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Imperial citizenship
This is the first book-length study of the ideological foundations of British imperialism in the early twentieth century by focussing on the heretofore understudied concept of imperial citizenship.
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Trevor Griffiths
In his outstanding career, Trevor Griffiths has negotiated the issues of genre, politics, identity, class, history, memory and televisual form with a sustained creativity and integrity second to none.
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Chantal Akerman
This new book on internationally acclaimed film director Chantal Akerman provides an illuminating overview of her filmmaking to date and an in-depth analysis of her multi-faceted film style.
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Dido, Queen of Carthage
The first single-text scholarly edition in English. An indispensable resource for scholars, students, and theatre practitioners. Edited by Ruth Lunney.
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Medicine, mobility and the empire
This book makes a new contribution to histories of medicine and health in the colonial era, with particular focus on Malawi, the British Empire and Southern Africa. It argues that mobility of people, ideas and materials was crucial within the dynamic, intertwined and networked medical culture of ...
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Confabulationes tironum litterariorum (Cologne, 1525)
Confabulationes tironum litterariorum is one of the liveliest pedagogical works of the sixteenth century and a vivid and valuable cultural document of life in the early modern metropolis of Cologne.
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Understanding heritage and memory
Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this authoritative text explores the emotive issues surrounding the commemoration of war and atrocity, and the profound challenges for conservators posed by ‘virtual’, ‘intangible’ and ‘multicultural’ heritage. New international case studies demon...
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The towns of Italy in the later Middle Ages
The towns of Italy in the later Middle Ages presents over one hundred fascinating documents, carefully selected and coordinated from the richest, most innovative and most documented society of the European Middle Ages.
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Mientras los hombres mueren
This is the first ever critical edition of Mientras los hombres mueren, the most important collection of war poetry to emerge from the Spanish Civil War. It chronicles the consequences of war on women and children: loss of menfolk at the front, physical deprivation, carpet bombing of cities.
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The multicultural Midlands
The multicultural Midlands is a unique, interdisciplinary study of the literature, music and food that shape the region’s irrepressible, though often overlooked, cultural identity. It is the first of its kind to give serious critical attention to a part of the world which is frequently ignored by...
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Pluriversal sovereignty and the state
This book explains how the processes of ‘total territorial rule’ at the core of the modern international system became normalised in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). It develops a decolonial framework informed by a ‘pluriverse’ of multiple ontologies of sovereignty to argue that the state itself is an outcome...
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A short history of colonialism
Excellent, accessible textbook for courses in general and comparative colonial history. Includes not only overseas empires but also continental colonial expansion (USA, Latin America, South Africa, Australia and Russia). Most recent comprehensive book in the field.
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Castles and colonists
This book is the first to examine life in the leading province of Elizabeth I's nascent empire, an Ireland of colonizing English farmers and an imported Protestant elite living in fortified manors and medieval castles
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Lindsay Anderson
Students and Lecturers in British film, television and cultural history.
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Prayer, providence and empire
This book examines the old traditions of communal prayer and contrition in the ‘new world’ contexts of Britain’s settler colonies in Canada, Australia and South Africa. In explaining why colonial governments summoned their peoples to worship in times of stress and celebration, this book provides ...
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Human remains and identification
A pioneering investigation into the practices and methodologies used in the search for and exhumation of dead bodies resulting from mass violence.
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Dickens and the dream of cinema
An original blending of literary and film studies which seeks to dissolve barriers between the two disciplines. Offers a new reading of Dickens from the perspective of film, technology and visuality. Proposes a new reading of the emergence of film in the light of social and industrial transformat...
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An Humorous Day's Mirth
George Chapman's An Humorous Day's Mirth is one of the Elizabethan theatre's most successful comedies. In his new Revels edition, Charles Edelman presents a play that will delight today's readers and audiences as much as it did those of 1597.
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Spenser and Virgil
An engaging study that offers new and provocative re-readings of Spenser's pastoral poems, with a focus on Spenser's acknowledged debt to Virgil and his Eclogues. Reception studies, politics and classical studies are interweaved to provide a greater understanding of both poets.
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Spacing Ireland
Spacing Ireland explores questions of ‘space’ and ‘place’ to understand the nature of major social, cultural and economic change in contemporary Ireland.The authors explore the intersections between everyday life and global exchanges through the contexts of the ‘stuff’ of contemporary everyday en...
