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Palgrave Macmillan List of publications for Earlier publications can be accessed by using the History On-Line Search Page 50 Years a Keynesian and Other Essays In the title essay of this classic collection, the author reviews retrospectively his developing ideas on theory and policy since he first encountered Keynes's writings in 1950. The essays in section one are concerned with Keynes now, specifically the coming back into favour of his most fundamental ideas. Sections two and three contain intellectual biographies and shorter tributes to economists, most of whom were friends and colleagues of the author. Section four covers three review articles of the Feiwell volumes on Joan Robinson, fifty years of NBER and Nicholas Kaldor's last book. Section five is a survey of Post-Keynesian thought. Section six, General Essays, starts with a paper written in 1980 as a passionate reaction to the worldwide rise of monetarism and new classical macroeconomics theories and policies and closes with an essay on the Cambridge contribution to economics. Paperback - ISBN: 1403987602 - £19.99 - 31 March 2006 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title A Concise History of Economic Thought Gianni Vaggi and Peter Groenewegen present a brief history of economic thought over three centuries. They sketch the history form the seventeenth century to the present day. Each chapter examines the key contributions of a major economist, or group of economists, and concludes with brief suggestions for further reading. The economists covered include Keynes, Marshall, Petty and Jevons, as well as less familiar theorists such as Galiani and Turgot. Paperback - ISBN: 1403987394 - £19.99 - 31 January 2006 - pp. 0 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title A History of China This rich and absorbing history of China from earliest times to the present covers the country's complex political and economic structures and culture in a concise yet nuanced manner. For this new edition, Roberts has developed his analysis of recent interpretations of Chinese history, especially those relating to prehistory and early history, intellectual and cultural trends, China's relationships with her neighbours and the wider world, the rise of the Communists and the role of women in Chinese society. Hardback - ISBN: 1403992746 - £47.50 - 09 June 2006 - pp. 368 - Paperback - ISBN: 1403992754 - £15.99 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Britannia, Europa and Christendom Britannia, Europa and Christendom reveals the important role of the Churches in the politics of Britain and united Europe. It brings to light the webs of influence linking Christian leaders and politicians; shows the conflicting relationships between national identity and Christian universalism, and between Britain as a one-time world power, a European nation, and junior partner in the 'transatlantic alliance'. It comments on the place of Europe’s Christian heritage at the beginning of what may be a new era of conflict between West and East. Hardback - ISBN: 1403939128 - £45.00 - 17 November 2006 - pp. 256 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Broken Genius Broken Genius is the first biography of William Shockley, founding father of Silicon Valley - one of the most significant and reviled scientists of the Twentieth century. Shockley won a Nobel Prize for inventing the transistor, upon which almost everything that makes the modern world is based. Little has affected history as much as this device, developed along with John Bardeen and Walter Brattain at AT&T;'s Bell Telephone Laboratories in the mid-1940s. But William Shockley is remembered more for one of the most vicious controversies in modern science. His campaigning about race, intelligence and genetics saw him donating to the Nobel Prize sperm bank, being vilified on national TV and ultimately destroyed his reputation. Drawing upon unique access to the colossal private Shockley archives, veteran technology historian and journalist Joel Shurkin gives an unflinching account of how such promise ended in such ignominy. Hardback - ISBN: 1403988153 - £19.99 - 13 June 2006 - pp. 312 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Byzantine Dress In Byzantium two overlapping systems of dress existed: a semiotic one whereby dress was a code for rank and wealth, and a fashion system where dress was based on the desire to look a certain way. Courtiers participated in a semiotic system of dress, but fashion crept into their prescribed outfits; the nobility chose their clothing based primarily on individual taste, but status was encoded within their fashions. This book elucidates secular dress from the eighth to the twelfth centuries through an examination of painted representations, helping the reader to envision an entire society of dressed citizens. Hardback - ISBN: 1403967008 - £40.00 - 10 February 2006 - pp. 192 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Civil Society Civil Society has been a global catchphrase since the end of the Cold War, and is a hot topic among academics and politicians. Understanding the evolution of this concept in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is vital to its study, whether in the context of history, sociology, politics, or international relations. This concise and incisive introduction to the transnational history of civil society is essential reading for students and scholars alike. Paperback - ISBN: 1403994625 - £13.99 - 21 April 2006 - pp. 120 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Concise History of the World Since 1945 W.M. Spellman explores the past half century focusing on key topics such as human migration, science and technology, international business, religion and politics and the break-up of Europe's overseas empires. Two central points of debate are examined: the struggle between centralized socialism and free-market capitalism and the interaction between the forces of cultural fragmentation and the competing integrative forces of 'globalization' or world culture. Hardback - ISBN: 1403917876 - £49.5 - 17 February 2006 - pp. 336 - Paperback - ISBN: 1403917884 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Creating Choice Before Roe v. Wade, somewhere between one and two million illegal abortions were performed every year in the United States. Illegal abortion affected millions of women and their families, yet their stories remain hidden. In Creating Choice, citizens of one community in Western Massachusetts' Pioneer Valley break that silence. Doctors, clergy, and members of feminist women's collectives in the Pioneer Valley provided access to birth control (illegal in the state for