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The librarian’s guide to learning theory
This book demonstrates how learning theories are applicable to a variety of real-world contexts. Ideal for library and information professionals looking to better understand how people learn so that they are able to improve support in their libraries and communities.
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The experimental library
Using techniques observed from startups and rapidly evolving technology companies, this book will educate information professionals on using experimentation to make evidence-based decisions to advance initiatives in libraries.
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Systematic searching
In resource poor, cost saving times, this book advises information professionals on how to search more efficiently.
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Metadata
The third edition of this landmark textbook has been thoroughly updated to incorporate the many developments and changes in metadata and related domains. Authors Marcia Lei Zeng and Jian Qin provide a solid grounding in the variety and interrelationships among different metadata types, offering a...
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Electric wind
A cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain.There are turbines on the horizon. The blades whirl with metronomic rhythm. With each rotation, wind is transformed into electricity. An energy revolution is underway. Electric wind rewinds to the beginning to explore the rise of wind energy in mode...
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Facilitating effective sixth form independent learning
Facilitating Effective Sixth Form Independent Learning is a stage-by-stage guide for educators who are interested in setting up a teaching programme to facilitate the independent learning of Sixth Form students.
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The chief data officer's playbook
This fully revised and updated edition of the bestselling Chief Data Officer’s Playbook offers new insights into the role of the CDO and the data environment. Written by two of the world’s leading experts in data driven transformation, it addresses the changes that have taken place in ‘data’, in ...
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Fundamentals for the academic liaison
A core resource for any LIS student or academic librarian serving as a liaison, this handbook lays out the comprehensive fundamentals of the discipline, helping librarians build the confidence and cooperation of the university faculty in relation to the library
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A practical guide to privacy in libraries
This groundbreaking book considers how privacy issues can arise in a library context and what library and information professionals can do to protect the privacy of their users.
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Preparing collections for digitization
Most libraries, archives and museums are confronting the challenges of providing digital access to their collections. This guide offers guidance covering the end-to-end process of digitizing collections, from selecting records for digitization to choosing suppliers and equipment and dealing with ...
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Metadata in the digital library
This book provides a practical introduction to metadata for the digital library, describing in detail how to implement a strategic approach which will enable complex digital objects to be discovered, delivered and preserved in the short- and long-term.
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Libraries and sanctuary
Libraries and Sanctuary is a practical guide to how libraries and their staff can support ‘new arrivals’ – people who have crossed borders to reach a country, ensuring a supportive, inclusive and welcoming library community.
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The public library
Examines the role and services of the UK public library in the 21st century context. This book discusses the nature and functions of the modern public library service, from its beginnings as the street-corner university, through its delivery of various services and beyond. It is of interest to st...
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The information society
The latest edition of this standard work has been fully updated to take account of the changing landscape and technological developments since 2008. The Information Society explores the information revolution that continues to gather pace, as the understanding and management of information become...
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Padfield on copyright for archivists and records managers
As an archivist or records manager, it is essential to keep up to date with the complexities of copyright legislation, and Padfield on Copyright for Archivists and Records Managers has been described as an ‘unparalleled’ resource for that purpose.This comprehensive manual uniquely outlines copyri...
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Marks she made
This book explores the remarkable life of Begum Samru (c. 1750–1836), a North Indian ruler who rose from courtesan to sovereign, using art and architecture to navigate power in early modern India. Through her story, the book reveals how women defied gender norms to shape public and political sphe...
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Creativity and illness
The interplay between ill health and artistic creativity is demonstrated in fascinating surveys of afflicted artists, composers, and authors and their works.
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Caribbean eco-aesthetics
This edited volume reframes the Caribbean as a paradigm of ecological resilience and creativity by bringing together the voices of contemporary artists and scholars who are at the forefront of environmental activism in the region and across its diasporas.
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Visual arts and medicine in early modern europe and beyond
This book establishes novel points of connection between European art and medicine in early modernity, opening up new perspectives on the material, social, and theoretical basis of each discipline.
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Valuing your collection
This book addresses the issues around valuing objects in cultural collections, ranging from high-value to low or no-value, including practical advice on how to assign values and examples from museums, libraries and archives.
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Successful enquiry answering every time
This book guides the reader step-by-step through all stages of the research process, from finding out what the enquirer really wants, to providing a polished, actionable, value-added answer.
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End of empire and the english novel since 1945
First book-length critical work devoted to the impact of the end of empire and traces of imperial memory in mainstream English Literature since the Second World War. Authors studied include Josephine Tey, William Golding, Penelope Lively, David Peace and Ian McEwan. Represents the best of current...
