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The Gulf monarchies after the Arab Spring
This book applies an original theoretical framework to unpack the threat perceptions and strategic calculus driving the behaviour of the Gulf monarchies, which emerged after the Arab Spring as major geopolitical players in the Middle East and North Africa region and as middle powers destined to p...
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Antony and Cleopatra
This books looks at Antony and Cleopatra in performance from 1606 to 2018, examining how actors, directors and designers pick up the play's themes of desire and delinquency, exoticism and erotic politics to locate the most ambituous love story ever told in a new present. Is the play tragedy? Come...
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John Ford's America
This volume explores John Ford's preoccupations throughout his long career, showing how he attempted to come to terms with American history, with how America kept changing its relationship with history and how many of the myths of the ‘West’ were just that – myths.
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Russian strategy in the Middle East and North Africa
The book analyses Russia’s political and economic interests in the Middle East and North Africa, its relations with the MENA countries and its diplomatic engagement with the Western powers. It examines Russia’s strategy in the region, including its role in the Syria conflict, in the context of it...
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Spectacles and the Victorians
This book explores how the Victorians standardised vision and transformed spectacle use. It offers new insights into how technology and its adoption in medical and non-medical contexts shaped, and continues to shape, our understanding of sensory perception and the assimilation of assistive devices.
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Inventing the modern region
This book explores the process by which the French Basque country acquired a folkloric regional identity in the long nineteenth century. It argues that, despite originating in pre-‘modern’ customs, such stereotypical identity was invented in the long nineteenth century as part of France’s process...
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Encountering extremism
This book presents a unique, in-depth and critical analysis of preventing and countering extremism. A multidisciplinary analysis of both theoretical and practical aspects related to extremism, the volume provides an overview of the timeliest debates on the topic and the possibility for the reader...
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Shakespeare, memory, and modern Irish literature
Shakespeare, memory, and modern Irish literature explores the intertextual connections between early modern English and modern Irish literature. Characterising the relationship as ‘dismemorial’, the book explores how ghosts, bodies, and the land are sites of literary connection through which cont...
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Karl Polanyi and twenty-first-century capitalism
This book extends the boundaries of our understanding of Karl Polanyi's life and work. The contributors consider the links between Polanyi's ideas and income inequality, world systems theory, and comparative political economy.
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Surviving repression
Surviving repression tells the story of the Muslim Brotherhood in the aftermath of the 2013 coup. It is the first book of its kind to analyse the movement’s recent trajectories by showcasing the experiences of its individual members, analysing how their responses to repression are affecting the m...
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Development, architecture, and the formation of heritage in late twentieth-century Iran
Utilising an architectural lens, this book illustrates how development instigates interest in the past and in the process, creates heritage. It show multiple uses of the past and their contestation in highly fluid social contexts.
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International organisations, non-State actors, and the formation of customary international law
This collection of essays provides the most comprehensive study of the theory and practice of the contribution of international organisations and non-state actors to the formation of customary international law. The book offers new practical and theoretical perspectives on one of the most complex...
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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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Shakespeare's liminal spaces
Shakespeare's liminal spaces provides a unique set of perspectives through which Shakespeare’s forests, battlefields, shores and gardens are revealed as deliberate dramatic devices with the capacity to destabilise social structures.
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Latin America and international investment law
This book analyses the complex relationships between governments and foreign investors, and the influence of international organisations, corporations, civil society, and indigenous peoples, to examine the contribution that Latin America has made to the theory and practice of international invest...
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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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Nationalism and the State
Penny politics offers a new way to read early Victorian popular fiction such as Jack Sheppard, Sweeney Todd, and The Mysteries of London. It locates forms of radical discourse in the popular literature that emerged simultaneously with Brittan’s longest and most significant people’s movement. It l...
