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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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Judges, politics and the irish constitution
A collection of essays on politics and judicial power in Ireland, featuring contributions from scholars, judges and legal practitioners.
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Reading the graphic surface
Critically engages with the visual appearance of prose fiction where it is manipulated by authors, from alterations in typography to the deconstruction of the physical form of the book
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Democracy, social resources and political power in the european union
'Democracy, social resources and political power in the European Union' develops a structural constructivist theory of the European Union and critically analyses, through French and Finnish empirical cases, the political practices that maintain the Union's 'democratic deficit'.
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Contemporary german cinema
Contemporary German cinema is aimed at students of European and world cinema. It is wide-ranging, articulate and geared toward cinema and film studies.
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Critical theory and dystopia
Bringing the resources of critical theory to bear on the genre of dystopian fiction, this volume demonstrates both the continuing potential of Theodor Adorno’s work on literature, and the meaning of dystopia when considered in the light of Adorno’s critique of modernity.
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Tracking the jews
This book reconstructs an unprecedented initiative for world evangelisation of Jews in the years before, during and after the Nazi Holocaust. It reveals the ways in which a broad toleration of traditional anti-Judaism allowed, under a banner of Christian benevolence, a transnational discourse of ...
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No other way to tell it
Students of Television, Film, Media and Theatre studies
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Aesthetics of contingency
A study of how literature responds to conditions of political uncertainty, this book rewrites much of what we thought we knew about civil war and Restoration literature. Rather than sparking a decisive break with the past, for many the seventeenth-century’s civil wars opened onto a resolutely ind...
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Regarding the real
A new take on documentary film that brings into conversation a wide range of well-known filmmakers and visual artists.
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Sound effects
Blending theatre history and sensory studies this book recaptures the sound of early modern drama, acknowledging its intangibility while attempting to both describe those sounds heard on the stage and to try and identify those sound’s effects on the playgoers.
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African cities and collaborative futures
This book brings together scholars from across the globe and a range of disciplines to discuss the nature of African cities today. This groundbreaking collection, spanning energy, housing, infrastructure, safety and sustainability, offers a fresh perspective on some of the most pressing issues co...
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The judas kiss
Argues that modern Irish history encompasses a deep-seated fear of betrayal, and that this fear has been especially prevalent throughout Irish society since the revolutionary period at the outset of the twentieth century.
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The european union and the regulation of media markets
This book assesses the potential EU media regualtion provides for market growth and the protection of media pluralism, the citizen and ultimately democracy itself. These opportunities are presented in the coming decade with the devloping European Constitution, EU enlargement, and the implementati...
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Designs on modernity
Presents the 1925 Paris Exhibition as a key moment in the attempts to update the image of Paris, ‘capital of the nineteenth century’.
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A research handbook for patient and public involvement researchers
An engaging and comprehensive research handbook for patients and members of the public who want to learn more about the approaches, methods and language of health-services research.
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Western capitalism in transition
Since its birth, industrial capitalism has been punctuated by the need to find new ways to develop institutions that make the capitalist production process socially sustainable. These transitions are examined in the contemporary climate by a collection of world renowned thinkers.
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Materials and medicine
Medicine was transformed in the eighteenth century. Aligning the trajectories of intellectual and material wealth, this book uncovers how medicine acquired a new materialism as well as new materials in the context of global commerce and warfare.
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Security/mobility
An inter-disciplinary volume that connects critical security studies and political geography to offer new perspectives on the politics of movement in a globalised world.
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Beyond nightingale
This book studies Crimean War nursing from a transnational perspective setting nursing in the five combatant armies into the wider context of European statecraft.
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Women's medical work in early modern france
Situates the practices and perceptions of women’s medical work in France in the context of the sixteenth century and its medical evolution and innovations. The book argues that early modern understandings of medical practice and authority were highly flexible and subject to change.
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New labour and the new world order
This book provides a comprehensive, detailed and critical examination of Britain's role in the US-led war on terror.
