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Alan hollinghurst
An edited collection on Alan Hollinghurst, one of Britain's leading contemporary novelists with an outstanding international reputation.
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D. w. griffith's the birth of a nation
A volume of new chapters exploring the reputation, text and legacy of D. W. Griffith’s 1915 film The Birth of a Nation. In-depth textual analyses accompany reflections on Birth’s profound impact on art and film into the twenty-first century, comprising a significant contribution to discourse on t...
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The imperial premiership
A study of the growing role of the British Prime Minister in foreign policy and military intervention over the past fifty years.
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The politics of housing
This book is concerned with the interaction of traditional politics, culture and social groups, of local and national influences, of ideals and individuals. It looks at local government, social groups and housing policy in the twentieth century. This is a remarkable story of how these factors wer...
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Kitty marion
This is the unpublished autobiography of Kitty Marion, an actress, music hall performer, suffragette arsonist and campaigner in the American birth control movement. Written in the 1930s, Marion’s story of activism offers a unique insight into a lifetime dedicated to the improvement of women’s liv...
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Public relations democracy
Aeron Davis is the first to offer a general overview of the rise and impact of professional public relations in Britain, stepping beyond the status quo of 'spin doctors' and elections by also exploring the public relations activities of the corporate sector, the City, pressure groups, and the tra...
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Border abolitionism
This book mobilises an abolitionist approach to contemporary borders, combining critical migration scholarship and carceral abolitionism literature. It argues that a critique of borders involves rethinking the right to mobility as part of processes of commoning.
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The house of lords
The House of Lords is widely discussed but little understood. This book provides an authoritative analysis of the contemporary House, showing how it has changed and considering what further reforms might take place.
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Constructing the path to eastern enlargement
This book focuses on explaining why the EU agreed to eastern enlargement and the (uneven) pattern of accommodation of the applicants' preferences in substantive policies.
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Our fighting sisters
Between 1954 and 1962, Algerian women played a major role in the struggle to end French rule in one of the most violent wars of decolonisation of the twentieth century. Our Fighting Sisters is the first in-depth exploration of what happened to these women after independence in 1962.
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Shakespeare's resources
A challenging re-appraisal of the ways in which we have conceived of ‘source’ study in relation to Shakespeare. By combining a theoretical and a practical approach this study challenges existing shibboleths and proposes new ways of conceiving the relations between Texts (oral and literary) and th...
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The roman actor
Edition of Philip Massinger's most renowned play, part of the inestimable Revels Plays; for all students and academics of early modern drama
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The templars
This unique collection of translated sources offers a valuable insight into the lives of those who joined, supported and attacked this most fascinating and enigmatic of institutions. This book charts the origins of the Order through to the circumstances of its suppression and dissolution.
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So clean
A fully contextualized, critical biography of William Hesketh Lever, 1st Lord Leverhulme (1851-1925), the founder of the Lever Brothers’ Sunlight Soap empire. Intended for a broad academic, student and popular readership.
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The becoming of bodies
Thinking through original empirical research, this book explores the relations between girls' bodies and images from a Deleuzian perspective. Holding in suspension models of cause-and-effect and of subject(ivity)/object(ivity) it asks, what do images make possible for the becoming of bodies?
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In the shadow of history
From 1926 onward, Sinn Féin, which had been instrumental in the revolutionary period of 1919–23, faded into oblivion as a result of its intransigent and doctrinaire stance. This book unravels a chapter of history that has not been dealt with in detail until now.
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Everyday life after the irish conflict
The first book to address the specific topic of the intersection the processes of conflict transformation devolution and with daily life in Northern Ireland in a rigorous and systematic fashion.
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Poverty and welfare in england, 1700–1850
The first comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the literature on poverty, communal welfare systems and alternative welfare strategies. Offers a new perspective on how we should conceptualise poverty and how ordinary families and communities responded to that poverty.. Indicates the need for n...
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Abject visions
An impressive list of authors examine how abjection can be discussed in relation to a host of different subjects, including marginality and gender.
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Deportation limbo
Deportation limbo is a political ethnography of deportation enforcement in Denmark and Sweden. Building on research on frontline officials working in immigration detention and deportation camps, it traces the continuum of state violence mobilised to pressure non-deported people to leave, and its ...
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Migration into art
Provides close readings of works by internationally renowned artists, including Rina Banerjee, Yinka Shonibare, Fred Wilson, Pat Ward Williams and Bharti Kher
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Journeyman
This new edition of Journeyman, Ewan MacColl's vivid and entertaining autobiography, has been re-edited from the original manuscript, and includes a new introduction by Peggy Seeger, for whom he wrote the unforgettable The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.
