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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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Friars’ tales
David Jones has translated two important collections of short stories from the late thirteenth century that were assembled in the British Isles. The collections of narratives depict working daily life as well as offering a moral and theological insight into medieval life overall.
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Monarchies and decolonisation in asia
Provides new perspectives on the role of European colonial monarchies, and the monarchies of Asia, in the late colonial period, during the process of decolonisation, and in its aftermath.
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Women police
Women Police is the first in-depth historical study of women’s involvement in uniform, plain-clothes and undercover policing in the UK. Topics covered include the regulation of prostitution, sexual violence, child abuse and neglect. T
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Legacies of the magdalen laundries
Magdalen history has long been marginalised. Even as women's activism and contributions are included in new histories of the revolutionary era, the lives of women regarded as marginal are still excluded. This collection examines how Magdalen history can contribute to a more nuanced, inclusive und...
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Egypt of the saite pharaohs, 664–525 bc
The Saite Dynasty (664–525 BC) represents a dynamic but lesser-known era in the history of ancient Egypt. In less than a decade Psamtek I reunified the country after almost 400 years of fragmentation. The Saite rulers promoted trade and embarked on important reforms, allowing Egypt to regain a ma...
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Worth saving
The first detailed study on the experiences of disabled children during the Second World War.
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The cooke sisters
A study of five remarkable sixteenth-century women. Part of the select group of Tudor women allowed access to formal humanist education, the Cooke sisters were also well-connected through their marriages to influential Elizabethan politicians.
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The houses of history
An updated edition of this accessible critical reader, with additional chapters including an introduction that contextualises the rise of each theoretical perspective and draw links between them.
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Doggy people
This book reveals the varied and often eccentric lives of the Victorians who helped define dogs as we know them today.
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Fragments of history
Fragments of history: Rethinking the Ruthwell and Bewcastle monuments is an innovative study of the two premier survivals of pre-Viking Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture. Both monuments are rich in finely carved images and complex inscriptions. Though in some way related, in this book, they have very d...
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Eternal light and earthly concerns
This book investigates how the practice of keeping a light burning in churches was established in the early Middle Ages. It asks what the material consequences of implementing the practice were and why it ceased at the end of the Middle Ages.
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The history of emotions
The first accessible text book on the theories, methods, achievements and problems in this burgeoning field of historical inquiry.
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Charlemagne
Fifteen introductory but challenging essays on the key aspects of the age of Charlemagne written by many of the top scholars of early medieval Europe.
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The lord’s battle
This book examines the preaching and printing of sermons by royalists during the English Revolution. It shows how and why preaching became an indispensable tool for those who sought to resist the seismic changes in Church and state that England experienced between 1640 and 1662.
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Engendering whiteness
Engendering Whiteness examines the complex diversity of slaveholding and non-slaveholding white women’s material realities within the slave societies of Barbados and North Carolina between the 17th-19th centuries.
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Evelyn sharp
This is the first biography of a remarkable writer and incorrigible rebel. Evelyn Sharp’s story encapsulates the shifts in opportunities for talented Victorian women who survived into the mid-twentieth century.She was born into a privileged family in 1869 and became a very popular writer of schoo...
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Wales since 1939
This ground-breaking book examines the story of Wales since 1939, giving voice to ordinary people and the variety of experiences within the nation. This is a history of not just a nation, but of its residents’ hopes and fears, their struggles and pleasures and their views of where they lived and ...
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Health, disease and society in europe, 1500–1800
Health, disease and society in Europe 1500-1800 considers how the body was viewed by the medical profession from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, and challenges established ideas in the field of medical history. It examines the provision of medical care in context and how it was shaped by th...
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Behind enemy lines
Behind enemy lines draws on personal testimonies, official records and film to explore the experiences of male and female clandestine agents who were recruited and trained by a British organisation and infiltrated into Nazi-Occupied France to encourage sabotage and subversion during the Second Wo...
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Patient voices in britain, 1840–1948
This edited collection repositions the patient experience at the centre of healthcare histories and considers the contributions that such histories can make to debates over health policy and service delivery.
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Eva gore-booth
Academics, postgraduate and undergraduate students in Irish and British social and cultural history.
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A most diabolical deed'
This book examines the phenomenon of infanticide in Ireland from 1850 to 1900. It is based on a large sample of 4,645 individual cases of infant murder, attempted infanticide and concealment of birth. Through a variety of sources, attitudes towards the crime of infanticide and women accused of ...
