History: specific events & topics
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History: specific events & topics
Paperback. The conventional history of sport, as conveyed by television and the sports press, has thrown up a great many apparent turning points, but knowledge of these apparently defining moments is often slight. This book offers readable, in-depth studies of a series of these watersheds in sport history and of the circumstances in which they came about. Editor(s): Wagg, Stephen. Num Pages: 326 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJK; HBTB; JFD; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349316939
- ISBN
- 9781349316939
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Condition: New
€ 62.70
€ 62.70
Paperback. 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 andsituates them in the context of current debates about the public sphere, social movements, and media history." Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; JFSJ; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349316953
- ISBN
- 9781349316953
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€ 61.72
€ 61.72
Paperback. Evil and barbarism continue to be associated with the totalitarian 'extremes' of twentieth-century Europe. Addressing domestic and imperial conflicts in modern Britain and beyond, as well as varied forms of representation, this volume explores the inter-relations of evil, atrocity and civilizational prejudice within liberal cultures of governance. Editor(s): Crook, Tom; Gill, Rebecca; Taithe, Bertrand. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD1; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349316977
- ISBN
- 9781349316977
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Condition: New
€ 62.15
€ 62.15
Paperback. Providing comparative and international contexts to understand the history of the making of the teacher in Victorian England, this is a compelling account of the development during this time of teacher training, inspections and certification - reforms which shaped the good teacher as a modern and moral individual. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; JNA; JNB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349316991
- ISBN
- 9781349316991
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Condition: New
€ 61.67
€ 61.67
Paperback. Includes papers originally presented at the workshop "Beyond Deconstruction: Engaging Colonial Knowledge," held at King's College, Cambridge, in Sept. 2006, as well as some post-conference papers. Editor(s): Roque, Ricardo; Wagner, K. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 306 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBG; HBJF; HBJH; HBL; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 492.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 306
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349317660
- ISBN
- 9781349317660
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Condition: New
€ 62.76
€ 62.76
Paperback. Unique in comparative scope, this volume brings together global scholarship on gender. Thirteen international experts explore the gendered mobilization of men and women in twentieth century European and Asian mass dictatorships and colonial empires, examining both mobilization 'from above' and self-empowerment 'from below'. Editor(s): Lim, Jie-Hyun; Petrone, Karen. Series: Mass Dictatorship in the Twentieth Century. Num Pages: 319 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJF; HBTB; JPA; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2010
- Number of pages
- 319
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349317769
- ISBN
- 9781349317769
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Condition: New
€ 139.42
€ 139.42
Paperback. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; HPC; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 203
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349317882
- ISBN
- 9781349317882
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Condition: New
€ 61.41
€ 61.41
paperback. 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: 292 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBL; HBTB; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- SKU
- V9781349318377
- ISBN
- 9781349318377
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Condition: New
€ 119.18
€ 119.18
paperback. 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: HBTB; JFF; JFFN; JFSL; JHB; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- SKU
- V9781349318476
- ISBN
- 9781349318476
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Condition: New
€ 61.64
€ 61.64
Paperback. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 311 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD1; HBL; HBTQ; JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 311
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349318575
- ISBN
- 9781349318575
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Condition: New
€ 62.74
€ 62.74
Paperback. A new assessment of the debates about Just War in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from the imperial wars of the nineteenth century through the age of total war, the evolution of human rights discourse and international law, to proportionality during the Cold War and the redefinition of authority with the ascendancy of terror groups. Editor(s): Welch, David; Fox, Jo. Num Pages: 397 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBJD; HBL; HBTB; JPA; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 397
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349319411
- ISBN
- 9781349319411
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Condition: New
€ 119.57
€ 119.57
Paperback. Elephants, lions, tigers and leopards evoke fascination and awe, fear and excitement.This bookanalyzes trained acts in twentieth-century live circus and cinema, reveals how humans anthropomorphize animals with their emotions, and interrogates the notion thatanimals embody a phenomenology of emotions and feelings in culture Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AP; AS; HBTB; JMQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349319619
- ISBN
- 9781349319619
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Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Paperback. What are the means available to poetry to address crisis and how can both poets and critics meet the conflicts and challenges they face? This collection of essays addresses poetic and critical responses to the various crises encountered by contemporary writers and our society, from the Holocaust to the ecological crisis. Editor(s): Karhio, Anne; Armstrong, C. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSC; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349319817
- ISBN
- 9781349319817
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Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Paperback. For those who study memory, there is a nagging concern that memory studies are inherently backward-looking, and that memory itself hinders efforts to move forward. Unhinging memory from the past, this book brings together an interdisciplinary group of prominent scholars who bring the future into the study of memory. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSR; JPVH; VFX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 345.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349319893
- ISBN
- 9781349319893
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Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Paperback. Irish culture is obsessed with the past, and this book asks why and how. In an innovative reading of Irish culture since 1980, Emilie Pine provides a new analysis of theatre, film, television, memoir and art, and interrogates the anti-nostalgia that characterizes so much of contemporary Irish culture. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; HBJD1; HBTB; JFC; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349319916
- ISBN
- 9781349319916
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Condition: New
€ 118.03
€ 118.03
Paperback. Crisis in the Global Mediasphere examines the evolution of contemporary global crises as an effect of mediation and cultural change. The book argues that a crisis consciousness has emerged through the interaction of crisis conditions and a more expansive human desire for pleasure. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTC; HBTB; JFD; JFFS; KN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 253
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349319930
- ISBN
- 9781349319930
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Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
paperback. "In association with the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London." Editor(s): Owens, W. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- SKU
- V9781349320059
- ISBN
- 9781349320059
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Condition: New
€ 61.67
€ 61.67
The History of Reading. Evidence from the British Isles, c.1750-1950.
. Ed(S): Halsey, K.; Owens, W.
Paperback. 'Reading has a history. But how can we recover it?'This volumebrings together original research essays focusing on the history of reading in the British Isles, using evidence ranging from library records to Mass Observation surveystohighlight the social factors that influence a seemingly private, individual activity." Editor(s): Halsey, K.; Owens, W. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349320110
- ISBN
- 9781349320110
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Condition: New
€ 61.98
€ 61.98
Paperback. We inhabit a textually super-saturated and increasingly literate world. This volume encourages readers to consider the diverse methodologies used by historians of reading globally, and indicates how future research might take up the challenge of recording and interpreting the practices of readers in an increasingly digitized society. Editor(s): Crone, Rosalind; Towheed, Shafquat. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 325.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349320134
- ISBN
- 9781349320134
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Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
paperback. Using detailed studies of fifteen exiled royal figures, the role of Exile in European Society and in the evolution of national cultures is examined. From the Jacobite court to the exiled Kings' of Hanover, the book provides an alternative history of monarchical power from the 16th to 20th century. Editor(s): Mansel, Philip; Riotte, Torsten. Num Pages: 373 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; HBW; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Number of pages
- 373
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349320660
- ISBN
- 9781349320660
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 119.72
€ 119.72