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Hardcover. A history of French homosexuals since 1942 in the interconnected realms of law, politics and the media, with a focus on the complex relationship between French republican values and the possibilities they have offered for change in each of these three spheres. Num Pages: 175 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJP; 3JMC; HBTB; JFSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230221055
ISBN
9780230221055
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.45

Hardcover. Interdoc was established in 1963 by Western intelligence services as a multinational effort to coordinate an anti-communist offensive. Drawing on exclusive sources and the memories of its participants, this book charts Interdoc's campaign, the people and ideas that lay behind it and the rise and fall of this remarkable network during the Cold War. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 404 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLW3; HBTW; JPS; JWKF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 27. Weight in Grams: 606.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230221260
ISBN
9780230221260
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.95

Hardcover. It is well known that much of our modern vocabulary of sex emerged within nineteenth-century German sexology. But how were the 'German ideas' translated and transmitted into English culture? This study provides an examination of the formation of sexual theory between the 1860s and 1930s and its migration across national and disciplinary boundaries. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; HBTB; JFCX; JHBK5; JMU. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230221635
ISBN
9780230221635
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. Imperial expositions held in fin-de-siecle London, Paris and Berlin were knots in a world wide web. Conceptualizing expositions as meta-media, Fleeting Cities constitutes a transnational and transdisciplinary investigation into how modernity was created and displayed, consumed and disputed in the European metropolis around 1900. Num Pages: 423 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 162 x 31. Weight in Grams: 800.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
426
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230221642
ISBN
9780230221642
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 131.30

Hardcover. A fascinating anthology of narratives from the period 1735-1830, by European women who recount their enslavement in North Africa. The first such collection, it includes an extensive introduction which links the discourse on contemporary Western women captives in Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq with that of former white captives in North Africa. Num Pages: 321 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HB; 3JF; 3JH; HBJH; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 224 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230221987
ISBN
9780230221987
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.57
€ 136.94

Hardcover. This book is a history of the emergence and development of the concept of proportional representation and its relation to political theory within the context of nineteenth-century British party politics focusing on Thomas Hare (1806-1891). Series: Studies in Modern History. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JPHF; JPQ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 224 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 478. Series: Studies in Modern History. 304 pages. This book is a history of the emergence and development of the concept of proportional representation and its relation to political theory within the context of nineteenth-century British party politics focusing on Thomas Hare (1806-1891). Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JPHF; JPQ. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 21. Weight: 478.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230221994
ISBN
9780230221994
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.35

Hardcover. This innovative urban history of Dublin explores the symbols and spaces of the Irish capital between the Restoration in 1660 and the advent of neoclassical public architecture in the 1770s. The meanings ascribed to statues, churches, houses, and public buildings are traced in detail, using a wide range of visual and written sources. Series: Early Modern History: Society and Culture. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JD; 3JF; AMX; HBJD1; HBTB; HRCC9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230223899
ISBN
9780230223899
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.26

Hardcover. An examination of how the US military in Hawaii is depicted by museum curators, memorial builders, film makers, and newspaper reporters. These mediums convey information, and engage their audiences, in ways that, together, form a powerful advocacy for the benefits of militarism in the islands. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1MKPH; HBJK; HBJM; HBTQ; HBW; JFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468. Colonialism, Memory and Resistance. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. 288 pages, 46 black & white illustrations. An examination of how the US military in Hawaii is depicted by museum curators, memorial builders, film makers, and newspaper reporters. These mediums convey information, and engage their audiences, in ways that, together, form a powerful advocacy for the benefits of militarism in the islands. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1MKPH; HBJK; HBJM; HBTQ; HBW; JFD. Dimension: 226 x 143 x 21. Weight: 468.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230227828
ISBN
9780230227828
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.16

