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Building the french empire, 1600–1800
How did the French rule their colonial overseas possessions dispersed all over the world? This book focuses on local populations and workers in the colonies. Indigenous experts, slaves or indentured servants as well as French engineers and naval officers contributed to the building of the foundat...
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Empire and enterprise
The Adventurers for Irish land transformed England’s trade and government finances in the mid-seventeenth century, laying the foundations of the British Empire and modern fiscal state. This is the first book to recognise the key role of the Adventurers and the centrality of Ireland to the Wars of...
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David lean
Comprehensive overview of the director’s body of work which yields new insights on the established classics of Lean’s career as well as its lesser-known treasures
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Everyday resistance, peacebuilding and state-making
Everyday resistance, peacebuilding and state-making addresses debates on the liberal peace and the policies of peacebuilding through a theoretical and empirical study of resistance in peacebuilding contexts. Examining the case of 'Africa's World War' in the DRC, it locates resistance in the exper...
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The asian financial crisis
The Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 shook the foundations of the global economy and what began as a localised currency crisis soon engulfed the entire Asian region. What went wrong and how did the Asian economies long considered 'miracles' respond? How did the United States, Japan and other G-7...
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John derricke's the image of irelande: with a discoverie of woodkarne
John Derricke’s Image of Irelande, with a Discoverie of Woodkarne is one of the best and least known works produced in England on Tudor Ireland. This collection’s sixteen essays examine the work’s political and historical meaning, print history, iconographic elements, paratexts, literary and arti...
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Queer beyond london
Explores and compares the queer dimensions of four English cities – Manchester, Leeds, Plymouth, and Brighton
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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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The greening of golf
This book is the first comprehensive study of the varyingresponses to golf-related environmental issues. The authors examine golf as asport and as a global industry, drawing on literaturespertaining to environmental sociology, global social movements, institutionalchange, corporate environmentali...
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Judges, politics and the irish constitution
A collection of essays on politics and judicial power in Ireland, featuring contributions from scholars, judges and legal practitioners.
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African peace
There was a profound shift in peace and security norms from the African Union (AU) to the Organization of African Unity (OAU). Prevailing explanations of this change focus on the post-Cold War period; whereas this book traces the emergence of norms from the OAU through to the AU arguing that the...
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Round our way
Round our way combines stills, essays and archive photography to document the work of Sam Hanna, the ‘Lowry of filmmaking’, who created a unique visual record of northern England across decades of profound change.
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The cruelty man
The first comprehensive account of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) in Ireland
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Undermining resistance
Why do multinational mining corporations use participation to undermine resistance? Do the struggles of communities, activists and NGOs matter on a global scale? This book provides a new critical political economy of extractive accumulation to explain how participation crises and governance are r...
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A history of international relations theory
This new edition of a hugely popular title traces discussions about international relations from the middle ages up to the present times. It presents central concepts in historical context and shows how ancient ideas still affect the way we perceive world politics.
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Female imperialism and national identity
Through a study of the British Empire's largest women's patriotic organization, formed in 1900, this book examines the relationship between female imperialism and national identity. It sheds light on women's involvement in imperialism, and on the history of 'conservative' women's organizations.
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The myth of good ai
This book offers a new approach to artificial intelligence and its implications for human security.
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The humanities and the irish university
The first book-length study of the humanities and the Irish university
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The twice-chang'd friar
The Twice Chang’d Friar is a manuscript comedy based on a tale from Boccaccio’s Decameron. Thought to be written by amateur playwright John Newdigate III, the play tells the story of friar Albert and his seduction of a Venetian merchant’s wife by posing as the God Cupid. When discovered, Albert s...
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Julius caesar
Presents a performance history of a controversial play, moving from its 1599 opening all the way into the new millennium with particular emphasis on its twentieth- and twenty-first-century incarnations on stage and screen
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Romanticizing masculinity in baathist syria
This book documents the influence of European Romantic nationalism in shaping the vision and practices of the Baathist regime in Syria, with particular attention to the impact of new concepts of gender in public life, the role of these constructs in perpetuating conflict and inequality, and curre...
