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Renaissance psychologies
Spenser and Shakespeare both wrote with epic scope, a comprehensive view of human nature, but their characters and plots sprung from radically distinct psychologies. Renaissance psychologies explores this polarity, questioning the very distinct concepts of these two great poets and how they are r...
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Precarious childhood in post-independence Ireland
This book reveals the desperate plight of the poor, neglected, illegitimate, and abused children in an Irish society that claimed to "cherish" and hold them sacred, but in fact marginalized and ignored them.
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Fifty years of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
This is the very first edited collection on ICERD, the oldest of the UN human rights treaties. It provides a unique combination of members of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) and academic and other experts, to discuss the importance of the treaty on its fiftieth an...
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Transplantation Gothic
Transplantation is a boundary practice unsettling distinctions between self and other, life and death. This book identifies a Gothic mode in representations of the practice in literature, film and science from the nineteenth century to the present, considering hybrid bodies and precarious lives u...
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Hard sell
Hard sell explores advertising in Britain in the 1950s and 60s through extensive new archival research in Britain and America, combining the study of business practices with analysis of television and press advertisements.
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The Liberal Democrats
A comprehensive and hard-hitting account of the Liberal Democrats’ recent history that asks big questions about the party’s future.
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Women in the Weimar Republic
The first comprehensive survey of women in the Weimar Republic, exploring the diversity and multiplicity of women’s experiences in the economy, politics and society.
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Ten Lessons in Modern Chinese History
A timely and solid portrait of modern China
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Struggles for a past
Examines the construction of ethnic communities, and of multicultural policy, in post-war England. It explores how Irish and Afro-Caribbean immigrants responded to their representation as alien races by turning to history.
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Haunted historiographies
Matthew Schultz maps rhetorical hauntings across a wide range of postcolonial Irish novels, and defines the spectre as a non-present presence that simultaneously symbolises and analyses an overlapping of Irish myth and Irish history.
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Networks of sound, style and subversion
This book examines the birth of punk in the UK and its transformation, within a short period of time, into post-punk. Deploying innovative concepts of ‘critical mass’, ‘social networks’ and ‘music worlds’, and using sophisticated techniques of ‘social network analysis’, it teases out the events a...
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Conspiracy in the French Revolution
Fears of conspiracy and political terrorism are not confined to our own time – they were central to the French Revolution. This is the first major study of political conspiracies at this momentous epoch in history.
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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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Democracy in crisis
This volume explores the political implications of violence and alterity (radical difference) for the practice of democracy, and reformulates the possibility of community that democracy is said to entail.
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Imagining Caribbean womanhood
Examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean
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Troy Kennedy Martin
This is the first full-length study of the screenwriter Troy Kennedy Martin, whose work for film and television includes Z Cars, The Italian Job, Kelly’s Heroes, The Sweeney, and Edge of Darkness. Thiswill appeal to anyone with an interest in television drama, screenwriting, and the history of Br...
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Sport and physical culture in Occupied France
Sport and physical culture in Occupied France is a scholarly and readable account of French sport during the Vichy regime. It explores two competing phenomena: the state’s promotion of physical culture to rehabilitate French people during the Occupation and athletes’ and sporting associations’ us...
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The Stukeley plays
The first modern-spelling, annotated edition of the two plays in which Thomas Stukeley, the notorious courtier, pirate, adventurer and soldier is a major character
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The ideal river
The ideal river offers a remarkable account of how historic attempts to establish international commissions on three transboundary rivers in the nineteenth century shaped our modern international order.
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The Blair Supremacy
Analyses the way that New Labour was built and sustained under Blair’s leadership
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Darts in England, 1900–39
Drawing in an eclectic range of primary and secondary sources, Chaplin reveals how darts was transformed during the interwar years to become one of the most popular recreations in England, not just among the working classes but even (to some extent) among the middle and upper classes.
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The economics of disability
This book brings together research relating to the economics of disability in Ireland. It addresses a range of issues of relevance to the economic circumstances of people with disabilities, considering topics such as social inclusion, poverty, the labour market, living standards and public policy...
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Understanding Political Islam
Looks at how the rise of political Islam has been expressed: first in the Arab world, then in its interactions with French and Western societies, and finally in its interactions with other European and Western societies.
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British imperialism in Cyprus, 1878–1915
This book explores the tensions underlying British imperialism in Cyprus, explaining how the Union Jack came to fly over the island and why after thirty-five years the British wanted it lowered. Cyprus’ importance was always more imagined than real and was enmeshed within widely held cultural sig...
