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Paperback. This book examines marvels as tangible objects in the literary, courtly, and artisanal cultures of medieval England, but these clever devices, neither wholly semiotic nor purely positivist objects, are imbued with diverse cultural significance that illuminates in new ways the familiar literature of the Ricardian period. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 227 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBG; HBJD; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
227
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349535026
ISBN
9781349535026
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.29

Paperback. This study explores the extraordinary afterlife of the Spanish legend of King Roderick and La Cava in plays, poems, novels and operas from the Eighth century to the present day. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBG; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349534951
ISBN
9781349534951
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.65

Paperback. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; JHB; JNB; PNN; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2006
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349534289
ISBN
9781349534289
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.82
€ 44.11

Paperback. Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This book shows in detail the Enlightenment origin of the US Constitution. It provides vivid analysis of how the Enlightenment's basic ideas were reformulated in the context of America. Editor(s): O'Neill, J.; McDowell, Gary L. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJK; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349533626
ISBN
9781349533626
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.29

Paperback. This book compares shifting formulations of gender, interfaith, and ethnic relations across continents from antiquity to the Nineteenth century. Contributors address three areas: depictions of homosexual and transgendered behaviours, conceptualizations of femininity and masculinity, and the marriageability of ethnic and religious minorities. Series: Religion/Culture/Critique. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HRA; HRAM; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349533473
ISBN
9781349533473
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.82

Paperback. This collection addresses the recent rebirth of interest in immigrant letters. As these letters are increasingly seen as key, rather than incidental, documents in the interpretations of gender, age, social class, and ethnicity/nationality, the scholars gathered here demonstrate a diversity of new approaches to their interpretation. Editor(s): Elliot, B. Num Pages: 325 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: D; HBAH; HBG; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
325
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349532636
ISBN
9781349532636
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 133.13

Paperback. A translation of the important Medieval text. Series: Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBG; HBJD; JFSJ; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349531592
ISBN
9781349531592
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.29

Paperback. Drawing on multi-archival research in Korean, Russian and English, this book looks at the complexity and changes in Stalin's policy toward Korea for answers about the division of Korea in 1945 and the failure of reunification between 1945 and 1948. Lee argues that the trusteeship decision is key to the division's origins and permanency. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJF; HBL; HBTQ; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349531509
ISBN
9781349531509
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.44

Paperback. A study of writings about love in the English Middle Ages. Editor(s): Cooney, Helen. Series: Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBG; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
217
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349530694
ISBN
9781349530694
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.78

Paperback. This book examines the cultural transformations of the Federal Republic of Germany in its second decade since unification. Editor(s): Starkman, Ruth A. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBL; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2006
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349530380
ISBN
9781349530380
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.65

Paperback. Series: Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBG; HBJD1; HBLA; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 275.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2012
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349528875
ISBN
9781349528875
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.01

Paperback. Filling a major gap in historical, literary, and post-colonial scholarship, "Imperialisms" examines the identity statements of the world's major imperialisms in multiple theatres of competition over the course of four centuries. Editor(s): Sauer, Elizabeth; Rajan, Balachandra. Num Pages: 308 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBF; DSBH; DSBH5; HBG; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 389.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349528783
ISBN
9781349528783
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 122.53

Paperback. Based on extensive archival research, "Contesting Empires" looks at the earlier contest of empires in the New World, especially among Spain, France, and England Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; DSB; HBG; HBJD; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 369.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349528196
ISBN
9781349528196
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.29

Paperback. A study of the Ford Foundation's support and of funding of human rights projects and NGOs, illuminating its extraordinary role in helping undermine and destroy major world repressive authoritarian and totalitarian regimes during the latter part of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 315 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJK; HBL; HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
315
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349526581
ISBN
9781349526581
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.09

Paperback. This collection examines the cultural and intellectual dimensions of war and its resolution between Han Chinese and the various ethnically dissimilar peoples surrounding them during the crucial 'middle period' of Chinese history. Editor(s): Wyatt, D. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 307 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBJF; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
307
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349526314
ISBN
9781349526314
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.82
€ 45.32

Paperback. 'The only true history of a country', wrote Thomas Macaulay, 'is to be found in its newspapers'. This book explores how the media shaped and defined the economic, social, political and cultural dynamics of the British Empire by viewing it from the perspective of the colonised as well as the colonisers. Editor(s): Kaul, Chandrika. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; HBTQ; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349525225
ISBN
9781349525225
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 121.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 183 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; MBX; MMK; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
183
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349524204
ISBN
9781349524204
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 121.14

Paperback. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD1; HBL; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
253
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349524150
ISBN
9781349524150
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 121.99

Paperback. This book brings together scholars in the History of Medicine to explore questions of race, gender and power relations in former colonial states across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Pacific. Editor(s): Mahone, Sloan; Vaughan, M. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD1; HBJF; HBTB; MBX; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 379.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349524136
ISBN
9781349524136
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 122.53

Paperback. The technological revolution in shipbuilding in the early twentieth century had a great impact on the military, industrial, commercial worlds. Matsumoto focuses on the relationship between this revolution and the structure and function of 'technology gatekeepers' during the transfer of marine science and technology from Britain to Japan. Series: St Antony's. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJF; HBL; JPA; JPS; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349518975
ISBN
9781349518975
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 120.86

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