History
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History
Hardcover. EPUB Series: Studies in Modern History. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; JPA; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230297777
- ISBN
- 9780230297777
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.29
€ 67.29
Hardcover. Missionary Discourse examines missionary writings from India and southern Africa to explore colonial discourses about race, religion, gender and culture. The book is organised around three themes: family, sickness and violence, which were key areas of missionary concern, and important axes around which colonial difference was forged. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDB; 3JH; HBLL; HBTQ; HRCX7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 136 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230296800
- ISBN
- 9780230296800
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.51
€ 67.51
The Chinese in Britain, 1800 - Present: Economy, Transnationalism, Ide...
Benton, Gregor, Gomez, Edmund Terence
Paperback. 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: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 140 x 215 x 31. Weight in Grams: 634.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230296411
- ISBN
- 9780230296411
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 141.30
€ 141.30
Hardcover. An analysis of Cuba's history from a British diplomatic perspective during the period of US political and economic domination, from 1898 to 1964. It investigates how Britain attempted to protect its trade and other interests in the island, whilst always sensitive to the reactions of its most important ally, the United States. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; JPSD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230295445
- ISBN
- 9780230295445
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.37
€ 67.37
Moving Histories of Class and Community: Identity, Place and Belonging...
Rogaly, Ben, Taylor, Becky
Paperback. A major new study of white working class Britain since 1930, that shows how meanings of poverty have changed over time and how individuals reject categorization by the state. This book challenges accepted wisdom on the white working class, providing new understandings of community, place and class, arguing for the importance of migration. Series: Identity Studies in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 264 pages, 2 figures, 2 maps, 4 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JJ; 3JMC; HBTB; HBTD; JFSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230295384
- ISBN
- 9780230295384
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.90
€ 66.90
Paperback. This work focuses on the ideological intertwining between Czech, Magyar, Polish and Slovak, and the corresponding nationalisms steeped in these languages. The analysis is set against the earlier political and ideological history of these languages, and the panorama of the emergence and political uses of other languages of the region. Num Pages: 1168 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DV; CFB; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 159 x 55. Weight in Grams: 1512.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 1168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230294738
- ISBN
- 9780230294738
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 204.39
€ 204.39
Hardcover. The story of how the concept of a pantheon, a building honouring great individuals, spread across Revolutionary Europe and interacted with socio-political and cultural changes. Analysing the canon and iconography of each pantheon, Bouwers shows how the commemoration of war and celebration of nationhood gave way to the protection of elite interests. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 340 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 219 x 24. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230294714
- ISBN
- 9780230294714
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.44
€ 68.44
Hardcover. This book represents the first investigation of Scottish witchcraft post-1662, the period of supposed decline of such beliefs and coinciding with the dawn of the Scottish Enlightenment. It explores the changing attitudes and diversity of opinions towards witch belief, the interface between folk conceptions and the philosophies of the learned. Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Num Pages: 382 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; HRA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230294387
- ISBN
- 9780230294387
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.25
€ 152.25
Hardcover. The Paper War and the Development of Anglo-American Nationalisms, 1800-1825 offers fresh insight into the evolution of British and American nationalisms, the maturation of apologetics for slavery, and the early development of anti-Americanism, from approximately 1800 to 1830. Series: Britain and the World. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JH; HBJD1; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230294325
- ISBN
- 9780230294325
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.05
€ 67.05
Hardcover. Using newly-discovered documentation from the French military archives, A History of Violence in the Early Algerian Colony offers a comprehensive study of the forms of violence adopted by the French Army in Africa. Its coverage ranges from detailed case studies of massacres to the question of whether a genocide took place in Algeria. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1HBA; 3JH; HBJH; HBLL; HBTQ; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230294318
- ISBN
- 9780230294318
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.84
€ 67.84
Hardcover. A repositioning of French women's struggle for suffrage within the distinct cultural landscape of the masculine honour system. Whether activists demanded admission to the popular ritual of the duel or publicly shamed men for their extramarital sexual behaviour, they appropriated extralegal honour codes to enact new civic and familial identities. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 319 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230294035
- ISBN
- 9780230294035
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.99
€ 129.99
Hardcover. Over the long eighteenth century English governance was transformed by large adjustments to the legal instruments and processes of power. This book documents and analyzes these shifts and focuses upon the changing relations between legal authority and the English people. Series: Studies in Modern History. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; JPQB; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 165 x 22. Weight in Grams: 564.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230293014
- ISBN
- 9780230293014
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.91
€ 68.91
Hardcover. Using south-western England as a focus for considering the continued place of witchcraft and demonology in provincial culture in the period between the English and French revolutions, Barry shows how witch-beliefs were intricately woven into the fabric of daily life, even at a time when they arguably ceased to be of interest to the educated. Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Num Pages: 383 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKEW; 3JD; 3JF; HBJD1; HBTB; HRQX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 28. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230292260
- ISBN
- 9780230292260
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.04
€ 164.04
Paperback. Part of Palgrave's Modernism and.. series, Modernism and Zionism explores the relationship between modernism and the Jewish national ideology, the Zionist movement, which was operative in all areas of Jewish art and culture. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HBTB; JPFN; JPFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 131 x 13. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230290129
- ISBN
- 9780230290129
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardcover. Part of Palgrave's Modernism and.. series, Modernism and Zionism explores the relationship between modernism and the Jewish national ideology, the Zionist movement, which was operative in all areas of Jewish art and culture. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HBTB; JPFN; JPFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230290112
- ISBN
- 9780230290112
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Discourses of Olympism: From the Sorbonne 1894 to London 2012 (Global ...
