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Rethinking Past and Present in Cuba
This volume comprises of essays and research articles written in homage to the seminal influence and contribution made by the late Alistair Hennessy towards the development of Cuban studies. Following Hennessy’s own cross-disciplinary and open-minded approach to the study of the history of Cuba, ...
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Cinemas and Cinema-Going in the United Kingdom
In the first half of the twentieth century, cinema-going was the most popular commercial leisure activity century. But with the transition to peacetime, leisure habits changed. During the 1950s increased affluence, the growth of television ownership and the diversification of leisure led to rapid...
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A Critical Encounter: Bataille and Blanchot
Few terms have been more prone and resistant to definition than the literary and the real. Bringing them together, under the contrivance of the Literary Real, sheds new light on the understanding of the terms real, being, existence, the literary, literature and writing and alters our thinking on ...
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Vanishing Acts on Ancient Greek Amulets
Greek magical texts sometimes contain peculiar triangular formations created by repeating the same word over and over again in the same column, but leaving off one letter at the beginning or end (or both). Interpretations shifted during the twentieth century: did the words inscribed in these shap...
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The Victoria History of Leicestershire: Lutterworth
From the controversial theological writer John Wyclif to the origins of the jet engine, the history of Lutterworth, a small market town in the south-west of the county, has been both rich and varied. This work charts the evolution and development of Lutterworth from small beginnings before the No...
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Chile and the Inter-American Human Rights System
This book reflects on the relationship between Chile and the Inter-American Human Rights System, focusing on an interdisciplinary and detailed examination of the consequences of recent cases decided by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights against the Chilean state. These cases illustrate cent...
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The Afterlife of Apuleius
Apuleius’ literary and philosophical fortune has been considerable since antiquity, mostly through the reception of The Golden Ass. The aim of this collection is to highlight a few major aspects of this afterlife, from the High Middle Ages to early Romanticism, in the fields of literature, lingui...
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Healthcare Reform and Poverty in Latin America
This volume identifies key problems facing healthcare systems in Latin America and evaluates the reforms that have been implemented to date. It pays particular attention to problems of implementation and the impact that changes to health policy are having on poor and vulnerable groups.
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Vicissitudes: Histories and Destinies of Psychoanalysis
Academics, analysts and artists are gathered together in this illustrated volume, which celebrates the culmination of a two-year project at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies to discover and debate current issues in psychoanalysis in the arts and humanities across five language-field...
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Britannia Latina: Latin in the Culture of Great Britain from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century.
This volume attempts to bring together, to our knowledge for the first time, aspects of the whole of the long history of Latin as written in Great Britain. The papers explore the use of Latin in different contexts at different periods, from the early Middle Ages until the twentieth century. They ...
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Word on the Street
At the site of everyday social interaction, the street has always provided a source of inspiration for writers, artists and musicians. It has also become the focus for critical theorists such as Walter Benjamin and Michel de Certeau in their attempt to push the limits of textual analysis beyond l...
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The Victoria History of Middlesex: St George Hanover Square
This book relates the history of the parish of St George Hanover Square from its inception in 1724 to its abolition with the establishment of the London County Council in 1900. In detailed thematic treatments, the book explores the local government of the vestry, institutions such as the schools,...
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Classical Arabic Philosophy
The nine papers collected here explore a broad range of sources for texts from the classical period of Arabic philosophy, and a broad range of influence exerted by these texts. By the 'classical period' is meant that part of the Arabic philosophical tradition normally included in the canon of 'me...
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America's Americans: Population Issues in U.S. Society and Politics
This book examines the social, cultural, economic, and political effects of modern demographic change in the United States. The contributors from the U.S. and the U.K. draw on new research to analyze a wide range of issues pertaining to the diversity of American society. Topics include:Latino imm...
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Space in Greek Tragedy (BICS Supplement 131)
This book presents a critical application of semiotic models to Greek tragic space. It thus reappraises certain aspects of the tragic texts themselves by illuminating the semantics of space, that is, the ways in which space may contribute to the creation of meaning. After the formulation of a wor...
