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Palgrave Macmillan List of publications for Earlier publications can be accessed by using the History On-Line Search Page 'A Mutual Responsibility and a Moral Obligation' This book contains the final report of Germany's 'Remembrance, Responsibility, and Future' Foundation, giving a comprehensive history of the country's use of slave labor during World War II and the complex process by which reparations for survivors were negotiated. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230612648 - £40 - April 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title A Hero's Many Faces Raoul Wallenberg is remembered for his humanitarian activity on behalf of the Hungarian Jews at the end of World War II, and as the Swedish diplomat who disappeared into the Soviet Gulag in 1945. This book examines how thirty-one Wallenberg monuments, in twelve countries on five continents commemorate the man. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230222380 - £60 - April 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title A History of Greece Drawing on the latest research into ancient, medieval and modern history, this single-volume traces the history of Greek culture and societies from the Bronze Age to the Present. Written for the general reader and undergraduate student, it examines the continuities and changes across the entirety of Greek history. Hardback - ISBN: 9781403986139 - £50 - November 2009 - Paperback - ISBN: 9781403986146 - £16 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title A History of Italy Intertwining the history of art, literature, food, music and religion, Baldoli explores Italy's history from the Middle Ages to the present. The book offers an insight into continuities across past and present day Italian culture, politics, and identity, drawing on a range of recent historiography and contemporary sources. Hardback - ISBN: 9781403986153 - £50 - November 2009 - Paperback - ISBN: 9781403986160 - £16 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title A History of Reading and Writing Lyons surveys the changing relationships enjoyed by ordinary men and women with the written word, from early times to the present day. It provides a broad coverage of the social history of reading and writing, relating it to mainstream historical movements such as the Enlightenment and the Reformation. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230001619 - £52.5 - October 2009 - Paperback - ISBN: 9780230001626 - £17 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title A History of Spain This expanded new edition has been revised throughout in order to amplify key points. The last chapter brings the story up to date and includes discussion of recent events such as the 2004 Madrid bombings and the 2008 general election. The second edition also features additional maps and figures. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230200111 - £50 - June 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title A History of the British Presence in Chile This book sets out to narrate the contributions to and influence on the history of Chile that British visitors and immigrants have had, not as bystanders but as key players, starting in 1554 with the English Queen 'Bloody Mary' becoming Queen of Chile, and ending at the outbreak of the II World War. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230618497 - £55 - November 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title After The Bomb (also available as an electronic book) Civil defence was an integral part of Britain's modern history. Throughout the cold war it was a central response of the British Government to the threat of war. This book will be the first history of the preparations to fight a nuclear war taken in Britain between the end of the Second World War and 1968. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230205420 - £52 - December 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Andrew Jackson With dramatic scenes of fierce battles and victories, Remini reveals here why Jackson's bold leadership as a general led to his election as President of the United States in 1828. Paperback - ISBN: 9780230617551 - £9 - October 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Anticommunism and the African American Freedom Movement This collection of essays looks at the impact of anticommunism on black political culture during the early years of the Cold War, with an eye toward local and individual stories that offer insight into larger national and international issues. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230605244 - £50 - June 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Arafat and the Dream of Palestine This is his first-hand account of the inner-working of Arafat's regime, the PLO, Fatah and the relationship that allowed Abu Sharif to encourage important strides toward peace. In taking readers behind the scenes of all the major events in thirty years of Middle East politics, Abu Sharif delivers a unique living history of Palestine. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230608016 - £14.99 - June 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title As If It Were Life The beautifully written diary of a German-Jewish merchant living in the notorious Theresienstadt ghetto, a rare historical document that sheds new light on the intricacies of the Nazi machine. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230613287 - £18.99 - December 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Asian Empire and British Knowledge British knowledge about China changed fundamentally in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Rather than treating these changes in British understanding as if Anglo-Sino relations were purely bilateral, this study looks at how British imperial networks in India and Southeast Asia were critical mediators in the British encounter of China. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230200463 - £52 - November 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Asian Empire and British Knowledge (Electronic Book) British knowledge about China changed fundamentally in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Rather than treating these changes in British understanding as if Anglo-Sino relations were purely bilateral, this study looks at how British imperial networks in India and Southeast Asia were critical mediators in the British encounter of China. Paperback - ISBN: 9780230246751 - £52 - November 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Berenguela of Castile (1180-1246) and Political Women in the High Middle Ages The women in the family which ruled thirteenth-century Castile used maternity, familial and political strategy, and religious and cultural patronage to secure their personal power as well as to promote their lineage. Leonor of England, and her daughters Blanche of Castile (queen of France), Urraca (queen of Portugal), Costanza (a Cistercian nun of Las Huelgas) and Leonor, (queen of Aragon) provide the context for a study focusing on Berenguela of Castile, queen of Leon through marriage and of Castile by right of inheritance, whose most significant accomplishment was to enable the successful rule of her son Fernando. Hardback - ISBN: 9780312234737 - £32.5 - November 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Bringing Desegregation Home This study collects the oral histories of residents of a single county in North Carolina who lived through the consequences of desegregation, examining the complex social and historical constructions of racial difference in education. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230611351 - £55 - October 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title British Political Thought, 1500-1660 Focusing on the interaction of religion and politics, this is a comprehensive chronological survey of the political thought of post-Reformation Britain which examines the work of a wide range of thinkers. Hardback - ISBN: 9780333574102 - £55 - May 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Casting Faiths How did European imperialism shape the ideas and practices of religion in East and Southeast Asia? Casting Faiths brings together eleven scholars to show how Western law, governance, education and mission shaped the basic understanding of what religion is, and what role it should play in society. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230221581 - £55 - April 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Charles Dickens With passion and wit, Christopher Hibbert details the crucial years that formed Dickens the writer and Dickens the man. An illuminating look at a complex and baffling person, fans of literary biography will relish Hibbert's acclaimed style as he delivers the fascinating tale of Dickens' development. Paperback - ISBN: 9780230614260 - £9.99 - June 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Confronting Modernity in Fin-de-Siècle France The turn of the twentieth century represented a crossroads in the French experience of modernization, especially in regard to ideas about gender and sexuality. Drawing together prominent scholars in French gender history, this volume explores how historians have come to view this period in light of new theoretical developments since the 1980s. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230220997 - £52 - November 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Confronting Modernity in Fin-de-Siècle France (Electronic book) The turn of the twentieth century represented a crossroads in the French experience of modernization, especially in regard to ideas about gender and sexuality. Drawing together prominent scholars in French gender history, this volume explores how historians have come to view this period in light of new theoretical developments since the 1980s. Paperback - ISBN: 9780230246843 - £52 - November 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Conquering the Sky The nail-biting account of the Wright brothers' secret flights at Kitty Hawk and their unexpected rise to fame. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230614901 - £17 - October 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Constructing Paris in the Age of Revolution Examining the social and political history of workers and entrepreneurs engaged in constructing the French capital from 1763-1815, this book argues that Paris construction was a core sector in which 'archaic' and 'innovative' practices were symbiotically used by guilds, the state, and enterprises to launch the commercial revolution in France. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230574717 - £65 - October 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Constructing Paris in the Age of Revolution (Electronic book) Examining the social and political history of workers and entrepreneurs engaged in constructing the French capital from 1763-1815, this book argues that Paris construction was a core sector in which 'archaic' and 'innovative' practices were symbiotically used by guilds, the state, and enterprises to launch the commercial revolution in France. Paperback - ISBN: 9780230245280 - £65 - October 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Constructing Yugoslavia A survey of the changing nature of the Yugoslav ideal, demonstrating why Yugoslavism was championed at different times, and by whom. Covering the period from the 1850s to the death of Tito in 1980, Drapac places Yugoslavia in an international context and examines it largely, but not exclusively, from a transnational perspective. Hardback - ISBN: 9780333925546 - £55 - November 2009 - Paperback - ISBN: 9780333925553 - £18 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Cultural Exchanges in Early Modern London Joseph P. Ward explores the connections between early modern London and the world beyond the metropolis, surveying several of these spheres in a series of chapter-length, topical analyzes. Each chapter addresses the recent approaches of historians and literary critics, encouraging cross-disciplinary dialogue. Hardback - ISBN: 9780312293864 - £40 - May 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Doctors, Honour and the Law Medical ethics in Imperial Germany were entangled with professional, legal and social issues. This book shows how doctors' ethical decision-making was led by their notions of male honour, professional politics and a paternalistic doctor-patient relationship rather than concern for patients' interests or the right of the sick to self-determination. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230553309 - £45 - April 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Eastern Europe since 1945 This essential text has been fully revised, updated and expanded to take account of new material and events since the publication of the third edition. The book now features extended discussion of the post 1989 transition to capitalism, additional illustrations, and suggestions for further reading. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230214590 - £60 - October 2009 - Paperback - ISBN: 9780230214606 - £19 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Elizabeth of York This book tells the story of the woman whose marriage to King Henry VII ended the Wars of the Roses and inaugurated the 118-year Tudor dynasty. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230618275 - £55 - October 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Engaging the Muslim World Juan Cole disentangles the key foreign policy issues that America is grappling with today, from our dependence on Middle East petroleum to the promotion of Islamophobia by the American right, and delivers his informed advice on the best way forward. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230607545 - £16.99 - April 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title FDR and the Environment When one thinks of the New Deal era, the issue of the environment does not immediately come to mind. Yet New Deal policies had a huge impact on environmental thinking, defining a new role for the federal government in the scientific management of the natural environment. Paperback - ISBN: 9780230619685 - £19 - October 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Femininity, Mathematics and Science 1880-1914 Through the prism of gender, this text explores the contrasting cultures and practice of mathematics and science and asks how they impacted on women. Claire Jones assesses nineteenth-century ideas about women's intellect, femininity and masculinity, and assesses how these attitudes shaped women's experiences as students and practitioners. