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Hardcover. Through compelling analysis of popular culture, high culture and elite designs in the years following the end of the Second World War, this book explores how Britain and its people have come to terms with the loss of prestige stemming from the decline of the British Empire. The result is a volume that offers new ideas on what it is to be 'British'. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJP; HBJD1; HBLW3; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137023827
ISBN
9781137023827
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.55

Hardcover. Placing topical debates in historical perspective, the essays by leading scholars of history, literature and political science explore issues of difference and diversity, inclusion and exclusion, and faith in relation to a variety of Christian groups, Jews and Muslims in the context of both early modern and contemporary England and America. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; 1KBB; 3J; HBTB; HR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137028037
ISBN
9781137028037
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.55

Hardcover. Despite emancipation from the evils of enslavement in 1838, most people of African origin in the British West Indian colonies continued to suffer serious material deprivation and racial oppression. This book examines the management and treatment of those who became insane, in the period until the Great War. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 295 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJK; HBTQ; JKSM; MBPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 22. Weight in Grams: 492.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137028624
ISBN
9781137028624
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.89

Hardcover. This book is the first full length history of the all-female National Federation of Women Workers (1906-21) led by the gifted and charismatic Mary Macarthur. Its focus is on the people who made up this pioneering union - the organisers, activists and members who built branches and struggled to improve the lives of Britain's working women. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBTB; JFSJ1; KCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137033536
ISBN
9781137033536
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.61

Hardcover. Kriston R. Rennie examines the origins and development of medieval papal representation by exploring the legate's wider historical, legal, diplomatic, and administrative impact on medieval European law and society. This critical study is key to understanding the growth and power of the medieval Church and papacy in the early Middle Ages. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLC1; HRAX; HRCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137264930
ISBN
9781137264930
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 143.82

Hardcover. This interdisciplinary collection explores what mobility meant, and still means, in the specific contexts of Soviet and East European socialist and post-socialist societies. Together the chapters consider diverse practices of mobility and their different contexts of power, resistance and inequality. Editor(s): Burrell, Kathy; Horschelmann, Kathrin. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DV; HBJD; JFFN; JPFF; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137267283
ISBN
9781137267283
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.61

hardcover. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137268426
ISBN
9781137268426
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.82

Hardcover. A study of the history of modern insomnia, this book explores how poets, journalists, and doctors of the Victorian period found themselves in near-universal agreement that modernity and sleep were somehow incompatible. It investigates how psychologists, philosophers and literary artists worked to articulate its causes, and its potential cures. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBTB; HPM; JMTD; MMZS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137268730
ISBN
9781137268730
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.61

Paperback. Erik Ringmar elucidates how Europeans spread "civilization" by barbarian means in the 1860 destruction of the palace of the emperor of China. Series: Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 268 pages, 14 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FPC; 3JH; HBJD; HBJF; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
2013th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137268914
ISBN
9781137268914
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.94

Hardcover. A study of riots in the urban US during the pivotal year of 1967, set within the context of the "long, hot summers." Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137269621
ISBN
9781137269621
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 143.52

Hardcover. This book examines the colonial state's approach to venereal disease and 'vice'-driven health risks in the first half of the nineteenth century. Further, it shows that these decisions had wide-ranging and often surprising consequences not simply for the army itself, but for India and the empire more broadly. Shortlisted for the 2014 Templer Award. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; HBTQ; JWT; MBX; MJCJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 185 x 219 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137270986
ISBN
9781137270986
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.55

Hardcover. Setting education in its political context, this book offers a history of good intentions, ranging from the birth of modern schooling and modern examination, to the rise (and fall) of meritocracy. In challenging all that is well-intentioned in education, this book reveals how our educational commitments are always underwritten by violence. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JNA; JNL; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 224 x 23. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137272850
ISBN
9781137272850
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.19

Hardcover. This book examines how the war crime legacy resulting from the Yugoslav war of the 1990s on political and military transformation in Serbia was an impediment to security reform, democratization and the achievement of Western standards in the Belgrade armed forces. Series: New Security Challenges. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBWS; JPHV; JWKF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137276131
ISBN
9781137276131
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.31

Hardcover. During the era of the French revolution, patriots across Europe tried to introduce a national uniform. This book, the first comparative study of national uniform schemes, discusses case studies from Austria, Bulgaria, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Turkey the United States, and Wales. Num Pages: 320 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; HBJD; HBTB; JFCK; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137277138
ISBN
9781137277138
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.03

Paperback. Holocaust as Fiction seeks to explain and critically evaluate the extraordinary success of Schlink's internationally acclaimed novel, The Reader, the widely read 'Selb' detective trilogy, and two popular films based closely on his work. Num Pages: 268 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2ACG; APF; DSBH; DSK; HBTZ1; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 170 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137277633
ISBN
9781137277633
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 111.61

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
600
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137280855
ISBN
9781137280855
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 190.24

Hardcover. This book provides an important study of a short-lived government making foreign policy in the shadow of an impending general election. It considers Britain's relations with the United States, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JJPK; HBTQ; HBTW; JPSD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137284402
ISBN
9781137284402
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.18

Hardcover. This collection provides the first in-depth, interdisciplinary and over-arching review of higher education in Ireland, situating higher education within the socio-cultural, political and historical context of the country over the past 40 years and the development of European and national policies. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBTB; JNB; JNF; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137289872
ISBN
9781137289872
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.61

Hardcover. Commemorating traumatic events means attempting to activate collective memory. By examining images, metonymic invocations, built environments and digital outreach interventions, this book establishes some of the cognitive and emotional responses that make us incorporate the past suffering of others as a painful legacy of our own. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 174 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; HBA; JFC; JHB; JMRM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137290168
ISBN
9781137290168
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.31

Hardcover. This book is an account of the modern German fascination with the art, politics and religion of ancient Greece from Winckelmann to Nietzsche's generation. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLA1; HBLL; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 221 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137293145
ISBN
9781137293145
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.89

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