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Transitional justice in process
Transitional justice in process is the first book that comprehensively studies the Tunisian transitional justice process, covering its initiation, design, and performance. The book makes an essential contribution to literature on the domestic and international politics of transitional justice.
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Mancunians
Mancunians: Where do we start, where do I begin? is the authentic account of Manchester at the turn of the Millennium, told through a mixture of memoir and interviews with well-known local figures from music and sports.
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The business of birth control
This volume provides a new commercial perspective on contraception in modern Britain. It examines contraceptives as commodities and demonstrates the significance of the contraceptive industry in shaping sexual knowledge alongside the medical profession, the birth control movement, and the state b...
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Security in a greater Europe
This book examines the security agendas of the European Union, the UK, France, Germany and Russia in connection with three defining events in international security - the crisis in Kosovo of 1999, the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the Iraq crisis of 2003 - in order to assess the potential for all...
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ABBA ABBA: By Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess’s ‘hybrid’ novel has been out of print in the UK for almost twenty years. Paul Howard’s new edition restores the original text and demystifies Burgess’s engagement with his Italian and English sources.
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The poems of Elizabeth Siddal in context
Every Siddal poem is close read alongside works by Rossetti, Swinburne, Ruskin, Tennyson and Keats and with reference to prevailing cultural, political and religious contexts to give the most comprehensive analysis yet of this enigmatic, previously undervalued poetic voice.
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Living displacement
Focusing on two cases of resettlement in rural Cundinamarca, Colombia, this book examines how displaced campesinos make sense of their displacement and how displacement shapes their everyday lives
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Experimental British television
The first academic study to focus on experimental British television. Uncovers the history of experimental television, bringing back forgotten programmes and places the aesthetics of experimentation within historical contexts. The book also examines the importance of the changing technologies on ...
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International law in Europe, 700–1200
Was there international law in the Middle Ages? This book examines the extent to which such a system of rules was known and followed in the period 700 to 1200. Taking treaties as its main source, it challenges traditional interpretations of the history of international law and how it functioned i...
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The gentlewoman's remembrance
A highly original and detailed study of an individual single woman in early modern England, based on a recently discovered spiritual autobiography authored by a never-married gentlewoman, Elizabeth Isham. Provides new perspective on women's writing, identity and status in the early modern period.
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Toleration, power and the right to justification
This volume introduces Rainer Forst's critical theory of toleration, offering a development of his major work Toleration in Conflict with critical engagement from a range of outstanding interlocutors, including Chandran Kukathas, Melissa S. Williams and Patchen Markell.
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Britain's Chief Rabbis and the religious character of Anglo–Jewry, 1880–1970
A radical new interpretation of Britain's Chief Rabbis from Nathan Adler to Immanuel Jakobovits, and the impact they had on Anglo-Jewry.
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Anti-colonial research praxis
This book centres the perspectives of First Nations and majority-world researchers and provides insightful descriptions of anti-colonial research praxis from around the world. By engaging with the diverse examples, reflections, and methodological knowledge in this collection, readers will change ...
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Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy: A complexity theory of literature offers the first sustained analysis of complexity science in McCarthy's literary works. McCarthy's fiction makes a significant case study demonstrating how literature can help us imagine and grapple with complex systems and crises, from global ec...
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Destruction and human remains
Investigates what is done to the bodies of the victims after they are killed
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Shakespeare and Spenser
Innovative approach and study of Spenser's literature. Original ideas and perspectives methodolodgy when studying Spenser. Will appeal to wide market of Renaissance students.
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Ida Lupino
This book delivers a critical study of British-born Ida Lupino as both a constructed star image and an underappreciated filmmaker who worked across independent and mainstream cinema during Hollywood’s classical era.
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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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The new politics of Russia
This book offers a crash course in contemporary Russian politics. An updated version of the bestselling 2016 edition, it explores the decline in western relations since the early 2000s, from the disagreements over European security and the war in Syria right up to the invasion of Ukraine.
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The Duchess of Malfi
More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchesss of Malfi is here presented in an accessible and thoroughly up-to-date edition. Based on the often reprinted Revels Plays Edition of 1964, the notes have been augmented to cast further light on Webster'...
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International organisations, non-State actors, and the formation of customary international law
This collection of essays provides the most comprehensive study of the theory and practice of the contribution of international organisations and non-state actors to the formation of customary international law. The book offers new practical and theoretical perspectives on one of the most complex...
