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New labour in power
A systematic and comprehensive study of the early performance of New Labour in power. It brings together the results of a co-ordinated research initiative underway in the Department of Government at the University of Manchester, charting the developing relationship between election promise and go...
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Afterlives of war
This book documents the lives and historical pursuits of the generations in Australia, Britain and Germany who grew up in the shadow of the First World War. Although they were not direct witnesses to the conflict, through the intimate experience of coming after, they have played a key role in sha...
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Neighbours and strangers
This book explores rural societies in western Europe from 700–1050. It focuses on the bottom of the social hierarchy, rejectingviews that see rural society exclusively through the structures of lordship and challenging the teleological idea of the residential group as the prototype of the late-me...
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Nietzsche and irish modernism
Nietzsche and Irish Modernism deftly traces the circulation of the German philosopher’s ideas in Irish culture during the early years of the twentieth century. In doing so, the book demonstrates how Nietzsche’s thought inspired new, disruptive modes of writing, which spoke to local historical cir...
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Higher education in a globalising world
The book provides an overview of Higher Education discourses in Europe and beyond, devoting attention to alternative subaltern discourses that can provide the germs for a higher education which could come into fruition in the future.
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Relational peace practices
This book develops a novel framework for studying relational peace and applies it to several empirical cases. It contributes to a more nuanced understanding of peace, beyond the absence of war, by recognising peace as a web of multiple interactions across time, space and levels of analysis.
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Everything must change
Taking its cue from Michel de Montaigne, this book asks what COVID-19 can teach us about the ‘art of living’. It examines eight themes from a philosophical perspective, including attitudes to old age, populism and life under lockdown, arguing that the crisis presents opportunities to create a mor...
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Blitzkrieg and the russian art of war
Blitzkrieg and the Russian art of war moves beyond discussions of ‘hybrid’ warfare to offer a broad account of contemporary Russian thinking on war. Exploring key concepts in Russian military thinking, it contributes to the debate about Russia’s role in international affairs and the challenge the...
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From perversion to purity
This collection of essays, by a selection of international film and cultural studies scholars, undertakes analyses of Catherine Deneuve's status as one of the world's most celebrated French actresses, as well as a glamorous fashion muse.
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Women and the shaping of british methodism
A response to the prominent Methodist historian David Hempton’s call to analyse women’s experience within Methodism, this book is the first to deal with British Methodist women preachers over the entire nineteenth century.
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Act now
Written by an extraordinary team of authors, including Danny Dorling and Kate Pickett, this book offers a compelling and achievable vision for a progressive future. It presents concrete policy proposals for the reform of welfare, health and social care, public utilities and more.
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Precarious objects
This is a timely exploration of the traffic between design and activism in the context of precarity – a social and material condition brought about by the growth of temporary, informal and irregular work. The book shows how design objects and practices open up possibilities to recode and reconfig...
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Alan clarke
The first full-length critical study of Alan Clarke, one of Britain's greatest auteur directors which examines the full range of Clarke's work, and goes beyond the violent image garnered from work like 'Scum' and 'The Firm'.
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Plays on women
Based on the original and authoritative Revels texts, Plays on women brings together four plays which dramatise the lives of women in Shakespeare’s EnglandThe only available anthology focusing on women and including the four plays most often discussed. . . .
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Brave community
This book is the first full-length modern study of the Diggers, who were among the most remarkable of the radical groups to emerge during the English Revolution of 1640-60. The book also provides a reassessment of the Digger leader Gerrard Winstanley, a figure who has attracted great interest in ...
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Doubtful and dangerous
Examines the pivotal influence of the succession question on the politics, religion and culture of the post-Armada years of Queen Elizabeth’s reign
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Gender and housing in soviet russia
This book explores the housing problem throughout the seventy years of Soviet history. It looks at changing political ideology on appropriate forms of housing under socialism, successive government policies on housing, and the meaning and experience of 'home' for Soviet citizens.
