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History: specific events & topics
Hardcover. A collection of essays by leading historians of early modern Europe and the U.S., this books explores how merchants, entrepreneurs, and other early modern capitalists viewed themselves. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230604476
- ISBN
- 9780230604476
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.95
€ 62.95
Hardcover. A thorough survey of the origins and development of the major distinct American commercial entertainments that emerged between over the course of the 19th century and into the 20th, including P.T. Barnum_s American Museum, freak show, and circus, as well as blackface minstrelry, Buffalo Bill_s Wild West Show, and vaudeville. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230604490
- ISBN
- 9780230604490
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.51
€ 62.51
Hardcover. This book narrates and analyzes the southern tours that Booker T. Washington and his associates undertook in 1908-1912, relating them to Washington's racial philosophy and its impact on the various parts of black society. Num Pages: 260 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJC; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230606524
- ISBN
- 9780230606524
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.95
€ 62.95
Hardcover. The book narrates the story of how the school, founded by women pioneers of public education in a Rocky Mountain mining settlement, became the centre and sustaining force of the town's community life from its beginning in the 1870s to the present day. Num Pages: 228 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBTB; JFSJ1; JNL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230608351
- ISBN
- 9780230608351
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 43.91
€ 54.99
€ 43.91
Overcoming Katrina: African American Voices from the Crescent City and...
Penner, D'Ann R., Ferdinand, Keith C.
Hardcover. This books brings together the narrated autobiographies of black New Orleanians, united by their residence in New Orleans, Louisiana during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3JMC; HBJK; HBLX; HBTB; JFSL3; RNR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230608702
- ISBN
- 9780230608702
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.23
€ 63.23
Paperback. This books brings together the narrated autobiographies of black New Orleanians, united by their residence in New Orleans, Louisiana during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3JMC; HBJK; HBLX; HBTB; JFSL3; RNR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458. African American Voices from the Crescent City and Beyond. 288 pages, Illustrations, maps. This books brings together the narrated autobiographies of black New Orleanians, united by their residence in New Orleans, Louisiana during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3JMC; HBJK; HBLX; HBTB; JFSL3; RNR. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 18. Weight: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230608719
- ISBN
- 9780230608719
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.51
€ 62.51
Paperback. This book is the result of a four-year, in-depth study using social science methodology of those refugees who came as children or youths from Central Europe to the United States during the 1930s and 1940s, fleeing persecution from the National Socialist regime. This study examines their fates in their new country, their successes and tribulations. Num Pages: 265 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 265
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230609075
- ISBN
- 9780230609075
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Gulag Voices: Oral Histories of Soviet Incarceration and Exile (Palgra...
Gheith, Jehanne M, Jolluck, Katherine R.
Paperback. This volume brings the powerful voices of Gulag survivors to and English-speaking audience for the first time through oral histories, rather than written memoirs. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 256 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJ; HBTD; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230610637
- ISBN
- 9780230610637
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.81
€ 36.81
Hardcover. This book offers a fascinating look at the tangled history of plant life and reproductive medicine, from antiquity to the present Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBT; VXHT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230610644
- ISBN
- 9780230610644
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.11
€ 150.11
Hardcover. This book explores the experiences and writings of four teachers at the University of Chicago Laboratory School, both to investigate their lives as female professionals during the Progressive era, and to add to our understanding of this innovative institution and how these philosophies and innovations have carried out to this day. Num Pages: 241 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; HBTB; JFSJ1; JNKH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230610736
- ISBN
- 9780230610736
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.48
€ 62.48
Hardcover. This book contains the final report of Germany's 'Remembrance, Responsibility, and Future' Foundation, giving a comprehensive history of the country's use of slave labor during World War II and the complex process by which reparations for survivors were negotiated. Editor(s): Jansen, Michael. Num Pages: 232 pages, 43 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJH; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 20. Weight in Grams: 750.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230612648
- ISBN
- 9780230612648
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.26
€ 63.26
Hardcover. Anna Riehl investigates the aesthetic, political, and gender-related meanings inscribed in Queen Elizabeth I's face by her contemporaries. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 248 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3J; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230614956
- ISBN
- 9780230614956
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.21
€ 119.21
Hardcover. Gender and Decolonization in the Congo focuses on women and questions of gender in its examination of Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961), the assassinated leader of the independent Congo. Num Pages: 247 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFJC; HBTR; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615571
- ISBN
- 9780230615571
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.70
€ 62.70
Hardcover. This collection brings together essays that explore the history and practices of testimonial marketing in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Editor(s): Moskowitz, Marina; Schweitzer, Marlis. Num Pages: 240 pages, 18 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JMC; HBTB; KJS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615601
- ISBN
- 9780230615601
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. In a clear and accessible style, this book theorizes female movement within narratives of enslavement and advocates for a changed black female consciousness. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSK; HBTS; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615939
- ISBN
- 9780230615939
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616806
- ISBN
- 9780230616806
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.74
€ 119.74
Hardcover. At once a diplomatic history and case study of African foreign policy and presidential leadership, this book illustrates how development and security assistance were used by the US as antidotes against communism in the Cold War and how Liberia was able occasionally to profit from the arrangement. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFDL; 1KBB; HBLW3; HBTW; JPSD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230617353
- ISBN
- 9780230617353
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.79
€ 62.79
Hardcover. This book examines how American Protestants, Catholics and Jews responded to the persecution of Jews in Germany and German-occupied territory in the 1930s. The essays focus on American religious responses to Kristallnacht and represent the first examination of multi-religious group responses to the beginnings of the Holocaust. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTZ1; HRA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618060
- ISBN
- 9780230618060
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.13
€ 119.13
Hardcover. This book presents some in-depth cases regarding specific informal economic activities in Brazil. Using an ethnographic approach, the author shows the social and economic processes that allow the informal economy to be reproduced, revealing the complex and heterogeneous relations between the formal and the informal parts of economy. Num Pages: 270 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; HBTB; JH; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 209 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618176
- ISBN
- 9780230618176
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.79
€ 62.79
Hardcover. This book explores one of the most dramatic and scandalous events in the movement for American democratic reform. Dubbed the Memorial Day Massacre, it saw Chicago police shoot and kill ten demonstrators and beat more than one hundred others as they tried to form a mass picket line at the Republic Steel Plant in South Chicago. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; 3JJ; HBTB; JPHV; KNXB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618213
- ISBN
- 9780230618213
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.79
€ 62.79