Regional & national history
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Regional & national history
Hardcover. This collection of essays explores the inter-imperial connections between British, Spanish, Dutch, and French Caribbean colonies, and the 'Old World' countries which founded them. Grounded in primary archival research, the thirteen contributors focus on the ways that participants in the Atlantic World economy transcended imperial boundaries. Editor(s): Leonard, Adrian; Pretel, David. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 333 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; HBJK; HBTQ; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 24. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137432711
- ISBN
- 9781137432711
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.12
€ 162.12
Hardcover. In order to better understand processes of European integration, this book offers a new perspective that compares past experiences of change to current transitional moments at the European level. It addresses key questions about European society, EU integration and social change to reveal the social construction of emergent polities and societies. Editor(s): Borner, Stefanie; Eigmuller, Monika. Series: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; HBJD; JFFS; JPSN2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 478.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137411242
- ISBN
- 9781137411242
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.23
€ 67.23
Hardcover. A critical assessment of one of Britain's foremost historians and university leaders of the second half of the 20th century. Editor(s): Taylor, Miles. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJP; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 23. Weight in Grams: 520.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137392572
- ISBN
- 9781137392572
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.00
€ 68.00
Hardcover. The diffusion of fascism in Europe coincided with a wave of dictatorships that supplanted democratic regimes. This volume explores this interaction and in their historical context. Editor(s): Costa-Pinto, Antonio; Kallis, Aristotle. Num Pages: 317 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; JPFQ; JPHX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 237 x 25. Weight in Grams: 638.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137384409
- ISBN
- 9781137384409
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.51
€ 151.51
Hardcover. The discipline of social history has still not given enough attention to the ways in which the perceptions and roles of "ordinary" people changed over time. In these fascinating British and Dutch cases, we see how the study of this evolution imparts historical texture and enables us to understand early modernity with greater clarity. Editor(s): Jacob, Margaret C.; Secretan, Catherine. Num Pages: 299 pages, 21 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DDN; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 486.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137380517
- ISBN
- 9781137380517
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.20
€ 67.20
Hardcover. American ideals and models feature prominently in the master narrative of post-war European consumer societies. This book demonstrates that Europeans did not appropriate a homogenous notion of America, rather post-war European consumption was a process of selective appropriation of American elements. Editor(s): Lundin, Per; Kaiserfeld, Thomas. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 280 pages, 25 figures. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB; JFFT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137374035
- ISBN
- 9781137374035
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.56
€ 67.56
Hardcover. This unique volume examines how and to what extent former victims of Stalinist terror from across the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were received, reintegrated and rehabilitated following the mass releases from prisons and labour camps which came in the wake of Stalin's death in 1953 and Khrushchev's reforms in the subsequent decade. Editor(s): McDermott, Kevin; Stibbe, Matthew. Num Pages: 280 pages, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137368911
- ISBN
- 9781137368911
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. 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; HBLL; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 215 x 23. Weight in Grams: 492.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137363886
- ISBN
- 9781137363886
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.05
€ 128.05
Hardcover. Europe's critical infrastructure is a key concern to policymakers, NGOs, companies, and citizens today. This book argues that present-day infrastructure vulnerabilities resulted from choices of infrastructure builders in the past. Editor(s): Hogselius, Per; Hommels, Anique; Kaijser, Arne; Vleuten, Erik van der. Num Pages: 313 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 634.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137358721
- ISBN
- 9781137358721
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.02
€ 69.02
Hardcover. This book analyzes the creation of languages across the Slavophone areas of the world and their deployment for political projects and identity building, mainly after 1989. It offers perspectives from a number of disciplines such as sociolinguistics, socio-political history and language policy. Editor(s): Kamusella, Tomasz; Nomachi, Motoki; Gibson, Catherine. Num Pages: 592 pages, 17 maps, 2 figures, 12 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 2AG; CFB; CFF; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 187 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1030.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 592
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137348388
- ISBN
- 9781137348388
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 319.52
€ 319.52
