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War and the media
A standard text on the subject. New introduction and bibliography. The leading expert in the field.
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Conquering the maharajas
Conquering the maharajas demonstrates that the political and military clashes between the Indian and Pakistani governments and the princely states, a legacy of the layered sovereignty of British indirect rule in India, was a product of the competing ideas of state sovereignty leading up to and fo...
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The théâtre des variétés in 1852
This book gives a picture of a year's activities at the Théâtre des Variétés. It includes an account of the financial side of the Theatre, impressions of the principal actors and actresses, as well as a month by month overview of what was actually performed.
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The politics of vaccination
Provides a comprehensive, comparative study of global vaccine politics and their social, economic and historical context.
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New york hustlers
This exciting history of male prostitution in New York, the first detailed history of the hustler, draws the reader into the fascinating sexual culture of postwar America. its subject matter and style will appeal to a wide range of readers, especially those interested in the histories of sex, the...
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Authorship and authority
King James VI of Scotland and I of England participated in the burgeoning literary culture of the Renaissance as patron and author. This book explores the full range of these extensive writings, which include poetry, scriptural exegeses and political treatises, in the contexts of their production...
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In the shadow of enoch powell
This book contributes to race and ethnicity studies through a focus on the small scale, racialised dynamics of locality during a sharpening climate of crisis in British society.
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Film modernism
An original and provocative study. Theoretically lucid and engaging, it will be an essential text for any student of film.
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Conquering nature in spain and its empire, 1750–1850
This book examines the study of natural history in the Spanish Empire in the years, 1750-1850, taking a transatlantic approach to the history of science.
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Humanitarianism, empire and transnationalism, 1760-1995
Leading experts in Anglophone humanitarianism across some three hundred examine the relationship between humanitarianism, empire, postcolonialism, transnational and global human rights in and beyond the British World.
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The wanderers and critical realism in nineteenth century russian painting
Russian nineteenth-century society, as seen through the art of the Wanderers, the nation’s largest and most successful dissident school of realist painters, provides a fascinating social panorama of the late tsarist period: the land, the people, its times and history.
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Riddles at work in the early medieval tradition
The first collection devoted solely to early medieval riddles, Riddles at work showcases recent research in this popular, new field. It brings together studies of Old English and Latin riddles, authors at various stages of their careers and a range of approaches, aiming to map out both the state ...
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The european left and the financial crisis
This timely collection addresses key questions including: How did political parties from the left respond to the crisis? What does the crisis mean for the relationship between the left and European integration, and what does it mean for socialism as an economic, political and social project?
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The ends of ireland
Provides a critical introduction to the key theoretical developments in contemporary Irish cultural criticism since the mid-1980s. Draws on aspects of the work of all the critics considered to advance a new theory of the representation of subjectivity in Irish writing.
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Endymion
Full and comprehensive commentary. Solid and scholarly introduction. A welcome edition to this renouned series .
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Georges franju
The fullest study of Georges Franju to date, and the first book on him in English since 1967
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An age of wonders
Monstrous births, rains of blood, apparitions of battles in the sky – people in early modern England found all of these events to carry important religious and political meanings.
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The european union in the asia-pacific
The collection studies the interactions of the European Union and the Asia Pacific, focusing on the EU as an emerging global player in contemporary international relations.
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The battle of britishness
Analyzing the history and memory of migrant journeys, covering not only the response of politicians and the public but also literary and artistic representations, then and now, Kushner’s volume sheds new light on the nature and construction of Britishness from the early modern era onwards.
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The national council for civil liberties and the policing of interwar politics
Explores the origins of the NCCL, its political orientation, and the political and personal agendas of its supporters.
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The adventure
This ethnographic study examines the moral, gendered, affective, social, and political dimensions of irregular migrants’ experiences of entrapment, uncertainty, and violence in Morocco. To counter dehumanising narratives of a crisis, the book is articulated around the emic notion of ‘the adventur...
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The 1989 revolutions in central and eastern europe
This book reassesses a defining historical, political and ideological moment in contemporary history: the 1989 revolutions in central and eastern Europe. Bringing together experts from a variety of disciplines, the volume examines the rapid dismantling of the communist regimes in the late 1980s a...
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Five elizabethan progress entertainments
A fully annotated, modern-spelling edition of entertainments performed for the monarch during her summer progress, the collection affords an insight into a neglected area of Elizabethan cultural activity.
