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Regional & national history
Hardcover. The first book to tell the strange and fascinating story of General Zhang Xue-liang, the Chinese-Manchurian 'Young Marshall' - a man who left an indelible mark on the history of modern China, but few know his story. Unlocking the mystery of this man's life, Aron Shai helps to shed light on 20th-century China. Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; BGH; HBJF; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230279063
- ISBN
- 9780230279063
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.74
€ 66.74
Paperback. An insightful new biography of Joseph Goebbels, Propaganda Minister of the 'Third Reich' and one of the most important and troubling figures of the twentieth century. The first account to use all of Goebbels' surviving diaries, it sheds new light on his personality, private life and political convictions, as well as his relationship with Hitler. Num Pages: 424 pages, 46, 41 black & white illustrations, 5 maps. BIC Classification: BGH; HBJD; HBWQ; JPFQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 420
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230278660
- ISBN
- 9780230278660
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.89
€ 58.89
Hardcover. Britain's Imperial Muse explores the classics' contribution to British imperialism and to the experience of empire in India through the long 19th century. It reveals the classics role as a foundational source for positive conceptions of empire and a rhetorical arsenal used by commentators to justify conquest and domination, especially of India. Series: Britain and the World. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1QDB; 3JH; HBJD1; HBJF; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230278615
- ISBN
- 9780230278615
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. A valuable and objective reassessment of the role of Serbia and Serbs in WWII. Today, Serbian textbooks praise the Chetniks of Draza MIhailovic and make excuses for the collaboration of Milan Nedic's regime with the Axis. However, this new evaluation shows the more complex and controversial nature of the political alliances during the period. Editor(s): Listhaug, Ola. Num Pages: 341 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVWYS; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 24. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230278301
- ISBN
- 9780230278301
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.21
€ 68.21
Hardcover. Spencer Mawby analyses the conflicts between the British government and Caribbean nationalists over regional integration, the Cold War, immigration policy and financial aid in the decades before Jamaica, Trinidad and the other territories of the Anglophone Caribbean became independent. Series: Britain and the World. Num Pages: 322 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 24. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230278189
- ISBN
- 9780230278189
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Hardcover. Using a wide range of rich original sources, this unique reference guide provides a remarkable picture of England's medieval Jewry. Following an extensive introduction, the dictionary includes illustrations, maps, and over 40 topographic, 30 biographic and 80 general entries, including texts of key legislation. Num Pages: 466 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GBC; HBJD1; HBLC1; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 162 x 31. Weight in Grams: 844.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230278165
- ISBN
- 9780230278165
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.92
€ 163.92
Local Negotiations of English Nationhood, 1570-1680 (Early Modern Lite...
Adrian, John, M. Adrian, John
Hardcover. Even in an age of emerging nationhood, English men and women still thought very much in terms of their parishes, towns, and counties. This book examines the vitality of early modern local consciousness and its deployment by writers to mediate the larger political, religious, and cultural changes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSK; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230277717
- ISBN
- 9780230277717
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardcover. Written by a leading historian of urban visual culture, Janet Ward's Post-Wall Berlin: Borders, Space and Identity demonstrates how the reunified German capital, in its bid to overcome its legacy of Cold-War division, has faced many new frontiers and boundaries on social, economic, architectural and infrastructural levels. Num Pages: 424 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 31. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 426
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230276574
- ISBN
- 9780230276574
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.22
€ 140.22
Hardcover. The volume explores how the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars were experienced, perceived and narrated by contemporaries in Britain and Ireland, drawing on an extensive range of personal testimonies by soldiers, sailors and civilians to shed new light on the social and cultural history of the period and the history of warfare more broadly. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; HBWH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230275430
- ISBN
- 9780230275430
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.05
€ 128.05
Hardcover. By employing new 'optics' and a comparative approach, this book helps us recognize the unexpected and unsettling connections between America's 'western' empire and Nazi Germany's 'eastern' empire, linking histories previously thought of as totally unrelated and leading readers towards a deep revisioning of the 'American West' and the 'Nazi East'. Num Pages: 321 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1KBBW; 3JJH; HBJD; HBJK; HBLW; JFFJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 22. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230275157
- ISBN
- 9780230275157
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.65
€ 128.65