Chatziefstathiou, Dikaia, Henry, Ian P.
Hardcover. This book evaluates the moral project of Olympism, analzying the changing value positions adopted in relation to the ideology of Olympism across the period from the 1890s to the present day. The book also analyzes discourses of Olympism concerned with youth, governance, sport for development and international relations. Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 313 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; HPS; JHBS; WSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 23. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230289574
- ISBN
- 9780230289574
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.70
€ 151.70
Hardcover. Anne Fuchs traces the aftermath of the Dresden bombing in the collective imagination from 1945 to today. As a case study of an event that gained local, national and global iconicity, the book investigates the role of photography, fine art, architecture, literature and film in dialogue with the changing German socio-political landscape. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 301 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJP; 3JMC; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 22. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230285811
- ISBN
- 9780230285811
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.81
€ 140.81
Hardcover. This book explores the ways in which Ayurveda, the oldest medical tradition of the Indian subcontinent, was transformed from a composite of 'ancient' medical knowledge into a 'modern' medical system, suited to the demands posed by apparatuses of health developed in late colonial India. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJ; HBTB; HBTQ; MBP; MX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230284555
- ISBN
- 9780230284555
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.57
€ 67.57
Hardcover. Between 1919 and 1939, crime received a prominent place on the international public agenda. This book explores the blueprint for twenty-first century international crime prevention - The League of Nations approach - which established institutions for confronting dangerous drugs, traffic in women and terrorist violence. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJG; HBLW; HBTB; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 193 x 20. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230284296
- ISBN
- 9780230284296
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.41
€ 67.41
Hardcover. This book charts the social and cultural history of the scientific technique known as 'tissue culture'. It shows how tissue culture was a regular public presence in twentieth-century Britain, and argues that history can contribute to current debates surrounding research on human and animal tissue. Series: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230284272
- ISBN
- 9780230284272
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.39
€ 67.39
Hardcover. The first account of the emergence and demise of preventive health care for workers. It explores how trade unions, employers, doctors and the government reconfigured the relationship between health, productivity and the factory over the course of the twentieth century within a broader political, industrial and social context. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; HBTB; HBTK; KNXC; MBNH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230283718
- ISBN
- 9780230283718
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.91
€ 67.91
Bodies, Sex and Desire from the Renaissance to the Present (Genders an...
Fisher, Kate, Toulalan, Sarah
Hardcover. An examination of how bodies and sexualities have been constructed, categorised, represented, diagnosed, experienced and subverted from the fifteenth to the early twenty-first century. It draws attention to continuities in thinking about bodies and sex: concept may have changed, but hey nevertheless draw on older ideas and language. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSJ; JMU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230283688
- ISBN
- 9780230283688
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.79
€ 67.79
Hardcover. Divided into three sections on cosmetics, clothes and hairstyling, this book explores how early modern women regarded beauty culture and in what ways skin, clothes and hair could be used to represent racial, class and gender identities, and to convey political, religious and philosophical ideals. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; DSBD; HBLH; JFCD; JFCK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230282858
- ISBN
- 9780230282858
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.73
€ 67.73
Hardcover. An exploration of the 1932 prison riot in Dartmoor Convict Prison. One of the most notorious and destructive in English prison history, it received unprecedented public and media attention. This book examines the causes, events and consequences to shed new light on prison cultures and violence as well as penal policy and public attitudes. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JJG; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB; JKVP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230282186
- ISBN
- 9780230282186
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09