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The Victoria History of Leicestershire: Ibstock
Ibstock is a large village 15 miles north-west of Leicester and has a long history of trade, manufacture and agriculture that covers framework-knitting, coal mines, and brick making. It was also a hub of Nonconformity, taking in Anglican, Baptist, Primitive Methodist, Wesleyan Methodist and Wesle...
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Caribbean Literature After Independence
Earl Lovelace was one of the greatest Trinidadian writers. Lovelace was an early enthusiast for Black Power and an indefatigable critic of the inequalities bequeathed by the post-Independence state. This book assesses Lovelace's fiction and also his role in Caribbean letters.
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Thou Shalt Forget
Following a decade-long research project, this devastating book examines colonial state imperatives to sideline indigenous peoples and history from mainstream national narratives. Through the study of his community, the Essipiunnuat or, ‘People of the Brook Shells River’, the author hopes to comb...
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International Responses to Mass Atrocities in Africa
In International Responses to Mass Atrocities in Africa, Kurt Mills develops a typology of responses to mass atrocities, investigates the limitations of these responses, and calls for such responses to be implemented in a more timely and thoughtful manner. Although all the typologies are intended...
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Roman Military Diplomas: v. 4 (BICS Supplement 82)
This volume presents 121 complete and fragmentary diplomas ranging in date from AD 61 to AD 245. 69 of these diplomas have not previously been published.These and most of the published diplomas had been worked on by Margaret Roxan. Nine have been prepared by Paul Holder who has also standardized ...
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Some Other Amazonians
The purpose of this book is to indicate the diversity of Amazonian societies and to try to contribute to the extension of the anthropology of Amazonia beyond its traditional limits.
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Development Prospects in Cuba
The 1990s witnessed significant changes in the Cuban economy. Here, the authors deal with questions of immediate relevance to the Cuban economy and its recent past, with emphasis on the implications for long-term prospects for development.
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The Marriage of Philology and Scepticism: Uncertainty and Conjecture in Early Modern Scholarship and Thought
This volume addresses the question of uncertainty in early modern scholarship and thought. The eight papers confront an array of problems, texts, scholars and intellectual contexts, from introductory assessments of the nature of Greek scepticism, particularly in its relation to ancient grammar an...
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In the Age of Al-Farabi: Arabic Philosophy in the Fourth/Tenth Century
The papers in this volume were given at a conference held at the Warburg Institute in 2006 to consider the philosophy of al-Farabi alongside other intellectual developments of his time together with a wide range of other figures and traditions from the period. The volume initially focuses on the ...
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Imagines Italicae (3 vols) (BICS Supplement 110)
Imagines Italicae, edited by M. H. Crawford and colleagues, is the outcome of a research project based in the combined library of the Hellenic and Roman Societies and of the Institute, beginning in 2002 and initially supported by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. The empire created by ...
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Codices Boethiani: Italy and the Vatican City v. 3
This is part of a catalogue of all Latin manuscripts of the works of Beothius, including his translations of Aristotle and Porphyry. The six volumes are arranged geographically and are accompanied by a general index, although each volume is also indexed separately. The conspectus includes fragmen...
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Names on Terra Sigillata. Volume 3. CERTIANUS to EXSOBANO (BICS Supplement 102.3)
Names on Terra Sigillata, the product of 40 years of study, records over 5,000 names and some 300,000 stamps and signatures on Terra Sigillata (samian ware) manufactured in the 1st to the 3rd centuries AD in Gaul, the German provinces and Britain.To be published in 10 volumes, the work has been s...
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Marginal Scholarship and Textual Deviance (BICS Supplement 84)
The Satires of Persius combine powerful criticism of the moral corruption of Rome under Nero with a rich and innovative style that required commentary almost from his own time. The enduring appeal and originality of his poetry also ensured that the exegetical tradition has been continuous from th...
