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History: earliest times to present day
Hardcover. Britain was France's most implacable enemy during the Napoleonic Wars yet was able to resist the need for conscription to fill the ranks of its army and sustain Wellington's campaigns in Portugal and Spain. This new study explains how the men were found to replenish Wellington's army, and the consequences on Britain's government, army and society. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBWH; JWD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230273054
- ISBN
- 9780230273054
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.59
€ 138.59
Hardcover. What have medieval nuns, parrot shooting, Freemasonry, and Shetland revelry got in common? This study of monastic orders, guilds, Freemasonry and friendly societies over centuries and across frontiers provides new insights into their contribution to the gendering of public space and the evolution of 'separate spheres' in Europe. Num Pages: 283 pages, 19 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLH; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSV. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 145 x 219 x 22. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230272576
- ISBN
- 9780230272576
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. The idea of the centralized State has played a powerful role in shaping French republicanism. But for two hundred years, many have tried to find other ways of being French and Republican. These essays challenge the traditional account, bringing together new insights from leading scholars. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230272095
- ISBN
- 9780230272095
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Hardcover. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, this book investigates the everyday human experience of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars by French military and civilians, the impact of these wars on the French nation and society, and the rise of a new kind of war in the West at the turn of the nineteenth century. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBLL; HBWH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 164 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432. France at War, 1792-1815. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. 264 pages, illustrations. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, this book investigates the everyday human experience of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars by French military and civilians, the impact of these wars on the French nation and society, and the rise of a new kind of war in the West at the turn of the nineteenth century. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBLL; HBWH. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 20. Weight: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230252875
- ISBN
- 9780230252875
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardcover. An exploration of the little-known yet historically important emigration of British army officers to the Australian colonies in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. The book looks at the significant impact they made at a time of great colonial expansion, particularly in new south Wales with its transition from a convict colony to a free society. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJM; HBLL; HBTB; HBTQ; HBWH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230252301
- ISBN
- 9780230252301
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.15
€ 128.15
Paperback. Telling the stories of mothers, fathers and children in their own words, Vaizey recreates the experience of family life in Nazi Germany. From last letters of doomed soldiers at Stalingrad to diaries kept by women trying to keep their families alive in cities under attack, the book vividly describes family life under the most extreme conditions. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 265 pages, 19 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230251496
- ISBN
- 9780230251496
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.09
€ 72.09
Paperback. Spain Transformed addresses the sweeping social and cultural changes that characterized the late Franco regime. This wide-ranging collection reassesses the dictatorship's latter years by drawing on a wealth of new material and ideas, using an interdisciplinary approach. Editor(s): Townson, Nigel. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230248885
- ISBN
- 9780230248885
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.32
€ 66.32
Hardcover. An analysis of the German Question's influence on the origins of the Cold War, arguing that the legal and diplomatic intercourse between the Allies regarding the treatment of the German Question brought forward the elements of intervention and coexistence which formed the basis for a relatively peaceful postwar international order. Series: Global Conflict and Security Since 1945. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTW; JPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230248120
- ISBN
- 9780230248120
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardcover. Decolonization changed the spatial order of the globe, the imagination of men and women around the world and established images of the globe. Both individuals and social groups shaped decolonization itself: this volume puts agency squarely at the centre of debate by looking at elites and leaders who changed the course of history across the world. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 311 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230243699
- ISBN
- 9780230243699
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.95
€ 67.95
Hardcover. Providing comparative and international contexts to understand the history of the making of the teacher in Victorian England, this is a compelling account of the development during this time of teacher training, inspections and certification - reforms which shaped the good teacher as a modern and moral individual. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBLL; JNB; JNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230241282
- ISBN
- 9780230241282
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardcover. An analysis of a scandal involving a doctor accused of allowing a number of women to develop cervical cancer from carcinoma in situ as part of an experiment he had been conducting since the 1960s into conservative treatment of the disease, to more broadly explore dramatic changes in medical history in the second half of the twentieth century. Series: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1MBN; HBJM; HBLW3; MBDC; MBX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230236035
- ISBN
- 9780230236035
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.59
€ 67.59
The Nineteenth-Century Press in the Digital Age (Palgrave Studies in t...