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Encountering The Book of Margery Kempe
This innovative volume harnesses the interdisciplinarity and flexibility of ‘encounter’ to provide dynamic readings The Book of Margery Kempe in the twenty-first century. Incorporating thirteen original chapters and a critical introduction, it offers myriad exciting approaches to this important a...
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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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Cooking up a revolution
During the late 1980s and early 1990s the city of San Francisco waged a war against the homeless. This book treats the conflict between the city and activists as a unique opportunity to examine the contested nature of homelessness and public space while developing an anarchist alternative to libe...
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A landscape of words
This book examines major literary texts by and about the Irish in the Middle Ages, providing an analysis of a spatial poetics developed over 600 years. It argues that the Irish theorised anew the concept of ‘place’ and developed a ‘spatial turn’ that reconfigured how communities in the Irish Sea ...
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The impact of feminism on political concepts and debates
This volume provides a timely and invaluable resource for all political theorists and all who are interested in challenging gender inequalities. It combines clear exposition of concepts and debates with cutting-edge contributions from experts in the field.
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Religion, regulation, consumption
This book explores the emergence and expansion of global kosher and halal markets with a particular focus on the UK and Denmark.
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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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The politics of feeling in Brexit Britain
This book challenges the idea that Brexit was a contest between ‘heads’ and ‘hearts’, and offers a fresh account of political feelings and the stories we tell about them.
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Murky waters
Murky waters explores the ambivalent representations of spas in eighteenth-century medicine and literature. It gives a wide cultural perspective of the numerous spas, springs and wells of Britain, well beyond Bath, and focuses on specific political and cultural tensions while reasserting the cent...
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Cult British TV comedy
This book is the first sustained critical analysis of Cult British TV comedy from 1990 to the present day. The book examines ‘post-alternative’ comedy as both ‘cult’ and ‘quality’ TV, aimed mostly at niche audiences and often possessing a subcultural aura. It includes case studies of Vic Reeves a...
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Three Jacobean witchcraft plays
For Jacobean society, witchcraft was a potent and very real force, an area of sharp controversy in which King James I himself participated and a phenomenon that attracted many dramatists and writers. The three plays in this volume reflect the variety of belief in witches and practice of witchcraf...
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Wartime cinema, Englishness and propaganda
The book provides a study of the wartime films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and their team the Archers between 1938 and 1947, situated within wartime cinema and focussing on national identity explored with the ‘Pressburger Touch’.
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Empire and mobility in the long nineteenth century
Mobility was central to the construction, maintenance and dissolution of empires. This book reflects on the social, cultural and political significance of mobile subjects, practices and infrastructures to the British empire from the 1750s through to the 1940s.
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Julia Margaret Cameron’s ‘fancy subjects’
Ignored or derided until now, this book looks at Cameron's allegorical work in relation to the political and artistic zeitgeist of the Victorian period.
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Sports law and policy in the European Union
This book argues that the EU is receptive to the sports sectors claims for special treatment before the law. The book investigates the birth of EU sports law and policy by examining significant court decisions, the possibility of exempting sport from EU law, sport and the EU treaty, and more.
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Borderland
This book considers the past, present and future of Kent, alighting on the key sites which symbolise the changing relationship between the UK and its continental neighbours.
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Radical voices, radical ways
This edited collection addresses the issue of radicalism by focusing on the media that contributed to its diffusion in the early modern era, using innovative interdisciplinary research that draws on a wide range of primary material.
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The struggle for a social Europe
This book provides a detailed comparison of the trade unions of five EU member states (Austria, Britain, France, Germany and Sweden) and their positions on EMU. Several European-level trade union organisations are also investigated.
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Michaelmas Term
Michaelmas Term is one of five satiric city comedies that the young playwright Thomas Middleton wrote for the boy players of St Paul's Cathedral, sometime before 1607. Set in a vividly detailed, realistic urban milieu at the start of London's social season, the play comes alive through the centr...
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The African presence
This book considers the ways that representations of Africa have contributed to the changing nature of British national identity. Using interviews, photo archives, media coverage, advertisements, and web material, the book focuses on major Africa campaigns: the abolition of slavery, anti-aparthei...
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Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations
In order to understand the impact of Smith's text across the academic disciplines, this volume brings together leading scholars from fields of economics, politics, history, sociology and literature. Each essay offers a different reading of Wealth of Nations and its legacy.
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The distribution and redistribution of income
Provides an up-to-date synthesis of the many strands of distributional analysis used in the fields of social policy, welfare theory and public finance. Develops a consistent mathematical approach into a self-contained and unified treatment of the distribution and redistribution of income. Thoroug...
