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‘Ten Pound Poms’
More than a million Britons emigrated to Australia between the 1940s and 1970s. They were the famous 'Ten Pound Poms' and this is their story, illuminated by the riveting testimony of migrant life histories.
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Faking it
The first major study of mock-documentary – one of a number of screen forms that play with the assumed boundaries between 'fact' and 'fiction'. Examines mock-documentary through the specific relationship which the form has with documentary. Part of a wider discussion of the increasingly fragile a...
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Marxism and America
If the United States has been so hostile to Marxism, what accounts for Marxism’s recurrent attractiveness to certain Americans? Marxism and America: New appraisals sheds new light on that question in essays that engage sexuality, gender, race, nationalism, class, memory, and much more.
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Philip Roth
This is a groundbreaking study of the most important contemporary American novelist, Philip Roth. Reading alongside a number of his contemporaries and focusing particularly on his later fiction, this book offers a highly accessible, informative and persuasive view of Roth as an intellectually adv...
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Haunted presents
The story behind Muslim mass migration, the terror in Europe and the road to peace.
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The unimagined community
The unimagined community presents a wide-ranging study of South Vietnemese culture, from political philosophy and psychological warfare to popular culture and film. The book pursues the provocative claim that in its early phase the conflict was not an anti-communist crusade, but a struggle betwee...
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Britain's lost revolution?
Using newly discovered sources from the French and Scottish archives this exciting new book challenges our fundamental assumptions regarding the emergence of the fully British state in the early eighteenth century.
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Paramilitary loyalism
Takes a provocative second look at paramilitary loyalism. Based on extensive documentary and oral evidence from former combatants, politicians and key interlocutors.
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This is your hour
This book examines responses of a Christian intellectual group in 1930s and 1940s Britain to totalitarianism and war. Seeking ‘middle ways’ through what has been called the ‘age of extremes’, the group sought to apply faith to the social order, influence public opinion and inspire a social renewa...
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Culture matters
This book examines the ways cultural connections, constructs, and representations have impacted the history of the Anglo-American special relationship. Its multidisciplinary approach illuminates the mosaic of cultural connections that have simultaneously influenced elite decision-making and sculp...
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High culture and tall chimneys
This study follows the development of Lancashire’s unique network of art institutions throughout the nineteenth century, exploring the motivations of the artists, patrons, politicians and philanthropists involved.
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Royals on tour
Travel by European and ‘native’ monarchs and other royals between Europe, Asia and Africa developed as a new form of personal and international politics in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The pageantry and politics of royal tours during the age of empire provides great insight into modern monarch...
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Laurent Cantet
The first book-length study of Cantet’s work in English. It explores his unique working ‘method,’ and discusses his very particular way of constructing films at the uneasy interface of the individual, the group and the broader social context.
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The rise of devils
A vivid account of the rise of terrorism in the late nineteenth century and the hysterical media response it provoked
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Ice humanities
This collection develops the field of ice humanities in order to reveal the centrality of ice and the need to understand better why, where, and how it matters to human and more than human life.
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Everyday security threats
Everyday security threats explores public perceptions of security threats in contemporary Britain, using data from extensive fieldwork and drawing on perspectives from International Relations, security studies and political psychology.
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Samuel Richardson and the theory of tragedy
A bold new interpretation of one of the greatest European novels, Samuel Richardson's Clarissa.
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Managing change
This book is a guide to how economic policy is made in modern Britain. It is designed to help the reader understand how the policy process works: who the key actors are, the links and the gaps between theory and practice, and the difficulties of making policy in the real world.
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1820
Integrating in detail the experiences of both Britain and Ireland, 1820 provides a compelling narrative and analysis of the United Kingdom in a year of European revolution. It charts the events and forces that tested the government almost to its limits, and the processes and mechanisms through wh...
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Negotiating the auteur
Dobson provides detailed critical analysis of films by Dominique Cabrera, Laetitia Masson, Noémie Lvovsky and Marion Vernoux, and presents common threads including the possible construction of social intimacy, the political demystification of romance narratives and the role of nostalgia in contem...
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Genre and performance: film and television
This book explores how popular film and television genres frame our understanding of on-screen performance. It brings together innovative and inspiring work on this topic from both renowned and newer academics in the field and examines a much neglected area.
