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Regional & national history
Hardcover. Joseph De Sapio examines how individuals not only understood their contacts with industrial modernity as distinct from the inherited traditional rhythms of the eighteenth century, but how they conceived of their own positions within the increasingly sophisticated political, social, and commercial paradigms of the Victorian years. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137407207
- ISBN
- 9781137407207
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Hardcover. In the early 1900s the Catholic Church appealed, for the first time in its history, directly to women to reassert its religious, political and social relevance in Italian society. This book examines how the highly successful conservative Catholic women's movements that followed, and how they mobilized women against secular feminism. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements. Num Pages: 291 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; HRCC7; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137406330
- ISBN
- 9781137406330
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2012th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137405890
- ISBN
- 9781137405890
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.12
€ 128.12
Hardcover. A discourse on the historical emergence of African American Churches as dynamic cultural presences which occurred in the aftermath of the Civil War, and specifically in the wake of General Sherman's march from Atlanta to Savannah. Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Num Pages: 65 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HR; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 228 x 11. Weight in Grams: 222.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137405173
- ISBN
- 9781137405173
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.52
€ 65.52
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.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137403506
- ISBN
- 9781137403506
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
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.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137403476
- ISBN
- 9781137403476
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Respected by his peers and hugely successful internationally in his own time, Andre Maurois is now hardly read. Moderate and conciliatory in everything, including his literary style, he appealed to the educated reader of his time, but did those very qualities prevent him from achieving lasting distinction and impact? Num Pages: 133 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; DSBH; DSK; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 322.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137402691
- ISBN
- 9781137402691
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90
Hardcover. West Germany and the Portuguese Dictatorship 1968-1974 examines West Germany's ambiguous policy towards the Portuguese dictatorship of Marcelo Caetano. Lopes sheds new light on the social, economic, military, and diplomatic dimensions of the awkward relationship between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Caetano regime. Series: Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World. Num Pages: 291 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFGW; 1DSP; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBJD; HBTR; HBTW; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 218 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137402066
- ISBN
- 9781137402066
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardback. Spain's First Carlist War was an unlikely agent of modernity. It pitted town against country, subalterns against elites, and Europe's Liberal powers against Absolute Monarchies. This book traces the individual, collective and international experience of this conflict, giving equal attention to battle fronts and home fronts. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 291 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 149 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137401748
- ISBN
- 9781137401748
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.29
€ 139.29
Hardcover. By the early 20th century, Gypsies in Germany and Italy were pushed outside the national community and subjected to the arbitrary whims of executive authorities. This book offers an account of these exclusionary policies and their links to the rise of nationalism, liberalism, and the modern bureaucratic state. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1DST; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 220 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137401717
- ISBN
- 9781137401717
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardcover. Using new data on real wages, Caruana Galizia analyses the extent to which regions around the Mediterranean were part of the same labour market during the nineteenth century. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QRM; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137401083
- ISBN
- 9781137401083
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.16
€ 127.16
Hardcover. This ground-breaking book applies trauma studies to the drama and literature of the ancient Greeks. Diverse essays explore how the Greeks responded to war and if what we now term "combat trauma," "post-traumatic stress," or "combat stress injury" can be discerned in ancient Greek culture. Editor(s): Meineck, Peter; Konstan, David. Series: New Antiquity. Num Pages: 324 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; 3D; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 624.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137398857
- ISBN
- 9781137398857
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.81
€ 161.81
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. Transnational Turkish Islam provides an overview of Turkish organized Islam in seven European countries. It shows how Turkish Islamic organizations have developed from typical migrant associations in the 1970s and 1980s into present-day European Islamic associations with their own cultural and religious specificities and agendas. Num Pages: 146 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBJF1; HBLW3; HRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 150 x 13. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137394217
- ISBN
- 9781137394217
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.17
€ 66.17
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. The diplomatic "special relationship" between the US and UK has received much attention from historians, while their shared history of racial inequality and civil rights struggles have been relatively understudied. This collection explores this other "special relationship," expanding our historical understanding of the global civil rights movement. Editor(s): Kelley, Robin D. G.; Tuck, Stephen. Series: Contemporary Black History. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JH; HBJD1; HBJK; HBLW; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 236 x 20. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137392695
- ISBN
- 9781137392695
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.37
€ 161.37
Hardcover. Although marginal as a political force, anarchist ideas developed in Britain into a political tradition. This book explores this lost history, offering a new appraisal of the work of Kropotkin and Read, and examining the ways in which they endeavoured to articulate a politics fit for the particular challenges of Britain's modern history. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; JPFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137392602
- ISBN
- 9781137392602
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
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 is a study that examines United Nations' efforts against terrorism in the 1970s and how West Germany came to influence and lead them. It is also an account of several hostage and hijacking crises as well as a look at German domestic terrorism. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJPL; HBJD; HBLW3; JPS; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 23. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137391964
- ISBN
- 9781137391964
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137391711
- ISBN
- 9781137391711
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.76
€ 67.76