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Understanding chinese politics
Provides a comprehensive introduction to China’s political system, outlining the major features of the Chinese model and highlighting its claims and challenges.
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British national identity and opposition to membership of europe, 1961–63
The anti-marketeers provides the most comprehensive examination to date of the forces that aligned against Britain’s first attempt to join Europe, 1961-63, and analyses the dominant role played by constructions of national identity in shaping the arguments forwarded by these early Eurosceptics.
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Court and civic society in the burgundian low countries c.1420–1530
This book is about the spectacles and ceremonies of society in the Low Countries. It is the first ever attempt to unite and translate some of the key texts which informed Johan Huizinga’s famous study of the Burgundian court in The Waning of the Middle Ages, a work which has never gone out of print.
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The vp advantage
A widespread perception exists among political commentators, campaign operatives and presidential candidates that vice presidential (VP) running mates can deliver their home state's electoral votes in a presidential election. In recent elections, presidential campaigns have even changed their str...
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Reading and politics in early modern england
This book examines the activities of William Blundell, a seventeenth-century Catholic gentleman, and using the approaches of the history of reading provides a detailed analysis of his mindset. The findings of the study challenge a historical determinism which removes Catholics from the mainstream...
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My voice: peter adler
Peter'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. Peter Adler was born in Berlin, escaped to England with his family in 1938 and was evacuated during the Blitz. He later became a doctor...
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Material goods, moving hands
In eighteenth-century Britain, greater numbers of people entered the marketplace and bought objects in ever-greater quantities. As consumers rather than producers, how did their understandings of manufacturing processes and the material world change? Material goods and moving hands combines mater...
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Political and religious practice in the early modern british world
This volume explores the theme of religious and political practices in early modern Britain.
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Childcare, health and mortality in the london foundling hospital, 1741–1800
This book is a thorough and appealing investigation into the health and welfare of abandoned babies and children in eighteenth-century England. It uses a variety of approaches to examine health, mortality and welfare practices, including family fostering, wet-nursing, disease and the impact of ab...
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Critical theory and demagogic populism
This is the first study to make a detail case for the Frankfurt School’s relevance to understanding contemporary populism. It reconstructs their analysis of ‘modern demagogy’ and demonstrates its advantages over orthodox ‘populism studies’ and the work of Laclau. The book also extends the Institu...
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Kazuo ishiguro
Newly commissioned essays from world-leading Kazuo Ishiguro scholars with chapters on the novels (including the first publication on Klara and the Sun (2021)), short fictions, and screenplays, this book offers a critical reappraisal of the 2017 Nobel Laureate while also uncovering important new t...
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A new naval history
This volume brings together a diverse selection of the latest academic research in the field of naval history. It is the first publication to capture a new form of naval history that engages with race, sexuality, gender, material culture, popular culture and fine art.
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Ireland in crisis
This book presents new research on a crucial period in Irish history, looking at how individuals and institutions responded to an unprecedented crisis in church and state. It provides perspectives on the roles of English intervention, Confederate politics and the Catholic and Protestant churches,...
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Exiting war
This book explores a particular 1918-20 ‘moment’ in the British Empire’s history, between the First World War’s armistices of 1918, and the peace treaties of 1919 and 1920. It documents and conceptualises this 1918-20 ‘moment’ and its characteristics as a crucial three-year period of transformati...
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Writing otherwise
A collection of essays by established feminist and cultural critics interested in experimenting with new styles of expression.
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The securitisation of islam
This book is a timely analysis of the securitisation of Islam in the US and an original contribution to securitisation theory by introducing the notion of ‘indirect securitising speech acts’ and the role of emotions and affect in securitisation studies. It is an innovative approach to Islamophobi...
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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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A loss of innocence?
This book explores the evolution of Ireland’s national television service during its first tumultuous decade addressing how the medium helped undermine the conservative political, cultural and social consensus that dominated Ireland into the 1960s.
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‘love me or kill me’
Blasted brought Sarah Kane to the theatre pages of the broadsheets, the front pages of the tabloids, and to the notice of the nation. Covers all Kane’s major plays and productions, contains hitherto unpublished material and reviews, and looks at her continuing influence after her tragic early dea...
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Working-class organisations and popular tourism, 1840–1970
This study of working class tourism examines the evolution of the English holiday over two centuries, charting workers forms of travel from ‘tramping’ and the ‘artisan’s grand tour’ to day tripping and package holidays abroad.
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Researching urban space and the built environment
Researching urban space and the built environment is a unique and accessible guide to the planning, researching and writing of spatial histories.
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Tracing the cultural legacy of irish catholicism
This book of essays will appeal to anyone interested in the dismantling of Ireland’s cultural attachment to Catholicism over the past four decades.