Hardcover. Leadership an Elizabethan Culture studies the challenges confronted by government and church leaders (local and central), the counsel given them, the consequences of their decisions, and the views of leadership circulating in late Tudor literature and drama. Editor(s): Kaufman, Peter Iver. Series: Jepson Studies in Leadership. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3H; HBJD1; JPHL; JPP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137343352
- ISBN
- 9781137343352
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. The essays within Beyond Catholicism trace the interconnections of belief, heresy, and mysticism in Italian culture from the Middle Ages to today. In particular, they explore how religious discourse has unfolded within Italian culture in the context of shifting paradigms of rationality, authority, time, good and evil, and human collectivities. Editor(s): De Donno, Fabrizio; Gilson, Simon A. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 341 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 158 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137342027
- ISBN
- 9781137342027
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.90
€ 127.90
Hardcover. This volume explores some of the critical reconfigurations of the Union as wrought by the Civil War and offer insights into public memory of what the conflict signified. Editor(s): Morgan, Iwan W.; Davies, Philip John. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; HBWJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 164 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137336477
- ISBN
- 9781137336477
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Drawing on extensive new research, and bringing much new scholarship before English readers for the first time, this wide-ranging volume examines how knowledge was created and circulated throughout the Dutch Empire, and how these processes compared with those of the Imperial Britain, Spain, and Russia. Editor(s): Boomgaard, Peter. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 328 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDN; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 170 x 23. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137334015
- ISBN
- 9781137334015
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.90
€ 127.90
Hardcover. The industrial age has proved to be a formative period for Europe. Industrial heritage nowadays bears witness to the development that took place in differently structured regions. This volume presents different paths of industrial development and gives an overview of the concepts of regions, used among economic, social and cultural historians. Editor(s): Czierpka, Juliane; Oerters, Kathrin; Thorade, Nora. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements. Num Pages: 306 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBTB; HBTK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 222 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137333407
- ISBN
- 9781137333407
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. This collection of essays by major scholars analyze the religious diversity in Chinese religion, bringing together topics from traditional and contemporary contexts and Chinese religions' encounters with Western religion. Editor(s): Schmidt-Leukel, Perry; Gentz, Joachim. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HRAX; HRKN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137333193
- ISBN
- 9781137333193
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.95
€ 67.95
Hardcover. Leading scholars working on Buddhism and politics in South and Southeast Asia add to current discussions regarding 'Engaged Buddhism' and the recent work on protests. The writers have mostly established themselves in their fields, offering a diverse approach and country-by-country coverage. Editor(s): Whalen-Bridge, John; Kitiarsa, Pattana. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; HBJF; HRAM2; HRE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137332943
- ISBN
- 9781137332943
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.75
€ 67.75
Hardcover. This volume examines the political engagement of religious associations in the post-socialist countries of Central and Southeastern Europe, with a focus on revelations about the collaboration of clergy with the communist-era secret police, intolerance, and controversies about the inclusion of religious instruction in the schools. Editor(s): Ramet, Sabrina P. Series: Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy. Num Pages: 351 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DF; 1DVW; 3JJPR; 3JM; HBJD; HBLW3; HRAM2; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 25. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137330710
- ISBN
- 9781137330710
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.00
€ 68.00
Hardcover. Bringing together renowned scholars in the field with younger researchers, this interdisciplinary study of the history of post-war industrial policy in Europe investigates transfers across borders and locates industrial policy in the context of the Cold War from a global perspective. Editor(s): Grabas, Christian; Nutzenadel, Alexander. Num Pages: 401 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTK; HBTW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 165 x 27. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137329899
- ISBN
- 9781137329899
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.31
€ 68.31
Hardcover. Port cities were the means through which cultural and economic exchange took place between continental societies and the maritime world. In examining the ports of Brazil, the Caribbean and West Africa, this volume will provide fresh insight into the meaning of the 'First Globalisation'. Editor(s): Suarez Bosa, Miguel. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QSA; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTM; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137327970
- ISBN
- 9781137327970
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80