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Hardcover. The atomic age was described as one that might soon end in the destruction of human civilization, but from the beginning, utopian images were attached to it as well. This book compares representations of nuclear power in popular media from around the world to to trace divergences, convergences, and exchanges. Editor(s): Van Lente, Dick. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 290 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBG; HBLW3; PDR; RNQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230340909
ISBN
9780230340909
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.48

Hardcover. The balance of power is one of the most influential ideas in international relations, yet it has never been comprehensively examined in pre-modern or non-European contexts. This book redresses this imbalance. The authors present eight new case studies of balancing and balancing failure in pre-modern and non-European international systems. Editor(s): Kaufman, Stuart J.; Little, Richard; Wohlforth, William C. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; JFFS; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230507104
ISBN
9780230507104
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.87

Hardcover. Drugs and Empires introduces new research that re-evaluates the relationship between intoxicants and empires in the modern world. It re-examines controversies about such issues as the Asian opium trade or the sale of alcohol in Africa and addresses new areas of research, including the impact of imperial drugs profits on American history. Editor(s): Mills, James; Barton, Patricia. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLH; HBLL; HBLW; JKVG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 146 x 226 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230516519
ISBN
9780230516519
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.64

Hardcover. The legacy of defeat in war reverberates through private and collective memory and remains a sub-text in international relations and political discourse. This book examines the manner in which a series of military defeats have been understood and remembered by individuals and societies in the era of modern industrialised warfare. Editor(s): MacLeod, Jenny. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 166 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230517400
ISBN
9780230517400
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.43

Hardcover. Children and Sexuality probes the hidden relations between children and sexuality in case studies from the Greeks to the Great War. The lives reconstructed here extend from Greek Alcibiades to Lewis Carroll and Baden-Powell, each recounted with scrupulous vigilance to detail and nuance. Editor(s): Rousseau, Professor George S. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood. Num Pages: 389 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 636.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230525269
ISBN
9780230525269
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.83

Hardcover. A fascinating glimpse into the history of sexual perversions and diversions including fetishism, cross-dressing, 'effeminate' men and 'masculinized' women, sodomy, tribadism, masturbation, necrophilia, rape, paedophilia, flagellation, and sado-masochism, asking how these sexual inclinations were viewed at a particular time in history. Editor(s): Peakman, Julie. Num Pages: 305 pages, 24 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLL; HBTB; JHBK5; JMU. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230555105
ISBN
9780230555105
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.73

Hardcover. Explores the uncalculated and incalculable elements in historical re-enactment - unexpected emotions, unplanned developments - and locates them in countries where settlers were trying to establish national identities derived from metropolitan cultures inevitably affected by the land itself and the people who had been there before them. Editor(s): Agnew, Vanessa; Lamb, Jonathan. Series: Re-Enactment History. Num Pages: 352 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ASZ; HBG; HBLL; HBTB; JFS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 532.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230576063
ISBN
9780230576063
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.39

Hardcover. This collection seeks to move noncombatant perspectives to center stage, acknowledging their importance, destabilizing the primacy of the combatant, and explaining or undermining the staging of warfare as a singular and acontextual production. Editor(s): Abbenhuis, Maartje M.; Buttsworth, Sara. Num Pages: 240 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW; JW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230612662
ISBN
9780230612662
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.31

Hardcover. Provides a comparative assessment of executive-congressional relations and the arms control treaty ratification process. A team of historians, political scientists and policy analysts looks at seven case studies - from Versailles to the INF Treaty. Editor(s): Krepon, Michael; Caldwell, Dan. Num Pages: 494 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW; JPSF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 40. Weight in Grams: 694.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312066048
ISBN
9780312066048
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.08
€ 86.70

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333630419
ISBN
9780333630419
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 186.55

Hardcover. The abolition of slavery across large parts of the world was one of the most significant transformations in the nineteenth century, shaping economies, societies, and political institutions. This book shows how the international context was essential in shaping the abolition of slavery. Editor(s): Mulligan, William; Bric, Maurice J. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBG; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137032591
ISBN
9781137032591
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.09

Hardcover. This groundbreaking volume examines the transnational dimensions of Black Power - how Black Power thinkers and activists drew on foreign movements and vice versa how individuals and groups in other parts of the world interpreted 'Black Power,' from African liberation movements to anti-caste agitation in India to indigenous protests in New Zealand. Editor(s): Slate, Nico. Series: Contemporary Black History. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 477.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137285058
ISBN
9781137285058
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.36

Paperback. This groundbreaking volume examines the transnational dimensions of Black Power - how Black Power thinkers and activists drew on foreign movements and vice versa how individuals and groups in other parts of the world interpreted 'Black Power,' from African liberation movements to anti-caste agitation in India to indigenous protests in New Zealand. Editor(s): Slate, Nico. Series: Contemporary Black History. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 13. Weight in Grams: 362.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
y First edition
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137285065
ISBN
9781137285065
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 143.82

