Modern period, c 1500 onwards
Results 6461 - 6480 of 22729
Modern period, c 1500 onwards
Hardcover. While there are many biographies of JFK and accounts of the early years of US space efforts, this book uses primary source material and interviews with key participants to provide a comprehensive account of how the actions taken by JFK's administration have shaped the course of the US space program over the last 45 years. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; PDX; PDZ; PG; TTDS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110106
- ISBN
- 9780230110106
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.37
€ 53.37
Hardcover. A reassessment of the historic relation between money and the state through the lens of early modern English literature, Coinage and State Formation examines the political implications of the monetary form in light of material and visual properties of coins as well as the persistence of both intrinsic and extrinsic theories of value. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110236
- ISBN
- 9780230110236
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. Drawing on critical frameworks, this study establishes the centrality of language, gender, and community in the quest for identity in contemporary American fiction. Close readings of novels by Alice Walker, Ernest Gaines, Ann Beattie, John Updike, Chang-rae Lee, and Rudolfo Anaya, among others, show how individuals find their American identities. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110458
- ISBN
- 9780230110458
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardcover. This comprehensive study ranges from Irving's Knickerbockers, Emerson's Transcendentalists, and Garrison's abolitionists to the popular serial fiction writers for Robert Bonner's New York Ledger to unearth surprising convergences between such seemingly disparate circles. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 220 x 23. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110465
- ISBN
- 9780230110465
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.37
€ 67.37
Hardcover. British Literary Salons of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries is a comprehensive study of the British salon between the 1780s and the 1840s. Using a number of sources - diaries, letters, silver-fork novels, satires, travel writing, Keepsakes, and imaginary conversations - this study establishes sociable networks of days gone by. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110656
- ISBN
- 9780230110656
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. Focusing substantially on the relation between the concept of constitutionalism and Islamic Law in general and how such relation is specifically reflected in the Shiite jurisprudence, this volume explores the juristic origins of constitutionalism, especially in the context of 1905 Constitutional Revolution in Iran. Series: Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 3JJ; HRAX; HRH; LAFS; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110731
- ISBN
- 9780230110731
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.84
€ 127.84
Hardcover. The papacy of Pius XII (1939-1958) has been a source of near-constant criticism and debate since his death, particularly because of his alleged silence during the Holocaust. Paul O'Shea examines his little-studied pre-papal life to demonstrate that Pius was neither an anti-Semitic villain nor a 'lamb without stain.' Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSV; 3JJ; HBTZ1; HRCC7; HRJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110793
- ISBN
- 9780230110793
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.68
€ 128.68
Paperback. The papacy of Pius XII (1939-1958) has been a source of near-constant criticism and debate since his death, particularly because of his alleged silence during the Holocaust. Paul O'Shea examines his little-studied pre-papal life to demonstrate that Pius was neither an anti-Semitic villain nor a 'lamb without stain.' Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSV; 3JJ; HBTZ1; HRCC7; HRJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 151 x 15. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110809
- ISBN
- 9780230110809
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 138.81
€ 138.81
Hardcover. This book examines fictional representations of India in novels, plays and poetry produced between the years 1772 to 1823 as historical source material. It uses literary texts as case studies to investigate how Britons residing both in the metropole and in India justified, confronted and imagined the colonial encounter during this period. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230111264
- ISBN
- 9780230111264
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.23
€ 67.23
Hardcover. Frontier dramas were among the most popular and successful of early-twentieth-century Broadway type plays. The long runs of contemporary dramas not only indicate the popularity of these plays but also tell us that these plays offered views about the frontier that original audiences could and did embrace. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJC; AN; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230111448
- ISBN
- 9780230111448
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 47.33
€ 53.37
€ 47.33
Hardcover. The first academic study of this subject is an entertaining look at the search for Sasquatch which considers not just the nature of monsters and monster hunting in the late 20th century, but the more important relationship between the professional scientists and amateur naturalists who hunt them--and their place in the history of science. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBTB; PDX; PDZ; PSV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230111479
- ISBN
- 9780230111479
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.89
€ 149.89
Hardcover. A fresh perspective on the history of Russian liberalism through the life and work of Alexander Kunitsyn, a teacher and philosopher of natural law, whose academic and journalistic writings contributed to the dissemination of Western liberal thought among the Russian public. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 151 x 26. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230111738
- ISBN
- 9780230111738
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
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
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardcover. A look at the extensive inequality and individualism in Prince George's County, Maryland, and the wider tobacco south, this book draws on colonial historiography to take a groundbreaking approach and examines the profound impacts of the structure of the international tobacco trade on local life. Series: The Americas in the Early Modern Atlantic World. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTK; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230111899
- ISBN
- 9780230111899
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. This interdisciplinary volume addresses the consequences of the fall of the Berlin Wall, from the revitalizing effect it had on Germany to the new challenges of integrating socially and politically old and new minorities, and forming a new European identity. It also considers how the fall was represented by the media. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 272 pages, 22 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJPR; 3JMC; HBJD; HBLW3; HBLX; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112162
- ISBN
- 9780230112162
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. The first book-length study in any language of the presence and influence of Mei Lanfang, the internationally known Chinese actor who specialized in female roles on the twentieth-century international stage. Tian investigates Mei Lanfang's presence and influence and the transnational and intercultural appropriations of his art. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 319 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; ANB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112445
- ISBN
- 9780230112445
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 47.69
€ 53.37
€ 47.69
Hardcover. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJG; DSC; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422. Stein, Fitzgerald, and the Modern(ist) Art of Self-fashioning. Series: American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century. 252 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 3JJG; DSC; DSK; JFC. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 20. Weight: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112711
- ISBN
- 9780230112711
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardcover. The first detailed historical account of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations, this book covers the genesis of the project in the early 1990s to its demise in late 2003. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1K; 3JJPR; JPA; KCLT1; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 164 x 28. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112797
- ISBN
- 9780230112797
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 47.88
€ 53.37
€ 47.88
Hardcover. William Edmundson examines the spectacular life story of 'Colonel' John Thomas North, also known as 'The Nitrate King,' a mechanic in Leeds who became one of the best-known and richest men of his time. Forgotten in Britain and vilified in Chile and Peru, this is the first biography of a controversial but compelling figure. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 217 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYK; 1KLSH; 3JH; BGB; BGH; HBTK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1ST
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112803
- ISBN
- 9780230112803
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62
Hardcover. Fifty years after the publication of Martin Esslin's The Theatre of the Absurd, which suggests that 'absurd' plays purport the meaninglessness of life, this book uses the works of five major playwrights of the 1950s to provide a timely reassessment of one of the most important theatre 'movements' of the 20th century. Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJP; ANB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113381
- ISBN
- 9780230113381
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 46.61
€ 53.37
€ 46.61