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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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Discourses on LGBT asylum in the UK
This book looks at the specificities of the exclusion of LGBT refugees, to show how the cultural politics of queer migration help us rethink emancipatory sexual politics.
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Managing diabetes, managing medicine
Through its study of British diabetes care, this book asks how such a shift occurred, how systems of management were constructed, and what this says about diabetes care and modern medicine.
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The working class in mid-twentieth-century England
Academics and students researching modern and contemporary social and cultural history, sociology, cultural studies and human geography
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Murder in Marseille
On 9 October 1934, the Ustashe, a Croatian terrorist group, killed King Alexander I of Yugoslavia in a Marseille street. This book examines the circumstances, processes, and trajectories that shaped the Ustashe terrorists and their attack in Marseille.
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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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A history of the New Zealand fiction feature film
A history of the New Zealand fiction feature film is the only comprehensive account of the New Zealand feature film from its beginnings to the present. Countering tendencies to think of New Zealand film as beginning in the 1970s, Bruce Babington discloses a longer saga showing how the present, fo...
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In the company of wolves
This volume of essays presents innovative research from a variety of perspectives on the cultural significance of wolves, children raised by wolves, and werewolves, as portrayed in different media and genres.
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Gender, migration and the global race for talent
This book analyses the gendered terrain of skilled immigration policies across twelve countries and thirty seven skilled immigration visas. It argues that while skilled immigration policies are often gendered, this outcome is not inevitable and that governments possess considerable scope in polic...
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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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The Enlightenment and religion
This publication offers a critical survey of religious change and its causes in 18th-century Europe. Focusing on Enlightenment Italy, France and England, the text illustrates how the canonical view of 18th-century religious change has in reality been constructed upon scant evidence and assumption
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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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Margins of desire
Who said that the suburbs are boring? The suburban trick is to look ordinary and be extraordinary, as Lynne Hapgood's absorbing discussion of the suburbs in fiction from 1880-1925 reveals.
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The Auto/biographical
This feminist literary study discusses postmodern ideas about the self, particularly about the way in which selves are constructed by biography and autobiography. The author particularly examines the manner in which women write about themselves.
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Writing the history of parliament in Tudor and early Stuart England
Historians and literary scholars explore the rise of parliament in the historical imagination of Tudor and early Stuart England. Collectively the essays demonstrate that the evolution of historical conceptions of parliament was central to the ecclesiological and political thinking and culture of...
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The United States in the Indo-Pacific
This edited volume examines the legacies former US President Barack Obama leaves across Asia and the Pacific, as well as the endurance of, and prospects for, those legacies two years into the Presidency of Donald Trump.
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Equality and the British Left
Newly available in paperback, the first comprehensive historical study of egalitarian ideas advocated by the British Left. Offers a compelling new perspective on British political thought, will appeal to scholars and students of British history and political theory and to anyone interested in con...
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Painting Dublin, 1886–1949
This book explores artists’ visualisations of Dublin during a key period of the city’s political and social history. Based on close and contextual readings of original paintings and prints, along with new archival research, it shows how artists in Ireland creatively responded to the urban environ...
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Doubting sex
This groundbreaking analysis of nineteenth-century European clinical case histories of hermaphrodites shows how sex changed from an outward appearance inscribed in a social body to something to be found deep inside body and self.
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From Beveridge to Blair
The creation of Britain’s welfare state in 1948 was an event of major international importance. Designed to provide a concise introduction to the evolution of both the structure of the welfare state and attitudes towards it. Concentrates on five core services: health care, education, social secur...
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The labour movement in Lebanon
Power on hold examines the course of the labour movement in Lebanon since independence in 1943, giving specific attention to the role of state incorporation in the preservation of the sectarian-liberal system.
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The state and ‘terrorists’ in Nepal and Northern Ireland
This book compares the use of ‘terrorism’ by states in the Global North (Britain in Northern Ireland) and South (Nepal), examining particular events over time. As such, it questions conventional understandings that a) states cannot be ‘terrorists’ and b) that post ‘9/11’ terrorism is new.
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Devolution in Britain today
Devolution in Britain today provides a comprehensive analysis of both the historical development and current state of devolved government. The book is written in a clear and accessible style for students either encountering devolution for the first time or for those who need to explore the subjec...
