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Hardback. Neither a case study of a particular genocide nor a work of comparative genocide, this book explores the political constraints and imperatives that motivate debates about genocide in the academic world and, to a lesser extent, in the political arena. The book is an analysis of the ways that political interests shape discourse about genocide. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTZ; JPS; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 229 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114142
- ISBN
- 9780230114142
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.52
€ 67.52
Hardback. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJH; JHB; JNB; JNMT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 203
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114166
- ISBN
- 9780230114166
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.40€ 47.19
€ 53.40
€ 47.19
Hardback. The essays in this book analyze a range of genres and considers geographical areas beyond the Ottoman Empire to deepen our post-Saidian understanding of the complexity of real and imagined "traffic" between England and the "Islamic worlds" it encountered and constructed. Editor(s): McJannet, Linda; Andrea, Bernadette. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDT; 2AB; DSBD; HBJF1; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115422
- ISBN
- 9780230115422
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.23
€ 67.23
Hardcover. A literary reading informed by the recent temporal turn in Queer Theory, this book analyzes medieval Biblical drama for themes representing modes of power such as the body, politics, and law. Revitalizing the discussions on medieval drama, Sturges asserts that these dramas were often intended not to teach morality but to resist Christian authority. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSG; HRCG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115781
- ISBN
- 9780230115781
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardback. This is the first transnational study of British, Norwegian, and Swedish engagement with the Antarctic. Rather than charting how Europeans unveiled the Antarctic, it uses the history of Antarctic activity as a window into the political and cultural worlds of twentieth-century Britain and Scandinavia. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 283 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DN; 1MTS; 1QDB; 3JJ; HBJD; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 222 x 22. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115910
- ISBN
- 9780230115910
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.05
€ 128.05
hardcover. Against a background of weak and contested national identity and capricious interaction between religious affiliation and confessional politics, this book illustrates in detailed analysis this "comprehensive" project of Islamism according to its ideological and practical evolutionary change. Series: The Middle East in Focus. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBL; HRAM2; HRH; JPFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116542
- ISBN
- 9780230116542
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.93
€ 127.93
Hardback. This book explores the expectations, experiences, and reactions of Allied servicemen and women who served in the wartime Pacific and viewed the South Pacific through the lens of Hollywood's South Seas. Based on extensive archival research, it explores the intersections between military experiences and cultural history. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1MKP; 3JJH; APF; HBJM; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116566
- ISBN
- 9780230116566
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Hardcover. This book examines the relationship between colonial anxieties about personal behavior, gender, morality, and colonial rule in India during the first century of British rule, when the East India Company governed India rather than the British State directly, focusing on the ideology of "The Empire of Opinion." Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FKA; 3JF; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 165 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116931
- ISBN
- 9780230116931
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.59
€ 67.59
Hardback. Documents and analyzes the implementation of the American strategy of consumerism during the 1940s and 1950s, and its ongoing ramifications. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFDV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116948
- ISBN
- 9780230116948
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardback. The book concerns the new World Irish, tracing the developing profile of the Irish in America from the Famine forward. The studies draw their material from roughly a one-hundred-year arc of Irish presence and relevance in American life and they would serve as American as well as Irish-American studies. Series: New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116962
- ISBN
- 9780230116962
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.28
€ 67.28
Hardcover. This book offers a transnational look at the history of Japanese chemistry and its interactions with the West in the late nineteenth to early twentieth century. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 279 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJF; HBLL; PN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230117785
- ISBN
- 9780230117785
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. Pragmatist philosopher William James has long been deemed a dubious guide to ethical reasoning. This book overturns such thinking, demonstrating the coherence of James's efforts to develop a flexible but rigorous framework for individuals and societies seeking freedom, meaning, and justice in a world of interdependence, uncertainty, and change. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPQ; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230117822
- ISBN
- 9780230117822
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardback. The book explores the hotly disputed process by which the census was created and developed and examines how a wide cast of characters, including statisticians, novelists, national and local officials, political and social reformers, and journalists responded to and used the idea of a census. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 169 x 244 x 22. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230119376
- ISBN
- 9780230119376
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.21
€ 68.21
Hardcover. Studying cultural memory of the Grenada Revolution as it surfaces in literature, music, the visual arts, law, landscape, and everyday life, this book approaches the 1979-1983 Grenada Revolution as a pan-Caribbean event. Puri reveals the deep consequences for Caribbean politics and culture even today. Series: New Caribbean Studies. Num Pages: 360 pages, 51 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 1KJWWG; 3JJPL; DSBH5; HBTV; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120327
- ISBN
- 9780230120327
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.31
€ 68.31
Hardcover. This is the first book in English to examine, through material in the popular press, the radical changes that took place in Japanese ideas about sex, romance and male-female relations in the wake of Japan's defeat and occupation by Allied forces at the end of the Second World War. Num Pages: 251 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJPG; HBTB; JFCA; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120594
- ISBN
- 9780230120594
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.67
€ 116.67
Hardback. The authors provide a systematic analysis of looking beyond the abuses of human rights in the Middle East with a view toward problematizing traditional doctrinal thinking and concepts in the region, ascertaining comparative and historical roots of human rights abuses in the Middle East. Editor(s): Monshipouri, Mahmood. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; HRH; JFSR2; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120617
- ISBN
- 9780230120617
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.40€ 47.36
€ 53.40
€ 47.36
Hardback. This wide-ranging collection brings together contributions from historians, political scientists, policymakers, and others to provide much-needed perspective on the unification of Germany as it actually played out in real historical time. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJPN; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 220 x 18. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120754
- ISBN
- 9780230120754
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardback. Pursues the hypothesis that fictional literature has been instrumental in the development and dissemination of European anti-Americanism from the early 1800s to today. Focusing on Britain, France and Germany, it offers analyses of a range of canonical literary works in which resentful hostility towards the United States is a predominant feature. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; DSB; HBJD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120822
- ISBN
- 9780230120822
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.47
€ 67.47
Hardback. A detailed study of an increasingly popular genre, this book offers readings of a group of significant and representative works, drawing on a range of interpretative strategies to examine the ways in which the contemporary historical novel engages with questions of nation and identity to illuminate Britain's post-imperial condition. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; HBJD1; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230200074
- ISBN
- 9780230200074
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
Hardback. British knowledge about China changed fundamentally in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Rather than treating these changes in British understanding as if Anglo-Sino relations were purely bilateral, this study looks at how British imperial networks in India and Southeast Asia were critical mediators in the British encounter of China. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FPC; 3JF; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230200463
- ISBN
- 9780230200463
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25