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History: specific events & topics
Hardcover. This book explores the role of children and young people within early modern England's Catholic minority. It examines Catholic attempts to capture the next generation, Protestant reactions to these initiatives, and the social, legal and political contexts in which young people formed, maintained and attempted to explain their religious identity. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD1; HBTB; HRCC7; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137364494
- ISBN
- 9781137364494
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. This book demonstrates how the two adversaries of the Cold War, West Germany and East Germany, endeavored to create two distinct and unique German identities. In their endeavor to claim legitimacy, the German cinematic representation of the American West became an important cultural weapon of mass dissemination during the Cold War. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; 1DFGW; 3JJP; HBLW3; HBTB; HBTW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137364296
- ISBN
- 9781137364296
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. The Media of Testimony explores testimony relating to the Stasi in different cultural forms: autobiographical writing, memorial museums and documentary film. Combining theoretical models from diverse disciplines, it presents a new approach to the study of testimony, memory and mediation. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; APFR; HBTW; JFD; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137364036
- ISBN
- 9781137364036
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Anzac Labour explores the horror, frustration and exhaustion surrounding working life in the Australian Imperial Force during the First World War. Based on letters and diaries of Australian soldiers, it traces the history of work and workplace cultures through Australia, the shores of Gallipoli, the fields of France and Belgium, and the Near East. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 3JJF; HBJM; HBTB; HBTQ; HBWN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 218 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137363978
- ISBN
- 9781137363978
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Hardcover. Since its creation the British Olympic Association (BOA) has been one of the most important institutions in sports governance. In spite of its prominence there has hitherto been no single-volume history of the Association. This scholarly yet accessible study fills that gap, assessing the origins, evolution, strengths and shortcomings of the BOA. Num Pages: 150 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JJ; HBTB; WSBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137363411
- ISBN
- 9781137363411
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Hardcover. The opening of the ports of Japan in 1859 brought a flood of Japanese craft products to the world marketplace. For ivory it was a golden age. This book examines the role that ivory and ivory carvers played in the expression of nationalism and the development of sculpture in the later nineteenth and early twentieth century. Num Pages: 132 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJC; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 306.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137363329
- ISBN
- 9781137363329
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.05
€ 66.05
Hardcover. Flying and the pilot were significant metaphors of fascism's mythical modernity. Fernando Esposito traces the changing meanings of these highly charged symbols from the air show in Brescia, to the sky above the trenches of the First World War to the violent ideological clashes of the interwar period. Num Pages: 440 pages, 26. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1DST; 3JJ; HBJD; HBTB; JPFQ; TRP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 241 x 29. Weight in Grams: 824.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137362988
- ISBN
- 9781137362988
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 196.79
€ 196.79
Hardcover. This book reveals the huge sales and propagandist potential of Anglican parish magazines, while demonstrating the Anglican Church's misunderstanding of the real issues at its heart, and its collective collapse of confidence as it contemplated social change. Series: Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700-2000. Num Pages: 296 pages, 3 tables, 12 graphs, 22 B/W half-tones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBTB; HRCC91. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 482.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137362438
- ISBN
- 9781137362438
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. Integrating the political and governmental histories of Spain and the American colonies, this book focuses on the political and governmental history of the Viceroyalty of Peru during the 'early Bourbon' period and provides a new interpretation of the period's broader significance within Spanish American history. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLS; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 224 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137362230
- ISBN
- 9781137362230
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This book offers a comprehensive look at the growth and activities of the Armenian revolutionary committees and the corresponding Ottoman counterinsurgency responses from 1890-1915. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVT; HBTZ; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 222 x 23. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137362209
- ISBN
- 9781137362209
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.22
€ 161.22
Hardcover. This book reveals the variety of tactics that were employed by interwar fraudsters to conceal their underhand transactions and dupe the British public into handing over their money. Num Pages: 105 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 14. Weight in Grams: 288.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137360533
- ISBN
- 9781137360533
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90
Hardcover. Drawing on traditional archival research, reception theory, cultural histories of slumming, and recent work in critical theory on literary representations of poverty, Westgate argues that the productions of slum plays served as enactments of the emergent definitions of the slum and the corresponding ethical obligations involved therein. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; AN; HBJK; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137359681
