History: specific events & topics
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History: specific events & topics
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.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137363411
- ISBN
- 9781137363411
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
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.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137363978
- ISBN
- 9781137363978
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
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.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137364036
- ISBN
- 9781137364036
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
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. 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
Paperback. This book explores women's organizations and their various educational contributions through local, state, and national networks from 1890 to 1960. Contributors investigate how women united to support and sustain education in both formal and informal settings and examine various associations. Editor(s): Knupfer, Anne Meis; Woyshner, Christine A. Num Pages: 268 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSJ1; JNB; JNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 214 x 15. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137366061
- ISBN
- 9781137366061
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 46.46
€ 53.36
€ 46.46
Hardcover. Yamamoto Sanehiko's (1885-1952) achievements as a publisher, writer, and politician in the interwar period served as both a catalyst and a template for developments after the wars. While exploring the accomplishments the compelling figure, this study sheds new light on the social, cultural, and political changes that occurred in postwar Japan. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; 3JJP; DSK; HBTB; JFC; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137366214
- ISBN
- 9781137366214
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. This book explores how masculinities and fatherhood are transmitted across family generations of white British, Irish and Polish fathers. Providing unique insights into men's lives, migration, employment, father-son relationships and intergenerational transmission, it offers a rich methodological story of how intergenerational research is done. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 224 pages, 7. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; 1DVP; HBTB; JFFN; JFSJ2; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 242 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137379665
- ISBN
- 9781137379665
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardcover. Hybrid Knowledge in the Early East India Company World presents a new reading of the English East India Company 1660-1720. It shows how innovative works - covering natural history, ethnography, theology, linguistics, medicine, and agriculture - were created amid early modern struggles for supremacy in Asia, the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 333 pages, 3 tables, 14 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FKA; 3JF; 3JH; HBJF; HBTQ; KCZ; KNGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 333
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137380197
- ISBN
- 9781137380197
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.46
€ 161.46
Hardcover. Despite an outpouring in recent years of history and cultural criticism related to the Holocaust, Italian women's literary representations and testimonies have not received their proper due. This project fills this gap by analyzing Italian women's writing from a variety of genres, all set against a complex historical backdrop. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBH; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 217 x 22. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137382689
- ISBN
- 9781137382689
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. Constituent power of the people is a core concept of modern politics but what does this concept actually mean? This book addresses this question, sketching how constituent power of the people has been conceived since the early modern revolutions. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTR; HBTV; JPA; JPFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137382993
- ISBN
- 9781137382993
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. Sudan has historically suffered devastating famines that have powerfully reshaped its society. This study shows that food crises were the result of exploitative processes that transferred resources to a small group of beneficiaries, including British imperial agents and indigenous elites who went on to control the Sudanese state at independence. Series: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies. Num Pages: 277 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJH; HBLL; HBLW; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137383860
- ISBN
- 9781137383860
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. Exotic animals were coveted commodities in nineteenth-century Britain. Spectators flocked to zoos and menageries to see female lion tamers and hungry hippos. Helen Cowie examines zoos and travelling menageries in the period 1800-1880, using animal exhibitions to examine issues of class, gender, imperial culture and animal welfare. Num Pages: 272 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, 1 graphs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; ASZX; HBTB; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 222 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137384430
- ISBN
- 9781137384430
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.02
€ 150.02
Hardcover. Based on an exploration of both pre-Nazi and Nazi theory and practice, Pete Kakel challenges the dominant narrative of the murder of European Jewry, illuminating the Holocaust's decidedly imperial-colonial origins, context, and content in a book of interest to students, teachers, and lay readers, as well as specialist and non-specialist scholars. Num Pages: 113 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJ; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 165 x 14. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137391674
- ISBN
- 9781137391674
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90
Hardcover. A history of what it meant to be a man, and a citizen of an emerging nation throughout the nineteenth century. This book not only relates how Belgians were taught how to move and fight, but also how they spoke and sang to express masculinity and patriotism. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDB; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137391995
- ISBN
- 9781137391995
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. This book examines the structures and texture of rural social relationships, using one type of document found in abundance over all the four component parts of Britain and Ireland: petitions from tenants to their landlords. The book offers unexpected angles on many aspects of society and economy on estates in the 17th and 18th centuries. Num Pages: 331 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD1; HBTB; JFSC; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 151 x 23. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137394088
- ISBN
- 9781137394088
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Philanthropy in Transition examines the rising importance of new channels of giving, from purchase made from social market enterprises to social impact investing. While these movements extend the reach and appeal beyond traditional philanthropy, the result is a widening distance between donor and recipient that raises new challenges. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBT; JKSN1; KJG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137395610
- ISBN
- 9781137395610
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Hardcover. Using a variety of cases from history and today's life, the book examines character attackers targeting the private lives, behavior, values, and identity of their victims. Numerous historical examples show that character assassination has always been a very effective weapon to win political battles or settle personal scores. Editor(s): Shiraev, Eric; Icks, Martijn. Num Pages: 294 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFFJ; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 240 x 22. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137397867
- ISBN
- 9781137397867
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.51
€ 128.51
Hardcover. This book provides a lively study of the role that Australians and New Zealanders played in defining the British sporting concept of amateurism. In doing so, they contributed to understandings of wider British identity across the sporting world. Series: Britain and the World. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1MBF; HBJD1; HBJM; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137398505
- ISBN
- 9781137398505
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. When a word describing an emotion is said to be untranslatable, is that emotion untranslatable also? This unique study focuses on three word-concepts on the periphery of Europe, providing a wide-ranging survey of national identity and cultural essentialism, nostalgia, melancholy and fatalism, the production of memory and the politics of hope. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSP; 1DVKC; 1DVT; HBJD; HBTB; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137403476
- ISBN
- 9781137403476
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Condemned as a fascist putsch in the East and praised as a 'people's uprising' in the West, the uprising of 17 June 1953 shook East Germany. Drawing on interviews and archive research, this book examines East German citizens' memories of the unrest and reflects on the nature of state power in the GDR. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; 3JJPG; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137403506
- ISBN
- 9781137403506
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. How does ideology in some states radicalise to such an extent as to become genocidal? Can the causes of radicalisation be seen as internal or external? Examining the ideological evolution in the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust and during the break up of Yugoslavia, Elisabeth Hope Murray seeks to answer these questions in this comparative work. Series: Rethinking Political Violence. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTZ; JFFE; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137404701
- ISBN
- 9781137404701
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Hardcover. This book examines recent changes to Indigenous policy in English-speaking settler states, and locates them within the broader shift from social to neo-liberal framings of citizen-state relations via a case study of Australian federal policy between 2000 and 2007. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTQ; JFFJ; JFSL9; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 322 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137405401
- ISBN
- 9781137405401
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 182.69
€ 182.69
Paperback. The first book to provide a detailed analysis of the body-trafficking networks of the dead poor that underpinned the expansion of medical education from Victorian times. With an even-handed approach to the business of anatomy, Hurren uses remarkable case histories which still echo a vibrant body-business on the internet today in a biomedical age. Num Pages: 400 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, 11 figures, 15 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2012th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137405890
- ISBN
- 9781137405890
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.12
€ 128.12