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Regional & national history
Paperback. Telling the stories of mothers, fathers and children in their own words, Vaizey recreates the experience of family life in Nazi Germany. From last letters of doomed soldiers at Stalingrad to diaries kept by women trying to keep their families alive in cities under attack, the book vividly describes family life under the most extreme conditions. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 265 pages, 19 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230251496
- ISBN
- 9780230251496
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.09
€ 72.09
Hardcover. In mid-nineteenth-century Britain, there existed a dominant discourse on what it meant to be a man -denoted by the term 'manliness'. Based on the sociological work of R.W. Connell and others who argue that gender is performative, Robert Hogg asks how British men performed manliness on the colonial frontiers of Queensland and British Columbia. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBCB; 1MBFQ; 1QDB; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230250178
- ISBN
- 9780230250178
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Paperback. Spain Transformed addresses the sweeping social and cultural changes that characterized the late Franco regime. This wide-ranging collection reassesses the dictatorship's latter years by drawing on a wealth of new material and ideas, using an interdisciplinary approach. Editor(s): Townson, Nigel. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 352.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230248885
- ISBN
- 9780230248885
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.32
€ 66.32
Hardcover. An analysis of the German Question's influence on the origins of the Cold War, arguing that the legal and diplomatic intercourse between the Allies regarding the treatment of the German Question brought forward the elements of intervention and coexistence which formed the basis for a relatively peaceful postwar international order. Series: Global Conflict and Security Since 1945. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTW; JPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 448.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230248120
- ISBN
- 9780230248120
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230243644
- ISBN
- 9780230243644
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.72
€ 33.72
Hardcover. As one of South Asia's oldest democracies Sri Lanka is a critical case to examine the limits of a liberal peace, peacebuilding and external engagement in the settlement of civil wars. Based on nine years of research, and more than 100 interviews with those affected by the war, NGOs, and local and international elites engaged in the peace process. Series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKS; GTJ; HBJF; JPS; JWLP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230240278
- ISBN
- 9780230240278
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardcover. A unique look at the meaning of the taste for wine in Britain, from the establishment of a Commonwealth in 1649 to the Commercial Treaty between Britain and France in 1860 - this book provides an extraordinary window into the politics and culture of England and Scotland just as they were becoming the powerful British state. Num Pages: 371 pages, 66 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD1; HBTB; JFCV; WBXD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 26. Weight in Grams: 698.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 374
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230238657
- ISBN
- 9780230238657
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.59
€ 129.59
Paperback. Going to War overturns conventional views of the role of public opinion, the armed forces, parliamentarians, NGOs and writers in the formation of British debates about impending wars. It shows the pressures and the reasons which have led to Britain's involvement in so many conflicts. Num Pages: 236 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JMC; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; HBLX; JWK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 304. British Debates from Wilberforce to Blair. 240 pages, 1 tables. Going to War overturns conventional views of the role of public opinion, the armed forces, parliamentarians, NGOs and writers in the formation of British debates about impending wars. It shows the pressures and the reasons which have led to Britain's involvement in so many conflicts. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JMC; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; HBLX; JWK. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 14. Weight: 304.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230237933
- ISBN
- 9780230237933
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. After the Great War some texts by British Army veterans portrayed the Anglican chaplains who had served with them in an extremely negative light. This book examines the realities of Anglican chaplains' wartime experiences and presents a compelling picture of what it meant to be a clergyman-in-uniform in the most devastating war in modern history. Num Pages: 307 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJF; HBJD1; HBWN; HRCC91; HRCX4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230237452
- ISBN
- 9780230237452
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardcover. An analysis of a scandal involving a doctor accused of allowing a number of women to develop cervical cancer from carcinoma in situ as part of an experiment he had been conducting since the 1960s into conservative treatment of the disease, to more broadly explore dramatic changes in medical history in the second half of the twentieth century. Series: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1MBN; HBJM; HBLW3; MBDC; MBX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230236035
- ISBN
- 9780230236035
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.59
