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The age of internationalism and belgium, 1880–1930
Investigates internationalism using Belgium as its focal point; historically a major hub for transnational movements
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What's in it for me?
Why do we hold the political views that we do? We often dwell on the self-interest of opponents, yet seldom reflect on our own. Considering five contemporary worldviews, Thomas Prosser argues that our views tend to satisfy self-interest. Paradoxically, awareness of self-interest makes us more ref...
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Therapeutic landscapes
Therapeutic landscapes uniquely brings together historical and contemporary debates on the use of the garden as a therapeutic space. By focusing on the history of hospital gardens in England, Hickman adds a new dimension to current concerns regarding the therapeutic environment.
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Russian orientalism in a global context
This volume features new research by an international group of scholars on Russia’s historic relationship with Asia and the ways in which it was mediated and represented in the fine, decorative, and performing arts and architecture from the mid-eighteenth century to the first two decades of Sovie...
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Lords of parliament
An arresting and unique portrait of the House of Lords. Its seductiveness and complex hidden structures are captured in a readable book for researchers, students and the general reader.
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Royals on tour
Travel by European and ‘native’ monarchs and other royals between Europe, Asia and Africa developed as a new form of personal and international politics in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The pageantry and politics of royal tours during the age of empire provides great insight into modern monarch...
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Settlers at the end of empire
Bringing together histories of immigration and emigration in the era of decolonisation, Settlers at the end of empire is an essential new study highlighting the connections between the racial politics of migration in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Rhodesia in the second half of the twentiet...
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Borders and conflict in south asia
Borders and conflict in South Asia is the first full-length study of the 1947 drawing of the Indo-Pakistani boundary in Punjab. Using the Radcliffe commission as a window onto the decolonisation and independence of India and Pakistan, and examining the competing interests – both internal and inte...
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The age of upheaval
A study of one of the most intense and formative periods of modern political history. The years 1899-1914 witnessed a fundamental challenge to many Victorian values and institutions: Free Trade, the new Poor Law, the House of Lords, the Irish Union - all were under attack, while organized labour ...
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The cooke sisters
A study of five remarkable sixteenth-century women. Part of the select group of Tudor women allowed access to formal humanist education, the Cooke sisters were also well-connected through their marriages to influential Elizabethan politicians.
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Parliamentary reform at westminster
An authoritative analysis of the trajectory and outcome of reform of the UK parliament across the past century, addressing significant debates about the balance of executive-legislative relations in Britain, and which employs historical and institutional perspectives for the purposes of analysing...
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Writing on sheep
An animal studies and ecocritical approach to poetry on sheep in the context of agro-pastoral societies and environmental crisis.
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One hundred years of wartime nursing practices, 1854–1953
This book examines the work that nurses of many differing nations undertook during the Crimean War, the Boer War, the Spanish Civil War, both World Wars and the Korean War. It makes an excellent and timely contribution to the growing discipline of nursing wartime work. In its exploration of multi...
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A special relationship?
This book addresses the Anglo-American special relationship from the perspective of post-Second World War British governments.
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Confronting crisis in the carolingian empire
This is the translation of an extraordinary and enigmatic narrative of Carolingian history, which should interest historians of politics, religion and literature in equal measure. Radbertus’ ‘Epitaph for Arsenius’ is both a personal and a political text, written with twenty years of hindsight, by...
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Foundations of social ecological economics
This book presents social ecological economics as an emerging paradigm combining critical social science with structural realism to offer a radical, theoretically grounded, alternative economics based on ethical social provisioning and meeting needs. The foundations include its radical roots, phi...
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Water struggles as resistance to neoliberal capitalism
Water struggles as resistance to neoliberal capitalism is an important intervention into social reproduction theory and eco-socialist debates. It provides a timely analysis of the role of expropriation in the current global water crisis and makes a persuasive argument for understanding class as a...
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Ideology and politics in britain today
Politicians still call themselves socialists, conservatives and liberals, but among these groups exist very different understandings of what these terms represent. This new book provides a clear, comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the ideas and doctrines that have shaped, and will conti...
