History: earliest times to present day
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History: earliest times to present day
Hardback. Starting from the events surrounding the First World War, the author traces the history of the modern Middle East and puts the Arab Spring into context. McMillan breaks down the nuances of Western involvement in the Middle East, alliances and divisions between Middle Eastern peoples and nations, and the role of religion in these conflicts. Series: Middle East Today. Num Pages: 292 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJF1; HBLW; HBLX; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137522016
- ISBN
- 9781137522016
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.11
€ 150.11
Hardback. Num Pages: 176 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JB; 3JD; HBJK; HBLH; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 15. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137519986
- ISBN
- 9781137519986
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
Hardcover. The essays in this book concern manifestations of political violence in the democracies of interwar Europe. While research in this area usually focuses on the countries that fell to fascism, the authors demonstrate that violence remained a part of political competition in the democratic regimes of Western Europe too. Editor(s): Millington, Chris; Passmore, Kevin. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137515940
- ISBN
- 9781137515940
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardback. This is a major contribution to scholarly debates on the chronology and nature of secularization in modern Britain. Combining historical and social scientific insights, it analyses a range of statistical evidence for the 'long 1950s', testing (and largely rejecting) Callum Brown's claims that there was a religious resurgence during this period. Series: Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700-2000. Num Pages: 152 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBLW3; HRCX6. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 347.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137512529
- ISBN
- 9781137512529
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.29
€ 77.29
Hardback. This volume compares one of the largest instances of 'ethnic cleansing' - the German expellees from the East (Vertriebene) - with the most important case of decolonization migration - the French repatriates of Algeria (pieds-noirs). Editor(s): Borutta, Manuel; Jansen, Jan C. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1DFG; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; JFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 25. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137508409
- ISBN
- 9781137508409
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.04
€ 106.04
Hardcover. Alarming levels of fear and suspicion developed in Australia following the German victories in Europe of 1940. It was believed the Nazis had prepared an army of subversives - a Fifth Column - to undermine the war effort. These suspicions plagued the Australian home front for much of the war. Num Pages: 229 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 3JJH; HBJM; HBLW; HBWQ; JWDG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137506665
- ISBN
- 9781137506665
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardback. Public Choice Economics and the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria provides an economics perspective on the witchcraft episode, and adds to the growing body of work analyzing prominent historical events using the tools of economics. Num Pages: 135 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLH; KCK; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 135
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137506344
- ISBN
- 9781137506344
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.08
€ 66.08
Paperback. In 16th and 17th century England conversation was an embodied act that held the capacity to negotiate, manipulate and transform social relationships. Early Modern Women in Conversation illuminates the extent to which gender shaped conversational interaction and demonstrates the significance of conversation as a rhetorical practice for women. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 230 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSK; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137506306
- ISBN
- 9781137506306
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93
Hardback. This book argues that ancient democracy did not stop at the door of economic democracy, and that ancient Athens has much to tell us about the relationship between political equality and economic equality. Athenian democracy rested on a foundation of general economic equality, which enabled citizens to challenge their exclusion from politics. Num Pages: 106 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 3D; HBLA; JPHV; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 106
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137503473
- ISBN
- 9781137503473
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.84
€ 65.84
Hardcover. Through case studies of prominent cultural products, this book takes a longitudinal approach to the influence and conceptualization of the Civil War in democratic Spain. Stafford explores the stories told about the war during the transition to democracy and how these narratives have morphed in light of the polemics about historical memory. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBWP; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 222 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137501493
- ISBN
- 9781137501493
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. How do two ideologically opposed governments co-operate? The Unionist government struggled to answer this question during the sixties and seventies. This book charts the development of this government's policy towards its neighbor in Southern Ireland and explains how it ended up in a total stalemate with the emergence of the Troubles. Num Pages: 159 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBLW; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137499530
- ISBN
- 9781137499530
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.29
€ 66.29
Hardback. Yolande of Aragon is one of the most intriguing of late medieval queens who contrived to be everywhere and nowhere, operating seamlessly from backstage and center stage. She is acknowledged as having been shrewd and intelligent - an eminence grise whose political and diplomatic agency secured the throne of France for her son-in-law, Charles VII. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3H; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 224 x 24. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137499127
- ISBN
- 9781137499127
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.08
€ 128.08
Hardcover. Queens Henrietta Maria and Marie Antoinette bear striking similarities as historical figures, particularly given the periods of violent revolution in which they lived. This novel comparative study explores how these queens perceived their roles as wives, mothers, and heads of royal households. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JD; 3JF; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL; HBTV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 23. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137497727
- ISBN
- 9781137497727
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.94
€ 116.94
Hardcover. Analyzing contemporary Chinese literature, film, and television, Shen shows the significance of nationalism for the mass imagination in post-socialist China. Chapters move from the intellectual idealism of the 1980s, through the post-Tiananmen transition, to the national cinema of the 1990s, and finally to the Internet literature of today. Series: Chinese Literature and Culture in the World. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JM; HBJF; HBLX; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137497420
- ISBN
- 9781137497420
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.77
€ 66.77
Hardcover. This book presents the first panoramic study of minkan (citizen publications) in China before the Internet. This recent history of citizen publications contributes to the reclamation of a lost past of resistance. It is an exercise in remembering a past that has been marginalized by official history and recovering ideas obliterated by state power. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTB; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137492074
- ISBN
- 9781137492074
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
hardcover. Puritanism has a reputation for being emotionally dry, but seventeenth-century Puritans did not only have rich and complex emotional lives, they also found meaning in and drew spiritual strength from emotion. From theology to lived experience and from joy to affliction, this volume surveys the wealth and depth of the Puritans' passions. Editor(s): Ryrie, Professor Alec; Schwanda, Tom. Series: Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World, 1500-1800. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JB; 3JD; HBLH; HBTB; HRCC93. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137490971
- ISBN
- 9781137490971
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.55
€ 105.55
Hardback. Series: Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HBL; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJH; HBLW; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 15. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 187
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137489494
- ISBN
- 9781137489494
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Hardcover. This book explores the continuous British fascination with the American Civil War from the 1870s to the present. Analysing the War's place in British political discourse, military writing, intellectual life and popular culture, it traces the sources of Britons' appeal to the American conflict and their use of its representations at home and abroad. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137489258
- ISBN
- 9781137489258
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Jean Gerson and Gender examines the deployment of gendered rhetoric by the influential late medieval politically active theologian, Jean Gerson (1363-1429), as a means of understanding his reputation for political neutrality, the role played by royal women in the French royal court, and the rise of the European witch hunts. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HBJD; HBLC1; HRCM; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137488824
- ISBN
- 9781137488824
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. This carefully researched history draws on archival sources as well as a wealth of new interviews with on-the-ground activists, political actors, international figures, and others to move beyond the narratives-both the German and American varieties-that have dominated the historical memory of German reunification. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 432 pages, 3 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJPR; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 238 x 31. Weight in Grams: 796.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137488701
- ISBN
- 9781137488701
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.08
€ 69.08