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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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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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'Adolf Island'
Drawing on more than a decade’s worth of historical, forensic and archaeological research, this book presents the first detailed investigation of the lives of the thousands of forced and slave labourers sent to Alderney under Nazi occupation.
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Southern interregnum
This book maps the ruptures and mutations that are currently reshaping the political economy of the global South and the wider world-system. Analysing political and economic dynamics across Brazil, India, China, and South Africa, it proposes a novel reading of durable crisis, hegemonic projects, ...
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Clyde Walcott
West Indies legend Sir Clyde Walcott was one of the greatest cricketers of all time, but he was also an important administrator and activist. This first biography offers a detailed examination of his extraordinary life and achievements.
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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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Borders of desire
Borders of Desire is a collection of studies from the eastern borders of Europe, particularly the Baltics and the Balkans, that take a novel approach to borders and the work they do. Instead of viewing borders only as obstructions to the fulfillment of desire, this book shows how borders produce ...
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Bordering Britain
(B)ordering Britain argues that Britain is the spoils of empire, its immigration law is colonial violence and irregular immigration is anti-colonial resistance.
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The new pornographies
Why do many of the most prominent books and films of the last decade return obsessively to the themes and imagery of pornography? Discussing many of France’s most successful and scandalous contemporary writers and directors, this book is the first to address this important trend.
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The cinema of Iciar Bollaín
Director, actress, scriptwriter and producer, Iciar Bollaín is one of the liveliest of contemporary young Spanish filmmakers and the first female director to have had a film (También la lluvia, 2010) shortlisted by the American Film Academy. Through detailed analysis of film form, socio-cultural ...
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Framing cosmologies
How might the anthropological study of cosmologies illuminate understandings of the contemporary world? This book addresses this question by bringing together anthropologists whose research is informed by a concern with cosmological dimensions of social life in different ethnographic settings
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New D.H. Lawrence
New D.H. Lawrence uses current and emergent approaches in literary studies to explore one of Britain’s major modernist writers. The collection features new work by the present generation of Lawrence scholars, who are brought together here for the first time. Chapters include: Andrew Harrison on t...
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Staging the revolution
Seeks to reassess the dramatic output of the Commonwealth, Protectorate and early Restoration; a period that has often been marginalised by specialists of both Renaissance and Restoration drama.
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Spenserian allegory and Elizabethan biblical exegesis
Critical analysis of the importance and influence of Elizabethan biblical typology on Spenser and the composition of the Faerie Queene.
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Cinematic countrysides
An innovative study of the neglected topic of cinematic representations of the countryside, through historical analysis, theoretical critique and explorations of genre, national cinema and urban representations
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My Voice: Harry Olmer
Harry'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. Harry experienced harrowing conditions in concentration and labour camps during the war. After liberation, he came to the UK, studied d...
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The personalisation of politics in the UK
What does it mean to say that politics is personalised? Providing an analysis of the 'personalisation' of modern British politics, this book challenges current theories and bridges the political science and media studies approaches to the subject.
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Death in modern theatre
This book analyses representations of death and dying in modern Western theatre from the late nineteenth century onward, examining how and why historically informed conceptions of mortality are dramatized and staged.
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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, Reilly – Ace of Spies and Edge of Darkness. Based on original research and extensive interviews with Troy Kennedy Martin h...
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Armed non-state actors and the politics of recognition
This edited volume examines asymmetric conflict dynamics through the politics of recognition vis-à-vis armed non-state actors. It explores a diverse range of case studies and considers the risks and opportunities that (non-)recognition may involve for transforming armed conflicts.
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Labour and working-class lives
This collection of essays deals with the latest research on British labour history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It has been written by leading British historians, such as Ken Brown, Malcolm Chase and Matthew Worley, in honour of Professor Chris Wrigley
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Family rhythms
This text 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 Official Record
The construction, control and preservation of the Official Record is inherently contested. This volume interrogates the boundaries between national security, accountability, oversight, and the Official Record in the context of democratic states.
