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Launder and Gilliat
Analyses the achievement of one of the central partnerships in British film history
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Lifework
This collection explores what Roland Barthes termed the ‘autobiographical turn’ in art, literature and critical theory since the mid-1960s. Through a variety of perspectives, it examines the relationship between work and life, notions of the ‘self’ and what autobiography might mean today.
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The Lancashire witches
This book is the first major study of England's biggest and best-known witch trial which took place in 1612, when ten witches were arraigned and hung in the village of Pendle in Lancashire.
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Precision
A ground-breaking study on the concept of precision warfare and how it has shaped our view of armed conflict
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Louis XIV and the parlements
The first scholarly study of the political and economic relationship between Louis XIV and the parlements of France, the Parlement of Paris and all the provincial tribunals, calling into question current revisionist understanding of Louis XIV.
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Art, Global Maoism and the Chinese Cultural Revolution
This lively anthology explores the impact of the art, images and ideas associated with Maoism on artistic practices around the world from 1945 to the present. It establishes that the chameleonic appearances of global Maoism deserve a more prominent place in the study of art history.
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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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My Voice: Jack Aizenberg
Jack'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. As a child, Jack experienced life in hiding, working in a munitions factory and in the harrowing conditions of concentration camps, befo...
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Revolutionary bodies
An ambitious and wide-ranging study of the Irish gay novel, not merely in relation to a broader Irish political and historical narrative, but also a global one of increasing neoliberal domination legitimated by liberal social politics.
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Fashioning Gothic bodies
This innovative book is the first to make an explicit link between constructions of the body in Gothic literature and film and historically specific fashion discourse, from the 1790s to the 1990s.
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Political ecologies of the far right
This book offers a unique perspective on one of today’s most disturbing convergences, the rise of the far right and the ongoing ecological crisis. Through case studies from around the world, the book interrogates the multifaceted ways these two trends intersect.
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Using Europe: territorial party strategies in a multi-level system
This book examines how regional political parties have used Europe to advance their territorial projects in a period of rapid state restructuring. It offers a new and theoretically innovative account of the dynamics of multi-level governance based on a comparative study of territorial party strat...
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Containing trauma
In this highly original contribution to knowledge about a little-known subject: the history of nursing work, Christine Hallett explores the nature and meaning of the practices developed by nurses and their volunteer-assistants during the First World War
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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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Trade unions and democracy
This book brings together a distinguished panel of leading and emerging scholars in the field, and provides a critical assessment of the current role of trade unions in society.
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Cases of citation
This collection investigates the methodological problem of how to see, or read, art that references literature through a series of object-focused chapters on post-1960 artworks. Variously eccentric, playful, reverential and procedural, the diverse range of works engage with literary history by te...
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The Atlantic economy
Examines how the economic power of Britain and the US limits the opportunities for small states to develop. Follows the history of the Atlantic economy since the sixteenth century and shows how Ireland's repeated attempts to industrialise were transformed by British and American power. Explains t...
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Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson features 16 new and exciting essays on the noted American author, the historical settings of her novels, and the contemporary themes of her fiction and nonfiction.
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The False One
This is the first fully annotated, single-volume critical edition of Fletcher and Massinger’s The False One, with an introduction that offers new insights on the date and the theatre of the play’s first performance, freshly examines its sources and explores the theatrical potential of a play that...
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The European Union's policy towards Mercosur
This book provides a distinctive and empirically rich account of the European Union’s relationship with the Common Market of the South (Mercosur) and the motivations that determine the EU’s policy towards Mercosur.
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US politics today
Provides a concise, up-to-date and accessible introduction to US government and politics. It offers a survey of core institutions such as the presidency, Congress and the US Supreme Court, assesses the electoral system and considers the part played by organized interests and political parties.
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The Irish in Manchester c.1750–1921
Examines the development of the Irish community in Manchester, one of the most dynamic cities of nineteenth century Britain.
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Leonardo da Vinci and the ethics of style
This book examines the complex relationship between style and ethics in the early modern period by focusing on Leonardo da Vinci’s exemplary status in the narrative history of art.
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The ideal river
This book examines the geographical imaginaries that underpinned international efforts to create the first international organizations along the Rhine, Danube, and Congo Rivers. In doing so, these imaginaries helped constitute the early international order in the nineteenth century and continues ...
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Spenserian tracts
A detailed exploration of key documentary sources relating to the end of Edmund Spenser’s time as a planter in Ireland in the midst of a dangerous Irish revolt that reveals a lot about the colonial and religious mentalities involved in Elizabethan England’s imperial venture in Ireland. It makes n...