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The genesis of international mass migration
This book argues the modern mass transit of ordinary people derives from common conditions in modernising societies and that they were first manifested in the British Isles.
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Women, men and the representation of women in the British Parliaments
This is the first book to consider the difference women MPs make for women constituents in Britain by comparing women parliamentarians’ activities, priorities and perceptions to those of their male colleagues.
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The politics of health in Europe
This is the first general comparative study of health policy and politics to focus on major countries of Western Europe: France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the UK.
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What went wrong with Britain?
This book provides an audit of fourteen years of Conservative government in Britain, from 2010 to 2024. It examines the rise of populism, the politics of Brexit, the UK’s response to the pandemic and the steady erosion of public trust.
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Civilians into soldiers
An examination of body cultures in the British Army during the Second World War
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The poor in England 1700–1850
This fascinating study investigates the experience of English poverty between 1700 and 1900 and the ways in which the poor made ends meet. The phrase ‘economy of makeshifts’ has often been used to summarise the patchy, desperate and sometimes failing strategies of the poor for material survival. ...
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Trauma-Tragedy
The book advances a new performance theory or mode, ‘trauma-tragedy’, that suggests much contemporary performance can generate the sensation of being present in trauma through its structural embodiment in performance, or ‘presence-in-trauma effects’.
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Reform of the House of Lords
This book is the only one of its kind, providing a clear and exhaustive analysis of the different approaches to the future of Britain’s second chamber.
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The political aesthetics of the Armenian avant-garde
Sheds light on artistic production and the emergence of contemporary art in Armenia from the ruins of the socialist utopian project and the failure to realise the romanticised consumerism of the capitalist West.
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Arab youths
A unique and transdisciplinary look at the young generations who lived in the Arab world at the time of the Arab springs. Featuring cases from Yemen, Algeria, Syria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Palestine and more, this book gives a voice to young men and women who are inventing the future of societies in t...
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States and statistics in the nineteenth century
The book is a truly European history of statistics in the nineteenth century. Nico Randeraad follows nine international conferences organised by statisticians in different European countries, focusing on the tensions between the neutral aspirations of science and national interests.
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Witnessing to the faith
This book examines John Donne’s theory of royal absolutism within a tradition of conformist thought.It argues that Donne displaced the conventional opposition between Catholics and Protestants and instead divided English subjects into two political categories: those who obey the law and those who...
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Gothic dreams and nightmares
This interdisciplinary text combines an attention to socio-historical and cultural contexts with a rigorous close reading of literary, artistic, and televisual works, both classic and lesser known. It investigates how the Gothic and the concepts of dreams and nightmares have intersected from the ...
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Creating the people’s war
Civil defence was the most significant voluntary organisation of the Second World War. It involved men and women of every class, generation and locality in Britain. This book examines how civil defence personnel developed local workplace communities, engaged with ideas about civil duty, and helpe...
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The Renaissance text
This collection of essays focuses attention on the broad issue of Renaissance textuality. It explores such topics as the position of the reader relative to the text; the impact of editorial strategies and modes of presentation on our understanding of the text; and the relevance of gender to the p...
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Myth, legend, dust
For almost three decades, Cormac McCarthy solidified his reputation as an American "writer's writer" with remarkable novels such as his Appalachian Tales, The Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark, Child of God, Suttree, and his terrifying Western masterpiece, Blood Meridian. Then, with the publication of A...
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Pageantry and Power
Pageantry and Power is the first full and in-depth cultural history of the Lord Mayor’s Show in the early modern period. The book provides new insight into the culture and history of the London of Shakespeare’s time and beyond.
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This Man and Music
‘What can literature and music do for each other?’ In This man and music, novelist and composer Anthony Burgess explores the topic, touching on composition, poetry, prose, and his own personal experiences.
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The Vietnam wars
This source book chronicles the history of the most controversial conflict of the 20th century, beginning with the birth of the Vietnamese communist party in 1930 and ending with the Vietnamese revolution in 1975. The text combines short essays with original documents to illustrate the debate. Al...
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A farewell to arms?
This study covers both the domestic and the international dimensions of the peace process, and is the first to deal seriously with the impact of the war on terror on the situation in Northern Ireland. It is also the first book to look at the Good Friday Agreement since the collapse of the Execut...
