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History: specific events & topics
Hardcover. The first survey in the English language of the history of naturalistic monism in the works of Haeckel, Spinoza, and others. Contributors demonstrate that, to a greater extent than previously shown, monism provided an essential epistemological framework for numerous religious, political and cultural movements between the 1840s and 1940s. Editor(s): Weir, Todd H. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; HPCF5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113732
- ISBN
- 9780230113732
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover. This volume fills this gap by examining the many ways in which political parties, the business world, foreign policymakers, and the intelligence community experienced, confronted, and even actively contributed to domestic and transnational forms of dissent. Editor(s): Fahlenbrach, Kathrin; Klimke, Martin; Scharloth, Joachim; Wong, Laura. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 261 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJP; HBLW3; HBTB; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 546.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114982
- ISBN
- 9780230114982
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.61
€ 67.61
Hardcover. Radically rethinks the theoretical parameters through which we interpret both current and past ideas of captivity, adoption, and slavery among Native American societies in an interdisciplinary perspective. Highlights the importance of the interaction between perceptions, representations and lived experience associated with the facts of slavery. Editor(s): Pratt, Stephanie; Carocci, Max. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBJK; HBTS; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115057
- ISBN
- 9780230115057
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 47.33
€ 53.36
€ 47.33
Hardcover. The study of lynching in US history has become a well-developed area of scholarship. However, scholars have rarely included comparative or transnational perspectives when studying the American case, although lynching and communal punishment have occurred in most societies throughout history. Editor(s): Berg, Manfred; Wendt, Simon. Num Pages: 260 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115880
- ISBN
- 9780230115880
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardcover. Drawing on a wide range of studies of Europe, the United States, Asia, and Africa, the contributions gathered here consider how political history, business history, the history of science, cultural history, gender history, intellectual history, anthropology, and even environmental history can help us decode modern consumer societies. Editor(s): Berghoff, Hartmut; Spiekerman, Uwe. Series: Worlds of Consumption. Num Pages: 296 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFFT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116627
- ISBN
- 9780230116627
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.35
€ 68.35
Hardcover. EPUB Editor(s): Gordon-Chipembere, Natasha. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; HBTM; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230117792
- ISBN
- 9780230117792
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62
Paperback. Environmental History as a distinct discipline is now over a generation old, with a large and diverse group of practitioners around the globe. This book provides a reflection on the achievements, diversity, and direction of environmental history in its varied national, international and continental contexts. Editor(s): Sorlin, Sverker; Warde, Paul. Num Pages: 380 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBTB; RNA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230203471
- ISBN
- 9780230203471
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.63
€ 128.63
Hardcover. This volume addresses war, developing political and national identities and the changing gender regimes of Europe and the Americas between 1775 and 1830. Military and civilian experiences of war and revolution, in free and slave societies, both reflected and shaped gender concepts and practices, in relation to class, ethnicity, race and religion. Editor(s): Hagemann, Karen; Mettele, Gisela; Rendall, Jane. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 391 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 394
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230218000
- ISBN
- 9780230218000
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.89
€ 128.89
Hardcover. Featuring contributions by new and established nineteenth-century theatre scholars, this collection of critical essays is the first of its kind devoted solely to Victorian pantomime. It takes us through the various manifestations of British pantomime in the Victorian period and its ambivalent relationship with Victorian values. Editor(s): Davis, Jim. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; ASZH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 220 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230221598
- ISBN
- 9780230221598
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.58
€ 116.58
Hardcover. Charts the making of colonial spaces in settler colonies of the Pacific Rim during the last two centuries. Contributions journey through time, place and region, and piece together interwoven but discrete studies that illuminate transnational and local experiences - violent, ideological, and cultural - that produced settler-colonial space. Editor(s): Banivanua-Mar, Tracey; Edmonds, Penelope. Num Pages: 320 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1MB; 1QRP; HBJM; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 146 x 22. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230221796
- ISBN
- 9780230221796
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.52
€ 161.52
Hardcover. An examination of population movements, both forced and voluntary, within the broader context of Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War, in both Western and Eastern Europe. The authors bring to life problems of war and post-war chaos, and assess lasting social, political and demographic consequences. Editor(s): Reinisch, Jessica; White, Elizabeth. Num Pages: 379 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJPG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JHBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 27. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 380
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230222045
- ISBN
- 9780230222045
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.75
€ 128.75
Hardcover. Clerics in the Middle Ages were subjected to differing ideals of masculinity, both from within the Church and from lay society. The historians in this volume interrogate the meaning of masculine identity for the medieval clergy, by considering a wide range of sources, time periods and geographical contexts. Editor(s): Thibodeaux, Jennifer D. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB; HRAX; JFSJ2. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462. Priests, Monks and Masculinity in the Middle Ages. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. 288 pages, 0. Editor(s): Thibodeaux, Jennifer D. Clerics in the Middle Ages were subjected to differing ideals of masculinity, both from within the Church and from lay society. The historians in this volume interrogate the meaning of masculine identity for the medieval clergy, by considering a wide range of sources, time periods and geographical contexts. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB; HRAX; JFSJ2. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 21. Weight: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230222205
