a capitalist world picture. In so doing it foregrounds a vision of peace and progress which took hold of British society, within the Crystal Palace and beyond. It emphasizes too that this Victorian understanding of global order legitimized imperial ambition. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; DSBF; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230520752
- ISBN
- 9780230520752
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.15
€ 67.15