Modern period, c 1500 onwards
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Modern period, c 1500 onwards
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
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
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
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
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
€ 67.71
€ 67.71
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
€ 161.73
€ 161.73
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
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
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
€ 53.36€ 46.73
€ 53.36
€ 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
€ 160.44
€ 160.44
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
€ 127.45
€ 127.45
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
€ 53.36€ 46.85
€ 53.36
€ 46.85
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
€ 127.16
€ 127.16
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
€ 66.32
€ 66.32
Hardcover. Social Reform in Gothic Writing provides a transatlantic view of the politically transformative power that Gothic texts effected during the Revolutionary era (1764-1834) through providing fresh readings of canonical and non-canonical writing in a wide variety of genres. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137302670
- ISBN
- 9781137302670
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardcover. This compelling new study examines the intersection between women, religion and politics in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century in Britain. It demonstrates that what inspired Dissenting and Anglican women to political action was their concern for the survival of the Protestant religion both at home and abroad. Series: Early Modern History: Society and Culture. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 168 x 211 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137303196
- ISBN
- 9781137303196
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. Through the first comprehensive investigation and analysis of the English language trench periodicals of the First World War, The Soldiers' Press presents a cultural interpretation of the means and methods through which consent was negotiated between the trenches and the home front. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJF; HBWN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137303257
- ISBN
- 9781137303257
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardcover. This book analyzes the evolution of the Hojjatiyeh movement in Iran, a semi-clandestine movement which emerged in the 1950s as an anti-Baha'i movement, went underground in the 1960s, and re-emerged openly after Iran's 1979 revolution with its members coming to occupy some of the highest echelon posts in Iranian politics Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 3JJP; 3JMC; HRH; JPFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137304766
- ISBN
- 9781137304766
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Paperback. In a life full of momentous episodes, Theodore Roosevelt's fifteen-month post-presidential odyssey to Africa and Europe has never been given its due place. A tale of daring adventure, international celebrity, a friendship lost, and a political legacy transformed, Theodore Roosevelt Abroad is the first full account of this important time in history. Num Pages: 236 pages, 13 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1H; 1KBB; 3JJC; HBJK; HBLW; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 161 x 13. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137306395
- ISBN
- 9781137306395
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.38
€ 66.38
Hardcover. This study investigates the various extreme-rightist leagues in Algeria, with particular attention to certain key themes, among them the rabid xenophobia directed at the Jewish population and local Muslims. It demonstrates that fascism helped to construct a racial hierarchy to preserve European hegemony and a pool of cheap labor. Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HBA; 3JJG; HBJH; HBLW; HBTQ; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 139 x 221 x 23. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137307088
- ISBN
- 9781137307088
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Paperback. This volume is the first major account for nearly fifty years to critically re-assess Labour's first period in office in terms of domestic, foreign and imperial policy. It draws on a wide range of private papers and official sources and reconstructs the history of this forgotten government in the broader social and political context of the 1920s. Num Pages: 280 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JJG; HBJD1; HBLW; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137311863
- ISBN
- 9781137311863
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.32
€ 66.32
Hardcover. Focusing on the everyday behaviour of people in the late-Victorian street, this extensive study provides an alternative history of the modern city, and sheds new light on the relationship between police constables and civilians. A wealth of source material is scrutinised to explore this public interaction in the capital. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JKSW1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137320896
- ISBN
- 9781137320896
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. After excluding women and African Americans from its ranks for most of its history, the New York City Police Department undertook an aggressive campaign of integration following World War II. This is the first comprehensive account of how and why the NYPD came to see integration as a highly coveted political tool, indispensable to policing. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JKSW1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137321930
- ISBN
- 9781137321930
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95