single women until 1972) and abortions. Their work was done in defiance of the law, sometimes in secret, but often surprisingly openly. These activists felt they had no choice but to defy the laws and often met with support from surprising places, like university administrators, church officials, and the local police department. In Creating Choice, you'll meet a college chaplain moved to break the law after one of his students died of a back alley abortion and another hung herself; you'll meet a waitress who performed over 1,500 illegal abortions in her pink bathtub; and you'll meet the women themselves who risked their very lives. Hardback - ISBN: 1403968136 - £45.00 - 07 April 2006 - pp. 288 - Paperback - ISBN: 1403968144 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Cultural Creativity in the Early English Renaissance This book is about the ways that ordinary people in town and country creatively define themselves, their families and their social networks. It explores, for the period c. 1450-1560, inheritance strategies, personal possessions and their meanings, attitudes to commemoration after death, the daily fashioning of identity and the interactions between imagination and daily life. The book is also about how the surviving textual evidence may be used to reconstruct these perceptions and experiences and the implications of such reconstruction for cultural history in the current crises of interpretation. Above all, this book emphasizes the cultural significance of the creative imagination. Hardback - ISBN: 1403991790 - £45.00 - 21 April 2006 - pp. 256 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Cultural Encounters in Atlantic History,1500-1825 Encounters among the peoples of the Atlantic World in the early modern period provide a wide-ranging perspective on nearly all aspects of society. Interactions occurred at many levels - among races, nationalities, and ethnic, regional, religious, and linguistic groups - with influences and modifications that spread in multiple directions, not only from East to West and European to indigenous peoples. The essays in this volume are designed to suggest the great variety of these cultural encounters and to offer a basis for a comparative analysis of the ways in which the peoples of the Atlantic basin interacted during the period of exploration, migration, and settlement. Hardback - ISBN: 1403961263 - £50.00 - 27 January 2006 - pp. 304 - Paperback - ISBN: 1403961271 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title D.H. Lawrence's Language of Sacred Experience This book demonstrates how D.H. Lawrence's prophetic ambitions impelled him to create novels that would radically transform the consciousness of his readers. Charles Burack argues that Lawrence's major novels, beginning with The Rainbow, are structured as religious initiation rites that attempt to break down the reader's normative mindset and to evoke new, numinous experiences of self and world. Through careful analysis of narrative structure, literary technique, and sacred discourses, Burack shows that Lawrence tries to initiate the reader into his own version of religious vitalism. Unlike most initiations that conclude with powerful affirmations, Lawrence's novels generally end with an attempt to subvert the formation of new religious dogmas and to encourage sacred-erotic exploration. Hardback - ISBN: 1403968454 - £40.00 - 06 January 2006 - pp. 256 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Development and Promotion of Mexico's Tourism Industry While many believe the tourism industry emerged during and after WWII, Berger argues that it was forged by Mexico's government in late 1928 as the cornerstone of state-led modernization programmes. Tourism became official business by 1929 when government officials, private investors, bankers and transportation companies agreed that tourism presented Mexico with an ideal way to rebuild after a prolonged period of political violence and instability, shaky relations with the US, economic underdevelopment and social revolution. Berger presents tourism as the leading and influential facet of the postrevolutionary modernization programme. She also examines how tourism fostered nationalism and unity, and emerged as a new form of foreign diplomacy. Berger's approach is different from most accounts of tourism, rather than looking at the 'simulacra' Disneyworld presentation of a culture which is the subject of much postmodern/postcolonial criticism, she chronicles how the industry emerged and how it shaped Mexican culture and politics in the first half of the twentieth century. Hardback - ISBN: 1403966354 - £35.00 - 21 April 2006 - pp. 192 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Dogaressa of Venice, 1200-1500 This book focuses on the identity and public personae of the dogaressa, wives of the elected doges of medieval and early modern Venice. The study traces the evolution of the public functions of the group of quasi-royal wives, rare for their visibility, during Venice's development into a regional economic and political power. The book examines the dogaressa's significant representational roles in both Venice's unique political system and its gendering, and in ambitious families whose members held ducal office. Further, this work places this group of political wives not only in their local Venetian context but also in a broader international context through comparison with other political consorts. The project enhances historical understanding of women, family and of gendered symbols in Venice and abroad. Hardback - ISBN: 0312294476 - £37.99 - 7 April 2006 - pp. 240 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title England's Glorious Revolution This is a sophisticated yet accessible examination of the precursors to the Revolution of 1688-89, the events of the revolution, and the profound political, social, and economic changes these events wrought. Steven Pincus's introduction thoroughly explains the context of the revolution, why these events were so stunning to contemporaries, and why, contrary to recent scholarly consensus, the revolution should be considered the first modern revolution. Paperback - ISBN: 0312167148 - £13.99 - 14 April 2006 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century Examining the funerary elegy in the context of early modern funerary ritual, this book also analyzes the political, aesthetic, moral and religious developments in the period 1606-1660 and discusses the works of Donne, Jonson, Milton and early modern women's writing. Brady discusses both death and the body in Early Modern Literature (both of which are of perennial interest), combining Literary Theory, social and cultural History, Psychology and - unlike