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Empires & historical states
Hardcover. Drawing on recent trends in both Atlantic and center-periphery literature, this book examines the relationship between the English crown - monarch, privy council, and ancillary bodies - and its Atlantic colonies under the early Stuart monarchs, James I and Charles I, circa 1603-1642. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDB; 1QSA; 3JD; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230111745
- ISBN
- 9780230111745
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.03
€ 67.03
Hardcover. An examination of the collaboration between Egyptian and Indian nationalists against the British Empire, this book argues that the basis for Third World or Non-Aligned Movement was formed long before the Cold War. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1HBE; 1QDB; 3JJ; HBLW; HBTQ; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113640
- ISBN
- 9780230113640
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.88
€ 66.88
Hardcover. An exploration of the ways in which children learned and were taught to read, against the background of the transition from Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic. This study gives us a fresh perspective on the transition from empire to republic by showing us the ways that reading was central to the construction of modernity. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 1QDT; CJCR; HBTB; JN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 224 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232969
- ISBN
- 9780230232969
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230243644
- ISBN
- 9780230243644
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.72
€ 33.72
Hardcover. In mid-nineteenth-century Britain, there existed a dominant discourse on what it meant to be a man -denoted by the term 'manliness'. Based on the sociological work of R.W. Connell and others who argue that gender is performative, Robert Hogg asks how British men performed manliness on the colonial frontiers of Queensland and British Columbia. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBCB; 1MBFQ; 1QDB; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230250178
- ISBN
- 9780230250178
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardcover. Britain's Imperial Muse explores the classics' contribution to British imperialism and to the experience of empire in India through the long 19th century. It reveals the classics role as a foundational source for positive conceptions of empire and a rhetorical arsenal used by commentators to justify conquest and domination, especially of India. Series: Britain and the World. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1QDB; 3JH; HBJD1; HBJF; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230278615
- ISBN
- 9780230278615
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.24
€ 67.24
Hardcover. Missionary Discourse examines missionary writings from India and southern Africa to explore colonial discourses about race, religion, gender and culture. The book is organised around three themes: family, sickness and violence, which were key areas of missionary concern, and important axes around which colonial difference was forged. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDB; 3JH; HBLL; HBTQ; HRCX7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 136 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230296800
- ISBN
- 9780230296800
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.90
€ 66.90
Paperback. The idea of an Aryan race became an important feature of imperial culture in the nineteenth century, feeding into debates in Britain, Ireland, India, and the Pacific. This work traces the emergence and dissemination of Aryanism within the British Empire. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDB; HBG; HBJD1; HBJF; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230507036
- ISBN
- 9780230507036
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.06
€ 127.06
Hardcover. Reading the Sphinx unearths buried conflicts in religion, myth, and the memory of Egypt in the West, illuminating issues of identity, inheritance, gender, and sexuality through cultural productions ranging from Herodotus to Freud. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; DSBF; HBLA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230603288
- ISBN
- 9780230603288
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.52
€ 66.52
Paperback. "May The Best Man Win" investigates the continual re-assessment and reassertion of various masculine ideals associated with sport in the British empire between 1880 and 1935. Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1QDB; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBT; WS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 228 x 12. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230606357
- ISBN
- 9780230606357
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.94
€ 65.94
Hardcover. This study of various female deities of Graeco-Roman antiquity is the first to provide evidence that primary goddesses were conceived of as virgin mothers in the earliest layers of their cults. By taking feminist analysis of divinities further, this book provides a fresh angle on our understanding of these deities. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; 3D; HBJD; HBLA1; HBTB; HRKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 149 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422. 280 pages. This study of various female deities of Graeco-Roman antiquity is the first to provide evidence that primary goddesses were conceived of as virgin mothers in the earliest layers of their cults. By taking feminist analysis of divinities further, this book provides a fresh angle on our understanding of these deities. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; 3D; HBJD; HBLA1; HBTB; HRKP. Dimension: 217 x 149 x 20. Weight: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618862
- ISBN
- 9780230618862
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.07
€ 128.07
