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Paperback. "Traces the history of the International Committee of the Red Cross' struggle to bring humanitarianism to the Second World War, by focusing on its tumultuous relationship with one of the conflict's key belligerents and masters of the blockade of the Third Reich, Great Britain."--Publishers website Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJD1; HBL; HBW; HBWQ; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349485802
- ISBN
- 9781349485802
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Condition: New
€ 66.41
€ 66.41
Paperback. Num Pages: 255 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; HBJM; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 329.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349485109
- ISBN
- 9781349485109
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€ 65.93
€ 65.93
Paperback. In this unique collection, theologians born and formed during the Cold War offer their insights and perspectives on theological relationships with such musical artists and groups as Joy Division, U2, Nick Cave, and John Coltrane. These essays demonstrate that one's personal music preferences can inform and influence professional interests. Editor(s): Grimshaw, M. Series: Radical Theologies and Philosophies. Num Pages: 229 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AV; HBL; HRAC; HRAM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 300.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349483815
- ISBN
- 9781349483815
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This book examines the structures and texture of rural social relationships, using one type of document found in abundance over all the four component parts of Britain and Ireland: petitions from tenants to their landlords. The book offers unexpected angles on many aspects of society and economy on estates in the 17th and 18th centuries. Num Pages: 331 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 413.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 331
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349483792
- ISBN
- 9781349483792
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Condition: New
€ 66.44
€ 66.44
paperback. Num Pages: 331 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; HBW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 331
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- SKU
- V9781349483051
- ISBN
- 9781349483051
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Condition: New
€ 66.77
€ 66.77
Paperback. Too often, scholars treat transnationalism as a conflict in which the local, regional, and national give way to globalized identity. As these varied studies of German cities show, though, the urban environment is actually a site of trans-localism that is not merely oppositional, but that adapts itself dialectically to the forces of globalization. Editor(s): Diefendorf, Jeffry M.; Ward, J. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349482573
- ISBN
- 9781349482573
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Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Paperback. How was anti-communism organised in the West? This book covers the agents, aims, and arguments of various transnational anti-communist activists during the Cold War. Existing narratives often place the United States - and especially the CIA - at the centre of anti-communist activity. The book instead opens up new fields of research transnationally. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 292 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJK; HBL; HBTB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349482146
- ISBN
- 9781349482146
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Condition: New
€ 149.87
€ 149.87
Paperback. The book examines Muslim-European interactions in the interwar period and provides original insights into the emergence of geopolitical and intellectual East West networks that transcended national, cultural, and linguistic borders." Editor(s): Ryad, Umar. Series: The Modern Muslim World. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBL; HRAM; HRAX; JFC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 335.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349481811
- ISBN
- 9781349481811
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Condition: New
€ 65.96
€ 65.96
Paperback. Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary sources, this book explores how far imperial culture penetrated antipodean city institutions. It argues that far from imperial saturation, the city 'Down Under' was remarkably untouched by the Empire. Series: Britain and the World. Num Pages: 319 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJM; HBL; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 319
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349481361
- ISBN
- 9781349481361
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Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 368 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJF; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 540.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349480968
- ISBN
- 9781349480968
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Condition: New
€ 128.03
€ 128.03
Paperback. Exotic animals were coveted commodities in nineteenth-century Britain. Spectators flocked to zoos and menageries to see female lion tamers and hungry hippos. Helen Cowie examines zoos and travelling menageries in the period 1800-1880, using animal exhibitions to examine issues of class, gender, imperial culture and animal welfare. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 344.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349480906
- ISBN
- 9781349480906
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Condition: New
€ 148.93
€ 148.93
Paperback. Sudan has historically suffered devastating famines that have powerfully reshaped its society. This study shows that food crises were the result of exploitative processes that transferred resources to a small group of beneficiaries, including British imperial agents and indigenous elites who went on to control the Sudanese state at independence. Series: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies. Num Pages: 277 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJH; HBL; JPA; KCP; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 277