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Realising the city
This edited collection explores what happens when a city administration tries to bring their vision for a city into being. It provides ethnographic accounts that complicate the dominant narrative of Manchester’s renaissance.
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When nothing works
What caused the UK’s cost of living crisis, and how can we rebuild? Setting out the concept of liveability, this book argues that rather than focus on increasing wages, we need to make life more liveable through foundational services and social infrastructure.
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Enthusiast!
Enthusiast! is a polemical history of American literature told from the point of view of six of its major enthusiasts. The book establishes enthusiasm as a defining feature of American literature. It shows how enthusiasm is fundamental to the circulation of culture. It
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Making the patient-consumer
Explores the development of patient-consumerism from the 1960s to 2010 in relation to seven key areas: patient autonomy, representation, complaint, rights, information, voice and choice.
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Italian women writing
How has it happened that from being politely ignored or marginalized just half a century ago, women writers in Italy are now at the centre of literary activity? To what extent does writing by women reflect the successes and failures of Italy in the post-war period? What form did the feminist move...
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The bourdieu paradigm
The book discusses relations between philosophy and empirical social sciences through detailed analyses of the work of Schutz, Gurwitsch and Merleau-Ponty, and then explores the development of Bourdieu’s sociological reflexivity as his attempt to reconcile this intellectualist legacy with social ...
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Writing imperial histories
This book appraises the critical contribution of the Studies in Imperialism series to the writing of imperial histories as the series passes its 100th publication. The volume brings together some of the most distinguished scholars writing today to explore the major intellectual trends in Imperial...
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Knowledge production in higher education
Understanding how knowledge is produced in higher education about Europe and the MENA requires an open, interdisciplinary and interregional approach. This volume systematically challenges the dynamics and realities that go beyond dominant European-MENA-centric accounts, while avoiding the pitfall...
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History on british television
A unique and overdue insight and study into how the landscape, institutions and collective memory has influenced the representation of the past on British television from 1946 to the present day, promoting a very singular view of what it means to be British.
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Shakespeare's adolescents
Shakespeare’s adolescents examines the varied representation of adolescent characters in Shakespeare’s plays. Using early modern medical knowledge, the book unpacks complexities that surrounded the cultural and theatrical representations of the ‘signs’ of the maturation used to construct Shakespe...
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A history of the royal college of nursing 1916–90
This is the history of one of the largest nursing organizations in the world and one of the largest professional associations of women. The Royal College of Nursing began as a small professional association in 1916. Its work included nurses’ education, professional policy and labour relations. It...
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Incest in contemporary literature
This is the first edited collection of essays which focuses on the incest taboo and its literary and cultural presentation from the 1950s to the present day; including Iain Banks, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Simone de Beauvoir, Ted Hughes, Doris Lessing, Ian McEwan Iris Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov, ...
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Negotiating relief and freedom
This book investigates both short- and long-term responses to disaster in the British Caribbean. It is the first to examine the informal negotiations that took place on the ground between the colonial authorities and the African-Caribbean population, and the formal negotiations undertaken by colo...
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History, heritage and tradition in contemporary british politics
This book explores the uses of the past in modern British politics. It looks at the way in which political parties construct and remember their pasts through archives, histories and commemorations.
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Houses built on sand
This book explores the Arab Uprisings and the instability that engulfed the region in the following years. It argues that to understand the events of the uprisings we must look at relations between rulers and ruled along with the strategies used by regimes to exert sovereign power.
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More than a game
The first academic work dedicated to the study of computer games in terms of the stories they tell and the manner of their telling. Applies practices of reading texts from literary and cultural studies to consider the computer game as an emerging mode of contemporary storytelling in an accessible...
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In the borderland between song and speech
Vocal expressions in the borderland between song and speech in some Asian, and one Native American, cultures are studied through a new methodology which combines ethnomusicology and linguistics.
