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Modern period, c 1500 onwards
Paperback. Going to War overturns conventional views of the role of public opinion, the armed forces, parliamentarians, NGOs and writers in the formation of British debates about impending wars. It shows the pressures and the reasons which have led to Britain's involvement in so many conflicts. Num Pages: 236 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JMC; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; HBLX; JWK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 304. British Debates from Wilberforce to Blair. 240 pages, 1 tables. Going to War overturns conventional views of the role of public opinion, the armed forces, parliamentarians, NGOs and writers in the formation of British debates about impending wars. It shows the pressures and the reasons which have led to Britain's involvement in so many conflicts. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JMC; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; HBLX; JWK. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 14. Weight: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230237933
- ISBN
- 9780230237933
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Hardcover. After the Great War some texts by British Army veterans portrayed the Anglican chaplains who had served with them in an extremely negative light. This book examines the realities of Anglican chaplains' wartime experiences and presents a compelling picture of what it meant to be a clergyman-in-uniform in the most devastating war in modern history. Num Pages: 307 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJF; HBJD1; HBWN; HRCC91; HRCX4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230237452
- ISBN
- 9780230237452
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.39
€ 67.39
Hardcover. An examination of how female same-sex desires were represented in a wide range of Italian and British medical writings, 1870-1920. It shows how the psychiatric category of sexual inversion was positioned alongside other medical ideas of same-sex desires, such as the virago, tribade-prostitute, fiamma and gynaecological explanations. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DST; 3JH; 3JJC; HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSK1; MBX; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 24. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2012th Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230234987
- ISBN
- 9780230234987
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.24
€ 128.24
Neurology and Modernity: A Cultural History of Nervous Systems, 1800-1...
Salisbury, Laura, Shail, Andrew
Hardcover. As people of the modern era were singularly prone to nervous disorders, the nervous system became a model for describing political and social organization. This volume untangles the mutual dependencies of scientific neurology and the cultural attitudes of the period 1800-1950, exploring how and why modernity was a fundamentally nervous state. Num Pages: 311 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; MBX; MJN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230233133
- ISBN
- 9780230233133
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.99
€ 67.99
Hardcover. An examination of how the logistical demands of the British military campaigns in Palestine and Mesopotamia led to a more intrusive and authoritarian form of imperial control in 1917-18. This early example of Western military intervention in the Middle East provoked a localized backlash in 1919-20 whose effects continue to be felt today. Series: Studies in Military and Strategic History. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJF; HBJD1; HBJF1; HBWN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230233003
- ISBN
- 9780230233003
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.53
€ 67.53
Hardcover. This book explores the day-to-day 'lived experience' of fascism in Venice during the 1930s, charting the attempts of the fascist regime to infiltrate and reshape Venetians' everyday lives and their responses to the intrusions of the fascist state. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 136 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232860
- ISBN
- 9780230232860
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.03
€ 67.03
The Last Ottomans: The Muslim Minority of Greece 1940-1949 (New Perspe...
Featherstone, Kevin, Papadimitriou, Dimitris,...
Hardcover. A new study of the international and local politics surrounding the Muslim minority of Western Thrace (Greece) in the 1940s, based on previously unseen archival material. Addresses the minority's complex identity, its relations with other communities in the area, the international diplomacy of WWII and strategic considerations of the Cold War. Series: New Perspectives on South-East Europe. Num Pages: 378 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 1DVT; 3JJH; 3JJPG; HBJD; HBLW; JFSR2; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 147 x 29. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 380
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232518
- ISBN
- 9780230232518
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.72
€ 128.72
Policing in England and Wales, 1918-39: The Fed, Flying Squads and For...
