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Passages
This book is a multi-genre and transdisciplinary text that invites inquiry into today’s apocalyptic narratives, humanitarian reason, and international criminal justice regimes, as well as the precarity generated by citizen time and 'consulate time'.
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Imitating nature
A study of how non-remnant animal representations in natural history museums mediate extinction, construct exhibition narratives and reshape understandings of non-human life through case studies spanning contemporary museums and digital media.
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Narrative painting in nineteenth-century europe
How do pictures tell stories? This ground-breaking book analyses visual narrative in nineteenth-century history and genre paintings across Europe. It reveals how artists constructed plots via objects, managing the tension between narrative and style and prompting viewers to weave their own tales.
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Evidence for transformative policymaking
This textbook offers a unique, practical guide to using quantitative evidence for transformative policymaking in an era of crisis. Written by the Common Sense Policy Group at Northumbria University, it combines economic microsimulation, public opinion research and narrative persuasion to address ...
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Multiple and one
This book examines queer and trans* global art practices through creolization, opacity and curatorial knowledge-making, offering decolonising approaches to art history across transcultural contexts from South Florida to Europe, the Americas and east Asia.
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Joseph priestley and the rhetoric of dissent
This study reassesses Joseph Priestley’s career by situating the 1791 Birmingham riots within wider Enlightenment debates, offering an interdisciplinary analysis of dissent, metaphor and intellectual culture across Britain and the early United States.
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Complaints
A new edition of Spenser’s Complaints, with unrivalled critical apparatus and a reassessment of these fascinating poems.
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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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Labour, mobility and learning to be local
Drawing upon ethnographic observations and interviews with over 90 workers in Jordan, this book reveals how aid-as-work constructs and produces concurrent, polarised understandings of ‘the local’ that workers literally learn on-the-job.
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Technology, health, and the patient consumer in the twentieth century
This book examines the little explored relationship between a variety of medical, informational, and health technologies and patients’ roles as consumers from the early twentieth century to the present. It shows how patients as consumers have shaped such technologies, and equally, how technology ...
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Reimagining britishness
This volume explores the evolving concept of Britishness, examining how the nation has been imagined across time through diverse sources and interdisciplinary perspectives. It highlights the entangled temporalities of the past, present, and future, offering critical insights into the complex dyna...
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The nineteenth-century present
This collection explores how a range of nineteenth-century authors, from their own historically contingent perspectives, were concerned with many of the same issues as scholars today looking back at the nineteenth century.
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We all die at the end
As the ravages of climate change throw our future into question, many of our stories are turning to the subject of extinction. This book is about what they are saying and why it demands our attention.
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Reformed identity and conformity in england, 1559–1714
This volume is the first collection of essays to focus specifically on how Reformed theology and ecclesiology related to one of the most consequential issues between the Elizabethan Settlement (1559) and the Hanoverian Succession (1714), namely conformity to the Church of England.
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Reassembling the social interior
This book is an interdisciplinary intervention into the history of interiors and collections, museology, archaeology, architectural history, art, and design history, and demonstrates a range of innovative methods and approaches, useful to historians, curators, and custodians of historical sites, ...
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Nomadism in afghanistan
This book unpacks one of the most complicated and forgotten conflicts with a long history: the nomad-sedentary conflict in Afghanistan that has been continued in the modern era accelerated by the state formation process.
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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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Higher education and the un sustainable development goals
Higher education’s role in the sustainability agenda is shifting. This volume examines how universities can move beyond SDG 4 to become transformative actors in addressing global ecological and social crises, offering perspectives from the Global North and South.
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Translating petrarch in early modern britain
This collection of essays explores the translation of Petrarch’s vernacular verse (Canzoniere and Triumphi) in early modern Britain, from the first Tudor translations to its many literary transformations and cultural re-appropriations in the Elizabethan and Stuart periods.
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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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Empathy industry
Empathy industry examines how global markets shape fiction about the Global South for Global North consumption. Through the case of the post-9/11 anglophone Pakistani novel, it offers a sharp critique of human rights storytelling with implications for world literature at large.
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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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Healers and politics in african history
This edited volume focuses on the under-researched topic of specialist healers as political actors and agents of change in African history, privileging a multi-disciplinary perspective on the complex dynamics of healing and politics across the continent during pre-colonial, colonial and post-colo...
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Screening sherlock
A cultural history of Sherlock Holmes adaptations in film and television from early cinema to the present.
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Living black at university
This book exposes the racism faced by Black students and staff in higher education. Bringing together voices from across the sector, it challenges universities to move beyond tokenistic diversity and take meaningful action towards anti-racist transformation.
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Live art, scotland and the curation of culture
This book offers a critical history of live art in Scotland, tracing how artists, curators and organisations have created the infrastructures that support interdisciplinary and experimental performance across three decades of cultural change.
