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The Trump revolt
The second entry in the Pocket Politics series provides an accessible account of the ideas and shifts that propelled Donald Trump to victory in the 2016 US presidential election and looks at the likely consequences of the result.
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Politics, pauperism and power in late nineteenth-century Ireland
This is a study of the nature and operation of the poor law system in post-Famine ireland. Topics covered include the politicisation of the welfare system, the relief of distress, the provision of labourers' cottages and the role of women.
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Germany, pacifism and peace enforcement
Germany, pacifism and peace enforcement traces the reaction of Europe’s biggest and potentially most powerful country to the ethnic wars of the 1990s, the emergence of large-scale terrorism, and the new US emphasis on pre-emptive strikes.
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Genteel women
This book examines the transfer and adaptation of British female gentility in various locations across the British Empire, including Africa, New Zealand and India, as expressed through their personal and household possessions, specifically their dress, living rooms, gardens and food.
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Northern Ireland after the troubles
This book seeks to provide a comprehensive and critical overview of a society in the process of transition between war and peace.
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The Shoemaker's Holiday
Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday is one of the most popular of Elizabethan plays, entertaining, racy and vivid in its characterisation. Revealing a vital portrait of Elizabethan London and the interaction of social classes within the city, its social commentary is on the whole optimistic,...
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The Northern veto
A historical account and comprehensive assessment of the factors surrounding the referendum on an elected assembly in the North-East region of England, in November 2004.
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Health, medicine, and the sea
Students and lecturers in British and colonial medical, social and maritime history.
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Vivien Leigh
A collection of essays on the legendary actress that uses archival sources in the US and UK to re-examine her attitude to acting and the public perception of her work.
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Incest in contemporary literature
This is the first edited collection of essays which focuses on the incest taboo and its literary and cultural presentation from the 1950s to the present day; including Iain Banks, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Simone de Beauvoir, Ted Hughes, Doris Lessing, Ian McEwan Iris Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov, ...
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Me, not you
Phipps argues that the mainstream movement against sexual violence embodies a political whitenesswhich both reflects its demographics and limits its revolutionary potential.
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Oceania under steam
Oceania under steam is a lively study of empire and the Pacific in the age of steam. It connects the intimate details of shipboard life with the high politics of imperial ocean space to present a wealth of new insights into the significance of shipping and the sea in the everyday life of colonial...
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History beyond apartheid
This book brings leading historians of South Africa together to consider new methodological and theoretical approaches within the field.
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Dress and globalisation
The first work to survey dress around the world, covering consumption, ethnicity, gender and the body, as well as anthropological accounts and studies of representation. The book also examines international western style dress, headwear, ethnicity, traditional dress, ‘alternative’ dressing, and T...
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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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Community and identity
This fluent, accessible and richly informed study, based on much previously unexplored archival material, concerns the history of Gibraltar following its military conquest in 1704, after which sovereignty of the territory was transferred from Spain to Britain and it became a British fortress and ...
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Shakespeare and Scotland
Shakespeare and Scotland is a collection of specially commissioned essays by major critics on both sides of the Atlantic. Together they explore, from a variety of critical perspectives, the playwright's place in Scotland, and the place of Scotland in his work.
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Thomas More's Utopia in early modern Europe
Thomas More's Utopia in Early Modern Europe provides the first complete account of all the editions of Utopia, whether vernacular or Latin, printed before 1650, together with a transcription of all the prefatory materials they contain. The reception of the idea of Utopia in early modern Europe h...
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Aesthetic evaluation and film
This book provides an in-depth, holistic examination of evaluative aesthetics and criticism and how they apply to film. Suitable for students of films studies and philosophical aesthetics, undergraduates and postgraduates, it also provides a supportive framework for academics researching or teach...
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Common spaces of urban emancipation
This is an exciting book, which explores the cultural meaning and politics of common spaces in conjunction with ideas connected with neighbourhood and community, justice and resistance, in order to trace elements of a different emancipating future.
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Terence Davies
Exciting, stimulating, and eminently readable, this first-ever analysis of the work of Terence Davies provides a detailed and wide-ranging exploration of his films and demonstrates his central importance to contemporary cinema.
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Tuairim, intellectual debate and policy formulation: Rethinking Ireland, 1954–75
Explores how from its formation in 1954 the intellectual movement Tuairim (‘opinion’ in Irish) was at the vanguard of the challenge to orthodoxy and conservatism.
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The Culture of Diplomacy
This is an original study of British diplomacy in the age of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. It examines the social, cultural and intellectual aspects of diplomatic life and practice between 1750 and 1830.
