History: earliest times to present day
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History: earliest times to present day
Hardcover. This monograph makes clear how the format of the literary folio played a fundamental role in book history by encapsulating the unstable negotiation between commerce, cultural prestige, and the fundamental nature of the printed book. Series: History of Text Technologies. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; DSB; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 224 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137438348
- ISBN
- 9781137438348
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardback. Combining transcultural and comparative approaches, the essays collected here exemplify the emerging field of German-Asian studies. Here, specialists examine the multi-faceted ties between the various German states and China over the past two centuries, as well as more personal relationships during an important period in both countries' histories. Series: Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1FPC; HBJD; HBJF; HBLL; JPSF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 515.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137438461
- ISBN
- 9781137438461
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Condition: New
€ 117.12
€ 117.12
Hardcover. The 18th-century French leather industry was a strategically important manufacturing sector, one vital to both civilian and military life. This study examines the production of leather in the Bordeaux trades during the 18th and 19th centuries, illuminating the realities of a craft economy and its relation to the wider French political economy. Num Pages: 311 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; KNDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 504.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137438553
- ISBN
- 9781137438553
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Condition: New
€ 128.12
€ 128.12
Hardcover. Facing Down the Soviet Union reveals for the first time the historic deliberations regarding the Chevaline upgrade to Britain's Polaris force, the decisions to procure the Trident C-4 and then D-5 system from the Americans in 1980 and 1982. It also details the decision to base Ground Launched Cruise Missiles in the UK in 1983. Num Pages: 335 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 1QFN; 3JJP; HBLW3; HBWS; JWMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137440310
- ISBN
- 9781137440310
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.85
€ 67.85
Hardcover. Certain 19th Century presidencies contrast common perceptions of the office's authority and strength. These presidents were a strong group and were anything but insignificant. They fought substantial battles with Congress, and often won. This book seeks to provide more substantive analysis of maligned presidencies, and the legacies left behind. Series: The Evolving American Presidency. Num Pages: 154 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 181 x 20. Weight in Grams: 342.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137441492
- ISBN
- 9781137441492
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Condition: New
€ 66.26
€ 66.26
Hardcover. In 1940, the USSR occupied and annexed Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, leading to calls by many that the Soviets had violated international law. This book examines British, US, and Soviet policies toward the Baltic states, placing the true significance of the Baltic question in its proper geopolitical context. Series: The World of the Roosevelt's. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBLW; HBTW; JPSD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137442369
- ISBN
- 9781137442369
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Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Hardcover. Reflecting on the relationship between memory, power, and national identity, this book examines the complex reactions of the people of the Caribbean to the 500th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of the New World. Viala analyzes the ways in which Columbus became a reservoir of metaphors to confront anxieties of the present with myths of the past. Series: New Caribbean Studies. Num Pages: 292 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; HBJK; HBLH; HBTQ; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 476.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137443748
- ISBN
- 9781137443748
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This book examines the rapidly evolving relationship between the British Labour Party and the emerging Irish nationalist forces, from which was formed the first government of the Irish Free State as both metamorphosed from opposition towards becoming the governments of their respective states. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; 3JJG; HBJD1; HBLW; JPL; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137444066
- ISBN
- 9781137444066
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Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
hardcover. Num Pages: 290 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBL; HBTB; JP; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137446398
- ISBN
- 9781137446398
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Condition: New
€ 139.38
€ 139.38
Hardcover. Law, Labour, and Empire provides a comparative analysis of the development and impact of maritime labour and law in the early modern period. Editor(s): Allaire, Bernard; Blakemore, Richard; Vanneste, Tijl; Dunford, Michael. Num Pages: 357 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; HBLH; HBTM; HBTQ; TRLT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 29. Weight in Grams: 572.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137447456
- ISBN
- 9781137447456
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.27
€ 162.27
Hardback. Series: Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700-2000. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HRCC7; JPFQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137448934
- ISBN
- 9781137448934
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.79
€ 116.79
Hardcover. Three people in a marriage: a woman and two men. This was the eighteenth-century Italian aristocratic model of marriage, characterized by the presence of the cicisbeo, the escort of another man's wife. Was it a brazen depravity or a complex and refined social institution, revealing aspects of Italian civilization in the Age of the Enlightenment? Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 7 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 616.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137450920
