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Modern period, c 1500 onwards
Hardcover. Tackling topics such as globalization and political activism, this book traces engaged poetics in 20th century American poetry. Spahr provides a comprehensive view of activist poetry, starting with the Great Depression and the Harlem Renaissance and moving to the Beats and contemporary writers such as Amiri Baraka and Mark Nowak. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 255 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137568304
- ISBN
- 9781137568304
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.00
€ 67.00
Hardcover. The book tells the story of the Gezira Scheme, a large-scale irrigation scheme started in 1925 under British colonial rule in Sudan. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 305 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HBS; 3JJ; GTF; HBTQ; RNK; TVDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 238 x 24. Weight in Grams: 598.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137568175
- ISBN
- 9781137568175
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.77
€ 67.77
Hardcover. Women's football is the fastest growing participation sport in the UK and across the world and the 2015 Women's World Cup was the biggest tournament it had ever seen. This book looks at fans' experiences of following their teams in Canada and how they became fans in the first place. Num Pages: 95 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JMG; JFFK; JFSJ1; JHBS; WSJA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 15. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137567321
- ISBN
- 9781137567321
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.35
€ 71.35
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History. Num Pages: 384 pages, 53 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; KCP; KCS; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 642.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137565976
- ISBN
- 9781137565976
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 182.80
€ 182.80
Paperback. 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: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJPG; JFC; JHBK; JPA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 143 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137565105
- ISBN
- 9781137565105
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Paperback. Shakespeare's Political Wisdom offers interpretations of five Shakespearean plays with a view to the enduring guidance those plays can provide to human, political life. The plays have been chosen for their relentless attention to the questions that were once and may sometime become, or be recognized as being, the heart and soul of politics. Series: Recovering Political Philosophy. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; DSGS; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2nd ed. 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137564320
- ISBN
- 9781137564320
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.10
€ 66.10
Hardback. Focusing on "dark" or black comedy films in the US and the UK, Wheeler Winston Dixon provides a comprehensive overview of a variety of films and filmmakers (Vanishing Point, Marcel Hanoun), whose work has largely been ignored, but whose influence and importance is clearly present. Num Pages: 110 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJPK; APFA; APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 110
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137564207
- ISBN
- 9781137564207
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.89
€ 65.89
Hardback. This is a rich yet succinct account of the consequences of the Great War for the region which ignited it. It explores the collapse of Empires, the birth of Turkey and Yugoslavia, Greece as both victor and loser, Bulgaria's humiliating defeat; bitter memories, forced migrations, territorial implications and collective national amnesias. Editor(s): Anastasakis, Othon; Madden, David; Roberts, Elizabeth. Series: St Antony's Series. Num Pages: 90 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDT; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 279.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 90
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137564139
- ISBN
- 9781137564139
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.33
€ 71.33
Hardback. Socialist Optimism offers an alternative political economy for the twenty-first century - a rigorous, detailed blueprint focused upon the education and upbringing of children in the context of social equality and household security. It gives a unity and direction to progressive policies that are otherwise seen to be a form of pragmatic tinkering. Num Pages: 522 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JM; KCP; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 800.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 522
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137563941
- ISBN
- 9781137563941
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.78
€ 129.78
Hardback. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 281 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; 3JJPG; 3JM; JFSJ; JFSK; JHBK5; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137563859
- ISBN
- 9781137563859
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.83
€ 116.83
Hardcover. This monograph is an exploration of the historical legacy of the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean, in particular in Goa, Macau, Melaka, and Malabar. Instead of fixing the gaze on either the colonial or the indigenous, it attempts to scrutinise a creole space that is rooted in Indian Ocean cosmopolitanism. Series: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSP; 1QSN; 3J; HBTM; HBTP; HBTQ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137563668
- ISBN
- 9781137563668
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.58
€ 127.58
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media. Num Pages: 168 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBJD1; HBTB; JFD; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137562531
- ISBN
- 9781137562531
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.40
€ 66.40
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
€ 65.89
€ 65.89
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
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
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
€ 72.46
€ 72.46
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
€ 127.58
€ 127.58
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
€ 129.23
€ 129.23
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
€ 116.95
€ 116.95
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
€ 149.99
€ 149.99
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
€ 66.76
€ 66.76
Paperback. 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: 268 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSA; DSBD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 215 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137557643
- ISBN
- 9781137557643
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.01
€ 66.01
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
€ 66.40
€ 66.40
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
€ 149.69
€ 149.69
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
€ 67.24
€ 67.24