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Aristotle and the Stoics Reading Plato (BICS Supplement 107)
Plato is perhaps the most readable of all philosophers. Recent scholarship on Plato has focused attention on the dramatic and literary form through which Plato presents his philosophy, an integral part of that philosophy.The papers in this volume for the first time consider Aristotle and the Stoi...
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More-Than-Human Histories of Latin America and the Caribbean
The Latin American and Caribbean regions’ historical trajectories have been shaped by complex human-nonhuman interactions. In these histories people are important, even crucial, actors, but not the only ones. Offering a novel approach to the writing of Latin American history, this book responds t...
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People, Texts and Artefacts
This volume seeks to enhance interdisciplinary and international dialogue between those who work on the Normans and their conquests in northern and southern Europe in an original way. It has as its central theme issues related to cultural transfer, treated as being of a pan-European kind across t...
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Octavia Hill, social activism and the remaking of British society
Octavia Hill was a housing reformer, open space campaigner, co-founder of the National Trust, founder of the Army Cadet Force, and the first woman to be invited to sit on a royal commission. Yet despite her early pre-eminence, and the remarkable success of the institutions which she helped to fou...
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Amazonia at the Crossroads
This is an examination of past patterns of destructive resource extraction in Amazonia, and an examination of newer initiatives that offer more sustainable options.
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London and beyond: Essays in honour of Derek Keene
This fascinating new volume brings together seventeen authors from across disciplines to offer a detailed and comprehensive history of the European city. Dedicated to the late Derek Keene (1942-2021), the forefather of urban history, this book helps us better understand the development, role and ...
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The Afterlife of Cicero
Cicero was one of the most prolific and productive figures from ancient Rome, active as both a politician and a writer. As yet however modern scholarship does not do justice to the sheer range of his later influence. This volume publishes papers from a conference which aimed to enlarge the basis ...
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The Victoria History of Gloucestershire: Cheltenham Before the Spa
Though much has been published about Cheltenham’s history after the 1740s, when it became a fashionable resort, most say little about the many centuries of its existence before that time. This is the fullest account ever attempted to chronicle those centuries, from the late Saxon period until the...
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Gender, Emotions and Power, 1750–2020
A timely intervention into contemporary debates on emotions, gender, race and power, this collection of essays interrogates how emotional expectations are established as gendered, racialised and class-based notions. It then explores the ways these expectations have historically been generated, st...
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Marathon – 2,500 Years. Proceedings of The Marathon Conference 2010
The victory of the Greeks at Marathon is often seen as the finest hour of the Athenian army, one that would be commemorated in art and literature for centuries to come. Published as a result of a conference marking 2,500 years since the battle of Marathon, this volume includes twenty-one papers t...
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Brazil and South Korea
Analyses the factors underlying the economic crises in South Korea and Brazil, pointing out areas of similarity and divergence. It also reviews the paths of recovery taken by both economies, examining the role of policy and variations in structural characteristics.
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Greek Drama III: Essays in Honour of Kevin Lee (BICS Supplement 87)
This volume vividly demonstrates the richness and wide scope of contemporary engagement with Greek drama in scholarship and performance.Key studies of the interaction between performance, politics and society range from the detection of Sophocles' infiltration of the culture through different kin...
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The Victoria History of Middlesex: Knightsbridge and Hyde
Today’s Knightsbridge is a recent cross-border development. This book breaks new ground by uncovering an earlier, larger Knightsbridge and showing why its initial extent and history have been largely forgotten. Pre-1900 Knightsbridge/Westminster included today’s Kensington Palace, Kensington Gard...
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The Victoria History of Leicestershire: Castle Donington
The parish of Castle Donington in north-west Leicestershire lies on the south bank of the river Trent, 20 miles north-west of Leicester and 8 miles south-east of Derby. A nucleated village developed on the present site more than 1,000 years ago. A castle was built in the 1150s, and several featur...