any other work on elegy - Anthropology to produce exciting and original readings of neglected source material. Hardback - ISBN: 140394105X - £45.00 - 19 May 2006 - pp. 256 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title European Communism Communism has had a profound impact on Europe from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. In theory, it promised equality and freedom for all. In practice, it spawned inegalitarian, authoritarian and, in some instances, monstrous regimes in East Europe. Ronald Kowalski re-examines the history of European Communism, from its theoretical origins in the work of Marx and Engels until the collapse of the Soviet Union, and explains why it failed to come to power in West Europe. Hardback - ISBN: 0333684583 - £49.5 - 07 April 2006 - pp. 272 - Paperback - ISBN: 0333684591 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Fictions of British Decadence Fictions of British Decadence is a fresh account of the emergence, development and legacy of fiction written in the era of Oscar Wilde. It examines a broad range of texts by a diverse array of Decadent writers, from familiar figures such as Ernest Dowson and John Davidson to lesser-known innovators such as Arthur Machen and M.P. Shiel. MacLeod fills a large gap in understanding the movement that helped negotiate transition from the Victorian triple-decker to experimental Modernist fiction. Hardback - ISBN: 1403999082 - £45.00 - 19 May 2006 - pp. 256 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title From Darwin to Hitler In this work Richard Weikart explains the revolutionary impact Darwinism had on ethics and morality. He demonstrates that many leading Darwinian biologists and social thinkers in Germany believed that Darwinism overturned traditional Judeo-Christian and Enlightenment ethics, especially the view that human life is sacred. Many of these thinkers supported moral relativism, yet simultaneously exalted evolutionary 'fitness' (especially intelligence and health) to the highest arbiter of morality. Darwinism played a key role in the rise not only of eugenics, but also euthanasia, infanticide, abortion, and racial extermination. This was especially important in Germany, since Hitler built his view of ethics on Darwinian principles, not on nihilism. Hardback - ISBN: 1403965021 - £45.00 - 25 June 2004 - pp. 356 - Paperback - ISBN: 140397201X - £14.99 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Gender and Empire This is the first single-authored book to survey the role of gender in the 'new imperial history'. Through key topics and episodes across a broad range of British Empire history, Angela Woollacott examines how gender ideologies and practices affected both sexes and saturated imperial politics and culture. Essential reading for all students of world history, imperial history and gender relations. Hardback - ISBN: 0333926447 - £49.5 - 20 January 2006 - pp. 192 - Paperback - ISBN: 0333926455 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Ghosts of Theatre and Cinema in the Brain Pizzato focuses on the staging of Self and Other as phantom characters inside the brain (in the 'mind's eye', as Hamlet says). He explores the brain's anatomical evolution from animal drives to human consciousness to divine aspirations, through distinctive cultural expressions in stage and screen technologies. Hardback - ISBN: 140397215X - £45.00 - 1 May 2006 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Growing Up with the People's Republic In a conversational style and in chronological sequence, Ye Weili and Ma Xiaodong recount their earlier lives in China from the 1950s to the 1980s, a particularly eventful period that included the catastrophic Cultural Revolution. Using their own stories as two case studies, they examine the making of a significant yet barely understood generation in recent Chinese history. They also reflect upon the mixed legacy of the early decades of the People's Republic of China (PRC). In doing so, the book strives for a balance between critical scrutiny of a complex era and the sweeping rejection of that era that recent victim literature embraces. Ultimately Ye and Ma intend to reconnect themselves to a piece of land and a period of history that have given them a sense of who they are. Their stories contain intertwining layers of personal, generational, and historical experiences. Unlike other memoirs that were written soon after the events of the Cultural Revolution, Ye and Ma's narratives have been put together some twenty years later, allowing for more critical distance. The passage of time has allowed them to consider important issues that other accounts omit, such as the impact of gender during this period of radical change in Chinese women's lives. Hardback - ISBN: 1403969957 - £45.00 - 27 January 2006 - pp. 208 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Henry VIII and the English Reformation This updated edition of an influential interpretation of Henry VIII's Reformation retains the analytical edge and lucidity of the original work. Richard Rex emphasizes the personal role of Henry VIII in driving the Reformation process, as well as the considerable reinforcement of Henry's power rendered by that process. In a powerful new chapter which takes into account recent research, Rex elucidates the way in which 'politics' and 'religion' interacted in early Tudor England. Hardback - ISBN: 140399272X - £52.50 - 7 April 2006 - pp. 248 - Paperback - ISBN: 1403992738 - £17.99 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title History of Leisure Leisure is a central aspect of modern living. Peter Borsay places leisure in its historical context, enriching understanding and challenging received views of contemporary recreational practices. His approach is analytical and critical, with an emphasis on the long perspective, on key concepts rather than simple chronology, and on the British Isles as a fluid and dynamic amalgam of local and national cultures and polities. Hardback - ISBN: 0333930819 - £47.5 - 17 March 2006 - pp. 320 - Paperback - ISBN: 0333930827 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title History of Leisure Leisure is a central aspect of modern living. Peter Borsay places leisure in its historical context, enriching understanding and challenging received views of contemporary recreational practices. His approach is analytical and critical, with an emphasis on the long perspective, on key concepts rather than simple chronology, and on the British Isles as a fluid and dynamic amalgam of local and national cultures and polities. Paperback - ISBN: 0333930827 - £15.99 - 17 March 2006 - pp. 320 - Hardback - ISBN: 0333930819 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title