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Regional & national history
Paperback. The 18th-century French leather industry was a strategically important manufacturing sector, one vital to both civilian and military life. This study examines the production of leather in the Bordeaux trades during the 18th and 19th centuries, illuminating the realities of a craft economy and its relation to the wider French political economy. Num Pages: 311 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 401.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Number of pages
- 311
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349493999
- ISBN
- 9781349493999
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€ 127.18
€ 127.18
Paperback. Most scholars agree that reading a play is absolutely unlike live performance, but everything else about their relationship beyond this premise has proven contestable. Focusing on the editorial and textual history of Shakespeare, this book navigates these debates by exploring how textual distortions enrich a play's performance potentialities. Series: History of Text Technologies. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; DS; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349493937
- ISBN
- 9781349493937
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€ 65.90
€ 65.90
Paperback. This monograph makes clear how the format of the literary folio played a fundamental role in book history by encapsulating the unstable negotiation between commerce, cultural prestige, and the fundamental nature of the printed book. Series: History of Text Technologies. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJD1; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349493913
- ISBN
- 9781349493913
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Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90
Paperback. Although freedom is America's core value, few Americans have a clear idea of what it means or - worse - enjoy much freedom in any of its conventional meanings. Drawing from republican tradition, the book critiques the contemporary American value of freedom as it appears in politics, the economy, and culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349493289
- ISBN
- 9781349493289
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Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90
Paperback. This work explores the reasons for the Allied intervention into Russia at the end of the Great War and examines the military, diplomatic and political chaos that resulted in the failure of the Allies and White Russians to defeat the Bolshevik Revolution. Num Pages: 330 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJ; HBJD; HBJD1; HBJK; HBW; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349493241
- ISBN
- 9781349493241
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€ 139.17
€ 139.17
Paperback. For a full month in the autumn of 1812 the 2,000-strong garrison of the fortress the French had constructed to overawe the city of Burgos defied the Duke of Wellington. In this work a leading historian of the Peninsular teams up with a leading conflict archaeologist to examine the reasons for Wellington's failure. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBW; HD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 219 x 18. Weight in Grams: 306.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349492534
- ISBN
- 9781349492534
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Condition: New
€ 65.78
€ 65.78
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBL; HBTB; RNQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 305.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349492510
- ISBN
- 9781349492510
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Condition: New
€ 65.78
€ 65.78
Paperback. This volume is devoted to the shaping of British foreign and defence policymaking in the twentieth century and illustrates why it's relatively easy for states to lose their way as they grope for a safe passage forward when confronted by mounting international crises and the antics of a few desperate men. Editor(s): Murfett, Malcolm. Series: Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD1; HBL; HBW; JPA; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349492275
- ISBN
- 9781349492275
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Condition: New
€ 149.44
€ 149.44
Religion, Power, and Resistance from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Cen...
. Ed(S): Bollermann, Karen; Izbicki, Dr. Thom...
Paperback. Addressing the myriad ways in which heresy accusations could fulfill political aims during the Middle Ages, this collection shows acts of heresy were not just influenced by religion. Essays examine individual cases, in addition to the close relationship of orthodoxy and political dominance in medieval games of power. Editor(s): Bollermann, Karen; Izbicki, Dr. Thomas M.; Nederman, Cary J. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HPC; HRAM; HRAX; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 338.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 259
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349492213
- ISBN
- 9781349492213
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Condition: New
€ 66.00
€ 66.00
paperback. Since the late 1970s China has undergone a great transformation, during which time the country has witnessed an outpouring of competing schools of thought. This book analyzes the major schools of political thought redefining China's transformation and the role Chinese thinkers are playing in the post-Mao era. Series: Politics and Development of Contemporary China. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- SKU
- V9781349491230
- ISBN
- 9781349491230
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Condition: New
€ 65.69
€ 65.69
Paperback. This book engages a complex subject that mainline theologies avoid, Indigenous Australia. The heritages, wisdoms and dreams of Indigenous Australians are tormented by the discriminating mindsets and colonialist practices of non-Indigenous peoples. This book gives special attention to the torments due to the arrival and development of the church. Editor(s): Havea, Jione. Series: Postcolonialism and Religions. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJM; HRAM; HRAX; HRC; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349490899
- ISBN
- 9781349490899
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Condition: New
€ 66.00
€ 66.00
Paperback. The Irish Civil War and Society sheds new light on the social currents shaping the Irish Civil War, from the 'politics of respectability' behind animosities and discourses; to the intersection of social conflicts with political violence; to the social dimensions of the war's messy aftermath. Num Pages: 315 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; HBW; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 315
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349490615
- ISBN
- 9781349490615
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Condition: New
€ 127.52
€ 127.52
Paperback. Focusing on piracy in the seventeenth century, filibustering in the nineteenth century, intracolonial migrations in the 1930s, metropolitan racializations in the 1950s and 1960s, and feminist redefinitions of creolization and sexile from the 1940s to the 1990s, this book redefines the Caribbean beyond the postcolonial debate. Series: New Caribbean Studies. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; HBJK; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 374.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349489794
- ISBN
- 9781349489794
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Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Paperback. This volume offers detailed accounts of the cults of individual writers and a comparative perspective on the spread of centenary fever across Europe. It offers a fascinating insight into the interaction between literature and cultural memory, and the entanglement between local, national and European identities at the highpoint of nation-building. Editor(s): Leerssen, Joep; Rigney, Ann. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HBAH; HBJD; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349489459
- ISBN
- 9781349489459
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Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Paperback. Tracing the historical figure of Vaslav Nijinsky in contemporary documents and later reminiscences, Dancing Genius opens up questions about authorship in dance, about critical evaluation of performance practice, and the manner in which past events are turned into history. Num Pages: 332 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; ASD; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349488223
- ISBN
- 9781349488223
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Condition: New
€ 127.60
€ 127.60
Paperback. 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: HBG; HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 209
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349488148
- ISBN
- 9781349488148
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Condition: New
€ 65.78
€ 65.78
paperback. This book offers a fresh look at Taiwan's state workers in from the postwar period to the present day and examines the rise and fall of labor insurgency in the past two decades. Challenging the conventional image of docile working class, it unearths a series of workers resistance, hidden and public, in a high authoritarian era. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; JFF; JHB; JHBL; JPA; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349487462
- ISBN
- 9781349487462
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Condition: New
€ 66.26
€ 66.26
Paperback. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBJD; HBTB; HBTD; HBW; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349487028
- ISBN
- 9781349487028
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Condition: New
€ 65.64
€ 65.64
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; HBJD; HBTB; JMQ; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349487004
- ISBN
- 9781349487004
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.08
€ 66.08
Paperback. Analyzing women labeled as terrorists in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Gender and the Political examines Western cultural constructions of the female terrorist. The chapters argue that the development of the discourse on terrorism evolves in parallel with, and in response to, radical feminism in the US during this time. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBTB; JFC; JFFK; JFSJ; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 309.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349486809
- ISBN
- 9781349486809
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.81
€ 65.81