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Penguin Books and political change
This book employs the history of Penguin Books to offer a new account of Britain’s post-war politics.
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Revolution, democratic transition and disillusionment
Using Romania as a case study, this book develops a fresh perspective on the transition from communism to capitalism by arguing that transition and democratisation studies should turn their attention towards processes of illusion formation and disillusionment as key to understanding the shift fr...
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Martha Gellhorn: The war writer in the field and in the text
St. Louis-born Martha Gellhorn (1908-98) was the doyenne of twentieth century war correspondence. In this first critical study of her Second World War fiction and journalism, Kate McLoughlin makes the connection between Gellhorn's intrepid progress through the war zone and her textual constructio...
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The making of a status symbol
This book shows how Rolex has become the embodiment of individual success since the 1960s. This brand is much more than a watch: it is a narrative on a triple exceptionality: that of a product, that of an entrepreneur, and that of the wealthy consumers who wear it. A must-read for understanding t...
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Running the Family Firm
The British royal family has experienced a resurgence in public interest at the same time as global inequalities have expanded between ‘the elites’ and ‘the rest’. Yet, the monarchy is absent from conversations about inequality. This is the only book arguing that we cannot talk about inequalities...
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Sinister histories
Showing how the Gothic can be read as a complex reaction to Enlightenment methods of historical representation, Sinister histories uncovers hitherto neglected relationships between Gothic texts and prominent works of eighteenth-century history.
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My Voice: Jeannine Scher
Jeannine'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. Jeannine Scher was born in Paris until her family moved to the Vichy Zone, which they also had to leave. Jeannine later taught Maths...
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Developments in Latin American political economy
A unique approach to contemporary Latin America, this volume brings together a diverse range of experts to discuss people and issues of core significance in the region.
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Writing Black Britain, 1948–98
The first anthology of its kind, this timely collection brings together a diverse range of black British literatures, essays and documents from across the post-war period within a single volume.. Spanning half a century, this rich archive of representations includes South Asian, African and Carib...
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Out of his mind
In a society that defined manhood as a mastery of self-control, the madman stood as a horrifying example of what could go wrong. Out of His Mind is a socio-cultural study of the madman in Victorian society; through in-depth case studies and broad surveys of emergent trends it explores popular anx...
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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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The Norman Geras Reader
This reader provides an overview of the work of Norman Geras - philosopher, cricket enthusiast and influential political blogger - on Marxist theory, the importance of liberalism, the contemporary rise of anti-Semitism and the moral duty to help those suffering from extreme cruelty at the hands o...
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Imagining Armenia
This book examines how Armenia and Armenians were portrayed in Britain at a decisive moment in modern history, when diplomats, scholars and humanitarians engaged with the past, present and future of Armenia.
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European labour movements in crisis
Prosser argues that labour movements respond to European integration in a manner which instigates competition between national labour markets. The book’s hypothesis has key implications for debates about labour movements and the EU and its engaging style will captivate scholars, students and poli...
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The British left and Zionism
The changes and divisions on the British left over the Israel-Palestine conflict forms the central theme of this archive based study.
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Resilient reporting
This timely book examines how election news reporting has changed over the last half-century in Ireland, by analysing reporting in terms of framing, tone, and the distribution of coverage.
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How media and conflicts make migrants
Based on interviews and workshops with refugees in both countries, the book develops the concept of “migrantification” – in which people are made into migrants by the state, the media and members of society.
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Fools and idiots?
Combines modern and medieval approaches to intellectual disability, and engages with a very wide range of sources in order to fill a major gap in this relatively new field, and demonstrate that disability, illness and healthcare are embedded in daily life.
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Creating character
Through innovative readings of seven novels, Creating character demonstrates how the Victorian sensation authors Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins employed, challenged and explored diverse, and sometimes contradictory, theories of character formation in their fiction
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Between earth and heaven
Examines the teaching of the theology of Christ’s ascension in Anglo-Saxon literature, offering the only comprehensive examination of how patristic ascension theology is transmitted, adapted and taught to Anglo-Saxon audiences
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Auto/biographical discourses
In the forefront of the large and growing interest in life-writings. A comprehensive account of the criticism and theory of autobiography. The book makes complex debates accessible to a wide readership.
