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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

Hardback. The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England analyzes the long overlooked role of gift exchange in literary texts and cultural documents and provides innovative readings of how gift transactions shaped the institutions and practices that gave this era its distinctive identity. Editor(s): Klekar, Cynthia; Zionkowski, Linda. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; DSBD; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 475.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230608290
ISBN
9780230608290
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.11

hardcover. The Impact of 9/11 on Business and Economics is the second volume of the six-volume series The Day that Changed Everything? edited by Matthew J. Morgan. The series brings together from a broad spectrum of disciplines the leading thinkers of our time to reflect on one of the most significant events of our time. Editor(s): Morgan, Matthew J. Series: The Day That Changed Everything?. Num Pages: 285 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JMC; JPWL2; KC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2009th Edition
Number of pages
285
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230608375
ISBN
9780230608375
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.19

Hardback. This book presents findings of systematic research into the contested meanings of development and wellbeing from a country, Peru, which has recently experienced both rapid economic growth and deep social conflict. Editor(s): Copestake, James. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; 3JM; GTF; JFF; KCM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
285
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230608696
ISBN
9780230608696
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.67

Hardback. This book looks at the bitter factionalism in the last days of China's Ming Dynasty as an ideological struggle between scholar-officials who believed that sovereignty resided in the imperial state and those who believed that it resided with the learned gentry. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JB; 3JD; HBJF; HBLH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 425.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230611344
ISBN
9780230611344
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.77

Hardback. Malton examines the literary and cultural representation of the financial crime of forgery from the time of massive executions of forgers during the early nineteenth century to the forger's emergence as the ultimate criminal aesthete at the fin-de-siecle. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
197
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230612228
ISBN
9780230612228
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.48

Hardback. This book explores the commercial modernity of Parisian urban culture and consumer culture in the 19th century. Num Pages: 289 pages, 36 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
289
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230615830
ISBN
9780230615830
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.68

Hardback. Through an examination of the pilgrimages to China that enveloped Taiwan in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Hatfield advances anthropological understandings of conflict resolution. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; HRLF; JHMC; KNSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230616035
ISBN
9780230616035
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.25

Hardback. This book tells the story of the woman whose marriage to King Henry VII ended the Wars of the Roses and inaugurated the 118-year Tudor dynasty. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; 3JB; BGH; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
263
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230618275
ISBN
9780230618275
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.19

Hardback. Fifty years after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution and the establishment of a Marxist-Leninist regime in Cuba, the two fundamental dimensions of this historical phenomenon are the survival of the system created by Fidel Castro and the policy of the United States to terminate it. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW; HBTV; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230619265
ISBN
9780230619265
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.37
€ 47.16

Hardback. This comprehensive volume develops a lucid yet sophisticated and innovative overview of the interdisciplinary theoretical approaches to cultural taboo that have emerged in recent years. Editor(s): Horlacher, Stefan; Glomb, Stefan; Heiler, Lars. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3J; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
269
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230619906
ISBN
9780230619906
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.92

Hardback. This book recounts the rise of Kim Dae Jung from an oppressed region of Korea, beginning with his schooldays, his activities in the Korean War and his entry into politics and concluding with discussion of his Sunshine policy, his summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Il and his drive for the Nobel. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW3; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
263
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230620483
ISBN
9780230620483
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.16

hardcover. This groundbreaking book combines literary interpretation, gender analysis, and cultural, political, and diplomatic history to examine how Elizabeth I used the discourse of love to establish her political power, assert her right to marry or not, and rule the country herself either way. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 225 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2010th Edition
Number of pages
225
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230621053
ISBN
9780230621053
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.28

Paperback. Using first-person narratives collected through oral history interviews, this groundbreaking book collects black women's memories of their public and private lives during the period of legal segregation in the American South. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2010th Edition
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230621527
ISBN
9780230621527
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.20

hardcover. Using the lens of business history to contextualize the development of an American literary tradition, this book shows how African-American literature and culture greatly influenced the development of realism, which remains one of the most significant genres of writing in the United States. Num Pages: 169 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; DSBF; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Edition
2002nd Edition
Number of pages
169
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312239213
ISBN
9780312239213
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.41

hardcover. A study of literary influence at work in English writing from Hardy to Woolf. Margaret Jensen re-imagines the links between text and context as palimpsest historicizes literary influence, by taking Bloomian "anxiety" and Kristevan "intertextuality" into fields of actual history and biography. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSA; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Edition
2002nd Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312293536
ISBN
9780312293536
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.89

Paperback. This volume is centrally concerned with crucial theoretical and practical aspects of teaching in the national and global borderlands of gender, race and sexuality studies. Editor(s): Sanchez-Casal, Susan; MacDonald, Amie A. Series: Comparative Feminist Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JM; JFFK; JNA; JNM; JNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312295349
ISBN
9780312295349
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.37
€ 47.16

Hardback. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 405.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1981
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
197
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333300923
ISBN
9780333300923
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.42

Hardcover. A collection of essays on British and American maritime relationships in the 20th century together with details on the British organization of warfare, Anglo-American maritime theory, their rivalries and coalitions and their plans for dealing with a future war in the nuclear age. Series: St Antony's Series. Num Pages: 373 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBJK; HBLW; JWF; JWK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 147 x 226 x 27. Weight in Grams: 624.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333437896
ISBN
9780333437896
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.13

Hardback. Based on papers delivered at an international conference held at the University of London in 1988, this text focuses on the struggle between the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic counter-Reformation movements, and the conflicting interests of the monarchy and landed nobility. Editor(s): Evans, R. J. W.; Thomas, T.V. Num Pages: 352 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 656.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333485682
ISBN
9780333485682
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 195.04

Hardback. The 13 essays in this collection survey the work of major British and Irish novelists of the past 30 years. Topics covered include a study of the historical imagination in William Golding's later fiction, and a study of contemporary Irish women writers. Editor(s): Acheson, James. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; 2AB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
227
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333490198
ISBN
9780333490198
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 193.99

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