History of the Epic The History of the Epic presents a history of the epic from the classical age to the present day. It deals not just with the well-know epics of antiquity and the Renaissance, but also pursues developments in more recent literature and film. Through close readings of canonical epic texts as well as some surprising selections, it offers an exploration of the changes that have taken place in the genre from Homer to Hollywood. Hardback - ISBN: 1403912122 - £60.00 - 5 May 2006 - pp. 288 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Hitler's Forgotten Ally This book is the first complete study in English of Antonescu's part in the Second World War. Ion Antonescu was Romania's ruler from September 1940 to August 1944 and a major ally of Hitler. Romania fielded the third largest Axis army of the war, joined the Tripartite Pact in November 1940 as a sovereign state, participated in the attack on the Soviet Union of 22 June 1941 as an equal partner of Germany, and was never occupied by the Wehrmacht. Hardback - ISBN: 1403993416 - £45.00 - 07 April 2006 - pp. 322 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Hollywood Films About Schools During the 1980's and 1990's, Hollywood released a spate of films about schools. This text offers a study of the predominant messages about education and race that these 'school films' communicate. Films examined include The Graduate, Blackboard Jungle, The English Patient, Dead Poets Society, Pulp Fiction, Ghost, The Wizard of Oz, Top Gun and Forrest Gump, to name but a few. Hardback - ISBN: 1403972931 - £14.99 - 5 May 2006 - pp. 208 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Inventing the Modern Self and John Dewey This collection includes original studies from scholars from thirteen nations, who explore the epistemic features figured in John Dewey's writings in his discourses on public schooling. Pragmatism was one of the weapons used in the struggles about the development of the child who becomes the future citizen. The significance of Dewey in the book is not about Dewey as the messenger of pragmatism, but in locating different cultural, political and educational terrains in which debates about modernity, the modern self and the making of the citizen occurred. Hardback - ISBN: 1403968624 - £35.00 - 27 January 2006 - pp. 320 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Judicialization of Politics in Latin America This collection of essays analyzes the diverse manifestations of the judicialization of politics in contemporary Latin America, assessing their positive and negative consequences for state-society relations, the rule of law and democratic governance in the region. Bringing together contributions from key scholars working in this emerging inter-disciplinary field, it will provide a key teaching resource for the study of contemporary law and politics in Latin America. Hardback - ISBN: 1403970866 - £40.00 - 10 February 2006 - pp. 320 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Justice at Nuremberg Justice at Nuremberg traces the history of the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial held in 1946-47, through the eyes of the Austrian ‚migr‚ psychiatrist Leo Alexander. His investigations helped the United States to prosecute twenty German doctors and three administrators for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The legacy of Nuremberg was profound. In the Nuremberg code - a landmark in the history of modern medical ethics - the judges laid down, for the first time, international guidelines for permissible experiments on humans. One of those who helped to formulate the code was Alexander. Justice at Nuremberg provides a detailed insight into the origins of human rights in medical science and into the changing role of international law, ethics and politics. Paperback - ISBN: 0230006418 - £19.99 - 14 April 2006 - pp. 400 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Kant's Practical Philosophy The discussion of Kant's Practical Philosophy has been marred by viewing it as purely formalist and centred only on the categorical imperative. This important new study sets out a much more vivid account of the nature and range of Kant's concerns demonstrating his commitment to the notion of rational religion and including extensive discussion of his treatment of evil. Culminating with accounts of property, the nature of right and virtue, this work presents Kant as a vital revolutionary thinker. Paperback - ISBN: 1403989877 - £16.99 - 27 January 2006 - pp. 0 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Laborer's Two Bodies The Laborer's Two Bodies explores the intellectual, cultural, and political consequences of one of the most fundamental shifts in late medieval English society: the first national labour regulation in the wake of the 1348 plague. Bridging the medieval and early modern periods, this book analyzes a wide range of texts and images produced in this initial period of labour regulation (1349 to 1500), including trial records, ecclesiastical bulls, penitential literature, and chronicle accounts, considering these documents alongside better known texts by Chaucer, Gower, Langland, the Paston Family, Barclay and More (among others). This book demonstrates that the category of labour (as both lived and imagined) became increasingly problematic for writers who struggled to understand the meaning of work in a world where labour was simultaneously understood as punishment, virtue and reward. Hardback - ISBN: 1403965161 - £37.99 - 24 February 2006 - pp. 272 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Liberal Government and Politics, 1905-15 This book is an innovative appraisal of the nature of Edwardian Liberalism and the work of the 1905-15 Liberal governments. Rather than concentrating on debates about the 'decline of Liberalism', it makes extensive use of new archival research in order to identify the major concerns of Liberals in the first two decades of the twentieth century and how policy-making was related to conflicting definitions of Liberal ideology. The book covers all the key areas of domestic and foreign policy and concludes with a section on the Asquith government and World War One. Hardback - ISBN: 0333917987 - £45.00 - 12 May 2006 - pp. 256 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Life and Death in the Delta Based on oral histories with African American activists and community leaders, Life and Death in the Delta explores the civil rights movement in several Mississippi communities in the context of the region's history of white supremacy, racial oppression, and African American cultural vitality. Terrorism, black poverty, and economic exploitation produced