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Sex and desire in British films of the 2000s
This book explores how British filmmakers of the 2000s engaged with the themes of love, sex and desire. It ranges from powerful contemporary dramas such as Kidulthood, Closer and Disobedience to the lighter mood of the Bridget Jones series, as well as exploring dramatisations of the lives of Osca...
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Contemporary French cinema
Contemporary French cinema is an essential introduction to popular French film of the last 35 years. It charts recent developments in all genres of French cinema with analyses of over 120 movies, from Les Valseuses to Caché.Reflecting the diversity of French film production since the New Wave, th...
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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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The international politics of central Asia
Central Asia is a fascinating region yet remote and unfamiliar to many people. This new study provides an introduction to the politics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgzstan, Tajikistan, Turkestan, and Uzbekistan.
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The business of everyday life
The book explores the previously under-researched patterns and practices that fashioned a modern consumer society, charting the evolving habits among English men and women across three centuries.
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The Labour Party and the world, volume 2
This is the second book in a unique two-volume study that traces the evolution of the Labour Party’s foreign policy throughout the 20th century to the present date.
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Lordship in four realms
Examines the rise and fall of the aristocratic Lacy family in England, Ireland, Wales and Normandy. As one of the first truly transnational studies of individual medieval aristocrats, it provides a fresh look at lordship and the interplay between aristocracy and crown from 1166 to 1241.
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In solidarity, under suspicion
A collection of original research on far-left groups and activists in Britain from the 1950s onwards, focusing in particular on themes of international solidarity, British Black Power, experiences of policing and surveillance, and relationships to the Labour Party.
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The reality of film
In formulating a notion of filmic reality, The Reality of Film offers a novel way of understanding our relationship to cinema. It argues that cinema need not be understood in terms of its capacities to refer to, reproduce or represent reality, but should be understood in terms of the kinds of rea...
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The child in Spanish cinema
The first full-length treatment of the child in Spanish cinema
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Hierarchies and exclusion in humanitarianism
Hierarchies and exclusion in humanitarianism analyses – through diverse disciplinary perspectives and methods - how hierarchies, power asymmetries and exclusion emerge, are maintained and can ultimately be challenged in humanitarian governance. It informs current efforts to increase inclusiveness...
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Globalgothic
This collection of essays redefines what gothic has become in the contemporary world, examining the idea of an emerging gothic that is inextricable from the broader global context in which it circulates. Globalgothic expands the horizons of the genre in diverse new and exciting ways.
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Insanity, identity and empire
Based on over 3000 institutional records, Coleborne's study will have wider relevance outside of the history of medicine and psychiatry. It has a global perspective but focuses on specific destinations, and in so doing, contributes in an innovative way to global history and the history of human m...
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Thorold Dickinson
A comprehensive volume which looks at the multifaceted career of one of Britain's most underrated film directors, with contributions from Martin Scorcese, Kevin Jackson, Gavin Millar and others
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From virtue to venality
Examines the problem of corruption in British urban society and politics between 1930 and 1995
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Ultras
Ultras are the most prominent form of football fandom in the 21st century, from their origins in Italy in the 1960s, this style of fandom has spread across Europe and then across the globe. This book provides the first European-wide monograph on the ultras phenomenon.
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Picturing women in late medieval and renaissance art
This extensively illustrated book discusses the representation of women in the art of the late Middle Ages in Northern Europe. Drawing on a wide range of different media, but making particular use of the rich plethora of woodcuts, the author charts how the images of women changed during the perio...
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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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Humanitarian handicraft
This book explores the neglected history of textile crafts in projects of social and moral reform and considers how historical processes have become materialised in contemporary humanitarian craft-work.
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Rethinking equality
Although formally equal, relations between citizens are actually characterised by many and varied forms of inequality. Rethinking Equality provides a clear, critical and very up-to-date account of the most important contemporary egalitarian theories.
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Mrs Dalloway
Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a novel offers readers new to Virginia Woolf a lively introduction to this timeless classic, while providing established lovers with a wealth of information about the novel’s writing, publication and reception.
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Drifting north
Scotland is closely tied to climate change and fossil capitalism, having played a pivotal role in its spread. Journalist Dominic Hinde travels between its Highlands, islands and cities, drawing parallels between his personal recovery and the uncertain transition from fossil fuels. He asks: can pa...
