History: earliest times to present day
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History: earliest times to present day
Paperback. This local history of Griqua Philippolis (1824-1862) and Afrikaner Orania (1990-2013) gets at the crux of the ever-pertinent land question in South Africa. Identifying the many layers of dispossession definitive of the South African past, the book presents a provocative new argument about land rights and the residues of settler colonialism. Num Pages: 178 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJH; HBL; HBTB; HBTQ; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 178
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349454907
- ISBN
- 9781349454907
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Condition: New
€ 66.04
€ 66.04
Paperback. Blending global scope with local depth, this book throws new light on important themes. Spanning four centuries and vast space, it combines the history of ideas with particular histories of encounters between European voyagers and Indigenous people in Oceania (Island Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands). Series: Palgrave Studies in Pacific History. Num Pages: 361 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBJM; HBL; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 487.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 361
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349454969
- ISBN
- 9781349454969
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€ 73.01
€ 73.01
Paperback. Ranging from devotional poetry to confessional history, across the span of competing religious traditions, this volume addresses the lived faith of diverse communities during the turmoil of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Together, they provide a textured understanding of the complexities in religious belief, practice and organization. Editor(s): O hAnnrachain, Tadhg; Armstrong, Robert. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; HPC; HRC. 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
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349455096
- ISBN
- 9781349455096
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Condition: New
€ 162.05
€ 162.05
Paperback. The first modern account of Theodore Roosevelt and the First World War, this is a tale of war and politics as well as the private story of true love and family devotion: a story as multi-faceted as TR's own personality. Num Pages: 373 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBL; HBW; HBWQ; JPA. 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
- 373
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349455119
- ISBN
- 9781349455119
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Condition: New
€ 45.66
€ 45.66
Paperback. This study investigates the various extreme-rightist leagues in Algeria, with particular attention to certain key themes, among them the rabid xenophobia directed at the Jewish population and local Muslims. It demonstrates that fascism helped to construct a racial hierarchy to preserve European hegemony and a pool of cheap labor. Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJH; HBL; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 297
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349455416
- ISBN
- 9781349455416
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Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Paperback. At the close of the 19th century, strange new forms of energy arrested the American public's attention in ways that no scientific discovery ever had before. This groundbreaking cultural history tells the story of the first nuclear culture, one whose lasting effects would be seen in the familiar "atomic age" of the post-war twentieth century. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 258 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBL; HBTB; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 334.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349455478
- ISBN
- 9781349455478
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Condition: New
€ 150.14
€ 150.14
Paperback. By 1940 going to the movies was the most popular form of public leisure in Britain's empire. This book explores the social and cultural impact of the movies in colonial societies in the early cinema age. Series: Britain and the World. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; HBTQ. 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
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349455782
- ISBN
- 9781349455782
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Condition: New
€ 66.12
€ 66.12
European Self-Reflection Between Politics and Religion
. Ed(S): Bruun, Lars K.; Lammers, Karl Christ...
