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Measuring difference, numbering normal
This book argues that health measurements are given artificial authority if they are particularly amenable to calculability and easy measurement, and shows that problems often coalesce around disabilities that do not lend themselves to easy quantification.
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The break-up of Greater Britain
Turning the conventional Break-Up of Britain narrative inside-out, this book scans the horizon of overseas projections of British identities that unravelled during the decades of global decolonisation
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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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People power
This book analyses popular sovereignty, one of the fundamental features of modern politics and history. It critically engages with the key thinkers responsible for creating and criticizing popular sovereignty and covers topics such as war, finance, legislation, revolution, religion and political ...
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Food, risk and politics
This book is about the risk politics of food safety. It offers a lively and exceptionally readable account of food safety and risk that examines media treatment of the issue and makes the case for a fully open public debate.
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Ballads and songs of Peterloo
This is an edited anthology comprising more than seventy poems and songs written in immediate response to Peterloo in 1819. Mainly anonymous, these ballads appears either as broadsides or in the radical press and are collected together for the first time.
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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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Turkey: facing a new millennium
Traces the process of the the acceptance of Turkey into the European Union .
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Supernatural bodies
This book examines the role of supernatural bodies in public debates about religion, science, culture and modernity in modern Britain and Ireland. In turn, the prism of supernatural bodies reveals how those debates were interlinked, and how the forms of knowledge that informed them were produced.
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Managing EU-US relations
This book takes a look at the institutional framework established in the 1990s to manage the political and economic relations of the EU and the US. It focuses on the many different actors who influence transatlantic policy making at different stages of the policy process.
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Violent Victorians
First book to bring together the wide range of violent entertainments that characterised popular culture in nineteenth-century London and seriously assesses their origins, functions and impact. Draws upon the methodologies of social and cultural history to better understand the texture of Victori...
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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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Labour and working-class lives
This collection of essays deals with the latest research on British labour history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It has been written by leading British historians, such as Ken Brown, Malcolm Chase and Matthew Worley, in honour of Professor Chris Wrigley
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Politics and provincial people
This ground-breaking study is the first to systematically examine the politics and political culture of provincial Ireland. Drawing on a wealth of previously unknown and under-utilised contemporary material, David Fleming focuses on individuals in Sligo and Limerick who were determined to shape t...
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Dearest Jean
These lively and candid letters from Rose Macaulay to her first cousin Jean Smith are previously unknown. Macaulay was one of the most versatile, successful, and significant writers in the first half of the twentieth century, Smith a talented but diffident and depressive poet who was briefly an A...
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The arc and the machine
The Arc and the machine is an important and timely book. It insists on the centrality of narrative to informational culture, and forces a re-appraisal of how information technology, read as a material cultural form, is understood in relation to the questions of innovation and transformation.
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Hollywood behind the wall
A representative history of East German film culture from 1946 to the present, offering close readings both of DEFA's celebrated classics and of the most acclaimed post-unification films.
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Steven Berkoff and the theatre of self-performance
This book is the first substantial study of Steven Berkoff's career, examining the construction and projection of his notorious public persona through his plays and writings.
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Monumental cares
Monumental cares links the monument debate of the last decade to the history of realism, showing how art can address problems like the climate crisis, migration and authoritarian politics. Case studies range from Chicago and Berlin to Oslo, Bucharest and Hong Kong, in media ranging from marble an...
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My Voice: Ruth Edwards
Ruth'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. Ruth Edwards escaped to England during World War II, which meant a difficult separation from her parents. She went on settle in Manchest...
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The cinema of Álex de la Iglesia
The first book in English about Álex de la Iglesia, critically acclaimed former protégé of Pedro Almodóvar, and one of the highest grossing directors in Spain and Latin America. De la Iglesia’s cinema is representative of a new generation of Spanish and European directors who combine avant-garde...
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Free Will
A study of theatre and sovereignty that situates Shakespeare’s plays in the contraflow between two absolutisms of early modern England: the aesthetic and the political
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Children’s rights and child protection
This topical book comprehensively draws together diverse perspectives from key leaders in the field to address critical issues for children in relation to their rights, welfare and protection at a critical time in Ireland.
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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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The Malleus Maleficarum
This accessible English translation of the notorious and highly influential treatise of 1487 offers a glimpse into the mind of a medieval witch hunter.
