History: earliest times to present day
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History: earliest times to present day
Paperback. This book is an interdisciplinary anthology of essays including articles on such queen regnants as Mary I and Elizabeth I, and queen consorts such as Anne Boleyn, Anna of Denmark, and Henrietta Maria. Editor(s): Levin, Carole; Barrett-Graves, Debra; Carney, Ms Jo Eldridge. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230621183
- ISBN
- 9780230621183
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. Examines a range of texts commemorating European holy women from the ninth through fifteenth centuries. Explores the relationship between memorial practices and identity formation. Draws upon much of the recent scholarly interest in the nature and uses of memory. Editor(s): Cotter-Lynch, Margaret; Herzog, Brad. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBLC1; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619869
- ISBN
- 9780230619869
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.23
€ 67.23
Hardcover. These essays recover the lively discussions on the topics of 'magnificence' and 'the sublime' in the art and literature of antiquity, the Renaissance, and the ages following, and apply them to the Middle Ages to draw exciting new conlcusions. Editor(s): Jaeger, Stephen. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 320 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBLC1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 210 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460. Art, Architecture, Literature, Music. Series: New Middle Ages. 320 pages, Illustrations. Editor(s): Jaeger, Stephen. These essays recover the lively discussions on the topics of 'magnificence' and 'the sublime' in the art and literature of antiquity, the Renaissance, and the ages following, and apply them to the Middle Ages to draw exciting new conlcusions. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBLC1. Dimension: 210 x 146 x 20. Weight: 460.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618985
- ISBN
- 9780230618985
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.38
€ 150.38
Hardcover. This book brings together a selection of recent, cutting-edge research which, for the first time, challenges commonplace arguments about Mary and Elizabeth's relative successes or failures in order to rethink Tudor queenship. Editor(s): Whitelock, Anna; Hunt, Alice. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 282 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 504.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618237
- ISBN
- 9780230618237
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.70
€ 139.70
Hardcover. This collection seeks to move noncombatant perspectives to center stage, acknowledging their importance, destabilizing the primacy of the combatant, and explaining or undermining the staging of warfare as a singular and acontextual production. Editor(s): Abbenhuis, Maartje M.; Buttsworth, Sara. Num Pages: 240 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW; JW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230612662
- ISBN
- 9780230612662
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Hardcover. This book investigates the methods used by the Bush Administration to control bureaucratic agencies, including executive orders, signing directives, political appointments, and others, as well as the effects those methods have had on agency outputs. Editor(s): Provost, Colin; Teske, Paul. Series: The Evolving American Presidency. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JMC; HBJK; HBLX; JPHL; JPQB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 164 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230609549
- ISBN
- 9780230609549
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.28
€ 67.28
Hardcover. Taking the Jewish community as a focal point, this book thoroughly explores the various 'borders' - geographical divides, religious affiliations, gender boundaries, genre divisions - that ruled the lives and intellectual production of late medieval Jews. Editor(s): Alfonso, Maria Esperanza; Caballero-Navas, Carmen. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 318 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBLC1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 548.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230608337
- ISBN
- 9780230608337
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.79
€ 67.79
Hardcover. This volume offers a cultural, aesthetic, and critical reappraisal of German 'rubble films' produced in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War and constructs their meaning in a historical context. Editor(s): Wilms, Wilfried; Rasch, William. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 230 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 149 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230608252
- ISBN
- 9780230608252
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardcover. A defining work in the "Inner Emigration" literary movement, Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen's History of the Munster Anabaptists was written in 1937 as a criticism of the Nazi regime. This English translation includes documents, scholarly essays, and a detailed introduction. Editor(s): Lippe, George von der; Reck-Malleczewen, Viktoria. Num Pages: 221 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230605473
- ISBN
- 9780230605473
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.87
€ 149.87
Hardcover. This collection of essays offers a fresh perspective on the definition and origins of terrorism, broadening the field to include slave revolts and urban tensions, and considering how the "war on terrorism" had already matured by 1870 as a way to justify often bloody campaigns against labor unions, nationalist freedom fighters, and reformers. Editor(s): Land, Isaac. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230604599
- ISBN
- 9780230604599
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.47
€ 67.47
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230603028
- ISBN
- 9780230603028
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.76
€ 150.76
Hardcover. This book introduces Africana Cultures and Policy Studies as an interdisciplinary field of study, rooted in the historical experience of people of African descent and focusing on policy development, anlaysis, and practical application. Editor(s): Williams, Zachery. Series: Contemporary Black History. Num Pages: 292 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLW; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230602809
- ISBN
- 9780230602809
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.83
€ 67.83