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Culture and international conflict resolution
This book re-examines conflict resolution, and partcualry problem-solving conflict resolution, from a new perspective. A critical study of John Burton’s work which outlines an alternative framework for the study of international conflict, it provides an insight into the problems of conflict and c...
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The divorce of King Lothar and Queen Theutberga
The first published translation of Hincmar’s treatise – a key source for studying ninth-century political history and the ideology of kingship.
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QuBuild
A new classroom approach for primary teachers to teach the explicit knowledge of scientific question-asking.
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European cities
European cities: Modernity, race and colonialism is a collection of empirical and theoretical scholarly analyses of multiple urban processes across the East-West European divide, inviting the reader to reimagine urban Europe from non-Eurocentric perspectives, and to engage active thought and thou...
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The ethics of researching war
Developed through a series of encounters with a Bosnian Serb soldier, Looking for Bosnia is a meditation on the possibilities and limitations of responding to extreme political violence in the context of the Bosnian war.
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Hanif Kureishi
The first biography of Hanif Kureishi, based on his newly available personal archive.
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Sir Robert Filmer (1588–1653) and the patriotic monarch
Looks at one of the most unpopular and criticised thinkers in the history of political thought, to provide an illuminating and innovative picture of Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653) and patriarchalism. This thoroughly researched work will appeal to all those interested in early modern politics and i...
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Other Everests
This ground-breaking title, publishing to mark the centenary of the tragic 1924 British Everest expedition, reveals the hidden histories of the world’s highest mountain.
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Rhinoplasty and the nose in early modern British medicine and culture
This book explores early modern British responses to nose reconstruction, and the concerns and possibilities raised by rumoured nose transplants.
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Ordering Africa
provides the first comparative overview of the role of anthropology in colonial Africa. With essays exploring metropolitan research institutes, Africans as ethnographers and the transnational features of knowledge production, this volume both consolidates and extends a range of new research quest...
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Haunted Britain
Haunted Britain offers a new emotional and cultural history of the Great War as told through the spiritualist and psychical research movements between 1914 and 1939.
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The last Yugoslav generation
The last Yugoslav Generation charts the development of youth culture and politics in socialist Yugoslavia, focusing on the 1980s
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The contract of mutual indifference
Norman Geras discusses a central aspect of the experience of the Holocaust with a view to exploring its most important contemporary implications. Geras’s argument focuses on the figure of the bystander to consider the moral consequences of looking on without active responses at persecution and gr...
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Lollards in the English Reformation
Analysing the lollard legacy in the post-Reformation era, this book identifies the significance of John Foxe's Acts and Monuments in shaping these medieval dissenters for early moderns. It shows that Foxe left much of their radical beliefs intact, inadvertently contributing to later contentions i...
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The advocacy trap
This book asks what happens to transnational civil society actors as a result of their engagement with China, recognising its status and influence as a rising world power. Taking an interactive and processed-based approach, it aims to explain the multiple, divergent pathways or functional forms o...
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The Queen, or the Excellency of Her Sex
A scholarly, modern-spelling edition of a play by the Caroline dramatist John Ford which was accidentally omitted from the 1652 edition of his works and so has not received much attention. A full introduction explores what made the play interesting to audiences both when it was first written in t...
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Descending with angels
This book and award-winning film provide a unique account of the invisible dynamics of possession and psychosis, and how Muslim patients are transformed through the treatments offered by mosques and the psychiatric institutions of European nation-states.
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The experience of occupation in the Nord, 1914–18
A study of actual and perceived French civilian behaviours under German military occupation in 1914-18, from complicity and criminality to forms of resistance. Providing a new conceptual vocabulary, the book posits that an ‘occupied culture’ existed and guided civilian responses to the German pre...
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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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Human agents and social structures
This is a deliberately polemical intervention into the structure/agency debate in the social sciences. It argues that central concepts in this debate – such as ‘society’ and the ‘individual’ – have been widely misconceived, and that progress in the social sciences will only occur if the real natu...
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AIDS in Soviet Russia
This is the first book to chronicle the history of AIDS in Soviet Russia, detailing the government’s denial of the epidemic, its cynical disinformation campaigns, and the human cost of its indifference.
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The clamour of nationalism
How does the current nationalist moment within British political culture, most acutely evidenced in the recent Brexit result, capture such a broad cross-section of constituenciess? Valluvan propose a theorisation of contemporary nationalist ascendancy which addresses this question head-on.