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Russian politics under putin
This book provides a critical analysis of Putin's domestic and foreign policies covering leadership and regime change, political parties and democratisation, economy and society, regional politics, Chechnya, and foreign policy.
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The modernisation of the labour party, 1979–97
This monograph recasts the modernisation of the Labour Party and sheds new light on Labour’s years in the wilderness between 1979 and 1997. The monograph uniquely traces the party’s major organisational changes across its eighteen years of opposition. Labour’s organisational modernisation in this...
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B. r. ambedkar
A short, digestible biography of this important Indian statesman, whose compassion and devotion to public standards should serve as a model for the politicians of our day.
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Climate change and the oil industry
Presents a detailed study of the climate strategies of ExxonMobil, Shell and Statoil.
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Carmen de burgos
This book offers the complete text of three novellas, along with vocabulary and explanatory notes to make them fully accessible to learners of Spanish from post-GCSE level and upwards. The introduction provides background on the author and her position in Spanish cultural, political and literary ...
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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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Domestic fortress
This book critically analyses the contemporary home and its close relationship to fear and security, a relationship fuelled by the corporate and political manufacturing of fear, the triumph of neoliberal models of home-ownership and related modes of social individualisation and risk that permeate...
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The plantation of ulster
The first major academic study of the Ulster Plantation in over 25 years. This collection of essays by leading scholars in the field on a broad range of historical and literary topics redresses the previous coverage of the plantations, moving away from an exclusive colonial perspective, to includ...
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David malouf
Don Randall's comprehensive study situates acclaimed author David Malouf within the field of contemporary international and psotcolonial writing, but without losing sight of the author's affiliation with Australian contexts. The book presents an original reading of Malouf, but also engages with t...
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Republicanism in ireland
This volume explores the meaning of republicanism in contemporary Ireland. While this has often been identified simply with nationalism, the book examines the connections, comparisons and contrasts between Irish republicanism and other strands of republican politics: the ideology and practice of ...
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Islamophobia, anti-racism and the british left
Islamophobia, anti-racism and the British left critically explores the treatment of Islamophobia by those committed to challenging it. In interrogating how activists and community workers conceptualise Islamophobia and what this means for practices on the ground, this book develops an alternative...
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Migrant architects of the nhs
Migrant Architects is the first book to assess the impact of the migration of doctors from the Indian subcontinent on postwar development of British general practice and by extension the ways in which they influenced the development of the NHS.
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The bbc's 'irish troubles'
This book explores how news and information about the conflict in Northern Ireland was disseminated through the most accessible, powerful and popular form of media: television.
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The shadow of marriage
This book stakes out new territory within an exciting, emerging field of study. Not only does it uncover the history of a neglected group, but it also offers valuable insights into the significance of marital status which are equally relevant to current debates on marriage and family.
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Reassembling the social interior
At the intersection of heritage, design history and contemporary art, this book offers new perspectives on the way historical interiors are encountered by, and viewed and presented for, present-day audiences. Many studies have highlighted the historical significance and meanings embedded in the l...
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Karel reisz
This first full-length critical analysis of the Czech-born, British director, Karel Reisz uses recent interdisciplinary methodologies to explore the crisis of political commitment and historical displacement in the context of the 1960s and ‘70s counter-culture.
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Mick lynch
Mick Lynch became a ‘working-class hero’ in the summer of 2022, when he offered a robust critique of the government and gave a voice to working people. This book explores Lynch’s background and his rise to the top of the RMT union, asking what leadership means for the working class and the left.
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The ngo care and food aid from america, 1945–80
This book on the humanitarian NGO CARE offers a unique historical insight into the successes and crises of one of the major private humanitarian players throughout the second half of the 20th century.