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The values of international organizations
This book’s statistical and legal analyses of international organizations’ constitutions reveal new interpretations of international organizations law. It provides a map of international organizations’ values, and a healthy start towards fully understanding that map, thereby helping global govern...
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A history of the northern ireland labour party
This book is the first, definitive history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP), a unique political force in twentieth century British and Irish politics that drew its support from Protestants and Catholics and became electorally viable despite deep-seated ethnic, religious and national di...
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Orangism in the dutch republic in word and image, 1650–75
This remarkable study represents a completely original presentation of the language and imagery used by the Orangists in the critical period in the mid-seventeenth century Netherlands as they sought the restoration of the stadholderate in the person of the young prince William III.Stern argues th...
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Ireland, slavery and the caribbean
Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean interrogates the complex relationship between two island archipelagos at the peak of the slave economy. Employing a broad range of islands, sources, sites, and methods creates a transnational, trans-imperial and interdisciplinary history of Ireland, slavery and ...
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Face: shape and angle
Born into a civil service family in India in 1907, Helen Muspratt was a lifelong communist, a member of the Cambridge intellectual milieu of the 1930s, and a working mother at a time when such a role was unusual for women of her class. She was also a pioneering photographer, creating an extraordi...
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American society today
American society today provides a balanced introduction to the defining features of contemporary American society. Includes the ways in which the US can be considered ‘exceptional’ - the character of the 'American dream', the role of ethnicity and race, and the differences between the regions. Co...
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Jews and other foreigners
Drawing on a wide range documentary and oral sources, including interviews with refugees, this book explores the responses in Manchester to those threatened by the rise of Fascism in Europe.
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Semi-presidentialism in central and eastern europe
This book looks at the extent to which semi-presidentialism has affected the process of democratisation in Central and Eastern Europe since the early 1990s, examining whether some forms of semi-presidentialism are more conducive to democratisation than others and examines its impact on government...
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Violence and the state
A highly original, multi-contributed interdisciplinary investigation into organised violence across a wide range of geographical and academic areas, which argues that violence cannot be completely divorced from ‘traditional’ political objectives.
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Women’s writing in contemporary france
An up-to-date introduction to an analysis of new women’s writing in contemporary France, including both new writers of the 1990s and their more established counter-parts
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When nothing works
What caused the UK’s cost of living crisis, and how can we rebuild? Setting out the concept of liveability, this book argues that rather than focus on increasing wages, we need to make life more liveable through foundational services and social infrastructure.
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Banished potentates
An examination of British and French deposition and exile of indigenous monarchs in Asia and Africa from 1815 until the 1950s.
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Borrowed objects and the art of poetry
This study uses examinations of Exeter riddles, Old English religious verse and Beowulf to formulate the poetics of spolia – creative transformations of martial and architectural plunder serving to signal metatextual reflection.
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The impact of the troubles on the republic of ireland, 1968–79
This book tells the story of how the war in Northern Ireland threatened to engulf the Republic. It explains how popular opinion responded to the crisis from marching in solidarity with nationalists to increasing disengagement and fear.
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Comradely objects
This book offers a new perspective on the history of Soviet design. It argues that the ‘comradely objects’ of Russian productivism were not just shabby copies of western commodities – they were agents of progressive social relations with a discernible inheritance from the 1920s avant-garde.
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Reporting the raj
This book is the first analysis of the dynamics of British press reporting of India and the attempts made by the British Government to manipulate press coverage as part of a strategy of imperial control. The press was an important forum for debate over the future of India and was used by signific...
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The cultural politics of contemporary hollywood film
Using an innovative syncretic ‘cultural politics’ approach drawing on political theory, film studies and sociology, this book unpacks how political myths about states, citizens, community, intimate life and social criticism operate in Hollywood narratives.
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Colonialism and antarctica
This book explores how the concept of colonialism can help us to understand the past and present of Antarctica, and how in turn Antarctica may illuminate and rethink our understanding of colonialism.