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Literary culture in cuba
Specialist researchers; academics in Cuban Studies/Latin American Studies/Cultural Studies; postgraduate students; undergraduate students (all years); enthusiasts.
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The senses in early modern england, 1558–1660
Considering a wide range of early modern texts, performances and artworks, the essays in this collection demonstrate how attention to the senses illuminates the literature, art and culture of early modern England.
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Beckett and nothing
The volume explores the paradoxes at the core of Beckett’s poetics through the notion of ‘nothing’, analysed in its many incarnations in Beckett’s prose works, plays, TV plays and adaptations.
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Plants, patients and the historian
Explores the intersection of historiography, critical theory, and science and technology studies, aiming to reaffirm the inescapable presence and necessity of the 'Absolute.
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Surrealism and film after 1945
Surrealism and Film after 1945 is the first collection devoted to the vibrant culture of transnational surrealist cinema since the Second World War. Eleven chapters by leading and emerging scholars of surrealism and film studies establish the parameters of this history and situate surrealism as a...
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Beyond ambiguity
A literary critical book which is a toolkit for (peaceful) concerted activism on behalf of environment and issues of human rights and justice.
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Exoticisation undressed
Exoticisation Undressed is an innovative ethnography that makes visible the many layers through which our understandings of indigenous cultures are filtered and their inherent power to distort and refract understanding.
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Medieval maidens
The first study on medieval women to treat young women or 'maidens' separately and at length. The book makes a contribution to gender studies through its study of medieval girls' acquisition of appropriate roles and identities, and their own attitudes towards these roles. Examines the experiences...
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Local antiquities, local identities
This book considers a range of antiquarian practices – history-writing, archaeological investigations, works of art, architecture and literature – that emerged in early modern Europe. Challenging the idea of a single 'Renaissance', it assembles essays on local antiquities in Spain, Portugal, Fran...
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Doing psychiatry in postwar europe
Looking closely at practices that contributed to reshape the psychiatric field in the second half of the 20th century, Doing psychiatry offers new insights into a mental health assistance in transformation after World War II. Through richly documented case studies across Europe, this book sheds l...
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Regulating lobbying: a global comparison
In an age of sleaze, scandal and corruption associated with financial crisis and economic downturn across the globe, citizens want more transparency and accountability in politics. This pioneering book examines a principal means by which this can be achieved: the regulation of lobbyists.
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Writing british muslims
Examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent, including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam
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Worlds of the ring
This book offers a transnational perspective on interwar circuses and its modes of exotification and Orientalising foreign worlds. It explores how international and national forces shaped the German and British circus, combining interwar popular culture, its globalising forces, and the circus's t...
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A trick to catch the old one
First single edition of one of Thomas Middleton's most popular plays; for all students and academics of early modern drama and Renaissance literature
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Direct democracy
Combining the latest scholarship and academic research with current debates, Direct Democracy is essential reading for political scientists, lawyers, journalists and anybody who is interested in the challenges facing democracies today. Direct Democracy shows when government by the people can imp...
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The english diaspora in north america
This deeply researched new book questions this assumption. It shows that English associations once were widespread, taking hold in colonial America, spreading to Canada and then encompassing all of the empire.
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Irish nationalism and european integration
Irish nationalism and European integration are enduringly powerful forces – each able to provoke momentous change in national identities, borders and governance. This book analyses the ways in which Irish political leaders have assiduously presented these two forces as complementary and, in so do...
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Servants of the empire
The first book to examine the proposition that Irish public servants in India were moved by their ‘Irishness’ to subvert or eccentrically implement policies of the Raj. Essential reading for those wishing to understand the three-way interaction between the Irish, the empire and the peoples of India.
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Bertrand blier
The most complete study of Blier's work to date, Harris traces the director's career from the early 1960s until the present. Outlines the forms, themes and style which dominate in Blier's work, and challenges the many labels that have been used to describe both the corpus of films and the man him...
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The punk rock politics of joe strummer
Drawing on Strummer’s lyrics, interviews and bootleg recordings, as well as interviews with friends and contemporaries like Billy Bragg, The punk rock politics of Joe Strummer reveals the wide-ranging political influence of one of the twentieth century’s iconic rock’n’roll rebels.
