Modern period, c 1500 onwards
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Modern period, c 1500 onwards
Hardback. This study of the Crimean War's lesser-known events in the Baltic, White Sea, and Pacific considers vivid descriptions from primary sources in a half-dozen languages. This lively examination of Anglo-French naval campaigns against Czarist Russia and their impact from Finland to Japan is sure to interest historians representing a number of fields. Num Pages: 325 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DV; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTQ; HBWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 325
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137544513
- ISBN
- 9781137544513
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.62
€ 160.62
Paperback. Using case studies, this book explores the publishing of African literature, addressing the construction of literary value, relationships between African writers and British publishers, and importance of the African market. It analyses the historical, political and economic conditions framing the emergence of postcolonial literature. Num Pages: 266 pages, 17 black & white halftones, 3 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1H; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH5; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137546180
- ISBN
- 9781137546180
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.02
€ 66.02
Hardcover. The first major study on the making of new cultures, movements and public celebrations of transnational solidarity in Weimar Germany. The book shows how solidarity was used to empower the oppressed in their liberation and resistance movements and how solidarity networks transferred visions and ideas of an alternative global community. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements. Num Pages: 336 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; HBJD; HBTB; JPFC; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 25. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137546852
- ISBN
- 9781137546852
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.65
€ 128.65
Hardback. One of the first studies to explore the relationship between environmental criticism and British modernism, Green Modernism explores the cultural function of nature in the modernist novel between 1900 and 1930. This theoretically engaged, historically informed book brings new materialist insights to novels by Conrad, Ford, Lawrence, and Butts. Series: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 22. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137549358
- ISBN
- 9781137549358
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.68
€ 94.68
Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JMG; APFA; JFD; JHMC; KNTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137551597
- ISBN
- 9781137551597
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.75
€ 149.75
Hardback. Editor(s): Shaw, Katy. Series: Teaching the New English. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 411.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 195
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137553898
- ISBN
- 9781137553898
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.24
€ 116.24
Hardcover. This book focuses on the role of the processes and mechanisms involved in metropolitan identity construction, maintenance, and change in twentieth century decolonization, an event integral to world politics but little studied in International Relations. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBTR; JFFS; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137554284
- ISBN
- 9781137554284
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
hardcover. Editor(s): Lincoln, Toby; Tao, Xu. Series: Politics and Development of Contemporary China. Num Pages: 231 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; JFSG; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 447.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 231
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137554703
- ISBN
- 9781137554703
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 182.79
€ 182.79
Hardcover. This study offers a radical reassessment of a crucial period of political and cultural history. By looking at some 400 songs, many of which are made available to hear, and at their writers, singers, and audiences, it questions both our relationship with song, and ordinary Britons' relationship with Napoleon, the war, and the idea of Britain itself. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 3J; HBJD1; HBWH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137555373
- ISBN
- 9781137555373
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. This volume examines the numerous changes occurring in European legislation for the prevention and management of banking crises. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions. Num Pages: 240 pages, 26 figures. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JMC; KCX; KFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137555649
- ISBN
- 9781137555649
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.65
€ 149.65
Paperback. The execution of 49-year-old British matron Edith Cavell on 12 October 1915 in Belgium by occupying German forces was portrayed by the allied cause as one of the key atrocities of the First World War, and stories of her fate flashed around the world. This book recovers and interprets the enormous worldwide reaction to Cavell's death. Num Pages: 292 pages, 32 black & white halftones, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDB; 3JJC; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137556189
- ISBN
- 9781137556189
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.41
€ 66.41
Hardback. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FP; 1KBB; 2GK; 3JJ; DSBH; HBJF; JPB; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 375.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137557179
- ISBN
- 9781137557179
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.98
€ 104.98
Hardcover. This is the first study to consider the relationship between private confessional rituals and memory across a range of early modern writers, including Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and Robert Southwell. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3J; DSBD; DSC; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137558633
- ISBN
- 9781137558633
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.77
€ 66.77
Hardcover. This book explores Czechoslovakia's diplomatic relations with African states and places them within a wider Cold War historiography, providing contextual background information on the evolution of communist Czechoslovakia's pro-Soviet foreign policy orientation. This shift in Soviet foreign policy made Africa a priority for the Soviet bloc. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVK; 1H; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBJD; HBJH; HBLW3; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 224 x 22. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137561442
- ISBN
- 9781137561442
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.02
€ 150.02
Hardcover. Drawing upon Broadway musicals ranging from Irene (1919) to Gypsy (1959), Maya Cantu considers how Cinderella Broadway musicals from the 1920s through the 1950s adapted and transformed Perrault's fairy tale icon in order to address changing social and professional roles for American women. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 290 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; AVGM; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 223 x 23. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137561459
- ISBN
- 9781137561459
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.96
€ 116.96
Hardcover. This volume focuses on the impact of the Armenian Genocide on different academic disciplines at the crossroads of the centennial commemorations of the Genocide. Its interdisciplinary nature offers the opportunity to analyze the Genocide from different angles using the lens of several fields of study. Editor(s): Demirdjian, Alexis. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide. Num Pages: 390 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUR; 3JJ; HBTZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 27. Weight in Grams: 616.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137561626
- ISBN
- 9781137561626
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.25
€ 129.25
Hardback. Spanning from the 1876 exposition in Philadelphia, through Paris 1889, and culminating in Paris 1900, this book examines how Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico forged the image of a modernizing Latin America at the moment of their insertion into the new visual economy of capitalism. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JH; HBJK; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137561947
- ISBN
- 9781137561947
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.60
€ 127.60
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels. Num Pages: 94 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 5 colour illustrations, 7 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJP; AKLC; DSY; JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 217 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 94
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137561978
- ISBN
- 9781137561978
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.48
€ 72.48
Hardcover. Focusing on aesthetic figuration diverse home spaces, modes of domestic life, and family histories, this book argues that depicting democracy as it unfolds literally at home presents a compelling portrait of the intimate and everyday aspects of change that can be overlooked by a focus on structural concerns in South Africa. Series: Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JJPR; 3JM; JFC; JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137561985
- ISBN
- 9781137561985
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardback. Susan Nance investigates modernity for animals through the case of Jumbo the elephant in the 1880s. Jumbo exposed the 'human dilemma' of modern living, wherein people celebrated individual animals to cope or distract themselves from the wholesale slaughter of animals required by modern consumerism. Num Pages: 112 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; HPQ; JFFZ; WNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 297.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137562067
- ISBN
- 9781137562067
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90