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Faith in the family
Assesses the impact of the Second Vatican Council on the ordinary believer, alongside contemporaneous shifts in British society
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The politics of expansion
The book gives an original and accessible discussion of an era of educational expansion, exploring the transformation of Irish education in the 1960s and early 1970s. The work sheds new light on the crucial role of international organisations in stimulating change in Irish educational policy.
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An introduction to television documentary
A lively introduction to a subject which has attracted increasing interest in the last few years.. A wide-ranging and carefully constructed account. Likely to be adopted on many courses (both foundational level and advanced) which include the study of documentary as part of a wider Media Studies ...
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Swedish crime fiction
Swedish crime fiction became an international phenomenon in the first decade of the twenty-first century, starting first with novels but then percolating through Swedish-language television serials and films on to English-language BBC productions and Hollywood remakes. This book looks at the rich...
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South African performance and archives of memory
This book argues that memory functions as a key element in contemporary South African re-imagining of historical events and in constructing new definitions of national and personal identity. It compares two ways in which memory is embodied: in repertoires of practices, songs, dance, rituals, and ...
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Dirty books
This fascinating book tells the story of the fearless and innovative publishers who combined pornography and avant-garde literature to make a lasting mark on twentieth-century culture.
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Frantz Fanon, postcolonialism and the ethics of difference
This book underscores the ethical dimension of Fanon’s work by focusing on the interplay of language, gender and colonial politics, by discussing the implication of the medical and psychiatric establishment in the institution of colonialism and by assessing the importance of existential phenomeno...
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Culture on drugs
Culture on drugs extends the discussion of drugs and drug culture beyond the boundaries of such disciplines as sociology, anthropology and criminology to cultural and literary studies and philosophy.
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Mother Bombie
Mother Bombie is unique among Lyly’s comedies. Structured upon a Roman New Comedy model, the play turns on a tissue of misconceptions surrounding the efforts of four fathers to secure socially advantageous marriages for their heirs and the determination of their young servants to exploit their m...
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Frontier narratives
This book uses a wide range of sources, factual and fictive, in many languages to examine how slaves and ‘renegades’ developed a frontier consciousness that took into account how the ‘others’ thought and acted, and how Muslims, Christians and Jews developed mutual understanding despite the hostil...
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Understanding Immigration in Ireland
A sociological analysis of immigration in Ireland. It is the first major comprehensive study of labour and asylum immigration into Irish society
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Colouring the Caribbean
The first monographic study of the painter Agostino Brunias, this book offers a compelling, original analysis of his representation of race in the British colonial West Indies, reconsidering the way in which the artist’s oeuvre has previously been understood.
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Language and imagination in the Gawain poems
This major new literary study offers a fresh view of the significance of a famous group of fourteenth-century poems, 'Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'. It is written in a jargon-free style designed to appeal to specialist, non-specialist and student readers alike.
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Architecture and ekphrasis
This well-illustrated, accessibly written book examines how eighteenth-century prints and drawings of antique architecture operated as representations of thought. Combining original archival material with cultural theory, the book considers the idea of the past and the role of space and time in t...
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Didi-Huberman and the image
This is the first English-language study of the legendary French art historian Georges Didi-Huberman. With clear discussions of Didi-Huberman's ideas and arguments, this book offers an excellent introduction to one of the most influential critical thinkers writing today.
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Scotland and the music hall, 1850–1914
Music hall reflected the lifestyles and preoccupations of working people in a way that only television in the modern era has done since. While London dominated the wider British music hall, Glasgow was the centre of a vigorous Scottish performing culture developed in a Presbyterian society with a...
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The picture politics of Sir Francis Carruthers Gould
The first major study of Britain’s pioneering graphic satirist, Sir Francis Carruthers Gould (1844–1925), the first staff political cartoonist on a daily newspaper in Britain, and the first of his kind to be knighted.
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Representations of Renaissance monarchy
Representations of Renaissance monarchy analyses the portraits and personal imagery of Francis I, one of the most frequently portrayed rulers of sixteenth-century Europe. The distinctive likeness of the Valois king was widely disseminated and perceived by his French subjects, and Tudor and Habsbu...
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Imperial Inequalities
This volume examines the unequal politics of economic governance across European empires and the ongoing legacies of such histories. It focuses on processes of colonial taxation and, primarily, national welfare to examine the ways in which today’s global inequalities are the result of such connec...
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‘Who the Devil taught thee so much Italian?’
This book offers a comprehensive account of the methods and practice of learning modern languages, especially Italian, in late sixteenth and early seventeenth century England.
