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Palgrave Studies in Oral History Gulag Voices: Oral Histories of Soviet Incarceration and Exile (Paperback)

In this volume the powerful voices of Gulag survivors become accessible to English-speaking audiences for the first time through oral histories rather than written memoirs. It brings together interviews with men and women members of the working class... more

Palgrave Studies in Oral History Oral History Community and Displacement: Imagining Memories in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Hardcover)

This book uses oral history methodology to record stories of people who experienced the brunt of racist forced removals in the city of Cape Town South Africa. Through life stories and community case studies it traces the human impact of this disruptive... more

Palgrave Studies in Oral History Soviet Communal Living: An Oral History of the Kommunalka (Hardcover)

This book brings together fascinating testimonies from thirty inhabitants of the Kommunalka the communal apartments that were the norm in housing in the cities of Russia during the whole history of the Soviet Union more

Palgrave Studies in Oral History No Room of Her Own: Women s Stories of Homelessness Life Death and Resistance (Hardcover)

This oral history collection brings together extended interviews with fifteen women illuminating the part that gender roles play in ensnaring women in cycles of domestic abuse and homelessness and highlighting the physical stresses. It also challenges... more

Pre-Owned No Room of Her Own: Women s Stories of Homelessness Life Death and Resistance (Paperback 9780230116580) by D Hellegers

9780230116580. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. 2011 ed. Language: English. Pages: 218. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 218 p. Contains: Unspecified. Palgrave Studies in Oral History. This oral history collection brings together... more

Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology: A Technological History of Cold-War India 1947-â� 1969 (Paperback)

This book provides a technological history of modern India in particular the Nehruvian development in the context of the Cold War. Through a series of case studies about military modernization transportation infrastructure and electric power it... more

Palgrave Studies in Political History: Prefects and Governors in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Towards a Comparative History of Provincial Senior Officials (Hardcover)

This edited collection presents a pan-European history of intermediary government and administration in nineteenth-century Europe. Taking a closer look at senior government officials who represented the sovereign or state far away from the capital the... more

Palgrave Studies in Economic History: Role of Reinsurance in the World: Case Studies of Eight Countries (Paperback)

This book is an edited collection by leading insurance historians examining the historical role of reinsurance (the insurance of insurers) in the insurance markets of eight countries: USA Netherlands Sweden France Spain Italy Mexico and Japan. All the... more

Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience: Histories of Experience in the World of Lived Religion (Paperback)

At a historic moment when religion shows all its social and political strength in various post-modern societies around our globe this fascinating collection of studies from the Middle Ages to twentieth-century Europe demonstrates all the richness and... more

Palgrave Studies in Economic History: The Pearl of the East (Hardcover)

This book analyzes the economic impact of the early development of railways in different Asian countries linking the inlands with port cities and with a global network of connections. This is looked at in the context of the rise of imperialism in the... more

Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance: The Roman Stock Exchange Between the 19th and 20th Centuries (Hardcover)

This book explores the Italian stock exchange through its construction and consolidation while examining and criticizing the birth of the capital city. Through the evolution of the stock exchange the transformation of Rome is examined from the capital... more

Palgrave Studies in Economic History: The Imperial Mode of China (Hardcover)

Utilising Marxian Weberian and institutionalist approaches this book proposes a new theoretical framework for understanding the nature of Chinese economic history: the imperial mode of China. The book aims to innovatively apply a cohesive historical... more

Palgrave Studies in the History of the M The Americanization of the British Press 1830s-1914 (Hardcover)

The first book to compare and contrast the rise of mass circulation press in Britain and America. It provides insights into the origins of tabloid journalism and explores a range of cross-cultural and literary issues tracing the history of key... more

Palgrave Studies in Economic History: The Transformation of Maritime Professions (Hardcover)

This book deals with the economic impact of technological changes and the rise of passenger shipping on social relations on board and ashore in European shipping industries between c.1850 and 2000. The changes in motive power communication techniques... more

Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance: The Roman Stock Exchange Between the 19th and 20th Centuries (Paperback)

This book explores the Italian stock exchange through its construction and consolidation while examining and criticizing the birth of the capital city. Through the evolution of the stock exchange the transformation of Rome is examined from the capital... more

Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic: Magical Treasure Hunting in Europe and North America: A History (Paperback)

The first comprehensive history of magical treasure hunting from the Middle Ages to the 20th century revealing a magical universe of treasure spirits and wizards who tried to deal with them. Combining history and anthropology this study sees treasure... more

Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood: Ideas Institutions and the Politics of Schools in Postwar Britain and Germany (Hardcover)

This book addresses one the most contentious issues of postwar Western Europe namely the organization of the primary and secondary stages of schooling in state education systems. In examining the politics of continuity and change in postwar schooling... more

Palgrave Studies in Political History: Civic Continuities in an Age of Revolutionary Change C.1750-1850: Europe and the Americas (Hardcover)

This open access book explores the role of continuity in political processes and practices during the Age of Revolutions. It argues that the changes that took place in the years around 1800 were enabled by different types of continuities across Europe... more

Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History: Corruption Empire and Colonialism in the Modern Era: A Global Perspective (Paperback)

Answering the calls made to overcome methodological nationalism this volume is the first examination of the links between corruption and imperial rule in the modern world. It does so through a set of original studies that examine the multi-layered... more

Palgrave Studies in Migration History: Migrants Immigration and Diversity in Twentieth-Century Northern Ireland: British Irish or Other ? (Hardcover)

