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Regional & national history
Hardcover. This latest volume in the definitive six-volume biography of Herbert Hoover tracks Hoover's life and career from 1918 to 1928 - a period defined largely by his role as United States Secretary of Commerce and leading directly to his election as the thirty-first President of the United States. Num Pages: 607 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; BGH; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JPHL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 246 x 165 x 45. Weight in Grams: 982.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 624
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230103085
- ISBN
- 9780230103085
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.81
€ 122.81
Hardback. This book provides a political, economic, sociological, and cultural history of Italy that looks at its difficulties with the task of nation-building. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBTB; HBTV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230104136
- ISBN
- 9780230104136
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.10
€ 63.10
Hardback. America According to Colbert: Satire as Public Pedagogy post 9/11 argues that, in contrast to the anti-intellectualism, the sensationalism, and the punditry that tend to govern most mass media today, Stephen Colbert's program offers his audience the opportunity to understand the context through which most news is reported and to be critical of it. Series: Education, Politics and Public Life. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JN; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 231
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230104662
- ISBN
- 9780230104662
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 43.86
€ 54.99
€ 43.86
Hardback. This moving and beautifully illustrated book, developed from an award-winning research project, examines the experience of African-American GIs in Germany since 1945 and the unique insights they provide into the civil rights struggle at home and abroad. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1KBB; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230104723
- ISBN
- 9780230104723
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.38
€ 63.38
hardcover. Through the speeches, essays and interviews of some of the most compelling individuals in American history who stood against the key conflicts of their lifetimes, this book gives remarkable insight into wartime dissent in the U.S. from the revolutionary war to the war on terror. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2010th Edition
- Number of pages
- 223
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230104846
- ISBN
- 9780230104846
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.84
€ 62.84
Hardback. Covering topics such as the Soviet monopoly over information and communication, violence in the gulags, and gender relations after World War II, this festschrift volume highlights the work and legacy of Sheila Fitzpatrick offers a cross-section of some of the best work being done on a critical period of Russia and the Soviet Union. Editor(s): Alexopoulos, Golfo; Tomoff, Kiril; Hessler, Julie. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJ; HBAH; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230105492
- ISBN
- 9780230105492
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.92
€ 62.92
Hardback. The early modern period was rife with attempts to re-imagine the world and the human place within it. This volume looks at natural philosophers, playwrights, historians, and other figures in the period 1500-1700 as a means of accessing the plethora of world models that circulated in Europe during this era. Editor(s): Kavey, Allison B. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3J; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 279
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230105881
- ISBN
- 9780230105881
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.61
€ 129.61
Hardback. The first full-length study of Madrid's transformation from the dreary home of a former dictatorship to a modern and vibrant city. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJPN; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230106413
- ISBN
- 9780230106413
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.23
€ 63.23
Hardback. This book examines the social and cultural consequences of a war normally looked at for its role in the story of Italian unification - the convergence of French, Austrian, and Piedmont-Sardinian armies in northern Italy in 1859, referred to in Italy as the "Second War for Independence." Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108134
- ISBN
- 9780230108134
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.67
€ 62.67
Hardback. Weimar Culture Revisited is the first book to offer an accessible cross-section of new cultural history approaches to the Weimar Republic. This collection uses an interdisciplinary approach and focuses on the everyday workings of Weimar culture to explain the impact and meaning of culture for German's everyday lives during this fateful era. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230109421
- ISBN
- 9780230109421
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.56
€ 62.56
Hardback. This book looks critically at various constructions of the Indian citizen from 1991 to 2007, the period when economic liberalization became established government policy. Examining differing images of citizenship and its rules and rituals, Chowdhury sheds light on the complex interactions between culture and political economy in the New India. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJPR; 3JMC; HBJF; HBLW3; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230109513
- ISBN
- 9780230109513
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardback. This book focuses on the western Balkans in the period 1820-1912, in particular on the peoples and social groups that the later national history would claim to have been Albanians, providing a revisionist exploration of national identity prior to the establishment of the nation-state. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1DV; 3JH; HBJD; HBTB; HBTK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110182
- ISBN
- 9780230110182
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.26
€ 119.26
Hardcover. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF1; JPA; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 181 x 235 x 22. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110434
- ISBN
- 9780230110434
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.87
€ 118.87
Hardback. Folk singer and labor organizer John Handcox was born to illiterate sharecroppers, but went on to become one of the most beloved folk singers of the prewar labor movement. This beautifully told oral history gives us Handcox in his own words, recounting a journey that began in the Deep South and went on to shape the labor music tradition. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 244 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AVGH; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; HBTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230111271
- ISBN
- 9780230111271
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.67
€ 62.67
Paperback. Folk singer and labor organizer John Handcox was born to illiterate sharecroppers, but went on to become one of the most beloved folk singers of the prewar labor movement. This beautifully told oral history gives us Handcox in his own words, recounting a journey that began in the Deep South and went on to shape the labor music tradition. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 244 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AVGH; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; HBTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 173 x 15. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230111288
- ISBN
- 9780230111288
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardback. Twenty years after its fall, the wall that divided Berlin and Germany presents a conceptual paradox: on one hand, Germans have sought to erase it completely; on the other, it haunts the imagination in complex and often surprising ways Editor(s): Gerstenberger, Katharina; Braziel, Jana Evans. Num Pages: 305 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JMC; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 222 x 22. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 305
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230111929
- ISBN
- 9780230111929
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.84
€ 62.84
Hardcover. Offers readers a telling glimpse of the social world in which militants are made, explaining how group physical training and technico-ethical experiments with it have created a powerful religious nationalist movement in Gujarat that has been held responsible for carrying out spectacular episodes of ethnic cleansing against Indian minorities. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; JFSR; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112575
- ISBN
- 9780230112575
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.76
€ 62.76
Paperback. From Freud onward, psychoanalytic thinkers have looked to history for insights into the human mind, while historians have been much more ambivalent about the value of psychoanalysis. The interdisciplinary contributions gathered here offer an invaluable survey of this complex and contested field. Editor(s): Alexander, Sally; Taylor, Barbara. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 354 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113855
- ISBN
- 9780230113855
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 130.00
€ 130.00
Hardback. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJH; JHB; JNB; JNMT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 203
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114166
- ISBN
- 9780230114166
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 44.14
€ 54.99
€ 44.14
Hardback. The essays in this book analyze a range of genres and considers geographical areas beyond the Ottoman Empire to deepen our post-Saidian understanding of the complexity of real and imagined "traffic" between England and the "Islamic worlds" it encountered and constructed. Editor(s): McJannet, Linda; Andrea, Bernadette. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDT; 2AB; DSBD; HBJF1; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115422
- ISBN
- 9780230115422
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.79
€ 62.79