Palgrave Macmillan imprint: 14111 books
The Uses of the Middle Ages in Modern European States
History, Nationhood and the Search for Origins
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
An assessment of the role of the Middle Ages in national historiography and in modern conceptions of national identity, looking at relatively young nations, and regions which claim national traditions but were slow to achieve, or regain, separate statehood. Examples range from Ireland and Iceland through Austria and Italy to Finland and Greece.
Death in a Cold Climate
A Guide to Scandinavian Crime Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Barry Forshaw, the UK's principal crime fiction expert, presents a celebration and analysis of the Scandinavian crime genre, from Sjöwall and Wahlöö's Martin Beck series through Henning Mankell's Wallander to Stieg Larsson's demolition of the Swedish Social Democratic ideal in the publishing phenomenon The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo .
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
How can we understand consumption in a region known for its cultural richness and vast inequalities? What do Latin Americans consume, and why? Examining topics from tango and samba to sex workers in Costa Rica, from eating tamales to selling ice in the Andes, and from building and moving houses to...
by N. Levine
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
The end of Stalinist Russia, China's change under Deng Xiaoping and the publication of previously unexplored documents of Marx in the MEGA2 opened a new epoch in the analysis of Marx. Marx's Discourse With Hegel is both a product and contribution to this rebirth of Marxism by its reformulation of the relationship between Hegel and Marx
Marx and Engels's "German ideology" Manuscripts
Presentation and Analysis of the "Feuerbach chapter"
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Since the 1920s, scholars have promoted a set of manuscripts, long abandoned by Marx and Engels, to canonical status in book form as The German Ideology, and in particular its 'first chapter,' known as 'I. Feuerbach.' Part one of this revolutionary study relates in detail the political history through...
Modernist Impersonalities
Affect, Authority, and the Subject
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Rives uncovers a context of aesthetic and social debate that modernist studies has yet to fully articulate, examining what it meant, for various intellectuals working in early twentieth-century Britain and America, to escape from personality.
A Vision of Modern Science
John Tyndall and the Role of the Scientist in Victorian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
An examination of a pivotal moment in the history of science through the career and cultural impact of the historically neglected Victorian physicist John Tyndall, establishing him as an important figure of the period, whose scientific discoveries and philosophy of science in society are still relevant today.
Hazlitt the Dissenter
Religion, Philosophy, and Politics, 1766-1816
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Hazlitt the Dissenter is unique in providing the first book-length account of Hazlitt's early life as a dissenter. As the first multi-disciplinary account of Hazlitt's early literary career, it provides a new insight into the literary, intellectual, political and religious culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.
The Pimping of Prostitution
Abolishing the Sex Work Myth
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2019
This book examines one of the most contested issues facing feminists, human rights activists and governments around the globe – the international sex trade. For decades, the liberal left has been conflicted as to whether pro-prostitution activists or abolitionists hold the correct view, and debates...
Second Wind
Oral Histories of Lung Transplant Survivors
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
This book uses both oral and conventional historical methods to describe and analyze the history of lung transplantation in the US. While drawing on accounts from doctors and other specialists, it primarily focuses on the experiences of patients and explores themes of uncertainty, timing, identity, coping, and quality of life.
by Richard Henry
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
The mutually energizing and often volatile friendship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson - unexplored in depth by scholars until this study - was one of the last century s remarkable political alliances. Both Stevenson and Eleanor Roosevelt shared a view of politics as a moral enterprise,...
by D. Sawyer
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
This original study examines Jean-François Lyotard's philosophical concept of the differend and details its unexplored implications for literature. it provides a new framework with which to understand the discourse itself, from its Homeric beginnings to postmodern works by authors such as Michael Ondaatje and Jonathan Safran Foer.
by Andrew A. Gentes
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Despite reports of exile proving disastrous to the region, 300,000 Russian subjects, from political dissidents to the elderly and mentally disabled, were deported to Siberia from 1823-61. Their stories of physical and psychological suffering, heroism and personal resurrection, are recounted in this compelling history of tsarist Siberian exile.
Popular Sovereignty and Constituent Power in Latin America
Democracy from Below
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
This book combines a bottom-up and top-down approach to the study of social movements in relationship to the development of constituent and constituted power in Latin America. The contributors to this volume argue that the radical transformation of liberal representative democracy into participative...