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Working-class writing and publishing in the late twentieth century
From the early 1970s, working class writing and publishing in local communities rapidly proliferated into a national movement. This book is the first full evaluation of these developments and opens up new perspectives on literature, culture, class and identity over the past 50 years.
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Stereotypes and stereotyping in early modern england
How and why do stereotypes continue affect public life and shape individual experience? This book tackles this question through case studies drawn from early modern England, a society shaken by divisive identity politics and increasingly commercial media. The book ends by exploring implications t...
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Bulgaria in british foreign policy, 1943–1949
This book explores Britain’s involvement in Bulgaria between 1943 and 1949, and by integrating little-known Communist Party documents with British diplomatic records, offers a new understanding of the origins of the Cold War in Bulgaria and the Balkans.
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The non-geometric lenin
This book is a collection of eleven essays dealing with Lenin’s attempt to develop a Bolshevik Party between 1910 and 1914 as well as his curious relations with a tsarist police spy and a female Bolshevik during that period.
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The women's liberation movement in scotland
The first book-length account of the women's liberation movement (WLM) in Scotland
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Soccer and racism
This book aims to use soccer as a tool to understand key elements of Brazil’s history from the overthrow of the Monarchy in 1889 to the 1930 Revolution that brought Getulio Vargas to power – the so-called First Republic.
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The great favourite
This is the first biography of the last major unknown figure in European history. The Duke of Lerma was the first and greatest of the royal favourites of the European seventeenth century. He was the greatest art patron of his generation and the greatest lay builder in Spanish history. This study ...
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Golden mummies of egypt
This book is the first major publication based entirely on Manchester Museum’s Egyptology collections. It explores the Graeco-Roman Period (c. 300 BCE–200 CE) of Egyptian history, asking to what extent our modern image of Egypt as a land of gold, sex, art and death is representative of ancient co...
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Ireland in crisis
This book presents new research on a crucial period in Irish history, looking at how individuals and institutions responded to an unprecedented crisis in church and state. It provides perspectives on the roles of English intervention, Confederate politics and the Catholic and Protestant churches,...
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My voice: eva neumann
Eva'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. Eva appears in some of the photographs that are the only visual evidence of the mass murder at Auschwitz. After the war, she moved to Man...
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Beef, bible and bullets
Beef, bible and bullets looks at the social, political and economic trends that brought a maverick right-wing populist to office in Latin America's largest economy.
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Reflections on the marxist theory of history
This book defends the Marxist theory of history through, first, a critique of its empiricist and postmodern critics, second, a practical demonstration of the power of Marxist historical writings, and, third, a survey of the powerful and influential methodological debates between Marxists.
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Our fighting sisters
Between 1954 and 1962, Algerian women played a major role in the struggle to end French rule in one of the most violent wars of decolonisation of the twentieth century. Our Fighting Sisters is the first in-depth exploration of what happened to these women after independence in 1962.
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Debates on stalinism
Debates on Stalinism introduces major debates about Stalinism during and after the Cold War. It introduces major debates and major historians of the Soviet Union during the brutal reign of Stalin. Readers will better understand not only the history of our current understanding of Stalinism but al...
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The lancashire witches
This book is the first major study of England's biggest and best-known witch trial which took place in 1612, when ten witches were arraigned and hung in the village of Pendle in Lancashire.
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Immigrant england, 1300–1550
Immigrant England tells the story of thousands of people who migrated to later medieval England. The book draws on uniquely rich evidence about the lives of these men and women, and analyses the attitudes of the English to the foreigners in their midst. Essential reading for everyone interested i...
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Water and fire
The story of Noah’s Flood is one of the Bible’s most popular stories, and other flood myths are preserved by cultures across the world. This book presents the first comprehensive study of the incorporation of the Flood myth into the literary and historical imagination of the Anglo-Saxons, ranging...
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Doing digital history
A practical guide to digital history, which shows just how much can be done without writing any code. This book will give researchers in history or related fields the skills and confidence to approach existing digital resources and to create their own. Assuming no prior knowledge, the guide focus...
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Hong kong and british culture, 1945–97
A major contribution to the scholarship on British decolonisation, the cultural history of imperialism and British engagement with China. This highly original study places the emergence of contemporary Hong Kong in the wider, post-imperial setting.
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Supernatural bodies
This book examines the role of supernatural bodies in public debates about religion, science, culture and modernity in modern Britain and Ireland. In turn, the prism of supernatural bodies reveals how those debates were interlinked, and how the forms of knowledge that informed them were produced.