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‘Survival capitalism’ and the Big Bang
Survival Capitalism is a cultural history of the 1980s financial revolution. It ranges in scope across the Thatcher government, the Bank of England, London Stock Exchange and member firms, and Lloyd’s of London. It offers timely new perspectives on the City of London’s Big Bang reforms as the Con...
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Women, scholarship and criticism c.1790–1900
Brings together the varied artistic, critical and cultural productions by women scholars, critics and artists between 1790-1900, many of whom are little known in the canonical histories of the period. Questions the concepts of 'scholarship', 'criticism' and 'artist' across the different disciplin...
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Modernism and the making of the Soviet New Man
Modernism and the Making of the New Man is a history or Soviet architecture that is unique in that, instead of styles or great architects, it focuses on the design of communist subjectivity – the notion of the “new man”.
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In the wake of the great rebellion
On Monday 19 September 1803, the most significant trial in the history of Ireland took place in Dublin. At the dock stood a former Trinity College student standing trial for heading a rebellion on 23 July 1803. Drawing on an intriguing range of sources, Patterson offers a comprehensive insight in...
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John Galsworthy and disabled soldiers of the Great War
The most comprehensive study published to date about John Galsworthy’s philanthropic support for, and his compositions about soldiers disabled in the Great War. It makes available for the first time in a single edition the most significant of his compositions about the war disabled and examining ...
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English radicalism in the twentieth century
English radicalism has been a persistent and important, though minority, strand in English political culture since at least the English Civil War. This book explores, in historical context, the nature of this radicalism – its beliefs, practice and importance – in the twentieth century.
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Counterfactual Romanticism
Extends counterfactual thought experiments from history and the social sciences to literary historiography, criticism and theory
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Late Imperial Russia
A broad and detailed examination of the stability of the late imperial regime. There is general accord that Russia was not evolving into a stable constitutional monarchy
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Mike Leigh
Mike Leigh may well be Britain’s greatest living film director; his worldview has permeated our national consciousness. Written with the co-operation of Leigh himself, this book gives detailed readings of the nine feature films he has made for the cinema, as well as an overview of his work for t...
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The biopolitics of the war on terror
This book provides an utterly original analysis of the social and political origins of the war on terror in liberal regimes of disciplinary and biopolitical forms of power.
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Civilising rural Ireland
Civilising rural Ireland challenges predominant narratives of Irish history that explain the emergence of the nation-state through the lens of political conflict and violence. Instead the book takes as its focus the numerous leaders, organisers, and members of the Irish co-operative movement.
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Visions of empire
This book offers a ground-breaking perspective on how imperial culture was disseminated from the 1890s onward. It identifies the important synergies that grew between a new civic culture and the wider imperial project. Three case studies are considered against an extensive analysis of seminal and...
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The Existential drinker
Looks at the nineteenth-century convergence of a new kind of excessive, habitual drinking, and a new way of thinking about the self, which we came to label ‘existential’.
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The end-of-the-century party
This is the definitive account of the shift in popular music and youth culture that took place in the 1980s. It draws on interviews with DJs, record company bosses, musicians, producers and fans to outline a transition in pop thinking from the obsession with style and packaging to content, social...
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Artisans of the body in early modern Italy
This study of barbers-surgeons and other artisans involved in the care and appearance of the body - jewellers, tailors, wigmakers, upholsterers - sheds light on the strong sociocultural affinities that existed in the Early Modern period between these apparently unrelated trades, challenging the d...
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Henry V
This study examines the profound changes that twentieth-century performance has wrought on Shakespeare’s complex drama of war and politics. What was accepted at the turn of the century as a patriotic celebration of a national hero has emerged in the modern theatre as a dark and troubling analysis...
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Spanish visual culture
This book is the first to explore three visual media in contemporary Spain: cinema, television and internet. It also examines cultural products in each of these media in terms of three vital themes: emtion, location and nostalgia.
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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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Plays and performance texts by women 1880–1930
An exciting new anthology of plays and performance texts by British and American women from the late nineteenth century to the early 1930s. Written in an accessible style for students it contains an overview and two introductory essays, as well as biographical materials on each of the writers.
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The films of Luc Besson
A fascinating and revealing set of essays discussing the career and films of Luc Besson, one of the most acclaimed figures in international cinema
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Women's medicine
This book covers the role played by British female doctors in the medicalisation of birth control and family planning at the national and transnational level between 1920–70. Drawing on a wide range of archived and published medical materials, Rusterholz sheds light on the strategies British fema...
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The European Union and its eastern neighbourhood
This volume explores key issues that are currently at the forefront of the EU’s relations with its eastern neighbours. It considers the impact of a more assertive Russia, the significance of Turkey, the limitations of the Eastern Partnership with Belarus and Moldova, the position of a Ukraine in ...
