Modern period, c 1500 onwards
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Modern period, c 1500 onwards
Hardback. This book uses a methodology combining law and finance to examine the rules surrounding state guarantees in the Eurozone. Series: Roma Tre Business and Finance Collection. Num Pages: 159 pages, 22 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; 3JMC; KCX; KFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 353.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 159
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137441553
- ISBN
- 9781137441553
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.06
€ 127.06
Hardcover. Certain 19th Century presidencies contrast common perceptions of the office's authority and strength. These presidents were a strong group and were anything but insignificant. They fought substantial battles with Congress, and often won. This book seeks to provide more substantive analysis of maligned presidencies, and the legacies left behind. Series: The Evolving American Presidency. Num Pages: 154 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 181 x 20. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137441492
- ISBN
- 9781137441492
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.26
€ 66.26
Hardcover. This book, the first long-range history of the voluntary sector in Australia and the first internationally to compare philanthropy for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in a settler society, explores how the race and gender ideologies embedded in philanthropy contributed to the construction of Australia's welfare state. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJM; HBTB; HBTQ; JKSN1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137440495
- ISBN
- 9781137440495
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.31
€ 67.31
Hardcover. Facing Down the Soviet Union reveals for the first time the historic deliberations regarding the Chevaline upgrade to Britain's Polaris force, the decisions to procure the Trident C-4 and then D-5 system from the Americans in 1980 and 1982. It also details the decision to base Ground Launched Cruise Missiles in the UK in 1983. Num Pages: 335 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 1QFN; 3JJP; HBLW3; HBWS; JWMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137440310
- ISBN
- 9781137440310
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.85
€ 67.85
Hardcover. Founded in 1920, the International Federation of University brought together women committed to promoting higher education across divisions hardened by global conflict. Here, Christine von Oertzen traces the IFUW's international rise and Cold War decline, making a valuable contribution to the cultural, diplomatic, and intellectual history. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 337 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; HBTB; JFSJ1; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 664.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137438881
- ISBN
- 9781137438881
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 184.44
€ 184.44
Hardcover. Surveillance is a key notion for understanding power and control in the modern world, but it has been curiously neglected by historians of science and technology. Using the overarching concept of the "surveillance imperative," this collection of essays offers a new window on the evolution of the environmental sciences during and after the Cold War. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 290 pages, 22 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBTW; PDX; RGY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 237 x 21. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137438720
- ISBN
- 9781137438720
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.88
€ 67.88
Hardcover. From the outset, Silvio Berlusconi's career was expected to be short, and he has been considered finished several times, only to have reemerged victorious. This fascinating political and historical study shows that Berlusconi's success and resilience have lain in his ability to provide answers to longstanding questions in Italian history. Series: Italian & Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JMC; HBJD; JFC; JFD; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 218 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137438669
- ISBN
- 9781137438669
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. This provocative analysis of American historiography argues that when scholars use modern racial language to articulate past histories of race and society, they collapse different historical signs of skin color into a transhistorical and essentialist notion of race that implicates their work in the very racial categories they seek to transcend. Num Pages: 145 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3J; HBJK; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 219 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137438621
- ISBN
- 9781137438621
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.17
€ 66.17
Hardcover. The 18th-century French leather industry was a strategically important manufacturing sector, one vital to both civilian and military life. This study examines the production of leather in the Bordeaux trades during the 18th and 19th centuries, illuminating the realities of a craft economy and its relation to the wider French political economy. Num Pages: 311 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; KNDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137438553
- ISBN
- 9781137438553
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.12
€ 128.12
Hardcover. Education and the arts offer multiple, mutually clarifying lenses through which to examine and understand issues of poverty and empowerment. Here, both are combined in a fascinating look at how these two often overlooked elements promote social equality and cultivate personal agency across Africa's diverse political-economic landscapes. Editor(s): Falola, Toyin; Abidogun, Jamaine. Num Pages: 275 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3J; JNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 219 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137438492
- ISBN
- 9781137438492
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Most scholars agree that reading a play is absolutely unlike live performance, but everything else about their relationship beyond this premise has proven contestable. Focusing on the editorial and textual history of Shakespeare, this book navigates these debates by exploring how textual distortions enrich a play's performance potentialities. Series: History of Text Technologies. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3J; ANF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137438430
- ISBN
- 9781137438430
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. This monograph makes clear how the format of the literary folio played a fundamental role in book history by encapsulating the unstable negotiation between commerce, cultural prestige, and the fundamental nature of the printed book. Series: History of Text Technologies. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; DSB; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 224 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137438348
- ISBN
- 9781137438348
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Paperback. Tracing the lives of three exiled student leaders over two continents before and after the 1989 Tiananmen Uprising, this fascinating oral history explores how their political ideals were shaped by institutionalized education and social movements in China, led to action and punishment, and were revised under the challenges of exile. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPN; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 13. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137438317
- ISBN
- 9781137438317
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.73
€ 71.73
Hardcover. Tracing the lives of three exiled student leaders over two continents before and after the 1989 Tiananmen Uprising, this fascinating oral history explores how their political ideals were shaped by institutionalized education and social movements in China, led to action and punishment, and were revised under the challenges of exile. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPN; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137438300
- ISBN
- 9781137438300
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. This book is to provide an in-depth examination of the current state of black males and identifies the impact of living in the Obama era. Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JM; JFC; JFSJ2; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137436191
- ISBN
- 9781137436191
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. An insightful account of the devastating impact of the Great War, upon the already fragile British colonial African state of Northern Rhodesia. Deploying extensive archival and rare evidence from surviving African veterans, it investigates African resistance at this time. Series: Studies in Military and Strategic History. Num Pages: 358 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1HFMZ; 3JJF; HBJH; HBLW; HBTQ; HBWN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137435774
- ISBN
- 9781137435774
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.01
€ 140.01
Hardcover. This work explores the reasons for the Allied intervention into Russia at the end of the Great War and examines the military, diplomatic and political chaos that resulted in the failure of the Allies and White Russians to defeat the Bolshevik Revolution. Num Pages: 336 pages, 9 maps, 7 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJF; GTJ; HBJD; HBWN; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 634.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137435712
- ISBN
- 9781137435712
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.18
€ 140.18
Hardcover. The magazine Photoplay pioneered the construction of both female stars as social types and fans as aspiring consumers in the first mass consumption society. The construction of female identity based on goods and performance in a consumer society resulted in multiple, fragmented, and unstable selves - a legacy evident in postmodern culture today. Num Pages: 310 pages, 32 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; APF; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137433992
- ISBN
- 9781137433992
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
hardcover. For a full month in the autumn of 1812 the 2,000-strong garrison of the fortress the French had constructed to overawe the city of Burgos defied the Duke of Wellington. In this work a leading historian of the Peninsular teams up with a leading conflict archaeologist to examine the reasons for Wellington's failure. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBWH; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 425.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137432896
- ISBN
- 9781137432896
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.74
€ 66.74
Hardcover. Looking at national peace organizations alongside lesser-known protest collectives, this book argues that anti-nuclear activists encountered familiar challenges common to other social movements of the late twentieth century. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; HBTB; HBTW; RNQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137432834
- ISBN
- 9781137432834
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95