Addressing questions about what it means to be British or Irish in the twenty-first century this book focuses its attention on twentieth-century Northern Ireland and demonstrates how the fragmented and disparate nature of national identity shaped and... more

Palgrave Studies in Economic History: Behind the Iron Curtain: Economic Historians During the Cold War 1945-1989 (Hardcover)

This edited volume offers a systematic exploration of the relations between Western and Eastern scientists during the Cold War from the Eastern European perspective using the example of economic history. Introducing famous as well as almost forgotten... more

Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience: Experiencing Society and the Lived Welfare State (Paperback)

This open access book presents a new approach to the history of welfare state. By applying the concepts of experiencing society and the lived welfare state the collection introduces theoretical methodological and empirical insights for bridging the... more

Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience: No Neighbors Lands in Postwar Europe: Vanishing Others (Hardcover)

This book focuses on the social voids that were the result of occupation genocide mass killings and population movements in Europe during and after the Second World War. Historians sociologists and anthropologists adopt comparative perspectives on... more

Palgrave Studies in Political History: Civic Continuities in an Age of Revolutionary Change C.1750-1850: Europe and the Americas (Paperback)

This open access book explores the role of continuity in political processes and practices during the Age of Revolutions. It argues that the changes that took place in the years around 1800 were enabled by different types of continuities across Europe... more

Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions: Actors Audiences and Emotions in the Eighteenth Century: Communities of Sentiment (Hardcover)

This book offers an innovative account of how audiences and actors emotionally interacted in the English theatre during the middle decades of the eighteenth century a period bookended by two of its stars: David Garrick and Sarah Siddons. Drawing upon... more

Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood: Ideas Institutions and the Politics of Schools in Postwar Britain and Germany (Paperback)

This book addresses one the most contentious issues of postwar Western Europe namely the organization of the primary and secondary stages of schooling in state education systems. In examining the politics of continuity and change in postwar schooling... more

Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History: Formative Modernities in the Early Modern Atlantic and Beyond: Identities Polities and Glocal Economies (Hardcover)

This book offers a new perspective on the concept of modernity. Since its invention as a contrast to Antiquity or the Middle Ages modernity has been tied to ideas of superiority progress and efficiency. As a counterpart to the Marxist history of class... more

Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism: Retrieving Liberalism from Rationalist Constructivism Volume I: History and Its Betrayal (Paperback)

This first volume History and its Betrayal traces the development of major themes of liberalism from the increase in human population beyond the limits of the face-to-face society of tribalism and small groups up until the present day. It shows that... more

Palgrave Studies in Economic History: The Creation of the East Timorese Economy (Hardcover)

Very little has been written on the economy of East Timor since the country s independence in 2002 and no comprehensive account exists of the economic history of the country. The former cannot be properly understood without a knowledge of the... more

Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media: Voices of Challenge in Australia s Migrant and Minority Press (Hardcover)

This book brings together long-obscured histories to discuss Australia s cultural social and political diversity in depth. The history of Australia s migrant and minority print media reveals extensive evidence for the nation s global connectedness from... more

Palgrave Studies in Economic History: Natural Resources and Divergence: A Comparison of Andean and Nordic Trajectories (Paperback)

Is the natural resource curse destiny? Are different ways to link natural resources and economic development? Using two particular regions as case studies this edited collection examines the divergent development paths of natural resource rich... more

Palgrave Studies in Economic History: The Evolution of the Political Social and Economic Life of Cyprus 1191-1950 (Paperback)

The book examines the evolution of the political social and economic life of Cyprus from its conquest by Richard the Lionheart to the 1950 referendum on Enosis. Even with such a long period around 900 years the interest in controlling the island... more

Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History: War and Trade in Maritime East Asia (Paperback)

This book is divided into two parts. One is the state of trade in East Asia before and after the collapse of the tributary system to the Ming Dynasty and the other is the war of aggression in which Toyotomi Hideyoshi of Japan sent a large number of... more

Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology: Plants and Politics in Padua During the Age of Revolution 1820-1848 (Paperback)

1. Introduction.- 2. Paduan Networks.- 3. Plants and the Social Climb of the Meneghini Family.- 4. Garden Policies.- 5. Growing Up in A Progessive Environment. -6. Organization Cooperation and Progress in the Paduan Political Economy.- 7. Progress... more

Palgrave Studies in Political History: Popular Agency and Politicisation in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Beyond the Vote (Hardcover)

This book provides an entry point to the most cutting-edge lines of research on popular political mobilisation in Europe. It brings together leading scholars from Germany France Britain the Netherlands and Spain. The chapters explore the connected... more

Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History: Jesuits and Asian Goods in the Iberian Empires 1580-1700 (Hardcover)

This book analyzes the exchange relations between the colonies of the Iberian Empires starting from two cities ports Buenos Aires and Macau in the period 1580-1700. Agents who were not professional traders such as the members of the Society of Jesus... more

Palgrave Studies in Economic History: Pandemics Economics and Inequality: Lessons from the Spanish Flu (Hardcover)

This Pivot book provides a framework for understanding the economic and potentially unequal effects of pandemics focusing closely on the Spanish Flu. It provides an in-depth analysis of the different effects of the Spanish Flu on the economy from... more

Palgrave Studies in Economic History: Mining Money and Markets in the Early Modern Atlantic: Digital Approaches and New Perspectives (Hardcover)

Mining Money and Markets in the Early Modern Atlantic: Digital Approaches and New Perspectives more