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Regional & national history
Paperback. The first book to explore the remarkable political alliance and often volatile friendship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson. Series: The World of the Roosevelt's. Num Pages: 243 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTB; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137270320
- ISBN
- 9781137270320
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.12
€ 66.12
Hardcover. This book is the first full-length study into the Reagan presidency with the tools of narratology. It expands the understudied field of research into political narratives as concrete policy tools and provides a new means of understanding the continuing popularity of Reagan as a President. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137272997
- ISBN
- 9781137272997
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. The Oslo Process of September 1993 to January 2001 ultimately brought about a permanent break in American Judaism's traditional wall-to-wall support for any Israeli government. Drawing on extensive new sources, Rubin analyzes what this meant for the American and Israeli Jewish communities-critical constituencies in past and future negotiations. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137273772
- ISBN
- 9781137273772
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62
Hardcover. Drawing substantially on the thoughts and words of Catholic writers and cultural commentators, Villis sheds new light on religious identity and political extremism in early twentieth-century Britain. The book constitutes a comprehensive study of the way in which British Catholic communities reacted to fascism both at home and abroad. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLW; HRCC7; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137274182
- ISBN
- 9781137274182
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.30
€ 127.30
Hardcover. This book critically evaluates the growing body of theoretical literature on ethnic conflict and civil war, using empirical data from three major South Caucasian conflicts, evaluating the relative strengths and weaknesses of the available methodological approaches. Series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUG; 1DVUZ; 3JJPR; 3JM; HBJD; HBLX; HBWS; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137280220
- ISBN
- 9781137280220
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.36
€ 128.36
Paperback. Drawing on theories of sublimity, trauma, and ecocriticism, this book examines how the often sharp division between European American and African American experiences of the natural world developed in American culture and history, and how those natural experiences, in turn, shaped the construction of race. Series: Signs of Race. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137280527
- ISBN
- 9781137280527
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 138.21
€ 138.21
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137280824
- ISBN
- 9781137280824
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.72
€ 67.72
Hardcover. This powerful study offers a vivid and often disturbing account of the Italian army's occupation of Slovenia during World War II. It moves from the decision of the Italians to annex Slovenia in 1941, through local resistance and brutal reaction against civilians, to the army's ultimate collapse following Italy's defection from the Axis. Translator(s): Burke, Elizabeth; Majanlahti, Anthony. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVWYV; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137281197
- ISBN
- 9781137281197
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.74
€ 66.74
Paperback. The rich and fascinating oral narrative of an African American WWII fighter pilot, radio personality, and co-founder of Harlem's American Negro Theater. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBSB; 1KLCM; 3JJH; HBJK; HBTD; JFSL3; JWG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 12. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137281968
- ISBN
- 9781137281968
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.26
€ 66.26
Hardcover. The papers presented in this collection offer a wide range of cases, from Asia, Africa and the Americas, and broadly cover the last two centuries, in which commodities have led to the consolidation of a globalised economy and society - forging this out of distinctive local experiences of cultivation and production, and regional circuits of trade. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; 1H; 1K; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBJH; HBJK; HBTQ; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 218 x 21. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137283597
- ISBN
- 9781137283597
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.74
€ 66.74
Paperback. Rabies was a constant threat in Victorian Britain and gripped popular imagination, not least because its human form, hydrophobia, produced a vile death with the mind and body out of control. This book explores the changing understanding of rabies amongst veterinarians, animal welfare campaigners, state officials, politicians and the public. Series: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 217 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137285898
- ISBN
- 9781137285898
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Hardcover. This groundbreaking study offers a rare window into the history of slavery in the Sudan, with particular attention to the relationships between slaves and masters. Thoroughly documented, it provides valuable context to current issues of global concern and combats persistent myths about African slavery. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HBS; HBJH; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137286024
- ISBN
- 9781137286024
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.51
€ 139.51
Hardcover. This book deconstructs the neopatrimonial paradigm that has dominated analysis of Nigerian and African development. It shows that by denying agency to Nigerian societies and devaluing indigenous culture and local realities, Eurocentric diffusionism played a significant role in the failure of development planning. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; HBJH; HBLW3; JPRB; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137286642
- ISBN
- 9781137286642
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.71
€ 67.71
Hardcover. Italy faced a number of catastrophes in the long sixteenth century. This economic and demographic history follows the consequences of these catastrophes - the action of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse - War, Famine and Plague, all followed by Death. Series: Early Modern History: Society and Culture. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137289766
- ISBN
- 9781137289766
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.11
€ 139.11
Hardcover. An examination of the fall of the Iron Curtain and its significance from the perspective of Greece. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 284 pages, 2 maps, 16 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVG; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137292438
- ISBN
- 9781137292438
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardcover. Assuming power in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party was soon faced with a crucial problem: how to construct the socialist 'New Man'? Using Foucault's theory of 'technologies of the self', Lynteris examines the conflict between self-cultivation and the abolition of the self in the biopolitically neuralgic field of 'socialist medicine'. Num Pages: 136 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 138
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137293824
- ISBN
- 9781137293824
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. This study reveals the more complex reality of Early Modern Naples than what has commonly been represented, in which royal representatives in the city came to depend on the assistance of a series of merchants, financiers, and bureaucrats who shared a common identity as conversos, descendants of converted Jews. Series: Early Modern History: Society and Culture. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1DST; 1QSM; 3J; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 136 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137295149
- ISBN
- 9781137295149
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.45
€ 127.45
Hardcover. According to conventional wisdom, by the late 1800s, the image of Bible as a supernatural and infallible text crumbled in the eyes of intellectuals under the assaults of secularizing forces. This book corrects the narrative by arguing that in America, the road to skepticism had already been paved by the Scriptures' most able and ardent defenders. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HRCC2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137299659
- ISBN
- 9781137299659
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.40
€ 116.40
Hardcover. The wide-ranging fascination with India in Wilhelmine Germany emerged during a time of extraordinary cultural and political tensions. This study shows how religious (denominational and spiritual) dilemmas, political agendas, and shifting social consensus became inextricably entangled in the wider German encounter with India during the Kaiserreich. Num Pages: 259 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJF; HBLL; HBTB; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137299710
- ISBN
- 9781137299710
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardcover. What does it mean to be a Muslim - in this world, in this deeply transformative time? Hamid Dabashi suggests that the transition to a changed, post-Western world requires the crafting of a new language of critical conversation with Islam and its cosmopolitan heritage - a language that is tuned to the emerging, not the disappearing, world Num Pages: 188 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJF1; HBTR; HRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137301284
- ISBN
- 9781137301284
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.63
€ 63.63