Paperback. Editor(s): Bruun, Lars K.; Lammers, Karl Christian. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; HPC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349455928
- ISBN
- 9781349455928
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Condition: New
€ 66.17
€ 66.17
Paperback. In this groundbreaking collection, leading historians, Africanists, and other scholars document the life and work of twelve Igbo intellectuals who, educated within European traditions, came to terms with the dominance of European thought while making significant contributions to African intellectual traditions. Editor(s): Chuku, Gloria. Num Pages: 357 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJH; HBL; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 523.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 357
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349456918
- ISBN
- 9781349456918
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Condition: New
€ 127.93
€ 127.93
Paperback. This book examines British scientific and antiquarian travels in the "North," circa 1790 1830. British perceptions, representations and imaginings of the North are considered part of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century processes of British self-fashioning as a Northern nation, and key in unifying the expanding North Atlantic empire." Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJD1; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 279
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349456932
- ISBN
- 9781349456932
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Condition: New
€ 66.32
€ 66.32
Paperback. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJ; HBJD; HBL; HBTB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349456970
- ISBN
- 9781349456970
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Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62
Paperback. Music has been neglected by imperial historians, but this book shows that music is an essential aspect of identity formation and cross-cultural exchange. It explores the ways in which rational, moral, and aesthetic motives underlying the institutionalization of "classical" music converged and diverged in Britain and India from 1880-1940. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBJF; HBL; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 300.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349457014
- ISBN
- 9781349457014
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Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Paperback. In the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, Detroit and Turin were both sites of significant political and social upheaval. This comparative and transnational study examines the political and theoretical developments that emerged in these two "motor cities" among activist workers and political militants during these decades. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBJK; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349457052
- ISBN
- 9781349457052
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Condition: New
€ 66.77
€ 66.77
paperback. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJD1; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- SKU
- V9781349457946
- ISBN
- 9781349457946
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Condition: New
€ 66.29
€ 66.29
Paperback. Sexual Revolutions explores the sexual revolution of the late twentieth century in several European countries and the USA by engaging with themes from sexual freedom and abortion to pornography and sexual variation. This work discusses the involvement of youth, feminism, left, liberalism, arts, science and religion in the process of sexual change. Editor(s): Hekma, Gert; Giami, Alain. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 305 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJ; HBJD; HBJK; HBL; HBTB. 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
- 305
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349458042
- ISBN
- 9781349458042
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Condition: New
€ 138.81
€ 138.81
Paperback. Through an examination that uses previously unavailable archives and little-used primary literature, this book places the twentieth-century mental hygiene movement within the broad sweep of modern British psychiatry, offering its own reinterpretation of important elements of this history. Series: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; MBX; MMH; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349458080
- ISBN
- 9781349458080
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Condition: New
€ 66.61
€ 66.61
Paperback. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBL; HBTB; JHBL. 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
- 299
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349458172
- ISBN
- 9781349458172
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Condition: New
€ 67.05
€ 67.05
Paperback. This book reviews the period from the unification of Italy to the fascist era through significant Neapolitan performers such as Gilda Mignonette and Enrico Caruso. It traces the transformation of a popular tradition written in dialect into a popular tradition, written in Italian, that contributed to the production of "American" identity. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJK; HBL; HBTB. 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
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349458356
- ISBN
- 9781349458356
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This book investigates Russia's transformation into a European Power by way of the activities of the tsarist translator and official Andrei Vinius, who became an important advisor to Peter the Great. Vinius emerges as an influential conduit of Western culture and technology, who played a key role in transforming Muscovy into Russia. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJ; HBJD; HBL; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 359.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349458721
- ISBN
- 9781349458721
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Condition: New
€ 66.12
€ 66.12
paperback. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; HBTQ; JNF; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 364.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- SKU
- V9781349458769
- ISBN
- 9781349458769
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Editor(s): Aram, Bethany; Yun Casalilla, Bartolome. Num Pages: 322 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; HBTQ; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 322
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349458912
- ISBN
- 9781349458912
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Condition: New
€ 149.99
€ 149.99
paperback. This much-needed study of the British Empire Exhibition reveals durable, persistent connections between empire and domestic society in Britain during the interwar years. It demonstrates that the Exhibition was a marker of how by 1924, imperial relations were increasingly likely to be shaped by forces located on the colonial periphery. Num Pages: 205 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- SKU
- V9781349459193
- ISBN
- 9781349459193
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.10
€ 66.10
Paperback. An in-depth analysis of Great Britain's policy in the oil-rich Persian Gulf region during the last years of British imperialism in the area, covering the period from the independence of Kuwait to the decision of the Wilson Government to withdraw from the Gulf. Series: Britain and the World. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD1; HBJF; HBL; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 289
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349459926
- ISBN
- 9781349459926
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Through a wide-ranging and close analysis of archival sources, this book re-evaluates both the role of royal authority and of local agency in the French religious wars in the lead up to the Edict of Nantes of 1598. Drawing on extensive research, it provides a new perspective on the political, religious, social and cultural history of the conflict. Series: Early Modern History: Society and Culture. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HPC; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349459940
- ISBN
- 9781349459940
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.12
€ 66.12