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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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Thorough surveillance
Traces the genesis of Israeli policies and tactics of population management, surveillance and political control towards the Palestinians
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South African London
South African London studies literary responses to London by exiled and émigré South Africans between 1948 and 2005 and traces the role London played in the development of South African letters.
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A history of the case study
The case study is a modern genre that has not yet outgrown its original purpose. This collection tells the story of the genre as inseparable from the foundation of sexology and psychoanalysis, and integral to the history of European literature.
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Using film as a source
A hands-on study skills guide that explores how film and moving image can be used as sources.
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The Irish parliament, 1613–89
This book is a study of the Irish parliament as an administrative and legal institution. It is particularly interested in how parliament dispatched the business put before it, how its various parts interacted and how this colonial institution engaged with other elements of the administrative mach...
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Campaspe and Sappho and Phao
One of a series of play texts by Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists other than Shakespeare, this volume discusses the plays "Campaspe" and "Sappho and Phao" by John Lyly. The series aims to throw light on the plays and to offer views of the plays that have been neglected in the past.
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The political economy of New Labour
The Political Economy of New Labour provides one of the first systematic assessments and accessible evaluations of the modernization of the British Labour Party in the light of its landslide electoral victory in 1997.
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The theatrical orchestra
This book analyses experimental performances by British music ensembles in the twenty-first century. It shows how theatrical approaches to presenting orchestral music can facilitate unique and powerful experiences for audiences, enable new interpretation of repertoire, and connect music-making to...
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Thomas Pynchon
A comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature, Thomas Pynchon
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Vanishing for the vote
Investigates the boycott of the 1911 census by Suffragettes
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Intelligence, security and the Attlee governments, 1945–51
A ground-breaking examination of the Attlee government's intelligence activities during the early stages of the Cold War, drawn from previously unavailable documents.
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Critical security in the Asia-Pacific
This book offers an accessible account of often-neglected realities of marginalisation and vulnerability in the region, and a powerful argument for the empowerment and security of the most vulnerable. It Considers issues such as tension on the Korean peninsula, environmental change, Indonesian co...
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Three Renaissance usury plays
This book provides for the first time modern-spelling, fully annotated editions of three important Elizabethan and Jacobean 'usury plays' – The Three Ladies of London, Englishmen for My Money, and The Hog Hath Lost His Pearl. The edition includes an extensive scholarly introduction to the attitud...
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New international politics of South Asia
Fully revised and updated from the 1992 edition. First edition well reviewed.. Relatively little accessible literature in the area.
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The Family of Love
The Family of Love is a rumbustious citizen comedy. Delivering farcical twists on familiar dramatic situations, it offers a glimpse of spiritual freedom in paraperopandemical times.
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Islam and identity politics among British-Bangladeshis
The first book-length study to examine identity politics among the Bangladeshi diaspora delves into the micro-level dynamics, the internal and external factors and the role of the state and locates these within the broad framework of Muslim identity and Islamism, citizenship and the future of mul...
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Capitalising on constraint
This book explores the constraints on national executives in the five bailed out countries of the Eurozone - namely Greece, Cyprus, Ireland, Portugal and Spain. It also sheds light on the policy-makers’ discretion and motivations to revert, or alternatively to keep, policies that had been taken u...
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Twenty British films
This book examines twenty major British films from a 70-year time span, offering a lively account of what has made them valuable and provocative over many viewings.
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Chosen peoples
This innovative interdisciplinary volume explores the politics of biblical translation and interpretation in a global context, demonstrating how biblical ideas and metaphors shaped narratives of racial, national and identity in the long nineteenth century.
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Tensions in the struggle for sexual minority rights in Europe
The first queer and poststructuralist reading of political rights concepts in the specific European transnational context.
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Victorians in Theory
This book will fascinate anyone interested in the Victorians or theory. Each chapter pairs a poet with a theorist: Robert Browning meets Jacques Derrida; Christina Rossetti encounters Luce Irigaray; Matthew Arnold is after Michel Foucault; Gerald Manley Hopkins dreams with Jacques Lacan; and Eliz...
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Contemporary Spanish cinema
Contemporary focus, right up to date with material from 1980s and 90s. Wide-ranging analyses of major directors, themes, genres and issues, including historical film, genre cinema, women in film and autonomies.
