Palgrave imprint: 15119 books
Uses of Austen
Jane's Afterlives
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This book focuses on how Austen's life and work is being re-framed and re-imagined in 20th and 21st century literature and culture. Tracing the connections between Modernist Austen in the early C20th and feminist and post-feminist appropriations in the later C20th, it examines how Austen emerged as a complex point of reference on the global stage.
New England Nation
The Country the Puritans Built
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Out of European revolutions and social upheaval, an extraordinary society of literate, pious, and prosperous English Puritans flowered in seventeenth-century New England. This wonderfully readable history recreates the world of Puritan New England and places it in the broad sweep of history. The book...
The Novels of Walter Scott and his Literary Relations
Mary Brunton, Susan Ferrier and Christian Johnstone
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Using a wealth of diverse source material this book comprises an innovative critical study which, for the first time, examines Scott through the filter of his female contemporaries. It not only provides thought-provoking ideas about their handling of, for example, the love-plot, but also produces a different, more sombre Scott.
by K. Stollznow
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Can a bump on the head cause someone to speak with a different accent? Can animals, aliens, and objects talk? Can we communicate with gods, demons, and the dead? Language Myths, Mysteries and Magic is a curio shop full of colourful superstitions, folklore, and legends about language.
Shakespiritualism
Shakespeare and the Occult, 1850–1950
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
This study concerns itself with a now-forgotten religious group, Spiritualists, and how their ensuing discussions of Shakespeare's meaning, his writing practices, his possible collaborations, and the supposed purity and/or corruption of his texts anticipated, accompanied, or silhouetted similar debates in Shakespeare Studies.
by Kerry Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
China has created its own distinctive pathway to becoming one of the world's largest economies – and the country's economic and political development over the next decade will have profound implications for the rest of the world. Knowledge of contemporary China is therefore essential for anyone who...
Beyond Market and Hierarchy
Patriotic Capitalism and the Jiuda Salt Refinery, 1914-1953
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Based on extensive archival research, Beyond Market and Hierarchy reconstructs how Fan waged modern China's war of salts. Led by his Jiuda Salt Industries, the nascent refined salt industry battled revenue farmers who, as a group, monopolized the production and distribution of evaporated salt.
Working Class Formation in Taiwan
Fractured Solidarity in State-Owned Enterprises, 1945-2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
This book offers a fresh look at Taiwan's state workers in from the postwar period to the present day and examines the rise and fall of labor insurgency in the past two decades. Challenging the conventional image of docile working class, it unearths a series of workers resistance, hidden and public, in a high authoritarian era.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
A distinguished international team of historians examines the dynamics of global and regional change in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Providing uniquely broad coverage, encompassing North and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, and...
The Political Economy of the Egyptian Revolution
Mubarak, Economic Reforms and Failed Hegemony
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
While the 2011 Egyptian revolution has already become the subject of much debate, the roots of the socio-economic context which made the revolution possible have seldom been explored. Roberto Roccu addresses this gap and in doing this provides the first detailed study of the deeper causes of the Egyptian...
by G. Zhou
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
This is the first book to concentrate not only on the triumph of the vernacular in modern China but also on the critical role of the rise of the vernacular in world literature, invoking parallel cases from countries throughout Europe and Asia.
The End of Russian Philosophy
Tradition and Transition at the Turn of the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
The End of Russian Philosophy describes and evaluates the troubled state of Russian philosophical thought in the post-Soviet decades. The book suggests that in order to revive philosophy as a universal, professional discipline in Russia, it may be necessary for Russian philosophy to first do away with the messianic traditions of the 19th century.
Writing Postcommunism
Towards a Literature of the East European Ruins
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Moving through the elegiac ruins of the Berlin Wall and the Yugoslav disintegration, Writing Postcommunism explores literary evocations of the pervasive disappointment and mourning that have marked the postcommunist twilight.
Writing Lives in China, 1600-2010
Histories of the Elusive Self
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
This innovative collection explores the life stories of Chinese women and men between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. It draws on both biographical and autobiographical narratives and on perspectives taken from life writing theory to ask how lives were lived and written within and against the rules of the auto/biographical game.