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Great satan's rage
This book looks at how American rap/metal has engaged with America's defining role in the world after the Cold War. It offers a highly original approach in relating rap/metal to critical theories of economy and culture and introduces a new method of cultural analysis based on theories of negativi...
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The houses of history
An updated edition of this accessible critical reader, with additional chapters including an introduction that contextualises the rise of each theoretical perspective and draw links between them.
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Charlotte brontë
Charlotte Brontë: legacies and afterlives is a timely reflection on the persistent fascination and creative engagement with Charlotte Brontë’s life and work. The new essays in this volume, which cover the period from Brontë’s first publication to the twenty-first century, explain why her work has...
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Peasants and historians
This book examines one hundred years of historical debate on the English peasantry in the later Middle Ages, exploring the influences and changes to peasantry society, economy and culture.
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Imperial persuaders
The first book to provide an historical survey of images of black people in advertising during the colonial period. Analyses the various conflicting, and changing ideologies of colonialism and racism in British advertising. Reveals the historical and production context of many well known advertis...
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White before whiteness in the late middle ages
This ground-breaking book analyses premodern whiteness as operations of fragility, precarity and racialicity across bodily and nonsomatic figurations. It argues that the ‘before’ of whiteness is less a retro-futuristic temporisation than a set of strategies and discursive praxes that produce and ...
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England’s military heartland
This is the first book to portray what it is like to live next to a British Army base. Investigating the sprawling military presence on Salisbury Plain, it draws on voices from both sides of the divide.
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South korean civil movement organisations
This is a unique ethnographic study of the practical, theoretical, methodological, ethical and social dimensions of some key non-governmental organisations (NGOs), non-profit organisations (NPOs), and think tanks in Seoul during Roh Moo Hyun’s tumultuous presidency (2003-8).
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Noble society
This volume contains five biographical sources, translated into English for the first time , about noblemen and noblewomen living in twelfth-century Germany.
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Tattoos in crime and detective narratives
Tattoos in crime and detective narratives: Marking and remarking examines representations of the tattoo and tattooing in literature, television and film, from two periods of tattoo renaissance (1851-1914, and c1955 to present).
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The unorthodox imagination in late medieval britain
The unorthodox imagination in late medieval Britain explores how medieval people responded to images, stories, beliefs and practices which were at odds with the normative world view, from the heretical and subversive to the marvellous and exotic
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Doggy people
This book reveals the varied and often eccentric lives of the Victorians who helped define dogs as we know them today.
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The debate on black civil rights in america
This book examines the development of the historiography on the African American freedom struggle from the 1890s to the present day.
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The silence of barbara synge
'The silence of Barbara Synge' provides a fascinating companion volume to Bill McCormack's acclaimed 'Fool of the family' (2000), a biography of the playwright J.M. Synge (1871-1909).Taking the alledged death of Mrs John Hatch (née Synge) in 1767 as a focal point, this book explores the varied st...
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Population, providence and empire
Over seven million people left Ireland over the course of the nineteenth century. This book is the first to put that huge population change in its religious context, by asking how the Irish Catholic, Anglican and Presbyterian churches responded to mass emigration.
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Gendered urban violence among brazilians
Understanding and theorising the translocational, multiscalar, intersectional nature of urban gendered violence and resistance to it in Rio de Janeiro and London.
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Freedom and the fifth commandment
Addresses the War of Independence from a new perspective by focusing on the attitude of the Catholic clergy
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Painting her pleasure
Painters Marie Vassilieff, Émilie Charmy and Suzanne Valadon explored sexuality and questioned gender identity. Working in early twentieth-century Paris, these women contravened social mores, challenged traditional and avant-garde artistic practices and partook in the making of the modern nude.
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The english revolution c. 1590–1720
This book is about the crisis of transition marked by the English Revolution (1640-1660), while at the same time placing it in the context of a long seventeenth century - running from about 1590 to 1720.Leading experts explore this theme, with special reference to developments in politics, religi...