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Suffrage and citizenship in Ireland, 1912-18
In this published lecture, Professor Senia Pašeta argues that our understanding of modern Irish and British politics would be enormously enriched if we recognized both that the Irish and British suffrage movements were deeply connected; and that the Irish Question fundamentally shaped the women’s...
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In Protest: 150 Poems for Human Rights
In Protest: 150 Poems for Human Rights is an anthology of new poetry exploring human rights and social justice themes. This collection, a collaboration between the Human Rights Consortium at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and the Keats House Poets, brings together writing tha...
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Brave new world: Imperial and democratic nation-building in Britain between the wars
After the First World War, Britain faced a number of challenges as it sought to adapt to domestic conditions of mass democracy while maintaining its position in the empire in the face of national independence movements. As politicians at home and abroad sought to legitimize their position, new ef...
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Freethinkers, Libertines and 'Schwärmer': Heterodoxy in German Literature, 1750-1800
Religion mattered in the eighteenth century and has not ceased to matter since. How German writers responded to the crisis of orthodox forms of belief in the period is a matter of abiding interest. Some remained rooted in orthodoxy. Many others rejected it, often without knowing for certain what ...
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The Afterlife of Virgil
In recognition of the richness of Virgil's reception the fourth conferences in the joint Warburg Institute and Institute of Classical Studies series on the afterlife of the Classics was devoted to the afterlife of Virgil.
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Ravenna
In the long-debated transition from late antiquity to the early middle ages, the city of Ravenna presents a story rich and strange. From the fourth century onwards it suffered decline in economic terms. Yet its geographical position, its status as an imperial capital, and above all its role as a ...
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To Make the Earth Bear Fruit
This volume brings together previously published ethnographic essays based on anthropological fieldwork in Northern Potosi, Bolivia, spanning the final 25 years of the 20th century. The articles discuss key concerns and cultural symbols of the indigineous peasants of the Andes.
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Dialogues With the Past: Classical reception theory and practice – Volume 1 (BICS Supplement 126)
Contents Volume 1. Introduction: in dialogue with the past / Anastasia Bakogianni Section 1. Theoretical approaches and concerns. Chapter 1. The audience in classical reception studies. The problem of the spectators: ancient and modern / Lorna Hardwick Greek tragedy and the modern director / Hele...
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Mexican Foreign Policy at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century
Presents an assessment of the directions of Mexico's foreign policy.
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Pictorial Composition from Medieval to Modern Art
This volume contains most of the papers given at a colloquium held at the Institute in 1997. It provides a study of the concept of composition in European art and art literature from the middle ages to the early twentieth century. Some authors are concerned to show the extent to which writers on ...
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Precarious Professionals
Precarious Professionals uncovers the inequalities and insecurities which lay at the heart of professional life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain. Through twelve fascinating studies of women and men on the margins, this volume re-evaluates the relationship between professional identity...
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Law, Humanities and the COVID Crisis
This book views the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of the law, history, ethics, technology, economics and gender studies. By focusing on the implications of the virus in a wider interdisciplinary context, and looking at responses to the virus in Europe, South America, Asia and beyond, these e...
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The Victoria History of Herefordshire: Colwall
Colwall lies on the western slopes of the Malvern Hills, near the market town of Ledbury. Encompassing remnants of the Iron Age, manor houses and estates of the landed gentry from the 15th to 17th centuries, and a Schweppes bottling plant, the large village has a long and varied history. This vol...
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New World Objects of Knowledge
With contributions from a renowned set of scholars, New World Objects of Knowledge delves into the hidden histories of forty of the New World’s most iconic artifacts, from the Inca mummy to Darwin’s hummingbirds. This volume is richly illustrated with photos and sketches from the archives and mus...
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Creative Spaces
The essays within this collection reassess dominant theoretical notions of ‘marginality’ in Latin America and argue that, in contemporary society, it invariably allows for (if not leads to) the production of the new. Viewing them neither as spaces of deprivation nor romanticized spaces of opportu...