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Enid marx’s material modern
This book reassesses Enid Marx’s patterns as sites of queer history, imperial modernity and material innovation, offering an archival and contextual study of her designs within interwar British culture, craft networks and racialised constructions of the ‘primitive’.
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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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Housing justice
A groundbreaking collection examining housing as a site of both dispossession and liberation under contemporary racial capitalism. Through global case studies, contributors reveal how structural violence operates through dwelling while documenting grassroots struggles for just habitation beyond c...
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Critical theory and peace processes
Drawing from Gramsci’s theory of hegemony, this book examines the dynamics of peace processes in Northern Ireland, Bosnia-Herzegovina and the France intervention in Darfur. It furthers the critical theory research agenda by providing a novel understanding of the role of civil society in shaping t...
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Money’s infrastructures
This book looks at money’s infrastructures as combinations of materiality, space, desire and political economy, by observing a cryptocurrency company in cross-border payments and situating it in the longer history of money’s technologies.
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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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Spirits of extraction
An exploration of the historical intersections of the mining industry, Methodist evangelical Christianity, civilisational education, and the modern metaphysics of race. Contributing to theories of race and racism by insisting on the enduring role of religious biopolitics and Christianising educat...
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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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Demystifying informal urban design and planning
Borrowing from Isaiah Berlin’s foxes vs hedgehogs and Gregory Treverton’s puzzle vs mystery solving analogies, this book encourages urban designers to be multitaskers like foxes, rather than hedgehogs who can do one thing right. Thinking this way allows them to better engage with and unravel the ...
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The birth of the work of art
Ragnar Josephson’s The Birth of the Work of Art places the sketch at the heart of creativity, tracing how artworks emerge through vision, revision, and transformation. Published in English for the first time, it offers a groundbreaking theory of artistic process, accompanied by new essays on its ...
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Toronto new wave cinema and the anarchist-apocalypse
This book explores the Toronto New Wave, a group of avant-garde filmmakers working in Canada from the 1980s and into the new millennium whose innovative film works share significant affinities with anarchist themes and aesthetics
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Revolution in china and russia
This book compares how Russia and China maneuvered nationalism through communist revolutions and explains why they followed different paths in reorganizing empires.
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Contemporary slavic horror across media
An anthology of essays devoted to Slavic horror fiction assesses current trends in East/Central European horror media, with focus on the mid-20th century to the present, and in particular the post-Soviet period.
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Navigating platform power
This volume provides a fresh cross-disciplinary perspective on the politics of digitalisation, through the lens of feminism, Marxism and poststructuralism and drawing on empirical examples in policy-making, party politics, civil society organisation and social movements.
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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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Critical games
Critical games is about the games we play, the ways we play them, and what happens when they get out of hand. With readings of a range of cultural texts, from the Ancient Greeks to contemporary auto-fiction, it pinpoints what is critical in games and game-playing.
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The catholicism of literature in the age of the book of common prayer
This book demonstrates the continuity of Roman Catholicism in English Literature in a Biblicist age which established the Church of England through the Book of Common Prayer. Key figures covered include William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, Queen Henrietta Maria, John Donne, Margaret...
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Critical theory and independent living
This book explores intersections between contemporary critical theory and the disabled people’s Independent Living movement. The book helps strengthen critiques of the state, the market, and the family by grounding them in the struggles of disabled people for self-determination.
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Making our own art history
This book traces how Feminist Arts News shaped the women’s art movement by documenting and producing feminist cultural politics, drawing on archival research to explore its role as a decentralised network for artistic, political and intellectual exchange.
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Play time
An important re-theorisation of medieval gender and anti-Semitism, centring biblical drama as a source of evidence for lay attitudes towards scriptural time. Interrogating the Christian preoccupation with a superseded Jewish past, the book asks how this model is subverted by characters who experi...
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Beyond the bbfc
This work explores the censorship of film at local level and charts the chronological development of local film censorship systems, mechanisms and apparatus. Using archival material from a range of different locations across the UK, a more nuanced and complex picture of local film censorship acti...
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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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Speculative endeavors
This book focuses on alternative forms of knowledge production and speculation in nineteenth century US-American society, and highlights the strategies that minoritarian subjects developed to understand and navigate these complex cultures of knowledge and capital.
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Beautiful doom
The first multi-authored volume on the work of contemporary British writer Dennis Kelly, Beautiful Doom examines the full range of his work for stage and screen, from new writing to adaptations of classic playtexts, musical theatre, and original works for television.
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A new genre for television?
The book presents the dramatised history documentaries aired by British public service broadcasters in the 2000s constitute a televisual genre in their own right, offering insights from key BBC and Channel 4 personnel.