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Cinema and radio in britain and america, 1920–60
The book charts the evolving relationship between cinema and radio during the heyday of the two media and compares and contrasts their development in Britain and America
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Engine of modernity
Engine of modernity examines the connection between public transportation and popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris through a focus on the omnibus - a horse-drawn urban conveyance. The book introduces the omnibus as a key vector for understanding the intersection of urban and literary moder...
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British foreign policy, 1919–1939
Provides students with a clear narrative overview of the period which will enable them to form critical opinions. Introduces students to the historical controversies of the period and communicates the results of recent specialist studies to a student readership in an easily understood manner. A...
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Videogame, player, text
Videogame, player, text examines the playing and playful subject through a series of analytical essays focused on particular videogames.
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Reframing health and health policy in ireland
This study demonstrates how governmentality can be used to understand some of Ireland’s contemporary health issues and dilemmas. By drawing on a range of empirical contexts, it explores the potential of governmentality to contribute to a critical politics of Irish health and health policy.
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Staging the old faith
Staging the Old Faith is the first book length study to examine Caroline theatre as a space where the concerns of the English Roman Catholic community are staged.Rebecca Bailey juxtaposes a detailed analysis of Queen Henrietta Maria’s ground-breaking performances which showcased to an elite audie...
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The bourdieu paradigm
The book discusses relations between philosophy and empirical social sciences through detailed analyses of the work of Schutz, Gurwitsch and Merleau-Ponty, and then explores the development of Bourdieu’s sociological reflexivity as his attempt to reconcile this intellectualist legacy with social ...
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The radicalism of ethnomethodology
This book offers a well-informed and timely appraisal of the rationale for ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. It examines some of the influences that have shaped work of this kind, and its relationship to mainstream social science.
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Playing for time
Playing for time explores connections between theatre time, the historical moment and fictional time. Geraldine Cousin persuasively argues that a crucial characteristic of contemporary British theatre is its preoccupation with instability and danger, and traces images of catastrophe and loss in a...
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Adaptation revisited
Offers a critical reappraisal of a prolific and popular genre, as well as bringing new material into the broader field of Television Studies. Surveys the traditional discourses about adaptation, unearthing the unspoken assumptions and common misconceptions that underlie them and explores the prob...
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British stars and stardom
Deals analytically with the fascinating topic of the great film stars (and some thought-provoking lesser ones) of the British cinema, from Alma Taylor and Ivor Novello in the Silent period, up to the present day. Looks both at stars who attained worldwide fame through the Hollywood cinema, and th...
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Bulletin of the john rylands library 97/1
The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is a long-running journal that publishes research complementary to the John Rylands Library’s extensive special collections
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Truth recovery in northern ireland
This book is a unique analysis of truth recovery in post-conflict Northern Ireland. It proposes a new model of victim and perpetrator dialogue that is entirely victim-centred, suggesting that only a ‘moral bottom line’ in which violence is dismissed as universally wrong can assists in the effect...
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Directing scenes and senses
As European theatre directors become a familiar presence on international stages and a new generation of theatre makers absorbs their impulses, this study develops fresh perspectives on Regie, the Continental European tradition of staging playtexts.
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Friars’ tales
David Jones has translated two important collections of short stories from the late thirteenth century that were assembled in the British Isles. The collections of narratives depict working daily life as well as offering a moral and theological insight into medieval life overall.
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English benedictine nuns in exile in the seventeenth century
Provides the first detailed and interdisciplinary analysis of the English Benedictine communities in exile during the seventeenth century, looking at their lived experiences, emotions and senses in religious life.
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British civic society at the end of empire
The end of the empire and the legacies of Britain’s imperial past have shaped how the British public interact with the outside world. This book shows how the international activities of civic associations in the 1960s can help us to understand the impact of decolonisation on the British public’s ...
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Slaves of fashion: art of the singh twins
This art book presents the award-winning portrait-based series 'Slaves of Fashion' by British artists The Singh Twins.
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Les murray
Les Murray is amongst the most gifted poets writing today, his multi-faceted talents have received high praise both in his native Australia and beyond. But he has also proved a controversial figure, whose poetry strays across the boundaries of political and cultural debate. The only full critical...