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Galatea and Midas
Two of John Lyly's most engaging plays
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Unofficial peace diplomacy
The book analyses the phenomenon of private peace entrepreneurs – citizens with no official authority who initiate dialogue channels with official representatives in order to promote conflict resolution. The research combines theoretical discussion with historical analysis, examining four cases f...
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Religious Franks
A unique collection that offers fresh and original perspectives on some of the most important themes in Frankish history
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How the other half lives
How the other half lives interrogates contemporary social and spatial inequalities in housing, urban design, place-making, austerity, notions of deservedness and transnational mobility.
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South African textual cultures
This is a study of the local and global networks which affected the publication, promotion, and reception of a series of key 'South African' writers and their works between 1883 and 2005 (Olive Schreiner, Roy Campbell, William Plomer, Alan Paton, Alex La Guma, J.M. Coetzee, Zakes Mda), and asking...
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Mutinous memories
The French mutinies of 1919 stretched from the Soviet Union through to France’s naval ports. It is the first study to try to understand the subjective world of the mutineers.
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Reformation without end
Reformation without end conceives of eighteenth-century English history as a late chapter in the nation’s long Reformation. Contemporaries thought that the Reformation had caused two bloody seventeenth-century English revolutions.
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British literature and archaeology, 1880–1930
Reveals how British writers and artists engaged with archaeological discourse as a crucial mode of conceptualising modernity at the turn of the twentieth century. Examining multiple literary genres and visual media from 1880-1930, the book traces archaeological discourse in discussions about sexu...
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The activation of citizenship in Europe
This instructive study examines how a transnational discourse on ‘modern’ social policy – based the guiding principles of ‘activation’ and an ‘activating welfare state’ – intervenes in the concepts and practices of citizenship.
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Making home
Explores the figure of the orphan child in a broad selection of contemporary US novels by popular and critically acclaimed authors
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British queer history
Takes stock of the ‘new British queer history’. Topics range from newspaper reporting of sodomy cases, to homoerotic representations in art, to queer autobiographical accounts, to oral histories of Scottish lesbians, and much else besides.
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Surrealist sabotage and the war on work
Surrealist sabotage and the war on work is an art historical study devoted to international surrealism’s critique of wage labour between 1920 and 1980. Topics such as automatism, artworks across media, radical publications and social interventions are examined in relation to the movement’s ongoin...
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Civilised by beasts
This book offers a unique account of life in nineteenth-century Dublin, told through human-animal relationships. It argues that the exploitation of animals formed a key component of urban change, from municipal reform to class formation to the expansion of public health and policing.
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Introduction to international relations
This innovative, accessible book highlights contemporary and historical insights into international relations. By looking core themes—globalization, international political economy, regionalization, the fragmentation of states, and cooperative problem solving—the authors formulate a likely patter...
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Labour, British radicalism and the First World War
This book provides a concise set of thirteen essays looking at various aspects of the British left, movements of protest and the cumulative impact of the First World War.
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Structural reform of British local government
The only book which examines the 1990s structural reform of local government throughout Great Britain, written by someone directly involved in the process.
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The regeneration of east Manchester
Explores the role of public sector agencies in the regeneration of east Manchester
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Visible strangers
A collection of essays on the nature of cultural pluralism in the Mediterranean and the different ways in which this was managed in various cities during the early modern period.
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The cult of the Duce
The cult of the Duce is the first book to explore systematically the personality cult of the Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, looking in detail at its many manifestations in the visual arts, architecture, political spectacle and the media, and analyses its controversial resonances in the postwa...
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Police control systems in Britain, 1775–1975
This book analyses several revolutionary changes in the way that Britain has been policed in the last two hundred years. It shows how management techniques and information systems have been developed to form modern police institutions.
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History and memory
History and memory supplies an accessible and readable introduction to recent work on memory in history and other disciplines, and contributes to debate on the nature and significance of history as an intellectual discipline.
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Islamic charities and Islamic humanism in troubled times
This book is the fruit of twenty years' reflection on Islamic charities, both practically and as a key to understand the crisis in contemporary Islam. On the one hand Islam is undervalued as a moral and political force whose admirable qualities are epitomised in its strong tradition of charit...
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Austerity baby
Austerity Baby might best be described as an ‘oblique memoir’. Janet Wolff’s fascinating volume is a family history – but one that is digressive and consistently surprising. The central underlying and repeated themes of the book are exile and displacement; lives (and deaths) during the Third Rei...