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Framing referendum campaigns in the news
An in-depth look into how the news media frame referendum campaigns, based on the coverage of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. An analysis of the factors at play in journalistic coverage of complex and highly contested political campaigns
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Modern women on trial
Looks at several sensational trials involving drugs, murder, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion in the period 1918–24
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Mother and child
This fascinating book provides a detailed account of the history of maternity and child welfare in Dublin between 1922 and 1960. In so doing it places maternity and child welfare in the context of twentieth-century Irish history, offering one of the only accounts of how women and children were vi...
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The culture of regionalism
The Culture of Regionalism is the first international comparative study of regionalism, and provides a fresh view of the relationship between cultural regionalism, political regionalism and nationalism
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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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Masculinities, modernist fiction and the urban public sphere
Focusing on the cultural politics of eating and drinking and the importance of cafes and teashops to the literary culture of the time, Masculinities, modernist fiction and the urban public sphere charts the changing representations of masculinity in modernist fiction in the context of London, Dub...
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The gothic novel in ireland, c. 1760–1829
A compelling account of the development of gothic literature in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Ireland.
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Calculating compassion
Calculating compassion examines the origins of British relief work in late-nineteenth-century wars on the continent and the fringes of Empire. The author draws on new archival research to reveal the preoccupations of nineteenth-century relief workers, and the legacies for relief work today.
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Adapting philosophy
Adapting Philosophy looks at the ways in which The Matrix Trilogy adapts Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation, and in doing so creates its own distinctive philosophical position.
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Gender and warfare in the twentieth century
'Gender and warfare in the twentieth century' is a collection of essays that explores the way in which issues of gender impacted upon twentieth-century warfare. A range of specialist contributors provide exciting, accessible and very readable essays covering a range of wars and textual media.
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Diaspora as translation and decolonisation
This book proposes a new way of conceptualising diaspora by examining how diasporas do translation and decolonisation. It provides conceptual tools for investigating diasporas and their interventions and considers diaspora as ‘the global south in the global north’, as well as providing a case stu...
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Gender and punishment in ireland
In the decades after Irish independence, 292 women were prosecuted for murder, facing the threat of conviction and death sentencing. Within a rising atmosphere of hostility to women, moral rigidity, sexual repression and Catholic Church control, this book explores the meanings and responses to wo...
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The public culture of the victorian middle class
The public culture of the Victorian middle class looks at the creation of a distinctive ‘high’ culture in the industrial cities of Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester in the mid-nineteenth century and its incipient decline from the 1880s.The history of urban bourgeois culture has been relatively une...
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A critical reader of the romantic grand tour
A collection of writings about the Grand Tour that is original and innovative, straying from the usual path of aristocrats and churches.
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Medicine, patients and the law
The seventh edition of this much respected accessible book provides an enlightening and comprehensive account of the intersections between medicine, patients and the law.
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Gendered transactions
Explores Indian gender issues through diverse sources including letters, memoirs, fiction, housekeeping manuals, and forgotten texts from the colonial archives.
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Black families in britain as the site of struggle
This edited book is a valuable contribution to the study of Black families (African and African Caribbean) in the UK. It provides a unique combination of a systematic yet clear-headed approach to the subject with up-to-date and well-researched data.
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Discourse, normative change and the quest for reconciliation in global politics
This book offers a new and critical perspective on the global reconciliation technology by highlighting its contingent and highly political character as an authoritative practice of post-conflict peacebuilding. After retracing the emergence of the reconciliation discourse from South Africa to the...
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British communism
Draws together key documents in the history of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) in a single, student-friendly volume. Balanced, comprehensive and framed by Callaghan and Harker’s detailed introductions, this is a valuable addition to the study of twentieth-century Britain.
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Women art workers and the arts and crafts movement
Women Art Workers provides a new social and cultural history of the Arts and Crafts movement which offers unprecedented insight into how women constructed alternative, creative lifestyles and disseminated the ethos of the social importance of the Arts and Crafts across new local, national, and in...
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War on terror'
This book covers the many topics of `the war on terror' from legal, philosophical, economic and historical perspectives. The dialogue form of the book (essay-response) allows a broad representation of views, covering the situation in the Middle East, national security, politics of intervention, h...
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Iraqi women in denmark
An ethnographic study of ritual performance and place-making among Shi‘a Muslim Iraqi women in Copenhagen
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Doris lessing
This book examines the writing career of the respected and prolific novelist Doris Lessing, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007 and has recently published what she has announced will be her final novel. This is the first significant book-length critical evaluation in ten years.