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Francophone Africa at fifty
Explores the complexities of France's role in Africa over the past century
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Britain’s ‘brown babies’
This book recounts a little-known history of an estimated 2,000 children born to black GIs and white British women in World War II. Stories from over 50 of these children, alongside many photographs, reveal the racism and stigma of growing up in what was then a very white country.
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Living in sin
Living in sin is the first book-length study of cohabitation in Victorian England, based on research into the lives of hundreds of couples. The work also analyses marriage, the Victorian legal system, relations with kin and the reactions of the wider comunities to extra-legal partnerships.
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Devolution and the governance of Northern Ireland
The most up to date account of the devolved government in Northern Ireland.
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Arctic state identity
This book explores what it means for state personnel from Norway, Iceland, and Canada that their country holds a formal title as an ‘Arctic state’. It asks what an Arctic state identity might look like through geographies, pasts, futures, and geopolitical relations across different scales, from t...
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Chinese dreams in Romantic England
A polymath and participant in the 'first wave' of British Romanticism, Manning was one of the first Englishmen to study Chinese language and culture. His extraordinary story, told for the first time, transforms our understanding of Romanticism and the cultural exchange between Britain and Asia.
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Russian strategy in the Middle East and North Africa
The book analyses Russia’s political and economic interests in the Middle East and North Africa, its relations with the MENA countries and its diplomatic engagement with the Western powers. It examines Russia’s strategy in the region, including its role in the Syria conflict, in the context of it...
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Jewish Women in Europe in the Middle Ages
Looks at the relationships between men and women within Jewish communities living in Germany, northern France and England in the late Middle Ages.
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John Ford's America
This volume explores John Ford's preoccupations throughout his long career, showing how he attempted to come to terms with American history, with how America kept changing its relationship with history and how many of the myths of the ‘West’ were just that – myths.
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Policing youth
Evaluates the workings of juvenile justice and the relationship between young people and practitioners in a key era of social change
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Colonial exchanges
When European powers colonised the globe, they spread not only political power but also ideas. Yet those within colonised societies did not receive those ideas passively. They instead sought to transform or repurpose them, often in surprising or ambiguous ways. This volume illustrates a variet...
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Literature and class
This book explores the intimate relationship between literature and class in England (and later Britain) from the Peasants’ Revolt at the end of the fourteenth century to the impact of the French Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth.
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Adapting to European integration?
This volume offers up-to-date, comprehensive and theoretically-informed analysis of the effects of European integration on various aspects of contemporary political, social and economic life in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
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The hurt(ful) body
Brings into mutual dialogue several existing strands of the study of pain and embodied violence. The volume’s two-fold approach, themed both on the hurt and hurt-inducing body, is unique. It encompasses both the victim’s presence as an image or performed event of pain and the transmitted burden o...
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Comrades in conflict
This is the first in-depth academic study of the Labour Government’s 1969 attempt to introduce industrial relations to curb strikes by trade unions. Using archival sources, this book explains how this attempt provoked strong opposition in the Party, and from the unions, to the extent that it was ...
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Governing the health care state
This book represents the first comparative study of how health policy is made in leading industrial nations. Using detailed case histories of the UK, the US and Germany, it shows that health care systems and modern states are indissolubly bound together.
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Britain and Africa in the twenty-first century
Britain and Africa in the twenty-first century offers the first book-length study of how Britain’s relationship with Africa has fared since the fall of the 1997-2010 New Labour government.
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Radical childhoods
A timely consideration of how children’s and young people’s education can confront and challenge social inequality
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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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The souls of white folk
A striking new interpretation of white settlement in early colonial Kenya
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The European Union in the Asia-Pacific
The collection studies the interactions of the European Union and the Asia Pacific, focusing on the EU as an emerging global player in contemporary international relations.
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A knight’s legacy
The so-called Travels of Sir John Mandeville (c. 1356) was one of the most popular books of the late Middle Ages, highly influencing European perceptions of exotic lands and peoples at the onset of the Age of Discoveries.
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Heroes and happy endings
Examination of the popular film and fiction consumed by Britons in the 1920s and 1930s
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Art against censorship
Art against censorship traces the centrality of literary and theatrical satire to the artistic and political expression of the artist Honoré Daumier. Daumier drew on seventeenth-century theatre and literature in moments of stifling censorship, foregrounding the subversive potential of a newly glo...