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Vanishing for the vote
Investigates the boycott of the 1911 census by Suffragettes
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History and memory
History and memory supplies an accessible and readable introduction to recent work on memory in history and other disciplines, and contributes to debate on the nature and significance of history as an intellectual discipline.
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Rhetoric and the writing of history, 400–1500
Rhetoric and the writing of history provides an analytical overview of the vast range of historiography which was produced in western Europe between c.400 and c.1500 and argues that its sophistication and complexity provides a much-needed perspective on more modern debates over the relationship b...
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Protest and the politics of space and place, 1789–1848
An accessible and innovative analysis of how political groups used and contested spaces and places in protest. It uses a wide range of interesting sources, from Home Office correspondence to local magistrates, diaries and autobiographies, local newspapers, together with spatial analysis of sites ...
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The gentleman's mistress
This book explores continuities in the extra-marital relationships of the gentry and nobility in the north of England. A major contribution to debates on sex and marriage, family, kinship and gender, it challenges assumptions about the impact of Protestantism and other changes to elite culture.
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The rise of devils
A vivid account of the rise of terrorism in the late nineteenth century and the hysterical media response it provoked
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Women, dowries and agency
Examines labouring-status women in late medieval Valencia as they negotiated the fundamentally defining experience of their lives: marriage
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Exploring history 1400–1900
This book offers a broad sweep of 500 years of history in the light of three key themes: consumers and producers; beliefs and ideologies; and state-formation. This book illuminates links between concurrent events in diverse places and provides insights into the daily concerns and critical debates...
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The independent man
This book explores changing notions of political and personal virtue in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and offers a new account of masculinity and citizenship in English culture.
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The interpreters
This book analyses British attitudes on southeastern Europe in the period between 1870-1930.
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Women and museums, 1850–1914
This book recovers the significant contribution made by women to museums, not just in obvious roles such as workers, but also as donors, visitors, volunteers and patrons. It suggests that women persistently acted to domesticate the museum, by importing domestic objects and domestic regimes of ...
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Coup in damascus
Coup in Damascus explores Syria's 1949 military coup by focusing on cost-driven political action. Rihan affirms that flawed monetary policies, disrupted trade, and recurrent economic interventionism led to the rise of authoritarianism, thereby offering a fresh interdisciplinary perspective on Mid...
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Mobilizing nature
Mobilizing nature traces the environmental history of war and militarisation in France. It offers a fresh perspective on the well-known conflicts whilst uncovering the largely 'hidden' history of the numerous military bases and other installations that pepper the French countryside.
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The northern ireland troubles in britain
This book investigates the history of responses to, engagements with and memories of the Northern Irish conflict in Britain, exploring the lessons to be learned from post-conflict efforts to 'deal with the past' in Northern Ireland and providing a starting point for wider academic and public deba...
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British civilian internees in germany
This book tells the forgotten story of four to five thousand British civilians who were interned at the Ruhleben camp near Berlin during the First World War. Together they formed a unique community in the heart of enemy territory, based on a diverse and extremely rich culture of enduring signific...
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Ephemeral city
Explores the rapid rise of cheap print and how it permeated Venetian urban culture in the Renaissance
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Women in italy 1350–1650
This enlightening book aims to fill the gap in the literature on women's lives from the mid-fourteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, a time in which Italian urban societies saw much debate on the nature of women and on their roles, education and behaviour. Indeed these were debates which would ...
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Health, disease and society in europe, 1800–1930
Provides readers with unrivalled access to a comprehensive range of sources on the provision of medical care during the nineteenth centrury
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Humboldt and the modern german university
This study shows how the Humboldt gave direction to debates around higher education in Germany and investigates the ways in which his ideas have been appropriated for various purposes in different historical contexts and epochs.
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Bachelors of a different sort
Carefully considers the complicated relationships between the modern queer bachelor and interior design, material culture and aesthetics in Britain between 1885 and 1957
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My voice: tommy schweiger
Tommy'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. Tommy was born in Berlin, left as a baby for London in 1939 with his family, and would grow up to have a successful business career.
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Female fortune
A new edition of Jill Liddington’s classic work on Anne Lister's extraordinary diaries, which inspired Gentleman Jack
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Popular protest in late-medieval europe
This collection of documents, spanning the years 1245-1424 concentrates on the 'contagion of rebellion' that followed the Black Death in Europe in the 14th century. Comprising a wide variety of sources from a range of authors - including revolutionaries, the aristoricacy, merchants and op
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Class, work and whiteness
This book explores the class experiences of white workers in Southern Rhodesia. In examining the roles of lower class whites in the production of race, gender and nationalism under minority rule, this research contributes to understandings of social identities, power and structural inequality in ...