Hardcover. This collection of essays focuses attention on how medieval gender intersects with other categories of difference, particularly religion and ethnicity. It treats the period c.800-1500, with a particular focus on the era of the Gregorian reform movement, the First Crusade, and its linked attacks on Jews at home. Editor(s): Beattie, Cordelia; Fenton, Kirsten A. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLC1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230579927
- ISBN
- 9780230579927
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Hardcover. This innovative book draws together literature, law and economic and social history to investigate the meanings and uses of legitimacy in nineteenth-century Britain. This broad range of essays highlights the ways in which contested narratives and interested performances shaped the idea of legitimate authority during this period. Editor(s): Finn, Margot; Lobban, Michael; Taylor, Jenny Bourne. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230576520
- ISBN
- 9780230576520
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Hardcover. Explores the uncalculated and incalculable elements in historical re-enactment - unexpected emotions, unplanned developments - and locates them in countries where settlers were trying to establish national identities derived from metropolitan cultures inevitably affected by the land itself and the people who had been there before them. Editor(s): Agnew, Vanessa; Lamb, Jonathan. Series: Re-Enactment History. Num Pages: 352 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ASZ; HBG; HBLL; HBTB; JFS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230576063
- ISBN
- 9780230576063
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.56
€ 128.56
Hardcover. A fascinating glimpse into the history of sexual perversions and diversions including fetishism, cross-dressing, 'effeminate' men and 'masculinized' women, sodomy, tribadism, masturbation, necrophilia, rape, paedophilia, flagellation, and sado-masochism, asking how these sexual inclinations were viewed at a particular time in history. Editor(s): Peakman, Julie. Num Pages: 305 pages, 24 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLL; HBTB; JHBK5; JMU. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230555105
- ISBN
- 9780230555105
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.95
€ 67.95
Hardcover. Women in Russian Culture and Society, 1700-1825 is a collection of essays by leading researchers shedding new light on women as writers, actresses, nuns and missionaries. It illuminates the lives of merchant and serf women as well as noblewomen and focuses on women's culture in Russia during this period. Editor(s): Rosslyn, Wendy; Tosi, Alessandra. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 168 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230553231
- ISBN
- 9780230553231
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover. Tracing sexual violence in Europe's twentieth century from the Armenian genocide to Auschwitz and Algeria to Bosnia, this pathbreaking volume expands military history to include the realm of sexuality. Examining both stories of consensual romance and of intimate brutality, it also contributes significant new insights to the history of sexuality. Editor(s): Herzog, Dagmar. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 301 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JFFE2; JHBK5. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230542532
- ISBN
- 9780230542532
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.29
€ 128.29
Hardcover. A fascinating collection of essays by renowned and emerging scholars exploring how everyday matters from farting to friendship reveal extraordinary aspects of early modern life, while seemingly exceptional acts and beliefs -- such as those of ghosts, prophecies, and cannibalism -- illuminate something of the routine experience of ordinary people. Editor(s): McShane, Angela; Walker, Garthine. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230537248
- ISBN
- 9780230537248
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardcover. Through the eyes of a young American female radical socialist, living and working in Barcelona during the Catalan Revolution and the Spanish Civil War, the dreams, the nightmares and the realities of European politics in the age of dictatorship are fully brought to life. An autobiographical commentary written on the eve of World War Two. Editor(s): Hom, Gerd-Rainer. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJG; BJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBWP; JPFF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230527393
- ISBN
- 9780230527393
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Hardcover. An exploration of links between opinion and governance in Early Modern England, studying moral panics about crime, sex and belief. Hypothesizing that media-driven panics proliferated in the 1700s, with the development of newspapers and government sensibility to opinion, it also considers earlier panics about cross-dressing and witchcraft. Editor(s): Lemmings, David; Walker, Claire. Num Pages: 290 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB; JFFP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230527324
- ISBN
- 9780230527324
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.23
€ 67.23
Hardcover. This fascinating collection of essays is the first full-length scholarly study of the genesis and influence of Alan Peacock's intellectually radical 'Report of the Committee on Financing the BBC' (1986), which fundamentally altered the principles governing the development of broadcasting policy in the UK. Editor(s): O'Malley, Tom; Jones, Janet. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBLW3; HBTB; JFD; KNTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 495.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230524743
- ISBN
- 9780230524743
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.23
€ 67.23
Hardcover. This book is the first study of the role of British Ambassadors in shaping Anglo-American relations during the first generation of the 'special relationship'. As well as showing how ambassadors wielded influence in Washington and helped to formulate British foreign policy, it offers insights into the role of the embassy in modern diplomacy. Editor(s): Hopkins, Michael F.; Kelly, Saul; Young, John W. (Chair of International History, University of Nottingham). Num Pages: 251 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBJK; HBLW3; JPSD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230522169
- ISBN
- 9780230522169
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardcover. This book explores the political and religious world of early Bourbon France, focusing on the search for stable accord that characterised its political and religious life. Chapters examine developments that shaped the Bourbon realm through the century: assertions of royal authority, rules of political negotiation, and the evolution of Devot piety. Editor(s): Forrestal, Alison; Nelson, Eric. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230521391
- ISBN
- 9780230521391
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16