- ISBN
- 9781137450920
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.51
€ 117.51
Hardcover. William Mitchinson analyses the role and performance of the Territorial Force during the first two years of World War I. The study looks at the way the force was staffed and commanded, its relationship with the Regular Army and the War Office, and how most of its 1st Line divisions managed to retain and promote their local identities. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 219 x 22. Weight in Grams: 486.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137451590
- ISBN
- 9781137451590
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Condition: New
€ 128.20
€ 128.20
Hardcover. This book examines the striking way in which medical and scientific work on hearing in 18th and 19th-century France helped to shape modern French society and culture. The author argues that of all the senses hearing offered the greatest resources for remodelling the idea of the universal human condition within the modern French historical setting. Num Pages: 179 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137455345
- ISBN
- 9781137455345
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.32
€ 66.32
Hardcover. The SS Cavalry Brigade was a unit of the Waffen-SS that differed from other German military formations as it developed a 'dual role': SS cavalrymen both helped to initiate the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and experienced combat at the front. Series: The Holocaust and its Contexts. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137456311
- ISBN
- 9781137456311
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.31
€ 150.31
Hardcover. Rose Elizabeth Cleveland was the First Lady of the United States when she assisted her brother, Grover Cleveland. She was also a literary scholar, novelist, and a poet who published work that empowered women. This book positions Cleveland in the historical context of the early twentieth century, when she helped shape female subjectivity and agency. Num Pages: 106 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSK; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 221 x 13. Weight in Grams: 274.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137456526
- ISBN
- 9781137456526
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.84
€ 65.84
Hardcover. Shin Kanemaru (1914-1996) served as a key power broker at the national level in Japan from the 1970s until the early 1990s. He was at the heart of the '1955 system' of conservative political rule. Though never Prime Minister himself, he controlled or strongly influenced the administrations of five Japanese Prime Ministers. Num Pages: 135 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; HBLW; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 314.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137457363
- ISBN
- 9781137457363
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.08
€ 66.08
Hardcover. Published over forty years ago, the original edition of Titled Elizabethans provided a ready reference source to Elizabethan court, state, and household. This long-awaited revised edition expands considerably upon the original, adding new categories and a host of previously overlooked figures. Editor(s): Kinney, Arthur F.; Lawson, Jane A. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 345 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 548.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Second Edition, New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137461476
- ISBN
- 9781137461476
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.17
€ 128.17
The Dialectics of Orientalism in Early Modern Europe
. Ed(S): Keller, Marcus; Irigoyen-Garcia, Jav...
Hardback. Editor(s): Keller, Marcus; Irigoyen-Garcia, Javier. Num Pages: 272 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137462350
- ISBN
- 9781137462350
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.93
€ 138.93
Hardcover. The New Nationalism and the First World War is an edited volume dedicated to a transnational study of the features of the turn-of-the-century nationalism, its manifestations in social and political arenas and the arts, and its influence on the development of the global-scale conflict that was the First World War. Editor(s): Rosenthal, Lawrence; Rodic, Vesna; Burrows, Roger. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137462770
- ISBN
- 9781137462770
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Southern Anthropology - a History of Fison and Howitt's Kamilaroi and ...
Gardner, Helen, McConvell, Patrick
Hardcover. Southern Anthropology, the history of Fison and Howitt's Kamilaroi and Kurnai is the biography of Kamilaroi and Kurnai (1880) written from both a historical and anthropological perspective. Southern Anthropology investigates the authors' work on Aboriginal and Pacific people and the reception of their book in metropolitan centres. Series: Palgrave Studies in Pacific History. Num Pages: 352 pages, up to 25 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 3JH; HBJM; HBLL; HBTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137463807
- ISBN
- 9781137463807
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.00
€ 68.00
Hardback. Editor(s): Crook, Tom; Esbester, Mike. Num Pages: 329 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 4 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 23. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 329
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137467447
- ISBN
- 9781137467447
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.15
€ 117.15
Hardcover. The catacombs of Rome have captured imaginations for centuries. This innovative study takes a fresh look at these underground spaces, and considers how art, space, texts, and practices can tell us more about the catacombs and the people who dug and decorated them. Series: Religion and Spatial Studies. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; AMN; HBLA; HRCC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137468031
- ISBN
- 9781137468031
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Art and literature during the European fin-de-siecle period often manifested themes of degeneration and decay, both of bodies and civilizations, as well as illness, bizarre sexuality, and general morbidity. This collection explores these topics in relation to artists and writers as diverse as Oscar Wilde, August Strindberg, and Aubrey Beardsley. Editor(s): Walsh, Jeffrey. Num Pages: 293 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; ACV; DSBF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137470881
- ISBN
- 9781137470881
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.92
€ 160.92