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The Independent Group
This study looks at the artists, designers and writers who formed the Independent Group in the early 1950s including such influential figures as Richard Hamilton, Eduardo Paolozzi, Nigel Henderson, William Turnball, Rayner Banham and Alison and Peter Smithson. As a group they aimed to raise the s...
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Exporting empire
Looks at the attitudes of colonial officials in Africa who served between the end of the19th century and WWII, as well as what shaped such attitudes, including education and training, interrelationships, infrastructural change, and anti-colonial nationalism.
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Thomas Heywood and the classical tradition
This collection offers a groundbreaking study of Thomas Heywood’s fascinatingly individual engagement with the classics across his writing career. It considers the wide diversity of genres to which he contributed, including dramas, translations, compendia, and iconographical designs, and attends ...
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Transcultural encounters
Explores Franco-Maghrebi crossings in contemporary art, giving particular attention to performance, video, photography and installation. It is the first book to focus on postcolonial approaches to art in France and the wider French-speaking world.
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Late modernist poetics
'Late modernist poetics' explores the uncanny afterlife of modernist ideals in the second half of the twentieth century. Contextually and theoretically wide-ranging, the book focuses on poetry of Britain, Europe and the United States.
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The illusion of the Burgundian state
This innovative book explores Burgundian history and historiography while offering a complete synthesis covering the nature of politics in medieval Europe and the formation of the medieval state.
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Detachment
An exciting and cutting-edge volume of essays, which collectively and singularly aim to challenge the conventions of connectivity and relationality in social theory and description through a serious and crucially ethnographic reflection on the category of ‘detachment’
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Law on the battlefield
Written by a former military lawyer, the book will be of interest to military commanders, their staff and legal advisers but also to officials in Foreign and Defence Ministries and non governmental agencies working in conflict situations, as well as staff of international courts and tribunals dea...
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Britain and Europe since 1945
This important book offers a refreshing and challenging perspective on the nature of history by analysing the character, role, functioning and wider uses of historiography. Taking British policies towards European integration since the Second World War as a case study, the author demonstrates how...
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Israelpolitik
This book reinterprets the history of German–Israeli relations by examining the policies that East and West Germany implemented towards Israel in the early Cold War from an innovative and multinational angle.
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Working in a world of hurt
Focuses on doctors and nurses in wartime casualty clearing stations, hospitals and prison camps
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Global biographies
Global biographies offers a thorough historiographical intervention, a new set of biographical approaches to global history – ‘time and periodization’, ‘exceptional normal’ and ‘space and scales’ – and a broad and critically reflective set of case-studies spanning the globe.
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Jim Crace
Philip Tew's study is the first extended critical examination of Crace's oeuvre and is based on extensive interviews with the novelist, including discussions of his work from his first worldwide bestseller Continent (1986) up to The Pesthouse (2007).
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The Jacobites
This book is a comprehensive survey of the Jacobite movement, from its violent counter-revolutionary origins to its bitter conclusion. Written to be easily accessible, it takes into account the latest research and is designed to provide an easy introduction to the field.
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Gothic incest
Challenges dominant accounts of gender and sexuality in Gothic literature by demonstrating the complexities of the incest thematic through interdisciplinary readings of incest in texts from 1764–1847.
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The social context of economic change in Britain
Analyses economic growth in Britain under Thatcher in a variety of different social contexts.
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Dangerous bodies
A detailed examination of how certain Gothic bodies have taken on mythical status within western culture.
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Engendering an avant-garde
A comprehensive examination of the origins of Vancouver photo-conceptualism. The book employs discourse analysis, feminist critique and settler-colonial theory to analyse the landscapes of Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, Marian Penner Bancroft, Liz Magor and others.
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Labour, state and society in rural India
Drawing on fieldwork in rural South India over more than a decade, the book uses a ‘class-relational’ approach that focuses on ‘the poor’s’ iniquitous relations with others.
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Household servants in early modern England
Using a wide variety of sources this lively socio-cultural history examines household service, one of the largest, most multi-layered, most mobile and most indispensable sectors of employment in early modern England
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The Spanish quinqui film
This is first English-language study of cine quinqui, a cycle of Spanish delinquent-themed films made in the 1970s and 1980s. Exploring how the films reflected the auditory experience of marginal youth cultures during this period, the book casts new light on the criminological, economic and polit...
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The Irish war on drugs
Using the catastrophic failure of the drugs prohibition policy in Ireland as a case study, this book exposes the illusory foundations of the monolithic and seemingly invincible international system of drugs prohibition and the 'war on drugs'.
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