a condition of collective trauma and social suffering for thousands of black Deltans in the Twentieth Century. This work reveals the impact of that oppression, and of African American traditions of community service and leadership in the lives of women and men who became activists. The result is a sweeping history, told through the voices of ordinary people, of how the civil rights movement operated on a local level: the circumstances that made it thrive, the problems it faced, and the dangers participants encountered on a daily basis. Hardback - ISBN: 1403960356 - £45.00 - 10 March 2006 - pp. 192 - Paperback - ISBN: 1403960364 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Lonesome George Lonesome George is on the stamps and the banknotes of the Galapagos Islands. He is a 5ft long, 90kg tortoise aged between 60 and 200. In 1971 he was discovered on the remote island of Pinta, from which tortoises had supposedly been exterminated by whalers and seal hunters. He was carted off to his current home, the Charles Darwin Research Station on Santa Cruz. He has been there ever since, on the off-chance that scientific ingenuity will conjure up a way of reproducing him, and resurrecting his species. Meanwhile millions of tourists and dozens of baffled scientists look on as George shows not a jot of interest in the female company provided. Hardback - ISBN: 1403945764 - £16.99 - 16 March 2006 - pp. 0 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Medieval Theology of Work Historians have long noted the intense debates nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholars had over the concept of work, but few are aware of the medieval debates over work that set the stage for modern discussions. Indeed, medieval society established the framework within which modern Western ideas about work have grown. It is essential, therefore, that we learn what medieval thinkers had to say on the subject. This study addresses this need by examining the thought of Peter Damian and numerous other religious leaders and groups of the High Middle Ages for evidence of their contributions. The result is a deepening of our historical understanding of the concept of work as well as widening our appreciation of the modern world's debt to medieval society. Hardback - ISBN: 1403968470 - £37.99 - 19 May 2006 - pp. 288 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Merchant of Power A timely rags-to-riches story, The Merchant of Power recounts how Sam Insull - right hand to Thomas Edison - went on to become one of the richest men in the world, co-founding General Electric and introducing the modern metropolis with his invention of the power grid, which fuels major cities today. John F. Wasik, recently awarded the National Press Club Award for Consumer Journalism, had unprecedented access to Sam Insull's archives, which include private correspondence with Thomas Edison. The extraordinary fall of a man, extraordinary for his time, is revealed in this cautionary tale about the excesses of corporate power. Hardback - ISBN: 1403968845 - £14.99 - 5 May 2006 - pp. 288 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Mining Women Mining Women explores gender relations and women's work and activism in different parts of the world. It also explores the subject from multiple perspectives and links each of these not only to cultural and domestic arrangements but also to an emerging industrial and capitalist system from the Eighteenth through the Twentieth centuries. Each essay is important for understanding the ways in which gender is imagined, lived, inscribed, and contested in specific historical and material contexts. Together, the essays reveal that despite the tremendous variation between industries, cultures, and national experiences, women have challenged the constraints of gender definitions on their lives, work, and militancy. Hardback - ISBN: 1403967628 - £40.00 - 24 March 2006 - pp. 336 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Moving the Maasai In Moving the Maasai Lotte Hughes tells the scandalous story of how the Maasai people of Kenya lost the best part of their land to the British in the 1900s. Drawing upon unique oral testimony and extensive archival research, she describes the many intrigues surrounding two enforced moves that cleared the highlands for European settlers, and a 1913 lawsuit in which the Maasai attempted to reclaim their former territory, and explains why recent events have brought the story full circle. Hardback - ISBN: 140399661X - £50.00 - 17 February 2006 - pp. 272 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Myths of Renaissance Individualism The idea that the Renaissance witnessed the emergence of the modern individual remains a powerful myth. In this important new book Martin examines the Renaissance self with attention to both social history and literary theory and offers a new typology of Renaissance selfhood which was at once collective, performative and porous. At the same time, he stresses the layered qualities of the Renaissance self and the salient role of interiority and notions of inwardness in the shaping of identity. Myths of Renaissance Individualism, in short, will interest students not only of history but also of art history, literature, music, philosophy, psychology and religion. Hardback - ISBN: 0333643089 - £40.00 - 21 June 2004 - pp. 200 - Paperback - ISBN: 023000640X - £18.99 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title On the Purification of Women This book is a social history of the ritual and custom of churching, a liturgical rite of purification after childbirth performed on a woman's first visit to church after giving birth. The book describes the development of the rite from its original meaning as a response to blood pollution to its redefinition as a rite that honoured marriage. It also examines its use by French bishops as a disciplinary tool enforcing the church's definitions of marriage and lay sexuality and explores the ways that women, families, and clergymen manipulated the rite for their own purposes. The study focuses on northern France and is based on a wide variety of sources, including sermons, penitential literature, court records, liturgies and illuminated manuscripts. It will be of particular interest to students and scholars of women's history, gender and sexuality, and the relationship between church and society. Hardback - ISBN: 1403969698 - £39.99 - 21 April 2006 - pp. 304 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Origins of Japanese Wealth and Power This book focuses on the trans-Meiji Restoration story of the ideological transformation that made modern capitalism possible in Japan. At the end of the Tokugawa era, there was a shift away