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The marketing of political parties
The book discusses, employing the findings from empirical research, the role of political marketing within the UK General Election of 2005.
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Scotland, the caribbean and the atlantic world, 1750–1820
This is the first book-length study wholly devoted to assessing the array of ties between Scotland and the Caribbean that bound the Atlantic World together in the later eighteenth century.
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Order and conflict
This book provides a careful and systematic analysis of Anthony Ascham’s career and writings for the first time in English. During the crucial period between the Second Civil War and the establishment of the English Republic, when he served as official pamphleteer of the Parliament and the republ...
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The cultural construction of the british world
The volume builds upon developments in recent years in reconceptualising the British Empire as a system structured around complex, multi-layered networks, which transcended conventionally defined boundaries between metropolitan and colonial space.
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Love, history and emotion in chaucer and shakespeare
This unique collection of essays explores medieval and early modern Troilus texts from Chaucer to Shakespeare.
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Toxic truths
Post-truth politics have threatened science itself. Drawing on case studies from around the world, Toxic Truths examines enduring issues and new challenges for tackling environmental injustice in a post-truth age.
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The never-ending brief encounter
This book explores the legacies of David Lean's Brief Encounter, tracing the classic film's influence on cinema, television, literature and more.
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The political marketing revolution
'The political marketing revolution' shows how marketing has permeated all political organisations in the UK including the monarchy, media, parliament and education. Politicans, professors and princes use marketing to identify demands and design a product to satisfy political consumers.
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Working-class writing and publishing in the late twentieth century
From the early 1970s, working class writing and publishing in local communities rapidly proliferated into a national movement. This book is the first full evaluation of these developments and opens up new perspectives on literature, culture, class and identity over the past 50 years.
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Byron and italy
How did Italy Italianise Byron? And how did Byron Byronise Italy? These are the key questions that the volume sets out to answer.
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Humanitarian extractivism
Digital initiatives aimed towards ‘fixing’ the humanitarian system, making it better and more secure, also create risk and harm for vulnerable individuals and communities. This book investigates the digital transformation of aid as a form of humanitarian extractivism.
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Freedom of speech, 1500–1850
This collection offers bold reappraisals of the history of freedom of speech in the pre-modern Anglophone world. It addresses the aims and effectiveness of official policies, the thorny issues with which contemporaries grappled and the claims that were and were not made about freedom of expression.
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George iii
The first chronological survey of the first ten years of George III’s reign through power politics and policy-making.
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Picturing home
This book explores how home was pictured in the 'golden age' of British cinema. Drawing on a wide range of evidence to explore the depiction of domestic life in popular culture, it resituates feature films from the 1940s in relation to narratives of domestic, suburban modernity and the middlebrow...
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Voting for a scottish government
This is a study of the historic 2007 Scottish Parliament election in which the SNP supplanted Labour as Scotland’s largest party for the first time ever, and went on to form the Scottish Government.
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What a waste
Documents how outsourcing has penetrated every part of the public sector, and balances critique with practical suggestions for policy reform
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The war that won't die
Students and Lecturers and intelligent readers interested in the Spanish Civil War and the representation of history in cinema
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The my lai massacre in american history and memory
On 16 March 1968, two US infantry companies entered a Vietnamese village and, in the course of a single morning, killed over 400 of its unarmed, unresisting inhabitants. This book examines the response of American society to the massacre, and its ambiguous place in American national memory.
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It's a london thing
This book tells the history of the London black music culture that emerged in post-colonial London at the end of the twentieth century; the people who made it, the racial and spatial politics of its development and change, and the part it played in founding London’s precious, embattled multiculture.
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La casa de bernarda alba
La casa de Bernarda Alba marks the completion of Lorca's 'trilogia de la tierra española' and is commonly held to be his greatest play. The theme of vitality and repression that runs as a leitmotif through his writings takes on a clearer social dimension in the 'drama de mujeres en los pueblos de...
