c 1800 to c 1900
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c 1800 to c 1900
Hardcover. Through the prism of intimacy, Burleigh sheds light on eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century American texts. This insightful study shows how the trope of the family recurred to produce contradictory images - both intimately familiar and frighteningly alienating - through which Americans responded to upheavals in their cultural landscape. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
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- New
- SKU
- V9781137404077
- ISBN
- 9781137404077
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€ 63.61
€ 63.61
Paperback. The history of secondary education for girls in the western world is explored through the lens of the gendered cultural expectations of the middle classes and upper classes of the past centuries, juxtaposed against the relatively recent democratization of European educational systems. Editor(s): Goodman, Joyce; Rogers, Rebecca; Albisetti, James C. Series: Secondary Education in a Changing World. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFH; 3JH; 3JJ; JFSJ1; JNB; JNLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2010th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137405555
- ISBN
- 9781137405555
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€ 50.99€ 41.15
€ 50.99
€ 41.15
Hardcover. This study offers an analysis of the technological and entrepreneurial features of the Victorian telegraph service, together with the companies which ran it until nationalization in 1869. It shows a historical reconstruction mainly based on original and unedited documents belonging to a variety of archives. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBTK; KJVN; KNTT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 436.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
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- New
- SKU
- V9781137406514
- ISBN
- 9781137406514
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€ 64.30
€ 64.30
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.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
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- New
- SKU
- V9781137407207
- ISBN
- 9781137407207
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€ 64.09
€ 64.09
Hardcover. This book examines the transformations of Egyptian childhoods that occurred across gender, class, and rural/urban divides. It also questions the role of nostalgia and representation of childhood in illuminating key underlying political, social, and cultural developments in Egypt. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood. Num Pages: 192 pages, 16 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; HBTQ; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
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- New
- SKU
- V9781137432773
- ISBN
- 9781137432773
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€ 63.89
€ 63.89
hardcover. For a full month in the autumn of 1812 the 2,000-strong garrison of the fortress the French had constructed to overawe the city of Burgos defied the Duke of Wellington. In this work a leading historian of the Peninsular teams up with a leading conflict archaeologist to examine the reasons for Wellington's failure. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBWH; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 425.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137432896
- ISBN
- 9781137432896
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€ 64.11
€ 64.11
Hardcover. The 18th-century French leather industry was a strategically important manufacturing sector, one vital to both civilian and military life. This study examines the production of leather in the Bordeaux trades during the 18th and 19th centuries, illuminating the realities of a craft economy and its relation to the wider French political economy. Num Pages: 311 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; KNDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 504.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
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- New
- SKU
- V9781137438553
- ISBN
- 9781137438553
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€ 122.96
€ 122.96
Hardcover. This book, the first long-range history of the voluntary sector in Australia and the first internationally to compare philanthropy for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in a settler society, explores how the race and gender ideologies embedded in philanthropy contributed to the construction of Australia's welfare state. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJM; HBTB; HBTQ; JKSN1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 498.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
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- New
- SKU
- V9781137440495
- ISBN
- 9781137440495
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€ 64.66
€ 64.66
Hardcover. Certain 19th Century presidencies contrast common perceptions of the office's authority and strength. These presidents were a strong group and were anything but insignificant. They fought substantial battles with Congress, and often won. This book seeks to provide more substantive analysis of maligned presidencies, and the legacies left behind. Series: The Evolving American Presidency. Num Pages: 154 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 181 x 20. Weight in Grams: 342.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137441492
- ISBN
- 9781137441492
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Condition: New
€ 63.66
€ 63.66
Hardcover. Drawing on court records from London and the South West, Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England explores medical roles in trials for sexual offences. Its focus on sexual maturity, a more flexible concept than the legal age of consent, enables histories of sexual crime to be seen in a new light. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD1; JFFE2; JKVF1; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 220 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137441706
- ISBN
- 9781137441706
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Condition: New
€ 133.08
€ 133.08
Hardcover. This book examines the experiences of gay and bisexual men who lived in Scotland during an era when all homosexual acts were illegal, tracing the historical relationship between Scottish society, the state and its male homosexual population using a combination of oral history and extensive archival research. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBTB; JFSK2; LAQG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
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- New
- SKU
- V9781137444097
- ISBN
- 9781137444097
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Condition: New
€ 112.02
€ 112.02
Hardcover. Institutions and Small Settler Economies provides a comprehensive improvement in our understanding of institutional contributions to economic growth. Num Pages: 290 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSU; 1MBN; 3JH; 3JJ; KCG; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 23. Weight in Grams: 502.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
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- New
- SKU
- V9781137448286
- ISBN
- 9781137448286
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Condition: New
€ 64.35
€ 64.35
Hardcover. Whereas the Spanish-American War has long been studied as a turning point in American history, Grover Cleveland's foreign policy. Nick Cleaver's study illuminates the dynamism and ideals of Cleveland's diplomatic moment, revealing their continuities with the engagement and expansionism of the McKinley presidency. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBJK; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 448.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137448477
- ISBN
- 9781137448477
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Condition: New
€ 63.71
€ 63.71
The Shadow of Colonialism on Europe's Modern Past (Cambridge Imperial ...
