Books published by Palgrave USA

"An examination of the influence--however contested--of John Brown of the Harper's Ferry Rebellion on the national narrative of the United States"--Amazon.com.

This book explores literature in its role as a sacred text within the confines of 19th-century French primary and secondary education, helping the school to take over the role of spiritual authority from the Catholic Church.

Development thinking and development practice are in a state of flux - theory apparently offering little by way of solutions to the crisis of development. A unique feature of this book is that both orthodox and heterodox schools of development thinking are covered in an up to date and non-technical manner.

The idea of a 'Springtime of European Peoples', concepts of a universal republic and the awareness for the European dimension of the revolutionary events had an important impact on the ideas of 1848.

Many global companies have been focused upon strategic executive development within a competitive environment. This book shows how action learning can result in the effective and successful implementation of strategic executive development.

This increase in transparency is certain to have a major effect on international politics, and particularly on the possibility of armed conflict in the new millennium. This volume represents the first comprehensive collection of articles by leading scholars and policy analysts examining the effects of transparency on world politics.

The first Democratic president for twelve years, William Jefferson Clinton entered the White House on a note of optimism, pledged to give priority to economic policy and his domestic agenda of healthcare and welfare reforms. President Clinton - the 'Man from Hope' - faced what looked like a fresh opportunity to move ahead with legislation.

Told entirely through notes passed in school, diary entries, and the occasional e-mail, Cathleen Daly's Flirt Club is a hilarious and touching tween novel about love and lust with a heart, a brain, and a whole lot more. Isabelle and Annie are two self-professed middle-school drama geeks who have no idea how to flirt with boys-successfully. Their sweet, awkward, and painful attempts at romance are getting them nowhere, so they start Flirt Club, an after-school support group for similarly afflicted friends who decide to take decisive and strategic action.

What''s your drink of choice? Is it a small pumpkin spice latte? Then you''re lots of fun and a bit sassy. Or a medium americano? You prefer simplicity in life. Or perhaps it''s a small decaf soy sugar-free hazelnut caffe latte? Some might call you a yuppie. Seventeen-year-old barista Jane Turner has this theory that you can tell a lot about a person by their regular coffee drink. She scribbles it all down in a notebook and calls it Espressology. So it''s not a totally crazy idea when Jane starts hooking up some of her friends based on their coffee orders. Like her best friend, Em, a medium hot chocolate, and Cam, a toffee nut latte. But when her boss, Derek, gets wind of Jane''s Espressology, he makes it an in-store holiday promotion, promising customers their perfect matches for the price of their favorite coffee. Things are going better than Derek could ever have hoped, so why is Jane so freaked out? Does it have anything to do with Em dating Cam? She''s the one who set them up! She should be happy for them, right?

According to Easley's analysis, there are two patterns of interpretations: 1) the text endorses peace proposals above the state level, 2) the text is in favour of peace proposals at the state level.

This collection brings together established scholars and new names in the field of Tudor drama studies.

The first section of this collection provides historical and theoretical perspectives on Jefferson's ideals and thought. The second section explores the key themes of sovereignty, citizenship, participation, and accountability.

Revisionist Shakespeare appropriates revisionist history in order to both criticize traditional transitional interpretations of Shakespearean drama and to offer a new methodology for understanding representations of social conflict in Shakespeare's play and in Early Modern English culture.

Colonial Karma tracks the Indian English novel from its colonial origins to the present, each chapter focusing on a particular historical moment. After considering influential early novels in Indian languages, Colonial Karma discusses novels in English by Narayan, Anand, Rao, Anita Desai, Salman Rushdie, Shashi Deshpande and Githa Hariharan.

This collected volume draws together essays written by International Relations scholars from a variety of regional, methodological and theoretical perspectives to confront the challenges of identity-centered analysis.

A strong list of contributors highlight important issues such as: anthrax vaccines, the 'Golden Age' culture of the military, gender roles among army spouses, weight control and physical readiness, the military advisor, and the United States Naval Academy.

Colletta uses psychoanalytic theories of joke-work and gallows humour to argue that dark humour is an important, defining characteristic of Modernism.

Current discussions of liberalism in world affairs tend to take a shortsighted view of the historical antecedents of the school of thought.

The 'nationality question' was long central to Soviet thought and policy, and the failure to provide a convincing answer played a major role in the break-up of the Soviet Union into ethnically or nationally defined states.

Almost irrespective of the geographic setting, the debate about the future of democracy in post-authoritarian societies is increasingly tied to the strength of civil society. A strong civil society is thought to be crucial to the emergence of successful democracies while a weak civil society is deemed the cause of flawed or frozen democracies.

Much theoretical and historical work engaged with the question of the "postcolonial" is built upon an imagined, unified premodern "Middle Ages" in Europe.

This analysis of Damon Runyon's high spirited work in terms of historical contexts, popular culture and of the changing function of the media, argues that Runyon was an indispensible figure in creating public images of New York City culture.

Fusarelli examines the relationship between the charter school and voucher issues: To what degree does political support for charter schools - from a coalition of teacher associations, school board groups, superintendents, and voucher advocates - slow or even stop the forces for vouchers?

The New Woman was the symbol of the shifting categories of gender and sexuality and epitomised the spirit of the fin de siecle .

The classic serial, invented by BBC Radio Drama sixty years ago, survived and adapted itself to television, the arrival of colour and the global market in what has become a flood of classics with all channels competing for ratings and overseas sales.

This book, written with unique access to official archives, tells the secret story of Britain's H-bomb - the scientific and strategic background, the government's policy decision, the work of the remarkable men who created the bomb, the four weapon trials at a remote Pacific atoll in 1957-58, and the historic consequences.

Anglo-American rivalry in Egypt, Iran and the Persian Gulf in the period 1952 to 1957 represented the transfer of power in the Middle East from Great Britain to the United States.