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Architectures of survival
Architectures of survival investigates how airpower influenced urbanism and debates about the future of cities in modern Britain. It traces the targeting of cities and militarisation of urban space from interwar to Cold War and highlights how air raids became incorporated into civilian planning d...
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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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European Union health policy
The first book-length analysis of EU health policy since the COVID-19 pandemic, encompassing the creation of the European Health Union and the Recovery and Resilience Facility, this volume offers a timely and accessible analysis of the EU’s health policy, institutions and governance.
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Democratic inclusion
Leading scholar of citizenship and migration Rainer Bauböck proposes a theory of inclusion for democratic societies. Five prominent interlocutors comment on this theory.
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Hybrid healing
This book works from the premise that the tremendous diversity of Old English medical texts requires an equally diverse range of interpretative methodologies. Taking a case study approach, it offers close readings tailored to individual remedies, drawing from biology, rhetoric, archaeology, folkl...
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Bertrand Tavernier
Most comprehensive study of Tavernier’s oeuvre. In-depth discussion of every major film through 2010. First to examine Tavernier’s work through the lens of genre.
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Intimate afterlives of empire
Intimate afterlives of empire is the first comprehensive study of an important genre of cultural memory, the post-imperial autobiography. Through close readings of personal narratives from four corners of the globe, it examines the dialogue between individual and collective memory in the wake of ...
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Lifelong learning, the arts and community cultural engagement in the contemporary university
Lifelong learning, the arts, and community cultural engagement in the contemporary university maps the work of adult educators, teachers, researchers and graduate students from North America, Europe and Africa who use the arts in their university classroom teaching, their research and in service.
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William Holman Hunt
William Holman Hunt was self-styled leader of the Pre-Raphaelites and a major figure of nineteenth century art. This book is a fundamental reassessment of his work, the first critical text to reproduce his pictures in colour and to set him on an international stage.
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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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The family tree detective
The long-awaited fourth edition of this best-selling manual continues to offer up-to-date guidance both to newcomers and to the more experienced, on how to make best use of the labyrinth of genealogical sources in England and Wales. It takes into account recent, and even some future, changes to t...
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Debates on the German Revolution of 1918-19
This book examines how historians have interpreted the German revolution of 1918-19 from its inception to the present day. It charts how the debate on this revolution changed during the Weimar republic, the Nazi period and the second world war, in the time of Germany’s division from 1949 to 1990,...
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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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Rebel populism
Rebel populism is an ethnography of Syrian migrant workers in Lebanon during the Syrian uprising and civil war. It documents the rise and fall of the revolution from the perspective of ordinary men. It explores the role of economic transformation, new technology, and masculinity in the developmen...
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EcoGothic
This book will provide the first study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas. The book's focus is from the late eighteenth century to the present day, via consideration of a number of national and global contexts and different media including short stories, novels and films.
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Jean-Jacques Beineix
This volume is the first to examine, in either French or English, the films of Jean-Jacques Beineix, often seen as the best example of the 1980s cinéma du look, with cult films, such as Diva and Betty Blue (37º 2 le matin).. After an introduction which places Beineix in the context of the 1980s a...
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Jean Vigo
Film historian Michael Temple explores the intense career of Jean Vigo, one of the legendary figures of world cinema, and asks why he has had such a long-lasting impact on film culture around the world.
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Contesting the state
This book is the first comprehensive survey of the Irish state, its history and evolution, its nature and its role in Ireland's recent economic boom. Containing contributions from some of the leading authorities on the subject, it offers an in-depth analysis of a state widely seen as a model of s...
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Beckett's Dantes
The first study in English of the literary relationship between Beckett and Dante. It is a clear and innovative reading of Samuel Beckett and Dante's works and a critical engagement with contemporary theories of intertextuality
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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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Immigration and social change in the Republic of Ireland
Immigration and social change in the Republic of Ireland addresses citizenship and constitutional change, returned emigrants, the economic contribution of immigrants, the exploitation of migrant workers, asylum seekers and forced migrants, immigrant communities, politics, integration models and s...
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Churchill and the Soviet Union
In the already vast literature on Churchill, no single work has focused on his changing attitude towards the Soviet Union. This is the first project to isolate just one major theme in Churchill's lifeExplores whether or not Churchill was consistent through forty years and examines the possibilit...
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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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The Northern Ireland experience of conflict and agreement
Presents a salutory warning to the international community against the fashionable but superficial view that there is an "Irish model" which can be exported to cauterise ethnic troubles around the globe.
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Drug smuggler nation
Drug smuggler nation shows how and why the Netherlands developed into a central hub of international illegal drug trade in the 20th century. The book develops a model of 'criminal anarchy' that is historically, socially, and culturally embedded in Dutch society to explain the failures of the stat...
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Julian Barnes
A detailed study of the fiction of Julian Barnes from Metroland to Arthur & George. Approachable, student friendly and comprehensive analysis of all Barnes’s novels
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The absurdity of bureaucracy
The absurdity of bureaucracy is a contemporary implementation study that unveil how organisational complexity and inefficacy is fed and sustained by employees well-meant attempts and almost primal instinct to compensate for malfunctioning bureaucratic systems by repairing them, short-cutting them...
