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Modern period, c 1500 onwards
Hardcover. Since its creation the British Olympic Association (BOA) has been one of the most important institutions in sports governance. In spite of its prominence there has hitherto been no single-volume history of the Association. This scholarly yet accessible study fills that gap, assessing the origins, evolution, strengths and shortcomings of the BOA. Num Pages: 150 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JJ; HBTB; WSBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137363411
- ISBN
- 9781137363411
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.18
€ 66.18
Hardcover. The opening of the ports of Japan in 1859 brought a flood of Japanese craft products to the world marketplace. For ivory it was a golden age. This book examines the role that ivory and ivory carvers played in the expression of nationalism and the development of sculpture in the later nineteenth and early twentieth century. Num Pages: 132 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJC; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 306.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137363329
- ISBN
- 9781137363329
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.04
€ 66.04
Hardcover. The book proposes a critique of Nietzsche's works 'from within'. In doing so, it answers the continuing question asked by any reader of Nietzsche: Why did he decide not to write the major work he said he would write? Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JF; HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137363183
- ISBN
- 9781137363183
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Flying and the pilot were significant metaphors of fascism's mythical modernity. Fernando Esposito traces the changing meanings of these highly charged symbols from the air show in Brescia, to the sky above the trenches of the First World War to the violent ideological clashes of the interwar period. Num Pages: 440 pages, 26. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1DST; 3JJ; HBJD; HBTB; JPFQ; TRP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 241 x 29. Weight in Grams: 824.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137362988
- ISBN
- 9781137362988
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 196.75
€ 196.75
Hardcover. This book reveals the huge sales and propagandist potential of Anglican parish magazines, while demonstrating the Anglican Church's misunderstanding of the real issues at its heart, and its collective collapse of confidence as it contemplated social change. Series: Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700-2000. Num Pages: 296 pages, 3 tables, 12 graphs, 22 B/W half-tones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBTB; HRCC91. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137362438
- ISBN
- 9781137362438
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.24
€ 67.24
Hardcover. Integrating the political and governmental histories of Spain and the American colonies, this book focuses on the political and governmental history of the Viceroyalty of Peru during the 'early Bourbon' period and provides a new interpretation of the period's broader significance within Spanish American history. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLS; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 224 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137362230
- ISBN
- 9781137362230
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Alan Hollinghurst and the Vitality of Influence proposes a striking approach for reading the influences that interlace twentieth-century gay British writers. Focusing on the role of the textual image in literary influence, this book moves toward a new understanding of the interpenetration of literary and visual culture in the twentieth century. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSA; DSK; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137362025
- ISBN
- 9781137362025
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Hardcover. Highlighting the processes and missteps involved in creating and carrying out school desegregation policies in Chicago, Dionne Danns discusses the challenges of using the 1964 Civil Rights Act to implement school desegregation and the resultant limitations and effectiveness of government legislative power in bringing about social change. Series: Historical Studies in Education. Num Pages: 257 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; JFSL; JNF; JNL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137360915
- ISBN
- 9781137360915
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.90€ 46.85
€ 52.90
€ 46.85
Hardback. The Affordable Care Act debate was one of the most important and most public examinations of the Constitution in our history. At the forefront of that debate were the bloggers of the Volokh Conspiracy who, from before the law was even passed, engaged in a spirited, erudite, and accessible discussion of the legal issues involved in the case. Editor(s): Burrus, Trevor. Num Pages: 305 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JMG; JPA; JPW; LNTM; MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 305
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137360731
- ISBN
- 9781137360731
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.81
€ 67.81
Hardcover. The Greater War is an international history of the First World War. Comprising of thirteen chapters this collection of essays covers new aspects of the French, German, Italian and American efforts in the First World War, as well as aspects of Britain's colonial campaigns. Editor(s): Krause, Jonathan. Series: Studies in Military and Strategic History. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJF; HBLW; HBWN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137360656
- ISBN
- 9781137360656
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Paperback. The Greater War is an international history of the First World War. Comprising of thirteen chapters this collection of essays covers new aspects of the French, German, Italian and American efforts in the First World War, as well as aspects of Britain's colonial campaigns. Editor(s): Krause, Jonathan. Series: Studies in Military and Strategic History. Num Pages: 280 pages, 5 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 3JJF; HBJD; HBJQ; HBLW; HBWN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137360649
- ISBN
- 9781137360649
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.27
€ 67.27
Hardcover. Scenic spectacles collapse the borders of graphic and visual arts, multimedia technology, spectatorship and architecture. Drawing upon various systems of commercial, institutional and public spectacle that intersect with scenic stages of the national landscape, Tenneriello examines how spectacle is entrenched in the formation of national identity. Num Pages: 328 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; AN; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137360618
