History: specific events & topics
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History: specific events & topics
Hardback. The first full-length study of Madrid's transformation from the dreary home of a former dictatorship to a modern and vibrant city. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJPN; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230106413
- ISBN
- 9780230106413
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.71
€ 67.71
Hardback. Holocaust as Fiction seeks to explain and critically evaluate the extraordinary success of Schlink's internationally acclaimed novel, The Reader, the widely read "Selb" detective trilogy, and two popular films based closely on his work. Num Pages: 268 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JJH; DSBH; DSK; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 172 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108073
- ISBN
- 9780230108073
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.82
€ 116.82
Hardback. Weimar Culture Revisited is the first book to offer an accessible cross-section of new cultural history approaches to the Weimar Republic. This collection uses an interdisciplinary approach and focuses on the everyday workings of Weimar culture to explain the impact and meaning of culture for German's everyday lives during this fateful era. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230109421
- ISBN
- 9780230109421
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardback. This book brings together fascinating testimonies from thirty inhabitants of the 'Kommunalka,' the communal apartments that were the norm in housing in the cities of Russia during the whole history of the Soviet Union. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 184 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVU; HBTB; HBTD; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 289 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110168
- ISBN
- 9780230110168
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Hardback. This book focuses on the western Balkans in the period 1820-1912, in particular on the peoples and social groups that the later national history would claim to have been Albanians, providing a revisionist exploration of national identity prior to the establishment of the nation-state. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1DV; 3JH; HBJD; HBTB; HBTK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110182
- ISBN
- 9780230110182
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.90
€ 127.90
Hardback. An examination of a pivotal moment in the history of science through the career and cultural impact of the historically neglected Victorian physicist John Tyndall,establishing him as an important figure of the period, whose scientific discoveries and philosophy of science in society are still relevant today. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBTB; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 22. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 279
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110533
- ISBN
- 9780230110533
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Hardback. Folk singer and labor organizer John Handcox was born to illiterate sharecroppers, but went on to become one of the most beloved folk singers of the prewar labor movement. This beautifully told oral history gives us Handcox in his own words, recounting a journey that began in the Deep South and went on to shape the labor music tradition. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 244 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AVGH; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; HBTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230111271
- ISBN
- 9780230111271
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.65
€ 67.65
Paperback. Folk singer and labor organizer John Handcox was born to illiterate sharecroppers, but went on to become one of the most beloved folk singers of the prewar labor movement. This beautifully told oral history gives us Handcox in his own words, recounting a journey that began in the Deep South and went on to shape the labor music tradition. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 244 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AVGH; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; HBTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 173 x 15. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230111288
- ISBN
- 9780230111288
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.73
€ 71.73
Paperback. In this book, Weikart helps unlock the mystery of Hitler's evil by vividly demonstrating the surprising conclusion that Hitler's immorality flowed from a coherent ethic. Hitler was inspired by evolutionary ethics to pursue the utopian project of biologically improving the human race. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBTZ1; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112735
- ISBN
- 9780230112735
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.06
€ 127.06
Hardback. This volume seeks to revise the Saidian analytical framework which dominated research on the subject of colonial knowledge for almost two decades, which emphasized colonial knowledge as a series of representations of colonial hegemony. It seeks to contribute to research in the field by analyzing knowledge in colonial India as a dynamic process. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FK; 1FM; 3JH; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 215 x 21. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113374
- ISBN
- 9780230113374
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Paperback. From Freud onward, psychoanalytic thinkers have looked to history for insights into the human mind, while historians have been much more ambivalent about the value of psychoanalysis. The interdisciplinary contributions gathered here offer an invaluable survey of this complex and contested field. Editor(s): Alexander, Sally; Taylor, Barbara. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 354 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113855
- ISBN
- 9780230113855
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 139.43
€ 139.43
Hardback. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJ; HBTB; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114104
- ISBN
- 9780230114104
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardback. Neither a case study of a particular genocide nor a work of comparative genocide, this book explores the political constraints and imperatives that motivate debates about genocide in the academic world and, to a lesser extent, in the political arena. The book is an analysis of the ways that political interests shape discourse about genocide. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTZ; JPS; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 229 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114142
- ISBN
- 9780230114142
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.52
€ 67.52
Hardback. The book concerns the new World Irish, tracing the developing profile of the Irish in America from the Famine forward. The studies draw their material from roughly a one-hundred-year arc of Irish presence and relevance in American life and they would serve as American as well as Irish-American studies. Series: New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116962
- ISBN
- 9780230116962
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.28
€ 67.28
Hardcover. This book offers a transnational look at the history of Japanese chemistry and its interactions with the West in the late nineteenth to early twentieth century. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 279 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJF; HBLL; PN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230117785
- ISBN
- 9780230117785
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardback. The book explores the hotly disputed process by which the census was created and developed and examines how a wide cast of characters, including statisticians, novelists, national and local officials, political and social reformers, and journalists responded to and used the idea of a census. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 169 x 244 x 22. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230119376
- ISBN
- 9780230119376
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.21
€ 68.21
Hardcover. Studying cultural memory of the Grenada Revolution as it surfaces in literature, music, the visual arts, law, landscape, and everyday life, this book approaches the 1979-1983 Grenada Revolution as a pan-Caribbean event. Puri reveals the deep consequences for Caribbean politics and culture even today. Series: New Caribbean Studies. Num Pages: 360 pages, 51 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 1KJWWG; 3JJPL; DSBH5; HBTV; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120327
- ISBN
- 9780230120327
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.31
€ 68.31
Hardcover. This is the first book in English to examine, through material in the popular press, the radical changes that took place in Japanese ideas about sex, romance and male-female relations in the wake of Japan's defeat and occupation by Allied forces at the end of the Second World War. Num Pages: 251 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJPG; HBTB; JFCA; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120594
- ISBN
- 9780230120594
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.67
€ 116.67
Paperback. As home to 1920s excess and Hitler's Final Solution, Berlin's physical and symbolic landscape was an important staging ground for the highs and lows of modernity. In Cold War Berlin, social and political boundaries were porous, and the rubble gave refuge to a re-emerging gay and lesbian scene, youth gangs, prostitutes, hoods, and hustlers. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 317 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 487.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 317
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230202023
- ISBN
- 9780230202023
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.78
€ 72.78
Hardback. This book, now in paperback, revisits Peter Townsend's classic study of residential care for older people in Britain conducted in the late 1950s. It provides not only a fascinating account of residential care for older people over the last 50 years but is also an important contribution to the literature on research methods. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBTB; JFSP31; JHBC; JKSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230202429
- ISBN
- 9780230202429
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.31
€ 67.31