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349480708
- ISBN
- 9781349480708
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Condition: New
€ 66.12
€ 66.12
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; KCB; KCP; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 299
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349480685
- ISBN
- 9781349480685
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Condition: New
€ 127.30
€ 127.30
Paperback. Constituent power of the people is a core concept of modern politics but what does this concept actually mean? This book addresses this question, sketching how constituent power of the people has been conceived since the early modern revolutions. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBL; HPS; JPA; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349480302
- ISBN
- 9781349480302
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Condition: New
€ 65.78
€ 65.78
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJH; HBL; HBTB; HRCC9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 217
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349479504
- ISBN
- 9781349479504
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Condition: New
€ 65.84
€ 65.84
Paperback. The discipline of social history has still not given enough attention to the ways in which the perceptions and roles of "ordinary" people changed over time. In these fascinating British and Dutch cases, we see how the study of this evolution imparts historical texture and enables us to understand early modernity with greater clarity. Editor(s): Jacob, M; Secretan, C. Num Pages: 299 pages, 21 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJD1; HBJF; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 387.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 299
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349479269
- ISBN
- 9781349479269
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Condition: New
€ 66.29
€ 66.29
Paperback. 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; HBL; HBTB; HBW; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 406.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349478439
- ISBN
- 9781349478439
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Condition: New
€ 66.41
€ 66.41
Paperback. Despite the explosion of interest in the "global 1968," the arts in this period - both popular and avant-garde forms - have too often been neglected. This interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars in history, cultural studies, musicology and other areas to explore the symbiosis of the sonic and the visual in the counterculture of the 1960s. Editor(s): Brown, T. Num Pages: 304 pages, 17 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AV; HBG; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 472.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349477265
- ISBN
- 9781349477265
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Condition: New
€ 127.64
€ 127.64
Paperback. Re-examining the long-held belief that the Sixties in Britain were dominated mainly by 'youth' and 'protest', the authors in the collection argue that innovation was everywhere shadowed by conservatism. A decade fascinated by itself and, especially, by the future, it also was tormented by self-doubt and accompanied by a fear of losing the past. Editor(s): Harris, T.; O'Brien Castro, Monia. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; JFC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 213
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349476824
- ISBN
- 9781349476824
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Condition: New
€ 65.81
€ 65.81
Paperback. This cultural and political study examines British perceptions and policies on India's Afghan Frontier between 1918 and 1948 and the impact of these on the local Pashtun population, India as a whole, and the decline of British imperialism in South Asia. Series: Britain and the World. Num Pages: 292 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBJF; HBL; HBTQ; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349476787
- ISBN
- 9781349476787
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Condition: New
€ 138.81
€ 138.81
Paperback. This title adds to the burgeoning conversation regarding African-American female mysticism. The primary subjects of this book are three icons of black female spirituality and religious activism: Jarena Lee, Sojourner Truth, and Rebecca Cox Jackson. Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJH; HBJK; HBL; HBTB; HPC; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 203
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349476763
- ISBN
- 9781349476763
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Condition: New
€ 159.69
€ 159.69
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions. Num Pages: 295 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBL; HBTB; JMQ; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 295
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349476138
- ISBN
- 9781349476138
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.06
€ 127.06
Paperback. During the Elizabethan era, writers such as Shakespeare, Spenser, Sidney, Daniel, and others frequently expounded on mercy, exploring the sources and outcomes of clemency. This fresh reading of such depictions shows that the concept of mercy was a contested one, directly shaped by tensions over the exercise of judgment by a woman on the throne. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJD; HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349475773
- ISBN
- 9781349475773
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Condition: New
€ 66.00
€ 66.00
Paperback. Historian and minister William Robertson was a central Scottish Enlightenment figure whose influence reached well beyond the boundaries of the British Isles. In this reception study of Robertson's work, Laszlo Kontler shows how the reception of Robertson's major histories in Germany tests the limits of intellectual transfer through translation. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJD1; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349475759
- ISBN
- 9781349475759
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.74
€ 66.74