Regional & national history
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Regional & national history
Paperback. This book examines the flight of young Australian writers to London in the decades before and after Federation in 1901. Peter Morton studies how their careers were shaped by shifting their country of residence, the expatriate experience, and how the loss of these expatriates affected the evolving literary culture of Australia. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSBH5; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349341993
- ISBN
- 9781349341993
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Condition: New
€ 63.86
€ 63.86
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Series in Global Public Diplomacy. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; JPA; JPS; JPSD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 353.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349342051
- ISBN
- 9781349342051
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Condition: New
€ 63.62
€ 63.62
Paperback. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJ; HBJD; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349342389
- ISBN
- 9781349342389
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Condition: New
€ 154.10
€ 154.10
Paperback. This interdisciplinary anthology highlights exiled/alienated women in literature, history, and cinema. Contributors investigate when and how women from diverse backgrounds have been relegated to the margins in order to shed light on the state of alienhood that stems from gendered otherness. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBJD; JFSJ; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 256.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 193
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349342549
- ISBN
- 9781349342549
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Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Paperback. Chinese American authors often find it necessary to represent Asian history in their literary works. Tracing the development of the literary production of Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Lisa See, and Russell Leong, among others, this book captures the effects of international politics and globalization on Chinese American diasporic consciousness. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; HBG; HBJK; JF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349342648
- ISBN
- 9781349342648
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Condition: New
€ 63.14
€ 63.14
Paperback. Series: Contemporary Black History. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBTB; JP; LAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349342808
- ISBN
- 9781349342808
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Condition: New
€ 63.71
€ 63.71
The Long Shadow of the British Empire. The Ongoing Legacies of Race an...
Juliette Bridgette Milner-Thornton
Paperback. This book explores the lived experiences of formerly colonized people in the privacy of their homes, communities, workplaces, and classrooms, and the associations created from these social interactions. It examines the centrality of gender and social identity in the formation of non-western people in the British Empire. Num Pages: 315 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBJH; HBTB; HBTQ; JHB; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 315
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349342846
- ISBN
- 9781349342846
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Condition: New
€ 122.61
€ 122.61
Paperback. The progressive raising of the school-leaving age has had momentous repercussions for our understanding of childhood and youth, for secondary education, and for social and educational inequality. This book assesses secondary education and the raising of the school-leaving age in the UK and places issues and debates in an international context. Series: Secondary Education in a Changing World. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; JNB; JNF; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349342969
- ISBN
- 9781349342969
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Condition: New
€ 50.67€ 44.83
€ 50.67
€ 44.83
Paperback. Series: The New Urban Atlantic. Num Pages: 292 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBL; HBTB; HBTQ; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349343065
- ISBN
- 9781349343065
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Condition: New
€ 64.01
€ 64.01
Paperback. Editor(s): Feerick, J; Nardizzi, V. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 303 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJD; HBL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 303
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349343089
- ISBN
- 9781349343089
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Condition: New
€ 122.61
€ 122.61
Paperback. This volume brings together experts with diverse disciplinary backgrounds in the China field, from cultural studies to history to musicology, to make a timely intervention--from the historical demise of enuchism to male cross-dressing shows in contemporary Taiwan--to inaugurate a subfield in Chinese transgender studies. Editor(s): Chiang, Howard. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; HBJF; JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349343201
- ISBN
- 9781349343201
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Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Paperback. This book explores how the cultural process of making any disease a "plague" results in discrimination against certain groups, as it has for those with AIDS in America. Gina M. Bright here captures the discrimination produced by plague-making in her analysis and her portraits of the people she has cared for with AIDS over the past quarter-century. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJK; HBL; JHB; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349343362
- ISBN
- 9781349343362
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Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Paperback. Originally published in Italian: Bologna: Il mulino, c2008. Translator(s): Giovanni Mazhar, Noor. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 209 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 275.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 209
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349343492
- ISBN
- 9781349343492
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Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Paperback. Series: Middle East Today. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; HBL; JFC; JFSJ; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 237
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349343607
- ISBN
- 9781349343607
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Paperback. 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: HBG; HBJK; HBTB; PDX; RNQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349343645
- ISBN
- 9781349343645
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Condition: New
€ 133.52
€ 133.52
Paperback. This book uses both oral and conventional historical methods to describe and analyze the history of lung transplantation in the US. While drawing on accounts from doctors and other specialists, it primarily focuses on the experiences of patients and explores themes of uncertainty, timing, identity, coping, and quality of life. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 296 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBL; HBTB; JHB; JHM; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349343669
- ISBN
- 9781349343669
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Condition: New
€ 122.95
€ 122.95
Paperback. Exploring the cultural politics of Cuba's epic military engagement in the Angolan civil war, this book narrates the transformation of Cuban national identity from Latin African to Caribbean through the experience of internationalism in Angola. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 243 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJH; JFC; JP; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 319.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349343706
- ISBN
- 9781349343706
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Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBJD1; HBJF; HBL; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349343782
- ISBN
- 9781349343782
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Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Paperback. This book traces how medicine in modern Iran was both theoretically and institutionally transformed in the 19th and 20th centuries. It explores the process by which local physicians, in a non-colonial context, assimilated the emerging "modern medicine" and the institutional devices that accommodated this transition. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; HBL; HBTB; JFC; MBX; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349343805
- ISBN
- 9781349343805
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Condition: New
€ 63.46
€ 63.46
Paperback. This volume brings together historians, economists, political scientists, and anthropologists to present a global perspective on the new forms of lending and borrowing that have become a key feature of twentieth-century mass consumer societies, emphasizing comparative and transnational historical perspectives. Editor(s): Logemann, Jan. Series: Worlds of Consumption. Num Pages: 306 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBJF; HBJK; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 306
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349343867
- ISBN
- 9781349343867
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Condition: New
€ 63.94
€ 63.94
Paperback. This volume serves up a combination of broad questions, theoretical approaches, and manifold case studies to explore how people have sought to understand markets and thereby reduce risk, whether they have approached this challenge with a practical view based on their own business acumen or used the tools of scholarship. Editor(s): Berghoff, H; Scranton, P; Spiekermann, U. Series: Worlds of Consumption. Num Pages: 321 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJD1; HBJK; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 321
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349343881
- ISBN
- 9781349343881
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Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Paperback. The Baader-Meinhof Group and other violent underground organizations have provided material to many novels by leading German and international writers. This book is the first to examine this rich literary corpus, treating it as a political unconscious which expresses submerged anxieties and moral blind-spots in Europe's most powerful country. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349343904
- ISBN
- 9781349343904
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Paperback. "Boccaccio's Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissance demonstrates that Boccaccio's puzzling masterpiece takes on organic consistency when viewed as an early modern adaptation of a pre-Christian, humanistic vision"-- Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBB; HBG; HBJD; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 199
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349343942
- ISBN
- 9781349343942
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Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Paperback. This book provides a historical narrative of the Argentine tax system in the twentieth century. It argues that the failure to build permanent trust between the state and the civil society and the unraveling of confidence within Argentine society itself account for the collapse of the progressive tax system. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; JFC; JPA; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 259
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349344024
- ISBN
- 9781349344024
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.57
€ 63.57