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The art of The Faerie Queene
The Art of The Faerie Queene offers a new approach to Spenser’s massive Elizabethan epic, presenting it is as a formally radical and innovative text. Where previous criticism has presented Spenser as a conservative technician, this book explores his unexpected experiments with form in the service...
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'Anagrams of desire'
Divided into three sections on radio, film and television, the book's interdisciplinary approach is underpinned by reference to exclusive interviews with the directors and producers with whom Carter collaborated, giving a unique insight into processes of adaptation and the technologies of media p...
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Trauma-Tragedy
Theatre and performance studies; trauma studies; cultural studies; sociology and social anthropology; philosophy; classics.
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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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Changing our Textual Minds
Text has always been the chief vehicle for the inscription and dissemination of knowledge and culture. As more and more of our textual communication moves into the digital realm we have reached a crucial moment in the history of textual transmission. In many respects digital text looks deceptivel...
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Understanding Political Islam
Looks at how the rise of political Islam has been expressed: first in the Arab world, then in its interactions with French and Western societies, and finally in its interactions with other European and Western societies.
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Windows for the world
This study focuses on the significance of the displays of stained glass at several international exhibitions held in Britain, France, the USA and Australia between 1851 and 1900. It provides new perspectives for the study of nineteenth-century stained glass, within these temporary secular exhibit...
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A brief history of thrift
This book explores ‘thrift’ through its moral, religious, ethical, political, spiritual and philosophical expressions, and via key characters such as Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Smiles, and Henry Thoreau.
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Hot metal
Hot Metal focuses on the experience of Australian print-workers between the 1960s and 1980s, concentrating on labour, production, design and culture in the context of deindustrialisation.
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Queer Objects
What makes an object queer? This collection considers the question in relation to lesbian, gay and transgender communities across time, cultures and space. Written by established and up-and-coming authors, the sixty-three chapters range from ancient Egyptian tomb paintings to political placards, ...
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London presbyterians and the British revolutions, 1638–64
London presbyterians and the British revolutions is a case study in the politics of metropolitan religion and presbyterianism in the middle decades of the seventeenth-century.
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Marxism and History
This critically aclaimed book, now in its second edition is firmly established as an essential guide to this recent historiographical debate.Adopted as a set book by the Open University.
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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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Decolonizing images
Decolonizing images focuses on Egypt’s local visual heritage and continues the urgent process of decolonizing the canon of photography. It presents a new account of the visual cultures produced and exhibited in Egypt by interpreting the camera’s ability to conceal as much as it reveals in a compl...
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Framing cosmologies
Explores the ways in which the horizons of human worlds are imagined and engaged
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The making of the Irish poor law, 1815–43
The making of the Irish poor law, 1815-43 examines the debates preceding and surrounding the 1838 act on the nature of Irish poverty and the responsibilities of society towards it. It traces the various campaigns for a poor law from the later eighteenth century. The nature and internal frictions...
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Sources of architectural form
Sources of Architectural Form provides a critical history of Western architecture theory from the ancient world to the present day. It focuses on design theory’s central question: how does the architect generate architectural form? Theorists necessarily tackle this fundamental question in order t...
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Anglo-Jewry since 1066
This is a study of the history and memory of Anglo-Jewry from medieval to the present. The particular focus is on the relationship between the local (in this case Hampshire), the national and the global.
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Conflict, peace and mental health
What are the human consequences of conflict and what are the appropriate service responses? This book provides answers to these important questions, drawing on over twenty-five years of work by the author in Northern Ireland and elsewhere.
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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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Immigrant England, 1300–1550
Immigrant England tells the story of thousands of people who migrated to later medieval England. The book draws on uniquely rich evidence about the lives of these men and women, and analyses the attitudes of the English to the foreigners in their midst. Essential reading for everyone interested i...
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Performance art in Eastern Europe since 1960
This is the first comprehensive academic study of the history of performance art in Eastern Europe. It is a comparative study that covers twenty-one countries across the region, highlighting the unique contribution of these artists to the genre of performance art.
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Subversive Spinoza
In 'Subversive Spinoza', philosopher and political activist Antonio Negri spells out the philosophical credo that inspired his radical renewal of Marxism and his compelling analysis of the modern state and the global economy by means of an inspiring reading of the challenging metaphysics of the s...
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The Irish tower house
Tower houses are the definitive building of medieval Ireland. This study investigates their significant social role, which has previously gone underappreciated. Innovative conclusions stem from an interdisciplinary methodology that demonstrates the interconnectedness of society, economics and the...
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Water and fire
The story of Noah’s Flood is one of the Bible’s most popular stories, and other flood myths are preserved by cultures across the world. This book presents the first comprehensive study of the incorporation of the Flood myth into the literary and historical imagination of the Anglo-Saxons, ranging...