- ISBN
- 9780230222205
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Hardcover. Bringing together the latest research on the neglected area of second-hand exchange and consumption, this book offers fresh insights into the buying and selling of used goods in western-Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and seeks to re-examine and redefine the relationship between modernity and the second-hand trade. Editor(s): Stobart, Dr. Jon; Van Damme, Ilja. Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; JFFT; KCZ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229464
- ISBN
- 9780230229464
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.76
€ 67.76
Hardcover. The first book-length study to critically examine the recent wave of Hitler biopics in German cinema and television. A group of international experts discuss films like Downfall in the context of earlier portrayals of Hitler and draw out their implications for the changing place of the Third Reich in the national historical imagination. Editor(s): Machtans, Karolin; Ruehl, Dr. Martin A. Series: The Holocaust and its Contexts. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; APFN; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229907
- ISBN
- 9780230229907
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.28
€ 67.28
Hardcover. This collection of essays draws on fresh readings of classic texts as well as rigorous research in the archives of Europe's greatest imperial power. Its contributors paint a powerful picture of the nature and implementation of political economy in the long eighteenth century, from the East to the West Indies. Editor(s): Reinert, Sophus A.; Roge, Pernille. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDB; HBLH; HBTQ; KCP; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230644
- ISBN
- 9780230230644
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. This book explores the relationships between European integration and material infrastructures. Taking transnational infrastructures as the focal point of study, the book focuses on the various forms of mediation between the material, institutional and discursive levels of European integration and fragmentation in a truly transnational perspective. Editor(s): Badenoch, Alexander; Fickers, Andreas. Num Pages: 344 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB; KCZ; PDR. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 224 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232891
- ISBN
- 9780230232891
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.71
€ 67.71
Paperback. In a lively critique of how international and comparative political economy misjudge the relationship between global markets and states, this book demonstrates the central place of the American state in today's world of globalized finance. The contributors set aside traditional emphases on military intervention, looking instead to economics. Editor(s): Panitch, Leo; Konings, Martijn. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 345 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTQ; KCLF; KCP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 448.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230236080
- ISBN
- 9780230236080
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.12
€ 128.12
Hardcover. The transnationalism of ordinary lives threatens the stability of national identity and unsettles the framework of national histories and biography. This book takes mobility, not nation, as its frame, and captures a rich array of lives, from the elite to the subaltern, that have crossed national, racial and cartographic boundaries. Editor(s): Deacon, Desley; Russell, Penny; Woollacott, Angela. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 327 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JMC; HBTB; JHBD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230238701
- ISBN
- 9780230238701
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.92
€ 139.92
Hardcover. A widespread and still contemporary political phenomenon that exercises a profound effect on societies, settler colonialism structures relationships both historically and culturally diverse. This book assesses the distinctive feature of settler colonialism, and discusses its political, sociological, economic and cultural consequences. Editor(s): Bateman, Fiona; Pilkington, Lionel. Num Pages: 317 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 216 x 25. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230238770
- ISBN
- 9780230238770
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.31
€ 139.31
Hardcover. 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: HBLW; HBTB; JFCA; WSBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 147 x 24. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230241251
- ISBN
- 9780230241251
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.07
€ 68.07
Hardcover. 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: 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 143 x 22. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230241275
- ISBN
- 9780230241275
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.31
€ 67.31
Hardcover. Presenting a set of rich case-studies which demonstrate novel and productive approaches to the study of colonial knowledge, this volume covers British, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish colonial encounters in Africa, Asia, America and the Pacific, from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Editor(s): Roque, Ricardo; Wagner, Kim A. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 317 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBG; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230241985
- ISBN
- 9780230241985
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.97
€ 67.97
Hardcover. 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: 3JJ; HBLW; HBTS; JFSJ1; JPHX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 200 x 144 x 25. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230242043
- ISBN
- 9780230242043
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.38
€ 150.38
Hardcover. Examines forms of cosmopolitanism in the high period of South Asian anti-colonialism, 1890-1947. Essays argue that anti-colonial action stemmed not only from a teleological rush to realize the form of nation-states, but from the speculative aspiration to critique and transcend notions of universalism and the ultimate good brought by British rule. Editor(s): Bose, Sugata; Manjapra, Kris. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 319 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FK; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230243378
- ISBN
- 9780230243378
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.46
€ 161.46