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Art, commerce and colonialism 1600–1800
The book re-examines the field of Renaissance art history by exploring the art of this era in the light of global connections. It considers the movement of objects, ideas and technologies and its significance for European art and material culture, analysing images through the lens of cultural enc...
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Ways of Knowing
This classic MUP text discusses the historical development of science, technology and medicine in Western Europe and North America from the Renaissance to the present. Combining theoretical discussion and empirical illustration, it redefines the geography of science, technology and medicine.
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Modernist Sexualities
In this study, critics working in Britain, Canada and the United States discuss modernism's imaginative rethinkings of sex, gender and sexuality. Employing diverse theoretical approaches, the essays in this volume show how modernism intersects with historical developments such as the suffragette ...
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Jacob Talmon
The first book-length account in English of Jacob Talmon and his work on humanism, the university and society, and the ideal role of professors and scientists.
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Understanding baby loss
This book offers an in-depth sociological analysis of parent and professional experience of baby loss, examining the role that post-mortem can play in the wider context of bereavement.
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Might, right, prosperity and consent
This book offers an original analysis of the problem of the authority of the state in democracies by focusing on the relationship between that authority and the development of the international economy through the twentieth century.
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Queer cinema in contemporary France
Comprehensive in scope, Queer cinema in contemporary France traces the development of the meaning of queer across five French directors’ careers, from their earliest, often unknown films to their later, major films with international release.
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Screening songs in Hispanic and Lusophone cinema
In this volume, eighteen experts from a variety of academic backgrounds explore the use of songs in films from the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds. This volume illustrates how – rather than simply helping to tell the story of – songs in Hispanic and Lusophone cinema commonly upset the hie...
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Irish governance in crisis
Ireland’s international reputation has suffered periodic fluctuation, from model case of rapid development, to exemplar of political and economic mismanagement. This book argues that both perspectives overlook more important and persistent features of Irish political life.
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Defending Eastern Europe
This book utilises three theoretical models to analyse the defence conditions and preparedness of all the states of Eastern Europe. It considers the transition from Cold War communism to post-Cold War democracies, the stability of the East-Central European States, the precarious defence positions...
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The West must wait
Examines the disconnect between local expectations of what independence would deliver and what was actually achieved by the incumbent Cumann na nGaedheal government
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Decadence
An annotated anthology of the ever-fascinating tradition of Decadence in 19th-century writing, including key manifestos, critical declarations, poems, stories, critical responses, parodies, and ancient Roman antecedents. the book forms an essential resource for undergraduate and postgraduate stu...
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Real and Reel
From a little before ten years of age Brian McFarlane became addicted to stories told on the screen, and the mere fact that he had difficulty in getting to see the films he wanted - or any for that matter - only made them seem more alluring. But it wasn't just seeing the films that mattered: he a...
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Performing Medicine
The book offers a fresh and distinctive account of the transformation of provincial English medicine from the late eighteenth to the mid nineteenth centuries. Written by one of the leading scholars in the field it demonstrates how the roots of modern medicine can be located in the cultural, polit...
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Gothic incest
Challenges dominant accounts of gender and sexuality in Gothic literature by demonstrating the complexities of the incest thematic through interdisciplinary readings of incest in texts from 1764–1847.
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The loneliness room
The loneliness room is a richly evocative account of loneliness as told through the photographs, videos, songs, poems, and writings supplied by its participants.
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Practising EU foreign policy
This book looks at practitioners’ approaches to the EU’s foreign policy to its eastern neighbourhood, particularly Russia, and offers a new methodology for capturing practices using the analytical approach of Discursive International Relations and the Discursive Practice Model.
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Eric Rohmer
This comprehensive study of Eric Rohmer generously surveys the director’s five-decade career, exploring questions of production, cinematic realism, style and technique, serial filmmaking, and historical adaptation.
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Global health and the new world order
What does global health stem from, when is it born and how does it relate to the contemporary world order? In this book, historians and anthropologists tackle these questions by exploring the transnational circulation of drugs, bugs, therapies, biomedical technologies and people in the context of...