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Old fortunatus
Written in a period characterized by increased mobility and the development of proto-capitalism, Thomas Dekker’s Old Fortunatus (1599) is a journeying play that offers joyous celebration of the pleasures of travel and a circumspect critique of spendthrift indulgence. This Revels Plays edition mak...
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At the end of the line
Colonial policing and the imperial endgame is the first comprehensive study of the colonial police and their complex role within Britain’s long and turbulent process of decolonisation, a time characterised by political upheaval and colonial conflict.The Colonial Police Service was created in 1936...
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Picturing the western front
Between 1914 and 1918, military, press and amateur photographers produced thousands of pictures. Classified in archives, collected in personal albums and circulated in illustrated magazines, photographs were supposed to tell the story of the war. This book argues that photographic practices also ...
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Catholics and the law in restoration ireland
In Restoration Ireland the law primarily served the interests of the English state and the Anglo-Protestant community. This book is the first to explore how Irish Catholics experienced a legal system which was inimical to their interests. It does so through case studies based on a wide range of ...
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'the better class' of indians
This book examines the role of class in the encounter between South Asians and British institutions in the United Kingdom at the height of British imperialism. It argues that class served as the primary register through which British polite society interpreted and applied other social distinctio...
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Peacemaking in the middle ages
This study explores the making of peace in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries based on the experiences of the kings of England and the kings of Denmark. It offers a vision of how relationships between rulers were regulated and maintained in a period before nation states and internati...
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The invention of spain
The Invention of Spain explores cultural relations between Britain and Spain during the century 1770-1870; a dynamic and often troubled relationship between two Imperial powers at a period of turbulence and change.
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The origins of the first world war
A unique collection of hundreds of diplomatic and military documents on the origins of WWI: newly-discovered archival sources as well as documents not previously available in English. It includes a comprehensive scholarly introduction covering the most controversial issues in the debate on the or...
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Sonic ethnography
Through a combination of text, colour photographs and sound recordings, Sonic ethnography explores the role of sound in the performance of local identities in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. The book makes a compelling argument for taking sound seriously as a crucial component of socia...
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My voice: peter kurer
Peter's book is part of the My Voice Project, a collection of firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. Peter Kurer's family were helped by a Quaker couple to gain safe passage to England in 1938. Peter later married and had children, and ...
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Dido, queen of carthage
The first single-text scholarly edition in English. An indispensable resource for scholars, students, and theatre practitioners. Edited by Ruth Lunney.
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An humorous day's mirth
George Chapman's An Humorous Day's Mirth is one of the Elizabethan theatre's most successful comedies. In his new Revels edition, Charles Edelman presents a play that will delight today's readers and audiences as much as it did those of 1597.
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A landscape of words
This book examines major literary texts by and about the Irish in the Middle Ages, providing an analysis of a spatial poetics developed over 600 years. It argues that the Irish theorised anew the concept of ‘place’ and developed a ‘spatial turn’ that reconfigured how communities in the Irish Sea ...
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Empire and mobility in the long nineteenth century
Mobility was central to the construction, maintenance and dissolution of empires. This book reflects on the social, cultural and political significance of mobile subjects, practices and infrastructures to the British empire from the 1750s through to the 1940s.
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Borderland
This book considers the past, present and future of Kent, alighting on the key sites which symbolise the changing relationship between the UK and its continental neighbours.
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Murky waters
Murky waters explores the ambivalent representations of spas in eighteenth-century medicine and literature. It gives a wide cultural perspective of the numerous spas, springs and wells of Britain, well beyond Bath, and focuses on specific political and cultural tensions while reasserting the cent...
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The distribution and redistribution of income
Provides an up-to-date synthesis of the many strands of distributional analysis used in the fields of social policy, welfare theory and public finance. Develops a consistent mathematical approach into a self-contained and unified treatment of the distribution and redistribution of income. Thoroug...
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Gothic death 1740–1914
Drawing on a range of popular Gothic and Victorian novels, poems and short stories, this book provides the first full length study of representations of death and dying in Gothic texts between 1740 and 1914.
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Every man out of his humour
Despite its popularity when it first appeared in print in 1600, Every Man out of His Humour has never appeared as a single modern critical edition until now. The volume's introduction and annotations convey early modern obsessions with wealth and self-display by providing historical contexts and ...
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Creative research communication
This book provides a theoretically grounded introduction to new and emerging approaches to public engagement and research communication.
