History: earliest times to present day
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History: earliest times to present day
Hardcover. Analyses the workers attraction to mining from agriculture, their concepts of 'order and progress', and how they shaped their lives rather than becoming mere victims of colonialism. This study is intended for scholars, students, and general audiences interested in additional views of colonialism, modernization, and diversified economies. Num Pages: 274 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KLSG; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115897
- ISBN
- 9780230115897
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.10
€ 65.10
The Establishment Responds. Power, Politics, and Protest Since 1945.
. Ed(S): Fahlenbrach, Kathrin; Klimke, Martin...
Paperback. This volume fills this gap by examining the many ways in which political parties, the business world, foreign policymakers, and the intelligence community experienced, confronted, and even actively contributed to domestic and transnational forms of dissent. Editor(s): Fahlenbrach, Kathrin; Klimke, Martin; Scharloth, Joachim; Wong, Laura. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 261 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJP; HBLW3; HBTB; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114999
- ISBN
- 9780230114999
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Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardcover. Examines how the difference between monogenist and polygenist accounts of the origin of the human race was reflected in, and helped to shape, Scottish Enlightenment accounts of society's progress through historical stages. Reveals how concepts of race and the role of women were treated by historians, philosophers, and other thinkers. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114913
- ISBN
- 9780230114913
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Condition: New
€ 144.16
€ 144.16
Paperback. Negin Nabavi brings together essays written by experts and scholars that shed light on the many transformations that Iran has experienced in the thirty years under the Islamic Republic and speculate on the import of the developments of 2009 and beyond. Editor(s): Nabavi, Negin. Num Pages: 201 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJF1; HBLW3; HBLX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 4. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114692
- ISBN
- 9780230114692
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Condition: New
€ 63.46
€ 63.46
Hardcover. This study of the female members of the Order or Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem in the High Middle Ages analyses their presence in the context of female monasticism and compares their position to the position of women in other religious military orders. Introducing questions of gender into the history of the military orders. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3H; HBLC1; HBWC; HRCX8; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114135
- ISBN
- 9780230114135
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Condition: New
€ 143.79
€ 143.79
Hardcover. An examination of the collaboration between Egyptian and Indian nationalists against the British Empire, this book argues that the basis for Third World or Non-Aligned Movement was formed long before the Cold War. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1HBE; 1QDB; 3JJ; HBLW; HBTQ; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113640
- ISBN
- 9780230113640
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Condition: New
€ 64.26
€ 64.26
Paperback. Chronicling over forty years of changes in African-American popular culture, the Regal Theatre (1928-1968) was the largest movie-stage-show venue ever constructed for a Black community. Semmes reveals the political, economic and business realities of cultural production and the institutional inequalities that circumscribed Black life. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KB; AN; HBJK; HBLW; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113152
- ISBN
- 9780230113152
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.67€ 44.97
€ 50.67
€ 44.97
Hardcover. This book is an innovative study offering the first examination of how three fourteenth-century English queens, Margaret of France, Isabella of France, and Philippa of Hainault, exercised power and authority. It frames its analysis around four major themes: gender; status; the concept of the crown; and power and authority. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112858
- ISBN
- 9780230112858
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 143.90
€ 143.90
Hardcover. This interdisciplinary volume addresses the consequences of the fall of the Berlin Wall, from the revitalizing effect it had on Germany to the new challenges of integrating socially and politically old and new minorities, and forming a new European identity. It also considers how the fall was represented by the media. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 272 pages, 22 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJPR; 3JMC; HBJD; HBLW3; HBLX; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112162
- ISBN
- 9780230112162
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.61
€ 64.61
Hardcover. A look at the extensive inequality and individualism in Prince George's County, Maryland, and the wider tobacco south, this book draws on colonial historiography to take a groundbreaking approach and examines the profound impacts of the structure of the international tobacco trade on local life. Series: The Americas in the Early Modern Atlantic World. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTK; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230111899
- ISBN
- 9780230111899
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Condition: New
€ 64.03
€ 64.03
