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c 1800 to c 1900
Maxwell, Sutton, and the Birth of Color Photography
Cat, Jordi (Harvard University, Massachusetts...
Hardback. This focused and incisive study reassesses the historic collaboration between James Clerk Maxwell and Thomas Sutton. It reveals that Maxwell and Sutton were closer to true partners than has commonly been assumed, and shows how their experiments illuminate the role of technology, representation, and participation in Maxwell's natural philosophy. Num Pages: 179 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; AJR; HBTB; TBY. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 173 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 179
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137338303
- ISBN
- 9781137338303
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.89
€ 63.89
Hardcover. Examining four major institutions, Michele Strong considers the experiences of working men and women, particularly artisans, but also young apprentices and clerks, who travelled abroad as participants in an educational reform movement spearheaded by middle-class liberals. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBTB; JNB; WT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137338075
- ISBN
- 9781137338075
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardcover. What kind of men were missionaries? What kind of masculinity did they represent, in ideology as well as in practice? Presupposing masculinity to be a cluster of cultural ideas and social practices that change over time and space, and not a stable entity with a natural, inherent meaning, Kristin Fjelde Tjelle seeks to answer such questions. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 337 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; HRCX7; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 139 x 223 x 24. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137336354
- ISBN
- 9781137336354
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.75
€ 123.75
Hardcover. The strife for social improvement that arose in the decades around the turn of the 20th century raised the issue of social conformity in new ways: how were citizens who did not adhere to the rules to be dealt with? This edited collection opens new perspectives on the history of the emerging welfare state by focusing on its margins. Editor(s): Althammer, Beate; Gestrich, Andreas; Grundler, Jens. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 22. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137333612
- ISBN
- 9781137333612
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.86
€ 64.86
Hardcover. At Home in the Institution examines space and material culture in asylums, lodging houses and schools in Victorian and Edwardian England, and explores the powerful influence of domesticity on all three institutional types. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 236 x 18. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137322388
- ISBN
- 9781137322388
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.73
€ 111.73
Hardcover. An unprecedented number of people were sent to 'lunatic asylums' in the nineteenth century. But what was life like inside? How was order maintained? And why were so many doctors on the verge of a breakdown themselves? This book provides a glimpse into the lives of patients and staff inside two London asylums at the turn of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD1; HBTB; JKSM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137321428
- ISBN
- 9781137321428
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Hardcover. Covering two hundred years, this groundbreaking book brings together essays on borderlands by leading experts in the modern history of the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia to offer the first historical study of borderlands with a global reach. Editor(s): Readman, Paul; Radding, Cynthia; Bryant, Chad. Num Pages: 360 pages, 15 maps, 4 figures. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; 3JJC; HBG; HBLL; HBTP; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137320575
- ISBN
- 9781137320575
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.13
€ 66.13
Hardcover. This volume seeks both to give constitutional conservatives their first full treatment, and to demonstrate the ongoing relevance of early conservatives to contemporary American conservatism. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; JPA; JPFM; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137300959
- ISBN
- 9781137300959
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.84
€ 122.84
Hardcover. This book offers a unique and fascinating examination of British and Irish responses to Italian independence and unification in the mid-nineteenth century. Chapters explore the interplay of religion, politics, exile, feminism, colonialism and romanticism in fuelling impassioned debates on the 'Italian question' on both sides of the Irish Sea. Editor(s): Carter, Nick. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; 1DST; 3JH; HBJD; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137297716
- ISBN
- 9781137297716
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.18
€ 123.18
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
€ 63.89
Hardcover. This book covers the life and work of a wide range of writers from Coleridge to Wollstonecraft, Hemans, Beckford and their contemporaries. Also encompassing a wealth of material on contexts from the treason trials of 1794 to the coming of gas-light to the London stage in 1817, it provides a panorama of one of the richest periods in British culture. Series: Author Chronologies Series. Num Pages: 345 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSB; DSC; DSK; DSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137273260
- ISBN
- 9781137273260
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.81
€ 64.81
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
€ 64.55
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
€ 63.94
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
€ 64.61
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
€ 63.89
Urban Dominance and Labour Market Differentiation of a European Capita...
. Ed(S): Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Mata, Maria ...
Hardback. Analyses the role of Lisbon as a capital city within the Portuguese urban system and its regional trends, focusing on economic history and on the study of the Lisbon labour market and its changes in the context of economic development in the 19th and 20th centuries, during which it remained the principal job market in the country. Editor(s): Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Mata, Maria Eugenia. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSP; 3JH; 3JJ; JFSG; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 1050.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792398301
- ISBN
- 9780792398301
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.50
€ 126.50
Hardback. Gives an integral interpretation of G W F Hegel's mature practical philosophy as contained in his textbook, "Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts", published in 1820, and the courses he gave on the same subject between 1817 and 1830. Series: Studies in German Idealism. Num Pages: 675 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1161.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 675
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792370406
- ISBN
- 9780792370406
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 360.62
€ 360.62
hardcover. Presents a cross-cultural comparative approach to the art of dyeing and printing with natural dyestuffs in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This book includes data from the vast historical heritage of natural dyestuffs from a range of European cities, to historiographic insights for the understanding of this technology. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; 3JH; PDX; TDCJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 565.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- 2001st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792370222
- ISBN
- 9780792370222
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.80
€ 127.80
Hardback. Argues that the theme of Mill's life and work was his belief in human improvement and progress. This study defines the importance of Mill's growth ethic and aims to clear up the misinterpretations surrounding his notions of positive and negative freedom, the status of children, the legitimacy of authority, and support for British colonialism. Series: Philosophical Studies Series. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 609.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792368540
- ISBN
- 9780792368540
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 192.08
€ 192.08
Hardback. Focusing on small, non-aligned states, this book points to the importance of beliefs and ideas in security policy. It argues that small states, in their pursuit of security and autonomy, face a dilemma between abandonment and entrapment, leading to a choice between balancing between great powers or making an approach to one of them. Series: Library of Public Policy & Public Administration. Num Pages: 180 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DNS; 3JH; 3JJ; JPQB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792365716
- ISBN
- 9780792365716
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.75
€ 122.75