Regional & national history
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Regional & national history
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.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137401717
- ISBN
- 9781137401717
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.46
€ 62.46
Hardcover. Writing the Ottomans examines historical writing on the Turks in England from 1480-1700, tracing the evolution of this discourse and exploring its central authors, works, and contexts. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 1QDT; 2AB; DSBD; HBJF1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137401526
- ISBN
- 9781137401526
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.71
€ 118.71
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
€ 118.57
€ 118.57
Hardcover. James Crossland's work traces the history of the International Committee of the Red Cross' struggle to bring humanitarianism to the Second World War, by focusing on its tumultuous relationship with one of the conflict's key belligerents and masters of the blockade of the Third Reich, Great Britain. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWQ; JKSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 219 x 21. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137399557
- ISBN
- 9781137399557
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.00
€ 63.00
Hardback. Series: Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700-2000. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBTB; JNL; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137399434
- ISBN
- 9781137399434
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.64
€ 93.64
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
€ 150.83
€ 150.83
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
€ 62.82
€ 62.82
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 316 pages, 24 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HBJD; HBLC1; HBTB. 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
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137397768
- ISBN
- 9781137397768
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 172.13
€ 172.13
Hardback. Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores nineteenth-century Italian sexualities from a variety of viewpoints, illuminating in particular personal and political relationships, same-sex desires, gender roles that defy societal norms, sexual behaviours of different classes and transnational encounters. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 341 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD; HBLL; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 341
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137396976
- ISBN
- 9781137396976
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.99
€ 109.99
Hardcover. Tied by history, politics, and faith to all corners of the globe, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict fascinates and infuriates people across the world. Based on new archive research and original interviews, Headlines from the Holy Land explains why this fiercely contested region exerts such a pull over leading correspondents and diplomats. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; DNJ; HBJF1; JPSD; JPWS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 223 x 24. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137395122
- ISBN
- 9781137395122
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.96
€ 41.96
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
€ 61.81
€ 61.81
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
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardback. This book examines how, from the late nineteenth century through the 1920s, British policymakers, welfare providers, and working-class men struggled to accommodate men's dependence on the state within understandings of masculine citizenship. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 323 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 24. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 323
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137393203
- ISBN
- 9781137393203
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.26
€ 120.26
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
€ 150.42
€ 150.42
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
€ 62.39
€ 62.39
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
€ 62.67
€ 62.67
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
€ 63.10
€ 63.10
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137391711
- ISBN
- 9781137391711
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.28
€ 63.28
Hardcover. This innovative book examines the emergence of a memory discourse in Spain since the millennium, taking as its point of departure recent grave exhumations and the "Law of Historical Memory." Through an analysis of exhumation photography, novels, films, television, and comics, the volume overturns the notion that Spanish history is pathological. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; DSK; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 185 x 220 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137390905
- ISBN
- 9781137390905
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.98
€ 61.98
Hardcover. In November 1941, near the city of Rovno, Ukraine, German death squads murdered over 23,000 Jews in what has been described as "the second Babi Yar." This meticulous and methodologically innovative study reconstructs the events at Rovno, and in the process exemplifies efforts to form a genuinely transnational history of the Holocaust. Num Pages: 150 pages, 22 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 162 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137388391
- ISBN
- 9781137388391
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.72
€ 128.72
Hardcover. A political and analytical biography, this book examines Yizhak Rabin's longtime leadership of the military and his political direction of the Jewish state, as well as his efforts to secure a peace with Egypt and with the Palestinians. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBH; BGH; HBJF1; HBLW; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 167 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137386588
- ISBN
- 9781137386588
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.12
€ 62.12
Hardcover. Today's "clash of civilizations" between the Islamic world and the West are in many ways rooted in 19th-century resistance to Western hegemony. This compellingly argued and carefully researched transnational study details the ways in which Japan served as a model for Ottomans in attaining "non-Western" modernity in a Western-dominated global order. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 372 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1FPJ; 3JJ; HBJF; HBJF1; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 234 x 26. Weight in Grams: 698.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137384591
- ISBN
- 9781137384591
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.25
€ 120.25
Hardcover. Ruprecht hopes to show that Quatremere's true importance emerges only if we situate him in his own times, one generation after Winckelmann, in a very different, and a far more revolutionary and secularizing cultural moment. Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ACG; HBG; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137384072
- ISBN
- 9781137384072
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.43
€ 119.43
Hardcover. Sudan has historically suffered devastating famines that have powerfully reshaped its society. This study shows that food crises were the result of exploitative processes that transferred resources to a small group of beneficiaries, including British imperial agents and indigenous elites who went on to control the Sudanese state at independence. Series: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies. Num Pages: 277 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJH; HBLL; HBLW; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137383860
- ISBN
- 9781137383860
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.67
€ 62.67