€ 67.59
Hardcover. India was the object of intense sympathetic concern during the Romantic period. But what was the true nature of imaginative engagement with British India? This study explores how a range of authors, from Edmund Burke and Sir William Jones to Robert Southey and Thomas Moore, sought to come to terms with India's strangeness and distance from Britain. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; HBJD1; HBJF; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230233393
- ISBN
- 9780230233393
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Hardcover. The first substantial interdisciplinary, cross-genre critique of Margaret Thatcher and her cultural 'afterlife', exploring Thatcher's legacy across a range of areas including public policy, broadcast media, film, poetry, architectural design, political cartoons and literature. Editor(s): Ho, Elizabeth. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; HBJD1; HBLW3; JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230233317
- ISBN
- 9780230233317
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.47
€ 67.47
Hardcover. An examination of how the logistical demands of the British military campaigns in Palestine and Mesopotamia led to a more intrusive and authoritarian form of imperial control in 1917-18. This early example of Western military intervention in the Middle East provoked a localized backlash in 1919-20 whose effects continue to be felt today. Series: Studies in Military and Strategic History. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJF; HBJD1; HBJF1; HBWN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230233003
- ISBN
- 9780230233003
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardcover. This book explores the day-to-day 'lived experience' of fascism in Venice during the 1930s, charting the attempts of the fascist regime to infiltrate and reshape Venetians' everyday lives and their responses to the intrusions of the fascist state. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 136 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232860
- ISBN
- 9780230232860
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Paperback. An accessible yet thorough look at how historians and social scientists have thought and written about the history of the present-day European Union, and the main themes of their research and debates. Essential reading for historians of Europe and social scientists of the European Union alike. Editor(s): Kaiser, Wolfram; Varsori, Antonio. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; HBAH; HBJD; JPSN2. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232709
- ISBN
- 9780230232709
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
The Last Ottomans: The Muslim Minority of Greece 1940-1949 (New Perspe...
Featherstone, Kevin, Papadimitriou, Dimitris,...
Hardcover. A new study of the international and local politics surrounding the Muslim minority of Western Thrace (Greece) in the 1940s, based on previously unseen archival material. Addresses the minority's complex identity, its relations with other communities in the area, the international diplomacy of WWII and strategic considerations of the Cold War. Series: New Perspectives on South-East Europe. Num Pages: 378 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 1DVT; 3JJH; 3JJPG; HBJD; HBLW; JFSR2; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 147 x 29. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 380
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232518
- ISBN
- 9780230232518
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.75
€ 128.75
Policing in England and Wales, 1918-39: The Fed, Flying Squads and For...
Laybourn, Keith, Taylor, David
Hardcover. An examination of the modernization of the English and Welsh police during the interwar years, focusing upon the increasing professionalization of the police, the Federation, forensic work and the growth of traffic policing. The authors challenge the established viewpoint by arguing that this period saw significant changes in policing. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKW; 3JJG; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB; JKSW1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232457
- ISBN
- 9780230232457
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.52
€ 67.52
Hardcover. Romantic Cosmopolitanism shows how cosmopolitanism in the early nineteenth century offers a non-unified formulation of the nation that stands in contrast to more unified models such as Edmund Burke's which found nationality in, among other things, language, history, blood and geography. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; JPA. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232044
- ISBN
- 9780230232044
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. With a focus on colonial Bengal, this book demonstrates how the dynamics of agrarian prosperity or decline, communal conflicts, poverty and famine can only be properly understood from an ecological perspective as well as discussions of state's coercion and popular resistance, market forces and dependency, or contested cultures and consciousness. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 21 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBTB; RNC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230231832
- ISBN
- 9780230231832
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.03
€ 128.03
Hardcover. An examination of why and how Fascist Italy sought to increase its influence in the Middle East, and why Italian efforts ultimately failed. Offering fresh insights into Fascist Italy's foreign and colonial policies, this book makes an important contribution to the complex history of relations between Europe and the Arab world. Num Pages: 269 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1FB; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; JPFQ; JPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230231603
- ISBN
- 9780230231603
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07