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History: specific events & topics
Hardback. The legacy of antifascist partisan, Auschwitz survivor, and author Primo Levi continues to drive exciting interdisciplinary scholarship. The contributions to this intellectually rich, tightly organized volume - from many of the world's foremost Levi scholars - show a remarkable breadth across fields as varied as ethics, memory, and media studies. Editor(s): Vuohelainen, Minna; Chapman, Arthur. Series: Italian & Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBH; DSK; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 500.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137442338
- ISBN
- 9781137442338
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Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. In 1940, the USSR occupied and annexed Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, leading to calls by many that the Soviets had violated international law. This book examines British, US, and Soviet policies toward the Baltic states, placing the true significance of the Baltic question in its proper geopolitical context. Series: The World of the Roosevelt's. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBLW; HBTW; JPSD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137442369
- ISBN
- 9781137442369
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Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Disaster, Death and the Emotions in the Shadow of the Apocalypse, 1400...
. Ed(S): Spinks, Jennifer; Zika, Charles
Hardback. Editor(s): Spinks, Jennifer; Zika, Charles. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions. Num Pages: 386 pages, 18 black & white illustrations, 37 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; 3J; HBJD; HBTB; JFFC; JMQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 26. Weight in Grams: 632.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 386
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137442703
- ISBN
- 9781137442703
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Condition: New
€ 162.87
€ 162.87
Hardcover. Reflecting on the relationship between memory, power, and national identity, this book examines the complex reactions of the people of the Caribbean to the 500th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of the New World. Viala analyzes the ways in which Columbus became a reservoir of metaphors to confront anxieties of the present with myths of the past. Series: New Caribbean Studies. Num Pages: 292 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; HBJK; HBLH; HBTQ; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 476.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137443748
- ISBN
- 9781137443748
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
hardcover. Num Pages: 290 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBL; HBTB; JP; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137446398
- ISBN
- 9781137446398
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Condition: New
€ 139.38
€ 139.38
Hardcover. African cultures and politics remain significantly affected by precolonial and postcolonial configurations of modernity, as well as hegemonic global systems. This project explores Africa's conversation with itself and the rest of the world, critiquing universalist notions of democratization. Series: African Histories and Modernities. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; HBJH; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 218 x 21. Weight in Grams: 452.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137446923
- ISBN
- 9781137446923
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Condition: New
€ 127.60
€ 127.60
Hardcover. Law, Labour, and Empire provides a comparative analysis of the development and impact of maritime labour and law in the early modern period. Editor(s): Allaire, Bernard; Blakemore, Richard; Vanneste, Tijl; Dunford, Michael. Num Pages: 357 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; HBLH; HBTM; HBTQ; TRLT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 29. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137447456
- ISBN
- 9781137447456
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.27
€ 162.27
Hardcover. Slaves, convicts, and unfree immigrants have traveled the oceans throughout human history, but the conventional Atlantic World historical paradigm has narrowed our understanding of modernity. This provocative study contrasts the Atlantic conflation of freedom and the sea with the complex relationships in the Indian Ocean in the long 19th century. Series: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QSN; HBTM; HBTQ; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137448453
- ISBN
- 9781137448453
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Hardcover. Whereas the Spanish-American War has long been studied as a turning point in American history, Grover Cleveland's foreign policy. Nick Cleaver's study illuminates the dynamism and ideals of Cleveland's diplomatic moment, revealing their continuities with the engagement and expansionism of the McKinley presidency. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBJK; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137448477
- ISBN
- 9781137448477
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Condition: New
€ 66.32
€ 66.32
Hardcover. In British India, the years during and following World War I saw imperial unity deteriorate into a bitter dispute over "native" effeminacy and India's postwar fitness for self-rule. This study demonstrates that increasingly ferocious dispute culminated in the actual physical violence of the Amritsar Massacre of 1919. Num Pages: 179 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; 3JJF; HBJD1; HBTQ; HBTV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 15. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137448538
- ISBN
- 9781137448538
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Hardback. Series: Thinking Gender in Transnational Times. Num Pages: 365 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 3JJ; 3JM; HBTB; HBTR; JFSJ1; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 621.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 365
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137449504
- ISBN
- 9781137449504
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.77
€ 139.77
The Shadow of Colonialism on Europe's Modern Past (Cambridge Imperial ...
