Modern period, c 1500 onwards
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Modern period, c 1500 onwards
Hardcover. This book explores the French Enlightenment's use of cross-cultural comparisons - particularly the figures of the Chinese mandarin and American and Polynesian savage - to praise of critique aspects of European society and to draw general conclusions regarding human nature, natural law, and the rise and decline of civilizations. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill 1966
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137002532
- ISBN
- 9781137002532
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.99
€ 138.99
Hardcover. This book aims to fill some of the gaps in historical narrative about labor unions, Nigerian leftists, and decolonization during the twentieth century. It emphasizes the significance of labor union education in British decolonization, labor unionism, and British efforts at modernizing the human resources of Nigeria. Num Pages: 196 pages, 4 black & white tables, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; 3JJP; HBJH; HBLW3; HBTR; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137003584
- ISBN
- 9781137003584
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Hardcover. This book provides a broad overview of the main features of Spanish Milan and their transformations during the 16th and 17th centuries. At the same time, it addresses an important and long-lasting historiographical debate that traditionally interpreted the Spanish period as one of decline for Italian cities in general and Milan in particular. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1DST; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137003829
- ISBN
- 9781137003829
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.78
€ 127.78
Hardcover. This book explores the discourse and practice of anti-racism in the first two decades following World War II, uncovering the ways scientific and cultural discourses of 'race' continued to circulate in the early period of contemporary globalization through the lens on UNESCO. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137003836
- ISBN
- 9781137003836
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardcover. How has the media since the First Gulf War altered political analysis and how has this alteration has in turn affected socially-critical art? Colleran examines more than forty plays, many written in direct response to the 1991 war in Iraq as well as to the 9/11 attacks and the retaliatory actions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Series: What is Theatre?. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJPR; 3JM; AN; DSBH; DSG; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137006295
- ISBN
- 9781137006295
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 47.09
€ 53.36
€ 47.09
Hardcover. Of the 400,000 German-speaking Jews that escaped the Third Reich, about 16,000 ended up in Shanghai, China. This groundbreaking volume gathers 20 years of interviews with over 100 former Shanghai refugees. It offers a moving collective portrait of courage, culture shock, persistence, and enduring hope in the face of unimaginable hardships. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1FPC; 3JJH; HBJF; HBTD; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 569.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137006707
- ISBN
- 9781137006707
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 47.91
€ 53.36
€ 47.91
Paperback. Of the 400,000 German-speaking Jews that escaped the Third Reich, about 16,000 ended up in Shanghai, China. This groundbreaking volume gathers 20 years of interviews with over 100 former Shanghai refugees. It offers a moving collective portrait of courage, culture shock, persistence, and enduring hope in the face of unimaginable hardships. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1FPC; 3JJH; HBJF; HBTD; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137006714
- ISBN
- 9781137006714
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 39.54
€ 48.99
€ 39.54
Hardcover. This collection of historical essays on race develops lines of inquiry into race and social studies, such as geography, history, and vocational education. Contributors focus on the ways African Americans were excluded or included in the social education curriculum and the roles that black teachers played in crafting social education curricula. Num Pages: 242 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; JHB; JNA; JNB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137007544
- ISBN
- 9781137007544
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 47.04
€ 53.36
€ 47.04
Hardcover. Evaluating a broad selection of Mexican films produced from the early 1990s to the present, this study examines how production methods, audience demographics, and aesthetic approaches have changed throughout the past two decades and how these changes relate to the country's transitions to a democratic political system and a free-market economy. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JJPR; 3JM; APF; JP; KNTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 220 x 20. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137008060
- ISBN
- 9781137008060
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.60
€ 127.60
Hardcover. This book examines Elizabeth's correspondence with several significant rulers, analyzing how her letters were constructed, drafted and presented, the rhetorical strategies used, and the role these letters played in facilitating diplomatic relations. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; BJ; HBJD1; HBLH; JPSD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137008350
- ISBN
- 9781137008350
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.88
€ 127.88
Hardcover. Num Pages: 151 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JM; JPS; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 217 x 14. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137012364
- ISBN
- 9781137012364
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 147.86
€ 147.86
Hardcover. An exploration of the development of FDR's views in the years before he became president. Series: The World of the Roosevelt's. Num Pages: 217 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; JPHL; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137014535
- ISBN
- 9781137014535
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.77
€ 66.77
Paperback. Bringing together scholars from around the world, this first book in the Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series raises the question of how we can get away from the contemporary language of globalization, so as to identify meaningful, global ways of defining historical events and processes in the late Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBAH; HBLL; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 277
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137015235
- ISBN
- 9781137015235
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.32
€ 66.32
The Aftermath of Suffrage: Women, Gender, and Politics in Britain, 191...
Gottlieb, Julie V., Toye, Richard
Hardcover. This collection explores the aftermath of the Representation of the People Act, which gave some British women the vote. Experts examine the paths taken by both former-suffragists as well as their anti-suffragist adversaries, the practices of suffrage commemoration, and the changing priorities and formations of British feminism in this era. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBTB; JFSJ1; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 465.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137015334
- ISBN
- 9781137015334
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. Performativity and Event in 1960s Japan considers the artists and events in 1960s Japan. In response to the social upheavals of the 1960s, it shows how art interacted with society in unique and transformational ways, nterweaving arguments about the critical role of performance as an artistic medium and as a social dramaturgy. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJPK; ACXJ; AFKP; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137017376
- ISBN
- 9781137017376
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. Contributors to this volume outline how societal actors have been closely involved in European integration from the founding of the EU to the Maastricht Treaty. Based on newly accessible sources, the authors discuss the participation of political parties, business groups and civil society organizations in European polity-building and policy-making. Editor(s): Kaiser, Wolfram; Meyer, Jan-Henrik. Series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1QFE; 3JJP; JPA; JPL; JPSN2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137017642
- ISBN
- 9781137017642
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Paperback. At the end of the eighteenth century English writers probed the riddle of human consciousness and how it differed from "Being" in a divine or universal sense. In the first of two studies, now with a new Preface, Beer traces this question in work by Blake, Coleridge and Wordsworth and its impact on successors such as Keats, Byron and the Shelleys. Num Pages: 226 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 138 x 13. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137018113
- ISBN
- 9781137018113
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90
America Imagined: Explaining the United States in Nineteenth-Century E...
K?Rner, Axel, Smith, Adam I. P.
Hardcover. A wide-ranging collection looking at how the United States has historically been perceived in Europe and Latin America. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KB; 1KL; 3JH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137018977
- ISBN
- 9781137018977
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Hardcover. While serving as an introduction to ecumenical liberal Protestantism and the social gospel over the course of the twentieth-century this book also highlights certain totalitarian as well as more fundamental conservative tendencies within those movements. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTB; HRAM2; HRAX; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 143 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137019899
- ISBN
- 9781137019899
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.28
€ 67.28
Hardcover. This absorbing study of early 20th Century American Culture interprets the anarchic absurdity of slapstick movies as a form of collective anxiety dream, their fantastical images and illogical gags expressing the unconscious wishes and fears of the modern age, in a way that foreshadows the concerns of our own celebrity-obsessed consumer culture. Num Pages: 256 pages, 27 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; APFA; JFCA; JFCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 23. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137020246
- ISBN
- 9781137020246
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70