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The nine years' war and the british army 1688–97
John Childs begins his comprehensive study by exploring the diplomatic origins of the Nine Years’ War. Leading on from this political background, the author then focuses on the detailed organisation of the British, Dutch and other allied armies and the conduct of the operations.
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Bussy d'ambois
Revels stuff. . . .|This Edition of George Chapman's tragedy differs from all other modern editions in being primarily based on the Quarto of 1607 in preference to the much revised Quarto of 1641. N. S. Brooke believes that the earlier text gives a more certain indication of Chapman's intentions...
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The politics of male friendship in contemporary american fiction
How might our friendships shape our politics? This new book examines how contemporary American fiction – from Philip Roth to Dinaw Mengestu – has rediscovered the concept of civic friendship and revived a long tradition of imagining male friendship as interlinked with the promises and paradoxes o...
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Acceptable words
'Acceptable words' comprises a series of highly individual essays covering the whole of Geoffrey Hill's poetry to date, including the remarkable late flowering of the years since 1996. The essays offer detailed readings of many poems whilst making many - often surprising - associations with histo...
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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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Memory and popular film
One of the first books to put memory at the centre of analysis when exploring the relationship between film culture and the past. Provides a sustained, interdisciplinary perspective on memory and film from early cinema to the present, drawing from film studies, American studies and cultural studi...
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The black atlantic’s triple burden
This book demonstrates the continuities of five centuries of European-led slavery and colonialism in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, examining calls for reparations in all three regions for what many now regard to have constituted crimes against humanity.
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Breaking the deadlock
This latest edition of a prestigious and venerable series surveys the build up to the tumultuous 2019 General Election and its immediate aftermath, offering reasoned conjecture about the future of British party politics and democracy.
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Julien duvivier
Duvivier was a giant of classic French cinema with a career spanning key moments of French film history. This analysis goes beyond its historical range to engage with key debates in film studies: notably auteurism, stardom and questions of the national.
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Territorial politics in catalonia and scotland
This book compares the developments of territorial politics in Catalonia and Scotland since 2010, paying particular attention to the impact of independence referenda, Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic. It examines the experiences of state and substate elites in both cases and argues for further re...
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Urban transformations and public health in the emergent city
This book is a collection of essays exploring different aspects of health and wellbeing in cities today. With contributions on Brazil, China, South Africa and the United Kingdom, the volume covers a range of fields including mental health, migration, mobility, sanitation, gendered violence and st...
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The malcontent
"The Malcontent" is considered one of the most original and complex plays of the Elizabethan theatre. The aim of this edition is to offer answers to the various questions raised by the play and relate it to the aesthetic cross-currents flowing in the 17th century.
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National missile defence and the politics of us identity
This book uncovers the controversial policies surrounding the strategy of national missile defence and provides an alternative, and arguably more inclusive, mode of interpretation of a strategy that is deeply embedded in performances of US identity.
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Culture is bad for you
This book paints an unflinching portrait of the situation for arts and culture workers in Britain today. Revised and updated with the latest figures, it exposes how minorities continue to be marginalised in the post-COVID era.
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Eradicating deafness?
How did American geneticists go from fearing the dysgenic effects of deaf intermarriage to considering modern biotechnology a threat for Deaf culture? This book provides insight into changing ideas of what deafness is, what science and medicine should achieve, and to the transformative effect of ...
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Understanding the imaginary war
Presents a comparative overview of the cultural imaginations of nuclear weapons and the anticipation of nuclear destruction. It considers representations of elements of the Cold War in popular culture and thought across Europe, Japan, USSR and the USA, providing a significant addition to Cold Wa...
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Changing satire
This edited collection, with contributions from literary scholars and art historians, maps how satire became a less genre-driven and increasingly visual medium in the early modern period. It features material on several European countries and demonstrates the range and diversity of satire in the ...