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East German intelligence and Ireland, 1949–90
This book is an in-depth examination of the relations between Ireland and the former East Germany between the end of the Second World War and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Heritopia
Heritopia creatively investigates the meaning of the past in the present, using Abu Simbel and other World Heritage sites as points of departure. It paves the way for a new discourse about pastness, heritage and society. In doing so, it overcomes the division between critical heritage inquiry and...
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Race and the Obama Administration
Did African Americans benefit from the election of Barack Obama? This book explores Obama's successes and failures on race policies by comparing his record to those of previous presidents, and explains why black support of Obama remained strong throughout his presidency.
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Britain in China
This is a study of Britain's presence in China both at its peak, and during its inter-war dissolution in the face of assertive Chinese nationalism and declining British diplomatic support. Using archival materials from China and records in Britain and the United States, the author paints a portra...
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Connecting sounds
An original and compelling account of the social nature of music and its interplay with the wider society to which it belongs. Crossley explores the doing and meanings of music, as well as its interface with economic, political and wider social structures.
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Mozart and the Wolf Gang
Mozart and the Wolf Gang is a kaleidoscope of a book, which stretches even the bounds of Anthony Burgess's fictions.. With its sizzying swirl of formal and thematic invention, this slim book may strike one as something even more impossible that any of Burgess' earlier tours de force.
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The Bakhtin circle
This book is a collection of essays on the most important figures associated with the Bakhtin Circle. It offers new biographical material, valuable translations of important Russian texts, a timeline and extensive bibliographical references.
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Time Lords and Star Cops
This book explores science fiction television in the 1970s and 80s, analysing the changes under neoliberalism and the rise of Thatcherism.
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Chagos Islanders in Mauritius and the UK
This is the first book to compare the experiences of displaced Chagos islanders in Mauritius with the experiences of those Chagossians who have moved to the UK since 2002. It provides a unique ethnographic comparative study of forced displacement and onward migration within the living memory of o...
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Brave community
A full-length modern study of the Diggers, among the most remarkable of the radical groups to emerge during the English Revolution of 1640-60. Provides a reassessment of the Digger leader Gerrard Winstanley, a figure who has attracted great interest in recent years amongst historians, literary sc...
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Resisting history
Resisting History examines the unexpected origins of our modern notion of the subconscious. Written in a fresh and entertaining style, this concise volume argues that this fundamental tenet of psychological thought derives from the attempts of theologians, historians and psychologists to contain...
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The challenge of the sublime
This interdisciplinary study looks at the influence of Edmund Burke's theories of the sublime on British Romantic art, arguing that it is far more significant than previously imagined.
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Time and memory in reggae music
On the basis of a body of reggae songs from the 1970s and late 1990s, the author offers a sociological analysis of memory, hope and redemption in reggae music.
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The BBC and national identity in Britain, 1922–53
This book is the first study of how the BBC, through radio, tried to represent what it meant to be British. The book combines an examination of the BBC's desire to construct a strong, unitary sense of Britishness (through empire and the monarchy) with a thorough consideration of the broadcasting ...
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The world turned upside down?
This book interrogates the widespread claim that contemporary globalization has ended the centrality of the state in world affairs and is effectively irreversible. It offers discriminating definitions of globalization, internationalization and international interdependence and demonstrates diffic...
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Comrades in conflict
This is the first in-depth academic study of the Labour Government’s 1969 attempt to introduce industrial relations to curb strikes by trade unions. Using archival sources, this book explains how this attempt provoked strong opposition in the Party, and from the unions, to the extent that it was ...
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Genre and performance: film and television
This book explores how popular film and television genres frame our understanding of on-screen performance. It brings together innovative and inspiring work on this topic from both renowned and newer academics in the field and examines a much neglected area.
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Bounded rationality in decision-making
Challenging standard economic models, this book shows how farmers tend to use cognitive shortcuts and how professional pride frequently trumps profit considerations when farmers make decisions about fertilizers and other types of decisions.
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Incest in Sweden, 1680–1940
This study explores the radical shift in notions of incest in Sweden from 1680 to 1940, a period in which the country went from having the strictest laws in Europe to some of the most liberal. It reveals the norms underpinning this shift and situates them in a European context.
