Regional & national history
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Regional & national history
Paperback. Espinoza's work illuminates how education was the site of ideological and political struggle in Peru during its early years as an independent state. Spanning 100 years and discussing both urban and rural education, it shows how school funding, curricula, and governance became part of the cultural process of state-building in Peru. Series: Historical Studies in Education. Num Pages: 295 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBL; JFC; JNB; JNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 377.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 295
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349464043
- ISBN
- 9781349464043
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Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 42.71
€ 53.99
€ 42.71
Paperback. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 289
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349464319
- ISBN
- 9781349464319
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Condition: New
€ 149.11
€ 149.11
Paperback. The 1918 Spanish flu epidemic is now widely recognized as the most devastating disease outbreak in recorded history. This cultural history reconstructs Spaniards' experience of the flu and traces the emergence of various competing narratives that arose in response to bacteriology's failure to explain and contain the disease's spread. Num Pages: 268 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; MBX; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 348.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349464395
- ISBN
- 9781349464395
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Condition: New
€ 126.85
€ 126.85
The Borderlands of South Sudan. Authority and Identity in Contemporary...
. Ed(S): Vaughan, C.; Vries, L. De; de Vries,...
paperback. Papers from a workshop held at Durham University in April 2011. Editor(s): Vaughan, C.; Vries, L. de; De Vries, Lotje; Schomerus, Mareike. Series: Palgrave Series in African Borderlands Studies. Num Pages: 258 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; HBJH; HBTQ; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 334.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- SKU
- V9781349464982
- ISBN
- 9781349464982
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Condition: New
€ 65.96
€ 65.96
Paperback. Birmingham, Alabama looms large in the history of the twentieth-century black freedom struggle, but to date historians have mostly neglected the years after 1963. Here, author Robert Widell explores the evolution of Birmingham black activism into the 1970s, providing a valuable local perspective on the "long" black freedom struggle. Series: Contemporary Black History. Num Pages: 284 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBL; HBTB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349465019
- ISBN
- 9781349465019
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Condition: New
€ 66.17
€ 66.17
Paperback. The essays within Beyond Catholicism trace the interconnections of belief, heresy, and mysticism in Italian culture from the Middle Ages to today. In particular, they explore how religious discourse has unfolded within Italian culture in the context of shifting paradigms of rationality, authority, time, good and evil, and human collectivities. Editor(s): De Donno, Fabrizio; Gilson, Simon A. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 341 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTB; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 438.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 341
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349465262
- ISBN
- 9781349465262
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Condition: New
€ 127.40
€ 127.40
Paperback. Some of the first figures the Nazis conscripted in their rise to power were rhetoricians devoted to popularizing the German vocabulary of Leben (life). This fascinating study reexamines this movement through one of its most prominent exponents, Ludwig Klages, revealing the philosophical-cultural crises and political volatility of the Weimar era. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 314 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTB; HBWQ; HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 462.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349465286
- ISBN
- 9781349465286
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Condition: New
€ 183.17
€ 183.17
Paperback. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJD1; HBTB; HPC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349465439
- ISBN
- 9781349465439
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Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62
paperback. Series: Historical Studies in Education. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBL; HBTB; JNB; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 433.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- SKU
- V9781349465552
- ISBN
- 9781349465552
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Condition: New
€ 58.22€ 50.49
€ 58.22
€ 50.49
Paperback. Leadership an Elizabethan Culture studies the challenges confronted by government and church leaders (local and central), the counsel given them, the consequences of their decisions, and the views of leadership circulating in late Tudor literature and drama. Editor(s): Kaufman, Peter Iver. Series: Jepson Studies in Leadership. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJD1; JHBL; KCZ; KJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349465606
- ISBN
- 9781349465606
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Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90
Paperback. Analyzing a wide body of cultural texts, including literature, film, and other visual arts, Gender, Empire, and Postcolony: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Intersections is a diverse collection of essays on gender in Portuguese colonialism and Lusophone postcolonialism. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTQ; JFC; JHM; JHMC; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349465668
- ISBN
- 9781349465668
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Condition: New
€ 126.80
€ 126.80
Paperback. Working at the intersection of medical, theological, cultural, and literary studies, this book offers an innovative approach to understanding maternity, genealogy and social identity as they are represented in popular literature in late-medieval England. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBB; HBJD; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349465729
- ISBN
- 9781349465729
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Condition: New
€ 66.17
€ 66.17
Paperback. In 1664, Moliere's Tartuffe was banned from public performance. This book provides a detailed, in-depth account of five-year struggle (1664-69) to have the ban lifted and, so doing, sheds important new light on 1660s France and the ancien regime more broadly." Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; AS; HBJD; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 335.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349465941
- ISBN
- 9781349465941
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Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 46.16
€ 53.37
€ 46.16
Paperback. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; HBL; HBTB; HBTQ; JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349466610
- ISBN
- 9781349466610
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Condition: New
€ 66.38
€ 66.38
Paperback. This interdisciplinary examination of present-day identities and histories of the former Yugoslavia explores relationships with the social, political, cultural and historical 'facts and fictions' that have marked the different parts of the region. It shows that while nationalism remains important other social dynamics also exert a strong influence. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJ; JFC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349466832
- ISBN
- 9781349466832
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Condition: New
€ 65.72
€ 65.72
Paperback. This book examines the development of a contemporary internal debate among Muslim minorities living in Western Europe and North America to establish a specific form of Islamic jurisprudence. Fiqh al-aqalliyyat attempts to strike a balance between Muslim's religious commitments and their civic identity as citizens in Western liberal states. Series: Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; HRA; JFC; JHB; JP; LAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349467105
- ISBN
- 9781349467105
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Condition: New
€ 181.85
€ 181.85
Paperback. Written from an African American perspective, this work depicts the presentation of the gospel message to the first-century community of Colossae, their reception of it comparative to the presentation and reception of the same to the enslaved Africans of North America particularly in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. Series: Postcolonialism and Religions. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBTB; HBTQ; HRCG; JFSL; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349467693
- ISBN
- 9781349467693
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Condition: New
€ 65.88
€ 65.88
Paperback. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; HBJD1; HBJM; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349467815
- ISBN
- 9781349467815
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Condition: New
€ 66.08
€ 66.08
Paperback. How has Britain understood the Holocaust? This interdisciplinary volume explores popular narratives of the Second World War and cultural representations of the Holocaust from the Nuremberg trials of 1945-6, to the establishment of a national memorial day by the start of the twenty-first century. Series: The Holocaust and its Contexts. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 335.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349468560
- ISBN
- 9781349468560
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Condition: New
€ 65.96
€ 65.96
Paperback. Spanning from the Caribbean to East Asia and covering almost 3,000 years of history, from Classical Antiquity to the eve of the twenty-first century, Persistent Piracy is an important contribution to the history of the state formation as well as the history of violence at sea. Editor(s): Amirell, Stefan Eklof; Muller, Leos. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBJF; HBL; JKV; LBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 215
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349469406
- ISBN
- 9781349469406
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 148.63
€ 148.63