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Europeanisation as violence
The book explores the violence enacted on Europe’s many internal and external Souths and Easts through forms of political, cultural and security-development related “Europeanisation”. It proposes inter-referencing between South and East as a space of political possibilities emerging through and d...
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The basics of international law
The basics of international law: The UK context presents a comprehensive and accessible entry level text which provides the most essential and basic rules and facts of international law. This is an essential study guide for students and an invaluable reference for practitioners.
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Confabulations: cologne life and humanism in hermann schotten’s confabulationes tironum litterariorum (cologne, 1525)
This full-length study of Hermann Schotten’s life and work is a companion to Peter Macardle’s edition of the Confabulationes.
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René magritte
René Magritte: Beyond painting offers a rethinking of Magritte’s art from a position informed by contemporary developments in art theory.The book employs a wide range of literary and philosophical/cultural theoretical frameworks to analyse Magritte’s art. It offers close readings of specific imag...
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The historian's craft
This work, by the co-founder of the "Annales School" deals with the uses and methods of history. It is useful for students of history, teachers of historiography and all those interested in the writings of the Annales school.
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Hospital aesthetics
Hospital aesthetics: Disability, medicine, activism argues that contemporary disabled artists are offering a new hospital aesthetics, where artists are taking health and care into their own hands and body-minds. Disabled artists are contributing to a type of disability activism that can simultane...
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Anywhere out of the world
Incorporating original and extensive archival research, as well as new interviews with his family and friends, Anywhere Out of the World provides the definitive critical perspective upon the literary life and work of this enigmatic and influential author.
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Religion and superstition in reformation europe
What, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, was ‘superstition’? Where might it be found, and how might it be countered? How was the term used, and how effective a weapon was it in the assault on traditional religion?. The ease with which accusations of 'superstition' slipped into the langua...
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Over her dead body
The argument that this book presents is that narrative and visual representations of death can be read as symptoms of our culture and because the feminine body is culturally constructed as the superlative site of "other" and "not me", culture uses art to dream the deaths of beautiful women.
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The changeling
Competitive price and format. Compacted and up-to-date version of the earlier Revels Plays edition by the same editor, taking account of more recent critical works. A key Renaissance text.
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Building reputations
This book advances a novel approach to a familiar eighteenth-century building type: the brick terraced house. Focusing on issues of design and architectural taste, it rehabilitates the reputation of the artisan communities of bricklayers, carpenters and plasterers responsible for its design and c...
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The politics of identity
This book explores identity as contingent, fragmented and dynamic across a range of global sites and approaches that deal with citizenship, security, migration, subjectivity, memory, exclusion and belonging, and space and place. It explores the political and social effects and possibilities of id...
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Anti-racism in britain
This volume explores the shifting nature of anti-racism in Britain through 11 illuminating case studies. Together, they highlight the tensions between solidarity and paternalism, demonstrate the interplay between local, national and transnational forces, and illustrate the legacies and trajectori...
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Deafness, community and culture in britain
Sets a case study of deaf people’s leisure in NW England within a wider British context; gives insights into a misunderstood, misrepresented community; questions perceptions of deafness as a disability; shows the importance of shared leisure in community formation and how changing patterns of soc...
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Dwelling places
Explores some of the key venues of black British literary and cultural production across the postwar period: bedsits and basements; streets and cafes; train stations and tourist landscapes; the suburbs and the city; the north and south. Pursues a 'devolving' landscape in order to consider what a...
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Dreams of disconnection
This book offers a history of energy autonomy and small infrastructures in the field of architecture and urbanism from the end of the 19th century to the present day.
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Resisting olympic evictions
Resisting Olympic evictions explores how one favela mobilised urban space to contest the logic underpinning removals in the glare of the mega-event’s spotlight. Based on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil, it provides instructive lessons on building democratic and just cities across th...
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Inner empire
This book presents for the first time a coherent analysis of the British Isles as an imperial setting understood through its buildings, spaces, and infrastructure. It considers ‘internal’ colonisation and its infrastructures of order and suppression, alongside wider relationships between architec...
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The shifting border: legal cartographies of migration and mobility
A critical assessment from the perspective of political and legal theory of how shifting borders impact on migration, mobility and the protection of displaced persons
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