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20th century
Hardcover. By applying the nodality, authority, treasure and organisation public policy framework and neo-institutional theory to the dictatorship of Salazar and Franco respectively, this study explores the instruments that governments used to control the military and explains the divergent paths of civil-military relations in 20th Century Portugal and Spain. Num Pages: 309 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1DSP; 3JJ; JPHX; JPQB; JWK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 23. Weight in Grams: 502.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137325372
- ISBN
- 9781137325372
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This books explains, on the basis of archival evidence and a simple economic model, why and how the gold standard collapsed in the interwar period. It also reveals how bilateralism and dirigisme in international financial relations emerged from the collapse of the universal gold standard, and how this poisoned international relations. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJG; KCBM; KCZ; KFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326997
- ISBN
- 9781137326997
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Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. British Television Animation 1997-2010 charts a moment in TV history where UK comic animation graduated from the margins as part of a post-Simpsons broadcast landscape. Shows like Monkey Dust, Modern Toss and Stressed Eric not only reflected the times but they ushered in an era of ambition and belief in British adult animation. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPR; 3JMC; APT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137330932
- ISBN
- 9781137330932
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Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. Eirini Karamouzi explores the history of the European Economic Community (EEC) in the turbulent decade of the 1970s and especially the Community's response to the fall of the Greek dictatorship and the country's application for EEC membership. The book constitutes the first multi-archival study on the second enlargement of the EEC. Series: Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 1QFE; 3JJPL; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTW; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 164 x 23. Weight in Grams: 470.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137331328
- ISBN
- 9781137331328
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Condition: New
€ 128.05
€ 128.05
Hardcover. The strife for social improvement that arose in the decades around the turn of the 20th century raised the issue of social conformity in new ways: how were citizens who did not adhere to the rules to be dealt with? This edited collection opens new perspectives on the history of the emerging welfare state by focusing on its margins. Editor(s): Althammer, Beate; Gestrich, Andreas; Grundler, Jens. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 22. Weight in Grams: 488.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137333612
- ISBN
- 9781137333612
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Condition: New
€ 67.52
€ 67.52
Hardcover. Offering a new interpretation of early Cold War history, this book demonstrates how Christian agency played a pivotal role in the creating of space for the logic of nuclear deterrence and nuclear war, showing a balanced examination of Christians as enablers but, more provocatively, as resisters of nuclear prohibitions. Series: Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700-2000. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJP; HBLW3; HBTW; HBWS; JWMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137334237
- ISBN
- 9781137334237
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Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. Based on extensive archival research, Beyond Market and Hierarchy reconstructs how Fan waged modern China's war of salts. Led by his Jiuda Salt Industries, the nascent refined salt industry battled revenue farmers who, as a group, monopolized the production and distribution of evaporated salt. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; KCD; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137335265
- ISBN
- 9781137335265
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Condition: New
€ 127.30
€ 127.30
Hardcover. Many South American films that use the popular road movie format to examine regional culture and attitudes, especially in Argentina and Brazil. Pinazza performs a careful cultural analysis of the films and investigates how road movies deal with narratives on nationhood whilst simultaneously inserting themselves in a transnational dialogue. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 1KLSB; 3JJPR; APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137336033
- ISBN
- 9781137336033
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. What kind of men were missionaries? What kind of masculinity did they represent, in ideology as well as in practice? Presupposing masculinity to be a cluster of cultural ideas and social practices that change over time and space, and not a stable entity with a natural, inherent meaning, Kristin Fjelde Tjelle seeks to answer such questions. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 337 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; HRCX7; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 139 x 223 x 24. Weight in Grams: 556.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137336354
- ISBN
- 9781137336354
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Condition: New
€ 128.65
€ 128.65
Hardcover. This book explores how deans of women actively fostered feminism in the mid-twentieth century through a study of the career of Dr. Emily Taylor, the University of Kansas dean of women from 1956-1974. Sartorius links feminist activism by deans of women with labor activism, the New Left movement, and the later rise of women's studies as a discipline. Series: Historical Studies in Education. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBNK; 3JJPG; JFFK; JNB; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 550.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137343253