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Global white nationalism
This book offers the first transnational history of white nationalism in Britain, the US and the formerly British colonies of Rhodesia, South Africa and Australia from the post-World War II period to the present.
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The cinema of pedro almodóvar
A comprehensive, historically informed study of the art and politics of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, showing how Almodóvar's films draw on various national cinemas and film genres, including Spanish cinema of the dictatorship, European art cinema, Hollywood melodrama and film noir.
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Changing france
Focusing on cultural areas such as exhibitions, transport, food, dress and photography, ‘Changing France’ shows how apparently trivial aspects of modern life provided Second Empire writers with a versatile means of thinking about deeper issues.
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Joan of arc
A collection of documents on the historical figure Joan of Arc, some of which published in modern English for the first time, and contextualised by an extended intorduction and and useful contextualising passages
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Reclaiming migration
Reclaiming migration assesses the EU’s migration policies based on a counter-archive of migratory testimonies, co-produced with people on the move across the Mediterranean during 2015 and 2016. It highlights the flawed assumptions on which policies are based and documents the precarities produced...
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Orphanage tourism in nepal
This book explores the social, cultural and economic backdrop of the growing phenomenon of orphanage tourism in Nepal.
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Looking north
Investigating areas as diverse as travel literature, fiction, dialect, the stage, radio, and television, feature film, music and sport, this fascinating book assesses the attitudes and portrayal of the North of England within the national culture and how this has impacted upon attitudes to the re...
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The british empire through buildings
Imperialism is strikingly represented in its buildings. This work illuminates the dispersal of colonial culture and religious forms, social classes, and racial divisions over two centuries, from the establishment of colonial rule to a post-colonial world. It will be a vital reading for all studen...
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Moving through modernity
'Moving through modernity' offers the first full-length account of modernism from the perspective of a critical literary geography, and in stimulating new readings of E.M. Forster, Imagism, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Jean Rhys, this book demonstrates how space and geography were also centra...
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British queer history
Takes stock of the ‘new British queer history’. Topics range from newspaper reporting of sodomy cases, to homoerotic representations in art, to queer autobiographical accounts, to oral histories of Scottish lesbians, and much else besides.
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Civil war london
London’s mobilisation proved crucial to parliament’s success in the English Civil War. Through a rigorous investigation of archival and print sources, this book shows how and why the City aligned its interests with parliament and how, ultimately, this alignment led to the establishment of an army...
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Authorship and authority
King James VI of Scotland and I of England participated in the burgeoning literary culture of the Renaissance as patron and author. This book explores the full range of these extensive writings, which include poetry, scriptural exegeses and political treatises, in the contexts of their production...
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Culture in manchester
Brings together studies of cultural institutions in Manchester from 1850 to the present day, giving an unprecedented account of the city's cultural evolution.
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Unlimited action
Extremity might suggest violence, pornography, criminality, misanthropy, danger, recklessness, eccentricity or obscurantism. How has art exceeded its own example through performance art? How have artists used performance to question and overextend the limits of form in the 1970s? And with what ef...
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Regulating lobbying
An exhaustive update of the 2010 classic that analyzes more countries, revamping the theoretical classification of lobbying regulatory environments and the states found therein. Two key innovations in this edition include: new insights on measuring transparency and accountability of the laws and ...
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The 'do-it-yourself' artwork
Spanning a range of practices including kinetic art, happenings, environments, performance, installations, relational and new media art from the 1950s to the present, this critical anthology sheds light on the history and specificity of artworks that only come to life when you – the viewer - are ...
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The scottish witch-hunt in context
A collection of essays on Scottish witchcraft and witch-hunting, which covers the whole period of the Scottish witch-hunt, from the mid-sixteenth century to the early eighteenth. Includes studies of particular witchcraft panics such as a reassessment of the role of King James VI. Covers a wide ra...
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Edmund spenser and the romance of space
Edmund Spenser and the romance of space seeks to gauge the roles that aesthetic subjectivity and the imagination play in early modern spatial and textual practices.
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War and politics in the elizabethan counties
Reassesses the national war effort during the Elizabethan wars against Spain (1585–1603). Drawing on a mass of hitherto neglected sources, it finds a political system in much better health than has been thought, revising many existing assumptions about the weaknesses of the state in the face of m...
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Tokyo seven roses
Seven beautiful women – the Seven Roses – take a stand against an unheard-of threat to the integrity of Japanese culture in post-WWII Japan.