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Difficult pasts
Difficult Pastscombines book history, reception history and theories of cultural memory to explore how Reformation-era audiences used medieval literary texts to construct their own national and religious identities. In doing so, it challenges narratives that separate manuscript and print, Catholi...
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A victor's peace in iraq
This book offers a detailed analysis of peacebuilding in Iraq following the territorial defeat of ISIS. Focusing on key aspects such as power-sharing, security provision, transitional justice, and reconciliation, it reflects on the role of the state but also of key actors such as tribes and milit...
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Fashioning italian youth
Fashioning Italian youth examines representations of Italian young people’s style trends and bodily practices in teen magazines, Musicarelli films and TV programmes. It explores changes in the media construction of young people’s generational, national and gender identity, and contextualises them...
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Shaping nineteenth-century art history
This volume gathers twenty-eight essays that reassess nineteenth-century art, criticism and historiography, reflecting Elizabeth Prettejohn’s influence and offering a state-of-the-field account grounded in close looking, interdisciplinary analysis and renewed attention to visual and material prac...
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Medieval afterlives
This book shows how early drama traditions were transformed, re-used and reformed across time to form new relationships with their audiences. Medieval Afterlives offers insight into how sixteenth-century people understood and adapted performance spaces, stage technologies, characterisation, and p...
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Ford madox brown
This original book explores the thinking behind Brown’s murals in Manchester Town Hall. It argues that Brown was the most innovative artist in Victorian Britain and that he used this public commission to contest the liberal model of British history favoured by the Manchester Corporation.
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Through the fiction of phebe gibbes (1764–90)
Centralizing the prolific English novelist, Phebe Gibbes, in a lineage of women writers of the revolutionary period, this study traces Gibbes’ evolution from satire to irony through detailed discussion of five novels representing women’s struggle for agency in the context of a shifting British pa...
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Jed mercurio
This book provides the first critical study of Jed Mercurio’s television work, tracing how his authorial style developed across medical drama, thriller and genre television, and reassessing authorship, populism and power in contemporary British broadcasting.
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Transfiguring medievalism
Transfiguring medievalism explores medieval literature, modern poetry and theologies both medieval and modern to show how bodies can become apparent to the attentive eye as more than they first appear. Bringing together medieval sources with modern lyric medievalism, the book argues for the surpr...
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Beyond the antislavery haven
This book explores how Canadians and Canadian readers have fashioned their self-image as an antislavery haven, showing a more complicated picture of Canada as a slaveholding, exploitative and racist place.
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Painful pleasures
The chapters of Painful pleasures offer new and worthwhile pathways of examination into medieval culture and invite further analyses into the kinkier side of human sexualities, a side that in fact could not be more central to a study of our culture.
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Film festival programming as precarious labour
An essential book about the lived experience of film festival programming workers, the precarious employment relationships to which they are often subject, and the festival crunch culture that is driving both workers and the film festival circuit to breaking point.
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Head in the game
Head in the game critically analyses the global concussion crisis in sport from sociocultural perspectives. This edited collection features essays from humanities, social science, and scientific scholars who analyse how the concussion crisis came to be and provide guidance for developing ethical ...
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Nursing the english from plague to peterloo, 1660-1820
This book analyses the reputations and experiences of women and men who nursed the sick before any calls for nursing reform.
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Terrorism and the self
Focussing on the case study of West German leftist armed groups active in the 1970s, this book explores post-terrorist autobiography as literary genre. It makes the case that post-terrorist autobiography must be taken seriously as both cultural phenomenon and crucial source of knowledge.
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Anthony burgess and america
This book is a critical biography and literary cultural analysis of Burgess’s interactions with the United States of America and American society, using newly discovered documents, archival research and Burgess’s entire canon to investigate the profound influence of America on Burgess’s life and ...
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Ida lupino
This book delivers a critical study of British-born Ida Lupino as both a constructed star image and an underappreciated filmmaker who worked across independent and mainstream cinema during Hollywood’s classical era.
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Screen borders
A visual cultural history of contemporary borders and border outlooks through a film and television tour of Europe. Screen borders explores what screen representations of European borders, with France as a starting point, reveals about popular and institutional outlooks on European borders.
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The theatrical orchestra
This book analyses experimental performances by British music ensembles in the twenty-first century. It shows how theatrical approaches to presenting orchestral music can facilitate unique and powerful experiences for audiences, enable new interpretation of repertoire, and connect music-making to...
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Health impact assessment and policy development
An instrument and approach, Health Impact Assessment, seeks to assess the health impacts of projects, programmes and policies in a systematic way. This book provides for the first time an analysis of how and why HIAs informed local policy development in both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland.
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Militarism in the lifeworlds of children
Bringing together original research by scholars of all career stages and spanning five continents, this edited collection reveals the complexity of childhoods’ myriad intersections with militarism both within and beyond zones of conflict.