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Lifestyle revolution
Lifestyle revolution charts how class culture, which many thought would be dissolved by mass consumption, was remade in the postwar period from flat-pack furniture, Mediterranean cuisine and lifestyle magazines – as a world of symbolic goods became an intimate environment alive with new feelings ...
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The Henry VI plays
The Henry VI plays are Shakespeare’s earliest, most theatrically exciting plays and in their day, they were among his most popular works. This is the first major study of the Henry VI plays in performance, and focuses on the cultural context of modern British productions which have explored Shake...
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Immigration, Ethnicity and Racism in Britain 1815–1945
First documentary history of immigration into postwar Britain. Looks at all aspects of immigration into postwar Britain. Uses a wide range of official and unofficial sources.
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Contemporary Korean cinema
The first in-depth, comprehensive study of Korean cinema offering original insight into the relationships between ideology and the art of cinema from East Asian perspectives. Combines issues of contemporary Korean culture and cinematic representation of the society and people in both North and So...
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Licensed larceny
Inequality is not just a problem of poverty and the poor; it is as much a problem of wealth and the wealthy. The provision of public services is one area which is increasingly being reconfigured to extract wealth upward to the 1%, notably through so-called Public Private Partnerships (PPPs). The ...
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Ford Madox Brown
This original book explores the thinking behind Brown’s murals in Manchester Town Hall. It argues that Brown was the most innovative artist in Victorian Britain and that he used this public commission to contest the liberal model of British history favoured by the Manchester Corporation.
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Debating medieval Europe
This unique textbook introduces undergraduate students to medieval historiography, providing an entry point for the dense scholarship on the period. Volume I covers the post-Roman world, from 450 to 1050.
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Writing the United Kingdom Constitution
The purpose of the book is to raise awareness of the uniqueness of the United Kingdom’s unwritten constitution and to make it clear how the devolution of powers to the home nations, begun in 1998, coupled with the trials and tribulations associated with Brexit.
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Region, religion and patronage
Explores the network of social, political and spiritual connections in north west England as a site for regional drama, introducing the reader to the non-metropolitan theatre spaces which formed a vital part of early modern dramatic activity. Uses the possibility that Shakespeare began his theat...
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Jewish refugees and the British nursing profession
This book bears witness to the personal experiences of Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe in the highly gendered profession of nursing.
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Mussolini’s policemen
Examines Italy’s police in the context of fascism’s efforts to modernise and establish ideological control over the state. Presenting an inside perspective on fascist repression, it focuses on recruitment, training and professionalism in the Interior Ministry Police, and their ideological orienta...
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Women, the arts and globalization
This book brings transnational feminist theory and criticism together with women’s art practices to discuss the connections between aesthetics, gender and identity in a global world; shows the movement of women globally rarely matches dominant models of global exchange; traces their eccentric exp...
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Madness and marginality
Based on over 250 psychiatric case files, this book traces the lives of Kenya’s ‘white insane’ to focus not on the ‘great white hunters’ and heroic pioneer farmers but on those Europeans who did not manage to emulate the colonial ideal. In doing so, the book raises important new questions around ...
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Challenging nuclearism
An analysis of how nuclear weapons states have been able to 'normalise' nuclear weapons by practising elements of ‘nuclearism’. These practices have all been affected by the creation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which represents a major challenge to these states and their ...
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Women, gender and fascism in Europe, 1919–45
Explores what attracts women to far-right movements that appear to denigrate their rights
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Romancero Gitano
Federico Garcia Lorca is one of the outstanding poets of Spanish literature. Apart from his trilogy of stage tragedies, ‘Romancero gitano’ (Gypsy ballads) is his most celebrated work: innovative, sophisticated, difficult and uniquely popular.
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Unpacking international organisations
This book rediscovers international bureaucracies as a key engine of international organisations and an important component of modern public administration. It explores the everyday decision-making dynamics within three international bureaucracies: the administration of the European Commission, t...
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Empire of scholars
Examines the networks that linked academics across the British settler world in the age of ‘Victorian’ globalization. Drawing on extensive archival research, remaps the intellectual geographies of Britain and its empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Proscribing peace
Proscribing peace shows how the listing of armed groups as terrorists has made pre-negotiations harder and more prolonged. Drawing on fieldwork in Colombia during the negotiation with the FARC, Sophie Haspeslagh introduces the concept of ‘linguistic ceasefire’ which becomes a central pre-conditio...
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Breaking peace
This book argues that Brexit is the most significant event in the political history of Northern Ireland since partition in 1921. It explains why Brexit presents unique challenges for NI and why the border is so significant for the peace process. It argues that Brexit is breaking peace in NI and r...
