History: earliest times to present day
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History: earliest times to present day
Hardback. 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: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 265
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230251489
- ISBN
- 9780230251489
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.04
€ 63.04
Hardcover. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, this volume argues that although the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars are often understood as laying the foundations for total war, many eyewitnesses continued to draw upon older interpretative frameworks to make sense of the armed struggle and attendant political and social upheaval. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; HBWH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230249172
- ISBN
- 9780230249172
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.95
€ 62.95
Hardback. Patrick Pearse was not only leader of the 1916 Easter Rising but also one of the main ideologues of the IRA. Based on new material on his childhood and underground activities, this book places him in a European context and provides an intimate account of the development of his ideas on cultural regeneration, education, patriotism and militarism. Num Pages: 438 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD1; HBLW; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 438
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230248717
- ISBN
- 9780230248717
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.53
€ 120.53
Hardback. A re-examination of the Northern Ireland conflict and the ongoing peace process, using previously unreleased archival material. The book looks at choices and omissions by the main political parties and the British and Irish states that lay behind the emergence and persistence of the 'Troubles.' Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 3JJP; 3JMC; HBJD1; HBLW3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230238916
- ISBN
- 9780230238916
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.87
€ 62.87
Hardback. The problem of memory in China, Japan and Korea involves a surfeit rather than a deficit of memory, and the consequence of this excess is negative: unforgettable traumas prevent nations from coming to terms with the problems of the present. These compelling essays enrich Western scholarship by applying to it insights derived from Asian settings. Editor(s): Kim, Mikyoung; Schwartz, Barry. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; HBJF; HBLW3; JFC; JFSL; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230237476
- ISBN
- 9780230237476
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.79
€ 62.79
Hardback. A lucid intervention in current debates about identity and difference, this book uses the concept of Otherness to look again at both Gothic fiction and Postcolonialism. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBF; DSK; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230234062
- ISBN
- 9780230234062
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.15
€ 62.15
Hardback. 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: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 189
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230828
- ISBN
- 9780230230828
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.15
€ 62.15
Hardback. Raoul Wallenberg is remembered for his humanitarian activity on behalf of the Hungarian Jews at the end of World War II, and as the Swedish diplomat who disappeared into the Soviet Gulag in 1945. This book examines how thirty-one Wallenberg monuments, in twelve countries on five continents commemorate the man. Series: The Holocaust and its Contexts. Num Pages: 443 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AMGD; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 702.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 443
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230222380
- ISBN
- 9780230222380
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 121.28
€ 121.28
Hardback. This volume brings together scholars from across Europe to critically examine TV history programming in a period of political, economic and cultural change. They look at links between programming and national identity, consider the representation of minorities, and explore a range of televisual genres and techniques. Editor(s): Bell, Erin; Gray, Ann. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJP; APT; HBJD; HBLW3; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230222083
- ISBN
- 9780230222083
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.74
€ 62.74
Hardback. An in-depth study of the reception of Democratic ideas in mid-19th Century Spain on the provincial and local level, and how they influenced the political process and fuelled the numerous conspiracies and insurrections directed at the Bourbon monarchy, between the failed uprisings in Spain in 1848 and the First Republic in 1873. Num Pages: 372 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; JP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 146 x 26. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 372
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230222021
- ISBN
- 9780230222021
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.43
€ 63.43
Hardback. Exploring how understandings of masculinity were constructed by British First World war servicemen through examination of their personal narratives, including letters home from the front and wartime diaries. This book presents a nuanced investigation of masculine identity in Britain during and after the First World War. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJF; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB; HBWN; JFSJ2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 167 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 227
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230222014
- ISBN
- 9780230222014
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.34
€ 62.34
Hardcover. British children were mobilised for total war in 1914-18. It dominated their school experience and they enjoyed it as a source of entertainment. Their support was believed to be vital for Britain's present and future but their participation was motivated by a desire to remain connected to their absent fathers and brothers. Num Pages: 208 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJF; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWN; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230221758
- ISBN
- 9780230221758
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.26
€ 62.26
Hardback. Examining the history of social movements and non-state socio-political action, this volume shows how Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) have proliferated in Britain since 1945, and how they have raised new political agendas, revived associational life, and arguably re-politicized generations disillusioned with the politics of the ballot box. Editor(s): Crowson, Nick; Hilton, Matthew; McKay, James. Num Pages: 314 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBLW3; HBTB; JFF; JPWH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 525.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230221093
- ISBN
- 9780230221093
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.64
€ 119.64
Hardback. Performing the Nation in Interwar Germany argues that political aesthetics and mass spectacles were no invention of the Nazis but characterized the period from the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s. In so doing, it re-examines the role of state representation and propaganda in the Weimar Republic and the Nazi dictatorship. Num Pages: 239 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230217935
- ISBN
- 9780230217935
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.82
€ 62.82
Hardback. Difficult Pasts provides a wide-ranging discussion of contemporary Germany's rich memorial landscape. It discusses the many memorials to German losses during the Second World War, to the victims of National Socialism and to those of GDR socialism. With up-to-date coverage of many less well-known memorials as well as the most publicised ones. Editor(s): Niven, Bill; Paver, Chloe. Num Pages: 436 pages, 25 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 817.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 436
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230207035
- ISBN
- 9780230207035
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 121.36
€ 121.36
Hardback. This unique collection of essays provides a re-evaluation of the term 'Atlantic', by placing at the core of the debate on republicanism in the early modern age the link between continental Europe and America, rather than assuming British political culture as having been widely representative of Europe as a whole. Editor(s): De Francesco, Antonino. Num Pages: 319 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; HBG; HBJD; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 319
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230206786
- ISBN
- 9780230206786
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.20
€ 63.20
Hardback. The first expansive study of how when the Popish Plot of 1678 came to light, fears of an Irish Catholic rebellion amongst Ireland's uneasy Protestant elite, who dominated over the Catholic majority population, were manipulated in England in an attempt to block the Catholic Duke of York from succeeding to the throne. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBJD1; HBLH; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 465.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230203655
- ISBN
- 9780230203655
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.21
€ 119.21
Hardback. This book investigates how the Children of Paul's (1599-1606) and the Children of the Queen's Revels (1600-13) defined their players as children and, via an analysis of their plays and theatrical practices, it examines early modern theatre as a site in which children have the opportunity to articulate their emerging selfhoods. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JD; AN; DSG; HBLH; JFSP1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230202610
- ISBN
- 9780230202610
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.46
€ 62.46
Paperback. As home to 1920s excess and Hitler's Final Solution, Berlin's physical and symbolic landscape was an important staging ground for the highs and lows of modernity. In Cold War Berlin, social and political boundaries were porous, and the rubble gave refuge to a re-emerging gay and lesbian scene, youth gangs, prostitutes, hoods, and hustlers. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 317 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 487.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 317
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230202023
- ISBN
- 9780230202023
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.96
€ 67.96
Hardback. An investigation of recent developments and trends within the Yugoslav successor states since the signing of the Dayton Agreements in Autumn 1995. This book offers a distinctive and desirable perspective on the seven successor states, their cultures, politics and identities by providing an internal perspective on the region and its developments. Editor(s): Hudson, Robert; Bowman, Glenn. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVWY; 3JJPR; 3JMC; HBJD; HBLW3; HBLX; JPB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230201316
- ISBN
- 9780230201316
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.74
€ 62.74