Modern period, c 1500 onwards
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Modern period, c 1500 onwards
Hardcover. This book investigates Russia's transformation into a European Power by way of the activities of the tsarist translator and official Andrei Vinius, who became an important advisor to Peter the Great. Vinius emerges as an influential conduit of Western culture and technology, who played a key role in transforming Muscovy into Russia. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JD; 3JF; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137323668
- ISBN
- 9781137323668
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.84
€ 67.84
Hardcover. This much-needed study of the British Empire Exhibition reveals durable, persistent connections between empire and domestic society in Britain during the interwar years. It demonstrates that the Exhibition was a marker of how by 1924, imperial relations were increasingly likely to be shaped by forces located on the colonial periphery. Num Pages: 205 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1QDB; 3JJG; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137325112
- ISBN
- 9781137325112
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.84
€ 67.84
Hardcover. Through a wide-ranging and close analysis of archival sources, this book re-evaluates both the role of royal authority and of local agency in the French religious wars in the lead up to the Edict of Nantes of 1598. Drawing on extensive research, it provides a new perspective on the political, religious, social and cultural history of the conflict. Series: Early Modern History: Society and Culture. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JB; HBJD; HBLH; HBTV; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326744
- ISBN
- 9781137326744
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.00
€ 68.00
Hardcover. As outdoor entertainment venues in American cities, pleasure gardens were public spaces where people could explore what it meant to be American. Stubbs examines how these venues helped form American identity and argues the gardens allowed for the exploration of what it meant to be American through performance, both on and off the stage. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; AMV; AN; ASZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326867
- ISBN
- 9781137326867
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.51€ 48.66
€ 52.51
€ 48.66
Hardcover. This award-winning book seeks to answer some of the big questions on the legitimacy of the European Union. It does so by tracing the history of constructions and contestations of the EU's legitimacy in discourses of the European institutions and in public debate drawing on findings from a vast and diverse range of sources. Series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; 3JJP; 3JMC; JPA; JPH; JPSN2; JPVK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137327833
- ISBN
- 9781137327833
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.15
€ 68.15
Paperback. The Refuge and the Fortress offers an account of academic refugees in Britain, including those who fled Nazi Germany, and through their testimonies, seeks to understand the qualities they bestowed on their adoptive country. It provides an honest portrayal of the encounters of people from other cultures with the characteristics of the British. Num Pages: 298 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJD1; HBLW; HBLX; HBTB; JFFD; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 234 x 17. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Second Edition, New edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137327864
- ISBN
- 9781137327864
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.27
€ 67.27
Hardcover. The Refuge and the Fortress offers an account of academic refugees in Britain, including those who fled Nazi Germany, and through their testimonies, seeks to understand the qualities they bestowed on their adoptive country. It provides an honest portrayal of the encounters of people from other cultures with the characteristics of the British. Num Pages: 298 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWQ; JFFD; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 607.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Second Edition,New Edition,2nd edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137327895
- ISBN
- 9781137327895
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.20
€ 68.20
Hardcover. The book is a new study that examines the contrasting extension of the Anglican Church to England's first two colonies, Ireland and Virginia in the 17th and 18th centuries. It discusses the national origins and educational experience of the ministers, the financial support of the state, and the experience and consequences of the institutions. Series: Studies in Modern History. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12 black & white tables, 1 charts. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 1QDB; 3JD; 3JF; HBJK; HBLH; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137327918
- ISBN
- 9781137327918
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.67
€ 67.67
Hardcover. This first major study of girls' health in modern Britain explores how debates and advice on healthy girlhood shaped ideas about the lives of young women from the 1870s to the 1920s, as theories concerning the biological limitations of female adolescence were challenged and girls moved into new arenas in the workplace, sport and recreation. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood. Num Pages: 288 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBTB; JFSJ1; MBNH; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137328137
- ISBN
- 9781137328137
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.73
€ 67.73
Hardcover. Vaughan renews perspectives on the changes brought about by Irish migrant communities in terms of identity, politics and religion. The book examines on the experience of generations of Irish migrants in the West of Scotland from the aftermath of the Great Famine until the creation of the Republic of Ireland. Num Pages: 165 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 1DBR; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 166
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137329837
- ISBN
- 9781137329837
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.90
€ 66.90
Hardcover. This book provides a fresh perspective on the origins of the confrontation between the US and Iran. It demonstrates that, contrary to the claims of Iran's leaders, there was no instinctive American hostility towards the Revolution, and explains why many assumptions guiding US policy were inappropriate for dealing with the new reality in Iran. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 1KBB; 3JJ; HBTW; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137329868
- ISBN
- 9781137329868
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.13
€ 129.13
Hardcover. Moving through the elegiac ruins of the Berlin Wall and the Yugoslav disintegration, Writing Postcommunism explores literary evocations of the pervasive disappointment and mourning that have marked the postcommunist twilight. Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DV; 3JJPR; DSA; DSBH; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137330079
- ISBN
- 9781137330079
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.43
€ 67.43
Hardcover. This study examines the vital centrality of 'readings' of nature in a variety of literary forms in the period 1830-1914. It is exploratory and original in approach, stressing the philosophical and cultural implications in a range of texts from Tennyson, Hardy, Jefferies and Thomas. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJC; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137330437
- ISBN
- 9781137330437
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. The Soviet boycott of the 1984 Olympic Games is explained as the result of a complex series of events and policies that culminated in a strategic decision to not participate in Los Angeles. Using IR framework, D'Agati developes and argues for the concept of surrogate wars as an alternative means for conflict between states. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137330611
- ISBN
- 9781137330611
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.39
€ 67.39
Hardcover. EPUB Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JM; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 133 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137330635
- ISBN
- 9781137330635
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.15
€ 68.15
Paperback. This book adds to this growing body of scholarship on the Italian Resistance by analysing, for the first time, how the 'three wars' are represented over the broad spectrum of Resistance culture from 1945 to the present day. Furthermore, it makes this contribution to scholarship by bridging the gap between historical and cultural analysis. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137331250
- ISBN
- 9781137331250
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.36
€ 67.36
Hardcover. This edited volume situates its contemporary practice in the tradition which emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century. Collective Creation in Contemporary Performance examines collective and devised theatre practices internationally and demonstrates the prevalence, breadth, and significance of modern collective creation. Editor(s): Proudfit, Scott. Num Pages: 250 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JM; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 234 x 19. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137331267
- ISBN
- 9781137331267
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.51€ 47.87
€ 52.51
€ 47.87
Hardcover. Collective creation - the practice of collaboratively devising works of performance - rose to prominence not simply as a performance making method, but as an institutional model. By examining theatre practices in Europe and North America, this book explores collective creation's roots in the theatrical experiments of the early twentieth century. Editor(s): Proudfit, Scott. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137331298
- ISBN
- 9781137331298
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.51€ 48.01
€ 52.51
€ 48.01
Hardcover. The Landscapes of the Sublime examines the place of the 'natural sublime' in the cultural history of the eighteenth century and Romantic period. Drawing on a range of scholarship and historical sources, it offers a fresh perspective on the different species of the 'natural sublime' encountered by British and European travellers and explorers. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137332172
- ISBN
- 9781137332172
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardcover. This sweeping, exhaustively researched history is the first comprehensive account of the Peace of Westphalia in English. Bringing together the latest scholarship with an engaging narrative, it retraces the historical origins of the Peace, exploring its political-intellectual underpinnings and placing it in a broad global and chronological context. Num Pages: 468 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 32. Weight in Grams: 858.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 468
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137333322
- ISBN
- 9781137333322
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 184.67
€ 184.67