from traditionally hostile Confucian views of commercial growth toward economic development as the main source of national wealth, power and prestige. To illustrate this transformation, the book looks at four key architects of Meiji Japan's capitalist institutions: Okubo Toshimichi, Godai Tomoatsu, Matsukata Masayoshi and Maeda Masana. Hardback - ISBN: 1403971110 - £39.99 - 24 February 2006 - pp. 208 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Palgrave Advances in Cold War History This book deals with the ideational, cultural, political and strategic aspects of the multifaceted Cold War. Drawing on the work of numerous established scholars and experts, this volume of collected essays combines knowledge of the subject with key intellectual trends that have been developed over recent years. It is an informative and updated account of the subject to familiarize readers with the current state of the discipline. Hardback - ISBN: 1403934460 - £55.00 - 21 April 2006 - pp. 320 - Paperback - ISBN: 1403934479 - £16.99 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Paradise Lost Why has Haiti been plagued by so many woes? Why has the United States felt a need to repeatedly intervene in Haiti's affairs? Why have multiple U.S. efforts to create a stable democracy in Haiti failed so spectacularly? Philippe Girard answers these and other questions in Paradise Lost. He examines how colonialism and slavery have left a legacy of racial tension, both within Haiti and internationally, as Haitians remain deeply suspicious of white foreigners' motives, many of whom doubt Haitians' ability to govern themselves. He also examines how Haiti's current political instability is merely a continuation of two hundred years of political strife that began during the War of Independence (1791-1804). Finally, Girard explores poverty's devastating impact on contemporary Haiti. This book is different from others in the field, arguing that Haitians - particularly home-grown dictators - bear a big share of the responsibility for their nation's troubles. In addressing the current situation in Hardback - ISBN: 140396887X - £25.00 - 27 January 2006 - pp. 240 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Performance to Print in Shakespeare's England What can the printed texts of plays from Shakespeare's time tell us about performance? How were plays marketed? How have printed plays been read and interpreted for performance? The essays in this collection freshly consider the evidence of early modern printed plays and their histories of production and reception. Bringing together a group of major scholars in the field, the essays examine a wide variety of cases, from early modern performance to the psychology of Hamlet, from grammar-school beatings to the London bookshops of the Renaissance. Hardback - ISBN: 1403992282 - £55.00 - 16 January 2006 - pp. 288 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Policing Interwar Europe In the convulsive environment that followed the First World War and the Russian Revolution, the issues of policing and public order became of primary importance to the various governments of Interwar Europe. Policing Interwar Europe features original research on ten different countries ranging from Portugal to Poland and Britain to Bulgaria, and as such will be vitally useful for students (undergraduate and postgraduate alike) as well as academics of 20th century Europe. Hardback - ISBN: 1403992649 - £45.00 - 03 November 2006 - pp. 256 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Postmemories of Terror Postmemories of Terror focuses on how young Argentineans remember the traumatic events of the military dictatorship (1976-83). This fascinating work is based on oral histories with sixty-three young people who were too young to be directly victimized or politically active during this period. All were born during or after the terror and possessed an entirely mediated knowledge of it. Susana Kaiser explores how the post-dictatorship generation was reconstructing this past from three main sources: inter-generational dialogue, education and the communication media. These conversations discuss selected and recurrent themes like societal fears and silences, remembering and forgetting, historical explanations and accountability. Together they contribute to our understanding of how communities deal with the legacy of terror. Hardback - ISBN: 1403964645 - £45.00 - 27 January 2006 - pp. 240 - Paperback - ISBN: 1403964653 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Postrevolutionary Europe Martyn Lyons re-assesses European history between the fall of Napoleon and the Crimean War. Instead of seeing the period in traditional terms of Restoration and Reaction, this fresh account emphasizes the problems of remembering and forgetting the recent revolutionary and Napoleonic past, and of either incorporating or rejecting its legacy. Between the 1830 and 1848 Revolutions, which are both examined, new forms of political participation developed, as a broad public sphere of action was created. Hardback - ISBN: 033394805X - £52.5 - 17 February 2006 - pp. 320 - Paperback - ISBN: 0333948068 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Reinterpreting Revolutionary Russia This is a stimulating and highly original collection of essays from a team of internationally renowned experts. The contributors reinterpret key issues and debates, including political, social, cultural and international aspects of the Russian revolution stretching from the late imperial period into the early Soviet state. With a particular emphasis on historiography, this will be essential reading for an understanding of the driving forces of the revolution, of the role of individuals such as Lenin and Trotsky as well as the broader social and political landscape, and the impact the revolution had on the wider world. Hardback - ISBN: 1403998981 - £45.00 - 8 September 2006 - pp. 256 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Representing Righteous Heathens in Late Medieval England Righteous heathens or virtuous pagans - classical or other non-Christian figures whose reputation for virtue evoked the admiration of medieval writers and provoked anxious speculation about the possibility of their salvation - feature prominently in a wide variety of late-medieval English texts, and this book surveys their appearances in travel literature, chronicles, romances, and sermons, as well as in the work of Langland, Chaucer and Gower, Representing Righteous Heathens in Medieval England is not just a taxonomy; Grady argues throughout the interest in virtuous pagans is much more than just an outgrowth of contemporary theological debates and that English used these figures to