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French London
This book offers a refreshing interdisciplinary perspective on an under-researched migrant minority: the French in London. Through a blended ethnographic lens, it provides insights into the complex lived experience of cross-Channel mobility and settlement processes in on-land and on-line settings.
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Ireland's Magdalen laundries and the nation's architecture of containment
This book contends that Ireland’s Magdalen laundries chiefly exist in the public mind at the level of story (cultural representation and survivor testimony) rather than history (archival history and documentation).
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Film audiences
This book is paradigm-shifting in the study of film audiences. It develops new theory on audiences as a process and new methodology for studying audiences based on extensive new empirical data on audiences.
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Anti-computing
The computerization of culture appears relentless and unstoppable. In response Anti-Computing deals in dissent. Engaging with critical theory and media archaeology, working with rich and varied materials, it explores key moments when computer technologies, logics, techniques, imaginaries, utopias...
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The United Nations and peacekeeping, 1988–95
Make a genuine contribution to our understanding of international politics in the UN which includes the General Assembly committees, the Security Council and the UN Secretariat
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Hospitals and charity
This is the first book in English to provide a comprehensive examination of the hospital movement that arose and prospered in northern Italy between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries.
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Detachment
An exciting and cutting-edge volume of essays, which collectively and singularly aim to challenge the conventions of connectivity and relationality in social theory and description through a serious and crucially ethnographic reflection on the category of ‘detachment’
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Making and remaking saints in nineteenth-century Britain
This original collection of essays examines for the first time the place of 'saints' and sanctity in nineteenth-century Britain.
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The Pianoplayers
Anthony Burgess’s funny, moving, autobiographical novel that brings to life the world of silent cinemas and music-halls of 1920s Manchester and Blackpool. Fully annotated and with a new introduction, this is an authoritative text for a new generation of readers.
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Keeping the faith
This book examines the development of northern soul, its clubs, publications, and practices by locating it in the shifting economic and social context of the English midlands and north in the 1970s. Using fanzines, diaries, letters, and oral testimony it presents a vivid insight into the scene.
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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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Feeling the strain
By examining the popular and vernacular discourse of stress, the book traces the ways in which stress became a ubiquitous condition of everyday life by the end of the twentieth century in Britain.
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Passages
This book is a multi-genre and transdisciplinary text that invites inquiry into today’s apocalyptic narratives, humanitarian reason, and international criminal justice regimes, as well as the precarity generated by citizen time and 'consulate time'.
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Rereading Chaucer and Spenser
Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete offers dynamic new approaches to the relationship between the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser. Contributors draw on current and emerging preoccupations in contemporary scholarship and offer new perspectives on poetic autho...
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Leprosy and identity in the Middle Ages
This book presents new, cross-disciplinary research on leprosy in medieval Europe, focusing on questions of identity. It reveals complex responses to the disease, challenging earlier views that medieval sufferers were uniformly stigmatised. The social, religious and cultural impacts are explored,...
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Patient voices in Britain, 1840–1948
This edited collection repositions the patient experience at the centre of healthcare histories and considers the contributions that such histories can make to debates over health policy and service delivery.
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Tattoos in crime and detective narratives
Tattoos in crime and detective narratives: Marking and remarking examines representations of the tattoo and tattooing in literature, television and film, from two periods of tattoo renaissance (1851-1914, and c1955 to present).
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EU pharmaceutical regulation
This book provides a unique look at the political dynamics of how EU pharmaceutical policy is made within the context of having to serve public health, healthcare and industrial policy needs within the single market. Its scope covers public policy analysis, EU regulation and policy-making theories.
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The agency phenomenon in the European Union
Offers a comprehensive analysis of the agency phenomenon in the European Union. It takes stock of the emergence and development of EU agencies, providing insight into the characteristics as well as the consequences of the ongoing EU agencification process.