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Michael logue and the catholic church in ireland, 1879–1925
Examines the role of the Church in the dynamic of social and political change which will significantly contribute to our understanding of the relationship between Church and state in modern Ireland
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Russian orientalism in a global context
This volume features new research by an international group of scholars on Russia’s historic relationship with Asia and the ways in which it was mediated and represented in the fine, decorative, and performing arts and architecture from the mid-eighteenth century to the first two decades of Sovie...
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The craft of writing in sociology
An essential guide to constructing coherent and powerful arguments, using real examples from student work and demonstrating, step-by-step, how to read critically, write the opening paragraphs of an essay, provide evidence in the middle and construct punchy conclusions.
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The french party system
This book provides a complete overview of the of parties in France. The social and ideological profiles of all the major parties are analysed chapter by chapter, highlighting their principal functions and dynamics within the system. These are complemented by analyses of bloc and system features, ...
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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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Learning femininity in colonial india, 1820–1932
WINNER of the Anne Bloomfield Triennial book prize awarded by the HES (UK) for best history of education book published between 2014 and 2017This book explores the colonial mentalities that shaped and were shaped by women living in colonial India between 1820 and 1932. Using a broad framework t...
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Environment, labour and capitalism at sea
This book combines phenomenology and political economy to offer new approaches for analyses of human-environment relations and technologies. It contributes to the social studies of fisheries through an analysis of how fishing practices and social relations are shaped by political economy.
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The other empire
This is a detailed study of the various ways in which London and India were imaginatively constructed by British observers during the nineteenth century.
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Monsters and the poetic imagination in the faerie queene
The first ever book-length account of Spenser's monsters and their relation to the poetic imagination in the Renaissance.
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The new politics of russia
Reflecting on the evolution of Russia studies since the end of the Cold War, this study offers a robust critique of the mainstream view of Russia and offers a more dynamic and complex model for interpretation.
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The cossacks
An exceptional book covering 500 years of the history of the Cossacks - the recklessly brave, wild horsemen or the romantic hero of the steppe or the brutal mounted policemen, as they have been remembered throughout history.
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Long peace street
Recounting a walk of twenty miles across Beijing, Long Peace Street takes the reader on a journey through the city’s recent history, explaining how the present and future of the world’s rising superpower has been shaped by its tumultuous past, from the demise of the last imperial dynasty in 1912 ...
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Popular protest in late-medieval europe
This collection of documents, spanning the years 1245-1424 concentrates on the 'contagion of rebellion' that followed the Black Death in Europe in the 14th century. Comprising a wide variety of sources from a range of authors - including revolutionaries, the aristoricacy, merchants and op
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Bulletin of the john rylands library 98/2
The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is a long-running journal that publishes research complementary to the John Rylands Library’s extensive special collections.
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The quiet contemporary american novel
This book explores the concept of ‘quiet’ – an aesthetic of narrative driven by reflective principles – and argues for the term’s application to the study of contemporary American fiction.
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Prisoners of britain
During WWI hundreds of thousands of Germans faced incarceration in hundreds of camps on the British mainland. This is the first book on these German prisoners, and covers 3 different types of internees in Britain: civilians already present in the country in August 1914; civilians brought to Brita...
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Revolution in china and russia
This book compares how Russia and China maneuvered nationalism through communist revolutions and explains why they followed different paths in reorganizing empires.
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Interpreting rock movies
Andrew Caine details the reaction to British and American pop films during the 1950s and 1960s to provide a valuable insight into British film criticism, teenage culture during the 1950s and 1960s and the generic status of rock films/teen movies and cultural hierarchies.
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The europeanisation of conflict resolutions
This book is about the EU’s role in conflict resolution and reconciliation in Europe. It examines critically important cases: the exemplary process of the Franco-German reconciliation during the 1950s, the EU’s involvement in reconstructing peace in Northern Ireland, the conflict in Cyprus, and K...