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Elementary scat practice tests
This book contains three full-length verbal and quantitative practice tests to prepare students in grades 2 and 3 to take the Elementary School and College Ability Test (SCAT) administered by the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY), an above-grade level test designed at grades 4 and 5 t...
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Normativity, meaning and philosophy: essays on wittgenstein
This is a collection of essays on Wittgenstein originally published between 1996 and 2019, with a new introduction. The essays defend and develop a central Wittgensteinian idea: ‘grammatical rules’ for the use of expressions hold the key to understanding linguistic meaning, as well as its connect...
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Wittgenstein and artificial intelligence, volume i
Wittgenstein and AI (Volume I): Mind and Language. This is the first of two edited collections, exploring Wittgensteinian themes in AI. The issues covered by the various chapters of this volume range over a number of topics, with a specific focus on mind and language.
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Civic engagement in australian democracy
This edited collection provides contemporary and interdisciplinary reflections on the changing patterns of civic participation in Australian democracy.
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Political authority
This volume makes available Peter Winch’s previously unpublished manuscripts on political philosophy. Editorial notes and an interpretive essay show the development of Winch’s thinking over time and situate the manuscripts within the broader context of Winch’s work.
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British entanglement with brazilian slavery
This book looks beyond the British Empire and the Slavery Abolition Act to focus on Brazil as the final frontier of Britain’s centuries-long involvement with transatlantic slavery.
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Scottish society 1707–1830
Scottish Society, 1707-1830 challenges much conventional wisdom and provides readers with many new insights into Scottish social and economic history.. Argues that the Union of 1707 was vital for Scottish success, but in ways which have hitherto been overlooked.. Contests received wisdom on issue...
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Creativity and resistance in a hostile world
What can culture, and its manifestations in artistic and creative forms, ‘do’? This book draws on original collaborative research that brings together a range of stories and perspectives on the role of creativity and resistance in a hostile world. In times of racial nationalism across the world...
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London calling italy
London calling Italy is a book about the BBC Italian Service during the Second World War. It examines the role of the Italian broadcasters, the programmes and their reception.
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Theatre, education and the making of meanings
The book is a study of theatre's educational role in the 20th and the first years of the 21st centuries. It examines the variety of ways the theatre's educational potential has been harnessed and theorised by the claims made for its value and the tension between theatre as education and theatre a...
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Lehman brothers
Using extensive documentary evidence and interviews with former Lehman employees, Oonagh McDonald reveals the decisions that led to Lehman’s collapse, investigates why the government refused a bail-out and whether the implications of this refusal were fully understood. In clear and accessible lan...
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Reading ireland
An innovative book revealing the impact of print on social change in early modern Ireland
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Diaspora diplomacy
This book examines the reasons behind the Turkish state’s unprecedented recent interest in its diaspora, details new political activism in Europe among the Turkish diaspora and explores how Turkey’s growing sway over its overseas population has affected intra-diaspora politics and Turkey’s diplom...
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Terror and terroir
This book traces the history of post-war France by tracking the Comité Régional d'Action Viticole (CRAV), a militant collective of winegrowers who have used protest and violence to push back against attempts to modernise the French economy and state and the wider impacts of globalisation.
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Surrealism and film after 1945
Surrealism and Film after 1945 is the first collection devoted to the vibrant culture of transnational surrealist cinema since the Second World War. Eleven chapters by leading and emerging scholars of surrealism and film studies establish the parameters of this history and situate surrealism as a...
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In the shadow of enoch powell
This book contributes to race and ethnicity studies through a focus on the small scale, racialised dynamics of locality during a sharpening climate of crisis in British society.
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The adventure
This ethnographic study examines the moral, gendered, affective, social, and political dimensions of irregular migrants’ experiences of entrapment, uncertainty, and violence in Morocco. To counter dehumanising narratives of a crisis, the book is articulated around the emic notion of ‘the adventur...
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The punk rock politics of joe strummer
Drawing on Strummer’s lyrics, interviews and bootleg recordings, as well as interviews with friends and contemporaries like Billy Bragg, The punk rock politics of Joe Strummer reveals the wide-ranging political influence of one of the twentieth century’s iconic rock’n’roll rebels.
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Mother and child
This fascinating book provides a detailed account of the history of maternity and child welfare in Dublin between 1922 and 1960. In so doing it places maternity and child welfare in the context of twentieth-century Irish history, offering one of the only accounts of how women and children were vi...
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Diaspora as translation and decolonisation
This book proposes a new way of conceptualising diaspora by examining how diasporas do translation and decolonisation. It provides conceptual tools for investigating diasporas and their interventions and considers diaspora as ‘the global south in the global north’, as well as providing a case stu...