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Medieval literary voices
Medieval literary voices explores literary voice in relation to its authorial, scribal and socio-political settings. It reveals how literary voices evoke voices lurking beyond the text – the absent authorial voice, the traces of scribal voices and the aural soundscape of the uttered text – and ho...
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Invasions
The first book-length, historical study of invasion-scare and future-war fiction in Britain before and during the First World War in half a century, and the definitive cultural and political history of the genre.
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The narrative grotesque in medieval scottish poetry
The narrative grotesque introduces a new framework for reading medieval texts that rupture conventional poetic boundaries and create unsettling fusions of poetic forms and narratological subjectivities.
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Everyday refusal of racial capitalism
An ethnographic analysis of refugees’ negotiations of labour mediation and racialised infrastructures in Germany, showing how everyday practices of resistance illuminate the operations and contradictions of contemporary racial capitalism and its logistical regimes.
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The european conservatives and reformists (ecr)
This study argues that the political activities of the ECR ought to be recognised as the main voice for conservatism in Strasbourg promoting 'Anglosphere' free market values and the role of NATO in international relations.
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The disruption of the british party system
The traditional two-party system is disrupted: six parties fight each other for votes and three parties fight to control government. This book shows the likelihood that no party will be able to form a government after the 2029 general election.
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Club sociability in colonial america
This monograph is the first book-length study of Early American clubs before the Revolution. It examines the transfer of the British club model to colonial America, analysing the evolving features of club sociability, through a hybridisation process.
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The birth of indian liberalism
The first work of political theory published in modern India, Letters to an Indian Raja (1891) counseled Maharajas to foster liberal values and adopt constitutional government, as this would make Indians freer and happier than they were in British India and thus challenge the moral basis of colon...
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Architecture of knowledge
A lavishly illustrated 200-year history of the University of Manchester. For the first time, the story is told in an accessible and visually engaging way through maps of the growing campuses and the architectural plans and historic photographs of scores of the University’s most fascinating buildi...
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The regeneration of east manchester
Explores the role of public sector agencies in the regeneration of east Manchester.
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The political philosophy of jean-jacques rousseau
Rousseau is often seen as a prophet of revolution. Now with a new preface and postscript, this classic study shows he was nothing of the sort. Rather, the Genevan-born writer was a conservative populist who sought to use direct democracy to halt the advance of the ideas of the ‘elites’.
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Beginning literary animal studies
The book is an introductory text for students of literary animal studies and for those with a general interest in animals in creative prose, fiction and poetry. Case study examples show how the basic themes of animal studies can be used to reveal meanings in the texts, and to add value to an unde...
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Automated islamophobia
Automating Islamophobia exposes how AI perpetuates global Islamophobia. It challenges the myth of AI’s objectivity, questioning if change is possible in a system rooted in historical biases. As nations vie for AI dominance, the book calls for critical engagement to resist its role in amplifying i...
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Beginning irish studies
An Introduction to the discipline of Irish Studies that will be of use to both students and academics.
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Lives and literacy in ancient egypt
Lives and Literacy accompanies a joint exhibition by the Harry Ransom Center and the John Rylands Library, exploring how manuscripts from Graeco-Roman and late antique Egypt reveal the practices, materials, and people that shaped written culture.
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My voice: jacques weisser
Jacques’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. Born in Antwerp in 1942 and hidden across orphanages, hospitals and safe houses, Jacques Weisser later rebuilt his life in Belgium, S...
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My voice: rachel levy
Rachel’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. Born in Czechoslovakia, Rachel Levy was deported to Auschwitz and finally came to Britain as a child refugee, later creating a family ...
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My voice: john goldsmith
John’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. Born Hans Goldschmidt in Germany, John escaped to England, before being interned in Britain and Canada, and later becoming a pioneer in ...
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My voice: jack cygelman
Jack’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. Raised in Poland and deported through Radom, Auschwitz and Vaihingen, Jack Cygelman arrived in England with 'The Boys', going on to buil...
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My voice: susan pollack
Susan’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. Born in Hungary in 1930, Susan Pollack was deported to Auschwitz as a teenager and after liberation rebuilt her life in Britain, becomi...
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My voice: kurt marx
Kurt’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. Growing up in Cologne under intensifying antisemitism, Kurt Marx survived camps and death marches before he rebuilt his life in the UK a...
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Citizenship after surrogacy
Citizenship after surrogacy examines how ‘heteronormative imaginaries of kinship’ shape the recognition of legal status at birth. Taking international surrogacy as a lens, the book conceptualises the weaponisation of citizenship in the policing of what counts as ‘legitimate’ family life.
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The parnassus plays
A new edition of the Elizabethan dramatic trilogy known as the Parnassus plays, originally performed at St John’s College, Cambridge between 1598 and 1603. Provides a modernized text with an extensive critical introduction and commentary.
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