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Paperback. The killing of new-born children is an intensely emotional and emotive subject. The hidden nature of this crime has made it an area incredibly difficult subject area for historians to approach up until now. This work provides the first detailed history of infanticide in mainland Britain from 1600 to the modern era. Num Pages: 338 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; JFSJ; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 448.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 338
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349361403
- ISBN
- 9781349361403
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Condition: New
€ 160.62
€ 160.62
Paperback. This book provides a reassessment of thuggee in the context of banditry and the colonial state in early nineteenth-century India. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 301 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJD1; HBJF; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 301
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349361540
- ISBN
- 9781349361540
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Condition: New
€ 127.84
€ 127.84
Paperback. Angie Sandhu examines the relation between intellectuals and society through political theory and a consideration ofcontemporary debates in bothBritain and the US. She sets out a new argument that calls for intellectuals to address their own elite locations in society by challenging notions of intellectual difference and autonomy." Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFC; JFCX; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 325.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349361649
- ISBN
- 9781349361649
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Paperback. Bringing together new research, this book advances current theoretical understandings of punishment and control in society. It provides a critical analysis of institutions, punishment and the law, and explores the delivery of punishment and experience of incarceration in Western societiesfrom the early-nineteenth century." Editor(s): Johnston, H. B. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JKV; JKVP; JKVQ2; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 419.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 269
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349361809
- ISBN
- 9781349361809
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This is a volume of scholarly essays that considers the meaning of Europe by examining aspects of Central European history as well as issues dealing with the EU's enlargement into Central Europe. These factors contribute to ideas of a definition of Europe that reflects the values and aspirations of all its citizens. Editor(s): Kirschbaum, S. Series: Studies in Central and Eastern Europe. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349361847
- ISBN
- 9781349361847
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Paperback. This volume charts the most significant changes for a literary history of women in a period that saw the beginnings of a discourse of 'enlightened feminism'. It reveals that women engaged in forms old and new, seeking to shape and transform the culture of letters rather than simply reflect or respond to the work of their male contemporaries. Editor(s): Ballaster, Ros. Series: History of British Women's Writing. Num Pages: 308 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJD1; JFSJ; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349361861
- ISBN
- 9781349361861
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.91
€ 128.91
Paperback. This work focuses on the ideological intertwining between Czech, Magyar, Polish and Slovak, and the corresponding nationalisms steeped in these languages. The analysis is set against the earlier political and ideological history of these languages, and the panorama of the emergence and political uses of other languages of the region. Num Pages: 1140 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; CFF; HBJD; HBL; JHB; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 58. Weight in Grams: 1729.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 1140
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349361960
- ISBN
- 9781349361960
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 204.26
€ 204.26
Paperback. This volume concentrates on the 'conceptual boundary' through Europe which is determined by Western and Eastern Christianity. The chapters show that the boundary has never been a stable and defined division, but that it was also subject to change and development and a place of encounter and exchange between religions and cultures. Editor(s): Bremer, Thomas. Series: Studies in Central and Eastern Europe. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HRAM; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2008
- Number of pages
- 253
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349362028
- ISBN
- 9781349362028
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.14
€ 66.14
Paperback. Art for art's sake addresses the relationship between art and life. Although it has long been argued that aestheticism aims to de-humanize art, this volume seeks to consider the counterclaim that such de-humanization can also lead to re-humanization and to a deepened relationship between the aesthetic sphere and the world at large. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AF; DSA; DSB; DSBF; DSBH; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349362042
- ISBN
- 9781349362042
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. The author looks at conflicts between human rights for women and religious integrity, through family religious ideology and questions of relativism, privacy and agency. The study shows that theological resistance and political and social inhibitors can, ironically, make the human rights concept inappropriate for gaining rights for religious women. Series: Women's Studies at York Series. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRA; JFSJ; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 219 x 15. Weight in Grams: 308.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349362264
- ISBN
- 9781349362264
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This book charts the history of the concept of nihilism in some of the most important philosophers and literary theorists of the modern and postmodern periods, includingHeidegger, Adorno, Blanchot, Derrida, and Vattimo. Weller offers the first in-depth analysis of nihilism's key role in the thinking of the aesthetic since Nietzsche." Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF; HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349362448
- ISBN
- 9781349362448
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Bringing together many of today's key scholars of verbal charming, these essays cover vernacular magical texts and practice from Malaysia to Madagascar, and from England to Estonia. As the most comprehensive collection of research on charms, charmers and charming available in the English language, it forms an essential reader on the topic. Editor(s): Roper, Jonathan. Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Num Pages: 321 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HBJD; HBTB; HRAC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 321
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349362509
- ISBN
- 9781349362509
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 182.76
€ 182.76
Paperback. This book offers a provocative theorization of nationhood, focusing on the key role played by dialogic relations of hegemony, resistance and reciprocity in the birth of the modern European nation. The relationship between Greece and Britain at the end of the nineteenth centuryuncovers the linguistic construction of nationalism." Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; JFC; JFSL; JHB; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349362561
- ISBN
- 9781349362561
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Paperback. Since the 1990s scholars have focused heavily on the perpetrators of the Holocaust, and have presented a complex and diverse picture of perpetrators. This book provides a unique overview of the current state of research on perpetrators. The overall focus is on the key question that it still disputed: How do ordinary people become mass murderers? Editor(s): Szejnmann, Claus-Christian W. Series: The Holocaust and its Contexts. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBJD; HBL; HBTB; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349362585
- ISBN
- 9781349362585
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.48
€ 72.48
paperback. Based on refractions of earlier beliefs, modern angels - at once terrible and comforting, frighteningly other and reassuringly beneficent - have acquired a powerful symbolic value. This interdisciplinary study looks at how humans conversed with angels in medieval and early modern Europe, and how they explained and represented these conversations. Editor(s): Raymond, J. Num Pages: 362 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; HPC; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 362
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- SKU
- V9781349362608
- ISBN
- 9781349362608
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 160.98
€ 160.98
Paperback. "By explicitly addressing moral knowledge from a particularists perspective, this book can engage with an established and vibrant area of moral philosophy whilst making a distinctive and productive contribution to a relatively neglected dimension of it"-- Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349362691
- ISBN
- 9781349362691
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.00
€ 66.00
paperback. Examining multiple modes of spatio-temporal and geometric figurations of life, the author explores how relationships between space, geometry and aesthetics generate productive expressions of subjectivity, developed through Kant's 'reflective subject' and 'geometric' texts by Plato and others towards Deleuze's philosophy of sense. Series: Renewing Philosophy. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AF; HPCF; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 357.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2008
- SKU
- V9781349362745
- ISBN
- 9781349362745
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Beth Lord looks at Kant's philosophy in relation to four thinkers who attempted to fuse transcendental idealism with Spinoza's doctrine of immanence. Examining Jacobi, Herder, Maimon and Deleuze, Lord argues that Spinozism is central to the development of Kant's thought, and opens new avenues for understanding Kant's relation to Deleuze. Series: Renewing Philosophy. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPCF; HPJ; HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349362790
- ISBN
- 9781349362790
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 148.84
€ 148.84
Paperback. Drawing on rich source material - one local authority's involvement in the epic central/local confrontation over local government spending in 1980s England - this book develops a multifaceted and widely applicable analysis of public law within government as a process of 'sustaining the art of the possible'. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JPP; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349362813
- ISBN
- 9781349362813
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Paperback. This work offers diverse theoretical approaches to a range of art and performance practices at the cutting edge of creative and technological experimentation. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AP; AS; HBTB; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 231
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349362899
- ISBN
- 9781349362899
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95