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Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333630419
ISBN
9780333630419
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.41

Hardcover. The abolition of slavery across large parts of the world was one of the most significant transformations in the nineteenth century, shaping economies, societies, and political institutions. This book shows how the international context was essential in shaping the abolition of slavery. Editor(s): Mulligan, William; Bric, Maurice J. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBG; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137032591
ISBN
9781137032591
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.70

Hardcover. This groundbreaking volume examines the transnational dimensions of Black Power - how Black Power thinkers and activists drew on foreign movements and vice versa how individuals and groups in other parts of the world interpreted 'Black Power,' from African liberation movements to anti-caste agitation in India to indigenous protests in New Zealand. Editor(s): Slate, Nico. Series: Contemporary Black History. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 477.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137285058
ISBN
9781137285058
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.93

Paperback. This groundbreaking volume examines the transnational dimensions of Black Power - how Black Power thinkers and activists drew on foreign movements and vice versa how individuals and groups in other parts of the world interpreted 'Black Power,' from African liberation movements to anti-caste agitation in India to indigenous protests in New Zealand. Editor(s): Slate, Nico. Series: Contemporary Black History. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 13. Weight in Grams: 362.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
y First edition
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137285065
ISBN
9781137285065
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 149.83

Hardcover. Mass Dictatorship and Modernity is the second volume in the 'Mass Dictatorship' series. A transnational, academic research venture, it interrogates mass dictatorship in a broad historical context, focusing on the emergence of modernity through interactions of center and periphery, empire and colony, and democracy and dictatorship on a global scale. Editor(s): Kim, Michael; Schoenhals, Michael; Kim, Yong-Woo. Series: Mass Dictatorship in the Twentieth Century. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBG; HBLW; HBTB; JPHX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 216 x 23. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137304322
ISBN
9781137304322
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.33

Hardcover. This book explains the causes and consequences of the intersection of two transformative global forces - trade and conflict - since 1500. The nine historical case studies - interspersed over 500 years and spanning the globe - make a major historical contribution to the enduring debate about whether trade makes peace more likely. Editor(s): Coppolaro, Lucia; McKenzie, Francine. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3J; GTJ; HBG; HBTK; KCLT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137326829
ISBN
9781137326829
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.84

Hardcover. This groundbreaking collection explores the key roles that Mediterranean queens played as wives, as mothers, and above all as political actors. Ranging from Byzantine empresses to regnants and consorts in the Italian peninsula, they offer a bracing new perspective queenship in the medieval and Early Modern eras. Editor(s): Woodacre, Elena. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QRM; HBG; HBLC1; HBLH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137362827
ISBN
9781137362827
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.83

Hardcover. This rich and varied collection of essays by scholars and interviews with artists approaches the fraught topic of book destruction from a new angle, setting out an alternative history of the cutting, burning, pulping, defacing and tearing of books from the medieval period to our own age. Editor(s): Smyth, Adam; Partington, Gillian. Series: New Directions in Book History. Num Pages: 232 pages, 22 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137367655
ISBN
9781137367655
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.64

Hardcover. Despite the claims of Steven Pinker and others, violence has remained a historical constant since the Enlightenment, even though its forms and visibility have been radically transformed. Accordingly, the studies gathered here recast debate over violence in modern societies by undermining teleological and reassuring narratives of progress. Editor(s): Martschukat, Jurgen; Niedermeier, Silvan. Num Pages: 318 pages, 21 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 518.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137378682
ISBN
9781137378682
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.24

Hardcover. The book brings together original, state-of-the-art historical research from several continents and examines how mainly local peasant societies responded to colonial pressures to produce a range of different commodities. It offers new directions in the study of African, Asian, Caribbean, and Latin American societies. Editor(s): Hazareesingh, Sandip; Maat, Harro. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 232 pages, 10 figures, 4 tables. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137381095
ISBN
9781137381095
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.52