explore a variety of historical, cultural and formal literary issues. Hardback - ISBN: 1403966990 - £37.99 - 06 January 2006 - pp. 224 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Robert Louis Stevenson, Science and the Fin de siecle In this fascinating book, Reid examines Robert Louis Stevenson's writings in the context of late-Victorian evolutionist thought, arguing that an interest in 'primitive' life is at the heart of his work. She investigates a wide range of Stevenson's writing, including Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde andTreasure Island as well as previously unpublished material from the Stevenson archive at Yale. Reid's interpretation offers a new way of understanding the relationship between his Scottish and South Seas work. Her analysis of Stevenson's engagement with anthropological and psychological debate also illuminates the dynamic intersections between literature and science at the fin de siŠcle. Hardback - ISBN: 1403936633 - £45.00 - 26 May 2006 - pp. 248 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Romantic Liars They were homeless wanderers, prostitutes, orphans and factory girls. They hurdled terrible obstacles, reinvented themselves as men, goddesses, witches and princesses to become legends in their own right as England rose to world power. No other group of people rivalled their inventiveness or their grip on the nation's imagination. Debbie Lee unfolds the small stories of six women, with a cast of supporting characters such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Benjamin Franklin, Stamford Raffles and Napoleon, against the grand narrative of England's eighteenth-century empire building. Romantic Liars: Obscure Women who Became Impostors and Challenged an Empire is a meticulously researched, spellbinding tale of tragedy, transformation and triumph in the age of reason. Hardback - ISBN: 0312294581 - £40.00 - 28 April 2006 - pp. 288 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Rwanda's Genocide In this highly authoritative book, the first of its kind, Kingsley Moghalu provides an engrossing account and analysis of the international political brinksmanship embedded in the quest for justice for Rwanda's genocide. Rwanda's Genocide takes us behind the scenes to the political and strategic factors that shape a path-breaking war crimes tribunal and demonstrates why the trials at Arusha, like Nuremberg, Tokyo and The Hague, are more than just prosecutions of culprits, but also politics by other means. Hardback - ISBN: 1403970815 - £25.00 - 01 January 2006 - pp. 240 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Seventeenth Century Mothers' Advice Books Advice books were a popular genre among texts published by women in Seventeenth and early Eighteenth-century England. These manuals were primarily concerned with morals; thus, they tended to be saturated with religious overtones. Here, Marsha Urban highlights a notable exception: Age Rectified, which counsels women to acquire a 'disposition of mind' in old age which allows them to continue to be accepted by the younger generation. Hardback - ISBN: 1403970661 - £39.99 - 24 March 2006 - pp. 208 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Sex, Strategy and the Stratosphere This book bridges a crucial gap in the literature on gender and organizational culture by providing an historical account of how discriminatory practices develop, are maintained but also change over time. Drawing on in-depth interviews and extensive archival material, the author presents a historical account of the way specific discriminatory practices developed and changed over the life of three airline companies - British Airways, Air Canada and Pan American Airways. The book covers the period 1919 to 1991 and is organized around key periods in the hiring and treatment of female employees. Hardback - ISBN: 1403998574 - £55.00 - 23 May 2006 - pp. 304 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Slave Revolution in the Caribbean 1789-1804 The Haitian Revolution was the first slave rebellion to have a successful outcome, leading to the establishment of Haiti as a free black republic and paving the way for the emancipation of slaves in the rest of the French Empire and the world. In this broad selection of documents, the authors clarify for students the complex political, economic, and racial issues surrounding the revolution and the wave of revolts elsewhere in the French Caribbean. Paperback - ISBN: 031241501X - £13.99 - 14 April 2006 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Stalin Stalin's massive impact on Soviet history is often explained in terms of his inherent evil, personality defects and power lust. This volume argues that Stalin's thoughts and actions are best contextualized in the inter-relationship between war and revolution in the first half of the twentieth century. Kevin McDermott incorporates recently declassified materials from the former Soviet Party archives and provides a critical review of western and Russian historiography. Hardback - ISBN: 0333711211 - £49.5 - 17 February 2006 - pp. 240 - Paperback - ISBN: 033371122X Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Stalin Revisited In this ground-breaking collection of essays by an international team of leading experts in the field, a detailed examination is provided of three under-researched aspects of Soviet political repression in the 1930s: case studies of regional and sectoral dimensions of the purges, 'victim studies' of the Great Terror and an assessment of the impact of political repression on Soviet economic development in the late 1930s.The book draws on archival documents and published materials that have received little attention in Western historiography. Much of the information detailed here is presented to the English language readership for the first time. Hardback - ISBN: 1403947058 - £45.00 - 12 May 2006 - pp. 256 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title The Comprehensive Public High School By the mid-twentieth century, the public comprehensive high school was often regarded as the most democratic form of secondary education. Fifty years later it was under challenge. New educational markets emphasized school diversity and parental choice rather than social equity through common schooling. The comprehensives faced many criticisms, including the decline of their educational standards. This book traces the history of this decline, attending to the relationships between government education policies and their diverse regional manifestations. Hardback - ISBN: 1403964890 - £35.00 - 24 March 2006 - pp. 208 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money In 1936 Keynes published the most provocative book