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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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Conservative orators
Examines the oratory and rhetoric of twelve key figures from Conservative Party politics
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The making of german democracy
This is the first English language source reader that deals with post-war (West) Germany. Over 160 commented sources describe the political, social and economic developments that changed Germany from the abyss of Nazism into a prosperous ally of the West and into one of the driving forces of Euro...
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New labour and the european union
A study of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's failed attempt to sell the European ideal to the British people. Based on an exhaustive survey of New Labour's foreign policy speeches after 1997 and interviews with policy-makers involved in the formulation of New Labour's foreign policy.
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The penny politics of victorian popular fiction
Penny politics explores how and why Victorian popular literature from the 1830s and 1840s appealed to politicised, intermittently radicalised working-class audiences by supplementing its violent, counter-cultural entertainments with openly political content.
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The secret vice
It is the first book on shine light on the hitherto neglected topic of female masturbation, especially as it pertains to women in clinical writing and the bestselling popular medical works aimed at the female reader
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The european union, counter terrorism and police co–operation, 1991–2007
Examines the underlying foundations on which the European Union's counter-terrorism and police co-operation policies have been built since the inception of the Treaty on European Union.
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Tony richardson
Students and lecturers with an interest in postwar British cinema and culture.
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Theatre and empire
This book looks at the genesis of British national identity in the reign of King James I and VI. It does this by studying two things: the political language of the King's project to replace England, Scotland and Wales with a single kingdom of Great Britain and cultural representations of empire o...
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Governance, democracy and ethics in crisis-decision-making
This volume brings together findings from rapid-response COVID-19 research that are linked by a focus on governance decisions, particularly the ‘how’ and the ‘why’ of decision-making during the pandemic. Contributors reflect on how the pandemic seems impossible to disentangle from issues of trust...
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Ireland during the second world war
A detailed social and economic history of Ireland during the Second World War, revealing the hidden story of the Irish Emergency.
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The aphrodysial or sea-feast
This edition for the first time makes available in print a semi-diplomatic edition of William Percy’s The Aphrodysial, as preserved in Huntington Library MS HM4. The accompanying introduction provides an account of Percy and his manuscript, and discusses the layers of authorial revisions and exte...
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Mirbeau's fictions
An examination fo the major fiction writing of Octave Marie Henry Mirbeau.
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The anthropology of ambiguity
This is an anthropological exploration of the existential and philosophical qualities of ambiguity as a generative force of political and socio-cultural transformation in contemporary human life trajectories.
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A strained partnership?
The first monograph-length study that charts the coercive diplomacy of the administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford as practised against their British ally
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Neoclassical realism in european politics
Provides a concise, provocative analysis of understanding relations at a time when the international system is in transition from unipolarity to multipolarity. In exploring the tenets of neoclassical realism, this work reasserts traditional ways of understanding international politics in terms of...
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Humanitarianism and the greater war, 1914–24
This book offers fresh perspectives on the history of humanitarianism and its impact on domestic and international politics in the era of the Great War.
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Diplomatic tenses
This book discusses changes that have taken place in diplomatic institutions and conventions over thousands of years. It analyses these changes in terms of 'tipping points', which it understands as the culmination of long-term trends.
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Literary and visual ralegh
This collection of essays covers a wide range of topics about Ralegh's diversified career and achievements. The essays shed light on less familiar facets such as Ralegh as a father and his representation in the Arts; others re-examine him as poet, historian, and figure of controversy.
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The epigram in england, 1590–1640
James Doelman's book is the first major study on the Renaissance English epigram since 1947. It combines thorough description of the genre's history and conventions with consideration of the rootedness of individual epigrams within specific social, political and religious contexts.
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Medieval film
An interdisciplinary study of ‘medieval film’ and its cultural functions
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My voice: adash bulwa
Adash's book is part of the My Voice Project, a collection of firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. Adash Bulwa experienced harrowing ordeals in the concentration camps of Belzec and Buchenwald. He later emigrated to England and became...
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Empires of light
Empires of light is a study of light, vision and power in colonial India. It examines the material cultures of light within imperial networks, drawing the colonial experience into contemporary debates on vision and optics to provide an art historical account of how a modern consciousness was forg...