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The acquisition of territory in international law
A timely reissue of a classic text in international law, featuring a new introduction from Professor Marcelo G. Kohen of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.
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Class, ethnicity and religion in the Bengali East End
This exploration of one of the most concentrated immigrant communities in Britain combines a fascinating narrative history, an original theoretical analysis of the evolving relationship between progressive left politics and ethnic minorities, and an incisive critique of political multiculturalism
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Time for mapping
cholars from science and technology studies, media studies and critical cartography come together in this book to explore different ways of understanding these shifts, and draw attention to temporal aspects of mapping, as against taken-for-granted ideas that maps are spatial things.
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Blair’s community
Blair’s community challenges the widely held view that New Labour’s policies and approach have reflected or even been influenced by the work of communitarian writers, by comparing party policy and rhetoric directly with their work.
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A progressive education?
A Progressive Education? argues that the period after WWII witnessed a fundamental transformation in concepts of childhood and adolescence in England and Wales.
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Eva Gore-Booth
Academics, postgraduate and undergraduate students in Irish and British social and cultural history.
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Assembling cultures
Assembling cultures charts the development of workplace activism in the British motor industry between 1945 and 1982.
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'At Duty's Call'
In this book, Reader attempts to understand the extraordinary mass voluntary enlistment of two and a half million men in the British army in the first sixteenth months of the Great War
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Friendship among nations
This is a study of friendship in international politics. It offers the history of friendship, and shows the role of friendship in building various legal and political orders on both equal and unequal terms. Told through an examination of sources ranging from diplomatic letters and bilateral treat...
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The fictions of Arthur Cravan
The first comprehensive English-language account and critical reading of the legendary poet and boxer Arthur Cravan, a fleeting figure on the periphery of early twentieth-century European avant-gardism.
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Organising care around patients
This book draws on multiple real life experiences to make a compelling case for how the NHS can organise care better around the needs of patients.
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Cold War women
For too long, American women have been hidden in the history of the Cold War. In *Cold War women* Helen Laville recovers their significance by examining the activities and ambitions of American women's organisations in the long period of uneasy peace.
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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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The Normans in Europe
This book provides a selection from the abundant source material generated by the Normans and the peoples they conquered. Van Houts takes a wide European perspective on the Normans, assessing and explaining their origin, the Norman expansion and their political and social organisation in the peri...
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Sara Paretsky
This is the first book-length study of Sara Paretsky’s detective fiction. Paretsky is known for her influential V.I. Warshawski series, which transformed the masculine hard-boiled detective formula into a vehicle for feminist values.
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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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Frantz Fanon’s 'Black Skin, White Masks'
The first collection of essays on Frantz Fanon's classic anti-colonial text, 'Black Skin, White Masks'. It offers a range of interpretations of the text by leading scholars across various disciplines.
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Defending the realm?
Britain is often revered for its extensive experience of waging ‘small wars’. Its long imperial history is littered with high profile counter-insurgency campaigns, thus marking it out as the world’s most seasoned practitioner of this type of warfare. This is the first book to detail the tactical ...
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Paving the Empire Road
The book explores how BBC management attempted to address race relations for the benefit of white Britons and African Caribbeans as their presence in England increased beyond the post-war years. Archival documents are used to demonstrate how established policies often shifted, reflecting the chan...
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The autonomous life?
This book is an ethnographic study of the internal dynamics of a subcultural squatting community that defines itself as a social movement.
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Japan's new security partnerships
This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of Japan’s new security partnerships with Australia, India, countries and multilateral security fora in East Asia, as well as with the EU and some of its member states.
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We shall not be moved
This critique explores six case studies which will illustrate how elements of a highly politicised local working-class fought against the rapid rise in forced redundancies and industrial closures.
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Above sea
A counter-touristic guide to one of the world’s fastest developing megacities, this book intervenes in global contemporary art discourse by exploring the cross-cultural histories and creative conflicts buried beneath Shanghai’s glamorous cosmopolitan façades.
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Global politics in the information age
Global Politics in the Information Age presents a provocative and wide-ranging introduction to the notion that information technologies are creating new formations of power, control and resistance across the planet.
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Hyde Park
Hyde Park is a striking Caroline example of London city comedy. This critical edition unpicks its valuable insights into the shifting nature of the genre and early modern conceptions of London and courtship.
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The early Spenser, 1554–80
Brink shows that Spenser began as the protégé of churchmen, who expected him to take holy orders and that the Shepheardes Calender signaled his transition from shepherd-priest to shepherd-poet. A
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Timed out
Addresses the 'global turn' in art history by way of the transnational Carribbean, 'Timed Out' is a comprehensive study of the art of the Atlantic world in relation to the mainstream history of art.
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Diagnosing history
This collection examines the representation of medicine and medical practices in international period drama television. Featuring original chapters on period television from the UK, the US, Spain and Australia, Diagnosing history offers an accessible, global and multidisciplinary contribution to ...
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The ascent of globalisation
The book tells the sweeping historical drama of the ascent of globalization, from the Second World War to the present day. The story is told through the richly detailed accounts of eighteen remarkable men and women, describing how these architects reshaped the modern world, for better or worse.
