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The politics of jean genet's late theatre
Jean Genet and the politics of theatre is the first publication to situate the politics of Genet's theatre within the social, spatial and political contexts of France in the 1950s and 1960s. The book's innovative approach departs significantly from existing scholarship on Genet. Where scholars ha...
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Youth policy, civil society and the modern irish state
In the post-Ryan Report (2009) on child abuse in the modern state, this book is the first study to document and analyse the issues in a frank exposé that challenges many of the myths about children and young people in Ireland.
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The new woman
Sexually transgressive, politically astute and determined to claim educational and employment rights equal to those enjoyed by men, the new woman took centre stage in the cultural landscape of late-Victorian Britain. By comparing the fictional representations with the lived experience of the new ...
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Colour
Accessible and inventive in its approach, Colour is the first monograph to deal with the close criticism of film colour across decades and countries.
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Political ideology today
Examines the tenets of liberalism, socialism, conservatism, Marxism, anarchism, and fascism.
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Recognition theory and contemporary french moral and political philosophy
Both pedagogical and critical, this collection outlines the current state of recognition theory, studies the influence of French theory upon its evolution, and uses French thought to identity aspects of the recognitive process which are often overlooked.
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Uncertain citizenship
This book investigates uncertainty as a governing practice from the unique vantage point of ‘citizenisation’ - twenty-first-century integration and naturalisation measures that make and unmake citizens and migrants, while indefinitely holding many applicants for citizenship in the waiting room of...
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A precarious equilibrium
Human rights and détente inextricably intertwined during Carter’s years. By promoting human rights in the USSR, Carter sought to build a domestic consensus for détente; through bipolar dialogue, he tried to advance human rights in the USSR. But, human rights contributed to the erosion of détente ...
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A moving rhetoricke
An investigation of a wide range of contemporary sources, from domestic conduct guides to emblem books, this study offers fresh perspectives on both culture and literature.
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Tasso's art and afterlives
Traces the impact of the great Italian poet’s neglected masterpiece across a broad spectrum of arts from the sixteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, focusing on, among many others, the works of Spenser, Milton, Shakespeare, Daniel, Van Dyck, Poussin, Handel and Byron.
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The reign of richard ii
A source reader covering the first twenty years (1377–97) of Richard II’s reign. Includes well-known English chronicles, foreign chronicles, and legal, administrative and financial records with clear and lively commentary and notes to enable readers to make the fullest use of each document.
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Stalinist terror in eastern europe
This volume examines Stalinist terror in Eastern Europe in the period 1940 to 1956. It covers instances of elite purges from the party and state hierarchy, including the infamous show trials staged against leading communists and the impact such practices had on wartime and post-war societies in t...
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Barbara comyns
This biography of Barbara Comyns presents a twentieth-century author whose life was as extraordinary as her novels. Hundreds of unpublished letters reveal an occasionally desperate but resourceful and witty woman whose complicated life ranged from enduring poverty when young to mixing with spivs,...
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Empire, migration and identity in the british world
This volume brings together established scholars with a new generation of migration and transnational historians. Their work weaves together the ‘new’ imperial and the ‘new’ migration histories, and explores the interplay of migration within and between the local, regional, imperial, and transnat...
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Creating character
Through innovative readings of seven novels, Creating character demonstrates how the Victorian sensation authors Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins employed, challenged and explored diverse, and sometimes contradictory, theories of character formation in their fiction
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Henry dresser and victorian ornithology
This book explores the life of Henry Dresser (1838–1915), one of the most productive British ornithologists of the mid-late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The author examines how Dresser and his contemporaries discovered and documented birds across the globe.
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1 angel square
This book charts the building of 1 Angel Square, the remarkable new head office for The Co-operative Group in Manchester’s new NOMA district.Combining text and photographs to illustrate the building from commissioning to completion, Len Grant has interviewed the whole project team – clients, arch...