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Beastly encounters of the Raj
This book explores both the social history of livestock and veterinary history in South Asia, and integrates both of them seamlessly within its narrative.
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Polysituatedness
John Kinsella is one of the pre-eminent poets writing today; Polysituatedness provides a sequel to his critical work Disclosed Poetics. If offers an approach to creating poems and literary texts constituted by multiple places, considering the relationships that occur between place, individual an...
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James Baldwin Review
James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. This edition brings together all of the articles published in this year's volume.
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Clyde Walcott
West Indies legend Sir Clyde Walcott was one of the greatest cricketers of all time, but he was also an important administrator and activist. This first biography offers a detailed examination of his extraordinary life and achievements.
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British cinema of the 1950s
Offers a startling re-evaluation of what has until now been seen as the most critically lacklustre period of the British film history. Covers a variety of genres, such as B-movies, war films, women's pictures and theatrical adaptations; as well as social issues which affect film-making, such as c...
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Doing digital history
A practical guide to digital history, which shows just how much can be done without writing any code. This book will give researchers in history or related fields the skills and confidence to approach existing digital resources and to create their own. Assuming no prior knowledge, the guide focus...
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Power
An introductory guide to some of the most significant perspectives on the subject of power within social and political theory. Contains extracts from such leading contemporary thinkers as Giddens, Lukes and Bourdieu alongside recent conceptions of power from important twentieth century figures in...
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Volpone, or The Fox
The most thoroughly investigated edition of Volpone to date
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The history of emotions
Fully revised and updated, The history of emotions is the most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to the theories, methods and problems in this field of historical inquiry and its intersections with other disciplines. It emphasises the importance of this kind of historical work for general unders...
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The end of Irish history?
Ireland appears to be in the process of a remarkable social change, a process which has dramatically reversed a hitherto seemingly unstoppable economic decline. This exciting new book systematically scrutinises the interpretations and prescriptions that inform the 'Celtic Tiger'. Takes the stand...
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Queen Henrietta's Men and the Cockpit Repertory
This book offers the first extended study of Queen Henrietta’s Men, one of Caroline London’s most important professional theatre companies. It explores the material and cultural conditions under which the company operated, and the dynamics that held between new drama written for the company and t...
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Masters and servants
Illustrates the centrality of domestic politics to colonial rule and the ways in which mastery over servants was a key expression of colonial power
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A table for one
Table for one: A critical reading of singlehood, gender and time is the first book to consider the profound relationship between singlehood and time.
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The Roaring Girl
An annotated edition of an important Jacobean comedy, which is currently receiving greater attention from critics and on stage because the leading character is based on a famous personality of the time, Moll Cutpurse. The history of Moll Cutpurse and its subsequent influence on the women's moveme...
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Towards a regional political class?
Focussing on professional politicians Klaus Stolz investigates the interrelationship between political career patterns and political institutions in two of the most widely discussed cases of regionalism: Catalonia and Scotland.
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The right and the recession
Considers the ways in which conservative activists, groupings, parties and interests in the US and Britain responded to the financial crisis and the ‘Great Recession’ that followed in its wake.
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Biografía de un cimarrón
This is the first critical editionBiografía de un Cimarrón (Biography of a Runaway Slave) is arguably the best-known book to have been written and published in revolutionary Cuba, being the testimonial narrative of Esteban Montejo, a former slave, runaway, and soldier in the Cuban wars of indepen...
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Film as ethnography
This work examines the reasons why anthropologists have not used the camera as a research instrument or film as a means of communicating ethnographic knowledge. It suggests that images and words in this discipline operate on different logical levels; that they are hierarchically related; that whe...
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Labour orators from Bevan to Miliband
Presents a thorough investigation of how oratory was utilised in the ideological disputes of the post-war period
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Mark Z. Danielewski
This is the first major study of Mark Z. Danielewski, an emerging, innovative American novelist and a key figure in contemporary literature. It situates his three novels to date in their literary and cultural context, in the process demonstrating why he is such an important and ground-breaking wr...
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Dada bodies
A comprehensive study of Dada’s images of the body in various media and geographical centres. Mask or machine-part, grotesque or iconoclastic, the bodily image is confronted as both a reflection of and on the disjunctive, dehumanised society of wartime and post-war Europe, and a blueprint of the ...
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R. S. Thomas
An ideal companion and introduction to a major figure in world poetry
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Tea on the terrace
Offering a history of travel, tourism and Egyptology, Tea on the terrace follows Egyptologists between home and field sites, revealing how their activities in hotels and on dahabeahs impacted the development of the discipline.