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Human remains and mass violence
Multidisciplinary in scope, this volume will appeal to readers interested in an understanding of mass violence's aftermath, including researchers in history, anthropology, sociology, law, politics and modern warfare.
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Image operations
A powerful book that provides new interdisciplinary perspective on the functions of still and moving images in political conflict.
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Digging up stories
James Thompson's book explores the problems of theatre practice in communities affected by war and exclusion. It is compellling reading for anyone interested in applied theatre, theatre practice and performance studies, and provides an invaluable commentary on the interface between practice and i...
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A most diabolical deed'
This book examines the phenomenon of infanticide in Ireland from 1850 to 1900. It is based on a large sample of 4,645 individual cases of infant murder, attempted infanticide and concealment of birth. Through a variety of sources, attitudes towards the crime of infanticide and women accused of ...
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Revolutionary Britannia?
Europe was swept by revolution in the period from 1789 to 1848. Britain, alone of the major western powers, seemed exempt from this revolutionary fervour. The governing class attributed this exemption to divine providence and the soundness of the British Constitution. This view has been upheld ...
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Empire and subject peoples
The book outlines the sociological arguments and political activities of the US pragmatist sociologist, Herbert Adolphus Miller, part of the milieu of Chicago sociology and involved in its studies of race and immigration.
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Love's Sacrifice
A. T. Moore's thorough commentary on "Love's Sacrifice" is designed to be of use to all kinds of readers, from students of Early Modern drama to specialists in the field. The notes provide full explanations of obscure words and phrases, and offer analyzes of many aspects of staging and interpreta...
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The uncanny
This is the first book-length study of the uncanny, an important topic for contemporary thinking on literature, film, philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism and queer history.
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Silk and empire
Pulling together many subject areas into one, this study of the Anglo/ Indian silk trade shows the complexity of the Empire by linking usually disparate histories
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Every Man In His Humour
The 1601 quarto version of Johnson's play, set in Florence
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Sab
This new annotated critical edition is the first to provide the original Spanish text along with a substantial and authoritative introduction in English, as well as maps and tables relating to nineteenth-century Cuba, a vocabulary list, and suggestions for further reading.
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The story of Alderley
Alderley Edge is a sandstone ridge rising 180 metres above the Cheshire plain. Beneath lie copper and lead mines and, according to legend, a sleeping king and his knights ready to save England in the last battle of the world. This book covers everything from the natural world to the story of the ...
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Knowledge, mediation and empire
Studies Tod’s relationships with particular Rajput leaders and with the Rajputs as a group in general, in order to better understand his attempts to portray their history, geographical moorings and social customs to British and European readers.
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Death machines
Death Machines offers a critical reconsideration of ethical theories and political justifications for technologised practices of violence in contemporary conflicts.
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When Hollywood loved Britain
Examines American films that were set in Britain, based on British literature or history and included the work of British producers, directors, writers, stars and character actors
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Political concepts
Offers a sophisticated analysis of central political concepts in the light of recent debates in political theory. Introduces students to some of the main interpretations of key political conceps highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. Tackles the principle concepts employed to justify any po...
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The second battlefield
Explores written representations of First World War experience, produced by a variety of different women. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished material, in the form of diaries and letters, the book examines the way in which the variety of new roles undertaken by women triggered a search, conscious ...
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Spenser's ethics
A novel account of Edmund Spenser as a moral theorist, Spenser’s ethics situaties his ethics in the contexts of early modern moral philosophy and the English colonization of Ireland.
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The return of the housewife
Investigating the rise of the social media 'cleanfluencer', this book asks why women are still the ones tidying up in the twenty-first century.
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Writing disenchantment
Analyses the phenomenon of literary disenchantment after the First World War
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American foreign policy
This book brings together international relations scholars, political theorists and historians to reflect on the intellectual history of American foreign policy since the late nineteenth century.
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The Island Book of Records Volume I
The Island Book of Records brings the early years of this iconic record label to life.
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Novelty fair
Engages with nineteenth-century visual culture in an unusually broad way, juxtaposing photography, fashion, broadside ballads, popular prints and caricature in order to re-examine Victorian society between Chartism and the Great Exhibition.
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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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Subsidies, diplomacy, and state formation in Europe, 1494–1789
This book examines subsidies – payments made between sovereigns in return for political and military service – in the early modern period. It explores how such payments shaped diplomacy, princes’ honour, the construction of states and early modern society.
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Irish women's writing, 1878–1922
Providing an important intervention in contemporary Irish cultural-critical debate, this collection explores how Irish women writers exercised their political concerns and influence through their literary outputs during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Sejanus, His Fall
This edition of Jonson's great Roman tragedy is more intensively researched than any that has previously appeared. The text is based on extensive collation of the 1605 and 1616 versions and takes the earlier version as "copy-text." The introduction offers a radically new assessment of Jonson's ...
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Writing the war on terrorism
This book examines the language of the war on terrorism. It is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand how the Bush administration's approach to counter-terrorism became the dominant policy paradigm in American politics today.
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