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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
€ 117.54
€ 117.54
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
€ 162.24
€ 162.24
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
€ 66.66
€ 66.66
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.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137440495
- ISBN
- 9781137440495
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.33
€ 67.33
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.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137438553
- ISBN
- 9781137438553
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.09
€ 128.09
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
€ 66.18
€ 66.18
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
€ 117.48
€ 117.48
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
€ 67.24
€ 67.24
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
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
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
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
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
€ 139.15
€ 139.15
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
€ 161.50
€ 161.50
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
€ 67.27
€ 67.27
Hardcover. The Gentleman's House analyses the architecture, decoration, and furnishings of small classical houses in the eighteenth century. By examining nearly two hundred houses it offers a new interpretation of social mobility in the British Atlantic World characterized by incremental social change. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1QDB; 3JF; AMKD; AMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 245 x 20. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137378378
- ISBN
- 9781137378378
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.37
€ 129.37
Paperback. Over the course of three centuries, American settlers helped to create the richest, most powerful nation in human history, even as they killed and displaced millions. This groundbreaking work shows that American history is defined by settler colonialism, providing a compelling framework through which to understand its rise to global dominance. Num Pages: 265 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137374257
- ISBN
- 9781137374257
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.46
€ 127.46
Hardcover. Over the course of three centuries, American settlers helped to create the richest, most powerful nation in human history, even as they killed and displaced millions. This groundbreaking work shows that American history is defined by settler colonialism, providing a compelling framework through which to understand its rise to global dominance. Num Pages: 268 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137374240
- ISBN
- 9781137374240
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.03
€ 128.03
Hardcover. Historian and minister William Robertson was a central Scottish Enlightenment figure whose influence reached well beyond the boundaries of the British Isles. In this reception study of Robertson's work, Laszlo Kontler shows how the reception of Robertson's major histories in Germany tests the limits of intellectual transfer through translation. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 1DFG; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 238 x 21. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137371713
- ISBN
- 9781137371713
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.36
€ 67.36
Hardcover. Kourou was to be a wonderful revenge, a French colony in America after the Seven Years War in 1763. However, the fantastic ideal became a grand failure and political disaster, marking the end of the French attempts for an American colony. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Tra
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137363466
- ISBN
- 9781137363466
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Hardcover. The book proposes a critique of Nietzsche's works 'from within'. In doing so, it answers the continuing question asked by any reader of Nietzsche: Why did he decide not to write the major work he said he would write? Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JF; HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137363183
- ISBN
- 9781137363183
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Integrating the political and governmental histories of Spain and the American colonies, this book focuses on the political and governmental history of the Viceroyalty of Peru during the 'early Bourbon' period and provides a new interpretation of the period's broader significance within Spanish American history. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLS; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 224 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137362230
- ISBN
- 9781137362230
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95