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The Europeanisation of the Western Balkans
This book deals with the scope and nature of the EU’s external influence over South-Eastern Europe in the present enlargement. Theory-oriented and comparative, the book provides rich insight into the dynamics of the current enlargement and offers comprehensive analysis of the EU’s external lever...
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Northern Ireland a generation after Good Friday
This book captures the complex and often contradictory realities of the region’s peace process. Across nine original essays, the authors provide a critical and comprehensive reading of a society that seems to have left its violent past behind but at the same time remains subject to its gravitatio...
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Agnes Varda
The first introduction in English devoted wholly to Varda and aimed at a general and student audience. Places Varda's major films in the context of her whole oeuvre and follows the development of important themes across her work.
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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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The Strand
This deeply researched book offers a unique history of London’s most famous street, from the Roman era to the present day.
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The politics of Englishness
The politics of Englishness provides a digest of the debates about England and Englishness and a unique perspective on those debates
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Direct rule and the governance of Northern Ireland
This is the first comprehensive study of the operation of direct rule between 1972 and 2007 as a system of governance. How direct rule moulded the institutions of governance is analysed in detail. In addition, direct rule is compared with devolution, identifying the deficiencies and advantages of...
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Suicide and the Gothic
Suicide and the Gothic is the first study of the representation of suicide in Gothic texts from the eighteenth century to the present. Poems, short stories, novels, films and video games are covered from European, American and Asian contexts.
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Markets, rules and institutions of exchange
This book ‘puts markets in their place’, knocking them off the pedestal as the self-organising marvel of capitalist economies. It debates a wide variety of markets, markets for food as well as for capital, for domestic service and for scientific knowledge, markets that succeed and markets that fail.
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Public relations and the making of modern Britain
This book tells the story of how the unorthodox liberalism of the public sector svengali Stephen Tallents helped reshape public life for a new social, political and technological age.
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Crisis and change in European Union foreign policy
This book provides wanting to study episodes of EU foreign policy change with a single analytical framework that serves to investigate and explain the way in which the EU adapts its foreign policy in the wake of crisis. It provides readers with a toolbox to explain, measure and conceptualise the ...
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Shakespeare's adolescents
Shakespeare’s adolescents examines the varied representation of adolescent characters in Shakespeare’s plays. Using early modern medical knowledge, the book unpacks complexities that surrounded the cultural and theatrical representations of the ‘signs’ of the maturation used to construct Shakespe...
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The econocracy
A particular, narrow way of thinking about the economy is dominant in society today. This book explores how this came to be, why the system cannot continue and how to build a better future.
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Courteous exchanges
This book offers new connections between Spenser and Shakespeare by showing how their works hone readers’ and audiences’ judgement about the social construction of aristocratic identity.
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Art and the British Empire
This pioneering study argues that the concept of ‘empire’ belongs at the centre, rather than in the margins, of British art history. Twenty essays by authors from four continents offer innovative methodological approaches to the analysis of visual art as it was produced, exhibited, and distribute...
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Emotional contagion
This book addresses a universal problem: the transmission of psycho-physiological reactions from one person to another, and illuminates the twofold enigma, that of the trajectory of the term compassio, and that of explaining the phenomenon it denoted.
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James Baldwin Review
James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. This edition brings together all of the articles published in this year's volume.
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Flesh and Spirit
Ten little-known and under-studied works by seventeenth-century women (edited from manuscript and print) that explore the relationship between spiritual and physical health in the period
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Immigrant England, 1300–1550
Immigrant England tells the story of thousands of people who migrated to later medieval England. The book draws on uniquely rich evidence about the lives of these men and women, and analyses the attitudes of the English to the foreigners in their midst. Essential reading for everyone interested i...
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Swedish crime fiction
Swedish crime fiction became an international phenomenon in the first decade of the twenty-first century, starting first with novels but then percolating through Swedish-language television serials and films and onto English-language BBC productions and Hollywood remakes. This book looks at the r...