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Step-daughters of england
Jane Garrity shows how four British women modernist writers - Dorothy Richardson, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf - used experimental literary techniques in order to situate themselves as national subjects.
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Politics and painting at the venice biennale, 1948–64
Challenging the dominant view that American Abstract Expressionism triumphed in Western Europe in the immediate post-war period, this book considers the proliferation of gesture painting there from a European perspective.
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Running the family firm
The British royal family has experienced a resurgence in public interest at the same time as global inequalities have expanded between ‘the elites’ and ‘the rest’. Yet, the monarchy is absent from conversations about inequality. This is the only book arguing that we cannot talk about inequalities...
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Flesh cinema
Explores the groundbreaking representation of the body in experimental films of the 1960s and 1970s. Focusing on sexually explicit films by Andy Warhol, Barbara Rubin, Stan Brakhage, Carolee Schneemann, Yoko Ono and Paul Sharits.
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Subjects of modernity
Subjects of Modernity brings together the past and the present as well as theory and narrative, sowing the historical, the ethnographic, and the methodological deep into its critical procedures.
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Gorbachev's export of perestroika to eastern europe
This book looks at the liberalisation process in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) during the period 1987-1989, focusing on Gorbachev’s initiative to encourage perestroika in all the fraternal regimes of CEE outside the Soviet Union.
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The civil service and the revolution in ireland 1912–1938
Refutes the orthodox view that the independent Irish State accepted intact the civil service inherited from the former British regime in Dublin Castle
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Out of the depths
First published in 1945, this historic collection of songs composed by Jewish victims of the Holocaust is being made available for the first time in English, complete with introductory essays and biographies of the composers.
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British liberal internationalism, 1880–1930
This book provides a detailed analysis of the aims, character and trajectory of the ideology of liberal internationalism in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. The book has a genuinely interdisciplinary appeal and is relevant to students of International Relations, British histor...
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John fletcher's rome
Examines Fletcher’s Roman plays and identifies disorientation as the unifying principle of his portrayal of imperial Rome. The book sheds new light on his intellectual life by arguing that his dramatization of Rome exudes a sense of scepticism over the authority of Roman models resulting from his...
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The business of time
This book follows the emergence and transformation of the watch industry throughout the world from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present day. It sheds new light on the way the global economy became established.
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Odd women?
This genealogy of the odd woman compares representations of spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women’s fiction and auto/biography from the 1850s to the 1930s
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Contemporary olson
Re-situating Olson’s work in relation both to his own moment and to current concerns, the essays assembled in Contemporary Olson provide a major re-assessment of his place in postwar poetry and culture.
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From partition to brexit
From Partition to Brexit provides an authoritative and accessible analysis of how successive Irish governments have tried to overcome the challenges presented by the division of Ireland, including the decades-long conflict that claimed thousands of lives.
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Interior design and identity
This fascinating collection provides a chronologically arranged set of case studies looking at how interior design has constantly redefined itself as a manifestation of culture, from the eighteenth-century to the present day. The book looks at the amateur activities of female ‘home makers’ in sea...
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The factory in a garden
This book aims to explore the designed landscapes associated with factories and corporations in the UK and US created since the industrial revolution. It is largely historical, focusing on the period between 1890 and 1930 but it comes right up to date with initiatives such as secret gardens and ...
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Yerma
The second of Lorca's trilogy of rural dramas, Yerma, is a blend of contrasting moods through which Lorca charts the increasingly destructive obsession of a childless young country wife, and probes the darker zones of human fears and desires. The play's rich mode of expression - a combination of ...
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The revenger's tragedy
This play depicts a morally corrupt world where the desire for justice is contaminated by the obsession for revenge. The characters take pleasure in watching adultery, incest and murder. The play's chief moral spokesman, Vindice, is at the same time enamoured of and disgusted by, the luxury of th...
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Essex
Collection of new essays about the earl of Essex, one of the most important figures of the Elizabethan court
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South african london
South African London studies literary responses to London by exiled and émigré South Africans between 1948 and 2005 and traces the role London played in the development of South African letters.
