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British bangladeshi muslims in the east end
This book delves into an in-depth discussion around dress and languages and how they have shaped the changes in the British Bangladeshi Muslim community in the East End of London.
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An empire of many cultures
Based upon original research and bringing to life the words and actions of Bahá’í, Muslim, and Jewish leaders during the early 20th century, this study sheds light on each found meaning and value in the diversity that characterised the British Empire, enabling the creation of relationships that w...
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Thomas nashe and literary performance
Thomas Nashe is typically regarded as an urban author and a University wit, but his writings are inflected and shaped by regional travel, ‘non-literary’, non-elite works, and oral culture. The essays in this collection address Nashe’s use of the past, his engagement with the Elizabethan present, ...
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David, donne, and thirsty deer
Essays by Anne Lake Prescott on French and English early modern writers and cultures, from Du Bellay to Spenser, Ronsard to Donne.
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Graveyard gothic
This collection of essays considers the significance of graveyards in Gothic literature, film, television and video games. The chapters incorporate discussion of Gothic texts from around the world, offering a compelling new account of the graveyard’s importance as a key location for Gothic art an...
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On trial
The book explores the early days of industry-sponsored clinical research in psychiatry. Examining how the clinic, patients, doctors, nursing staff, corporations, and authorities interacted, it reconstructs the experimental practices in a psychiatric hospital from 1940-80 whilst telling a larger s...
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Agents of european overseas empires
Agents of European overseas empires examines networks of trade and communication on a global scale whose activities enabled early modern European overseas empires.
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Gothic dreams and nightmares
This interdisciplinary text combines an attention to socio-historical and cultural contexts with a rigorous close reading of literary, artistic, and televisual works, both classic and lesser known. It investigates how the Gothic and the concepts of dreams and nightmares have intersected from the ...
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The cinema of cecilia bartolomé
Fusing a distinctive feminist aesthetics with a startling vision of twentieth-century Spain, the work of Cecilia Bartolomé casts a new light on the histories of both Spanish national film, and transnational women’s cinema. This book places Bartolomé among other key auteurs of national Spanish, an...
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The loneliness room
The loneliness room is a richly evocative account of loneliness as told through the photographs, videos, songs, poems, and writings supplied by its participants.
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Sir philip sidney: the countess of pembroke's arcadia
This is an edition of Sir Philip Sidney’s New Arcadia in modern spelling that makes the text accessible through an enhanced glossary and expanded commentary covering book history, reception history, and Sidney’s contribution to the English language.
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Threads of globalization
Threads of globalization is an interdisciplinary volume that brings fashion-specific garments, motifs, materials, and methods of production—into dialogue with gender and identity in various cultures throughout Asia during the long twentieth century.
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After the end
Through sources from literature and film to comics, music and the built environment across the globe, this work studies the enduring legacy of Cold War culture in current debates and concerns around risk, security, borders, environmental justice, inequality and apocalypse.
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Reanimating grief
This book explores how literature, theatre and music revive the dead to explore the dynamics of grief and mourning. Combining expressive and analytical writing, it offers a critical poetics of loss to show how ghosts, scenes of mourning, memories of reading or viewing, and acoustic fragments, all...
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The sociology of sovereignty
The book examines the intellectual history of the concept of sovereignty and argues that its essential value lies in its historical role as a political instrument to handle paradoxes of power.
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Haunted britain
Haunted Britain offers a new emotional and cultural history of the Great War as told through the spiritualist and psychical research movements between 1914 and 1939.
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A book of monsters
This book presents a cultural history of Promethean Horror in the modern age, tracing the rise of a sub-genre of gothic fiction in the twentieth-century and examining post-modern revisions of Modernist “Promethean” tropes in an eclectic range of gothic, fantasy and SF writing.
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The common writer in modern history
This edited collection focusses on the writing of ordinary, semi-literate people in history, emphasising the agency and voices of the subordinate classes and contesting conventional histories that treat them as passive or silent. It analyses ‘ordinary writings’ across a range of geographical area...
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Inner empire
This book presents for the first time a coherent analysis of the British Isles as an imperial setting understood through its buildings, spaces, and infrastructure. It considers ‘internal’ colonisation and its infrastructures of order and suppression, alongside wider relationships between architec...
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Capitalism in contemporary iran
The book situates Iran within the motions and tendencies of global capitalism and resulting geopolitics to analyse the process of Iranian neoliberalisation and its impacts on the reconfiguration of the ruling class; reshaping of the subaltern classes and their struggles; reorganisation of the for...
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At home with the poor
This book opens the doors to the homes of the forgotten poor and traces the goods they owned before, during and after the industrial revolution. Using a vast range of sources, it argues that the poor owned greater numbers and varieties of items with each generation and that poverty did not always...
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Negotiating relief and freedom
This book investigates both short- and long-term responses to disaster in the British Caribbean. It is the first to examine the informal negotiations that took place on the ground between the colonial authorities and the African-Caribbean population, and the formal negotiations undertaken by colo...
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