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Transforming folk
From musicological and historical perspectives, this book maintains that folk music continues to be influenced by rock and other popular music styles, and is performed in musical settings representing new cultures and ethnicities now present in the United Kingdom.
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The autonomous life?
This book is an ethnographic study of the internal dynamics of a subcultural squatting community that defines itself as a social movement.
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Speculative endeavors
This book focuses on alternative forms of knowledge production and speculation in nineteenth century US-American society, and highlights the strategies that minoritarian subjects developed to understand and navigate these complex cultures of knowledge and capital.
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Presence
This book charts a psychologist's journey to understand one of the most unusual experiences known to humankind: the feeling that someone or something is there when we are alone. A tour-de-force through contemporary psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and philosophy, Presence is the story of who ...
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Friends and enemies
This history examines the fraternal friendships and embittered masculine conflicts among British, American, and Irish national leaders and their Dublin-based advisers during the Second World War, as those leaders sought to secure – or reject – Ireland’s alliance with the Western Allied powers in ...
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Manchester unspun
An enthralling tale of modern Manchester, told by a writer and journalist who has spent four decades reporting on the movers and the shakers of this unique city, from council leader Sir Richard Leese to Sir Alex Ferguson and Tony Wilson.
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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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None past the post
The latest book in the long-running Britain at the Polls series provides an indispensable account of the remarkable 2017 British general election. Leading experts explain why Theresa May and the Conservatives lost their majority, and analyse how the other political parties and voters responded to...
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Luminous presence
Luminous presence: Derek Jarman's life-writing is the first book to analyse the prolific writing of queer icon Derek Jarman. Much of Jarman's powerful, imaginative response to HIV/AIDS can be found in his remarkable books, which Alexandra Parsons argues were critical in changing the cultural term...
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Gee Vaucher
This book situates and critically assesses the substantial body of work created by Gee Vaucher within a lineage of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art history, including radical art production of the 1970s, political protest and street art and punk design, as well as cultural, socio-economic,...
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Early medieval militarisation
This volume is the first to study the phenomenon of early medieval militarisation from a wide geographic and disciplinary perspective. It explores the impact of an enhanced role attributed to warfare and the military as characteristic features of a European world in the process of becoming medieval.
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Power, politics and influence at work
Argues that the changing world of work cannot be divorced from several overlapping power dynamics that have resonance to wider societal debates: issues of labour market inclusion and exclusion or marginalisation, profit and wealth distribution, political influence and employment regulation, unio...
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Revisiting <i> Divisions of Labour </i>
This collection revisits Ray Pahl's 1984 sociology classic, combining excerpts from the original with assessments by leading researchers of how and why the book has stood the test of time as a study that fundamentally re-thinks our understanding of 'work'.
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Bad English
Bad English examines the impact of increasing language diversity in transforming contemporary literature in Britain, in the context of its contested language politics. Exploring a range of poetry and prose, it makes the case for literature as the preeminent medium to probe the terms and condition...
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The fantasy fiction formula
A guide to the nuts and bolts of fantasy writing that illustrates techniques with examples drawn from published fantasy fiction and offers plentiful drills and exercises to help students hone their writing skills.
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The Scottish Legendary
This study places the Scottish compilation of saints' legends within the hagiographic landscape of medieval Britain.
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The Germans in India
This book offers a new interpretation of global migration from c. 1815–1920 by examining the elite German migrants who moved to India especially missionaries, scholars and scientists, businessmen, and travelers.
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Ireland and the Freedom of Information Act
Traces Ireland’s introduction of FOI legislation and considers its use and operation from a series of perspectives, looking at the Irish experience in a truly international context
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Ireland and migration in the twenty-first century
Considers migration to, from and within Ireland in the twenty-first century, covering the Celtic Tiger era of mass immigration to Ireland as well as the dramatic growth in levels of emigration that has occurred since the Irish economic collapse.
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