Hardback. Employing archaeological theory and analysis as well as mortuary theory to build a model of an Early Bronze Age society in the eastern Carpathian Basin, the author focuses on the Maros communities and utilizes the densely encoded social information from their cemeteries to draw a picture of the Maros' social systems. Series: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Num Pages: 400 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; GTC; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 24. Weight in Grams: 2220.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306453229
- ISBN
- 9780306453229
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 213.42
€ 213.42
Hardback. Summarizes the results of interdisciplinary archaeological investigations at Aetokremnos. This work shows that Aetokremnos is one of the few archaeological sites where a convincing argument can be made for human involvement in Pleistocene extinctions. It also includes chapters that place the Aetokremnos site within a broader context. Series: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Num Pages: 381 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA; HD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 24. Weight in Grams: 2200.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media United States
- Number of pages
- 381
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306460883
- ISBN
- 9780306460883
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 213.30
€ 213.30
Hardback. A detailed case study of approximately 16000 years of cultural development in China. The author addresses prehistoric sociopolitical processes in the Dongbei region by analyzing field data and demonstrates the potential contribution of archaeological research into anthropological issues in China. Series: Fundamental Issues in Archaeology. Num Pages: 295 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1QDA; HBJF; HBLA; HD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1320.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media United States
- Number of pages
- 295
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306460906
- ISBN
- 9780306460906
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.46
€ 133.46
Hardback. Proceedings of an International Conference on Prehistoric Iberia: Genetics, Anthropology, and Linguistics, held November 16-17, 1998, in Madrid, Spain. Editor(s): Arnaiz-Villena, Antonio (Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain). Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1QDA; HBJD; HBLA; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 16. Weight in Grams: 1610.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media United States
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306463648
- ISBN
- 9780306463648
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.39
€ 135.39
Hardback. Offers a synthesis of Italian prehistory spanning more than 600,000 years beginning with the Lower Paleolithic and ending with the last hunter-gatherers. This book deals with issues, such as the development of social structure, the rise and fall of specific cultural traditions, climate change, and environmental adaptation and exploitation. Series: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Num Pages: 402 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1QDAR; HDDK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 32. Weight in Grams: 2270.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media United States
- Number of pages
- 402
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306464638
- ISBN
- 9780306464638
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 205.18
€ 205.18
Hardback. The origins and development of civilization are vital components to the understanding of the cultural processes that create human societies. In this work, the focus is on what material remains reveal about the sociopolitical structures of the Central Andes region. Editor(s): Isbell, William H. (State University of New York, Binghampton, USA); Silverman, Helaine. Num Pages: 390 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; 1QDA; HD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 31. Weight in Grams: 822.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media United States
- Number of pages
- 390
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306467721
- ISBN
- 9780306467721
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 196.57
€ 196.57
Hardback. The origins and development of civilization are vital components to the understanding of the cultural processes that create human societies. This work focuses on the art and landscape remains and what they uncover about societies of the Central Andes region. It includes discussions on pottery and textiles; iconography and symbols; and ideology. Editor(s): Silverman, Helaine; Isbell, William H. (State University of New York, Binghampton, USA). Num Pages: 376 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; 1QDA; HD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 790.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306472503
- ISBN
- 9780306472503
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.95
€ 129.95
Hardback. This title reconsiders images of Byzantine empresses on media as diverse as bronze coins and gold mosaic from the fifth through seventh centuries A.D. The representations have often been viewed in terms of individual personas, but strong typological currents frame their medieval contexts. Editor(s): Wheeler, Bonnie. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDAZ; 3D; 3F; AG; HBJD; HBJF; HBLC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 299
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312294922
- ISBN
- 9780312294922
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.15
€ 128.15
Hardback. Editor(s): Afshar, Haleh. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 1QDAP; HBJF1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 505.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333369463
- ISBN
- 9780333369463
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.37
€ 194.37