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Turkey facing east
Analyses Turkey’s relations with its Eastern neighbours – Azerbaijan, Armenia and the Soviet Union – during the emergence of the modern Turkish nation-state from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire
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Reading behind the lines
This study applies the concept of postmemory, developed in Holocaust studies, to novels by contemporary British writers. The first monograph-length study of postmemory in British fiction, it focuses on a group of texts about the World Wars.
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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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Irish journalism before independence
They reported wars, outraged monarchs and promoted the case for their country’s freedom. The remarkable stories of reporters, proprietors and propagandists fill the pages of this original and engaging volume in which sixteen leading writers celebrate the emergence of Irish Journalism from 1800 to...
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The expansion of europe, 1250–1500
Later medieval Europe saw a great deal of change and expansion of different kinds. This geographically broad textbook explores these events in a series of chapters on the different countries, covering the Holy Roman Empire, East-Central Europe, Scandinavia and Russia. It looks not only at politi...
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Shakespeare and laughter
This book examines laughter in the Shakespearean theatre in the context of a cultural history of early modern laughter. It is the first study to focus on laughter, not comedy, arguing that since the early modern period a paradigm shift has taken place in our attitudes to laughter and investigate...
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The politics of writing: julia kavanagh, 1824–77
Fauset sees Kavanagh as a significant but neglected writer and returns her to her proper place in the history of women’s writing.
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The anxiety of sameness in early modern spain
The author examines a very broad range of fiction and non fiction works, many relatively unknown, to analyse how discourses about non-elites, conversos and moriscos, reveal anxieties in their Old Christian readers and authors.
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Literary and visual ralegh
This collection of essays covers a wide range of topics about Ralegh's diversified career and achievements. The essays shed light on less familiar facets such as Ralegh as a father and his representation in the Arts; others re-examine him as poet, historian, and figure of controversy.
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The arts of angela carter
The arrangement of the material, indicated by the chapter headings, draws attention to a variety of areas not normally associated with dominant perceptions of Angela Carter. These encompass food, fashion, art, poetry, music, performance and translation, which will be discussed in a number of his...
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Pat barker
This book provides a comprehensive account and critical analysis of the literary career to date of Pat Barker, one of the most celebrated and popular of contemporary British novelists.
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Anglo–german relations during the labour governments 1964–70
This book brings together a breadth of documentary and anecdotal evidence to challenge exisiting theories about the relationship between Britain and Germany at a critical period during the Cold War, and to show that both countires came to recognise the importance of working for the creation of a ...
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Pistols in st paul's
Investigating a series of cutting-edge acoustic experiments in twentieth-century Britain, this unique book reveals how exciting new ideas from science and music had a lasting effect on architectural design.
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Disability in industrial britain
This book examines disability and disabled people in British coalmining, an industry with high levels of injury and disease and where, as one outsider noted, streets ‘thronged with the maimed and mutilated’.
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Unfolding irish landscapes
This is the first scholarly edited collection devoted to the work of the Anglo-Irish writer and cartographer Tim Robinson
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Fascist italy
Fascist Italy is a concise introduction to the phenomenon of Italian fascism and its impact. The author balances an up-to-date re-evaluation of political, diplomatic and military developments with a full assessment of the more neglected domestic and cultural dimensions of the subject. With the ai...
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Romania and the european union
Romania's predatory rulers, the heirs of the sinister communist dictator Ceauescu, have inflicted a humiliating defeat on the European Union. This book discusses policy failures in the areas of justice, administrative and agricultural reform and shows how Romania moved backwards politically durin...
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Physick and the family
Offers new insights into the early modern sickness experience, through a study of the medical history of Wales
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Discourse theory and political analysis
One of the few books which systematically brings post-structuralist theory to bear on substantive political analysis. Offers accessible accounts of different strands of discourse theory such as deconstruction, psychoanalysis and genealogy, which are applied to the analysis of specific cases such ...
