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General & world history
Hardcover. The greatest threat to Western unity in the 1960s came not from a communist enemy but from an ally: France. De Gaulle challenged the dominance of the US by bringing crises to the EEC and NATO and seeking detente with the Soviet bloc. As this book shows, the US and Britain cooperated successfully to ensure that his plans did not prosper. Series: Global Conflict and Security Since 1945. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBG; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 475.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230522176
- ISBN
- 9780230522176
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Paperback. The idea of an Aryan race became an important feature of imperial culture in the nineteenth century, feeding into debates in Britain, Ireland, India, and the Pacific. This work traces the emergence and dissemination of Aryanism within the British Empire. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDB; HBG; HBJD1; HBJF; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230507036
- ISBN
- 9780230507036
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 121.99
€ 121.99
Hardcover. This study explores two categories-empire and citizenship-that historians usually study separately. It does so with a unifying focus on racialization in the lives of outstanding women whose careers crossed national borders between 1880 and 1965. It puts an individual, intellectual, and female face on transnational phenomena. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 283 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338777
- ISBN
- 9780230338777
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.01
€ 65.01
Frigidity: An Intellectual History (Genders and Sexualities in History...
Cryle, Peter, Moore, Alison
Hardcover. This first major study of a curiously neglected term in the history of sexuality will intrigue students, scholars and enthusiasts alike. The authors take us through a journey across four centuries, showing how notions of sexual coldness and frigidity have been thought about by legal, medical, psychiatric, psychoanalytic and literary writers. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 323 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JHBK5; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 144 x 24. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230303454
- ISBN
- 9780230303454
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.66
€ 123.66
Paperback. Challenging the standard narrative, this account, updated for the paperback edition, establishes the causal relationship between the global political and economic crises of the interwar period, and offers a new look at the role of ideology, racism and the leading liberal powers in the events between the First and Second World Wars. Num Pages: 622 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJG; HBG; HBJD; HBLW; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 35. Weight in Grams: 938.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 622
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230302433
- ISBN
- 9780230302433
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.42
€ 66.42
Paperback. The Historiography of Genocide is an indispensable guide to the development of the emerging discipline of genocide studies and the only available assessment of the historical literature pertaining to genocides. Editor(s): Stone, Dan. Num Pages: 656 pages, 3 black & white tables, 4 charts, 8 graphs. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1000.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 656
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230279551
- ISBN
- 9780230279551
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 135.84
€ 135.84
Hardcover. Decolonization changed the spatial order of the globe, the imagination of men and women around the world and established images of the globe. Both individuals and social groups shaped decolonization itself: this volume puts agency squarely at the centre of debate by looking at elites and leaders who changed the course of history across the world. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 311 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230243699
- ISBN
- 9780230243699
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.28
€ 65.28
Hardcover. The first study of the depictions of the Ancient World on the Victorian and Edwardian stage, this book analyzes plays set in and dramatising the histories of Greece, Rome, Egypt, Babylon and the Holy Land. In doing so, it seeks to locate theatre within the wider culture, tracing its links and interaction with other cultural forms. Num Pages: 278 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSG; HBG; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229365
- ISBN
- 9780230229365
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.49
€ 64.49
Hardcover. Shows the role of historians in making 'Dominion' status, which combined autonomy with unity and provided the peaceful route by which Canada, Australia and New Zealand gained their independence within the British Commmonwealth of Nations, while South Africa, the Irish Free State and India, also Dominions, chose to become republics. Num Pages: 393 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBG; HBJD1; HBLW. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 221 x 137 x 27. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 394
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230227811
- ISBN
- 9780230227811
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.28
€ 124.28
Books Without Borders, Volume 1: The Cross-National Dimension in Print...
Fraser, Robert, Hammond, Mary
Hardcover. Where does the book belong? Does it enshrine the soul of a nation, or is it a means by which nations talk to one another, sharing ideas, technologies, texts? This book, the first in a two-volume set of original essays, responds to these questions with archive-based case studies of print culture in a number of countries around the world. Num Pages: 225 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230210295
- ISBN
- 9780230210295
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.06
€ 64.06
Paperback. Written by a senior Indian diplomat, this book provides a unique and far-reaching exploration of the British Commonwealth and its impact since the Second World War on Britain's adjustment to a world without Empire. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFC; HBG; HBJD1; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 217 x 11. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 199
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230203679
- ISBN
- 9780230203679
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.41
€ 68.41
Hardcover. This volume offers a new cultural and political history of the idea of the nation. Situating the history of international politics and the idea of the nation in the history of psychology, it reveals the popularity and political importance of a transnational discourse of the psychology of nations that had taken shape in the previous half-century. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBLW; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230007178
- ISBN
- 9780230007178
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.11
€ 64.11
Hardcover. A neglected aspect of Byzantium, physical beauty appears as a quality with an unmistakable dark side, relating ambiguously to notions of power, goodness, evil, masculinity, effeminacy, life and death. Examined as an attribute of the human and, in particular, of the male body, this study of beauty refines our understanding of the Byzantine world. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ACK; HBG; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230007154
- ISBN
- 9780230007154
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.43
€ 64.43
Hardcover. This book provides an insight to the cultural work involved in violence at sea in this period of maritime history. It is the first to consider how 'piracy' and representations of 'pirates' both shape and were shaped by political, social and religious debates, showing how attitudes to 'piracy' and violence at sea were debated between 1550 and 1650. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; HBG; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230003279
- ISBN
- 9780230003279
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Paperback. Includes a collection of essays that illuminate those problems we've faced over and over and the common threads that have stumped us for centuries. With more than 35 chapters of the Groundhog Days of world history, both infamous and obscure, this book is full of trivia, history, and looks at the world's repeated mistakes. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- William Morrow Paperbacks
- Edition
- Original
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780062069061
- ISBN
- 9780062069061
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.33
€ 17.99
€ 16.33
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 8-pg B&W photo section. BIC Classification: 2AB; BTM; HBG; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 136 x 11. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Zondervan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007118489
- ISBN
- 9780007118489
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.00
€ 19.99
€ 18.00
paperback. Num Pages: 325 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JMU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 18. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 325
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780375713897
- ISBN
- 9780375713897
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.04
€ 16.99
€ 16.04
Hardcover. In this, his third volume on the history of political ideas, Vogelin continues his exploration of political thought, illuminating the great figures of the high Middle Ages and particulary focusing on the "civilizational schism" which resulted in the disappearance of the "sacrum imperium". Series: Collected Works of Eric Voegelin. Num Pages: 304 pages, index. BIC Classification: 3H; HBG; HBLC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 694.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Missouri
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826211545
- ISBN
- 9780826211545
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.16
€ 83.16
Illustrating Empire: A Visual History of British Imperialism (The Bodl...
Ashley Jackson & David Tomkins
paperback. Illustrating Empire tells the history of the British Empire through the ephemeral images used to promote, record, and celebrate its development. The narrative is told through more than 200 striking and original images accompanied by illuminating story captions which unlock the history and meaning behind the illustrations. Series: Visual History from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera. Num Pages: 224 pages, 228 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDB; HBG; HBTQ; WCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 213 x 21. Weight in Grams: 886.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Bodleian Library
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781851243341
- ISBN
- 9781851243341
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 17.04
€ 29.99
€ 17.04
paperback. This is the first book-length study wholly devoted to assessing the array of ties between Scotland and the Caribbean that bound the Atlantic World together in the later eighteenth century. Series Editor(s): Thompson, Andrew; MacKenzie, John. Series: Studies in Imperialism. Num Pages: 264 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780719071836
- ISBN
- 9780719071836
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 20.21
€ 29.99
€ 20.21