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Securitising Russia
The book demonstrates how Vladimir Putin has wrestled with terrorism, immigration, media freedom, religious pluralism and economic globalism in response to twenty-first-century security concerns.
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The UK financial system
Substantially revised and updated, this fourth edition of The UK financial system presents a comprehensive explanation of the workings of the financial institutions and markets making up the UK financial system.
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The 'perpetual fair'
This study places official discourse regarding urban amusement into the context of broader cultural understandings
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Twenty-first-century fiction
Provides a collection of in-depth readings of British writers that have come to prominence in the 21stcentury.
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Instead of modernity
At the heart of the book is a departure from the obsession with “modernity” that has been so prominent in nineteenth-century cultural studies.
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Gothic death 1740–1914
Drawing on a range of popular Gothic and Victorian novels, poems and short stories, this book provides the first full length study of representations of death and dying in Gothic texts between 1740 and 1914.
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The revision of Englishness
An exciting and provocative collection of essays which registers the changes to 'Englishness' since the 1950s, 'The revisions of Englishness' explores how conventional ideas of 'Englishness' have been re-imagined in post-war fiction, poetry and film.
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Following Franco
This book interrogates the interrelationship between culture and politics during the Spanish transition to democracy. Drawing on both high and popular culture, it critically interrogates the stakes of the Transition and reveals how its consequences continue to inform political debate.
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Beginning Realism
Realism is an essential concept in literary studies, yet for a variety of reasons it has not received the attention and clarity it deserves, often being dismissed as ‘too slippery’ to be of use. This accessible study remedies that failing for students and scholars of English Literature and Litera...
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Na Fianna Éireann and the Irish Revolution, 1909–23
This book examines the early history of the Irish nationalist youth organisation Na Fianna Éireann and its notable contribution to the Irish Revolution in the period 1909–23.
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Conceptualising China through translation
This book provides an innovative methodology for investigating how China has been conceptualised historically, tracing the development of four key concepts (filial piety, face, fengshui, and guanxi) in English and Chinese. It explores how specific ideas about the uniqueness of Chinese culture inf...
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European fashion
This volume examines the cultural history of the fashion industry in the postwar era. Taking an original, interdisciplinary approach, it focuses on the internal culture of the trade, explaining the significance of value creation and assessing the transformation of local industries into global bra...
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Every Man Out of His Humour
Despite its popularity when it first appeared in print in 1600, Every Man out of His Humour has never appeared as a single modern critical edition until now. The volume's introduction and annotations convey early modern obsessions with wealth and self-display by providing historical contexts and ...
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The Third Way and beyond
This collections brings together expert contributions to dissect the key political concept of the Third Way in theory and practice, assessing its development and legacy and suggesting criticisms and alternatives.
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Soliman and Perseda, by Thomas Kyd
Offers the fullest available textual analysis, together with a discussion of significant differences between the first and second quarto editions of this romantic tragedy by one of Shakespeare's leading contemporaries
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Henri-Georges Clouzot
Despite his controversial reputation and international notoriety as a film-maker, no full-length study of Clouzot has ever been published in English. This book offers a significant revaluation of Clouzot’s achievement, situating his life and work in the wider context of French cinema and society,...
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US politics today
US politics today introduces the key features of contemporary American politics but also considers the strengths and weaknesses of a system that is now faced by serious divisions and gripped by tensions. The Trump presidency has placed a question mark against policies and institutions that were o...
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Ethics, law and nursing
An introduction to the ethical and legal dilemmas in nursing practice, this text is designed to provoke the nurse to reflect on the nature of his or her professional obligations and future practice. The authors firstly familiarise the reader with the basic principles of ethical debate and the ove...
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None past the post
The latest book in the long-running Britain at the Polls series provides an indispensable account of the remarkable 2017 British general election. Leading experts explain why Theresa May and the Conservatives lost their majority, and analyse how the other political parties and voters responded to...
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The aesthetic exception
The aesthetic exception critically re-evaluates the relation between art and politics by challenging longstanding assumptions surrounding political ‘effect’ in art and the problem of art’s autonomous status. Drawing on examples from visual art and theatre, it offers a new approach based on a conj...
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Democracy and dissent in the Irish Free State
Analysis of the conflict between multiparty democratic norms and sweeping monolithic nationalist movements in the aftermath of the Irish revolution.