Paperback. Based on countless diaries and letters, Schrijvers recounts American GIs' experiences in Asia and the Pacific. From the daunting spaces of the China-India theatre to the fortress islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, he brings to life their struggle with suffocating wilderness, devastating diseases, and Japanese soldiers who preferred death over life. Num Pages: 291 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJK; HBJM; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380. American Soldiers at War with Japan. 304 pages, 16, 16 black & white plates. Based on countless diaries and letters, Schrijvers recounts American GIs' experiences in Asia and the Pacific. From the daunting spaces of the China-India theatre to the fortress islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, he brings to life their struggle with suffocating wilderness, devastating diseases, and Japanese soldiers who preferred death over life. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJK; HBJM; HBWQ; JWLF. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 17. Weight: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230274365
- ISBN
- 9780230274365
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.62
€ 31.62
Hardcover. Despite reports of exile proving disastrous to the region, 300,000 Russian subjects, from political dissidents to the elderly and mentally disabled, were deported to Siberia from 1823-61. Their stories of physical and psychological suffering, heroism and personal resurrection, are recounted in this compelling history of tsarist Siberian exile. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJ; HBLL; JKVP; JPVR. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230273269
- ISBN
- 9780230273269
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.17
€ 128.17
Hardcover. The two concepts at the centre of this book: Europe, and the Second World War, are constantly changing in public perception. Now that 'Europe' is an even more contested idea than ever, this volume informs the current discourse on European identity by analysing Europe's reaction to the tragedy, heroism and disgrace of the Second World War. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230273238
- ISBN
- 9780230273238
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.71
€ 67.71
Hardcover. Britain was France's most implacable enemy during the Napoleonic Wars yet was able to resist the need for conscription to fill the ranks of its army and sustain Wellington's campaigns in Portugal and Spain. This new study explains how the men were found to replenish Wellington's army, and the consequences on Britain's government, army and society. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBWH; JWD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230273054
- ISBN
- 9780230273054
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.59
€ 138.59
Hardcover. What have medieval nuns, parrot shooting, Freemasonry, and Shetland revelry got in common? This study of monastic orders, guilds, Freemasonry and friendly societies over centuries and across frontiers provides new insights into their contribution to the gendering of public space and the evolution of 'separate spheres' in Europe. Num Pages: 283 pages, 19 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLH; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSV. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 145 x 219 x 22. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230272576
- ISBN
- 9780230272576
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. The idea of the centralized State has played a powerful role in shaping French republicanism. But for two hundred years, many have tried to find other ways of being French and Republican. These essays challenge the traditional account, bringing together new insights from leading scholars. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230272095
- ISBN
- 9780230272095
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Hardcover. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, this book investigates the everyday human experience of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars by French military and civilians, the impact of these wars on the French nation and society, and the rise of a new kind of war in the West at the turn of the nineteenth century. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBLL; HBWH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 164 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432. France at War, 1792-1815. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. 264 pages, illustrations. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, this book investigates the everyday human experience of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars by French military and civilians, the impact of these wars on the French nation and society, and the rise of a new kind of war in the West at the turn of the nineteenth century. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBLL; HBWH. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 20. Weight: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230252875
- ISBN
- 9780230252875
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardcover. Addressing the impact of the Russian Revolution and change and continuity in diplomacy during the transition from Empire to Soviet Union, this book examines how Russia's diplomacy was conducted, the diplomats behind it, the establishment of the Soviet diplomatic corps and the steps taken to integrate the Soviets into the diplomatic world. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; JPSD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230252646
- ISBN
- 9780230252646
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.99
€ 138.99
Hardcover. An exploration of the little-known yet historically important emigration of British army officers to the Australian colonies in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. The book looks at the significant impact they made at a time of great colonial expansion, particularly in new south Wales with its transition from a convict colony to a free society. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJM; HBLL; HBTB; HBTQ; HBWH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230252301
- ISBN
- 9780230252301
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.15
€ 128.15
Critical Turning Points in the Middle East: 1915 - 2015
Al-Rodhan, Nayef R.F., Herd, Graeme, Watanabe...
Hardcover. This book takes a novel look at the modern Middle East through the prisms of six cascading negative critical turning points. It identifies the seeds of a potential seventh in the collective dignity deficits generated by poor governance paradigms and exacerbated by geopolitical competition for the region's natural resources. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; JPSL; JPWS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230251502
- ISBN
- 9780230251502
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55