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Mothers and meaning on the early modern english stage
Examines the political rhetoric of Mary I, Elizabeth and James, reported gallows confessions of mother convicts and the increasingly popular Puritan conduct books
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Irish cinema in the twenty-first century
This book provides an accessible, comprehensive discussion of how a small national cinema can remain relevant in the wider environment of globalisation. It includes chapters on the creative documentary, animation and the horror film, as well as Irish history on screen and the depiction of the cou...
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Beginning modernism
this book offers a practical and reader-friendly introduction to the artistic and intellectual revolution of the early twentieth century. It combines an emphasis on how to read individual modernist artefacts with a wide-ranging survey of this diverse and ground-breaking movement, from literature ...
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New labour, new britain?
New Labour, New Britain? reassesses Tony Blair’s governments, offering a balanced view of their policies and impact. Exploring New Labour’s successes in public services and social liberalism while acknowledging its shortcomings, the book provides a nuanced perspective on New Labour’s lasting infl...
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The evolving role of nation-building in us foreign policy
Weaving together International Relations theory and a rich history drawing mainly on declassified documents, interviews and other primary sources, this book contributes to theoretical discussions of nation-building while offering a critique of Realist and Critical Security School analyses of US p...
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Visual culture in spain and mexico
Visual culture in Spain and Mexico analyses films, paintings and museum exhibitions to show how aspects of hispanic visual culture ‘manage’ or ‘mediate’ risk, as articulated stylistically and ideologically in the visual artefact. The book is divided into six chapters plus an Introduction. The fir...
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Illegitimacy in english law and society, 1860–1930
Unlike most other studies of illegitimacy, Frost's book concentrates on the late-Victorian period and the early twentieth century, and takes the child's point of view rather than that of the mother or of 'child-saving' groups.
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Mental health nursing
Seeks to integrate the history of mental health nursing with the wider history of institutional and community care.
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Barry hines
This is the first full-length critical study of the work of Barry Hines, best know as the author of A Kestrel for a Knave
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Workers, state and development in brazil
Provides an in-depth study of agrarian capitalist developmental in Brazil.
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Robespierre and the festival of the supreme being
Explores Robespierre's vision and the events held across France on this day, which he declared a national day of celebration to inaugurate the state religion of the new French Republic, the Cult of the Supreme Being. It redefines the importance of the Festival in the development of the Revolution.
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Men with stakes
Moves beyond a focus on gothic machinery and adaptations of literary gothic to consider television gothic in light of recent scholarship on the mode itself.
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The british question
This book is designed as both a framework text – setting out concepts by which to understand the British question - and a synthetic text – providing a digest of significant academic work on historical, conceptual and political matters relevant to that question.
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Europe and civil society
Provides an in-depth examination of how public interest groups and social movements seek to influence the European policy-making process
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'other' spanish theatres
Challenges established opinions on modern Iberian theatre by considering the roles of contrasting figures and companies who have impacted upon both the practice and the perception of Spanish and European stages
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Welsh missionaries and british imperialism
This book follows Thomas Jones, the first Welsh missionary from rural Wales to Cherrapunji, now one of the most Christianised parts of India. It foregrounds broader political, scientific, racial and military ideologies that mobilised the Khasi Hills into an interconnected network of imperial cont...
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François ozon
This is the first study of the films of François Ozon, and places the precocious French auteur in a lucid critical framework, highlighting Ozon's importance for a thoroughly postmodern film-going generation.
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Gunslinging justice
Gunslinging justice examines gun violence in Western films and literature alongside changes in justifiable homicide and gun rights in the United States.
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Bob crow: socialist, leader, fighter
This is the first biography of Bob Crow, the best-known union leader of his generation. It is a sympathetic but critical account, written from a radical sociological perspective.
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Revolution remembered
This book examines ‘seditious memories’ in the Restoration period. It reveals the social depth of opposition to the Stuarts and the Church of England, and asks why people were prepared to take the risk of voicing their resistance in public.