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The social world of the school
This book argues that the interwar classroom shaped twentieth-century Britain. It recreates and analyses life in London’s elementary schools in the 1920s and 1930s, building a mosaic of the educational experience. It argues that schools were grounded in their local communities and should be seen ...
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Reimagining business schools for the 21st century
What will business schools look like in the future and ensure that their research has true societal impact? And how will they respond to the huge technological changes that are transforming education? These are just some of the questions posed in this special collection of essays to mark the 60th...
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Into the woods
This book is a detailed exploration of the working practices of a community of scientists exposed in public, and of the making of scientific knowledge about climate change in Scotland.
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Progress and pathology
This book examines the correlations being drawn between notions of progress and pathology across a range of socio-economic cultures in the long nineteenth century.
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Irvine Welsh
This is the first full-length study of Irvine Welsh's fiction and provides a sustained textual and contextual analysis and evaluation of his work
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Terrorism and democratic stability revisited
Can terrorism and state violence cause democratic breakdown? Although the origins of violence have been studied, only rarely are its consequences. In this study of Uruguay, Spain and Peru, Holmes claims that to understand the consequences of violence on democratic stabilty, terrorism and state re...
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In defence of councillors
By using qualitative research from a number of related projects, the book examines the roles, functions and responsibilities of councillors and the expectations placed upon them by citizens, communities and government.
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The politics of Middle English parables
This study explores how writers reconciled provocative biblical stories with late-medieval culture. Highlighting the many variations and points of conflict across renditions of the same story, the book unfolds a creative theological discourse through which writers attempted to re-construct Christ...
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Hong Kong and British culture, 1945–97
A major contribution to the scholarship on British decolonisation, the cultural history of imperialism and British engagement with China. This highly original study places the emergence of contemporary Hong Kong in the wider, post-imperial setting.
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Georges Melies
Before the turn of the twentieth century, before the nickelodeon, even before the first cinemas, Georges Méliès began making movies.. Directing, editing, producing, designing, and starring in over 500 films between 1896 to 1912, Méliès was also the first cinematic auteur.. This is the first study...
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Historical epistemology and the making of modern Chinese medicine
This collection expands the history of Chinese medicine by bridging the philosophical concerns of epistemology and the history and cultural politics of transregional medical formations.
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Bede the scholar
Bede the Scholar distils a decade of research by leading scholars on the Northumbrian monk, the Venerable Bede (c. 673-735). Considering his place within the wider intellectual developments of the early medieval world, the book demonstrates the centrality of the Bible to Bede’s writings and the c...
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Globalisation contested
Provides an illuminating account of contemporary globalisation that is grounded in actual transformations in the areas of production and the workplace. It reveals the social and political contests that give 'global' its meaning, by examining the contested nature of globalisation as it is expresse...
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Medieval law in context
Examines how medieval people at all social levels thought about law, justice and politics, as well as their role in society. Provides a clear, structured view of judicial developments and experience of litigation in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Offers a new perspective on both law an...
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Roy Ward Baker
This book traces the career of one of the great survivors of the British film and television industry over more than sixty years, who directed landmark British films, worked at Twentieth Century Fox and Rank in Hollywood, moved to television series such as 'The Avengers' and re-emerged as a major...
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The rise of the Nazis
How and why did the Nazis seize power in Germany? Nearly seventy years on, the question remains heated and important discoveries continue to challenge long standing assumptions. Beginning with an overview of the historical context within which Nazism grew, looking at the foreign relations, politi...
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Northern Ireland in the Second World War
Surveys the political, economic and social history of Northern Ireland in the Second World War
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'Curing queers'
Drawing on a rich array of source materials including previously unseen, fascinating (and often quite moving) oral histories, archival and news media sources, 'Curing queers' examines the plight of men who were institutionalised in British mental hospitals to receive ‘treatment’ for homosexuality...
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Simulating the marvellous
Simulating the marvellous presents important new research on Surrealism and the culture from which it arose. Offering fresh interpretations of Surrealist art and literature based around the theme of simulation, the book shows, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, that the notion ...
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Impure thoughts
This book will be of interest to students and scholars in various disciplines, including literary studies, history, sociology and gender studies.
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Odoevsky's four pathways into modern fiction
This book takes four stories by Vladimir Odoevsky, the Russian-Romantic author, to illustrate 'pathways' in modern fiction, developed further by subsequent writers. Featured here are: the artistic story, the rise of science fiction, aspects of the detective story, and of confession in the novel.
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Representing the King's Splendour
This book deals with the communication of power of the viceregal court of Spanish Naples in the seventeenth-century, showing how various forms of media affect politics, culture, and society
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