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The role of terrorism in twenty-first-century warfare
A critical reflection on the role of terrorism in major armed conflicts occurring during the 1990s and the first decade of the twenty first century. Case studies include Bosnia, Kosovo, Chechnya, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria.
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Spectacular Performances
Why did Queen Elizabeth I compare herself with her disastrous ancestor Richard II? Why would Ben Jonson transform Queen Anne and her ladies into Amazons as entertainment for the pacifist King James? How do the concepts of costume as high fashion and as self-fashioning, as disguise and as the very...
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Affective medievalism
The book argues that the temporal privilege of the medieval masks the extent to which the medieval and medievalistic are mutually constitutive and ultimately dependent not on absolutist epistemological claims but on how feelings and temperaments affect the way we approach the Middle Ages.
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Factories for learning
This book draws on research at Dreamfields Academy, a celebrated secondary school, to explore how neoliberal education models reproduce raced and classed inequalities.
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Sex in the archives
This book is an experiment in writing an American sexual history, spanning the spectrum of queer, trans, and the allegedly ‘normal’. The sexual histories in this book are those where pornography and sexual research are indistinguishable; where personal obsession becomes tomorrow’s archive.
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The Humorous Magistrate (Osborne)
One of two volumes of an early seventeenth century play, showing two distinct versions which both have much to commend them. The only editions of the play in print, it was very popular in the early years of the rule of Charles I. Edited and with an introduction.
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Overwhelmed by overflows?
This book assembles scholars from across the social sciences to explore how people and organisations deal with overflows – of information, goods or choices. It asks whether overflow is understood as abundance or excess, and looks at how it is addressed in different contexts, from sharing economie...
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Defeated flesh
Defeated flesh dwells on the French defeat of 1870 and the socialist uprising of the Commune of Paris.. This is one of the first books to develop an in-depth, comparative analysis of the Franco-Prussian war and the Commune.. By looking at the history of the body and medicine it considers how the ...
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Shakespeare by McBean
A play-by-play picture compendium of the world’s greatest dramatist as captured by the world’s greatest theatre photographer
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The Left and the European Constitution
This book examines how left-wing parties are being affected by European integration. It does so by concentrating on the left-wing responses to the Treaty of Lisbon and the European Constitutional Treaty.
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Anthony Munday and civic culture
This in-depth study of the important but neglected writer Anthony Munday fills a long-standing gap in our knowledge and understanding of London and its culture in the early modern period. It will be of interest to historians, literary scholars and cultural geographers.
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Edward and George Herbert in the European Republic of Letters
The Anglo-Welsh aristocrats George Herbert (1593–1633) and Edward Herbert (1583–1648) are striking examples of an early European republic of letters. This volume argues that in their lives and works, a cosmopolitanism born of warfare and strife imagined a radical communion and openness.
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Women, dowries and agency
Examines labouring-status women in late medieval Valencia as they negotiated the fundamentally defining experience of their lives: marriage
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Pan–Germanism and the Austrofascist State, 1933–38
This book is the first major Anglophone study of Austrofascism in over two decades. Introducing new themes, including press politics, minority politics, regionalism, immigration and refugees, it argues for a transnational approach to fascism in Austria.
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The face of medicine
Sheds new light on the relevance of the visual in medical and scientific cultures, and on the relationship between artistic and medical practices and imagery.
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Manchester unspun
An enthralling tale of modern Manchester, told by a writer and journalist who has spent four decades reporting on the movers and the shakers of this unique city, from council leader Sir Richard Leese to Sir Alex Ferguson and Tony Wilson.
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Making the British empire, 1660–1800
This book is based on the latest research, and involves stimulating new ideas from some of the most important scholars working in the field of imperial history. It ranges across politics, religion, economy, law and geography in order to offer challenging perspectives on the nature and origins of ...
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Ending British rule in Africa
On the eve of World War II, a small, impoverished group of Africans and West Indians in London dared to imagine the unimaginable: the end of British rule in Africa. In books, pamphlets, and periodicals, they launched an anti-colonial campaign that used publishing as a pathway to liberation. West ...
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James Baldwin Review
The 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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Material masculinities
This book explores men’s material culture and consumer behaviour in the rapid social and economic transformations of eighteenth-century England, arguing that men came to rely on their possessions to make sense of their identities during such significant historical changes.
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