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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

Hardcover. Martin Luther King, Jr., was not an advocate of homosexual rights, nor was he an enemy; however both sides of the debate have used his words in their arguments, including his widow, in support of gay rights, and his daughter, in rejection. This fascinating situation poses the problem that Michael G. Long seeks to address and resolve. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; JFFJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137275516
ISBN
9781137275516
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.46

Hardcover. This collection explores the current economic and political crisis in Greece and more widely in Europe. Greece is used to illustrate and exemplify the contradictions of the dominant paradigm of European modernity, the ruptures that are inherent to it, and the alternative modernity discourses that develop within Europe. Editor(s): Triandafyllidou, Anna; Gropas, Ruby. Series: Identities and Modernities in Europe. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1DVG; 3JMC; 3JMG; JHBA; JP; KCP; KCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137276247
ISBN
9781137276247
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.09

Hardcover. Niebisch retraces how the early Avant-Garde movements started out as parasites inhabiting and irritating the emerging mass media circuits of the press, cinema, and wired and wireless communication and how they aimed at creating a media ecology based on and inspired by technologies such as the radio and the photo cell. Series: Avant-Gardes in Performance. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJP; AP; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137276858
ISBN
9781137276858
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.93
€ 47.09

Hardcover. No other cinematic genre more sharply illustrates the contradictions of American society - notions about social class, politics, and socio-economic ideology - than the war film. This book examines the latest cycle of war films to reveal how they mediate and negotiate the complexities of war, class, and a military-political mission largely gone bad. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; APFA; APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137277886
ISBN
9781137277886
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.58

Hardcover. This book critically evaluates the growing body of theoretical literature on ethnic conflict and civil war, using empirical data from three major South Caucasian conflicts, evaluating the relative strengths and weaknesses of the available methodological approaches. Series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUG; 1DVUZ; 3JJPR; 3JM; HBJD; HBLX; HBWS; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137280220
ISBN
9781137280220
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.39

Paperback. Drawing on theories of sublimity, trauma, and ecocriticism, this book examines how the often sharp division between European American and African American experiences of the natural world developed in American culture and history, and how those natural experiences, in turn, shaped the construction of race. Series: Signs of Race. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137280527
ISBN
9781137280527
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 138.18

Hardcover. This powerful study offers a vivid and often disturbing account of the Italian army's occupation of Slovenia during World War II. It moves from the decision of the Italians to annex Slovenia in 1941, through local resistance and brutal reaction against civilians, to the army's ultimate collapse following Italy's defection from the Axis. Translator(s): Burke, Elizabeth; Majanlahti, Anthony. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVWYV; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137281197
ISBN
9781137281197
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.18

Paperback. This book provides a more accurate and comprehensive account of Jung's controversial opinions about art, politics, and race. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; HBTB; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
269
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137281944
ISBN
9781137281944
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.34

Paperback. The rich and fascinating oral narrative of an African American WWII fighter pilot, radio personality, and co-founder of Harlem's American Negro Theater. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBSB; 1KLCM; 3JJH; HBJK; HBTD; JFSL3; JWG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 12. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137281968
ISBN
9781137281968
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.25

Hardcover. This book argues that the early modern public/private boundary was surprisingly dynamic and flexible in early modern literature, drawing upon authors including Shakespeare, Anne Lock, Mary Wroth, and Aphra Behn, and genres including lyric poetry, drama, prose fiction, and household orders. An epilogue discusses postmodern privacy in digital media. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3J; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137282989
ISBN
9781137282989
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.78

Hardcover. The papers presented in this collection offer a wide range of cases, from Asia, Africa and the Americas, and broadly cover the last two centuries, in which commodities have led to the consolidation of a globalised economy and society - forging this out of distinctive local experiences of cultivation and production, and regional circuits of trade. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; 1H; 1K; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBJH; HBJK; HBTQ; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 218 x 21. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137283597
ISBN
9781137283597
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.18

Hardcover. This book examines the partnerships between Britain's famed redcoats and the foreign corps that were a consistent and valuable part of Britain's military endeavors in the eighteenth century. While most histories have portrayed these associations as fraught with discord, a study of eyewitness accounts tells a different story. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; 1DFG; 3JF; 3JH; HBLL; HBW; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137284006
ISBN
9781137284006
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.78