Hardcover. Mass Dictatorship and Modernity is the second volume in the 'Mass Dictatorship' series. A transnational, academic research venture, it interrogates mass dictatorship in a broad historical context, focusing on the emergence of modernity through interactions of center and periphery, empire and colony, and democracy and dictatorship on a global scale. Editor(s): Kim, Michael; Schoenhals, Michael; Kim, Yong-Woo. Series: Mass Dictatorship in the Twentieth Century. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBG; HBLW; HBTB; JPHX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 216 x 23. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137304322
ISBN
9781137304322
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.19

Hardcover. This book explains the causes and consequences of the intersection of two transformative global forces - trade and conflict - since 1500. The nine historical case studies - interspersed over 500 years and spanning the globe - make a major historical contribution to the enduring debate about whether trade makes peace more likely. Editor(s): Coppolaro, Lucia; McKenzie, Francine. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3J; GTJ; HBG; HBTK; KCLT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137326829
ISBN
9781137326829
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.18

Hardcover. This groundbreaking collection explores the key roles that Mediterranean queens played as wives, as mothers, and above all as political actors. Ranging from Byzantine empresses to regnants and consorts in the Italian peninsula, they offer a bracing new perspective queenship in the medieval and Early Modern eras. Editor(s): Woodacre, Elena. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QRM; HBG; HBLC1; HBLH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137362827
ISBN
9781137362827
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 143.82

Hardcover. This rich and varied collection of essays by scholars and interviews with artists approaches the fraught topic of book destruction from a new angle, setting out an alternative history of the cutting, burning, pulping, defacing and tearing of books from the medieval period to our own age. Editor(s): Smyth, Adam; Partington, Gillian. Series: New Directions in Book History. Num Pages: 232 pages, 22 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137367655
ISBN
9781137367655
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.47

Hardcover. Despite the claims of Steven Pinker and others, violence has remained a historical constant since the Enlightenment, even though its forms and visibility have been radically transformed. Accordingly, the studies gathered here recast debate over violence in modern societies by undermining teleological and reassuring narratives of progress. Editor(s): Martschukat, Jurgen; Niedermeier, Silvan. Num Pages: 318 pages, 21 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 518.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137378682
ISBN
9781137378682
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.47

Hardcover. The book brings together original, state-of-the-art historical research from several continents and examines how mainly local peasant societies responded to colonial pressures to produce a range of different commodities. It offers new directions in the study of African, Asian, Caribbean, and Latin American societies. Editor(s): Hazareesingh, Sandip; Maat, Harro. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 232 pages, 10 figures, 4 tables. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137381095
ISBN
9781137381095
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.63

Hardcover. This book explores centuries of power relations and imperial and civilizing rhetorics, overarching themes highlighted in these infrequently heard accounts by eastern travelers to the West. Considered in depth are evolutions in mental frameworks and practices that led to the emergence of anticolonial consciousness and strategies of protest. Editor(s): Richards, Anne Rypstat, PhD; Omidvar, Iraj. Series: Postcolonialism and Religions. Num Pages: 326 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 216 x 24. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137405012
ISBN
9781137405012
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.91

Hardcover. This collection explores the ways in which traumatic experience becomes a part of public memory. It explores the premise that traumatic events are realities; they happen in the world, not in the fantasy life of individuals or in the narrative frames of our televisions and cinemas. Editor(s): Goodall, Jane; Lee, Christopher. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JFFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137406798
ISBN
9781137406798
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.35

Hardcover. Childhood, Youth and Emotions in Modern History is the first book to innovatively combine the history of childhood and youth with the history of emotions, combining multiple national, colonial, and global perspectives. Editor(s): Olsen, Stephanie. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions. Num Pages: 280 pages, 10 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: GTJ; HBG; JFSP1; JMQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137484833
ISBN
9781137484833
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.65

Hardcover. This is a lively and erudite collection, unusual in an especially appealing way: not only are there essays about a range of queens and how they were represented in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, but the book contains modern poetry and short plays about these same queens, allowing a multi-faceted way of understanding and appreciating them. Editor(s): Levin, Carole. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DQ; DSB; HBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 23. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137534897
ISBN
9781137534897
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.73

Hardcover. This interdisciplinary work presents essays on disease and medicine in the Indian Ocean World, spanning over a millennium. It is the first work on medical history in the region. Themes include medical theory, concepts of fertility, material culture, healing, diplomacy, and colonialism, public health, slavery, migrant labour, and medicine. Editor(s): Winterbottom, Anna; Tesfaye, Facil. Series: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HS; 3H; 3JB; HBG; HBLC1; HBLH; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137567604
ISBN
9781137567604
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.45

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