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The calling of social thought
Edward Shils was a major intellectual and social thinker of the mid-twentieth century. This collection captures the major facets the thought of this complex and controversial figure.
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British civilians in the front line
This book, the first full-length study of British civilians’ behaviour in air raids during the Second World War, challenges a common image of civilians as passive shelterers during air raids.
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The renewal of radicalism
Kidd argues that emergence of Labour politics in southern England represented the renewal of the working-class radical tradition. Mapping the trajectory of Labour politics from its mid-Victorian origins to the 1920s, the book offers a new narrative that challenges conventional understandings of p...
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From victory to vichy
Explores the political mobilisation of the two largest French veterans’ associations during the interwar years, the Union fédérale (UF) and the Union nationale des combattants (UNC).
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The english system
A history of port health and immigration at a critical moment of transformation at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century
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French society in revolution 1789–1799
French society in revolution aims to retrieve the social history of the French Revolution from unjustified neglect.This study examines both the structural and cultural elements behind the breakdown of the eighteenth-century monarchic state and its aris. . . .
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The transatlantic divide
Is the current Transatlantic Alliance crisis more serious than previous ones and if so why? Will the Transatlantic Alliance recover or is it headed for transformation or even dissolution? This book analyses the reasons behind the latest Transatlantic Alliance crisis, dissects its manifestations, ...
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The social construction of swedish neutrality
Using Sweden as a case study this book examines the conceptualisation of neutrality from the Peloponnesian War to the present day, uncovering how neutrality has been a neglected and misunderstood subject in IR theory and politics. By rethinking neutrality through constructivism, this book argues ...
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The fringes of citizenship
This book offers a socio-legal enquiry into the position of Roma as citizens in Europe. Rather than questioning the exceptionalities of Roma as a minority, it seeks to understand how citizenship in liberal democracies is constructed to marginalize certain minorities.
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Same–sex desire in early modern england, 1550–1735
Balancing long-overlooked and well-known works from early modern England, Same-sex desire in early modern England, 1550–1735: An anthology of literary texts and contexts is a collection of English texts about homoerotic love, relationships, desires, and sexual acts.
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Performance art and revolution
This book assesses Stuart Brisley’s seminal influence on British art through his lifelong engagement with the histories and imaginaries of revolution. It links together revolutionary history with the author’s critical dialogue with Brisley, developed over many years, to explore how revolutionary ...
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Governing europe's spaces
The book constructs a case for re-imagining Europe – not as an entity in Brussels or a series of fixed relations – but as a simultaneously real and imagined space of action which exists to the extent that Europeans and others act in and on it.
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Priestley’s england
Priestley’s England explores the cultural, literary and political history of twentieth-century Britain through the radical critique offered by one of its most popular writers, J B Priestley. Its wide-ranging themes include ‘Englishness’, literary culture and its values, ‘Americanisation’ and mas...
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China's citizenship challenge
China’s Citizenship Challenge is a valuable contribution into the field of labour movement studies, framing labour NGOs’ activism as centred on contestation of migrant workers’ citizenship in China. It shows that while NGOs’ activism revolves around the broad areas of civic organising, labour and...
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Hugo chávez and the bolivarian revolution
The first full-length study of the government of Hugo Chávez of Venezuela within wider discussions on populism and globalisation in Latin America. It provides a comprehensive and critical account of Chávez’s emergence, socio-economic policies, democratic credentials, impact, foreign policy and fu...
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Dividing the spoils
As museums across Europe reckon with the post-colonial legacies of their collections, this volume combines approaches from material anthropology, imperial and military history to shed light on the acquisition and appropriation of objects during British colonial warfare.
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Affective bordering
Affective bordering is a powerful exploration of the emotional politics of borders that demonstrates how racial and national boundaries are secured through the political mobilisation and unequal distribution of affect.
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Fightback!
This book tells the story of how the moderate right in the Labour Party, weakened by defections to the SDP in 1981, successfully regained control of the party and helped it return to electability
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