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Regional & national history
Hardcover. Focusing on the everyday behaviour of people in the late-Victorian street, this extensive study provides an alternative history of the modern city, and sheds new light on the relationship between police constables and civilians. A wealth of source material is scrutinised to explore this public interaction in the capital. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JKSW1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137320896
- ISBN
- 9781137320896
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. After excluding women and African Americans from its ranks for most of its history, the New York City Police Department undertook an aggressive campaign of integration following World War II. This is the first comprehensive account of how and why the NYPD came to see integration as a highly coveted political tool, indispensable to policing. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JKSW1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137321930
- ISBN
- 9781137321930
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe (Palgrave Studies in Cultural and ...
Blacker, Uilleam, Etkind, Alexander
Hardcover. It is the aim of this volume to investigate how academic practices of Memory Studies are being applied, adapted, and transformed in the countries of East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. It affords a new, startlingly different perspective for scholars of both Eastern European history and Memory Studies. Editor(s): Fedor, Julie. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DV; HBA; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137322050
- ISBN
- 9781137322050
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.27
€ 162.27
Hardcover. This book investigates Russia's transformation into a European Power by way of the activities of the tsarist translator and official Andrei Vinius, who became an important advisor to Peter the Great. Vinius emerges as an influential conduit of Western culture and technology, who played a key role in transforming Muscovy into Russia. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JD; 3JF; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137323668
- ISBN
- 9781137323668
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. This much-needed study of the British Empire Exhibition reveals durable, persistent connections between empire and domestic society in Britain during the interwar years. It demonstrates that the Exhibition was a marker of how by 1924, imperial relations were increasingly likely to be shaped by forces located on the colonial periphery. Num Pages: 205 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1QDB; 3JJG; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137325112
- ISBN
- 9781137325112
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.80
€ 67.80
Hardcover. Drawing on international and multidisciplinary expertise, this pioneering edited collection analyzing Islam in contemporary Ethiopia challenges the popular notion of a 'Christian Ethiopia' imagined as the century-old, never colonized Abyssinia, isolated in the highlands and dominated by Orthodox Christianity. Num Pages: 267 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJH; HRAC; HRH; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 27. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137325297
- ISBN
- 9781137325297
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardcover. 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: 1DDF; 3JB; HBJD; HBLH; HBTV; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326744
- ISBN
- 9781137326744
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Paperback. The Refuge and the Fortress offers an account of academic refugees in Britain, including those who fled Nazi Germany, and through their testimonies, seeks to understand the qualities they bestowed on their adoptive country. It provides an honest portrayal of the encounters of people from other cultures with the characteristics of the British. Num Pages: 298 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJD1; HBLW; HBLX; HBTB; JFFD; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 234 x 17. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Second Edition, New edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137327864
- ISBN
- 9781137327864
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardcover. The Refuge and the Fortress offers an account of academic refugees in Britain, including those who fled Nazi Germany, and through their testimonies, seeks to understand the qualities they bestowed on their adoptive country. It provides an honest portrayal of the encounters of people from other cultures with the characteristics of the British. Num Pages: 298 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWQ; JFFD; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 607.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Second Edition,New Edition,2nd edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137327895
- ISBN
- 9781137327895
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.97
€ 67.97
Hardcover. The book is a new study that examines the contrasting extension of the Anglican Church to England's first two colonies, Ireland and Virginia in the 17th and 18th centuries. It discusses the national origins and educational experience of the ministers, the financial support of the state, and the experience and consequences of the institutions. Series: Studies in Modern History. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12 black & white tables, 1 charts. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 1QDB; 3JD; 3JF; HBJK; HBLH; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137327918
- ISBN
- 9781137327918
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.73
€ 67.73
Hardcover. Moving through the elegiac ruins of the Berlin Wall and the Yugoslav disintegration, Writing Postcommunism explores literary evocations of the pervasive disappointment and mourning that have marked the postcommunist twilight. Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DV; 3JJPR; DSA; DSBH; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137330079
- ISBN
- 9781137330079
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This book adds to this growing body of scholarship on the Italian Resistance by analysing, for the first time, how the 'three wars' are represented over the broad spectrum of Resistance culture from 1945 to the present day. Furthermore, it makes this contribution to scholarship by bridging the gap between historical and cultural analysis. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137331250
- ISBN
- 9781137331250
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.32
€ 67.32
Hardcover. This sweeping, exhaustively researched history is the first comprehensive account of the Peace of Westphalia in English. Bringing together the latest scholarship with an engaging narrative, it retraces the historical origins of the Peace, exploring its political-intellectual underpinnings and placing it in a broad global and chronological context. Num Pages: 468 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 32. Weight in Grams: 858.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 468
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137333322
- ISBN
- 9781137333322
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 183.32
€ 183.32
Hardcover. Continuing the argument developed in the author's previous book, this exhaustively researched study describes the humiliation of the Chinese gentry at the hands of the statist Oboi regents in the 1660s and the Kangxi emperor's self-declared Confucian sagehood in the 1670s, which effectively trumped the gentry's claim to sovereignty. Num Pages: 183 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JD; HBJF; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137334053
- ISBN
- 9781137334053
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.74
€ 66.74
Hardcover. Bringing together core selections from and analysis of material documenting the uneasy collaboration between Herbert and Eisenhower, this collection incisively uses primary sources to illuminate the 1952 Republican nomination fight, the second Hoover Commission, and other key episodes during the Eisenhower presidency. Num Pages: 278 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137334084
- ISBN
- 9781137334084
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.74
€ 66.74
Hardcover. Seeing the critical phase in the construction of a Turkish historical imagination between 1860 to 1950 disregarding the political disruptions, this book demonstrates how history and historical imagery had been instrumental in the nation-building process. Num Pages: 308 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137334206
- ISBN
- 9781137334206
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.71
€ 67.71
Hardcover. From 1941 to 1945, a small number of Jews were given the rights of Aryan citizens in Croatia by the pro-Nazi Utasha regime. This study seeks to explain why these exemptions from Ustasha racial laws came to be, how they were justified by the race theory of the time, and how the "Croats of the Mosaic faith" were eventually rejected as racial aliens. Num Pages: 105 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVWYC; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 102
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137339119
- ISBN
- 9781137339119
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.84
€ 65.84
Hardcover. The five queens of Navarre were the largest group of female sovereigns in one European realm during the Middle Ages, but they are largely unknown beyond a regional audience. This survey fills this scholarly lacuna, focusing particularly on issues of female succession, agency, and power-sharing dynamic between the queens and their male consorts. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3H; HBJD; HBLC1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 136 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137339140
- ISBN
- 9781137339140
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.92
€ 160.92
Hardcover. The 1918 Spanish flu epidemic is now widely recognized as the most devastating disease outbreak in recorded history. This cultural history reconstructs Spaniards' experience of the flu and traces the emergence of various competing narratives that arose in response to bacteriology's failure to explain and contain the disease's spread. Num Pages: 268 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137339201
- ISBN
- 9781137339201
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.67
€ 128.67
NASA in the World: Fifty Years of International Collaboration in Space...
Krige, John, Callahan, Angelina Long, Maharaj...
Paperback. Since its inception, NASA has participated in over 4,000 international projects, yet historians have almost entirely neglected this remarkable aspect of the agency's work. This groundbreaking work is the first to trace NASA's history in a truly international context, drawing on unprecedented access to agency archives and personnel. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 370 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJK; HBTW; JPS; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 372
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137340924
- ISBN
- 9781137340924
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 129.12
€ 129.12