Hardcover. A fresh perspective on the history of Russian liberalism through the life and work of Alexander Kunitsyn, a teacher and philosopher of natural law, whose academic and journalistic writings contributed to the dissemination of Western liberal thought among the Russian public. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 151 x 26. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230111738
- ISBN
- 9780230111738
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Hardcover. A study of medieval attitudes towards the ventriloquism of God's and Christ's voices through human media, which reveals a progression from an orthodox view of divine vocal power to an anxiety over the authority of the priest's voice to a subversive take on the divine voice that foreshadows Protestant devotion. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; HBLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108998
- ISBN
- 9780230108998
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.35
€ 64.35
Hardcover. This book provides a significant history of Italy's brutal occupation of Libya. Using the lens of the life of the iconic resistance fighter Mohamed Fekini, it tells the story of Libya under Ottoman and Italian rule from the point of view of the colonized. Translator(s): Shugaar, Antony. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1HBL; 3JJ; HBJH; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108868
- ISBN
- 9780230108868
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.18
€ 64.18
Hardcover. Through his writings, the leading East India Company servant, Sir John Malcolm helped to shape the historical thought of British empire-building in India. This book uses his works to examine the intellectual history of British expansion in South Asia, and shed light on the history of orientalism and indirect rule and the formation of British power. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1QDB; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108851
- ISBN
- 9780230108851
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.41
€ 64.41
Paperback. This volume provides an introduction to the history of the Soviet armed forces from 1917 to 1991. The authors highlight the many facets of the Cold War, including the rise of the Soviet Navy after the Great Patriotic War and the collapse of the Soviet Union which marks its twentieth anniversary in 2011. Editor(s): Higham, Robin; Kagan, Frederick W. Num Pages: 336 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 22. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108394
- ISBN
- 9780230108394
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 95.98
€ 95.98
Paperback. In 1804 French Saint-Domingue became the independent nation of Haiti after the only successful slave uprising in world history. Before Haiti explains the origins of this free colored class, exposes the ways its members both supported and challenged slavery, and examines how they created their own New World identity from 1760 to 1804. Series: Americas in the Early Modern Atlantic World. Num Pages: 407 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJH; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTR; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 159 x 26. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 410
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108370
- ISBN
- 9780230108370
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 92.14€ 77.94
€ 92.14
€ 77.94
Hardcover. An interpretative history of the emergence and consolidation of the modern state in Jordan, this book examines the resilience of the Hashemite monarchy and the economic sources of social power under Ottoman, British, and post-colonial Hashemite rule. Series: Middle East Today. Num Pages: 224 pages, 6 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1FBJ; HBJF; HBLW3; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108011
- ISBN
- 9780230108011
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.93
€ 132.93
Hardcover. Drawing on his knowledge of the technical aspects of civil aviation, Alan P. Dobson's history of the international aviation system, from 1945 to the present day, stresses the hitherto unacknowledged role Franklin D. Roosevelt played in implementing the principles that came to govern the entire global aviation system. Series: The World of the Roosevelt's. Num Pages: 291 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; KNGV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 207 x 23. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230106666
- ISBN
- 9780230106666
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.61
€ 64.61
Paperback. This book offers a social and cultural history of American culture in the formative years of the twentieth century, examining forms such as vaudeville, early film, popular songs, modernist art, and many others in the context of contemporary social changes. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360. A Social History, 1900-1920. 264 pages, illustrations. This book offers a social and cultural history of American culture in the formative years of the twentieth century, examining forms such as vaudeville, early film, popular songs, modernist art, and many others in the context of contemporary social changes. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB. Dimension: 218 x 141 x 17. Weight: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230105843
- ISBN
- 9780230105843
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.63
€ 63.63
Hardcover. This is the first book-length study of the French Caribbean presence in Africa, and serves as a unique contribution to the field of African Diaspora and Colonial studies. By using administrative records, newspapers, and interviews, it explores the French Caribbean presence in the colonial administration in Africa before World War II. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJH; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230105447
- ISBN
- 9780230105447
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.98
€ 63.98