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Culture is not an industry
Culture is not an industry argues that art and culture in the UK need to renew their social contract and re-align with the radical agenda for a more equitable future. Bold and uncompromising, the book offers a powerful vision for change.
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Cinematic perspectives on international law
This book seeks to detect the ways of thinking about international law present in films and TV series, placing focus on the various conceptions of law that are conveyed by the analysed material. The objective is to show how and why cinematographic representations depart from interpretations of ru...
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Murky water
This book makes a powerful contribution to the debate on the UK water system, exposing the problems and arguing that a radical overhaul is crucial for a sustainable future.
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Songs of Seven Dials
Centring on a 1927 libel trial, this book tells the story of the cosmopolitan London neighbourhood of Seven Dials and its battles with racism and gentrification throughout the 1920s and 1930s, a struggle that would shape the city we know today.
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The Royal and Russian Navies
A definitive history of cooperation between the Royal Navy and Russian Navy from 1988 to 2014. It provides lessons learned by both sides and recommends a pathway to military dialogue, as political circumstances dictate. The book enhances our understanding of both the Russians and the Russian Navy...
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The Devil's Charter
This Malone Society edition of Barnabe Barnes’s The Devil’s Charter presents a photo-facsimile of the 1607 quarto, with an Introduction to its printing history, its date and authorship (including the attribution of some scenes to Robert Armin), its performance, and later history. New material on ...
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A Practice of Pleasure
This intimate collection explores the life and work of Joanna Frueh. Featuring previously unpublished texts from her career, A Practice of Pleasure offers a candid, scholarly, and personal meditation on female, sexual, and everyday pleasures, embodying Frueh’s unique approach to art and life.
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Lying abroad
Lying abroad reconstructs the tumultuous early modern career of a jobbing ambassador, Henry Wotton, the man James I sent to Venice in 1604 to restore Anglo-Venetian relations. It recounts his back-story then follows his daily life in diplomacy, poised between tedium and crisis – a life endlessly ...
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How to be multiple
This illuminating, entertaining book offers philosophical and personal reflections on twinhood and how it can help us imagine the possibility of a more interconnected human future.
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Debating medieval Europe
An entirely original textbook format to introduce students to medieval European history: this is the second volume covering the central and later medieval centuries
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Containing decolonisation
This book examines the relationship of imperialism and ethnonationalism. Through a case study of colonial Burma, it finds that British imperialists amplified ethnonationalism to protect their interests after decolonisation. This preference helped Burmese ethnonationalists to seize power in the po...
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The devil’s highway
Branded the Devil’s Highway, nineteenth century Ratcliffe Highway was associated with crime and vice. In contrast, this book argues that sailortown was a distinctive and functional community. This community fostered an urban-maritime culture that shaped a sense of themselves and the conventions t...
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She played and sang
Jane Austen, widely acclaimed as one of the greatest English novelists, possessed another talent that enriched her life and work – music. She played and sang draws on the music books of the Austen family, granting us a deeper understanding of the writer's artistic prowess and the influences that ...
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Art and citizenship in conflict
Art and citizenship in conflict examines how British women war artists used visual art to question, even reframe prevailing ideas about citizenship during the Second World War. Their paintings, prints, and drawings expose the sometimes-deep contradiction laying at the intersection of being a woma...
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Invoking Empire
Invoking Empire combines nine case studies from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa to demonstrate the diverse ways people continued to interact with imperial authority in the decades before and after their colonies gained self-government, attending specifically to their efforts to a...
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Strange matter
Entering into productive dialogue with recent trends in criticism, Strange matter: Medieval disruptions of time scrutinises a wide range of European and non-European texts and artworks to generate innovative perspectives on objects from the Middle Ages and the various ways they inform and complic...
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Herminie and Fanny Pereire
This book, a companion to the author's acclaimed Emile and Isaac Pereire (2015), sheds new light on elite Jewish families in nineteenth-century France.
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Demystifying informal urban design and planning
Borrowing from Isaiah Berlin’s foxes vs hedgehogs and Gregory Treverton’s puzzle vs mystery solving analogies, this book encourages urban designers to be multitaskers like foxes, rather than hedgehogs who can do one thing right. Thinking this way allows them to better engage with and unravel the ...
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The Fairy Tales of Jim Henson
This book provides a new perspective on the work of Jim Henson, the important but often overlooked creator of screen fairytales.
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