Palgrave imprint: 15119 books
Contemporary Indian Dance
New Creative Choreography in India and the Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Through discussion of a dazzling array of artists in India and the diaspora, this book delineates a new language of dance on the global stage. Myriad movement vocabularies intersect the dancers' creative landscape, while cutting-edge creative choreography parodies gender and cultural stereotypes, and represents social issues.
Britain After Empire
Constructing a Post-War Political-Cultural Project
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Through compelling analysis of popular culture, high culture and elite designs in the years following the end of the Second World War, this book explores how Britain and its people have come to terms with the loss of prestige stemming from the decline of the British Empire. The result is a volume that offers new ideas on what it is to be 'British'.
Governing Post-War Britain
The Paradoxes of Progress, 1951-1973
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Glen O'Hara draws a compelling picture of Second World War Britain by investigating relations between people and government: the electorate's rising expectations and demands for universally-available social services, the increasing complexity of the new solutions to these needs, and mounting frustration with both among both governors and governed.
A Social History of Student Volunteering
Britain and Beyond, 1880-1980
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Using a wide range of student testimony and oral history, Georgina Brewis sets in international, comparative context a one-hundred year history of student voluntarism and social action at UK colleges and universities, including such causes as relief for victims of fascism in the 1930s and international development in the 1960s.
by H. Perraton
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Foreign students have travelled to Britain for centuries and, from the beginning, attracted controversy. This book explores changing British policy and practice, and changing student experience, set within the context of British social and political history.
Diplomas and Diplomacy
The History of the Marshall Scholarship
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
The first published work to chart the history of the Marshall Scholarship, this book details the origins of the Scholarship in the British Foreign Office and subsequently traces the award's evolution through the careers and narratives of a range of Scholars. It further explores the complex and dynamic...
Information History in the Modern World
Histories of the Information Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
Information has a rich but under explored history. The information age of the late twentieth century witnessed the emergence of a new history of information and, in this timely collection of essays, a team of international scholars from a variety of disciplines examines the changing understandings...
Paralysed with Fear
The Story of Polio
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
The story of mankind's struggle against polio is compelling, exciting and full of twists and pardoxes. One of the grand challenges of modern medicine, it was a battleground between good and bad science. Gareth Williams takes an original view of the journey to understanding and defeating polio.
International Volunteer Tourism
Critical Reflections on Good Works in Central America
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Designed to promote reflection and 'better practices' among the prospective volunteers and organizers of travel-for-service experiences, International Volunteer Tourism provides narratives on short-term international volunteering in Central America written by North American organizers, student participants and Central American partners.
Albert Schweitzer’s Legacy for Education
Reverence for Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
This is the first book devoted to the study of the thought of Albert Schweitzer as it relates to educational theory and practice. Rud argues that Schweitzer's life and work offer inspiration and timely insights for both educational thought and practice in our new century.
Reading the Book of Isaiah
Destruction and Lament in the Holy Cities
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Randall Heskett uses both historical criticism and a form-critical approach to analyze and assess Lamentation and Restoration of Destroyed Cities as oral traditions of ancient Israelite prophetic genres.
Islamophobia in America
The Anatomy of Intolerance
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Islamophobia in America offers new perspectives on prejudice against Muslims, which has become increasingly widespread in the USA in the past decade. The contributors document the history of anti-Islamic sentiment in American culture, the scope of organized anti-Muslim propaganda, and the institutionalization of this kind of intolerance.
Women & Catholicism
Gender, Communion, and Authority
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
The book investigates three situations in the Catholic Church that point to Catholicism's weak spot: the role of women in the Church. Zagano sheds light on the Catholic Church's hierarchically-imposed laws that keep women at a distance from the holy, whether as liturgical ministers, as wives of priests, or as priests themselves.
by Carole Levin
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2001
The reign of Elizabeth I was marked by change: England finally became a protestant nation, and England's relations with her neighbours were also changing, in part because of religious controversies. Elizabeth's reign was also significant in terms of changing gender expectations, and in terms of attitudes...