Enrico Dal Lago Róisín Healy
Hardcover. Through a range of case studies from eastern and western Europe, this book breaks new ground in investigating the extent to which European peoples living within Europe were also subjected to the ideologies and practices of colonialism. Editor(s): Healy, Roisin; Dal Lago, Enrico. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
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- New
- SKU
- V9781137450746
- ISBN
- 9781137450746
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Condition: New
€ 63.74
€ 63.74
Hardback. Raffalovich's 1896 magnum opus of sexology, Uranism and Unisexuality (never before translated into English until now), provides an ethical justification for same-sex desire. Drawing on cross-cultural and transhistorical narratives, the gentleman scholar argues for the rights of the homosexual in society and its responsibility to him. Editor(s): Erber, Nancy; Peniston, William A.; Healy, Philip; Roden, Frederick S., AOJN. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 324 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; 3JJ; JFSJ; JFSK; JHBK5; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 23. Weight in Grams: 648.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137451385
- ISBN
- 9781137451385
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Condition: New
€ 155.65
€ 155.65
Hardcover. Drawing upon the philosophical insights of Friedrich Schlegel, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and Blixa Bargeld, this book explores the persistence of a critical-deconstructive approach to musical production, consumption, and reception in the German cultural sphere of the last two centuries. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; 3JJ; AV; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
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- New
- SKU
- V9781137453365
- ISBN
- 9781137453365
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Condition: New
€ 122.12
€ 122.12
Hardcover. Philip Hale (1854-1934) helped put Boston on the Transatlantic map through his music writing. Mitchell reconstructs Hale's oeuvre to produce an authoritative account of the role the Boston Symphony played in the international world of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century music. Series: The New Urban Atlantic. Num Pages: 313 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; AVGC6; AVRB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 240 x 23. Weight in Grams: 610.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
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- New
- SKU
- V9781137453495
- ISBN
- 9781137453495
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Condition: New
€ 64.98
€ 64.98
Hardcover. Aggressive policy, enthusiastic news coverage and sensational novelistic style combined to create a distinctive image of Britain's Empire in late-Victorian print media. The New Journalism, the New Imperialism and the Fiction of Empire, 1870-1900 traces this phenomenon through the work of editors, special correspondents and authors. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDB; 3JH; HBTB; JFD; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 222 x 20. Weight in Grams: 436.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137454362
- ISBN
- 9781137454362
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Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Southern Anthropology - a History of Fison and Howitt's Kamilaroi and ...
Gardner, Helen, Mcconvell, Patrick
Hardcover. Southern Anthropology, the history of Fison and Howitt's Kamilaroi and Kurnai is the biography of Kamilaroi and Kurnai (1880) written from both a historical and anthropological perspective. Southern Anthropology investigates the authors' work on Aboriginal and Pacific people and the reception of their book in metropolitan centres. Series: Palgrave Studies in Pacific History. Num Pages: 352 pages, up to 25 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 3JH; HBJM; HBLL; HBTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
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- New
- SKU
- V9781137463807
- ISBN
- 9781137463807
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Condition: New
€ 65.33
€ 65.33
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. Art and literature during the European fin-de-siecle period often manifested themes of degeneration and decay, both of bodies and civilizations, as well as illness, bizarre sexuality, and general morbidity. This collection explores these topics in relation to artists and writers as diverse as Oscar Wilde, August Strindberg, and Aubrey Beardsley. Editor(s): Walsh, Jeffrey. Num Pages: 293 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; ACV; DSBF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137470881
- ISBN
- 9781137470881
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.41
€ 154.41
Hardcover. This collection, comprising essays by an array of scholars from Europe and the United States, offers a new look at transatlantic political activity since 1800. It reperiodizes transatlantic politics to include early and mid-19th and post-1945 eras, while showing the ideological heterogeneity of transatlantic political exchange Editor(s): Scroop, Daniel; Heath, Andrew. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBG; HBTK; HBTQ; JPSD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 452.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137470959
- ISBN
- 9781137470959
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Condition: New
€ 64.09
€ 64.09
Hardcover. By taking the long view on the evolution of this country's tax policies through the past few decades, Henrekson and Stenkula explain how Sweden developed the highest tax-to-GDP ratio in the world, until the beginning of the 2000s. Editor(s): Henrekson, Magnus; Stenkula, Mikael. Num Pages: 352 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DNS; 3JH; 3JJ; KCZ; KFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 676.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137478146
- ISBN
- 9781137478146
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Condition: New
€ 123.76
€ 123.76
Hardcover. Vaudeville is often viewed as the source of some of the crude stereotypes that positioned the Irish immigrant in America as the antithesis of native-born American citizens. Using primary archival material, Mooney argues that the vaudeville stage was an important venue in which an Irish-American identity was constructed, negotiated, and refined. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 272 pages, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; ASZH; JFCA; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 446.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137482648
- ISBN
- 9781137482648
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.21
€ 133.21