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Communism in britain, 1920–39
Based on extensive use of primary evidence, this book is a study of the British communist life between the Wars as it was experienced at the various phases of the life cycle.
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My voice: marianne philipps
Marianne'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. Marianne Phillips began life in Berlin in 1924, came to England on the Kindertransport, and went on to run a dressmaking business an...
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The plantation of ulster
The first major academic study of the Ulster Plantation in over 25 years. This collection of essays by leading scholars in the field on a broad range of historical and literary topics redresses the previous coverage of the plantations, moving away from an exclusive colonial perspective, to includ...
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Scotland, the caribbean and the atlantic world, 1750–1820
This is the first book-length study wholly devoted to assessing the array of ties between Scotland and the Caribbean that bound the Atlantic World together in the later eighteenth century.
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Propaganda and empire
In this illuminating study John M. Mackenzie explores the manifestations of the imperial idea, from the trappings of royalty through writers like G. A. Henty to the humble cigarette card. He shows that it was so powerful and pervasive that it outlived the passing of Empire itself.
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Women, gender and fascism in europe, 1919–45
Explores what attracts women to far-right movements that appear to denigrate their rights
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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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Celebrities, heroes and champions
Celebrities, heroes and champions examines the popular politician in British and Irish society from the Napoleonic Wars to the Second Reform Act. Covering a range of political movements, it offers a unique perspective on contemporary political culture including the connections between popular po...
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Science at the end of empire
One solution to West Indian problems after 1940 was to transform sugarcane into a raw material for making synthetics. Britain hoped to encourage new industry by providing scientific information that business might exploit. This plan was threatened by American promotion of a different model of dev...
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The great exhibition, 1851
An invaluable compendium of sources relating to the Great Exhibition
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Darts in england, 1900–39
Drawing in an eclectic range of primary and secondary sources, Chaplin reveals how darts was transformed during the interwar years to become one of the most popular recreations in England, not just among the working classes but even (to some extent) among the middle and upper classes.
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Late merovingian france
This collection of documents in translation brings together the seminal sources for the late Merovingian Frankish kingdom. It inteprets the chronicles and saint's lives rigorously to reveal new insights into the nature and significance of sanctity, power and power relationships.
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Out of his mind
In a society that defined manhood as a mastery of self-control, the madman stood as a horrifying example of what could go wrong. Out of His Mind is a socio-cultural study of the madman in Victorian society; through in-depth case studies and broad surveys of emergent trends it explores popular anx...
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The business of everyday life
The book explores the previously under-researched patterns and practices that fashioned a modern consumer society, charting the evolving habits among English men and women across three centuries.
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Good trouble
Good Trouble is the story of the strong connection between the Black Civil Rights Movement in the United States and the Catholic Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland – specifically, the influence of the Montgomery to Selma march on the 1969 Belfast to Derry march through oral history.
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The new age of genocide
With recent events in Gaza, Martin Shaw seeks to restore the idea of genocide to its central place in thinking about mass atrocities, to apply it to neglected cases, and ultimately to settle the question of ‘What is genocide’?
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The thousand-mile war
The Thousand-Mile War, a powerful story of the battles of the United States and Japan on the bitter rim of the North Pacific, has been acclaimed as one of the great accounts of World War II. Brian Garfield, a novelist and screenwriter whose works have sold some 20 million copies, was searching f...
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Greek art and archaeology c. 1200-30 bc (greek language edition)
A tour of ancient Greek archaeology in the most important period in its history, the 1st millennium BC. Architecture, city planning, sculpture, painting, pottery, jewellery and numismatics are included. Target audience is archaeology and art students, and the non-specialist. Includes case studies...