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Nordic gothic
Giving an overview of contemporary Nordic Gothic in different media as well as tracing its history, Nordic Gothic also provides a number of case studies and in-depth analyses of individual narratives. It explores Nordic folklore, settings and identities as well as making visible cultural anxietie...
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The photographs of zygmunt bauman
Zygmunt Bauman is known internationally as the sociologist of postmodernity and ‘liquid’ society, but he was also a serious photographer. This book presents his black-and-white photographs from the 1980s, together with a set of essays by colleagues, friends and family.
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Frontier narratives
This book uses a wide range of sources, factual and fictive, in many languages to examine how slaves and ‘renegades’ developed a frontier consciousness that took into account how the ‘others’ thought and acted, and how Muslims, Christians and Jews developed mutual understanding despite the hostil...
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Women's rights
This exciting collection of documents offers readers access to primary material illustrating the experiences of women in Britain in politics, society and daily life in the period 1770 to the 1970s.
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Cinematic ethnography
Cinematic Ethnography proposes an interdisciplinary approach to theories and practices that reside within the fertile zone where anthropology and filmmaking intersect.
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Nurse writers of the great war
Examines the experiences of First World War nurses through their own writings, offering fresh insights into the reality of industrial warfare.
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History through material culture
Material culture is central to human experience and represents a vital but under-used source for historians. Written in a lively and accessible style, this guide provides clear and practical guidance on how to incorporate the study of objects into historical practice.
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Weimar germany
The Weimar period, which extended from 1919 to 1933, was a time of political violence, economic crisis, generational and gender tension, and cultural experiment and change in Germany. Despite these major issues, the Republic is often treated only as a preface to the study of the rise of Fascism. ...
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The war that won't die
Students and Lecturers and intelligent readers interested in the Spanish Civil War and the representation of history in cinema
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Bulletin of the john rylands library 98/1
This special issue of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is devoted to William Blake. It explores the British and European reception of Blake’s work from the late nineteenth century to the present day, with a particular focus on the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s.
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The spatial contract
This book is about how a new form of social contract, which we call the spatial contract, can help revitalize the economies of the basic things that matter – the core systems which build and provision the settlements human beings call home.
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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. At the same time, this process offers ways to evaluate eco-criticism and expand its remit from its predominant focus on Romantic and Modern English a...
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Clickbait capitalism
Clickbait capitalism engages the contemporary digital economy as a site of psychological capture and release. Drawing on psychoanalysis and political economy, the book provides vital new insights into the politics of desire associated with social media, dating apps, cryptocurrencies, and meme sto...
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Frankland
Commemoration of work by Professor Nelson on early medieval history, Frankish culture and its effect on Europe.
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Ireland: 1641
This volume explores one of the key episodes in Irish history from a variety of historical perspectives and situates the 1641 massacres in their early modern Irish, European and Atlantic contexts.
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Race and the yugoslav region
This study argues that, contrary to many assumptions, Yugoslavia and its successor states are deeply embedded in the global history and politics of ‘race’, and that the ambiguities of perceiving ‘race’ in the region’s past and present in fact have complex historical roots.
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The art of the possible
Explores some of the major transitions, opportunities and false dawns of modern British political history. It engages with the scholarly legacy of Professor Duncan Tanner (1958–2010) whose work was focused on the political process and on politics in government.
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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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William blake's gothic imagination
While overlooked by extant studies of the Gothic, William Blake’s literary and visual oeuvre embodies the same obsessions and fears that inform the Gothic revival with which he was contemporary.
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My voice: gisela feldman
Gisela'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. Gisela Feldman grew up in Berlin, escaped Germany on the SS St Louis, a liner bound for Cuba, but finally found refuge in England, whe...
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Battle-scarred
Battle-scarred examines mortality, medical care and military welfare during the British Civil Wars. Its focus on the victims of war and their means of survival provides a series of case studies to demonstrate how these visceral conflicts drove developments in medical care and military welfare for...
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Spanish popular cinema
Spanish Popular Cinema is the first European language work to focus exclusively on this neglected aspect of Spain's film history. Moving from the 1930s to the present, the contributors to this book provide a diverse collection of essays that reassess some of the forgotten and critically overlook...
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Europeanising party politics
A comparative, empirically-based study of party politics in Central and Eastern Europe that seeks to define the impact of European Union membership in this area.
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Printing terror
Printing Terror argues that horror comics of the Cold War primarily concern white male victimhood and the monstrosity of the gendered and/or racialised other.
