Palgrave imprint: 15119 books
Performance and Temporalisation
Time Happens
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
Performance and Temporalisation features a collection of scholars and artists writing about the coming forth of time as human experience. Whether drawing, designing, watching performance, being baptised, playing cricket, dancing, eating, walking or looking at caves, each explores the making of time through their art, scholarship and everyday lives.
When Private Talk Goes Public
Gossip in American History
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Gossip is one of the most common, and most condemned, forms of discourse in which we engage - even as it is often absorbing and socially significant, it is also widely denigrated. This volume examines fascinating moments in the history of gossip in America, from witchcraft trials to People magazine, helping us to see the subject with new eyes.
by Zara S. Steiner, Keith Neilson
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2003
How and why did Britain become involved in the First World War? Taking into account the scholarship of the last twenty-five years, this second edition of Zara S. Steiner's classic study, thoroughly revised with Keith Neilson, explores a subject which is as highly contentious as ever.
While...
by Professor Andrew Thorpe
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2008
Thorpe's book is widely seen as the best single-volume study of the whole of the Labour party's history. Now thoroughly updated in the light of ongoing historiographical debates, this third edition brings the story up to the present with new and revised chapters on the development of 'New Labour' and the legacy of the Blair government.
Arabs and Israelis
Conflict and Peacemaking in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
The Arab-Israeli conflict has proven to be one of the most protracted and bitter struggles of modern times, and has been extraordinarily resilient in the face of all efforts to resolve it.
Written by a distinguished team of authors comprising an Israeli, a Palestinian, and an Egyptian presenting...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
This collection offers a new reflection on rape in war time through 15 case studies, ranging from Greece to Nigeria. It questions the specificity of rape as a universal transgression, its place in memories of war, its legacies, including children born from rape, and the challenge of writing about intimate violence as both a scientist and a human.
The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists
Terrorism and Justice in the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2011
The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists is the culmination of seven years of research into the 1886 Haymarket bombing and subsequent trial. It not only overturns the prevailing consensus on this event, it documents in detail how the basic facts, as far as they can be determined, have been distorted, obscured, or suppressed for seventy years.
Violent London
2000 Years of Riots, Rebels and Revolts
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
Almost as soon as it was built, London suffered the first of many acts of violent protest, when Boudica and her followers set fire to the city in AD 60. Ever since, the capital's streets have been a forum for popular insurrection. Covering nearly 2,000 years of political protest, this is a riveting alternative history of past and present conflict.
by J. Burds
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
In November 1941, near the city of Rovno, Ukraine, German death squads murdered over 23,000 Jews in what has been described as "the second Babi Yar." This meticulous and methodologically innovative study reconstructs the events at Rovno, and in the process exemplifies efforts to form a genuinely transnational history of the Holocaust.
Chinese in Colonial Burma
A Migrant Community in A Multiethnic State
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2017
Using previously unexplored archives from colonial institutions and individuals, and primary materials produced by the Burmese Chinese, this comprehensive study investigates over a century of history of the Burmese Chinese under British colonial rule. Due to the peculiar position of Burma in the British...
Sailors, Slaves, and Immigrants
Bondage in the Indian Ocean World, 1750–1914
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Slaves, convicts, and unfree immigrants have traveled the oceans throughout human history, but the conventional Atlantic World historical paradigm has narrowed our understanding of modernity. This provocative study contrasts the Atlantic conflation of freedom and the sea with the complex relationships in the Indian Ocean in the long 19th century.
Staging the Slums, Slumming the Stage
Class, Poverty, Ethnicity, and Sexuality in American Theatre, 1890–1916
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Drawing on traditional archival research, reception theory, cultural histories of slumming, and recent work in critical theory on literary representations of poverty, Westgate argues that the productions of slum plays served as enactments of the emergent definitions of the slum and the corresponding ethical obligations involved therein.
Interpreting the Peace
Peace Operations, Conflict and Language in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Analysing the issues of language that faced international forces carrying out peace operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the 1990s, this book examines how differences of language were an integral part of the conflicts in the country and in what way the multinational UN and NATO forces faced their own problems of communication and language support.
Friendship and Allegiance in Eighteenth-Century Literature
The Politics of Private Virtue in the Age of Walpole
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Friendship and Allegiance explores the concept of friendship as it was defined, contested and distorted by writers of the early eighteenth century. Setting well-known canonical texts (The Beggar's Opera, Gulliver's Travels) alongside lesser-known works, it portrays a literary world renegotiating the meaning of public and private virtue.