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230555211 - £52 - November 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Femininity, Mathematics and Science 1880-1914 (Electronic Book) Through the prism of gender, this text explores the contrasting cultures and practice of mathematics and science and asks how they impacted on women. Claire Jones assesses nineteenth-century ideas about women's intellect, femininity and masculinity, and assesses how these attitudes shaped women's experiences as students and practitioners. Paperback - ISBN: 9780230246652 - £52 - November 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Fighting Fires The first full-length scholarly history of the British fire service, 1800-1978, this book scrutinizes how firemen created a professional public service incumbent upon municipal government. It examines the influence of major fires and leading personalities within the fire service in constructing a professional ethos for municipal fire brigades. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230517103 - £50 - December 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Forbidden Nation A gripping history of Taiwan and its tense relations with China. Paperback - ISBN: 9780230614246 - £16.99 - April 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title France and Its Spaces of War This book offers a critical study of the cultural and social phenomena of war in the French and French-speaking world through a number of lenses, including memory, gender, the arts, and intellectual history. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230615618 - £60 - October 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title From New Jerusalem to New Labour A stellar collection of contributors consider each British post-war Prime Minister and examine how they have dealt with Britain's changing role, domestic and overseas, since the end of WWII. Even at the start of the 21st century, Britain remains in a state of transition, between a world which is dead and one still struggling to be born. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230574557 - £20 - December 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Gender Politics and Everyday Life in State Socialist East and Central Europe This book showcases extensive research on gender under state socialism, examining the subject in terms of state policy and law; sexuality and reproduction; the academy; leisure; the private sphere; the work world; opposition activism; and memory and identity. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230613003 - £55 - December 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Gender, Mastery and Slavery This lively survey of a key topic explores the importance of women and men to slaveholding, from antiquity to the rise and fall of slavery in the Americas. Foster argues that at the heart of the successive European institutions of slavery at home and in the New World was the volatile question of women's ability to exert mastery. Hardback - ISBN: 9781403987075 - £55 - December 2009 - Paperback - ISBN: 9781403987082 - £18 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Germans, Poland, and Colonial Expansion to the East This volume presents a multifaceted study of Germany's engagement with Eastern Europe throughout the period of worldwide 'new imperialism' and expands scholarly notions of 'colonialism'. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230612686 - £45 - April 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Going to War Going to War overturns conventional views of the role of public opinion, the armed forces, parliamentarians, NGOs and writers in the formation of British debates about impending wars. It shows the pressures and the reasons which have led to Britain's involvement in so many conflicts. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230573345 - £45 - May 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Heath, Nixon and the Rebirth of the Special Relationship (also available as an electronic book) This book reveals that 1969-74 was a crucial period for the special relationship. The Heath Government attempted to reverse Britain's decline as a great power by forging an American-European special relationship out of the Anglo-American relationship. Simultaneously the Nixon Administration tried to recoup the global position of the United States. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230577251 - £55 - December 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Hitler's Ethic In this book, Weikart helps unlock the mystery of Hitler's evil by vividly demonstrating the surprising conclusion that Hitler's immorality flowed from a coherent ethic. Hitler was inspired by evolutionary ethics to pursue the utopian project of biologically improving the human race. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230618077 - £52.5 - October 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Iraq's Last Jews This book collects first-person accounts from Iraqi Jews about the lives they led in Iraq's once-vibrant, 2,500-year-old Jewish community - once the world centre of Jewish life. Paperback - ISBN: 9780230618008 - £18 - October 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Ireland and India Through a consideration of historical memory, commemoration and the 'imagined communities' of nationalism, Ireland and India examines three aspects of Ireland's imperial history: relationships between Irish and Indian nationalists, the construction of Irishmen as imperial heroes, and the commemoration of an Irish regiment's mutiny in India. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230216747 - £55 - November 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Ireland and India (Electronic Book) Through a consideration of historical memory, commemoration and the 'imagined communities' of nationalism, Ireland and India examines three aspects of Ireland's imperial history: relationships between Irish and Indian nationalists, the construction of Irishmen as imperial heroes, and the commemoration of an Irish regiment's mutiny in India. Paperback - ISBN: 9780230246812 - £55 - November 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Ireland and the English World in the Late Middle Ages This volume extends the 'British Isles' approach pioneered by Robin Frame and Rees Davies to the later middle ages. Through examination of issues such as frontier formation, colonial identities and connections with the wider world it explores whether this period saw the bonds between the British Isles weaken, strengthen, or simply alter. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230542891 - £50 - April 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Italy and 1968 A comprehensive look at how the 'establishment' responded to the Italian student revolt of 1968. Using oral interviews, media analysis and archival evidence, the book explores the reactions of those who became the frequent targets of student protests - professors, police, activists' parents, the clergy, journalists, lawyers and auto workers. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230575684 - £50 - December 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Italy and 1968 (Electronic book) A comprehensive look at how the 'establishment' responded to the Italian student revolt of 1968. Using oral interviews, media analysis and archival evidence, the book explores the reactions of those who became the frequent targets of student protests - professors, police, activists' parents, the clergy, journalists, lawyers and auto workers. Paperback - ISBN: 9780230246928 - £50 - December 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Late Medieval France A fresh introduction to the political history of late medieval France duing the turbulent period of the Hundred Years' War, taking into account the social, economic and religious contexts. Graeme Small considers not just the monarchy but also prelates, noble networks and the emerging municipalities in this new analysis. Hardback - ISBN: 9780333642429 - £55 - October 2009 - Paperback - ISBN: 9780333642436 - £19 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title LeMay The latest book in the Great Generals Series with Wesley Clark features the controversial command and strategies of the Air Force Chief of Staff. Paperback - ISBN: 9780230613966 - £8.99 - June 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Loyalty and Identity (also available as an electronic book) This collection of essays provides a series of fresh approaches to a fascinating subject: Jacobitism. The contributors focus on issues of identity and memory among Jacobites in Scotland, Ireland, England and Europe. They examine Jacobitism as an integral aspect of culture and society in the British Isles and beyond during the century after 1688. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230222571 - £55 - December 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title MacArthur Douglas MacArthur is best remembered for his ability to adapt, a quality that catalyzed his greatest accomplishments. Paperback - ISBN: 9780230613973 - £8.99 - May 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Madness in the Family (also available as an electronic book) Madness in the Family explores how colonial families coped with insanity through a trans-colonial study of the relationships between families and public colonial hospitals for the insane in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and New Zealand between 1860 and 1914. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230578074 - £52 - December 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Making American Culture This book offers a social and cultural history of American culture in the formative years of the twentieth century, examining forms such as vaudeville, early film, popular songs, modernist art, and many others in the context of contemporary social changes. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230613324 - £55 - October 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Man as Witch Witch-hunts in Central Europe were by no means focused only on women; one in four alleged witches was male. This study analyzes and describes the witch trials of men in French and German-speaking regions, opening up a little known chapter of early modern times, and revealing the conflicts from which witch-hunts of men evolved. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230537026 - £55 - June 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Mary Tudor This collection of interdisciplinary essays examines the origins and growth of Mary Tudor's historical reputation, from the reign of Elizabeth I up to the 20th century. Re-appraising aspects of her reign that have been misrepresented the book creates a more balanced, objective portrait of England's last Catholic, and first female, monarch. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230004627 - £55 - December 2009 - Paperback - ISBN: 9780230004634 - £18 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Britain, 1861-1913
Paperback - ISBN: 9780230238565 - £18.99 - October 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Mau Mau in Harlem? Based on archival research on three continents, this book addresses the interpenetration of two closely related movements: the struggle against white supremacy and Jim Crow in the U.S., and the struggle against similar forces and for national liberation in Colonial Kenya. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230615632 - £55 - October 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Memorialization in Germany since 1945 (also available as an electronic book) Difficult Pasts provides a wide-ranging discussion of contemporary Germany's rich memorial landscape. It discusses the many memorials to German losses during the Second World War, to the victims of National Socialism and to those of GDR socialism. With up-to-date coverage of many less well-known memorials as well as the most publicised ones. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230207035 - £65 - December 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Mining Women This book presents new essays that illuminate how gender identities and inequality have been constructed historically and sustained in what could be hailed as the first truly global enterprise and arguably the most 'masculine' of industries - mining. Paperback - ISBN: 9780230621046 - £19 - October 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Moral Panics, the Media and the Law in Early Modern England An exploration of links between opinion and governance in Early Modern England, studying moral panics about crime, sex and belief. Hypothesizing that media-driven panics proliferated in the 1700s, with the development of newspapers and government sensibility to opinion, it also considers earlier panics about cross-dressing and witchcraft. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230527324 - £55 - December 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Naval Power Jeremy Black provides a short and accessible account of naval power and its relationship to international relations. Focusing on navies as instruments of power and analyzing what they indicate about the nature of state systems and cultures, he provides an overview of key debates within this increasingly popular field. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230202795 - £47.5 - November 2009 - Paperback - ISBN: 9780230202801 - £16 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Neurology and Modernity (Electronic Book) Citizens of the modern era were singularly prone to nervous disorders, the nervous system becoming a model for describing political and social organization. The studies in this volume untangle the mutual dependencies of scientific neurology and the cultural attitudes of the period, exploring how and why modernity was a fundamentally nervous state. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230233133 - £55 - December 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title NGOs in Contemporary Britain Examining the history of social movements and non-state socio-political action, this volume shows how Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) have proliferated in Britain since 1945, and how they have raised new political agendas, revived associational life, and arguably re-politicized generations disillusioned with the politics of the ballot box. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230221093 - £50 - April 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Nuclear Illusion, Nuclear Reality (also available as an electronic book) A study of the political, military and technical aspects of Britain's nuclear weapons programme under the Macmillan government, contrasting Britain's perceived political decline with its growth in technological mastery and military nuclear capability. Important reading for anyone interested in the history and military technology of the cold war. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230230675 - £65 - November 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title On the Purification of Women This book is a social history of the ritual and custom of churching, a liturgical rite of purification after childbirth performed on a woman's first visit to church after giving birth. The book describes the development of the rite from its original meaning as a response to blood pollution to its redefinition as a rite that honoured marriage. Hardback - ISBN: 9781403969699 - £39.99 - December 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Operation Last Chance Sixty years after the end of World War II, members of the Nazi party and their collaborators are still alive - and are increasingly difficult track down. 