History: specific events & topics
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History: specific events & topics
Hardcover. This collection of essays explores the inter-imperial connections between British, Spanish, Dutch, and French Caribbean colonies, and the 'Old World' countries which founded them. Grounded in primary archival research, the thirteen contributors focus on the ways that participants in the Atlantic World economy transcended imperial boundaries. Editor(s): Leonard, Adrian; Pretel, David. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 333 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; HBJK; HBTQ; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 24. Weight in Grams: 514.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137432711
- ISBN
- 9781137432711
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.11
€ 151.11
Hardcover. To follow. Editor(s): Leonard, Adrian. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance. Num Pages: 337 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3H; 3J; HBTM; KFFN; KJZ; KNGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 267 x 24. Weight in Grams: 554.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137411372
- ISBN
- 9781137411372
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Condition: New
€ 181.40
€ 181.40
Hardcover. This collection explores the ways in which traumatic experience becomes a part of public memory. It explores the premise that traumatic events are realities; they happen in the world, not in the fantasy life of individuals or in the narrative frames of our televisions and cinemas. Editor(s): Goodall, Jane; Lee, Christopher. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JFFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137406798
- ISBN
- 9781137406798
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Condition: New
€ 62.56
€ 62.56
Hardcover. This book examines how theatre in its various forms adapted itself to the new conditions of 1914-1918. Contributors draw on a range of source materials to show the different kinds of theatrical provision and performance cultures in operation not only in London but across parts of Britain and also in Australia and at the Front. Editor(s): Maunder, Andrew. Num Pages: 328 pages, 15 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJF; AN; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 27. Weight in Grams: 534.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137401991
- ISBN
- 9781137401991
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Condition: New
€ 119.82
€ 119.82
Hardcover. A critical assessment of one of Britain's foremost historians and university leaders of the second half of the 20th century. Editor(s): Taylor, Miles. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJP; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 23. Weight in Grams: 520.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137392572
- ISBN
- 9781137392572
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.51
€ 63.51
Hardcover. The book brings together original, state-of-the-art historical research from several continents and examines how mainly local peasant societies responded to colonial pressures to produce a range of different commodities. It offers new directions in the study of African, Asian, Caribbean, and Latin American societies. Editor(s): Hazareesingh, Sandip; Maat, Harro. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 232 pages, 10 figures, 4 tables. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137381095
- ISBN
- 9781137381095
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.69
€ 108.69
Hardcover. 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; HBTB; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 518.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137378682
- ISBN
- 9781137378682
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Condition: New
€ 62.82
€ 62.82
Hardcover. American ideals and models feature prominently in the master narrative of post-war European consumer societies. This book demonstrates that Europeans did not appropriate a homogenous notion of America, rather post-war European consumption was a process of selective appropriation of American elements. Editor(s): Lundin, Per; Kaiserfeld, Thomas. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 280 pages, 25 figures. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB; JFFT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137374035
- ISBN
- 9781137374035
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.59
€ 62.59
Hardcover. After World War II, the AFL-CIO pursued an ambitious agenda of containing global communism and helping to throw off the shackles of colonialism. This sweeping collection brings together contributions from leading historians to explore its successes, challenges, and inevitable compromises as it pursued these initiatives during the Cold War. Editor(s): Goethem, Geert van; Waters, Robert Anthony,, Jr. Num Pages: 313 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBLW3; HBTB; HBTK; HBTW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 236 x 23. Weight in Grams: 604.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137360212
- ISBN
- 9781137360212
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.56
€ 129.56
Hardcover. Europe's critical infrastructure is a key concern to policymakers, NGOs, companies, and citizens today. This book argues that present-day infrastructure vulnerabilities resulted from choices of infrastructure builders in the past. Editor(s): Hogselius, Per; Hommels, Anique; Kaijser, Arne; Vleuten, Erik van der. Num Pages: 313 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 634.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137358721
- ISBN
- 9781137358721
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.94
€ 63.94
Paperback. 'The only true history of a country', wrote Thomas Macaulay, 'is to be found in its newspapers'. Media and the British Empire explores how the media shaped and defined the economic, social, political and cultural dynamics of the British Empire by viewing it from the perspective of the colonized as well as the colonizers. Editor(s): Kaul, Chandrika. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDB; HBAH; HBTQ; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137358318
