History: specific events & topics
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History: specific events & topics
Hardcover. This book combines social and institutional histories of Russia, focusing on the secret police and their evolving relationship with the peasantry. Based on an analysis of Cheka/OGPU reports, it argues that the police did not initially respond to peasant resistance to Bolshevik demands simply with the gun-rather, they listened to peasant voices. Num Pages: 177 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTV4; JKSW1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338869
- ISBN
- 9780230338869
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.41
€ 66.41
Hardcover. In 1845, John Franklin's Northwest Passage expedition disappeared. The expedition left an archive of performative remains that entice one to consider the tension between material remains and memory and reflect on how substitution and surrogation work alongside mourning and melancholia as responses to loss. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 244 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1QMP; AN; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340329
- ISBN
- 9780230340329
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 47.00
€ 53.37
€ 47.00
Hardcover. Jonathan Chu explores individual economic and legal behaviors, connecting them to adjustments in trade relations with Europe and Asia, the rise in debt litigation in Western Massachusetts, deflation and monetary illiquidity, and the Bank of North America. Series: The New Urban Atlantic. Num Pages: 292 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; HBTQ; JHMC; KCLT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340466
- ISBN
- 9780230340466
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. This book uses both oral and conventional historical methods to describe and analyze the history of lung transplantation in the US. While drawing on accounts from doctors and other specialists, it primarily focuses on the experiences of patients and explores themes of uncertainty, timing, identity, coping, and quality of life. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 296 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBTB; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 236 x 22. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340916
- ISBN
- 9780230340916
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.60
€ 128.60
Hardcover. This book uncovers practices surrounding acts of collecting, surveying, and antiquarianism during British colonial rule in India. By examining these practices, this book traces the colonial conditions of the production of 'sources,' the forging of a new historical method, and the ascendance of positivist historiography in nineteenth-century India. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JF; 3JH; HBAH; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 220 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230341012
- ISBN
- 9780230341012
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Paperback. Deploying concepts of interpretation, liberation, and survival, esteemed literary critic Herbert Lindenberger reflects on the diverse fates of his family during the Holocaust. Combining public, family, and personal record with literary, musical, and art criticism, One Family's Shoah suggests a new way of writing cultural history. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 238 pages, 22 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230341159
- ISBN
- 9780230341159
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.41
€ 66.41
Taxation and Society in Twentieth-Century Argentina (Studies of the Am...
José Antonio Sánchez Román
Hardcover. This book provides a historical narrative of the Argentine tax system in the twentieth century. It argues that the failure to build permanent trust between the state and the civil society and the unraveling of confidence within Argentine society itself account for the collapse of the progressive tax system. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBT; JPA; KFFD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230341265
- ISBN
- 9780230341265
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. A collective biography of the veterans of the battle of El Santuario (1829), this book uses the untold stories of ordinary lives to examine the history of the imperial conflicts that shaped politics and society in Colombia and Venezuela after independence from colonial rule. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 268 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; 1KLSV; 3JH; HBJK; HBTR; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230341319
- ISBN
- 9780230341319
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.52
€ 67.52
Hardcover. In the Third Reich, political dissidents were not the only ones liable to be punished for their crimes. Their parents, siblings and relatives also risked reprisals. This concept - known as Sippenhaft - was based in ideas of blood and purity. This definitive study surveys the threats, fears and infliction of this part of the Nazi system of terror. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230343054
- ISBN
- 9780230343054
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover. An innovative diplomatic and intellectual history of decolonization, post-colonial nation building and international human rights and development discourses, this study of the role of the ILO during 1940-70 opens up new perspectives on the significance of international organisations as actors in the history of the 20th century. Series: International Labour Organization (ILO) Century Series. Num Pages: 429 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBLW3; HBTK; HBTR; JPSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 146 x 31. Weight in Grams: 642.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230343627
- ISBN
- 9780230343627
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.90
€ 140.90
Hardcover. The Southern Caribbean was the last frontier in the Atlantic world and the most contested region in the Caribbean during the Age of Revolution. As well as illuminating this little-understood region, the book seeks to complicate our understanding of the Caribbean, the role of 'free people of colour' and the nature of slavery. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230354081
- ISBN
- 9780230354081
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.90
€ 127.90
Hardcover. Using case studies of cholera, plague, malaria, and yellow fever, this book analyzes how factors such as public health diplomacy, trade, imperial governance, medical technologies, and cultural norms operated within global and colonial conceptions of political and epidemiological risk to shape infectious disease policies in colonial India. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; HBTQ; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 219 x 18. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230354609
- ISBN
- 9780230354609
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Male Homosexuality in West Germany: Between Persecution and Freedom, 1...
Whisnant, Clayton, Whisnant, Clayton J.
Hardcover. Whisnant argues that the period after Nazism was more important for the history of homosexuality in Germany than is generally recognized. Gay scenes resurfaced; a more masculine view of homosexuality also became prominent. Above all, a public debate about homosexuality emerged, constituting a critical debate within the Sexual Revolution. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFGW; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBTB; JFSK2; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230355002
- ISBN
- 9780230355002
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230356160
- ISBN
- 9780230356160
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardcover. In this original study British rule in Burma is examined through quotidian acts of corruption. Saha outlines a novel way to study the colonial state as it was experienced in everyday life, revealing a complex world of state practices where legality and illegality were inseparable: the informal world upon which formal colonial power rested. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 176 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FMB; HBJF; HBTQ; JPZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230358270
- ISBN
- 9780230358270
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. Num Pages: 323 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 8 colour illustrations, 3 black & white tables, 8 colour t. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 565.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230359338
- ISBN
- 9780230359338
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.40
€ 140.40
Paperback. This book, now with a new preface, offers a new history of the fairy tale, revealing the creative role of periodical publication in shaping this genre. Sumpter explores the fairy tale's reinvention for (and by) diverse readerships in unexpected contexts, including debates over evolution, colonialism, socialism, gender and sexuality and decadence. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 272 pages, 12 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; HBTB; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230361492
- ISBN
- 9780230361492
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.29
€ 66.29
Hardcover. This new study of Napoleon emphasizes his ties to the French Revolution, his embodiment of its militancy, and his rescue of its legacies. Jordan's work illuminates all aspects of his fabulous career, his views of the Revolution and history, the artists who created and embellished his image, and much of his talk about himself and his achievements. Num Pages: 342 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTV2; HBWH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 24. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230362819
- ISBN
- 9780230362819
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.65
€ 128.65
Heimat, Region, and Empire: Spatial Identities under National Socialis...
Szejnmann, Claus-Christian W., Umbach, Maiken
Hardcover. This collection brings together international scholars pursuing cutting-edge research on spatial identities under National Socialism. They demonstrate that the spatial identities of the Third Reich can be approached as a history of interrelated dimensions; Heimat, region and Empire were constantly reconstructed through this interrelationship. Series: The Holocaust and its Contexts. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230391093
- ISBN
- 9780230391093
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.28
€ 67.28
Hardcover. This book asks how, in a time of crisis, medieval citizens developed an independent sense of ethics. Witness testimonies from Marseille's court records offer a small window into the neighborhoods of Marseille and reveal how humble people, often women, used the role of witness to become the arbiters of their communities. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3H; HBTB; JF; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 220 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230391994
- ISBN
- 9780230391994
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89