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Tamburlaine the Great (Revels Student Edition)
Expanded footnotes designed to help readers from all levels of familiarity with Elizabethan drama. Emphasis on the play as a theatre text - informative stage-directions. Stimulating introduction, which makes something of a break from the orthodox style .
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The politics of health promotion
This book examines the quest to promote the health and vigour of individuals and populations in Denmark and England. Based on a detailed account of obesity control and mental recovery programs, the book shows that these interventions are supported by a form of optimistic vitalism that seems to ha...
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The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade
The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade saw the British Empire turn naval power and moral outrage against a branch of commerce it had done so much to promote. The assembled authors bridge the gap between ship and shore to reveal the motives, effects, and legacies of this nineteenth-century ca...
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Living politics after war
This book is about how former combatants live politics as they come home from war. Building on life histories from three very different wars, this book demonstrates how veteran identities, networks, war experiences and coming home experiences together make up a life of politics for former combata...
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The English manor c.1200–c.1500
This book provides a comprehensive introduction and essential guide to one of the most important institutions in medieval England and to its substantial archive. This is the first book to offer a detailed explanation of the form, structure and evolution of the manor and its records.
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The Schubert song companion
This reference book provides an encyclopaedic guide to every song by Schubert for solo voice and piano, 600 in all, including different versions, unfinished songs and variants.
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Foreigners, minorities and integration
Explores the arrival and development of Muslim immigrant communities in Britain and Germany during the post-1945 period through the case studies of Newcastle upon Tyne and Bremen
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Citizen Manchester
An insight into the refurbishment of Manchester's Town Hall Extension and Central Library, through large-format photographs
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Contemporary Spanish cinema and genre
This book analyses the significant changes in the aesthetics, production and reception of Spanish cinema and genre from 1990 to the present while providing multiple perspectives on the concepts of national cinemas and genre theory.
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Government by referendum
A perfect primer for anyone interested in the politics of referendums.
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My Voice: Rosel Siev
Rosel'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. Rosel experienced Kristallnacht in Frankfurt, Germany, following which she came to the UK in 1938 aged 17. She moved to Manchester and ...
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Chartist drama
This volume opens a window onto a unique culture of politicised working-class drama by offering four plays that highlight the diversity of Chartist performance: a verse tragedy concerning the Newport rising; a Gothic melodrama; a frequently reenacted treason trial; and a Romantic-era history play.
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Richard Brome
Offers a groudbreaking and authoritative account of the life and works of Richard Brome, the leading comic playwright of 1630s London - reconstructs the chronology of his career from manservant to successful professional dramatist and beyond, and discusses all his comedies, including the two best...
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Welsh missionaries and British imperialism
This book follows Thomas Jones, the first Welsh missionary from rural Wales to Cherrapunji, now one of the most Christianised parts of India. It foregrounds broader political, scientific, racial and military ideologies that mobilised the Khasi Hills into an interconnected network of imperial cont...
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Interventions
This book aims to intervene in current critical contexts for the study of nineteenth-century literature within the academy and beyond. Topics discussed include science and technology, poetry and philosophy, the Gothic, anatomical exhibitions, Punjabi popular culture and the neo-Victorian in liter...
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Barry Hines
This is the first full-length critical study of the work of Barry Hines, best know as the author of A Kestrel for a Knave
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The intellectual culture of the English country house, 1500–1700
A ground-breaking collection of essays by leading and emerging scholars, which uncovers the vibrant intellectual life of early modern provincial England.
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Essex
Collection of new essays about the earl of Essex, one of the most important figures of the Elizabethan court
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The Central Asian Revolt of 1916
This volume provides a comprehensive reinterpretation of the 1916 Central Asian Revolt - a key event in the history of Central Asia, the Russian Empire and the First World War.