'Operation Last Chance' is the gripping personal story of one man's vast campaign to find the biggest Nazi criminals and bring them to justice, before it's too late. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230617308 - £16.99 - December 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Oral History, Oral Culture, and Italian Americans This book introduces readers to a wide range of interpretations that take oral history and folklore as the premise with a focus on Italian and Italian American culture in disciplines such as history, ethnography, memoir, art, and music. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230619470 - £55 - December 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Palgrave Advances in Irish History This book provides a much-needed historiographical overview of modern Irish History, which is often written mainly from a socio-political perspective. This guide offers a comprehensive account of Irish History in its manifold aspects such as family, famine, labour, institutional, women, cultural, art, identity and migration histories. Hardback - ISBN: 9781403932150 - £55 - April 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Poland and European Integration Today's Euroscepticism contrasts sharply with the idealism of the thousands of Poles thrust out of their country after 1939 by war, occupation and communism. How could a future Poland find security and progress, but by membership in a union of European states? This book explores how Poles in exile attempted to shape opinion in Poland and the West. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230229372 - £55 - May 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Political Warfare against the Kremlin Political Warfare against the Kremlin provides a comparative study and holistic review of American and British propaganda policy toward the Soviet Union during the first fifteen years of the Cold War, ranging from the role senior policymakers played in setting propaganda policy to the West's radio broadcasts to the Soviet Union. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230221147 - £55 - April 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Politics and Religion in Early Bourbon France This book explores the political and religious world of early Bourbon France, focusing on the search for stable accord that characterised its political and religious life. Chapters examine developments that shaped the Bourbon realm through the century: assertions of royal authority, rules of political negotiation, and the evolution of Devot piety. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230521391 - £55 - May 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Politics, Society and the Middle Class in Modern Ireland An examination of Irish society and politics, providing a wide-ranging introduction to the involvement of the middle classes in Irish political life and the public sphere accrosss the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. Combines analytical surveys and case/area studies to offer new perspectives on crucial movements and figures in Irish history. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230008267 - £55 - December 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Race, Law, and 'The Chinese Puzzle' in Imperial Britain This book examines the role that law and the courts played in the dynamics of race and gender relations for Chinese immigrants in London and the British empire. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230609495 - £50 - June 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Reading Shenbao Through a study of the readership of the most popular commercial daily newspaper in China during the early twentieth century, Reading Shenbao investigates ideas of nationalism, consumerism and individuality, looking at the relationship between advertising, modern lifestyles and changing social attitudes in China as it underwent modernization. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230019829 - £55 - November 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Reading Shenbao (Electronic book) Through a study of the readership of the most popular commercial daily newspaper in China during the early twentieth century, Reading Shenbao investigates ideas of nationalism, consumerism and individuality, looking at the relationship between advertising, modern lifestyles and changing social attitudes in China as it underwent modernization. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230246713 - £55 - November 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Relocating Modern Science A challenge to the belief that modern science was created uniquely in the West and subsequently diffused elsewhere. Through a detailed analysis of knowledge construction in botany, cartography, terrestrial surveying, linguistics, education and colonial administration, Raj demonstrates the crucial role of intercultural encounter and circulation. Paperback - ISBN: 9780230238503 - £18.99 - November 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Republicanism and Anticlerical Nationalism in Spain This book analyzes attempts by radical Spanish republicans to construct an anticlerical-nationalist vision of Spain, focusing in particular on the the mass production by the 'anticlertical industry' of newspapers, novels, poems, cartoons, posters, postcards and plays put out by republican muckrakers, journalists, and politicians. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230613317 - £45 - May 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Restaging War in the Western World This collection seeks to move noncombatant perspectives to center stage, acknowledging their importance, destabilizing the primacy of the combatant, and explaining or undermining the staging of warfare as a singular and acontextual production. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230612662 - £47.5 - May 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Rethinking the Atlantic World This unique collection of essays provides a re-evaluation of the term 'Atlantic', by placing at the core of the debate on republicanism in the early modern age the link between continental Europe and America, rather than assuming British political culture as having been widely representative of Europe as a whole. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230206786 - £55 - June 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Robert E. Lee The bestselling author of Gettysburg delivers an insightful new account of the life and legacy of Robert E. Lee. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230613669 - £15 - October 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Samuel Adams Samuel Adams is perhaps the most unheralded and overshadowed of the founding fathers, yet without him there would have been no American Revolution. Paperback - ISBN: 9780230614000 - £9.99 - May 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Samuel Johnson Christopher Hibbert draws on every known contemporary source to provide a minutely detailed look of the fascinating writer Samuel Johnson. Paperback - ISBN: 9780230614277 - £9.99 - June 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Scenes of Parisian Modernity This book explores the commercial modernity of Parisian urban culture and consumer culture in the 19th century. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230615830 - £55 - December 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Scotland and America, c.1600-c.1800 A fascinating survey of a key period of economic, migratory and cultural exchange between Scotland and North America, including Canada and the Caribbean. Murdoch explores Scottish interactions with North America in a desire to open up new perspectives on the subject. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230516571 - £55 - December 2009 - Paperback - ISBN: 9780230516496 - £19 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Selling the Great War Selling the Great War is the story of maverick journalist George Creel and the epoch-making government agency he built and led using the emerging industries of mass advertising and public relations to convince isolationist America to join World War I. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230605039 - £16.99 - April 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Settler and Creole Reenactment Explores the uncalculated and incalculable elements in historical re-enactment - unexpected emotions, unplanned developments - and locates them in countries where settlers were trying to establish national identities derived from metropolitan cultures inevitably affected by the land itself and the people who had been there before them. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230576063 - £55 - October 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Settler and Creole Reenactment (Electronic Book) Explores the uncalculated and incalculable elements in historical re-enactment - unexpected emotions, unplanned developments - and locates them in countries where settlers were trying to establish national identities derived from metropolitan cultures inevitably affected by the land itself and the people who had been there before them. Paperback - ISBN: 9780230244900 - £55 - October 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Spain Since 1939 Stanley Black offers a fresh look at Spain's dynamic transition from pariah state to key European Union player. The book covers the historical, political, cultural and social events that have shaped Spain's evolution from the end of the Spanish Civil War through to the aftermath of the 2004 Madrid bombing and up to the present day. Hardback - ISBN: 9781403935694 - £55 - November 2009 - Paperback - ISBN: 9781403935700 - £19 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Stonewall Jackson The new installment of Wesley Clark's Great Generals Series portrays Stonewall Jackson, the man who pioneered mobile warfare. Paperback - ISBN: 9780230613980 - £8.99 - June 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Testimonial Advertising in the American Marketplace This collection brings together essays that explore the history and practices of testimonial marketing in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230615601 - £55 - December 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c. 1760-1840 Distinguished historians provide uniquely broad coverage of the dynamics of global and regional change in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Sheds new light on the American, French and Haitian revolutions, alongside ground-breaking treatments of Africa's place in world history and Asia's age of revolutions. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230580466 - £50 - December 2009 - Paperback - ISBN: 9780230580473 - £16 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title The Birth of Modern Politics in Spain (also available as an electronic book) An in-depth study of the reception of Democratic ideas in mid-19th Century Spain on the provincial and local level, and how they influenced the political process and fuelled the numerous conspiracies and insurrections directed at the Bourbon monarchy, between the failed uprisings in Spain in 1848 and the First Republic in 1873. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230222021 - £65 - December 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title The Britannic Vision Shows the role of historians in making 'Dominion' status, which combined autonomy with unity and provided the peaceful route by which Canada, Australia and New Zealand gained their independence within the British Commmonwealth of Nations, while South Africa, the Irish Free State and India, also Dominions, chose to become republics. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230227811 - £60 - May 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title The Counterinsurgent State This study analyzes the impact of ethnic and sectarian dissent in Iraq on the formation of the Iraqi state, focusing specifically on how provincial rebellions influenced the growing power of the nationalist officer corps and the monarchy's relationship with Britain. Hardback - ISBN: 9781403964090 - £45 - April 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title The Cuban Revolution (1959-2009) Fifty years after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution and the establishment of a Marxist-Leninist regime in Cuba, the two fundamental dimensions of this historical phenomenon are the survival of the system created by Fidel Castro and the policy of the United States to terminate it. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230619265 - £60 - December 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title The Cult of Imperial Honor in British India Steven Patterson examines the ideal of honor in British India circa 1850-1947, looking at its formulation and how it guided imperial conduct. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230612877 - £50 - June 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title The Evolution of the British Welfare State Derek Fraser's book has established itself as a classic text on the history of social policy and social ideas in Britain since the Industrial Revolution. This fourth edition features a revised Introduction, incorporates the latest research and extends the coverage of the final chapter, bringing the story right up to the present day. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230224650 - £55 - May 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title The Great Interwar Crisis and the Collapse of Globalization (also available as an electronic book) Challenging the standard narrative of Interwar International History, this account establishes the causal relationship between the global political and economic crises of the period, and offers a radically new look at the role of ideology, racism and the leading liberal powers in the events between the First and Second World Wars. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230574786 - £25 - October 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title The Great Power Struggle in East Asia, 1944-50 The first full account of British policy towards China, Japan and Korea from the final stages of the Second World War to the outbreak of the Korean War, set against the backdrop of the Anglo-American relationship, broader Far Eastern developments, the beginnings of the Cold War, and Britain's relationship with the Commonwealth. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230202979 - £55 - November 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title The Great Power Struggle in East Asia, 1944-50 (Electronic Book) The first full account of British policy towards China, Japan and Korea from the final stages of the Second World War to the outbreak of the Korean War, set against the backdrop of the Anglo-American relationship, broader Far Eastern developments, the beginnings of the Cold War, and Britain's relationship with the Commonwealth. Paperback - ISBN: 9780230246782 - £55 - November 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title The Harding Affair The never-before-told story of President Harding's secret affair with pro-German advocate Carrie Phillips, based on their never-before-published love letters. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230609648 - £18 - October 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title The Haunted The Haunted is the first truly comprehensive social history of ghosts. Using fascinating and entertaining examples, Davies places the history of ghosts within their wider social and cultural context, and examines why a belief in ghosts continues to be vibrant, socially relevant and historically illuminating. Paperback - ISBN: 9780230237100 - £9.99 - October 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia Volume 5: The Years of Hunger An examination of the Soviet agricultural crisis of 1931-1933 which culminated in the major famine of 1933. Making extensive use of Russian and Ukrainian central and local archives, the book reaches new conclusions on how far this famine was 'organized' or 'artificial', and compares it with other famines in Russia and elsewhere. Paperback - ISBN: 9780230238558 - £22.99 - November 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title The Invention of Religion This volume is an unprecedented work in that it examines the complicity of colonialist discourses with the discourses of religion. It investigates the ways in which the construction of 'religion' by the British functioned within a variety of colonialist discourses, and how it might continue to function as a colonialist discourse now. Hardback - ISBN: 9780312175412 - £35 - November 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title The Land Question in Britain, 1750-1950 (also available as an electronic book) The 'Land Question' occupied a central place in political and cultural debates in Britain for nearly two centuries. From parliamentary enclosure in the mid-eighteenth century to the fierce Labour party debate concerning the nationalization of land after World War Two, the fate of the land held the power to galvanize the attention of the nation. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230203402 - £55 - December 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title The Meiji Restoration The Meiji Restoration of 1868 is one of the most astonishing political events of the modern era, yet it doesn't fit easily with Western precedents of mass mobilization and social transformation. This book challenges some of the preconceptions that have hindered the Restoration being understood on its own terms. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230593862 - £52 - October 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title The Meiji Restoration (Electronic Book) The Meiji Restoration of 1868 is one of the most astonishing political events of the modern era, yet it doesn't fit easily with Western precedents of mass mobilization and social transformation. This book challenges some of the preconceptions that have hindered the Restoration being understood on its own terms. Paperback - ISBN: 9780230245792 - £52 - October 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title The Moral Ecology of South Africa's Township Youth This book provides an engaging account of the moral lives of young black South Africans once the struggle against apartheid ended and took away their object of political resistance. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230618916 - £55 - December 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title The Newer Eve Feminist theory is interwoven with women's voices in this study of three consecutive Twentieth-century women's organisations, separate but affiliated to the Labour Party, which represented women workers, consumers and politicians, so that the totality of women's involvement in the Labour movement is considered. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230222144 - £45 - April 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title The Russian Revolution, 1900-1927 This popular, concise and approachable text discusses the key debates and themes surrounding the Russian Revolution. The expanded fourth edition has been thoroughly revised and updated in the light of the latest research, and now features a new scene-setting Introduction and maps. Paperback - ISBN: 9780230220409 - £15.5 - May 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title The Self-Perception of Early Modern Capitalists A collection of essays by leading historians of early modern Europe and the U.S., this book explores how merchants, entrepreneurs, and other early modern capitalists viewed themselves. Paperback - ISBN: 9780230617810 - £17.99 - October 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title The Soviet Famine of 1946-47 in Global and Historical Perspective This book deals with the long overlooked and understudied Soviet famine of 1946-47, which came on the heels of World War II and at the dawn of the Cold War and killed as many as two million people. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230613331 - £57.50 - June 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title The Washington Embassy This book is the first study of the role of British Ambassadors in shaping Anglo-American relations during the first generation of the 'special relationship'. As well as showing how ambassadors wielded influence in Washington and helped to formulate British foreign policy, it offers insights into the role of the embassy in modern diplomacy. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230522169 - £50 - May 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title The Zenith of European Monarchy and its Elites By the mid-sevententh century several European monarchies were collapsing. Focusing on a key elite bonding strategy, this new survey shows how monarchs resolved to work with, rather than against, their elites. Nicholas Henshall's synthesis offers an argument for the coherence of the period - as the height of European monarchy and its elites. Hardback - ISBN: 9780333613900 - £55 - December 2009 - Paperback - ISBN: 9780333613917 - £19 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title This Has Happened In the vein of Primo Levi's bestseller Survival in Auschwitz comes this rare and stark testimonial of an Italian woman who survived the Nazi concentration camps. Paperback - ISBN: 9780230613997 - 7.99 - April 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Thomas Paine: A Collection of Unknown Writings A collection of writings by Thomas Paine previously unseen since their first appearance, including political pieces, private letters and verse. Covers his Common Sense years in the revolutionary American colonies; his time in Europe, when he published Rights of Man and The Age of Reason; and his last years in the firmly united states of America. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230204836 - £55 - October 2009 - Paperback - ISBN: 9780230239715 - £18 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Thomas Paine: A Collection of Unknown Writings (Electronic Book) A collection of writings by Thomas Paine previously unseen since their first appearance, including political pieces, private letters and verse. Covers his Common Sense years in the revolutionary American colonies; his time in Europe, when he published Rights of Man and The Age of Reason; and his last years in the firmly united states of America. Paperback - ISBN: 9780230245334 - £55 - October 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title To Begin the World Over Again The little-known story of Lawrence of Arabia's passionate advocacy of Arab nationalism during the pivotal years following WWI and his prescient template for nation building in the Middle East. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230617421 - £18 - October 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Trans-Pacific Interactions This volume explores particular facets of the history and representation of the Pacific rim region, focusing on the interactions between the U.S. and China around the turn of the twentieth century. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230619050 - £55 - November 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Troubled Water Combining gripping military history with tense racial politics, the account of the first mutiny in U.S. Navy history. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230613614 - £18 - October 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Understanding Iran William R. Polk provides an informative, readable history of a country which is moving quickly toward becoming the dominant power and culture of the Middle East. Polk describes a country and a history misunderstood by many in the West, while Iranians chafe under the yolk of their current leaders. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230616783 - £16.99 - November 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Walled Towns and the Shaping of France This book focuses on the development of towns in France, taking into account military technology, physical geography, shifting regional networks tying urban communities together, and the emergence of new forms of public authority and civic life. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230608122 - £55 - October 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title War and Peace in Modern India (also available as an electronic book) A study of Indian foreign policy under Jawaharlal Nehru, concentrating on the fundamental questions of war and peace. Looks at Nehru's handling of the disputes over the fate of Junagadh, Hyderabad and Kashmir in 1947-48; the refugee crisis in East and West Bengal in 1950; the Kashmir crisis in 1951; and the boundary dispute with China 1949-62. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230242159 - £52 - December 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title War, Nationalism, and the British Sailor, 1750-1850 This is the first book to systematically integrate 'Jack Tar,' the common seaman, into the cultural history of modern Britain, treating him not as an occasional visitor from the ocean, but as an important part of national life. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230615915 - £52.5 - October 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Warlands The displacement of population during and after the Second World War took place on a global scale and formed part of a longer historical process of violence, territorial reconfiguration and state 'development'. This book focuses on the profound political, social and economic upheavals in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe at this time. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230576018 - £55 - November 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Warlands (Electronic book) The displacement of population during and after the Second World War took place on a global scale and formed part of a longer historical process of violence, territorial reconfiguration and state 'development'. This book focuses on the profound political, social and economic upheavals in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe at this time. Paperback - ISBN: 9780230246935 - £55 - November 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title West Germans Against The West (also available as an electronic book) An exploration of how the theme of Anti-Americanism was employed by influential sections of the West German media to oppose the modernisation of the Federal Republic of Germany during the 'long 1950s'. In the public battle over the future direction of Germany, America stood as a symbol of social, political and economic corruption. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230231559 - £52 - December 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Western Society: A Brief History Based on the highly acclaimed A History of Western Society, this brief edition presents a succinct overview of the historical development of the West while preserving the hallmark focus on social history and everyday life of the original work. Richly illustrated, it combines pedagogical support with compelling writing and first-hand accounts. Paperback - ISBN: 9780230594531 - 29.99 - April 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title What Were the Crusades? Riley-Smith's acclaimed book is now regarded as a classic short study. The updated fourth edition of this essential introduction features a new Preface which surveys and reviews developments in crusading scholarship, a new map, material on a child crusader, and a short discussion of the current effects of aggressive Pan-Islamism. Paperback - ISBN: 9780230220690 - £14.99 - May 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Witchcraft and Masculinities in Early Modern Europe Men - as accused witches, witch-hunters, werewolves and the demonically possessed - are the focus of analysis in this collection of essays by leading scholars of early modern European witchcraft. The gendering of witch persecution and witchcraft belief is explored through original case-studies from England, Scotland, Italy, Germany and France. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230553293 - £52 - November 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Women and Nationalism in the Making of Modern Greece This pioneering book reveals how nationalism in Ninteenth-century Greece helped women to develop an alternative vision of female politics, history, and citizenship. Shedding new light on women's ideas and beliefs the author brings to life the story of the ideas that formed our societies and individual identities. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230545465 - £50 - June 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Women in Twentieth-Century Italy This is one of the first overviews of the diverse experience of Italian women in the twentieth century. Willson explores the impact of social, political, economic, and cultural developments, highlighting the ways in which women of different social classes and regions were affected by, and helped to shape, historical change. Hardback - ISBN: 9781403995179 - £55 - December 2009 - Paperback - ISBN: 9781403995186 - £18 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Women's Bodies and Medical Science (also available as an electronic book) An analysis of a scandal involving a doctor accused of allowing a number of women to develop cervical cancer from carcinoma in situ as part of an experiment he had been conducting since the 1960s into conservative treatment of the disease, to more broadly explore dramatic changes in medical history in the second half of the twentieth century. Hardback - ISBN: 9780230236035 - £52 - December 2009 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title 5 October 2009 |
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