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Cinemas and cinemagoing in wartime Britain, 1939–45
In this groundbreaking book, Richard Farmer provides a social and cultural history of cinemas and cinemagoing in Britain between 1939 and 1945, and explores the impact that the war had on the places in which British people watched films.
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People, places and identities
A timely and original collection of essays on identity, place and culture of association, that captures the cultural meanings of British political and civic life from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.
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Behind enemy lines
Behind Enemy Lines draws on personal testimonies, official records and film to explore the experiences of male and female clandestine agents who were recruited and trained by a British organisation and infiltrated into Nazi-Occupied France to encourage sabotage and subversion during the Second Wo...
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An ethnography of English football fans
Ethnographic account of English football fans who travel home and away following their team, based on sixteen years' participant observation
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Rigged
Most people find it hard to define 'the economy' beyond saying it is 'to do with money'. Through ethnographic research in a city on the South coast of England, this book explores what 'the economy' means to people's lives and what goes through their minds when they hear politicians talking about it.
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Global warming policy in Japan and Britain
This is the first book to attempt a systematic comparative analysis of Japanese and British climate policy. It also provides a conceptual roadmap for further cross-national studies on sustainable development/climate policy.
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A history of the Ulster Unionist Party
This is the first scholarly history of the development of the Ulster Unionist Party. It is essential reading for an understanding of the importance of this party to the process of finding a political settlement to Northern Ireland
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Home front heroism
Home front heroism explores how civilians were framed as heroic during the Second World War. Through a focus on London, this book explores how the effects and demands of conflict created increased opportunities for heroics, and created a need for heroism to be acknowledged, awarded and celebrated.
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The tide of democracy
This study of British shipbuilding in its heyday brings together original discussions of the organization of production, the relationship between leaders and members of the industry’s key trade union, and the involvement of that union in wider labour politics.
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The Boundary Commissions
A standard reference work on re-drawing the map of constituencies in the UK which provides the only detailed insight into how that task is currently undertaken.
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Writing local history
This book describes the development of local history in England from its origins in the Middle Ages to its practise in the early twenty-first century. It looks also at how local history is related to archaeology, landscape, and family history.
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Patient voices in Britain, 1840–1948
This edited collection repositions the patient experience at the centre of healthcare histories and considers the contributions that such histories can make to debates over health policy and service delivery.
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The French empire at War, 1940–1945
The French empire at war draws on original research in France and Britain to investigate the history of the divided French empire – the Vichy and the Free French empires – during the Second World War.What emerges is a fascinating story. While it is clear that both the Vichy and Free French coloni...
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Donors, technical assistance and public administration in Kosovo
This book looks beyond the apparently united and generally self-congratulatory statements of The United Nations, other major multinational organisations and many large bilateral aid donors to examine what actually happened when they tried to work together in restoring stability and establishing g...
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Loud and proud
This book is an ethnographic study of grassroots activists in the English Defence League. Setting the findings within contemporary debates on race and racism, Islamophobia, social movements and the far right.
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Reimagining North African immigration
An interdisciplinary collection of essays examining the depiction of immigration from North Africa in contemporary French culture.
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The new Bauman reader
This book presents a wide range of important, lively and engaging readings, aiming to capture the originality of Bauman's special way of doing sociology and all the complexity of his core ideas, in a way that connects with twenty-first century minds.
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Reframing remembrance
Reframing remembrance is an investigation into French cinema’s representation of the Second World War. Focusing on films released between 1995 and 2015, it argues that Jacques Chirac’s 1995 Vél’ d’Hiv speech heralded a generational shift in WWII commemoration in French cinematic storytelling.
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Critical theory and legal autopoiesis
The first English-language collection of the work of one of Europe's top legal sociologists, introducing his influential theories of societal constitutionalism and legal autopoiesis.
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Chronicles of the Investiture Contest
The first English translation of Frutolf of Michelsberg's Chronicle, one of the most significant chronicles of the Middle Ages.
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Anti-racist scholar-activism
This book focuses on anti-racist scholar-activism in the margins of universities in the United Kingdom. The book raises questions about the future of Higher Education in the UK, and shines a spotlight on those academics who are working within, and often against, their institutions.
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Watching Game of Thrones
How did audiences across the world engage with the blockbuster TV series Game of Thrones? This book presents the findings of a major research project that gathered the responses of more than 10,000 people. Its findings challenge many conventional approaches and open up new ways of thinking about...