Laybourn, Keith, Taylor, David
Hardcover. An examination of the modernization of the English and Welsh police during the interwar years, focusing upon the increasing professionalization of the police, the Federation, forensic work and the growth of traffic policing. The authors challenge the established viewpoint by arguing that this period saw significant changes in policing. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKW; 3JJG; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB; JKSW1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232457
- ISBN
- 9780230232457
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.51
€ 67.51
Hardcover. The gendered nature of the relationship between the press and emergence of cultural citizenship from the 1860s to the 1930s is explored through original data and insightful comparisons between India, Britain and France in this integrated approach to women's representation in newspapers, their role as news sources and their professional activity. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DDF; 1FKA; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBTB; JFD; JFSJ1; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232440
- ISBN
- 9780230232440
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.24
€ 67.24
Hardcover. Romantic Cosmopolitanism shows how cosmopolitanism in the early nineteenth century offers a non-unified formulation of the nation that stands in contrast to more unified models such as Edmund Burke's which found nationality in, among other things, language, history, blood and geography. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; JPA. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232044
- ISBN
- 9780230232044
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Ibsen and the Irish Revival examines Henrik Ibsen's influence on the Irish Revival and the reception of his plays in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Dublin. It highlights the international dimension of the Irish Literary Revival and offers new perspectives on W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge, Lennox Robinson, James Joyce, George Moore and Sean O'Casey. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ACSN; 3JH; DSBF; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230231993
- ISBN
- 9780230231993
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.76
€ 66.76
Hardcover. With a focus on colonial Bengal, this book demonstrates how the dynamics of agrarian prosperity or decline, communal conflicts, poverty and famine can only be properly understood from an ecological perspective as well as discussions of state's coercion and popular resistance, market forces and dependency, or contested cultures and consciousness. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 21 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBTB; RNC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230231832
- ISBN
- 9780230231832
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.00
€ 128.00
Hardcover. An examination of why and how Fascist Italy sought to increase its influence in the Middle East, and why Italian efforts ultimately failed. Offering fresh insights into Fascist Italy's foreign and colonial policies, this book makes an important contribution to the complex history of relations between Europe and the Arab world. Num Pages: 269 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1FB; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; JPFQ; JPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230231603
- ISBN
- 9780230231603
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover. Glen O'Hara draws a compelling picture of Second World War Britain by investigating relations between people and government: the electorate's rising expectations and demands for universally-available social services, the increasing complexity of the new solutions to these needs, and mounting frustration with both among both governors and governed. Num Pages: 320 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBJD1; HBLW3; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230569
- ISBN
- 9780230230569
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.01
€ 68.01
Paperback. Thomas Linehan offers a fresh perspective on late Victorian and Edwardian socialism by examining the socialist revival of these years from the standpoint of modernism. In so doing, he explores the modernist mission as extending beyond the concerns of the literary and artistic avant-garde to incorporate political and social movements. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 185 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 133 x 11. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230118
- ISBN
- 9780230230118
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Thomas Linehan offers a fresh perspective on late Victorian and Edwardian socialism by examining the socialist revival of these years from the standpoint of modernism. In so doing, he explores the modernist mission as extending beyond the concerns of the literary and artistic avant-garde to incorporate political and social movements. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 185 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD1; HBLH; HBLW; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230101
- ISBN
- 9780230230101
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.40
€ 66.40
Poland and European Integration: The Ideas and Movements of Polish Exi...
Lane, Thomas, Wolanski, Marian
Hardcover. Today's Euroscepticism contrasts sharply with the idealism of the thousands of Poles thrust out of their country after 1939 by war, occupation and communism. How could a future Poland find security and progress, but by membership in a union of European states? This book explores how Poles in exile attempted to shape opinion in Poland and the West. Num Pages: 319 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW; JFSL; JPSN2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 146 x 22. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229372
- ISBN
- 9780230229372
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.75
€ 128.75
Hardcover. This book is about the emigration, film careers and socio-cultural influence of British filmmakers moving to Hollywood in the studio era. It deals with some of the unknown and neglected emigres, as well as the leading lights who founded, initiated and ensured that American film became the leading national cinema of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JJ; APFA; APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376. British Filmmakers in American Cinema 1910-1969. 216 pages, 11. This book is about the emigration, film careers and socio-cultural influence of British filmmakers moving to Hollywood in the studio era. It deals with some of the unknown and neglected emigres, as well as the leading lights who founded, initiated and ensured that American film became the leading national cinema of the twentieth century. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JJ; APFA; APFB. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 18. Weight: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229235
- ISBN
- 9780230229235
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardcover. This innovative urban history of Dublin explores the symbols and spaces of the Irish capital between the Restoration in 1660 and the advent of neoclassical public architecture in the 1770s. The meanings ascribed to statues, churches, houses, and public buildings are traced in detail, using a wide range of visual and written sources. Series: Early Modern History: Society and Culture. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JD; 3JF; AMX; HBJD1; HBTB; HRCC9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230223899
- ISBN
- 9780230223899
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.23
€ 139.23
Hardcover. The late Victorian period witnessed the remarkable revival of magical practice and belief. Butler examines the individuals, institutions and literature associated with this revival and demonstrates how Victorian occultism provided an alternative to the tightening camps of science and religion in a social environment that nurtured magical beliefs. Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HRQX2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230223394
- ISBN
- 9780230223394
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.73
€ 160.73
Hardcover. An exploration of headhunting and the collection of heads for European museums in the context of colonial wars, from the 1870s to the 1930s. The book offers a new understanding of the mutually dependent interaction between indigenous peoples and colonial powers, and how collected remains became regarded as objects of wider significance. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 356 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FMNT; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230222052
- ISBN
- 9780230222052
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 183.87
€ 183.87
Hardcover. Andrew Dilley offers a major new study of financial dependence, examining the connections this dependence forged between the City and political life in Edwardian Australia and Canada, mediated by ideas of political economy. In doing so he reconstructs the occasionally imperialistic politic of finance which pervaded the British World at this time. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 1KBC; 1MBF; 1QFC; 3JJC; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230222038
- ISBN
- 9780230222038
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.60
€ 67.60
Hardcover. A fascinating anthology of narratives from the period 1735-1830, by European women who recount their enslavement in North Africa. The first such collection, it includes an extensive introduction which links the discourse on contemporary Western women captives in Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq with that of former white captives in North Africa. Num Pages: 321 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HB; 3JF; 3JH; HBJH; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 224 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230221987
- ISBN
- 9780230221987
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 142.57€ 136.94
€ 142.57
€ 136.94
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230221383
- ISBN
- 9780230221383
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09