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Réquiem por un campesino español
"Requiem per un campesino espanol" was first published under the title Mosen Millan in Coleccion Aquelarre,Mexico, 1953. The present text follows the first Spanish edition published by Destino, Barcelona, 1974, which bears a few minor variants, mainly in paragraph structure. It has been reprinted...
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Crossing borders and queering citizenship
Can reading make us better citizens? Fusing queer theory, citizenship studies, and border studies in its exploration of seven U.S., Canadian, and Indigenous authors, poets, and performance artists, Crossing borders and queering citizenship theorises how reading can work as a empowering tool in co...
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The subject of love
The Subject of Love: Hélène Cixous and the Feminine Divine is about abundant, generous, other-regarding love. In the history of Western ideas of love, such a configuration has been inseparable from our ideas about divinity and the sacred; often reserved only for God; and rarely thought of as a hu...
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Elizabeth gaskell
This absorbing study of Elizabeth Gaskell’s early life up to her marriage in 1832 is based almost entirely on new evidence. Also, using parish records, marriage settlements, property transfers, wills, record office documents, letters, journals and private papers, John Chapple has recreated the ba...
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Saving sick britain
Britain is sick with diabetes, depression and more besides. As a consequence, society faces systemic risks. This book is a challenge to all citizens, employers, institutions to face up to the changes that society needs. A plan of action is outlined for a ‘Health Society’ based on prevention of th...
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The four funerals in beowulf
A groundbreaking work which produces many insights into this early masterpiece
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Crossing the floor
This new biography provides an account of the career of Reg Prentice, one of the most controversial figures in modern British political history. He remains the most high-profile politician to cross the floor of the House of Commons in the post-war period, and his defection was reflective of an im...
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Markets and power in digital capitalism
Philipp Staab takes readers on a thought-provoking journey through the virtual realm, exploring how digital surveillance and evaluation practices have infiltrated every aspect of our lives. Staab's compelling analysis challenges us to confront the realities of surveillance capitalism and the urge...
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Shakespeare's tutor
Shakespeare’s tutor: The influence of Thomas Kyd defines Thomas Kyd’s dramatic canon and indicates where and how Kyd contributed to the development of Shakespeare’s drama. Groundbreaking in its implications for our understanding of Shakespeare’s dramatic development, the book aims to revolutionis...
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British bangladeshi muslims in the east end
This book delves into an in-depth discussion around dress and languages and how they have shaped the changes in the British Bangladeshi Muslim community in the East End of London.
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My voice: eva neumann
Eva'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. Eva appears in some of the photographs that are the only visual evidence of the mass murder at Auschwitz. After the war, she moved to Man...
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My voice: lydia tischler
Lydia'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. Lydia was born in Czechoslovakia and experienced harrowing conditions in the Theresienstadt and Auschwitz camps. After liberation, she ...
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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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After dada
Focuses on the little known Magical Realist painter Marta Hegemann (1894–1970), re-inserting her into the histories of avant-garde modernism
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Limits of horror
This is a major re-evaluation of the role and cultural significance of Gothic horror. It offers analysis of literary, film, art and popular cultural texts and critical explanations of key terms (horror, uncanny etc.) to interrogate the contemporary and historical significance of monsters, vampire...
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Graveyard gothic
This collection of essays considers the significance of graveyards in Gothic literature, film, television and video games. The chapters incorporate discussion of Gothic texts from around the world, offering a compelling new account of the graveyard’s importance as a key location for Gothic art an...
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States of apology
A critical consideration of the apology in politics
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Trust in the system
An ethnographic exploration of research ethics committees in the UK, which highlights the central role of trust in biomedical regulatory decision making.
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Fire, blood and the alphabet
Celebrates the life and work of Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain's greatest modern poet and dramatist.
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Dog politics
Dog politics is a critique of dogs' 'species story,' a scientific story which insists that dogs belong 'naturally' with humans. It asks what evidence exists to support this story, what practical consequences, for dogs, follow from it, and how it is woven into broader scientific shifts in understa...
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Stage rights!
Drawing upon previously unseen archival material, this book brings to life the story of the Actresses' Franchise League from 1908-1958, building a picture of this diverse, exciting and innovative organisation that opens up and extends previous scholarship of the suffrage movement, and of politica...
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Gender and imperialism
This book marks an important new intervention into a vibrant area of scholarship, creating a dialogue between the histories of imperialism and of women and gender. By engaging critically with both traditional British imperial history and colonial discourse analysis, the essays demonstrate how fem...
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Aristocratic families in republican france, 1870–1940
A study of the daily life, concerns, and dynamics of aristocratic families in the France of the Third Republic.
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Deism in enlightenment england
This is the first complete study of English deists as a group in several decades and it argues for a new interpretation of deism in the English Enlightenment.
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