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The politics of airport expansion in the United Kingdom
The first in-depth analysis of the protest campaigns and policymaking practices that have marked British aviation since the construction of Heathrow Airport
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The British question
This book is designed as both a framework text – setting out concepts by which to understand the British question - and a synthetic text – providing a digest of significant academic work on historical, conceptual and political matters relevant to that question.
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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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Stories from small museums
This book tells the story of the boom in smalls museums that took place in Britain from the 1960s onwards. Drawing on extensive interview materials, it explores why community groups, families and individuals were inspired to set up museums, teasing out the connections between personal experience ...
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Deco Dandy
This book productively contests the supposedly exclusive feminine aspect of the style moderne (Art Deco). Through a sustained focus on the figure of the dandy, the books claims an essential role and place of the male body and masculinity in the history of Art Deco.
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Workers, state and development in Brazil
Provides an in-depth study of agrarian capitalist developmental in Brazil.
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Democratic citizenship and the European Union
This book analyses the political legitimacy of the European Union. Developing a distinctive normative theory of political association, it evaluates the project of European integration. It develops its arguments through an original interplay of political science and political theory.
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Mothers and meaning on the early modern English stage
Examines the political rhetoric of Mary I, Elizabeth and James, reported gallows confessions of mother convicts and the increasingly popular Puritan conduct books
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European regionalism and the left
Written against a backdrop of global economic and political turbulence as well as mounting crisis for the European Union, this book examines the relationship between contemporary European regionalism and the broadly defined political left.
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Tea and empire
This book brings to life for the first time the remarkable story of James Taylor, ‘father of the Ceylon tea enterprise’ in the nineteenth century, and examines the dark side of planting life including violence and conflict, oppression and despair.
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Jean Cocteau
A comprehensive, original and accessible account of all aspects of Jean Cocteau's work in the cinema. The first major study in English for over forty years. Casts new light on Cocteau's most celebrated films as well as the lesser known ones.
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Visual culture in Spain and Mexico
Visual culture in Spain and Mexico analyses films, paintings and museum exhibitions to show how aspects of hispanic visual culture ‘manage’ or ‘mediate’ risk, as articulated stylistically and ideologically in the visual artefact. The book is divided into six chapters plus an Introduction. The fir...
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Montage
Montage is an informed and highly original study in the styles and histories of film editing. Drawing on a wide range of directors and films, the book demonstrates the fundamental importance of montage aesthetics to the art of cinema and the practice of film criticism.
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Victorians and the Virgin Mary
This study of competing representations of the Virgin Mary examines how Victorian anxieties about religious and gender identities intersected to create public controversies that, whilst ostensibly about theology and liturgy, were also attempts to define the role and nature of women
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Illegitimacy in English law and society, 1860–1930
Unlike most other studies of illegitimacy, Frost's book concentrates on the late-Victorian period and the early twentieth century, and takes the child's point of view rather than that of the mother or of 'child-saving' groups.
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The civil service and the revolution in Ireland 1912–1938
Refutes the orthodox view that the independent Irish State accepted intact the civil service inherited from the former British regime in Dublin Castle
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The sea in Russian strategy
This book brings together leading specialists from public policy and academia to reflect on historical and contemporary aspects of Russian maritime power.
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Lance Comfort
Charts Lance Comfort's career in full
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The evolving role of nation-building in US foreign policy
Weaving together International Relations theory and a rich history drawing mainly on declassified documents, interviews and other primary sources, this book contributes to theoretical discussions of nation-building while offering a critique of Realist and Critical Security School analyses of US p...
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People and piety
This compelling collection examines the ‘lived devotion’ of men and women in England’s Long Reformation. Through cutting-edge research, fourteen chapters explore how English piety was at once segregational and social, fixed in principle yet fluid in practice, and where authors worked out their fa...
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Mental health nursing
Seeks to integrate the history of mental health nursing with the wider history of institutional and community care.
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Bulmer Hobson and the Nationalist movement in twentieth-century Ireland
This book examines Bulmer Hobson (1883-1969) nationalist career in the period 1900-16, as well as his lesser-known activities in the years after the rebellion.
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