Mussell, James, Paylor, Suzanne
Hardcover. James Mussell provides an accessible account of the digitization of nineteenth-century newspapers and periodicals. As studying this material is essential to understand the period, he argues that we have no choice but to engage with the new digital resources that have transformed how we access the print archive. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; HBA; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230235533
- ISBN
- 9780230235533
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardcover. India was the object of intense sympathetic concern during the Romantic period. But what was the true nature of imaginative engagement with British India? This study explores how a range of authors, from Edmund Burke and Sir William Jones to Robert Southey and Thomas Moore, sought to come to terms with India's strangeness and distance from Britain. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; HBJD1; HBJF; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230233393
- ISBN
- 9780230233393
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Hardcover. The first substantial interdisciplinary, cross-genre critique of Margaret Thatcher and her cultural 'afterlife', exploring Thatcher's legacy across a range of areas including public policy, broadcast media, film, poetry, architectural design, political cartoons and literature. Editor(s): Ho, Elizabeth. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; HBJD1; HBLW3; JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230233317
- ISBN
- 9780230233317
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.47
€ 67.47
Hardcover. This book explores the day-to-day 'lived experience' of fascism in Venice during the 1930s, charting the attempts of the fascist regime to infiltrate and reshape Venetians' everyday lives and their responses to the intrusions of the fascist state. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 136 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232860
- ISBN
- 9780230232860
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Policing in England and Wales, 1918-39: The Fed, Flying Squads and For...
Laybourn, Keith, Taylor, David
Hardcover. An examination of the modernization of the English and Welsh police during the interwar years, focusing upon the increasing professionalization of the police, the Federation, forensic work and the growth of traffic policing. The authors challenge the established viewpoint by arguing that this period saw significant changes in policing. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKW; 3JJG; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB; JKSW1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232457
- ISBN
- 9780230232457
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.52
€ 67.52
Hardcover. Romantic Cosmopolitanism shows how cosmopolitanism in the early nineteenth century offers a non-unified formulation of the nation that stands in contrast to more unified models such as Edmund Burke's which found nationality in, among other things, language, history, blood and geography. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; JPA. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232044
- ISBN
- 9780230232044
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. An examination of why and how Fascist Italy sought to increase its influence in the Middle East, and why Italian efforts ultimately failed. Offering fresh insights into Fascist Italy's foreign and colonial policies, this book makes an important contribution to the complex history of relations between Europe and the Arab world. Num Pages: 269 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1FB; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; JPFQ; JPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230231603
- ISBN
- 9780230231603
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover. An exploration of how the theme of Anti-Americanism was employed by influential sections of the West German media to oppose the modernisation of the Federal Republic of Germany during the 'long 1950s'. In the public battle over the future direction of Germany, America stood as a symbol of social, political and economic corruption. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFGW; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230231559
- ISBN
- 9780230231559
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Paperback. Modernism and Eugenics comprehensively explores modern Europe's fixation with eugenic programmes of racial and national purification. It convincingly demonstrates that between 1870 and 1940 eugenicists were not only preoccupied with rescuing the individual from the anomie of modernity but equally championed a glorious racial destiny for the nation. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 189 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLW; JHBD; JPFQ; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230835
- ISBN
- 9780230230835
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This study investigates the relationship between emotion, memory, exile and the poetics of grieving in Beckett's works. Using a psychoanalytic framework, this monograph traces discourses of mourning (Klein), melancholia (Freud) and abjection (Kristeva) in Beckett's texts, and demonstrates how Ireland and women are often the objects of loss. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBJD1; HBLW; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230477
- ISBN
- 9780230230477
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Paperback. Thomas Linehan offers a fresh perspective on late Victorian and Edwardian socialism by examining the socialist revival of these years from the standpoint of modernism. In so doing, he explores the modernist mission as extending beyond the concerns of the literary and artistic avant-garde to incorporate political and social movements. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 185 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 133 x 11. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230118
- ISBN
- 9780230230118
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Thomas Linehan offers a fresh perspective on late Victorian and Edwardian socialism by examining the socialist revival of these years from the standpoint of modernism. In so doing, he explores the modernist mission as extending beyond the concerns of the literary and artistic avant-garde to incorporate political and social movements. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 185 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD1; HBLH; HBLW; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230101
- ISBN
- 9780230230101
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.41
€ 66.41
Hardcover. Examining how the press in Britain, Sweden and Finland responded to the Holocaust immediately after the Second World War, Holmila offers new insights into the challenge posed by the Holocaust for liberal democracies by looking at the reporting of the liberation of the camps, the Nuremberg trial and the Jewish immigration to Palestine. Series: The Holocaust and its Contexts. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB; HBTZ1; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 208 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229778
- ISBN
- 9780230229778
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.23
€ 67.23