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Secret cinema and the immersive experience industry
A comprehensive history and analysis of Secret Cinema – the leading producer of large-scale immersive experiences in the UK. The book examines how they have evolved their format over twelve years from experimental and artisanal beginnings to becoming a global leader in large scale immersive enter...
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Love's metamorphosis
Lyly's most elegantly structured play, newly edited from the quarto of 1601
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Holding bankers to account
This book tells you all you need to know about the rigging of Libor, Forex and the Gold and Silver Fixes during and after the financial crisis of 2007-08.
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Mummies, magic and medicine in ancient egypt
This volume presents the latest research on three of the most important aspects of ancient Egyptian civilisation: mummies, magic and medicine. Drawing on recent archaeological fieldwork, new research on human remains, reassessments of ancient texts and modern experimental archaeology, it seeks to...
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Literary visions of multicultural ireland
The first full-length monograph to address the impact that Celtic-Tiger immigration has exerted on the poetry, drama and fiction of contemporary Irish writers
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Cairo collages
With the military seizing overt power in Egypt, Cairo’s grand and dramatic urban reshaping during and after 2011 is reflected upon under the lens of a smaller story narrating everyday interactions of a middle-class building in the neighbourhood of Doqi.
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Clive barker
A necessary and timely study of Barker’s influence in dark fantasy, gothic and horror studies. The book features twelve groundbreaking essays on Barker’s creative legacy and influence, and reevaluates his celebrated and lesser known works in fiction, film and visual art, from the Books of Blood (...
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Inventing the cave man
An extensively researched account of the history of the cave man character in modern popular culture, tracing its roots back to Victorian Britain
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Staging the revolution
Seeks to reassess the dramatic output of the Commonwealth, Protectorate and early Restoration; a period that has often been marginalised by specialists of both Renaissance and Restoration drama.
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Public relations and the making of modern britain
This book tells the story of how the unorthodox liberalism of the public sector svengali Stephen Tallents helped reshape public life for a new social, political and technological age.
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Acceptable words
'Acceptable words' comprises a series of highly individual essays covering the whole of Geoffrey Hill's poetry to date, including the remarkable late flowering of the years since 1996. The essays offer detailed readings of many poems whilst making many - often surprising - associations with histo...
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Oil and the political economy in the middle east
This is the first comprehensive analysis of the Middle East political economy in response to the oil price decline in 2014. Based on a heuristic framework inspired by rentierism, the volume contains original studies on Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the Un...
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Bulmer hobson and the nationalist movement in twentieth-century ireland
This book examines Bulmer Hobson (1883-1969) nationalist career in the period 1900-16, as well as his lesser-known activities in the years after the rebellion.
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Management and gender in higher education
A definitive examination of higher education in Ireland
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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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Bedsit land
This is the first in-depth account of the band Soft Cell. Written by a leading music journalist and based on extensive interviews, it traces the band’s remarkably varied roots, from British seaside entertainments and Northern Soul nights to art school experimentation and New York glamour.
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The debate on black civil rights in america
This volume in the Issues in Historiography series examines the changing scholarly debate on individuals and events in African American history from the 1890s to the present. It highlights how over time the work of scholars has reflected both advances in academic understanding and wider developme...
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Reassessing 1970s britain
This book examines a decade of extraordinary ferment in ideas, and the battles about those ideas out of which emerged the Britain of the late-twentieth century.
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The black death
This book surveys contemporary responses to the Black Death. The sources illustrate the fear that spread with the disease and the diverse ways that such terror influenced social behaviour.
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Law, history, colonialism
Drawing on the latest contemporary research from an internationally acclaimed group of scholars, Law, history, colonialism brings together the disciplines of law, history and post-colonial studies in a singular exploration of imperialism.In fresh, innovative essays from a range of disciplinary ba...