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Humanitarian extractivism
Digital initiatives aimed towards ‘fixing’ the humanitarian system, making it better and more secure, also create risk and harm for vulnerable individuals and communities. This book investigates the digital transformation of aid as a form of humanitarian extractivism.
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Literature of the stuart successions
By gathering together some of the very best Stuart succession writing, Literature of the Stuart Successions offers fresh perspectives upon the history and culture of the period. It includes fifty texts (or extracts), selected to demonstrate the breadth and significance of succession writing, as w...
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Aesthetic theory and the video game
This book analyses video games like Grand Theft Auto and Resident Evil as aesthetic objects. Drawing on philosophical theories of art from Kant to Ranciere, it focuses on what games feel like to players and argues that their appeal can only be adequately understood by relating them to development...
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The elephant and the dragon in contemporary life sciences
This book demonstrates that the ‘subversiveness’ assumed in China’s and India’s rise in the life sciences reflects many of the regulatory challenges that are shared globally. It stresses a decolonial imperative for science governance to be responsive and effective in a cosmopolitan world.
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Justice and mercy
This study investigates justice and mercy in twelfth-century England, using theological texts, sermons, legal treatises and letter collections to explore how moralists approached questions of judgement and judicial ethics in the foundational period of English common law.
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The boundaries of international law
This book argues that the absence of women in the development of international law has produced a narrow and inadequate jurisprudence that has legitimated the unequal position of women worldwide rather than confronted it.
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Julien duvivier
Duvivier was a giant of classic French cinema with a career spanning key moments of French film history. This analysis goes beyond its historical range to engage with key debates in film studies: notably auteurism, stardom and questions of the national.
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Working-class writing and publishing in the late twentieth century
From the early 1970s, working class writing and publishing in local communities rapidly proliferated into a national movement. This book is the first full evaluation of these developments and opens up new perspectives on literature, culture, class and identity over the past 50 years.
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Committee governance in the european union
Presents the most informative and comprehensive analysis of commitology currently available.
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Unfolding irish landscapes
This is the first scholarly edited collection devoted to the work of the Anglo-Irish writer and cartographer Tim Robinson
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Latin america and international investment law
This book analyses the complex relationships between governments and foreign investors, and the influence of international organisations, corporations, civil society, and indigenous peoples, to examine the contribution that Latin America has made to the theory and practice of international invest...
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Young lives on the left
Examines the coming of age experiences of young men and women who became active in radical left circles in 1960s England.
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Rethinking european union foreign policy
This book debates the nature of the EU and its international relationships, enabling students of EU foreign policy to review a broad range of theoretical templates from which the EU's foreign policy can be studied.
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Against the grain
The first general history of the British far left to be published in the twenty-first century
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A political sociology of the european union
Based on a critical appraisal of the constructivist approach in European studies, this volume introduces a new political sociology approach focused on actors.
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Casino capitalism
A classic in the field of political economy, reissued here with a new, incisive introduction. The global financial crisis that Strange predicted in her work has now taken place, and to a large extent is still happening.
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The politics of writing: julia kavanagh, 1824–77
Fauset sees Kavanagh as a significant but neglected writer and returns her to her proper place in the history of women’s writing.
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Historical literatures
Historical literatures recovers a rich, vibrant and complex tradition of Restoration and early-eighteenth century English historical writing.
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Sport and diplomacy
The book critically addresses the relationship between sport and diplomacy posing new questions of these two enduring features of global society.
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The extreme right in western europe
This book examines the reasons behind the variation in the electoral fortunes of the West European parties of the extreme right in the period since the late 1970s.
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Northern ireland and the politics of boredom
This book examines the capitalist critiques that underpin representations of sectarian conflict in poetry, photography, performance, oral-testimony and punk.
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Amateur film
A study of non-professional film making using regional archive sources and oral history. The book traces the rise of Britain's amateur cine photography from its early pioneers, through its years of peak popularity to its adjustment to wider societal and technological changes.
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The ethics of researching the far right
This book offers a series of critical reflections on the ethics of researching the far right from a range of contributors. It provides a starting point for researchers and considers issues such as terminology, positionality, safety, and dissemination.