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Women art workers and the arts and crafts movement
Women Art Workers provides a new social and cultural history of the Arts and Crafts movement which offers unprecedented insight into how women constructed alternative, creative lifestyles and disseminated the ethos of the social importance of the Arts and Crafts across new local, national, and in...
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Brothers in the great war
A study of the emotional experiences of brothers and sisters in the First World War and its aftermath. Affectionate sibling bonds sustained the war generation both at home and on the front line, providing a lateral perspective on our understanding of domestic and military masculinities and the lo...
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Madness on trial
This book examines the role of civil law in determining mental capacity over a five hundred year period in England and in New Jersey.
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Art as worldmaking
This collection is a response to Alex Potts’s provocative 2013 book Experiments in modern realism. Twenty essays by leading art historians explore Pott’s recasting of realism, providing a new understanding of artworks dating from the eighth to twenty-first centuries and challenging established th...
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‘no historie so meete’
This book explores the importance of history to Elizabethan and early Stuart gentry and how this led to a vibrant antiquarian culture. The family, town and county histories written by the community, which form the core of the study, had an influence on the development of local history in England ...
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The breakup of india and palestine
These chapters provide deeply researched narratives of the links between partition in India and Palestine in 1947. It focuses on the shared dynamics that shaped both regions, such as violence, the role of religion in politics, majoritarian politics, and the persistence of imperial modes of power.
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Ireland, africa and the end of empire
In the twenty years after Ireland joined the UN in 1955, one subject dominated its fortunes: Africa. The first detailed study of Ireland’s relationship with that continent, this book documents its special place in Irish history.
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Iron lazar
The first English-language biography of Lazar Kaganovich, one of Stalin’s leading deputies, ‘Iron Lazar’ provides an insight into the political and personal relations of the Stalin group, and examines Kaganovich’s role in shaping policy during the Stalinist regime.
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The james bond phenomenon
Sean Connery’s tuxedo, Ursula Andress’ bikini, Oddjob’s bowler hat, and Q’s gadgets are just a few defining features of the 007 world examined in The James Bond phenomenon. Drawn from the fields of literary, film, music, and cultural studies, the essays in this collection range from revitalised r...
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The european byron
This book considers how Byron’s cosmopolitanism, mobility, and chameleon style influenced Byron’s identity in West and Eastern Europe. Transformed by French translations, Byron’s work was read by Thomas Moore, Ugo Foscolo, Lady Mosergan, Madame de Staël, Adam Mickiewicz and Alexander Pushkin. His...
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Outlaw heroes in myth and history
This book provides an overview and analysis of the global tradition of the outlaw hero. The mythology and history of the outlaw hero is traced from the Roman Empire to the present, showing how both real and mythic figures have influenced social, political, economic and cultural outcomes in many t...
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A guide to trade credit insurance
This compact volume is a practical guide for anyone interested in Trade Credit Insurance. The International Credit Insurance & Surety Association (ICISA) presents an approachable but detailed guide written collaboratively by carefully selected industry experts. The guide describes the ‘lifeli...
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A neoliberal revolution?
A neoliberal revolution? examines the Thatcher government’s attempt to privatise and individualise Britain’s pension system, thereby transforming workers into risk-taking savers with a stake in capitalism. The book explains why this revolution failed and charts the malign legacy left by the evolu...
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Becoming a mother
This book charts the history of first-time Australian motherhood across the last 75 years, drawing upon oral history interviews with a diverse group of mothers. Through thematic chapters covering pregnancy, birth, childrearing, relationships, work and identity, the book analyses change and contin...
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Religion and politics in elizabethan england
This book provides a full account of the life and career of the Elizabethan politician and courtier Sir Christopher Hatton. A loyal favourite and minister of a Protestant queen, he was also a patron and protector of Catholics. This account of Hatton opens a new window into the complex religious p...
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The english musical renaissance, 1840–1940
Second edition of a book which caused huge controversy in its first printing - now completely revised and updated. Argues that research into the cultural history of music can significantly help our understanding of the evolution of English national identity. Only book of its kind to cover such a ...
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My voice: hans rose
Hans's book is part of the My Voice Project, a collection of firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. Hans Rose witnessed the devastating impact of Kristallnacht in Germany before his family moved to England and his father was interned on...
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Albrecht dürer’s material world
This highly illustrated catalogue presents new essays on Albrecht Dürer, focusing on an understudied aspect of his practice: the material worlds of manufacture, design and trade.
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