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Healthcare in Ireland and Britain 1850-1970: Voluntary, regional and comparative perspectives
This volume explores developments in health and social care in Ireland and Britain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The central objectives are to highlight the role of voluntarism in healthcare, to examine healthcare in local and regional contexts, and to provide comparative perspec...
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Mapping Post-War Italian Literature
In the aftermath of the reconstruction period immediately after the Second World War, Italy experienced an unprecedented and unexpected phase of economic development, which transformed it from a traditionally agrarian and impoverished country into one of Europe’s most industrialized nations. The ...
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Television Drama in Spain and Latin America
Television Drama in Spain and Latin America addresses two major topics within current cultural, media, and television studies: the question of fictional genres and that of transnational circulation. While much research has been carried out on both TV formats and remakes in the English-speaking wo...
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Radical Collections: Re-examining the roots of collections, practices and information professions
This volume looks at the role that archivists and librarians play in compiling collections – do they “curate” history? To what extent are they gatekeepers of knowledge? It shines a light on pressing topical issues within library and information services (LIS)- to encompass selection, appraisal an...
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Dethroning historical reputations: universities, museums and the commemoration of benefactors
The campaigns in universities across the world to reject, rename and remove historic benefactions have brought the present into collision with the past. In Britain, people are reconsidering civic monuments in light of an imperial past. In America, memorials to leaders of the Confederacy and to ot...
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Capitalism, Colonisation and the Ecocide-Genocide Nexus
This timely publication examines the drivers of the ecologically induced genocide of Indigenous and place-based peoples in the former British colonies of Kenya and Australia. It synthesises radical political ecology with a political-economic approach to illuminate the nexus between the genocidal ...
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Receiving the Komos. Ancient and modern receptions of the Victory Ode (BICS Supplement 112)
A collection of distinguished scholars examine different moments in the victory ode’s reception history, from the lifetime of Pindar and Bacchylides themselves through the Roman empire and the Middle Ages to the modern world, in a variety of texts and in differing cultural contexts.
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Traslados/Translations
Provides an investigation of some of the enduring preoccupations of one of the UK's foremost Latin Americanists. This title features essays that reflect a number of Jason Wilson's many research interests.
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The Ties That Bind
The Ties That Bind presents a fascinating study of a dozen cross-class family papers from Tebtunis, an ancient village formerly located in lower Egypt. Dating to the second century AD, this unique documentation provides a rare opportunity to explore how local elites under Roman rule exploited the...
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Communicating Observations in Early Modern Letters (1500-1675): Epistolography and Epistemology in the Age of the Scientific Revolution
The case studies in this volume juxtapose instances of knowledge exchange across a variety of fields usually studied in isolation: anthropology, medicine, botany, epigraphy, astronomy, geography, philosophy and chronology. In their letters, scientists and scholars tried to come to grips with the ...
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Names on Terra Sigillata. Volume 6. MASCLUS I-BALBUS to OXITTUS (BICS Supplement 102.6)
Names on Terra Sigillata, the product of 40 years of study, records over 5,000 names and some 300,000 stamps and signatures on Terra Sigillata (samian ware) manufactured in the 1st to the 3rd centuries AD in Gaul, the German provinces and Britain.To be published in 10 volumes, the work has been s...
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Magic and the Classical Tradition
The present volume arose from a colloquium on magic and divination intended to apply the study of the history of the classical tradition to the specific area of magic. Magic is interpreted in a very broad sense, and the book includes discussions of Neoplatonic theurgy, Hermetic astrological talis...
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Classics in practice. Studies in the history of scholarship (BICS Supplement 128)
This special Bulletin Supplement contains seven essays which deepen and extend our knowledge of classical reception and the history of scholarship. Two of them deal with books: John Davies examines a little-known life of the tyrant Agathocles of Syracuse published in the 1660s in which the more r...