Paperback. Rabies was a constant threat in Victorian Britain and gripped popular imagination, not least because its human form, hydrophobia, produced a vile death with the mind and body out of control. This book explores the changing understanding of rabies amongst veterinarians, animal welfare campaigners, state officials, politicians and the public. Series: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 217 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
247
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137285898
ISBN
9781137285898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.18

Hardcover. This beautifully written history traces the fortunes of Charles Darwin and his contemporaries in Chile. It explains how they showed Chileans a new way to see their own natural environment, teaching a younger generation of scientists there and forging international networks that helped to shape the modern world. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 309 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; 3JH; HBTB; PDX; PS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137286055
ISBN
9781137286055
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.09

Hardcover. This book demonstrates the international dimension of eugenic racial policy and of scientific racism over the course of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBLW; HBTB; HBTZ; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 586.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
2013th Edition
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137286116
ISBN
9781137286116
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.69

Hardcover. This book applies a systems and risk perspective on international energy relations, author Per Hogselius investigates how and why governments, businesses, engineers and other actors sought to promote - and oppose- the establishment of an extensive East-West natural gas regime that seemed to overthrow the fundamental logic of the Cold War. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 292 pages, 19 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJP; JPS; KCLT; KNBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 568.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137286147
ISBN
9781137286147
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.69

Hardcover. This is a revisionist study of the literary and visual representation of the nation in the century following the formation of the British state. It argues that the most engaging accounts of Great Britain subject their imagery to sustained artistic pressure, threatening to dismantle the national vision at the moment of its construction. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137290106
ISBN
9781137290106
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.27

Hardcover. As theatres expanded in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the distance between actor and audience became a telling metaphor for the distance emerging between writers and readers. Nuss explores the ways in which theatre helped authors imagine connecting with a new mass audience. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JF; AN; DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137291400
ISBN
9781137291400
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.93
€ 46.73

Paperback. This book applies a systems and risk perspective on international energy relations, author Per Hogselius investigates how and why governments, businesses, engineers and other actors sought to promote - and oppose- the establishment of an extensive East-West natural gas regime that seemed to overthrow the fundamental logic of the Cold War. Num Pages: 294 pages, 30 figures. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJP; JPS; KCLT; KNBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137293718
ISBN
9781137293718
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 160.41

Hardcover. This study reveals the more complex reality of Early Modern Naples than what has commonly been represented, in which royal representatives in the city came to depend on the assistance of a series of merchants, financiers, and bureaucrats who shared a common identity as conversos, descendants of converted Jews. Series: Early Modern History: Society and Culture. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1DST; 1QSM; 3J; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 136 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137295149
ISBN
9781137295149
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.49

Hardcover. Looking at a century of American theatre, McDaniel investigates how race-based notions of maternal performance become sites of resistance to cultural and political hierarchies. This book considers how the construction of mothering as universally women's work obscures additional, equally constructed subdivisions based in race and class. Series: What is Theatre?. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; AN; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 220 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137299567
ISBN
9781137299567
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.93
€ 46.85

This volume aims to advance our understanding of beauty's role in modern consumer societies by bringing together fresh scholarship that addresses a common set of questions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including especially history, but also black studies, women's studies, German studies, sociology, and anthropology. Editor(s): Kuhne, Thomas. Series: Worlds of Consumption. Num Pages: 295 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBTB; JFFT; KNSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 170 x 22. Weight in Grams: 588.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
295
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137299703
ISBN
9781137299703
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.64

Hardcover. In the case City of Boerne v. Flores, the Supreme Court struck down the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993. Waltman offers the first book-length analysis of the act to show how this case contributes to an intense legal debate still ongoing today: Can and should the Supreme Court be the exclusive interpreter of the Constitution? Num Pages: 207 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; 3JM; JPVH4; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137300638
ISBN
9781137300638
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.13

Hardcover. The first comparative study to examine the role of religion in the formation of Greek and Turkish nationalisms, this book argues that the shift to an increasingly religious paradigm in both countries can be explained in terms of the exigencies of consolidation and the need to appeal to grassroots elements and account for diversity. Num Pages: 164 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 1DVT; 3J; JPB; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Number of pages
166
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137301192
ISBN
9781137301192
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.34

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