Palgrave imprint: 15119 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
The New Nationalism and the First World War is an edited volume dedicated to a transnational study of the features of the turn-of-the-century nationalism, its manifestations in social and political arenas and the arts, and its influence on the development of the global-scale conflict that was the First World War.
Liberal Barbarism
The European Destruction of the Palace of the Emperor of China
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
In Liberal Barbarism, Erik Ringmar sets out to explain the 1860 destruction of Yuanmingyuan - the Chinese imperial palace north-west of Beijing - at the hands of British and French armies. Yuanmingyuan was the emperor's own theme-park, a perfect world, a vision of paradise, which housed one of the...
Commemorating Writers in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Nation-Building and Centenary Fever
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
This volume offers detailed accounts of the cults of individual writers and a comparative perspective on the spread of centenary fever across Europe. It offers a fascinating insight into the interaction between literature and cultural memory, and the entanglement between local, national and European identities at the highpoint of nation-building.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
While there is an growing body of work on space and place in many disciplines, less attention has been paid to how a spatial approach illuminates the societies and cultures of the past. Here, leading experts explore the uses of space in two respects: how space can be applied to the study of history, and how space was used at specific times.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
This book examines the ways in which fiction has addressed the continent since the Second World War. Drawing on novelists from Europe and elsewhere, the volume analyzes the literary response to seven dominant concerns (ideas of Europe, conflict, borders, empire, unification, migration, and marginalization),...
The Disarmament of Hatred
Marc Sangnier, French Catholicism and the Legacy of the First World War, 1914-45
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Documenting an audacious Franco-German movement for moral disarmament, instigated in 1921 by war veteran and French Catholic politician Marc Sangnier, in this transnational study Gearóid Barry examines the European resonance of Sangnier's Peace Congresses and their political and religious ecumenism within France in the era of two World Wars.
by S. Qi
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This book studies the reception history of Western literature in China from the 1840s to the present. Qi explores the socio-historical contexts and the contours of how Western literature was introduced, mostly through translation and assesses its transformative impact in the cultural, literary as well as sociopolitical life of modern China.
Curriculum, Culture and Citizenship Education in Wales
Investigations into the Curriculum Cymreig
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
This book explores how culture and citizenship are theorised, promoted and learned throughout schools in Wales. Following a brief history of Welsh education and a discussion of how contemporary cultural identity is theorised through citizenship education curricula, it illustrates how archaic approaches...
British Diplomacy and the Descent into Chaos
The Career of Jack Garnett, 1902-19
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Recreating the diplomatic career of Jack Garnett, from 1902-1919, John Fisher reveals a fascinating individual as well as contextualizing his story with regard to British policy in the countries to which he was posted in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America, during a period of rapid change in international politics and in Britain's world role.
Eighteenth-Century British Premiers
Walpole to the Younger Pitt
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Following his earlier surveys of 19th and 20th Century British Prime Ministers, Dick Leonard turns his attention to their 18th Century predecessors, including such major figures as Robert Walpole, the Elder Pitt (Lord Chatham), Lord North and the Younger Pitt.
by A. Winch
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
From Mean Girl to BFF, Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood explores female sociality in postfeminist popular culture. Focusing on a range of media forms, Alison Winch reveals how women are increasingly encouraged to strategically bond by controlling each other's body image through 'the girlfriend gaze'.
The Gospel of Beauty in the Progressive Era
Reforming American Verse and Values
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Szefel investigates the use of poetry in addressing political reform at the turn of the twentieth century. It charts the work of poets and editors - many of whom were women and minorities - who created a network of organizations to nurture writers who addressed the problems wrought by Progressive-era capitalism.
The Death of Elizabeth I
Remembering and Reconstructing the Virgin Queen
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
The death of Queen Elizabeth I in 1603 was greeted by an outpouring of official proclamations, gossip-filled letters, tense diary entries, diplomatic dispatches, and somber sermons. English poets wrote hundreds of elegies to Elizabeth, and playwrights began bringing her onto the stage. This book uses...
Bret Easton Ellis
Underwriting the Contemporary
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
This book reads the whole of Bret Easton Ellis's oeuvre to date from Less Than Zero to Imperial Bedrooms and asks to what extent Ellis's novels can be read as critiquing the cultural moments of which they are a part. Ellis's work can be thought of as an enactment of a process of underwriting contemporary...