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The material renaissance
Focussing on the consumer demand for goods in Renaissance Italy, The Material Renaissance establishes the dynamic social character of exchange. It demonstrates that the cost of goods, including the price of the most basic items, was largely contingent upon on the relationship between buyer and se...
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The looking machine
This book of essays brings together his latest ideas on filming, documentary, anthropology and the art of cinema, based on his practice as an award-winning maker of ethnographic films.
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Pride in prejudice
Pride in prejudice offers a concise introduction to the varied extreme right groups active in Britain today. The book examines the extreme right movement in terms of ideology and appeal, organisational styles, online and offline activism, approaches to leadership, types of supporters and gendered...
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Images of africa
Challenges the widely-held idea that Africans are powerless in the creation of self-image. It explores the ways in which image creation is a process of negotiation entered into by a wide range of actors within and beyond the continent.
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The extreme right in western europe
Examines the reasons behind the variation in the electoral fortunes of the West European parties of the extreme right in the period since the late 1970s.
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Feudalism, venality, and revolution
This book is about the most sweeping reform in the history of the French monarchy: the creation of assemblies at all levels of administration. The resistance of lords and office holders exposed their hereditary power over commoners, who sought to throw off their subordination when the crisis of t...
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Understanding as-level government and politics
This is a clearly written, comprehensive and topical textbook on UK government and politics for AS and A Level students
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Serial shakespeare
This book explores Shakespeare’s presence in the American cultural imaginary at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It traces how his texts are disseminated and reassembled in contemporary TV shows such as The Wire, Deadwood, Westworld, House of Cards and The Americans.
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Imperial nostalgia
A short, polemical study of the persistence of imperial nostalgia in modern British culture, politics, heritage and media.
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Neolithic cave burials
This book provides the first synthetic overview of Neolithic cave burial and demonstrates its importance in understanding the period. It makes a substantial contribution to debates about collective burial in the Neolithic, adding data which is currently little known and not easily accessible to t...
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The four dimensions of power
This is an original account of social/political power, which builds upon cutting edge social theory, including Steven Lukes and Michel Foucault. The book develops a four-dimensional model, in an accessible style with vivid examples. It is ideal for undergraduates, postgraduates, academics and act...
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The gothic and death
An interdisciplinary collection providing new perspective on the interface between the gothic and death, with fresh readings of established, overlooked and recent Gothic works across a variety of cultural and literary forms.
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The politics of participation
Is democracy in crisis? Not according to this book! In this fascinating study, Professor Qvortrup shows that citizens are engaged in politics like never before by voting in referendums and participating in demonstrations and other forms of 'low politics'.
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Peacemaking in the twenty-first century
Series of lectures on peacekeeping by major international figures
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Internal exile in fascist italy
This book is an accessible history of internal exile’s origins and practices under Fascism and of its representation in film, literature and memoir.
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Titus andronicus
The second edition of Friedman's stage history of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus adds an examination of twelve major theatrical productions and one film that appeared in the years 1989-2009, identifying four lines of descent in the recent performance history of the play: the stylised, realistic, ...
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'the industrialized designer'
This book contributes new perspectives on the identity of the industrial designer, particularly from a gendered perspective, through a critical interrogation of the 'heroic male designer'. It explores the professionalisation of industrial design in Britain and the US from 1930–80, a 'new professi...
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Eastward bound
An enlightening collection of essays by a distinguished list of contributors on travel and travellers from Europe to the Middle East in the medieval period, covering the Crusades, pilgrimage, mission, trade, scholarship, and exploration, as well as expectations and experiences. A valuable work fo...
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Porous boundaries
This innovative and exciting volume celebrates the career and influence of Janet Wolff who has been a highly influential voice in the literature of sociology, cultural studies, visual studies and art history
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The sword is not enough
In this lucid and timely new book Jeremy Pressman demonstrates that the default use of military force on both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict has prevented its peaceful resolution.
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