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c 1700 to c 1800

hardcover. Between 1740 and 1832, England witnessed what has been called its 'golden age of caricature', coinciding with intense rivalry and with war with France. This book shows how Georgian satirical prints reveal attitudes towards the French 'Other' that were far more complex, ambivalent, empathetic and multifaceted than has previously been recognised. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DDF; 3JF; 3JH; AFH; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 475.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2015th Edition
Number of pages
261
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137380135
ISBN
9781137380135
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.57

Hardcover. Hybrid Knowledge in the Early East India Company World presents a new reading of the English East India Company 1660-1720. It shows how innovative works - covering natural history, ethnography, theology, linguistics, medicine, and agriculture - were created amid early modern struggles for supremacy in Asia, the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 333 pages, 3 tables, 14 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FKA; 3JF; 3JH; HBJF; HBTQ; KCZ; KNGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Number of pages
333
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137380197
ISBN
9781137380197
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.13

Hardback. At the start of the eighteenth century Louis XIV needed to remit huge sums of money abroad to support his armies during the War of the Spanish Succession. This book explains how international bankers moved French money across Europe, and how the foreign exchange system was so overloaded by the demands of war that a massive banking crash resulted. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; KCX; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
281
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137381781
ISBN
9781137381781
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.42

Hardcover. This book shows how early women novelists from Aphra Behn to Mary Davys drew on debates about the self generated by the 'scientific' revolution to establish the novel as a genre. Fascinated by the problematic idea of a unified self underpinning modes of thinking, female novelists innovated narrative structures to interrogate this idea. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JF; DSBD; HPCD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137389206
ISBN
9781137389206
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.48

Hardcover. This book examines the structures and texture of rural social relationships, using one type of document found in abundance over all the four component parts of Britain and Ireland: petitions from tenants to their landlords. The book offers unexpected angles on many aspects of society and economy on estates in the 17th and 18th centuries. Num Pages: 331 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD1; HBTB; JFSC; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 151 x 23. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137394088
ISBN
9781137394088
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.78

Hardcover. Today, cohabiting relationships account for most births outside marriage. But what was the situation in earlier centuries? Bringing together leading historians, demographers and lawyers, this interdisciplinary collection draws on a wide range of sources to examine the changing context of non-marital child-bearing in England and Wales since 1600. Editor(s): Probert, Rebecca. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKW; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JMC; HBJD1; HBTB; JHBF; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137396259
ISBN
9781137396259
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.29

Hardback. Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores nineteenth-century Italian sexualities from a variety of viewpoints, illuminating in particular personal and political relationships, same-sex desires, gender roles that defy societal norms, sexual behaviours of different classes and transnational encounters. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 341 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD; HBLL; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
341
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137396976
ISBN
9781137396976
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.66

Hardcover. Through the prism of intimacy, Burleigh sheds light on eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century American texts. This insightful study shows how the trope of the family recurred to produce contradictory images - both intimately familiar and frighteningly alienating - through which Americans responded to upheavals in their cultural landscape. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137404077
ISBN
9781137404077
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.28

Hardcover. The 18th-century French leather industry was a strategically important manufacturing sector, one vital to both civilian and military life. This study examines the production of leather in the Bordeaux trades during the 18th and 19th centuries, illuminating the realities of a craft economy and its relation to the wider French political economy. Num Pages: 311 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; KNDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137438553
ISBN
9781137438553
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.33

Hardcover. This book, the first long-range history of the voluntary sector in Australia and the first internationally to compare philanthropy for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in a settler society, explores how the race and gender ideologies embedded in philanthropy contributed to the construction of Australia's welfare state. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJM; HBTB; HBTQ; JKSN1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 498.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137440495
ISBN
9781137440495
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.34

Hardcover. Providing imaginatively contextualized close readings, this study focuses on three key eighteenth-century writers - Haywood, Hill and Fowke. Wilputte traces the development of the passionate language of these writers whose lives, writing careers, and interests intersected from 1720 to 1724 in the "Hillarian" coterie. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JF; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137442048
ISBN
9781137442048
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.89

Hardcover. Law, Labour, and Empire provides a comparative analysis of the development and impact of maritime labour and law in the early modern period. Editor(s): Allaire, Bernard; Blakemore, Richard; Vanneste, Tijl; Dunford, Michael. Num Pages: 357 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; HBLH; HBTM; HBTQ; TRLT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 29. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137447456
ISBN
9781137447456
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.90

Hardcover. Three people in a marriage: a woman and two men. This was the eighteenth-century Italian aristocratic model of marriage, characterized by the presence of the cicisbeo, the escort of another man's wife. Was it a brazen depravity or a complex and refined social institution, revealing aspects of Italian civilization in the Age of the Enlightenment? Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 7 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 616.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137450920
ISBN
9781137450920
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.22

Hardback. Editor(s): Crook, Tom; Esbester, Mike. Num Pages: 329 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 4 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 23. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
329
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137467447
ISBN
9781137467447
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.87

Hardback. This innovative book explores the role of cast steel in instruments for refining the body in the eighteenth century, amidst the changing climate of ideas surrounding 'polite' bodily form and appearance. Num Pages: 140 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; HBTB; JFCK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
140
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137467478
ISBN
9781137467478
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.95

Hardback. This book studies the growth and reconstriuction of the Spanish fiscal-military state. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
253
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137478658
ISBN
9781137478658
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 175.25

Hardcover. Showcasing French participation in the Seven Years' War and the American Revolution, this book shows the French army at the heart of revolutionary, social, and cultural change. Osman argues that efforts to transform the French army into a citizen army before 1789 prompted and helped shape the French Revolution. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1KBB; 3JF; HBJD; HBJK; HBTV2; HBWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137486233
ISBN
9781137486233
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.91

Hardcover. Queens Henrietta Maria and Marie Antoinette bear striking similarities as historical figures, particularly given the periods of violent revolution in which they lived. This novel comparative study explores how these queens perceived their roles as wives, mothers, and heads of royal households. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JD; 3JF; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL; HBTV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 23. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137497727
ISBN
9781137497727
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.98

Hardcover. Sicard founded the National Institution of Deaf Mutes during the Terror. Paradoxically, the abbe was a non-conformist priest who was arrested frequently, until his supporters intervened. Later his students gave public demonstrations of his grammatical definitions attracting international curiosity. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; 3JH; BGH; CFZ; HBJD; HBTV2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137512857
ISBN
9781137512857
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 142.79

Hardback. The Soldier Vote tells the story of how American citizens in the armed forces gained the right to vote while away from home. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; JPHF; JPVH1; JWT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137519191
ISBN
9781137519191
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.56

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