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Marie Duval
Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval 1847–1890), one of the most unusual, pioneering and visionary cartoonists of the later nineteenth century, focusing on new types of cultural work by women and establishing Duval as a unique b...
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Contemporary issues and debates in EU policy
An exploration of the European Union with sections on conflict, intelligence and security, immigration and human rights, world economic development and environmental sustainability, high technologies and their growing impact.
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Female Fortune
A new edition of Jill Liddington’s classic work on Anne Lister's extraordinary diaries, which inspired Gentleman Jack
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Bankruptcy, bubbles and bailouts
This book argues that it is the Treasury, more than any other institution, public or private, which is responsible for socio-economic disparities in the UK, as well as the Brexit paralysis.
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Chagos Islanders in Mauritius and the UK
This is the first book to compare the experiences of displaced Chagos islanders in Mauritius with the experiences of those Chagossians who have moved to the UK since 2002. It provides a unique ethnographic comparative study of forced displacement and onward migration within the living memory of o...
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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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Shinners, Dissos and Dissenters: Irish republican media activism since the Good Friday Agreement
This book provides a compelling picture of Irish republican activist media outlets like newspapers, magazines and Internet journals and the role that they played ideologically during the tumultuous years that followed the end of the 30-year civil war that was the Troubles and signing of the Good ...
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Witness onstage
Witness Onstage is a detailed study of the remarkable growth of documentary theatre forms in Russian since the early 2000s. It draws on the author’s work as a performer, producer, and researcher of documentary theatre both in Russia and internationally to provide new perspective on the mechanics ...
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Gender and the Liberal Democrats
Explores why the Liberal Democrats continue to overwhelmingly return male MPs to Westminster.
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Cross-border intimacies
Cross-border intimacies draws on over a decade of frontline research to explore the lives of Chinese migrants who move to Taiwan for marriage. It highlights the complex interplay between emotional and affective processes in shaping marriage migration between China and Taiwan.
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Migrating borders and moving times
Offers a sustained and systematic focus on the intersections of time and space in contexts of border crossing, considering the historical transformations of borders over time and the way 'border time' is shaped by and shapes the borders.
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From votes to seats
The British electoral system treats parties disproportionately and differentially. This original study of the fourteen general elections held between 1950 and 1997 shows that the amount of bias in those election results increased substantially over the period, benefiting Labour at the expense of ...
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The American civil rights movement
Covering the whole twentieth century, this work collects in a single, brief volume, documents reflecting key aspects of the Civil Rights Movement: the voices of social activists (and opponents), the legal struggle in the courts, and governmental responses to civil rights issues, arranged chronolo...
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Healing the nation
This study of caregiving during WW I looks anew at life behind the lines for ordinary British soldiers who served on the Western front. Using a variety of literary, artistic, and architectural evidence, Dr Reznick shows that Britain’s ‘generation of 1914’ was a group bound as much by comradeship ...
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Governance as social and political communication
This book looks at the development of governance analysis in new conceptions of political and democratic communication.
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Money in the medieval English economy 973–1489
The importance of money as one of the key variables in the workings of the medieval economy is often overlooked. This new study first provides the reader with a background to the problems of modelling the medieval economy and the value of the Fisher equation of exchange to monetary historians, to...
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Garden cities and colonial planning
A study of European planning ideas in the form of garden city concepts and practices in their broadest sense, and the ways these were transmitted, diffused and diverted in various colonial territories and situations
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Women on the Renaissance stage
Reassesses women's relationship to performance in early modern England.
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Gender and housing in Soviet Russia
This book explores the housing problem throughout the seventy years of Soviet history. It looks at changing political ideology on appropriate forms of housing under socialism, successive government policies on housing, and the meaning and experience of 'home' for Soviet citizens.
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Democracy in Scandinavia
This book breaks new ground in challenging the established status of the Scandinavian countries as consensual democracies
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Reading poetry
This book is about reading and studying poetry. Using fully-worked examples and complete poems wherever possible, it shows all the key elements of poetry ‘at work’ in poems
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Moliere: L'imposteur de 1667
A scholarly reconstruction of one of Molière’s masterpieces.
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Jeanette Winterson
This is the first full-length study of Jeanette Winterson's work as a whole. The study establishes the formal, thematic and ideological characteristics of the novels and situates the writer within the general panorama of contemporary British fiction.
