History: specific events & topics
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History: specific events & topics
Paperback. Looking at the relationship between modernity and the rise of charismatic leaders, Agnes Horvath uses 'threshold' situations to trace the conditions out of which political regimes developed. The focus on rationalism and structure has led to a systematic neglect of uncertain liminal moments, which gave new direction to societies and cultures. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBL; HBTB; HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349447411
- ISBN
- 9781349447411
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Condition: New
€ 57.97
€ 57.97
Hardcover. Studying exile and utopia as correlated cultural phenomena, and offering a wealth of historical examples with emphasis on the modern period, Spariosu argues that modernism itself can be seen as a product of an acute exilic consciousness that often seeks to generate utopian social schemes to compensate for its exacerbated sense of existential loss. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 136 x 198 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230231412
- ISBN
- 9780230231412
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Condition: New
€ 63.71
€ 63.71
Hardcover. A socio-cultural analysis of the relationship between modernism and science fiction, from the 1870s to the 1970s, with examples drawn from literature and other media in Britain, Europe and the Americas. The book challenges how high and low culture has been mapped in the twentieth century. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFN; DSBH; DSK; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 205 x 17. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230273481
- ISBN
- 9780230273481
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 100.69
€ 100.69
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230972
- ISBN
- 9780230230972
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Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardcover. Modernism is fundamentally determined by its relationship to its own notions of style: oscillating between the poles of 'pure' style and 'purely' style, this traces the stylistic self-conceptualization of modernism from Schopenhauer and Flaubert in the 1850s, through Nietzsche and the symbolists in the 1880s, to the high modernists of the 1920s. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 311 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTB; HPS; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230965
- ISBN
- 9780230230965
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.75
€ 64.75
Paperback. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBL; HBTB; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 203 x 14. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349499731
- ISBN
- 9781349499731
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Condition: New
€ 121.02
€ 121.02
Hardcover. This study of modernism's high imperial, occult-exotic affiliations presents many well-known figures from the period 1880-1960 in a new light. Modernism and the Occult traces the history of modernist engagement with 'irregular', heterodox and imported knowledge. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 178 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBTB; HRQX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 207 x 135 x 17. Weight in Grams: 314.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137465771
- ISBN
- 9781137465771
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Condition: New
€ 121.61
€ 121.61
hardcover. This study explores the rise and nature of modernist approaches to economics, sociology, international relations, administration, language, history and anthropology. Editor(s): Bevir, Mark. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: HBTB; J; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107173965
- ISBN
- 9781107173965
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Condition: New
€ 111.91
€ 111.91
Hardcover. Part of Palgrave's Modernism and.. series, Modernism and Zionism explores the relationship between modernism and the Jewish national ideology, the Zionist movement, which was operative in all areas of Jewish art and culture. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HBTB; JPFN; JPFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230290112
- ISBN
- 9780230290112
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Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Paperback. Part of Palgrave's Modernism and.. series, Modernism and Zionism explores the relationship between modernism and the Jewish national ideology, the Zionist movement, which was operative in all areas of Jewish art and culture. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HBTB; JPFN; JPFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 131 x 13. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230290129
- ISBN
- 9780230290129
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Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Paperback. aeo A clear and wide--ranging analysis of modernity and the a moderna from the perspective of geography. aeo Argues that there are three a prime modernitiesa which have been defined by the development of the modern world: from mercantile modernity to industrial modernity and then to todaya s consumer modernity. Num Pages: 168 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HBTP; JH; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745621302
- ISBN
- 9780745621302
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Condition: New
€ 22.94
€ 22.94
Paperback. Joseph De Sapio examines how individuals not only understood their contacts with industrial modernity as distinct from the inherited traditional rhythms of the eighteenth century, but how they conceived of their own positions within the increasingly sophisticated political, social, and commercial paradigms of the Victorian years. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 209
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349488148
- ISBN
- 9781349488148
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.19
€ 63.19
Hardcover. Joseph De Sapio examines how individuals not only understood their contacts with industrial modernity as distinct from the inherited traditional rhythms of the eighteenth century, but how they conceived of their own positions within the increasingly sophisticated political, social, and commercial paradigms of the Victorian years. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137407207