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A.s. byatt
This stimulating and comprehensive study of A. S. Byatt’s work spans virtually her entire career and offers insightful readings of all of Byatt’s fictions up to and including The Children’s Book (2009). The authors also consider her role as a critic, cultural commentator and public intellectual.
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Love's victory
Love’s Victory is the first romantic comedy written in English by a woman, and this Revels edition is the first fully-authorised, modern spelling edition of this play by Lady Mary Wroth.
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Localizing global sport for development
This book draws on a decade of research undertaken with young people and adults living and working in urban communities in Zambia to extend existing understandings of global sport for development.
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Ramon j. sender's 'cronica del alba'
Crónica del alba, is the first in an autobiographical series of nine novels by one of the most famous twentieth- century Spanish novelists, Ramón Sender.
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You’re nicked
This is the first comprehensive investigation of British television police series from 1955 to the present. It reveals how the popular genre has developed along stylistic, thematic and philosophical lines, simultaneously providing a socio-political history of British class, culture and gender.
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Vanguardia
Vanguardia chronicles and theorises changing forms of socially engaged art and radical politics since the rise of the anti-globalisation movement. From Occupy Wall Street to Black Live Matter and MeToo, Vanguardia detects signs of avant-garde praxis in the new social movements and activist collec...
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Civilisation and nineteenth-century art
Over the course of the long nineteenth century, Civilisation was the subject of some of the most prominent public mural paintings and sculptures in Europe and the United States, especially those that speculated on the direction of history. It also underpinned Western depictions of non-Western soc...
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Stories from a migrant city
Taking a biographical approach, the book explores the causes and consequences of moving or staying put in the context of class inequality and racisms, and looks for commonalities between people often seen as irredeemably divided.
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The road to brexit
This timely collection of essays explores British attitudes to Continental Europe that explain the Brexit decision. Addressing British-European entanglements and the impact of British Euroscepticism, the book argues that Britain is in denial about the strength of its ties to Europe, and that it n...
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The ghost story 1840–1920
The Ghost Story 1840-1920: A Cultural History is the first book length analysis of the British ghost story in over thirty years. It includes readings of the economic, national, colonial, and gender contexts of the ghost story and provides a new and important critical re-evaluation of writers inc...
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Contemporary history on trial
On issues ranging from the Holocaust to Srebrenica, contemporary historians are being asked to serve as 'expert witnesses' to painful events in the recent past - in the courtroom and in the media. Leading historians from across Europe reflect upon their experiences in this emerging public role.
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Ageing and new intimacies
Drawing on ethnographic research in salsa classes and oral histories this book details the everyday practices of femininity, heterosexuality and ‘new’ intimacies among women in midlife. Challenging conventional notions of the baby boomers it draws attention to how these practices are classed and ...
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Men in political theory
'Men in political theory' is the first work to turn the 'gender lens' onto 'man' the 'abstract individual' and 'man' the gendered male as they appear in the works of ten classic political philosophers.
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British films of the 1970s
British Films of the 1970s offers highly detailed and insightful critical analysis of a range of individual films of the period. This analysis draws upon an innovative range of critical methodologies which place the film texts within a rich variety of historical contexts.
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Jamaican volunteers in the first world war
A groundbreaking study that uncovers the expereince of black Jamaican soldiers to provide a fresh historical insight into the First World War. A book that will appeal to undergraduates and general readers interested in warfare, Imperial and black history.
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Britain’s 'mr x’
Britain’s ‘Mr X’ explores the long and influential career of the British diplomat Sir Frank Roberts, including his close collaboration with the renowned American diplomat, George F. Kennan (the cryptonymous author ‘X’ of an influential 1947 article) at the dawn of the Cold War.
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Refractions of bob dylan
A multi-disciplinary set of essays revolving around the routes of Bob Dylan’s cultural appropriations.
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In contact with the gods?
In 1994 the Arts Council of Great Britain brought together a number of theatre directors as part of the City of Drama celebrations. This is a collection of interviews and discussions with directors who have helped shape the development of theatre in the last 20 years. They include Peter Brook, Pe...
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