Regional & national history
Results 17921 - 17940 of 25728
Regional & national history
Hardcover. Diego Garcia is a pivotal US base for all Middle East operations. This book describes its evolution from a secret US-UK bilateral deal in 1966 and the deportation of the native population in the 70s to its new role in Guantanamo-style 'renditions' and the impact of miltary construction on its environment. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HS; HBJH; JPSD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230617094
- ISBN
- 9780230617094
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. This book reveals how imitations of Ovid's works helped to redefine emotional experience and the political efficacy of emotional expression in late sixteenth-century England. Num Pages: 185 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230617049
- ISBN
- 9780230617049
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616806
- ISBN
- 9780230616806
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.41
€ 128.41
Hardcover. Striking perspectives on family, place, and memory from a unique and respected voice in contemporary Irish writing. Series: New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature. Num Pages: 184 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; DSA; HBJD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615342
- ISBN
- 9780230615342
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Hardcover. Anna Riehl investigates the aesthetic, political, and gender-related meanings inscribed in Queen Elizabeth I's face by her contemporaries. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 248 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3J; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230614956
- ISBN
- 9780230614956
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.84
€ 127.84
Hardcover. This book deals with the long overlooked and understudied Soviet famine of 1946-47, which came on the heels of World War II and at the dawn of the Cold War and killed as many as two million people. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLW3; JFFC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230613331
- ISBN
- 9780230613331
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This book offers a social and cultural history of American culture in the formative years of the twentieth century, examining forms such as vaudeville, early film, popular songs, modernist art, and many others in the context of contemporary social changes. Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 148 x 11. Weight in Grams: 398. A Social History, 1900-1920. 264 pages, Illustrations. This book offers a social and cultural history of American culture in the formative years of the twentieth century, examining forms such as vaudeville, early film, popular songs, modernist art, and many others in the context of contemporary social changes. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLW. Dimension: 218 x 148 x 11. Weight: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230613324
- ISBN
- 9780230613324
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover. This study collects the oral histories of residents of a single county in North Carolina who lived through the consequences of desegregation, examining the complex social and historical constructions of racial difference in education. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLW3; JNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230611351
- ISBN
- 9780230611351
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.31
€ 67.31
Hardcover. Sean Wilentz gathers illuminating reflections on a beloved president from some of America's greatest historians. Editor(s): Wilentz, Sean. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230609150
- ISBN
- 9780230609150
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.73
€ 67.73
Paperback. This book is the result of a four-year, in-depth study using social science methodology of those refugees who came as children or youths from Central Europe to the United States during the 1930s and 1940s, fleeing persecution from the National Socialist regime. This study examines their fates in their new country, their successes and tribulations. Num Pages: 265 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 265
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230609075
- ISBN
- 9780230609075
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This books brings together the narrated autobiographies of black New Orleanians, united by their residence in New Orleans, Louisiana during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3JMC; HBJK; HBLX; HBTB; JFSL3; RNR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458. African American Voices from the Crescent City and Beyond. 288 pages, Illustrations, maps. This books brings together the narrated autobiographies of black New Orleanians, united by their residence in New Orleans, Louisiana during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3JMC; HBJK; HBLX; HBTB; JFSL3; RNR. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 18. Weight: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230608719
- ISBN
- 9780230608719
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Overcoming Katrina: African American Voices from the Crescent City and...
Penner, D'Ann R., Ferdinand, Keith C.
Hardcover. This books brings together the narrated autobiographies of black New Orleanians, united by their residence in New Orleans, Louisiana during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3JMC; HBJK; HBLX; HBTB; JFSL3; RNR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230608702
- ISBN
- 9780230608702
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.71
€ 67.71
Hardcover. This study covers the history of the underage male kings of England, examining their historical relationship to one another and assessing their collective impact on the political and constitutional development of England. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 475.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230608665
- ISBN
- 9780230608665
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. This book breaks new ground by analyzing the reciprocal relationship between a fascism that had reached the power phase (Nazi Germany) and fascist movements in two neighbouring countries which were attempting to come to power in their respective societies. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBWQ; JPFQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 475.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230608658
- ISBN
- 9780230608658
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Paperback. This new edition offers fascinating insights into one of the most celebrated love affairs of the Middle Ages. A new chapter charts the debate about the letters and offers fresh evidence to attribute them to Abelard and Heloise. The complete Latin text is reproduced with an annotated translation by Chiavaroli and Mews. Translator(s): Mews, Dr Constant J. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 442 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; 3H; DSBB; HBJD; HBLC1; HBTB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 29. Weight in Grams: 606.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Revised
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230608139
- ISBN
- 9780230608139
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 117.42
€ 117.42
Hardcover. Accidental presidents, those who assume office as a result of death, assassination or resignation, struggle to establish their legitimacy. This book examines and evaluates the strategies of nine accidental presidents, from John Tyler to Gerald Ford, to demonstrate authority and their capacity to govern. Series: The Evolving American Presidency. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPHL. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230607668
- ISBN
- 9780230607668
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardcover. Examining a variety of newspapers, novels, and Inquisition trials, Lang demonstrates how the accounts of conversion to the Catholic Church provide an unusual political opinion with serious ramifications in the shaping of national Italian identity during unification. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HRCC7. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230606722
- ISBN
- 9780230606722
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardcover. This book narrates and analyzes the southern tours that Booker T. Washington and his associates undertook in 1908-1912, relating them to Washington's racial philosophy and its impact on the various parts of black society. Num Pages: 260 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJC; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230606524
- ISBN
- 9780230606524
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Paperback. This collection looks at the on-going significance of Black Consciousness, situating it in a global frame, examining the legacy of Steve Biko, the current state of post-apartheid South African politics, and the culture and history of the anti-apartheid movements. Editor(s): Mngxitama, Andile; Alexander, Amanda; Gibson, Nigel. Series: Contemporary Black History. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; HBJH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230606494
- ISBN
- 9780230606494
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
Paperback. This book examines the challenges faced through history by female leaders of Britain. From empress Matilda to Queen Victoria, the author shows how these powerful women succeeded in a male-dominated patriarchal culture. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DB; HBJD1; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230606340
- ISBN
- 9780230606340
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.87
€ 71.87