written by any economist of his generation. Arguments about the book continued until his death in 1946 and still continue today. This new edition, published 70 years after the original, features a new introduction by Paul Krugman which discusses the significance and continued relevance of The General Theory. Paperback - ISBN: 0230004768 - £18.99 - 24 March 2006 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title The History of Anaesthesia The introduction of anaesthesia to Victorian Britain marked a defining moment between modern medicine and earlier practices. This book uses new information from John Snow's casebooks and London hospital archives to revise many of the existing historical assumptions about the early history of surgical anaesthesia. By examining complex patterns of innovation, reversals, debate and geographical difference, Stephanie Snow shows how anaesthesia became established as a routine part of British medicine. Hardback - ISBN: 1403934452 - £45.00 - 17 February 2006 - pp. 256 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title The History of Chile This book provides an up-to-date historical overview of this complex and fascinating country. Beginning with a survey of the land, people, and current government, the book then traces Chile's chronological story. Ten chapters detail Chilean history from the indigenous peoples to the democratic transition after the Pinochet dictatorship. Paperback - ISBN: 140396257X - £10.99 - 01 February 2006 - pp. 336 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title The Lioness Roared Charles Beem has identified a specific yet panoramic set of problems facing female rulers throughout British history, from the twelfth century Empress Matilda's imaginative efforts to become England's first regnant queen, to Queen Victoria's remarkable exercise of political power during the Bedchamber Crisis of 1839. This study combines the methodologies of Gender Studies and political and constitutional History to provide a sweeping historical explanation for how these women pulled off such a feat. Hardback - ISBN: 1403972036 - £40.00 - 19 May 2006 - pp. 352 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title The Rise of Cass Business School This history of Cass Business School, part of City University in the UK, contrasts its humble beginnings with its present high international standing. The author traces its rise through the ranks of business schools and identifies themes and factors to share with those who are involved in leading and changing similar institutions in a highly competitive world. Hardback - ISBN: 1403998671 - £55.00 - 24 February 2006 - pp. 256 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title The Rise of Oriental Travel The Rise of Oriental Travel follows four Seventeenth-century Englishmen on their journeys around the Ottoman Empire while it was still expanding westward and the British were, for the first time in history, becoming important players in the Mediterranean. Contrary to the hostile declamations of Protestant preachers, they all found much to admire, from the multi-culturalism of the Ottoman system to the food, weather and styles of life. This book shows that hostility between East and West is neither historical nor inevitable, but rather the result of selective memory. Paperback - ISBN: 0230003265 - £16.99 - 31 March 2006 - pp. 288 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Theatre, Politics, and Markets in Fin-de-Siècle Paris Since the Enlightenment, French theatre has occupied a prominent place within French thought, society and culture, but as a subject of study it has remained a purview of theatre historians, literary scholars and aestheticians. They focus on the emergence of the modern theatre as change generated from within bourgeois literary drama but ignore theatre as a complex social practice. Theatre, Politics, and Markets in Fin-de-Siècle Paris investigates the dynamic relationships among the avant-garde, official culture and the commercial sphere, arguing against the neat divide of 'high' and 'low' culture by showing how cultural forms of varying social origins influenced each other. Hardback - ISBN: 1403970416 - £39.99 - 01 February 2006 - pp. 272 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Viruses Vs. Superbugs Each year thousands of people die from bacteria resistant to antibiotics. Alternatives drugs are urgently needed. A surprising ray of hope is actually a blast from the past. Viruses that kill bacteria, but not us, called 'phages' for short, were discovered around 1915, when infections were still a major cause of illness and death. Phage therapy became popular from the 1920s until the introduction of penicillin 20 years later. Only in the countries of the Eastern block did the therapy survive and thrive. Now western researchers and companies are working on its comeback. This book tells the fascinating story of the discoverers of phages in the west and the Soviet Union. Award-winning science journalist Thomas Husler follows the trail of one pioneer killed by Stalin's secret service, and his successors in today's war-torn Georgia, accompanying patients taking phages because standard drugs fail them and investigates how these long-forgotten cures may help sick people today. Hardback - ISBN: 1403987645 - £16.99 - 2 May 2006 - pp. 256 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Voices from the Bench This collection explores marginalized figures in medieval and early modern Europe and Mesoamerica, including women, Jews, New Christians, and urban dwellers, drawing from such judicial sources as canonization hearings, the trials of the Inquisition, chancery, criminal, royal, municipal and other courts. Hardback - ISBN: 1403966915 - £37.99 - 19 May 2006 - pp. 240 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title Work or Fight! During World War I, the U.S. demanded that all able-bodied adult men 'work or fight'. But fighting was mostly assigned to single white men who were engaged in 'productive' work. White men who were proper husbands and fathers, owned property, or worked at approved jobs, and who participated in civic activities, had the full benefits of citizenship without fighting. Women, men of colour, and poor white men were often barred from achieving these benefits. This book uses the records of local draft boards and state draft officials in New Jersey, Illinois and California to tell the stories of men and women whose lives were touched by the Selective Service System. Hardback - ISBN: 1403961751 - £55.00 - 27 January 2006 - pp. 240 - Paperback - ISBN: 1403961778 Palgrave Macmillan - further details for this title 20 June 2006 |
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