Enrico Dal Lago Róisín Healy
Hardcover. Through a range of case studies from eastern and western Europe, this book breaks new ground in investigating the extent to which European peoples living within Europe were also subjected to the ideologies and practices of colonialism. Editor(s): Healy, Roisin; Dal Lago, Enrico. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137450746
- ISBN
- 9781137450746
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. The Holocaust Memorial Museum reveals and traces the transformation of ancient Jewish symbols, rituals, archetypes and narratives deployed in these sites. Demonstrating how cloaking the 'secular' history of the Holocaust in sacred garb, memorial museums generate redemptive yet conflicting visions of the meaning and utility of Holocaust memory. Series: The Holocaust and its Contexts. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; GM; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137451354
- ISBN
- 9781137451354
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Condition: New
€ 128.05
€ 128.05
Hardcover. Aggressive policy, enthusiastic news coverage and sensational novelistic style combined to create a distinctive image of Britain's Empire in late-Victorian print media. The New Journalism, the New Imperialism and the Fiction of Empire, 1870-1900 traces this phenomenon through the work of editors, special correspondents and authors. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDB; 3JH; HBTB; JFD; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 222 x 20. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137454362
- ISBN
- 9781137454362
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This book examines the striking way in which medical and scientific work on hearing in 18th and 19th-century France helped to shape modern French society and culture. The author argues that of all the senses hearing offered the greatest resources for remodelling the idea of the universal human condition within the modern French historical setting. Num Pages: 179 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137455345
- ISBN
- 9781137455345
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.32
€ 66.32
Hardcover. The essays in this volume examine United States-East Asian relations in the framework of global history, incorporating fresh insights that have been offered by scholars on such topics as globalization, human rights, historical memory, and trans-cultural relations. Editor(s): Johnson, Robert David. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QSP; HBJF; HBJM; HBTB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137455376
- ISBN
- 9781137455376
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. The SS Cavalry Brigade was a unit of the Waffen-SS that differed from other German military formations as it developed a 'dual role': SS cavalrymen both helped to initiate the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and experienced combat at the front. Series: The Holocaust and its Contexts. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137456311
- ISBN
- 9781137456311
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.31
€ 150.31
Hardcover. Places of Memory examines the post-war history of the site where the 1942 Wannsee Conference was held. The author analyses the different uses of the house to investigate how a site turns into a site of memory. Num Pages: 85 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; HBTZ; JMRM; KNSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 220 x 10. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137456403
- ISBN
- 9781137456403
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.69
€ 65.69
Hardcover. This book provides evidence that Labour in Trinidad and Tobago played a vital role in undermining British colonialism and advocating for federation and self-government. Furthermore, there is emphasis on the pioneering efforts of the Labour movement in party politics, social justice, and working class solidarity. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJWWT; 3JJ; HBTB; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 171 x 21. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137462329
- ISBN
- 9781137462329
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Southern Anthropology - a History of Fison and Howitt's Kamilaroi and ...
Gardner, Helen, McConvell, Patrick
Hardcover. Southern Anthropology, the history of Fison and Howitt's Kamilaroi and Kurnai is the biography of Kamilaroi and Kurnai (1880) written from both a historical and anthropological perspective. Southern Anthropology investigates the authors' work on Aboriginal and Pacific people and the reception of their book in metropolitan centres. Series: Palgrave Studies in Pacific History. Num Pages: 352 pages, up to 25 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 3JH; HBJM; HBLL; HBTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137463807
- ISBN
- 9781137463807
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.00
€ 68.00