Palgrave imprint: 15119 books
by J. Black, J. Castro, C. Lin
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
The authors examine youths' practices in digital culture affecting social change, pedagogy, and creative learning practices. Knowledge about these practices is discussed, in which learning, knowledge sharing, distinct social contexts, pedagogical relationships, and artistic creative inquiry are examined in diverse formal and informal environments.
by R. Ayson
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Offering a comprehensive account of the work of Hedley Bull, Ayson analyses the breadth of Bull's work as a Foreign Office official for Harold Wilson's government, the complexity of his views, including Bull's unpublished papers, and challenges some of the comfortable assertions about Bull's place in the English School of IR.
On Skidelsky's Keynes and Other Essays
Selected Essays of G. C. Harcourt
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
On Skidelsky's Keynes and Other Essays is a collection of essays, biographies, review articles and tributes, focusing on the lives and times of the Cambridge School of Economists, and the immense contribution that these thinkers, including the author, made to the discipline.
The Making of a Post-Keynesian Economist
Cambridge Harvest
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
The Making of a Post-Keynesian Economist: Cambridge Harvest gathers up the threads of the last decade of the author's twenty eight years in Cambridge, before his return to Australia. The essays include autobiography, theory, review articles, surveys, policy, intellectual biographies and tributes, and general essays.
History, Policy and Public Purpose
Historians and Historical Thinking in Government
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
This book takes a fresh look at the connection between history and policy, proposing that historians rediscover a sense of ‘public purpose’ that can embrace political decision-making – and also enhance historical practice. Making policy is a complex and messy affair, calling on many different...
Cold War Social Science
Knowledge Production, Liberal Democracy, and Human Nature
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
From World War II to the early 1970s, social science research expanded in dramatic and unprecedented fashion in the United States. This volume examines how, why, and with what consequences this rapid and yet contested expansion depended on the entanglement of the social sciences with the Cold War.
Women Workers' Education, Life Narratives and Politics
Geographies, Histories, Pedagogies
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
This book highlights the catalytic role of workers’ education in mobilizing political activism and women’s involvement in labour struggles and politics. Through a comprehensive study of the gendered aspects of workers’ education it explores the intellectual lives of women workers. Drawing on...
Criminal Actions and Social Situations
Understanding the Role of Structure and Intentionality
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
This book develops a more nuanced, and technically rigorous, account of persons and groups in the context of intentional action and responsibility. Until now criminologists have taken groups as fairly straightforward associations and neglected the technical – and problematic – issues of how intention...
by Matt Perry
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
Marxism and History examines Marxism's enormous impact on the way historians approach their subject. Tackling current historiographical questions in a lively, jargon-free way, Matt Perry offers a concise introduction to: Marxist views of history; key Marxist historians and thinkers; and the relevance of Marxist theory and history to students' own work.
Raising Spirits
How a Conjuror’s Tale Was Transmitted across the Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Despite supernatural scepticism, stories about spirits were regularly printed and shared throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. This case-study in the transmission of a single story (of a young gunsmith near Bristol conjuring spirits, leading to his early death) reveals both how and why successive generations found meaning in such accounts.
NASA in the World
Fifty Years of International Collaboration in Space
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Since its inception, NASA has participated in over 4,000 international projects, yet historians have almost entirely neglected this remarkable aspect of the agency's work. This groundbreaking work is the first to trace NASA's history in a truly international context, drawing on unprecedented access to agency archives and personnel.
US National Security Concerns in Latin America and the Caribbean
The Concept of Ungoverned Spaces and Failed States
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
In this edited volume, scholars from Latin America and the United States will analyze how US foreign policy making circles have applied the concepts to the creation of new US security initiatives in the Latin American region during the post September 11, 2001 era.
Literary Half-Lives
Doris Lessing, Clancy Sigal, and Roman à Clef
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
While Doris Lessing was composing The Golden Notebook , she was intimately involved with Clancy Sigal and their relationship influenced the literary methods of both writers. Focusing on literary transformations, Rubenstein offers compelling insights into the ethical implications of disguised autobiography and roman à clef .
War Trauma and English Modernism
T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
This is the first book to consistently read English Modernist literature as testimony to trauma of the First and Second World Wars. Focusing upon T.S. Eliot and D.H. Lawrence, it examines the impact of war upon their lives and their strategies to resist it through literary innovation.