- ISBN
- 9781137360618
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.90€ 47.75
€ 52.90
€ 47.75
Hardcover. Drawing on traditional archival research, reception theory, cultural histories of slumming, and recent work in critical theory on literary representations of poverty, Westgate argues that the productions of slum plays served as enactments of the emergent definitions of the slum and the corresponding ethical obligations involved therein. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; AN; HBJK; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137359681
- ISBN
- 9781137359681
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.46
€ 66.46
Hardcover. Social and legal representations of female poisoners during the mid-nineteenth century in England, and the social and moral panics about women's access to arsenic. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; BTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137359292
- ISBN
- 9781137359292
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. The conquest of Serbia was only one of the goals of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the First World War; beyond this lay the desire to control much of South-East Europe. Employing previously unseen sources, Marvin Fried provides the first complete analysis of the Monarchy's war aims in the Balkans and tells the story of its imperialist ambitions. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 1DVH; 1DVW; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 23. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137359001
- ISBN
- 9781137359001
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.83
€ 149.83
Hardcover. Political Performance in Syria, charts the history of a theatre that has sought the expansion of civil society and imagined alternate political realities. In doing so, the manuscript situates the current use of performance and theatre by artists of the Syrian Revolution within a long history of political contestation. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBS; 3JJP; 3JM; AN; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137358974
- ISBN
- 9781137358974
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.73
€ 66.73
Hardcover. Hailed as early Christian texts as important as the Dead Sea Scrolls, yet condemned by the Vatican as Islamic heresies, the Lead books of Granada, written on discs of lead and unearthed on a Granadan hillside, weave a mysterious tale of duplicity and daring set in the religious crucible of sixteenth-century Spain. Series: Early Modern History: Society and Culture. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JB; HBLH; HBTB; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 180 x 22. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137358844
- ISBN
- 9781137358844
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.53
€ 67.53
Paperback. Barack Obama has faced many challenges in reversing US policy on the Middle East. This book highlights points of resistance to Obama's efforts regarding US foreign policy and what lessons may be learned from this experience for the remainder of his presidency. Editor(s): Akbarzadeh, Shahram. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1KBB; 3JM; JPQB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137358813
- ISBN
- 9781137358813
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.37
€ 66.37
Paperback. Imperial expositions held in fin-de-siecle London, Paris and Berlin were knots in a world wide web. Conceptualizing expositions as meta-media, Fleeting Cities constitutes a transnational and transdisciplinary investigation into how modernity was created and displayed, consumed and disputed in the European metropolis around 1900. Num Pages: 423 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 167 x 25. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137358325
- ISBN
- 9781137358325
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 130.52
€ 130.52
Hardcover. By tracing the effects of unprecedented immigration, the advent of the new woman, and the little-known vaudeville careers of performers like the Elinore Sisters, Buster Keaton, and the Marx Brothers, DesRochers examines the relation between comedic vaudeville acts and progressive reformers as they fought over the new definition of "Americanness." Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; ASZH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137357427
- ISBN
- 9781137357427
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
'Civilising Mission' of Portuguese Colonialism, 1870-1930
Bandeira Jeronimo, Miguel; Costa-Pinto, Anton...
Hardback. This book provides an historical, critical analysis of the doctrine of 'civilising mission' in Portuguese colonialism in the crucial period from 1870 to 1930. Exploring international contexts and transnational connections, this 'civilising mission' is analysed and assessed by examining the employment and distribution of African manpower. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSP; 1H; 3JH; 3JJ; HBLH; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 277
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137355904
- ISBN
- 9781137355904
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.88
€ 127.88
Hardcover. Drawing on the graphic and revealing evidence recorded by the different courts in early modern Saragossa, this book captures the spirit of an age when religious faith vied for people's hearts and minds with centuries-old beliefs in witchcraft and superstition. Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137355874
- ISBN
- 9781137355874
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.99
€ 149.99
Hardcover. The post-September 11th British anti-war movement brought together Muslim activists, organizations and leftist groups in opposition to the 'War on Terror'. This book offers an analysis of the political conditions through which Muslim and leftist engagement emerges within this movement, highlighting the decisive leadership played by Muslim women. Series: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JMC; JFSJ1; JFSR2; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137355645
- ISBN
- 9781137355645
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.40
€ 66.40
Hardcover. A variety of thinkers used the concept of myth to articulate their anxieties about modernity. By telling the story of mythic thinking in Britain from its origins in Victorian social anthropology to its postwar cultural mainstreaming, this book reveals a yearning for transcendence in an age long assumed to be disenchanted. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; DSK; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137354969
- ISBN
- 9781137354969
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.24
€ 67.24