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Let’s spend the night together
This collection seeks to locate the sex in the well-known trilogy of ‘sex & drugs & rock ‘n’ roll’. By looking at how sex and sexuality were expressed, presented and received, the collection shows youth culture to be crucial to the changes and challenges that informed British society into...
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Memory and the future of europe
This book examines the role of collective memory in the origins and development of the European Union. It traces Europe’s political, economic and financial crisis to the loss of these memories of the rupture of 1945. In order to survive the EU will have to prove that it can act effectively in the...
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Objects of affection
This study investigates the affective agency of the book, through the emotional literacy training that a single codex provided a late-medieval English household. It demonstrates how MS Ashmole 61 affirms both the physical and moral agency of nonhumans, who fashion spiritually generous and sociall...
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An anthology of women's travel writings
Editors present a range of writing and possible ways of being a woman traveller
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Rebel angels
This book examines the ‘fall of the angels’ tradition in early medieval sermons, saints’ lives, legal documents and Old English biblical poetry. It argues that Anglo-Saxon authors adapted apocryphal and patristic accounts in ways that allowed them to express their ideas concerning ecclesiastical ...
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Nostalgia and the post-war labour party
Through a detailed examination of the party’s post-war development, this book outlines how nostalgia has shaped the party’s trajectory. It argues that Labour’s nostalgically-informed identity has determined the extent to which the party has been able to respond effectively to the changing nature ...
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Beyond representation
Beyond Representation poses the question as to whether over the last thirty years there have been signs of ‘progress’/’progressiveness’ in the representation of ‘marginalised’ or subaltern identity categories, within television drama in Britain and the US.
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Modern motherhood
This book examines women’s experiences of motherhood in England in the years between 1945 and 2000. Based on a new body of 160 oral history interviews, the book offers the first comprehensive historical study of the experience of motherhood in the second half of the twentieth century.
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Practising shame
Practicing shame explores how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to secure their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against shame. The book transforms our understanding of the construction of femininity in the past and offers a new framework for thinking about honourable womanh...
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Rohinton mistry
This study - the first of its kind - situates Rohinton Mistry's writing in its cultural and historical context. It explores key features, such as the legacy of Zoroastrianism, Parsi anglophilia, recent Indian history, and the Persian and European narrative traditions on which Mistry draws to prod...
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Neville chamberlain, appeasement and the british road to war
Re-examines the controversial policy of appeasement. The text suggests that the mood of the age in British society served to support appeasement, by analyzing the cluster of military, strategic, imperial and economic forces which served to justify it. The book argues that, when Neville Chamberlai...
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Shakespeare's cinema of love
Shakespeare's cinema of love addresses the question, how much has Shakespeare influenced modern film genres? Convincing arguments are made for the links between his comedies of love and genres such as 'screwball' comedy, musicals, romantic comedy and tragic love films.
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The changing spaces of television acting
This title is an historical overview and a then-and-now comparison of performing for British television drama.
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Stereotypes and stereotyping in early modern england
How and why do stereotypes continue affect public life and shape individual experience? This book tackles this question through case studies drawn from early modern England, a society shaken by divisive identity politics and increasingly commercial media. The book ends by exploring implications t...
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Greenery
Greenery blends current ecological concerns with informed analysis of medieval literature to arrive at new readings of late medieval English texts, some canonical (eg Malory’s Morte D’Arthur, Piers Plowman, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Chaucer’s Knight’s and Franklin’s Tales) some less frequen...
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History, empire, and islam
This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of the historian and public moralist E. A. Freeman since the publication of W. R. W. Stephens’ Life and Letters of Edward A. Freeman (1895). While Freeman is often viewed by modern scholars as a panegyrist to English progress and a proponent of A...
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The experience of urban poverty, 1723–82
This comparative study of urban poverty is the first to chart the irregular pulse of poverty’s encounters with officialdom. It exploits an unusual methodology to secure new perspectives from familiar sources. The highly localised characteristics of the welfare economy generated a peculiarly urb...
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