- ISBN
- 9781137343253
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 47.57
€ 53.37
€ 47.57
Hardcover. The first study of its kind, this book traces 150 years of the history of fatherhood in Scandinavia and shows how Scandinavian gender equality policy has important implications for the rest of the world. Among other interesting findings, Lorentzen reveals that the modern-day rise in equality fathering can be traced back to the 19th century. Series: Global Masculinities. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DNN; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; HBTB; JFSJ2; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137343376
- ISBN
- 9781137343376
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Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. 1977 is usually associated with West German terrorism, but it witnessed another cultural watershed: punk music. A new reckoning with the legacy of political and aesthetic spaces, this book argues the centrality of punk music for understanding crises of state and terrorist violence, American racism and German fascism, and aesthetic production. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJP; AVGU; HBJD; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137343666
- ISBN
- 9781137343666
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Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. The shift to the modern world in East Asia was accomplished in part via the experience of colonial rule in the late nineteenth century. Following imperial crisis in the 1930s and 1940s, independent nation states formed from which the political structure of East Asia is based today. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FP; 3JJ; HBJF; HBTB; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137345677
- ISBN
- 9781137345677
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. Rewriting German History offers striking new insights into key debates about the recent German past. Bringing together cutting-edge research and current discussions, this volume examines developments in the writing of the German past since the Second World War and suggests new directions for scholarship in the twenty-first century. Editor(s): Ruger, Jan; Wachsmann, Nikolaus. Num Pages: 368 pages, 3 black & white halftones, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJD; HBLW3; HBLX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 25. Weight in Grams: 708.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137347787
- ISBN
- 9781137347787
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.90
€ 140.90
Hardcover. Irish Officers in the British forces, 1922-45 looks at the reasons why young Irish people took the king's commission, including the family tradition, the school influence and the employment motive. It explores their subsequent experiences in the forces and the responses in independent Ireland to the continuation of this British military connection. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBW; JWT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137350855
- ISBN
- 9781137350855
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. This book attempts to explicate and expand upon Frank Ramsey's notion of the realistic spirit. In so doing, it provides a systematic reading of his work, and demonstrates the extent of Ramsey's genius as evinced by both his responses to the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, and the impact he had on Wittgenstein's later philosophical insights. Series: History of Analytic Philosophy. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; HPCF5; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137351074
- ISBN
- 9781137351074
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Condition: New
€ 139.05
€ 139.05
Hardcover. By tracing the effects of unprecedented immigration, the advent of the new woman, and the little-known vaudeville careers of performers like the Elinore Sisters, Buster Keaton, and the Marx Brothers, DesRochers examines the relation between comedic vaudeville acts and progressive reformers as they fought over the new definition of "Americanness." Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; ASZH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137357427
- ISBN
- 9781137357427
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Paperback. Imperial expositions held in fin-de-siecle London, Paris and Berlin were knots in a world wide web. Conceptualizing expositions as meta-media, Fleeting Cities constitutes a transnational and transdisciplinary investigation into how modernity was created and displayed, consumed and disputed in the European metropolis around 1900. Num Pages: 423 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 167 x 25. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137358325
- ISBN
- 9781137358325
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Condition: New
€ 130.55
€ 130.55
Hardcover. Political Performance in Syria, charts the history of a theatre that has sought the expansion of civil society and imagined alternate political realities. In doing so, the manuscript situates the current use of performance and theatre by artists of the Syrian Revolution within a long history of political contestation. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBS; 3JJP; 3JM; AN; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 446.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137358974
- ISBN
- 9781137358974
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Hardcover. The conquest of Serbia was only one of the goals of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the First World War; beyond this lay the desire to control much of South-East Europe. Employing previously unseen sources, Marvin Fried provides the first complete analysis of the Monarchy's war aims in the Balkans and tells the story of its imperialist ambitions. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 1DVH; 1DVW; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 23. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137359001
- ISBN
- 9781137359001
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.87
€ 149.87