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六七暴動
六七暴動堪稱香港戰後歷史的分水嶺，本書分析六七暴動的成因、經過及影響，詳細敘述騷亂的導火線及主要事件，包括沙頭角邊境衝突、炸彈浪潮及火燒英國駐北京代辦處等。 本書根據近年解封的英國政府機密檔案，披露英國政府當年處理騷亂及中英關係的策略。作者採訪了多位來自港英政府及左派陣營的當事人，包括負責鎮壓暴動的港督私人助理姬達、新華社香港分社副社長梁上苑、目前擔任立法會主席的曾鈺成及民政事務局局長的曾德成。作者也敘述了多位響應左派號召參與反英抗爭，而付出沉重代價的參與者的遭遇。由於部分被訪者已相繼辭世，這些珍貴的訪問紀錄為這段歷史留下不可或缺的口述歷史資料。
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香港振翅
隨著香港發展成為強大的經濟體，商業航空逐漸成型。王迪安博士認為香港能夠發展成為區域及全球航空業樞紐並非全球流動時代的必然結果。《香港振翅》一書探討香港如何轉變成為航空業樞紐，旨在敘述源於亞洲間及區域結構的全球化，以及全球網絡成形的過程。作者以航空業的角度審視香港的全球化，並探討香港政策制定者與商界人士如何與國際合作夥伴和競爭對手，在各自維護自身利益的前提下，努力尋找機會，以期獲得社會經濟效益，而且就著香港的經濟成功，協商他們之間的利益，並清楚地表達了他們對現代性的看法。
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帝國夾縫中的香港
高馬可認為自鴉片戰爭後的一個世紀，香港的殖民地性質孕育了一批本地華裔商業精英。及至十九世紀末，殖民地政府視華裔商人為盟友，以發展香港為商業中心。兩者所以能連結起來，正因為他們都相信中國商機處處。華裔領袖和港英當局在共同關注的問題上均有合作，例如資本主義擴張，以及為陷入困境的中國提供政治和經濟方面的籌謀獻策等。這些華裔精英也在這殖民地架構中找到生意和商業上的機遇。他們利用香港的戰略地位把自己塑造成與內地商人不同的一個獨特社群。國族主義在香港帶有其本地特色。同時，通過為英國籌措軍費、接待訪港的英國皇室成員、出席大英帝國的貿易展覽，華裔精英有助香港成為大英帝國中活躍的一員。在《帝國夾縫中的香港...
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Being catholic in post-reformation england
As a study of the role of life-writing in the conduct of religious dispute amongst English Catholics, and in the formation of the religious and political identity of English Catholicism in the period down to 1640, the book seeks to place life-writing and memory at the centre of the post-Reformati...
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Fertile expectations
An engaging history of motherhood, demography, and infertility in twentieth-century France, this book details the fraught political and cultural meanings attached to the notion of an “ideal” family size. The author situates fertility medicine, artificial insemination by donor, and child adoption ...
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Proxy war in afghanistan
This book is about proxy war and the politics of state-wrecking in Afghanistan and examines how proxy war undermined the US-led state-building project in Afghanistan.
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Teenage intimacies
Based upon over 300 personal testimonies, the book traces the everyday experiences of teenage girls of the post-war period, illuminating how matters of romance, sex and intimacy shaped their young lives. In doing so, it reveals the pivotal role that young women played in changing English sexual c...
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Castle and city
This book explores Dublin Castle within its urban context, analysing how relations between Castle and city shaped governance, economy and culture in Dublin between 1801 and 1923, and situating the city among Europe’s secondary and stateless capitals.
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Material masculinities
This book explores men’s material culture and consumer behaviour in the rapid social and economic transformations of eighteenth-century England, arguing that men came to rely on their possessions to make sense of their identities during such significant historical changes.
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France and the world
A critical introduction to the emerging field of ‘France and the world’, analysing France’s extraterritorial relationships across the modern era through conceptually grounded case studies and a synthetic framework for understanding global, imperial, and transnational entanglements.
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The poet on stage 1558–1660
A study of how early modern drama from 1558–1660 depicts the poet as a socially ambivalent figure, examining professional identity, patronage and literary value through lesser read plays to illuminate poetic status and cultural attitudes.
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The king’s hand
The king’s hand offers a fresh retelling of Thomas Cromwell’s career foregrounding his application of letters as a tool for control, using quantitative network analysis to explore epistolary structures and Cromwell’s power as Henry VIII’s right hand man and ‘most faithful servant’.
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Inspecting the home
This book is a comparative urban history of the implementation of early public legislation in nineteenth-century France. Through exploring the fusion of religious, medical, political, architectural, and bureaucratic topics and drawing on a range of archival sources, this book offers an essential ...
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Joining up in the second world war
Joining up explores men’s encounters with representations of the First World War in interwar Britain, and illuminates how these informed their understandings of the First World War and how those understandings shaped their attitudes to Second World War enlistment and their conceptions of masculin...
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