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Regional & national history
Paperback. 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): Kitiarsa, Pattana; Whalen-Bridge, John. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; HPS; HR; JFC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349462001
- ISBN
- 9781349462001
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.17
€ 66.17
Paperback. The lives of soldiers shell shocked in the First World War help us understand the trauma of contemporary military conflicts. Peter Leese's Shell Shock narrates the story of British servicemen to reveal how their medical conditions were caused by emerging industrial technologies, to examine how the Great War is remembered. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJF; HBJD1; HBWN; JMJ; MMKB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 218 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 2002nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137453372
- ISBN
- 9781137453372
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.61
€ 71.61
Hardcover. Lienhardt discusses the tribal structure, relations between men and women, the economics of pearl fishing, the growth of towns and the relationship between sheikhs and their subjects. His findings offer an understanding of the political system and the transition from the tribal to the class system. Series: St Antony's Series. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBX; 3JJPG; HBJF1; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 521.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333948118
- ISBN
- 9780333948118
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.08
€ 128.08
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 152
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780582355941
- ISBN
- 9780582355941
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 41.45
€ 48.99
€ 41.45
Paperback. A comprehensive study of the period and debates surrounding the European origins of the Second World War. This book describes the various explanations that have been offered for the war and the historiographical debates that have arisen from them; and analyses the ideological, economic and strategic forces at work in Europe during the 1930s. Series: Origins of Modern War. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBWQ; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 646.
- Publisher
- Pearson
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405840286
- ISBN
- 9781405840286
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.12
€ 54.12
Paperback. This study reveals the more complex reality of Early Modern Naples than what has commonly been represented, in which royal representatives in the city came to depend on the assistance of a series of merchants, financiers, and bureaucrats who shared a common identity as conversos, descendants of converted Jews. Series: Early Modern History: Society and Culture. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTB; HBTQ; HPC; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349451753
- ISBN
- 9781349451753
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.56
€ 126.56
Paperback. This book examines the flight of young Australian writers to London in the decades before and after Federation in 1901. Peter Morton studies how their careers were shaped by shifting their country of residence, the expatriate experience, and how the loss of these expatriates affected the evolving literary culture of Australia. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSBH5; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349341993
- ISBN
- 9781349341993
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Paperback. The wide-ranging fascination with India in Wilhelmine Germany emerged during a time of extraordinary cultural and political tensions. This study shows how religious (denominational and spiritual) dilemmas, political agendas, and shifting social consensus became inextricably entangled in the wider German encounter with India during the Kaiserreich. Num Pages: 259 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJF; HBL; HBTB; HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 259
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349452903
- ISBN
- 9781349452903
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.41
€ 66.41
Hardcover. This study of Pestel focuses on his highly original manifesto and analyses his ideological contribution to the Russian revolutionary movement and re-appraises his controversial role in the Decembrist secret societies. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JH; BGH; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 22. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333984550
- ISBN
- 9780333984550
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Through compelling analysis of popular culture, high culture and elite designs in the years following the end of the Second World War, this book explores how Britain and its people have come to terms with the loss of prestige stemming from the decline of the British Empire. The result is a volume that offers new ideas on what it is to be 'British'. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; JHB; JMS; JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349438341
- ISBN
- 9781349438341
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.38
€ 66.38
Paperback. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; HBL; HBTB; HBTQ; JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349466610
- ISBN
- 9781349466610
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.38
€ 66.38
Hardback. Num Pages: 376 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FKA; HBJF1; JPB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 674.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231152044
- ISBN
- 9780231152044
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.87€ 57.47
€ 72.87
€ 57.47
Hardback. A fascinating study of the contribution of ordinary men and women to Spain's democratic transition of the 1970s. Radcliff argues that participants in neighbourhood and other associations experimented with new practices of civic participation that put pressure on the authoritarian state and made the building blocks of a future democratic citizenship Num Pages: 434 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 29. Weight in Grams: 622.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 440
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230241053
- ISBN
- 9780230241053
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.08
€ 69.08
Paperback. A fascinating study of the contribution of ordinary men and women to Spain's democratic transition of the 1970s. Radcliff argues that participants in neighbourhood and other associations experimented with new practices of civic participation that put pressure on the authoritarian state and made the building blocks of a future democratic citizenship Num Pages: 434 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 434
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349316779
- ISBN
- 9781349316779
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.21
€ 68.21
Hardback. P. J. Rhodes's reader focuses on the political institutions, political activity, history, and nature of Athenian democracy and introduces some of the best British, American, German and French scholarship on its origins, theory and practice. Editor(s): Rhodes, P. J. Series: Edinburgh Readings on the Ancient World. Num Pages: 304 pages, 4ill. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HBJD; HBLA; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 684.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748616862
- ISBN
- 9780748616862
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.92€ 136.60
€ 146.92
€ 136.60
Paperback. Through a wide-ranging and close analysis of archival sources, this book re-evaluates both the role of royal authority and of local agency in the French religious wars in the lead up to the Edict of Nantes of 1598. Drawing on extensive research, it provides a new perspective on the political, religious, social and cultural history of the conflict. Series: Early Modern History: Society and Culture. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HPC; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349459940
- ISBN
- 9781349459940
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.12
€ 66.12
Hardback. Series: Contemporary History in Context. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; JPA; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312224349
- ISBN
- 9780312224349
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Paperback. Num Pages: 377 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBL; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 557.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 377
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403963581
- ISBN
- 9781403963581
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.92€ 59.02
€ 67.92
€ 59.02
Paperback. A noted authority makes a provocative argument that the fate of the African continent was decided in its first decade of independence Num Pages: 177 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; HBJH; JFC; JPA; KCL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
- Number of pages
- 177
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349528899
- ISBN
- 9781349528899
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99
€ 37.99
Paperback. A longer version of this book was first published in Italian by Carocci Editore in 2002 under title: I signori di Appolonia. Translator(s): Valsecchi, Pierluigi. Num Pages: 328 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJH; HBL; HBTB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 421.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349297924
- ISBN
- 9781349297924
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Through compelling analysis of popular culture, high culture and elite designs in the years following the end of the Second World War, this book explores how Britain and its people have come to terms with the loss of prestige stemming from the decline of the British Empire. The result is a volume that offers new ideas on what it is to be 'British'. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJP; HBJD1; HBLW3; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137023827
- ISBN
- 9781137023827
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
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
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843838630
- ISBN
- 9781843838630
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.47
€ 98.47
Paperback. Brings together many important historical texts, including speeches of Themistius, the "Passion of St Saba", and evidence relating to the life and work of Ulfila. Series: Translated Texts for Historians. Num Pages: 224 pages, maps, figures, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DV; 1QDAR; 3D; DNF; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 211 x 148 x 11. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780853234265
- ISBN
- 9780853234265
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.81
€ 36.99
€ 33.81