×


 x 

Shopping cart

Regional & national history

Results 9409 - 9432 of 25970

Regional & national history

Paperback. "This original and scholarly work uses three detailed case studies of plays Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, King Lear and Cymbeline to cast light on the ways in which early modern writers used metaphor to explore how identities emerge from the interaction of competing regional and spiritual topographies"-- Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSB; DSC; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 379.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
235
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349332779
ISBN
9781349332779
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.97

Paperback. A repositioning of French women's struggle for suffrage within the distinct cultural landscape of the masculine honour system. Whether activists demanded admission to the popular ritual of the duel or publicly shamed men for their extramarital sexual behaviour, they appropriated extralegal honour codes to enact new civic and familial identities. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 310 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
310
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349333202
ISBN
9781349333202
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.95

Paperback. Using newly-discovered documentation from the French military archives, A History of Violence in the Early Algerian Colony offers a comprehensive study of the forms of violence adopted by the French Army in Africa. Its coverage ranges from detailed case studies of massacres to the question of whether a genocide took place in Algeria. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJH; HBL; HBTQ; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349333349
ISBN
9781349333349
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.65

Paperback. The Paper War and the Development of Anglo-American Nationalisms, 1800-1825 offers fresh insight into the evolution of British and American nationalisms, the maturation of apologetics for slavery, and the early development of anti-Americanism, from approximately 1800 to 1830. Series: Britain and the World. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBJK; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2012
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349333363
ISBN
9781349333363
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.01

Paperback. At the turn of the twentieth century women played a key role in debates about the nature of the Irish nation. Examining women's participation in nationalist and rural reform groups, this book is an important contribution to our understanding of Irish identity in the prelude to revolution and how it was shaped by women. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349333387
ISBN
9781349333387
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.73

Paperback. The story of how the concept of a pantheon, a building honouring great individuals, spread across Revolutionary Europe and interacted with socio-political and cultural changes. Analysing the canon and iconography of each pantheon, Bouwers shows how the commemoration of war and celebration of nationhood gave way to the protection of elite interests. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 340 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AMA; HBJD; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349333448
ISBN
9781349333448
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.41

Paperback. An analysis of Cuba's history from a British diplomatic perspective during the period of US political and economic domination, from 1898 to 1964. It investigates how Britain attempted to protect its trade and other interests in the island, whilst always sensitive to the reactions of its most important ally, the United States. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBL; JPA; JPS; JPSD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349333523
ISBN
9781349333523
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.52

Paperback. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBJF; HBL; HBTQ; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349333622
ISBN
9781349333622
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 126.65

paperback. Timothy Heppell brings together a renowned group of contributors to consider the role of the Leader of the Opposition in British Politics. The book argues that the neglect of opposition studies needs to be addressed, especially given the increasing importance attached to the performance the Leader of the Opposition in the British political system. Editor(s): Heppell, Timothy. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed. 2012
SKU
V9781349333646
ISBN
9781349333646
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.73

Paperback. Missionary Discourse examines missionary writings from India and southern Africa to explore colonial discourses about race, religion, gender and culture. The book is organised around three themes: family, sickness and violence, which were key areas of missionary concern, and important axes around which colonial difference was forged. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBJF; HBJH; HBL; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349333981
ISBN
9781349333981
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Was France fascist in the interwar period? This comprehensive historical, political and sociological account follows the rise of engineers and political "non-conformists" in the first half of the twentieth century, examining the French technocracy's relationship with the rise of fascism in France and later the establishment of the Fourth Republic. Series: Studies in Modern History. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
217
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349334148
ISBN
9781349334148
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.97

Paperback. Asking whether a genuinely shared European memory is possible while addressing the dangers of a single, homogenized European memory, Gluhovic examines the contradictions, specificities, continuities and discontinuities in the European shared and unshared pasts as represented in the works of Pinter, Tadeusz Kantor, Heiner Muller and Artur Zmijewski. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 346 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; DS; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Number of pages
346
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349334308
ISBN
9781349334308
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.30