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Galatea
A brand new Revels Student Edition of John Lyly's most popular and enchanting play
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Derek Walcott
This book provides a unique account of Walcott's development as a writer in addition to being the fullest study of his poetry and plays to date.Discusses all his major works and includes information on his out-of-print and unpublished plays along with .
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Ghost-haunted land
This wide-ranging study addresses developments in video, photography, painting, sculpture, performance and more, offering detailed analyses of key works by artists based in Ireland and beyond — including 2014 Turner Prize winner Duncan Campbell and internationally acclaimed filmmaker and photogra...
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European social democracy during the global economic crisis
Assesses how social democratic parties have responded, at the national as well as at the European Union level, to the 2008 financial crash
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Between two stools
An engaging and lively tour through the scatological, the flatulent and the cloacal in English literature over four centuries. Will appeal to cultural historians, and English literature scholars and students.|A serious investigation into how the scatological impulse has been represented in litera...
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New slaveries in contemporary British literature and visual arts
A study of the literature and visual arts concerned with the many and diverse forms of slaveries produced by globalisation in Britain since the early 1990s.
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Pre–school childcare in England, 1939–2010
Investigates how competing ideas about child development influenced the provision, practice and experience of childcare for the under fives since 1939.
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Making peace with the past?
A study of memory and trauma in the conflict in Northern Ireland, and of how personal and collective remembrance has influenced the narratives of reconciliation
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Revolutionary lives of the Red and Black Atlantic since 1917
This volume explores the life histories of a wide range of radical figures whose political activity in relation to the black liberation struggle was catalysed or profoundly shaped by the global impact and legacy of the Russian Revolution of 1917, including C.L.R. James, Paul Robeson, Walter Rodne...
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United Nations peace operations and International Relations theory
This volume is the first comprehensive overview of how International Relations theories - liberal, rational choice, feminist, and sociological institutionalism, realism, constructivism, practice theories, critical security studies, and complexity theory - can help us understand UN peace operations.
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Trade winds
This book recounts Christiaan De Beukelaer's personal odyssey aboard a sail cargo vessel and offers a compelling insight into the developments the shipping industry is undertaking to cut its carbon emissions
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Marcel Carné
This volume in the French Film Directors series has been long-awaited by students and academics of French and European cinema in particular and by Film Studies students in general.
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Catholic Literature and Secularisation in France and England, 1880–1914
This book comparitively explores the French and English Catholic literary revivals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
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The Red and the Black
This edited collection explores the inspiration of the Russian Revolution of 1917 for black radicals across the African diaspora. The volume challenges European-centred understandings of the Russian Revolution and the global left and enables new insights on the relations between Communism and var...
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Spilling the beans
Spilling the Beans shows how late eighteenth and early nineteenth century anxieties about women’s consumption and production are manifest in novelists’ and novels’ accounts of what heroines, readers and writers do with food.
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Global solidarities against water grabbing
Globally, people are organizing against water privatization and to reclaim the public sphere. These struggles demonstrate how people are linking their disparate fights to win against private profit-driven interests; water is at the heart of this book, but the book is as much about collective stru...
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Princely power in the Dutch Republic
Princely Power in the Dutch Republic offers a vivid analysis of the role of patronage in the Dutch Golden Age. It is based on the highly illuminating private diaries of William Frederick of Nassau (1613-1664).
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Catholicism and children's literature in France
The first book-length history of the classic French children’s author, the comtesse de Ségur (1799-1874). Virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, in France Ségur is a national icon and a cultural phenomenon. This study of her life and works will interest scholars of children’s literature...
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The British people and the League of Nations
A rich and original study of the culture of association, showing the ‘Big Society’ in action in interwar Britain. First full-length study of a major British pressure-group, the League of Nations Union, since 1981, making extensive use of local archives. Essential reading for anyone interested in ...
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Film stars
A collection of essays on the concept of film stardom, and the shifting definition of a 'star'. The collection ranges across contemporary stars such as Sandra Bullock, Jackie Chan and Jim Carrey, those from Hollywood's past like Clara Bow and Charlton Heston, and those from other arenas, such as ...
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Beyond nationalism
This book discusses the meaning of the common good in a European Union thorned by nationalism and presents concrete policies to improve its achievement. It analyses the normative relevance of EU values as a shared moral standpoint between the member states and discusses institutional reforms that...
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Jews on trial
This book explores the Papal Inquisition in Modena and the status of Jews in an early modern Italian duchy. Its purpose is to deepen existing insights into the role of the former and thus lead to a better understanding of how the tribunal assumed jurisdiction over a practicing Jewish community in...
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