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The 1922 General Election Reconsidered
Making use of newly available archival collections and digitised resources, this book captures the high and low politics of the pivotal 1922 General Election to show how it marked the birth of the modern British general election as we know it today.
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Quebec and the Heritage of Franco-America
This book marks the 400th anniversary of the founding of Quebec. It consists of six essays by a team of contributors drawn from Quebec, the United States, France, and the United Kingdom.
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Memory, Migration and (De)Colonisation in the Caribbean and Beyond
Memory, Migration and (De)Colonisation furthers our understanding of Caribbean migrations and migrants in relation to the histories and cultures of countries of the Northern Atlantic. It focuses on the relationship between Caribbean migrants and processes of decolonisation. At the heart of this b...
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The Victoria History of Hampshire: Steventon
Steventon, a chalkland village near Basingstoke, is best known because Jane Austen, the famous novelist and daughter of the local rector, spent the first 25 years of her life here. Unlike Chawton and Bath, no house or museum commemorates the author’s memory in Steventon but this new history expla...
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The Victoria County History of Herefordshire: Bosbury
Bosbury is the second parish history to be produced by the Trust for the Victoria County History of Herefordshire, following the history of Eastnor published in 2013. Like Eastnor, Bosbury is an agricultural parish, near the market town of Ledbury. It covers a relatively large area below the wes...
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Names on Terra Sigillata. Volume 4. F to KLUMI (BICS Supplement 102.4)
Names on Terra Sigillata, the product of 40 years of study, records over 5,000 names and some 300,000 stamps and signatures on Terra Sigillata (samian ware) manufactured in the 1st to the 3rd centuries AD in Gaul, the German provinces and Britain.To be published in 10 volumes, the work has been s...
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Books, Readers and Libraries in Fiction
This volume explores the depiction of books, libraries and reading in fiction from the medieval period to the present. Its varied case studies address common themes such as gender, genre and the relation between reading and writing itself and examine what fictional representations of reading tell...
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The Political Power of the Word
A collection of seven essays on the development of the press and the significance of political oratory in nineteenth-century Latin America. The authors discuss developments in Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Chile and Agentina, while paying attention to influences and comparisons wi...
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Three Lectures on Leonardo
Aby Warburg delivered his Lectures on Leonardo in 1899 to introduce himself as a young art historian and private scholar to the wider public. These texts are now published for the first time, fully illustrated and translated into English. The lectures give an insight into Warburg as a public spea...
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Regional Integration in Latin America and the Caribbean
This collection studies regional integration in Latin America and the Caribbean from four perspectives: economic, political, institutional, and in relation to the rest of the world.
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The Victoria County History, 1899-2012
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II graciously permitted the Victoria County History to rededicate its series of county volumes, in celebration of her Diamond Jubilee. The History keeps the name it was given in honour of Queen Victoria when it was founded in 1899 as one of great national projects of t...
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The Victoria History of Herefordshire: Eastnor
Eastnor is the first parish history to be produced by the Trust for the Victoria County History of Herefordshire, and complements some of the work on Ledbury undertaken for the Heritage Lottery-funded England’s Past for Everyone project between 2005 and 2009. In its expanded treatment of the pari...
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Possible Worlds: Jorge Luis Borges's (Pseudo-) Translations of Virginia Woolf and Franz Kafka
'In this well-conceived study, Rebecca Maria Dewald delves into the hierarchy between the perception of original texts and that of translations, and explores why this hierarchy is so often upheld, as well as possible alternatives to this limiting hierarchy. In her well-researched work, Dewald foc...
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'She said she was in the family way': Pregnancy and infancy in modern Ireland
'She said she was in the family way' examines the subject of pregnancy and infancy in Ireland from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. It draws on exciting and innovative research by early-career and established academics, and consider topics that have been largely ignored by historians in ...