- ISBN
- 9781137407207
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.09
€ 64.09
Paperback. New in paperback, this book, is likely to be adopted on many courses covering the Holocaust. A unique but disturbing book - winner of the 1989 European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences. The hardback received enormous acclaim. Zygmunt Bauman is one of the world's leading social theorists. Num Pages: 238 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTZ1; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 238
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745609300
- ISBN
- 9780745609300
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.43
€ 24.43
Paperback. This book looks at representations of the male body, sexuality and power in the arts in Mexico. It analyses literature, visual art and cinema produced from the 1870s to the present, focusing on the Porfirian regime, the Post-revolutionary era, the decadence of the revolutionary state and the emergence of the neo-liberal order in the 1980s. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 189 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFC; JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 189
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349369980
- ISBN
- 9781349369980
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Condition: New
€ 63.16
€ 63.16
Paperback. Bringing together the latest research on the neglected area of second-hand exchange and consumption, this bookoffers fresh insights into the buying and selling of used goods in western-Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and seeks to re-examine and redefine the relationship between modernity and the second-hand trade." Editor(s): Van Damme, Ilja. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349310869
- ISBN
- 9781349310869
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.86
€ 63.86
Hardcover. Bringing together the latest research on the neglected area of second-hand exchange and consumption, this book offers fresh insights into the buying and selling of used goods in western-Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and seeks to re-examine and redefine the relationship between modernity and the second-hand trade. Editor(s): Stobart, Dr. Jon; Van Damme, Ilja. Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; JFFT; KCZ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229464
- ISBN
- 9780230229464
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Condition: New
€ 65.10
€ 65.10
Paperback. A study of the ways that knowledge of the slave revolt in Haiti was denied/repressed/disavowed within the network of slave-owning states and plantation societies of the New World, and the effects and meaning of this disavowal Num Pages: 384 pages, 10 illus., 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KJH; HBJK; HBLH; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 24. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822332909
- ISBN
- 9780822332909
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 32.38
€ 35.99
€ 32.38
Hardback. Education, in all its varied forms, has played a leading role in fostering change in Latin American society. This work examines how education has influenced the history of Latin America, from the schools of the nineteenth century onwards. It is suitable for historians, Latin Americanists, and comparative education scholars. Editor(s): Britton, John A. Series: Jaguar Books on Latin America. Num Pages: 248 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780842024891
- ISBN
- 9780842024891
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 148.97
€ 148.97
Paperback. Education, in all its varied forms, has played a leading role in fostering change in Latin American society. This work examines how education has influenced the history of Latin America, from the schools of the nineteenth century onwards. It is suitable for historians, Latin Americanists, and comparative education scholars. Editor(s): Britton, John A. Series: Jaguar Books on Latin America. Num Pages: 248 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 164 x 15. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780842024907
- ISBN
- 9780842024907
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.45
€ 57.45
Hardcover. Exploring such topics as maternal caregiving, childbirth, and women's political roles, this title deals with the groups that challenged older ideals of motherhood, including male critics who railed against female moral authority, psychological experts who hoped to expand their influence, and women who wished to be more than wives and mothers. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBTB; JFSJ1; JHBK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226670201
- ISBN
- 9780226670201
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.21€ 77.49
€ 93.21
€ 77.49
Paperback. By the 1940s, the idealization of motherhood had waned, and the American mothers found themselves blamed for a host of societal and psychological ills. This title traces this important shift by exploring the evolution of maternalist politics, changing perceptions of the mother-child bond, and the rise of new approaches to childbirth and suffering. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226670225
- ISBN
- 9780226670225
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 22.64
€ 27.99
€ 22.64
Hardcover. The true story of the Mona Lisa - the people behind it, how Leonardo painted it and what it meant to him, and its fortunes in the centuries since. Read this book and the world's most famous image will never look the same again. Num Pages: 288 pages, 66 Colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JB; ACND; AFC; AGB; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198749905
- ISBN
- 9780198749905
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.14
€ 36.99
€ 26.14
Hardcover. Brenda Ralph Lewis presents an informative overview of how kings and queens came about and of the many forces that have shaped the identity of monarchy and in many cases caused its downfall. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTG; JPHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Publisher
- Sutton Pub Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750929738
- ISBN
- 9780750929738
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.27
€ 26.99
€ 23.27