Paperback. Through a close-reading of the work of five prominent American postmodernist writers, this book re-evaluatesthe role of the past in recent American fiction, outlines the development of the postmodernist historical novel and considers the waning influence of postmodernism in contemporary American literature." Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HBJK; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349334506
ISBN
9781349334506
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.25

Paperback. In16th and 17th century England conversation was an embodied act that held the capacity to negotiate, manipulate and transform social relationships. Early Modern Women in Conversation illuminates the extent to which gender shaped conversational interaction and demonstrates the significance of conversation as a rhetorical practice for women." Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJD; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 345.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349334841
ISBN
9781349334841
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Edmund Spenser's censored attacks on Lord Burghley (Elizabeth I's powerful first minister) serve as the basis for a reassessment of the poet's mid-career, challenging the dates of canonical texts, the social and personal contexts for scandalous topical allegories, and the new historicist portrait of Spenser's 'worship' of power and state ideology. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC; HBJD1; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349335206
ISBN
9781349335206
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.66

paperback. Neuhaus explores the roots of the long-standing European fascination with Tibet, from the Dalai Lama to the Abominable Snowman. Surveying a wide range of travel accounts, official documents, correspondence and fiction, he examines how different people thought about both Tibet and their home cultures. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
273
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed. 2012
SKU
V9781349335282
ISBN
9781349335282
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.28

Paperback. This fascinating and lively volume makes the case that the Eurovision Song Contest is an arena for European identification in which both national solidarity and participation in a European identity are confirmed, and a site where cultural struggles over the meanings, frontiers and limits of Europe are enacted. Editor(s): Fricker, Karen; Gluhovic, Milija. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AV; DS; HBJD; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349335596
ISBN
9781349335596
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 149.23

Paperback. The IRA's ability to exploit the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland was central to the organisation's capacity to wage its 'Long War' over a quarter of a century. This book is the first to look at the role of the border in sustaining the Provisionals and its central role in Anglo-Irish relations throughout the Troubles. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKN; 1DBR; 3JJP; HBJD1; HBTR; JPS; JPV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Number of pages
247
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349335657
ISBN
9781349335657
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 126.68

Paperback. Sarah Hicks Williams was the northern-born wife of an antebellum slaveholder. Rebecca Fraser traces her journey as she relocates to Clifton Grove, the Williams' slaveholding plantation, presenting her with complex dilemmas as she reconciled her new role as plantation mistress to the gender script she had been raised with in the North. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349336500
ISBN
9781349336500
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.94

Paperback. This book sheds fresh light on developments in British nuclear weapons policy between October 1964, when the Labour Party came back into power under Harold Wilson following a thirteen year absence, and June 1970 when the Conservative government of Edward Heath was elected. Series: Nuclear Weapons and International Security Since 1945. Num Pages: 342 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
342
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349336562
ISBN
9781349336562
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 128.21

Paperback. Kristan Stoddart reveals for the first time discussions that took place between the British, French and US governments for nuclear cooperation in the early to mid 1970s. In doing so it sets the scene for the upgrade to Britain's Polaris force codenamed Chevaline and how this could have brought down Harold Wilson's Labour government of 1974-1976. Series: Nuclear Weapons and International Security Since 1945. Num Pages: 344 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJK; HBL; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349336586
ISBN
9781349336586
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.73

Paperback. Language and Politics in Post-Soviet Russia critically examines the uses of language in post-Soviet media and political texts between 1998 and 2007. It will be of interest to academics and researchers in the fields of media studies, discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and scholars in Russian Studies. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; CFB; GTC; HBJ; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
202
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349336685
ISBN
9781349336685
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.70

Paperback. A refreshing insight into a previously neglected area of popular British cinema the holiday film - including historical information about the British holiday and analyses of key films from the 1900s to the recent past." Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; HBJD1; HBTB; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
257
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349336708
ISBN
9781349336708
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.61

Paperback. Early modern drama is steeped in biblical language, imagery and stories. This collection examines the pervasive presence of scripture on the early modern stage. Exploring plays by writers such as Shakespeare, Marlowe, Middleton, and Webster, the contributors showhow theatre offers a site of public and communal engagement with the Bible." Editor(s): Streete, A. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJD; HBL; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 433.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
267
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349336760
ISBN
9781349336760
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!