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Germs and governance
This book addresses global concerns about microbial resistance. Combining historical case studies and first-hand practitioner accounts, it offers insights beyond current literature. Contributions from leading scholars, practitioners and policy makers explore outbreaks of MRSA and compare infectio...
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I Refuse to Condemn
I refuse to condemn highlights how in times of national security a culture of condemnation is expected of people of colour that sits at the heart of structurally racist systems. This collection catalogues the ways in which scholars and activists experience and resist this expectation.
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Space and being in contemporary French cinema
This book brings together five French directors who have established themselves as among the most exciting working today: Bruno Dumont, Robert Guédiguian, Laurent Cantet, Abdellatif Kechiche, and Claire Denis. It explores their unique strategies of representation and framing that reflect a profou...
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Politics of waiting
This book is a political ethnography that examines how welfare programmes for the unemployed function as a contemporary form of state control.
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Robert Lepage's original stage productions
This book calls upon globalisation, queer, cinema, and affect studies to explore key Robert Lepage productions from 1984 to 2008, analysing the systems through which his work is produced and disseminated.
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Held in contempt
The House of Commons is the United Kingdom’s key democratic institution. But it faces serious challenges which it is ill-equipped to meet. This book examines what is wrong with the House of Commons, how we got here and what can be done about it.
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Cultural identities and the aesthetics of Britishness
Considers how notions of Britishness were constructed and promoted through architecture, landscape, painting, sculpture and literature. Maps important moments in the self-conscious evolution of the idea of ‘nation’ against a broad cultural historical framework. An important addition to the field ...
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Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation
Looks at the new activity of transcontinental civil flying in the 1930s and its extension of British imperial attitudes and practices. Gathers new evidence to distil the age, class, gender and occupational profiles of people who used private and commercial aircraft and looks at how flying in the ...
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The reputation of philanthropy since 1750
Philanthropy, a 'love of humankind', is now thought of as the rich giving to good causes. The Reputation of Philanthropy explores how this came about and asks why praise for philanthropists has always been matched by criticism. Original and accessible, the book will inform thinking about the prop...
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Time and radical politics in France
How does our perception of time shape our political ideas and commitments? This cutting-edge monograph makes a major contribution to the history of time by exploring how thinkers and activists of the French radical left and right conceived of the past, present and future in the period between the...
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Making social democrats
This book, a collection of essays by some of Britain’s leading academics, public intellectuals and political practitioners, seeks to engage with the ‘big picture’ of British social democracy, both historical and contemporary, and point to grounds for greater optimism for its future prospects.
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Italian graphic design
This book tells the story of graphic designers in Milan from the 1930s to the 1960s. Focusing on design education, everyday practice, organisational strategies, mediating channels and modernism, it contributes to our understanding of the role graphic design has played in the history of Italian vi...
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Travel and the British country house
Provides readers with fresh insights into the country house and the ways it was shaped by domestic and foreign travel. It brings famous and less familiar houses to life through the aspirations and acquisitions of owners; the admiring or caustic comments of visitors, and the constant flows of good...
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Mundane Methods
Mundane Methods brings together an exciting array of interdisiplinary approaches to researching the extra-ordinary everyday. Covering themes of materials and memories, emotions and senses, and mobilities and motion, the collection is a practical, hands-on guide for students and scholars intereste...
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The social significance of dining out
The book reports on a major research project on changes in dining out in three cities in England. It compares systematically popular practice in 1995 and 2015. Differences in taste and behaviour surrounding eating in restaurants and as guests of friends are put in the context of wider social and ...
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Housewives and citizens
This book explores the contribution that five conservative, voluntary and popular women’s organisations made to women’s lives and to the campaign for women’s rights throughout the period 1928–64.
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Borrowed objects and the art of poetry
This study uses examinations of Exeter riddles, Old English religious verse and Beowulf to formulate the poetics of spolia – creative transformations of martial and architectural plunder serving to signal metatextual reflection.
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Violence against women's health in international law
Taking the Hippocratic paradigm as backbone of the analysis, the book conceptualises a new notion under international law, ‘violence against women’s health’, which allows the reader to reflect on two interrelated dimensions of violence, the horizontal ‘inter-personal’ and the vertical ‘State poli...
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