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

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230230972
ISBN
9780230230972
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. With a focus on colonial Bengal, this book demonstrates how the dynamics of agrarian prosperity or decline, communal conflicts, poverty and famine can only be properly understood from an ecological perspective as well as discussions of state's coercion and popular resistance, market forces and dependency, or contested cultures and consciousness. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 21 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBTB; RNC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230231832
ISBN
9780230231832
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.03

Hardcover. Surveying irreverent and controversial representations of the Holocaust - from Sylvia Plath and the Sex Pistols to Quentin Tarantino and Holocaust comedy - Matthew Boswell considers how they might play an important role in shaping our understanding of the Nazi genocide and what it means to be human. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBTB; HBTZ1; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230231955
ISBN
9780230231955
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.04

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

Hardcover. An exploration of the ways in which children learned and were taught to read, against the background of the transition from Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic. This study gives us a fresh perspective on the transition from empire to republic by showing us the ways that reading was central to the construction of modernity. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 1QDT; CJCR; HBTB; JN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 224 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230232969
ISBN
9780230232969
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.99

Hardcover. An examination of how female same-sex desires were represented in a wide range of Italian and British medical writings, 1870-1920. It shows how the psychiatric category of sexual inversion was positioned alongside other medical ideas of same-sex desires, such as the virago, tribade-prostitute, fiamma and gynaecological explanations. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DST; 3JH; 3JJC; HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSK1; MBX; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 24. Weight in Grams: 516.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
2012th Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230234987
ISBN
9780230234987
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.27

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

Hardcover. We live in the age of international crime but when did it begin? This book examines the period when crime became an international issue (1881-1914), exploring issues such as 'world-shrinking' changes in transportation, communication and commerce, and concerns about alien criminality, white slave trading and anarchist outrages. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJC; HBTB; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230238183
ISBN
9780230238183
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.61

Paperback. A challenge to dominant arguments for the medical and legal construction of male homosexual identities in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. Examines masculinity as a social status, and its influence in shaping attitudes towards sex and sexuality between men and in fostering resistance to the recognition of these phenomena. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJC; HBTB; JFSK2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230238565
ISBN
9780230238565
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 138.81

Hardcover. A unique look at the meaning of the taste for wine in Britain, from the establishment of a Commonwealth in 1649 to the Commercial Treaty between Britain and France in 1860 - this book provides an extraordinary window into the politics and culture of England and Scotland just as they were becoming the powerful British state. Num Pages: 371 pages, 66 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD1; HBTB; JFCV; WBXD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 26. Weight in Grams: 698.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
374
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230238657
ISBN
9780230238657
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.59

Hardcover. Highlighting the contributions of feminist media history to media studies and related disciplines, this book focuses on feminist periodicals emerging from or reacting to the Edwardian suffrage campaign and situates them in the context of current debates about the public sphere, social movements, and media history. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBTB; JFD; JFFK; JFSJ1; JPVH1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230241268
ISBN
9780230241268
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.86

Hardcover. This book explores the world of religious thinking on imprisonment, and how images of imprisonment were used in monastic thought, the cult of saints, the early inquisitions, preaching and hagiographical literature and the world of the crusades to describe a conception of inclusion and freedom that was especially meaningful to medieval Christians. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3H; HBJD; HBLC1; HBTB; HRCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230242487
ISBN
9780230242487
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.07

Hardcover. Based on thousands of letters written by patients and their relatives and on a wide range of other sources, this book provides the first comprehensive account of how early modern people understood, experienced and dealt with common diseases and how they dealt with them on a day-to-day basis. Num Pages: 298 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; HBTB; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 146 x 24. Weight in Grams: 492.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230243439
ISBN
9780230243439
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.71

Hardcover. Based on a flagship research project for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's Immigration and Inclusion programme, this book argues that social cohesion is achieved through people (new arrivals as well as the long-term settled) being able to resolve the conflicts and tensions within their day-to-day lives in ways that they find positive and viable. Series: Identity Studies in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBTB; JFFN; JFSC; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 219 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230243552
ISBN
9780230243552
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.80

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230243644
ISBN
9780230243644
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.72

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