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Template for peace
This book examines the creation and collapse of the first power-sharing administration in Northern Ireland, and British government policy during the period 1972–75. It also analyses the relationship between the British and Irish states during the 1972–75 period.
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The victorian aquarium
Through the analysis of a wide range of sources, which include aquarium manuals, articles and fictional works, The Victorian aquarium investigates the nineteenth-century vogue for home tanks; the book retraces the development and decline of the ‘aquarium mania’, exploring both its historical spec...
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Monastic experience in twelfth-century germany
This first English translation of the twelfth-century Chronicle of Petershausen offers an intimate and colourful view of traditional monastic life against the backdrop of contemporary interactions with bishops and lay patrons, the process of monastic reform, and the local and supra-regional disru...
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Death in modern theatre
This book analyses representations of death and dying in modern Western theatre from the late nineteenth century onward, examining how and why historically informed conceptions of mortality are dramatized and staged.
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The child in spanish cinema
The first full-length treatment of the child in Spanish cinema
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Richard marsh, popular fiction and literary culture, 1890–1915
This volume explores the novels and short stories of the popular author Richard Marsh through a range of critical lenses. An exemplary figure of the New Grub Street, Marsh was an important presence within fin-de-siècle literary culture, whose middlebrow genre fiction simultaneously reinforces and...
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Cyprus: a conflict at the crossroads
This volume brings together leading scholars from various disciplines to analyse the Cyprus conflict from a number of perspectives. The result is a picture of Cyprus that is unique in the nuances and multiple facets it provides.
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The great exhibition, 1851
An invaluable compendium of sources relating to the Great Exhibition
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Forever fluid
Forever Fluid is the first English commentary on Luce Irigaray’s important text, Elemental Passions. It provides a lively alternative to the binary logic that runs through western culture, showing how sexual difference enables appreciation of difference of all kinds
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Fools and idiots?
Combines modern and medieval approaches to intellectual disability, and engages with a very wide range of sources in order to fill a major gap in this relatively new field, and demonstrate that disability, illness and healthcare are embedded in daily life
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Irish environmental politics after the communicative turn
Applies social and political theory to an in-depth study of environmental politics in Ireland.
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Citizen manchester
An insight into the refurbishment of Manchester's Town Hall Extension and Central Library, through large-format photographs
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Contemporary spanish cinema and genre
This book analyses the significant changes in the aesthetics, production and reception of Spanish cinema and genre from 1990 to the present while providing multiple perspectives on the concepts of national cinemas and genre theory.
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Comic spenser
Comic Spenser explains how the deep-rooted cultural bias against humour has skewed interpretation of The Faerie Queene since its first publication. As well as bringing a comic perspective to new areas of the poem, this study explores profound connections between humour, faith, and allegory.
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Foreigners, minorities and integration
Explores the arrival and development of Muslim immigrant communities in Britain and Germany during the post-1945 period through the case studies of Newcastle upon Tyne and Bremen
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A writer's guide to ancient rome
For writers of Roman historical fiction: a basic guide to family life, food & clothing, housing & travel, law & order, economics, religion, and entertainment.
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The secret life of romantic comedy
The secret life of romantic comedy offers a fresh approach to one of the most popular Hollywood genres in recent years and analyses the cultural impact of generic conventions in the construction of issues of intimacy and sexuality.
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Government by referendum
A perfect primer for anyone interested in the politics of referendums.
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The photobook world
This volume challenges the art-market definition of the photobook as a photographer’s book, proposing instead to show how books and photos come together as collective cultural productions. The chapters revisit canonical works and delve into institutional, digital and unrealised projects, illegal ...
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King lear
Through a study of ten modern stage and screen productions of 'King Lear', this book examines the way performance and interpretation are bound together, and shows how different performances have illuminated the contradictions in this play. The updated second edition has new chapters on Ian Holm's...
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The schubert song companion
This reference book provides an encyclopaedic guide to every song by Schubert for solo voice and piano, 600 in all, including different versions, unfinished songs and variants.
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