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European Socialists Across Borders
From post-war debates on institutionalised cooperation in Western Europe to the ambitions of the European Union in the post-Cold War era, this volume investigates the impact of transnational socialist networks on European construction and integration, as well as the role of European socialism in ...
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Terrorism, Italian Style: Representations of Political Violence in Contemporary Italian Cinema
The legacy of Italy's experience of political violence and terrorism in the anni di piombo ('years of lead', c. 1969-83) continues to exercise the Italian imagination to an extraordinary degree. Cinema has played a particularly prominent role in articulating the ongoing impact of the anni di piom...
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Creating Ethnicities & Identities in the Roman World
The expansion of Rome entailed encounters with a wide range of peoples, many of which had well-established pre-conquest ethnic identities which can be compared with Roman perceptions of them. In other cases, people have been perceived almost entirely through a Roman lens. The formation of such id...
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The Social and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructures
This cross-disciplinary book makes a novel contribution to global infrastructure debates and provides important new insights into Latin America’s history and politics. It captures the characteristics, limits and vibrancy of Latin America’s infrastructures, exploring irrigation networks in Peru to...
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Talking History
A fascinating overview of the history and practice of seminars held at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) at the University of London over the twentieth and early twenty-first century. This original book delivers fresh insight into the evolution of historical research and its role in wide...
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Voice, Silence and Gender in South Africa's Anti-Apartheid Struggle
Tracing the political life of Masabatha Loate, a young black woman activist who testified at the trial of the ‘Soweto Eleven’ in 1978, this book examines the history of South Africa’s liberation struggle through the lens of voice, speech and silence, and what this reveals about the gendered dynam...
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Gender in medieval places, spaces and thresholds
This book addresses the concept of gender in the Middle Ages through the study of place and space, exploring how gender and space may be mutually constructive and how individuals and communities make and are made by the places and spaces they inhabit. Interrogating the thresholds between sacred a...
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Reading Inscriptions and Writing Ancient History: Historical Scholarship in the Late Renaissance (BICS Supplement 86)
Reading inscriptions and writing Ancient History shows how the work of a group of scholars active in Rome in the middle of the sixteenth century redefined the scope and nature of historical writing.Fascinated by the remains of the Classical world and particularly by inscriptions in stone, they be...
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Cultures of Anti-Racism in Latin America and the Caribbean
This volume asks whether cultural works from the Latin American and Caribbean context showing how racism can co-exist with racial mixture and conviviality have a particular role to play within discourses and practices of anti-racism. It also places Latin American and Caribbean racial formations w...
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Electra, ancient and modern: aspects of the reception of the tragic heroine (BICS Supplement 113)
Electra is a unique, complex, and fascinating Greek tragic heroine, who became a source of inspiration for countless playwrights, artists, musicians and filmmakers. The daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra she famously supported her brother’s quest to avenge their father’s murder even at the co...
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Designed for Play: Children’s Playgrounds and the Politics of Urban Space, 1840–2010
An original and accessible history of the modern playground in Britain and beyond. Charting its journey from marginal obscurity to popular ubiquity, this title demonstrates how a diverse set of actors across the philanthropic, voluntary, state and commercial sectors all sought to reimagine and re...
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Studies in the Formation of the Nation-state in Latin America
Adopts a variety of disciplinary, thematic and country-based approaches to the complex and contested issues around the character of the nation-state in Latin America. The text seeks to develop debate on the topic through: case studies; historiographical review; and early notions of development.
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Provincialising nature: multidisciplinary approaches to the politics of the environment in Latin America
This book offers a timely analysis of some of the crucial challenges, contradictions and promises within current environmental discourses and practices within Latin America. Two interconnected analytical frameworks guide the discussions in the book: the relationship between nature, knowledge and ...
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The Victoria History of Essex: Newport
The parish of Newport lies in the valley of the river Cam in north-west Essex about three and a half miles south-west of the market town of Saffron Walden, and a short distance from the Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire borders. It probably originated in the early 10th century as a royal foundatio...
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