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Transnational connections in early modern theatre
Pushing the complexities of theatrical connections beyond questions of national boundaries, Transnational connections in early modern theatre studies performance as a connective medium, to engage with the complex encounters, exchanges and interactions among texts, performers and communities, in a...
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The hidden alternative
The Hidden Alternative will be of interest to students and academics studying economic, business studies, history or politics, and also to policy-makers who have witnessed the inadequacies of investor-led business models during the global recession.
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Texts and readers in the Age of Marvell
Texts and Readers in the Age of Marvell offers fresh perspectives from leading and emerging scholars on seventeenth-century British literature, with a focus on the surprising ways that texts interacted with writers and readers at specific cultural moments.
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Smoking in British popular culture 1800–2000
A concise history of smoking in British popular culture from the early nineteenth century to the present day.. Provides the historical backdrop to the current debates about the politics of tobacco and health, demonstrating that both pro- and anti-smokers have consistently failed to understand the...
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Recognition and Global Politics
Recognition and global politics examines the potential and limitations of the discourse of recognition as a strategy for reframing justice and injustice within contemporary world affairs. Drawing on resources from social and political theory and international relations theory, as well as feminist...
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Indo-Pacific Empire
This book explains why the idea of the Indo-Pacific is so strategically important and concludes with a strategy designed to help the West engage with Chinese power in the region in such a way as to avoid conflict.
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Acts and apparitions
Acts and apparitions examines how new performance practices from the 1990s and the present day have been driven by questions of the real and the ensuing political implications of the concept's rapidly disintegrating authority.
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Theories of International Relations and Northern Ireland
Applying approaches prominent in the field, this book explains the achievements and shortcomings of the peace in Northern Ireland, focusing on the role of a number of significant actors as well as those who have been marginalised by the process.
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Reclaiming economics for future generations
Reclaiming economics for future generations argues that to build economies which serve people and the planet we need a diverse and decolonised curriculum. How does the global economy currently fail people and the planet, and why has mainstream economics knowledge inadequately addressed the pressi...
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Robert Louis Stevenson and theories of reading
This book, an innovative combination of literary history and reception theory, draws upon Robert Louis Stevenson’s fiction and literary essays to argue that Stevenson both exemplified tensions within the literary market of his time and anticipated later developments in reading theory.
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The debate on the American Revolution
‘Who will write the History of the American Revolution’ asked a worried John Adams, and ‘who will ever write it? This book is an attempt to answer these questions. Examining the many histories of the American Revolution and Constitution, it looks at how the transition from amateur to professional...
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Irish women in medicine, c.1880s–1920s
The first comprehensive history of Irish women in medicine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It focuses on the debates surrounding women’s admission to Irish medical schools, the geographical and social backgrounds of early women medical students, their educational experiences...
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Untold Histories
Untold Histories looks in detail at the experiences of the average black person in England and Wales during the period of the British slave trade, revealing information about sex ratios, ages, from where in the world they came and how they were treated by the criminal justice system.
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The Island Book of Records Volume II
The second volume in this highly collectable series covers the years 1969–70, offering album sleeves, interviews and more.
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Peter Carey
This is a revised and expanded edition of Woodcock's accessible study, now including detailed readings of Carey's latest novels, 'Jack Maggs' and 'True History of the Kelly Gang'.
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Performing Englishness
Looks in detail at the growth in popularity and profile of the English folk arts in the first decade of the twenty-first century
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There is no soundtrack
There is no soundtrack amplifies new and radical audio-visual relationships in experimental media art. It addresses the lack of diversity in the study of art, media and sound through careful audition of marginalised voices that speak of race, gender, sexuality, indigeneity, colonialism, nationali...
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Missionaries and modernity
This book examines the changing landscape of evangelical British missionary education in the British Empire of the nineteenth century. It argues that over the course of the nineteenth century many aspects of mission schools were secularised, leading missionary societies to question the ambivalen...
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Sexual progressives
Sexual Progressives is a major new study of the feminists and socialists who campaigned against the moral conservatism of Victorian Scotland. Drawing on a range of sources, from letters and diaries to radical newspapers and utopian novels, its arguments disrupt current understandings of progressi...
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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 anthropology of power, agency, and morality
F.G. Bailey’s contributions to anthropological theory and method are illuminated in this edited volume. Chapters variously present, apply, and trace the origins of Bailey’s seminal ideas regarding power’s place in the relationship between agency and structure, and the way that people tactically d...
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