- ISBN
- 9781137359681
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.44
€ 66.44
Paperback. 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: 1D; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 167 x 25. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137358325
- ISBN
- 9781137358325
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 130.55
€ 130.55
Hardcover. Baker explores public protests and their management by the police, focusing on the fatalities of strikers at the hands of police and outlining practices towards preventing such tragedies. Num Pages: 109 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTK; JFFE; JKV; JKVC; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 169 x 14. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137358059
- ISBN
- 9781137358059
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.96
€ 65.96
Hardcover. Drawing on the graphic and revealing evidence recorded by the different courts in early modern Saragossa, this book captures the spirit of an age when religious faith vied for people's hearts and minds with centuries-old beliefs in witchcraft and superstition. Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137355874
- ISBN
- 9781137355874
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.02
€ 150.02
Hardcover. Spanning from the Caribbean to East Asia and covering almost 3,000 years of history, from Classical Antiquity to the eve of the twenty-first century, Persistent Piracy is an important contribution to the history of the state formation as well as the history of violence at sea. Editor(s): Amirell, Stefan Eklof; Muller, Leos. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTM; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 220 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137352859
- ISBN
- 9781137352859
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.77
€ 149.77
Hardcover. This book argues that the rising tide of anti-colonialism after the 1930s should be considered a turning point not just in harnessing a new mood or feeling of unity, but primarily as one that viewed empire, racism, and economic degradation as part of a system that fundamentally required the application of strategy to their destruction. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: BGH; HBTR; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137352019
- ISBN
- 9781137352019
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.00
€ 128.00
Hardcover. Robinson Crusoe's call to adventure and do-it-yourself settlement resonated with British explorers. In tracing the links in a discursive chain through which a particular male subjectivity was forged, Karen Downing reveals how such men took their tensions with them to Australia, so that the colonies never were a solution to restless men's anxieties. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; 1MBF; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137348944
- ISBN
- 9781137348944
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardcover. The shift to the modern world in East Asia was accomplished in part via the experience of colonial rule in the late nineteenth century. Following imperial crisis in the 1930s and 1940s, independent nation states formed from which the political structure of East Asia is based today. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FP; 3JJ; HBJF; HBTB; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137345677
- ISBN
- 9781137345677
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. Economic warfare during the Napoleonic era transformed international commerce; redirecting trade and generating illicit commerce. This volume re-evaluates the Continental System through urban and regional case studies that analyze the power triangle of the French, British and neutral powers and their strategies to adapt to trade restrictions. Editor(s): Aaslestad, Katherine B.; Joor, Johan. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 312 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, 6 maps, 24 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBTM; HBWH; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137345561
- ISBN
- 9781137345561
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.26
€ 139.26
Hardcover. Analyzing a wide body of cultural texts, including literature, film, and other visual arts, Gender, Empire, and Postcolony: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Intersections is a diverse collection of essays on gender in Portuguese colonialism and Lusophone postcolonialism. Editor(s): Owen, Hilary. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTQ; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137343413
- ISBN
- 9781137343413
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.30
€ 127.30
Hardcover. The first study of its kind, this book traces 150 years of the history of fatherhood in Scandinavia and shows how Scandinavian gender equality policy has important implications for the rest of the world. Among other interesting findings, Lorentzen reveals that the modern-day rise in equality fathering can be traced back to the 19th century. Series: Global Masculinities. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DNN; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; HBTB; JFSJ2; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137343376
- ISBN
- 9781137343376
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. This book examines Anglo-Italian political and cultural relations and analyses the importance of religion in the British 'Orientalist' perception of Italy. It puts religion at the centre of a harsh political and cultural war, one that was fought on international, diplomatic, and domestic levels. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DST; 3JH; HBJD; HBTB; HRAM2; HRCC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 149 x 23. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137342973
- ISBN
- 9781137342973
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. This volume makes available transcripts and commentary from the secret correspondence between former Chechen foreign minister Ilyas Akhmatov and Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov. This correspondence provides revelatory insights into both men's attempts to secure Western support for a peaceful transition to an independent Chechnya. Editor(s): Daniloff, Nicholas. Translator(s): Semenov, Anatoly. Num Pages: 291 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLW3; HBTZ; HBWS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 219 x 22. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137338785
- ISBN
- 9781137338785
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65