- ISBN
- 9781137358318
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Condition: New
€ 118.57
€ 118.57
Hardcover. Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950 explores a range of real and fictional colonial girlhood experiences from Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa, India, New Zealand, Australia, England, Ireland, and Canada to reflect on the transitional state of girlhood between childhood and adulthood. Editor(s): Moruzi, Kristine; Smith, Michelle J. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137356345
- ISBN
- 9781137356345
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.00
€ 63.00
Hardcover. Moving beyond the current fixation on "state construction," the interdisciplinary work gathered here explores regulatory authority in South Sudan's borderlands from both contemporary and historical perspectives. Taken together, these studies show how emerging governance practices challenge the bounded categorizations of "state" and "non-state." Editor(s): Vaughan, Christopher; Schomerus, Mareike; De Vries, Lotje. Series: Palgrave Series in African Borderlands Studies. Num Pages: 260 pages, 5 maps, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1HBS; HBTR; JPHC; JPR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137340887
- ISBN
- 9781137340887
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.98
€ 61.98
Hardcover. Because oral history interviews are personal interactions between human beings, they rarely conform to a methodological ideal. These reflections from oral historians provide honest and rigorous analyses of actual oral history practice that address the complexities of a human-centered methodology. Editor(s): Sheftel, Anna; Zembrzycki, Stacey. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 326 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBA; HBTD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 235 x 23. Weight in Grams: 638.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137339638
- ISBN
- 9781137339638
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.66
€ 73.66
Hardcover. This volume explores some of the critical reconfigurations of the Union as wrought by the Civil War and offer insights into public memory of what the conflict signified. Editor(s): Morgan, Iwan W.; Davies, Philip John. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; HBWJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 164 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137336477
- ISBN
- 9781137336477
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.12
€ 62.12
Hardcover. Drawing on extensive new research, and bringing much new scholarship before English readers for the first time, this wide-ranging volume examines how knowledge was created and circulated throughout the Dutch Empire, and how these processes compared with those of the Imperial Britain, Spain, and Russia. Editor(s): Boomgaard, Peter. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 328 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDN; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 170 x 23. Weight in Grams: 502.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137334015
- ISBN
- 9781137334015
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.26
€ 119.26
Hardcover. The industrial age has proved to be a formative period for Europe. Industrial heritage nowadays bears witness to the development that took place in differently structured regions. This volume presents different paths of industrial development and gives an overview of the concepts of regions, used among economic, social and cultural historians. Editor(s): Czierpka, Juliane; Oerters, Kathrin; Thorade, Nora. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements. Num Pages: 306 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBTB; HBTK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 222 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137333407
- ISBN
- 9781137333407
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.39
€ 62.39
Hardcover. This interdisciplinary volume aims to understand the linkages between the origins and aftermaths of genocide. Exploring social dynamics and human behaviour, this collection considers the interplay of various psychological, political, anthropological and historical factors at work in genocidal processes. Editor(s): Ingelaere, Bert; Parmentier, Stephan; Haers, Jacques; Segaert, Barbara. Series: Rethinking Political Violence. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 graphs, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: HBTZ; JFFE; JFM; JPS; LAQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137332424
- ISBN
- 9781137332424
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.82
€ 62.82
Hardcover. This volume in the series Mass Dictatorship in the Twentieth Century series sees twelve Swedish, Korean and Japanese scholars, theorists, and historians of fiction and non-fiction probe the literary subject of life in 20th century mass dictatorships. Editor(s): Schoenhals, Michael; Sarsenov, Karin. Series: Mass Dictatorship in the Twentieth Century. Num Pages: 327 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBLW; HBTB; JPF; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137330680
- ISBN
- 9781137330680
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.69
€ 119.69
Hardcover. Bringing together renowned scholars in the field with younger researchers, this interdisciplinary study of the history of post-war industrial policy in Europe investigates transfers across borders and locates industrial policy in the context of the Cold War from a global perspective. Editor(s): Grabas, Christian; Nutzenadel, Alexander. Num Pages: 401 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTK; HBTW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 165 x 27. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137329899
- ISBN
- 9781137329899
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.79
€ 63.79