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Family rhythms
This textbook draws on original in-depth interviews with people of different ages to introduce contemporary scholarship on the family and to illustrate how Irish families have adapted and changed over time
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The naval war film
This book undertakes a unique, coherent and comprehensive consideration of the depiction of naval warfare in the cinema. The films under discussion encompass all areas of naval operations in war, and highlight varying institutional and aesthetic responses to navies and the sea in popular culture.
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A matter of intelligence
Details the surveillance by the British security service MI5 of anti-Nazi refugees who came to Britain fleeing political persecution in Germany and Austria
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Irish Children and Teenagers in a Changing World
This book provides an engaging and informative insight into the experiences, dreams and hopes of children and teenagers in contemporary Ireland.
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Europe's path to crisis
Examines each stage of the EU monetary crisis along with the political and social impact, and reveals the longer-term origins
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Neoliberal gothic
A comprehensive study of how different Gothic forms have adapted, engaged with and represented the neoliberal agenda across the globe.
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WWF and Arctic environmentalism
This book explores WWF’s approach toward engagement in the Circumpolar North and reasons why it is relatively well-received by key northern audiences. It argues that the foundation of WWF’s success is based on four inter-related strategic pillars: legacy, networks, scientific research and communi...
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EU development cooperation
EU development cooperation policy has ceased to be unique and perhaps has become more symbolic than substantive. This book analyses the external and internal influencing factors which have contributed to the drastic changes to this policy.
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Screening the Hollywood rebels in 1950s Britain
This book makes a timely intervention in popular film culture, examining how three iconic Hollywood stars (Marlon Brando, James Dean and Elvis Presley) disrupted British youth culture when they starred in classic American films about juvenile delinquency.
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Gorbachev's export of Perestroika to Eastern Europe
This book looks at the liberalisation process in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) during the period 1987-1989, focusing on Gorbachev’s initiative to encourage perestroika in all the fraternal regimes of CEE outside the Soviet Union.
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The Jews in western Europe, 1400–1600
Through a broad-ranging collection of documents, John Edwards sets out to present a vivid picture of the Jewish presence in European life during this vital and turbulent period.
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Fighting like the Devil for the sake of God
This fascinating book about Belfast in the middle of the nineteenth century looks at how and why Ireland’s most prosperous and industrialized town began to tear itself apart. This study provides a vivid example of how a society can come apart at the seams – and how it can stay that way for genera...
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National perspectives on a multipolar order
This book explores how the concept of a multipolar order is being used for different purposes in different national contexts. It examines the ways that debates about power and order in the world are shaping the policies of rising and established powers alike.
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Local democracy, civic engagement and community
Focuses on local democratic politics in Britain over the last decade and a half from the election of the New Labour Government right up to the current Conservative/Liberal Democrat Coalition government.
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Britain’s rural Muslims
This book exposes the benefits of shifting academic attention away from the major conurbations of Muslim settlement, and reveals how a more rural county with relatively small Muslim populations also has a role to play in wider debates on Britain’s multicultural society.
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Humanitarian mobilization in Central and Eastern Europe
This volume examines humanitarianism in Central and Eastern Europe during the twentieth century. It challenges the often Western-focused history of humanitarianism by bringing together local, “private”, national, “socialist,” and international humanitarian actors.
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Colonial powers and Ethiopian frontiers 1880–1884
The fourth volume in the Acta Aethiopica series recovers and presents largely unknown original Ethiopian sources for how Ethiopian rulers dealt with the colonial endeavours of European powers in the first half of the 1880s. The texts are presented in facsimile as well as in English translation an...
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My Voice: Ernest Hirsch
Ernest'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. Ernest Hirsch was born in East Prussia, moved to Berlin and eventually escaped to England with his siblings on the Kindertransport. He...
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Hari Kunzru
This is the first edited collection on Hari Kunzru. With new individual essays on each of Kunzru’s novels as well as his short fiction and creative non-fiction, the book situates his writing within current debates on contemporary literature, and in relation to key historical events such as Brexit...
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Early modern women and the poem
Examine factors influencing the relationships between writers and readers of poetry in seventeenth-century England and Scotland
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Digital ecologies
In a context where digital media are reshaping the futures of conservation, environmentalism, and ecological politics — for better and for worse — Digital ecologies draws together leading scholars in the humanities and social sciences to establish a research agenda for making sense of these trans...
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