Hardcover. This book explores centuries of power relations and imperial and civilizing rhetorics, overarching themes highlighted in these infrequently heard accounts by eastern travelers to the West. Considered in depth are evolutions in mental frameworks and practices that led to the emergence of anticolonial consciousness and strategies of protest. Editor(s): Richards, Anne Rypstat, PhD; Omidvar, Iraj. Series: Postcolonialism and Religions. Num Pages: 326 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 216 x 24. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137405012
ISBN
9781137405012
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.09

Hardcover. This collection explores the ways in which traumatic experience becomes a part of public memory. It explores the premise that traumatic events are realities; they happen in the world, not in the fantasy life of individuals or in the narrative frames of our televisions and cinemas. Editor(s): Goodall, Jane; Lee, Christopher. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JFFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137406798
ISBN
9781137406798
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.00

Hardcover. Childhood, Youth and Emotions in Modern History is the first book to innovatively combine the history of childhood and youth with the history of emotions, combining multiple national, colonial, and global perspectives. Editor(s): Olsen, Stephanie. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions. Num Pages: 280 pages, 10 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: GTJ; HBG; JFSP1; JMQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137484833
ISBN
9781137484833
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.23

Hardcover. This is a lively and erudite collection, unusual in an especially appealing way: not only are there essays about a range of queens and how they were represented in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, but the book contains modern poetry and short plays about these same queens, allowing a multi-faceted way of understanding and appreciating them. Editor(s): Levin, Carole. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DQ; DSB; HBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 23. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137534897
ISBN
9781137534897
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.38

Hardcover. This interdisciplinary work presents essays on disease and medicine in the Indian Ocean World, spanning over a millennium. It is the first work on medical history in the region. Themes include medical theory, concepts of fertility, material culture, healing, diplomacy, and colonialism, public health, slavery, migrant labour, and medicine. Editor(s): Winterbottom, Anna; Tesfaye, Facil. Series: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HS; 3H; 3JB; HBG; HBLC1; HBLH; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137567604
ISBN
9781137567604
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.14

Hardcover. This interdisciplinary work presents essays on disease, medicine, and healing in the Indian Ocean World. It is the first work on medical history in the region. Themes include medical theory, concepts of fertility, material culture, healing, diplomacy, and colonialism, public health, slavery, migrant labour, and medicine. Editor(s): Winterbottom, Anna. Series: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies. Num Pages: 296 pages, 4 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1HS; 3H; 3JB; HBG; HBLC1; HBLH; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 492.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137567611
ISBN
9781137567611
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.89

Hardcover. Editor(s): Hughes-Warrington, Marnie. Series: Palgrave Advances. Num Pages: 286 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403912770
ISBN
9781403912770
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.03

Hardcover. Editor(s): Sauer, Elizabeth; Rajan, Balachandra. Num Pages: 308 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; HBG; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403965202
ISBN
9781403965202
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.09

Hardcover. Editor(s): Hayes-Healy, Stephanie. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 311 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3H; DSB; HBG; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 482.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403969163
ISBN
9781403969163
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.53

Hardcover. Editor(s): Hayes-Healy, Stephanie. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 309 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3H; DSB; HBG; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 165 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403969170
ISBN
9781403969170
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.39

Hardcover. The Basic Environmental History Editor(s): Agnoletti, Mauro; Serneri, Simone Neri. Series: Environmental History Series. Num Pages: 253 pages, 21 black & white illustrations, 13 colour illustrations, 2 black & white tables, biograph. BIC Classification: HBG; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 15. Weight in Grams: 534.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Springer
Edition
2014th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319091792
ISBN
9783319091792
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 205.91

Paperback / so. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: HBG; JNU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 5. Weight in Grams: 118.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1915
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Condition
New
SKU
V9783642941191
ISBN
9783642941191
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 70.34

Paperback. "Bisaha provides the most comprehensive and nuanced account now available of the attitudes of Western intellectuals to the Turks, the Byzantines, and crusading in Renaissance Italy, an important time and place for the formation of Western cultural identity."-James Hankins, Harvard University Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812219760
ISBN
9780812219760
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

Paperback. Editor(s): Green, Nancy L.; Waldinger, Roger. Series: Studies of World Migrations. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; JFFN; JFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 432.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252081903
ISBN
9780252081903
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

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