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Hardcover. Old Norse texts offer different ideas about what it is to be female, presenting women in diverse social and economic positions. This book analyzes female characters in medieval Icelandic saga literature, and demonstrates how they engaged with some of the most contested values of the period, revealing the anxieties of both the authors and audiences. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DN; 2ACSX; 3F; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 219 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120426
- ISBN
- 9780230120426
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 182.39
€ 182.39
Paperback. A comparative history of the Spanish, Yugoslav and Greek Civil Wars 1936-1949 from the standpoints of politics, socio-economic structures, national questions, international conjunctures and foreign interventions. From the shifting nexus of relations between domestic and international conditions, Minehan explores the similarities and differences. Num Pages: 414 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJ; HBJD; HBW; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 26. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 414
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230117877
- ISBN
- 9780230117877
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.41
€ 67.41
Hardcover. Analyzing a selection of popular British films and stars of post-WWII Britain, Boyce considers the profound anxieties and uncertainties the war had on British life and culture. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJP; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116894
- ISBN
- 9780230116894
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
Hardcover. The first study of the productions of the minor theatres, how they were adapted to appeal to the local patrons and the audiences who worked and lived in these communities. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 319 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JF; 3JH; AN; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116863
- ISBN
- 9780230116863
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.53
€ 67.53
Hardcover. Lojek provides extensive analysis of space in plays by living Irish playwrights, applying practical understandings of staging and the insights of geographers and spatial theorists to drama in an era increasingly aware of space. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115231
- ISBN
- 9780230115231
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.93€ 46.61
€ 52.93
€ 46.61
Hardcover. Examines how the difference between monogenist and polygenist accounts of the origin of the human race was reflected in, and helped to shape, Scottish Enlightenment accounts of society's progress through historical stages. Reveals how concepts of race and the role of women were treated by historians, philosophers, and other thinkers. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114913
- ISBN
- 9780230114913
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.19
€ 150.19
Hardcover. This book examines London's transformation from the mid-Victorian "miracle" of low crime to a high-crime society, treating six different types of misdeed as representative of phases in the evolution of crime to argue that lawbreaking must be explained by connecting all types of offenses to their social and economic contexts. Num Pages: 243 pages, 4 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBTB; JKV; KFFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114906
- ISBN
- 9780230114906
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.85
€ 66.85
Paperback. This book sets out to narrate the contributions to and influence on the history of Chile that British visitors and immigrants have had, not as bystanders but as key players, starting in 1554 with the English Queen 'Bloody Mary' becoming Queen of Chile, and ending with the decline of British influence following the Second World War Num Pages: 288 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KLSH; HBJK; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114838
- ISBN
- 9780230114838
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.93€ 46.61
€ 52.93
€ 46.61
Hardcover. In Hungary, as in all of "new Europe," liberalization is troubled. Using Hungary as an in-depth case study, Korkut demonstrates that, in squandering popular goodwill, credibility, and favorable circumstances after 1989, liberal politicians have found themselves vulnerable to conservative populist politics and the global economic crisis. Series: Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVH; JPFK; JPH; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114593
- ISBN
- 9780230114593
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.90
€ 66.90
Hardcover. From the artistic practice of improvisation to the politics of nationalism, the essays in this volume break new ground and significantly extend our understanding of the relations between British and Italian culture in its analysis of the reception of Dante and Italian literature in British Romanticism. Editor(s): Burwick, Frederick; Douglass, Paul. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 267 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2AB; DSBF; DSC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114487
- ISBN
- 9780230114487
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover. A noteworthy development in recent history has been the disappearance of formal declarations of war. Using primary sources, this book examines the history of declaring war in the early modern era up to the writing of the US Constitution to identify the influence of early modern history on the framing of the Constitution. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; HBW; LBBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114128
- ISBN
- 9780230114128
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.61
€ 66.61
Hardcover. Stoddard uses the Anglophone Caribbean and Ireland to examine the complex inflections of women and race as articulated in-between the colonial discursive and material formations of the eighteenth century and those of the (post)colonial twentieth century, as structured by the defined spaces of the colonizers' estates. Series: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1KJ; HBTB; HBTQ; HBTR; JFSJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113725
- ISBN
- 9780230113725
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.03
€ 67.03
Hardcover. Examining the work of impresarios, financiers, and the press as well as the artists themselves, Hohman demonstrates how a variety of Russian theatrical styles were introduced and incorporated into American theatre and dance during the beginning of the twentieth century. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; AN; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113688
- ISBN
- 9780230113688
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.93€ 46.85
€ 52.93
€ 46.85
Hardcover. In most contemporary historical writing the picture of modern life in Habsburg Central Europe is a gloomy story of the failure of rationalism and the rise of protofascist movements. This book tells a different story, focusing on the Czech writers and artists distinguished by their optimistic view of the world in the years before WWI. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 276 pages, 15 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVK; 2AGZ; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; DSBH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 24. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113626
- ISBN
- 9780230113626
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This is the first book to be primarily directed at analyzing the evolving solution to the Kurdish problem in Iraq and Turkey. Although this solution remains cautiously fragile, it does represent a strikingly positive future that until recently seemed so bleak. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 1FBQ; JPA; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 179
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112872
- ISBN
- 9780230112872
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.18
€ 66.18
Hardcover. This book is an innovative study offering the first examination of how three fourteenth-century English queens, Margaret of France, Isabella of France, and Philippa of Hainault, exercised power and authority. It frames its analysis around four major themes: gender; status; the concept of the crown; and power and authority. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112858
- ISBN
- 9780230112858
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.92
€ 149.92
Hardcover. William Edmundson examines the spectacular life story of 'Colonel' John Thomas North, also known as 'The Nitrate King,' a mechanic in Leeds who became one of the best-known and richest men of his time. Forgotten in Britain and vilified in Chile and Peru, this is the first biography of a controversial but compelling figure. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 217 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYK; 1KLSH; 3JH; BGB; BGH; HBTK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1ST
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112803
- ISBN
- 9780230112803
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.61
€ 66.61
Hardcover. A fresh perspective on the history of Russian liberalism through the life and work of Alexander Kunitsyn, a teacher and philosopher of natural law, whose academic and journalistic writings contributed to the dissemination of Western liberal thought among the Russian public. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 151 x 26. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230111738
- ISBN
- 9780230111738
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Paperback. The papacy of Pius XII (1939-1958) has been a source of near-constant criticism and debate since his death, particularly because of his alleged silence during the Holocaust. Paul O'Shea examines his little-studied pre-papal life to demonstrate that Pius was neither an anti-Semitic villain nor a 'lamb without stain.' Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSV; 3JJ; HBTZ1; HRCC7; HRJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 151 x 15. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110809
- ISBN
- 9780230110809
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 138.78
€ 138.78
Hardcover. The papacy of Pius XII (1939-1958) has been a source of near-constant criticism and debate since his death, particularly because of his alleged silence during the Holocaust. Paul O'Shea examines his little-studied pre-papal life to demonstrate that Pius was neither an anti-Semitic villain nor a 'lamb without stain.' Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSV; 3JJ; HBTZ1; HRCC7; HRJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110793
- ISBN
- 9780230110793
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.65
€ 128.65