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  • Management and gender in higher education
    Management and gender in higher education

    Management and gender in higher education

    A definitive examination of higher education in Ireland

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  • The secret life of romantic comedy
    The secret life of romantic comedy

    The secret life of romantic comedy

    The secret life of romantic comedy offers a fresh approach to one of the most popular Hollywood genres in recent years and analyses the cultural impact of generic conventions in the construction of issues of intimacy and sexuality.

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  • Contemporary French cinema
    Contemporary French cinema

    Contemporary French cinema

    This introductory text analyzes 25 years of popular French film including recent developments in all genres. Reflecting French cinema's diversity since the new Wave, chapters include the Heritage film; thrillers; war movies; Cinema-du-Look; representations of sexuality; women film-makers; and oth...

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  • Building the French empire, 1600–1800
    Building the French empire, 1600–1800

    Building the French empire, 1600–1800

    How did the French rule their colonial overseas possessions dispersed all over the world? This book focuses on local populations and workers in the colonies. Indigenous experts, slaves or indentured servants as well as French engineers and naval officers contributed to the building of the foundat...

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  • Drug smuggler nation
    Drug smuggler nation

    Drug smuggler nation

    Drug smuggler nation shows how and why the Netherlands developed into a central hub of international illegal drug trade in the 20th century. The book develops a model of 'criminal anarchy' that is historically, socially, and culturally embedded in Dutch society to explain the failures of the stat...

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  • The politics of freedom of information
    The politics of freedom of information

    The politics of freedom of information

    This book explores the implementation of the UK's FOI law under Tony Blair, showing how the radical policy was weakened by compromises and clandestine agreements before reaching the statute book, though it went on to be controversial and disruptive nonetheless.

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  • The Jacobites and the Grand Tour
    The Jacobites and the Grand Tour

    The Jacobites and the Grand Tour

    Investigating the functioning of travel in political culture by using early modern small states as a case study, this book examines the complex relationship between Jacobitism, educational travel, and small state diplomacy.

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  • The military-humanitarian complex in Afghanistan
    The military-humanitarian complex in Afghanistan

    The military-humanitarian complex in Afghanistan

    Violent conflict brings together two seemingly disparate groups: humanitarians and soldiers. This mixes and convolutes agendas, blurring lines that are often perceived to be sacrosanct. Delving deeply into the history and reasons of why these two groups work in close proximity, this study provid...

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  • Medical misadventure in an age of professionalisation, 1780–1890
    Medical misadventure in an age of professionalisation, 1780–1890

    Medical misadventure in an age of professionalisation, 1780–1890

    Medical Misadventure considers the doctors whose careers were disrupted or entirely derailed by misfortune, ineptitude, or temptation to crime. Conflicts with colleagues, and threats to medical masculinity, gave rise to extraordinary stories of loss, distress, and occasional recovery.

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  • Anticlerical legacies
    Anticlerical legacies

    Anticlerical legacies

    This book offers a new study of Hobbes’s reception among seventeenth- and eighteenth- century deists and freethinkers, showing how influential Hobbes was for anticlerical thinking through a close analysis of the works of a large number of writers, including Charles Blount, John Toland, Antony Col...

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  • The theatrical orchestra
    The theatrical orchestra

    The theatrical orchestra

    This book analyses experimental performances by British music ensembles in the twenty-first century. It shows how theatrical approaches to presenting orchestral music can facilitate unique and powerful experiences for audiences, enable new interpretation of repertoire, and connect music-making to...

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  • The 1630s
    The 1630s

    The 1630s

    An exciting collection of essays on the ‘personal rule’ of Charles I, whose inept and dangerous rule many historians feel put the country on the road to civil war

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  • American Government in Ireland, 1790–1913
    American Government in Ireland, 1790–1913

    American Government in Ireland, 1790–1913

    This book reconstructs American consular activity in Ireland from 1790 to 1913 and elucidates the interconnectedness of America’s foreign interests, Irish nationalism and British imperialism

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  • Citizen Manchester
    Citizen Manchester

    Citizen Manchester

    An insight into the refurbishment of Manchester's Town Hall Extension and Central Library, through large-format photographs

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  • Engendering an avant-garde
    Engendering an avant-garde

    Engendering an avant-garde

    A comprehensive examination of the origins of Vancouver photo-conceptualism. The book employs discourse analysis, feminist critique and settler-colonial theory to analyse the landscapes of Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, Marian Penner Bancroft, Liz Magor and others.

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  • British culture after empire
    British culture after empire

    British culture after empire

    This book follows the afterlives of empire from 1945 to present day, providing an interdisciplinary analysis of how the legacy of empire continues to shape the cultures, politics, spaces and memories of contemporary Britain. The essays it contains illustrate this with reference to a series of loc...

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  • Developing Africa
    Developing Africa

    Developing Africa

    Investigates development in British, French and Portuguese colonial Africa during the last decades of colonial rule

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  • Poverty, philanthropy and the state
    Poverty, philanthropy and the state

    Poverty, philanthropy and the state

    This book charts the growth of the university settlement movement, a fundamental influence in the shaping of the welfare state, from 1918 to Margaret Thatcher's election in 1979. It looks at the complex relationships between charities, the welfare state and individuals and the ways in which chang...

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  • Encountering early America
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    Encountering early America

    Encountering early America traces the many cultural influences that shaped English understandings of the Americas in the sixteenth century. The book demonstrates that the first century of English engagement with America was dynamic, adaptive and had a lasting influence on exploration and settleme...

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  • An empire of many cultures
    An empire of many cultures

    An empire of many cultures

    Based upon original research and bringing to life the words and actions of Bahá’í, Muslim, and Jewish leaders during the early 20th century, this study sheds light on each found meaning and value in the diversity that characterised the British Empire, enabling the creation of relationships that w...

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  • The Derby philosophers
    The Derby philosophers

    The Derby philosophers

    This book focuses upon the activities of a group of Midland intellectuals who strove to promote social, political and urban improvements which had national and international consequences. It examines a turbulent period of British history, an age of political and industrial revolution in which the...

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  • The Vikings in England
    The Vikings in England

    The Vikings in England

    The viking invasion and settlement in England has been the subject of a large and complex body of scholarship, with the consensus of opinion among scholars as to its exact nature and influence shifting considerably over the years.This is a fascinating new study which will make an important ad...

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  • Regional politics in Russia
    Regional politics in Russia

    Regional politics in Russia

    Argues convincingly that Russia will never be able to create a viable democracy as long as authoritarian regimes are able to flourish in the regions.

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  • Trevor Griffiths
    Trevor Griffiths

    Trevor Griffiths

    In his outstanding career, Trevor Griffiths has negotiated the issues of genre, politics, identity, class, history, memory and televisual form with a sustained creativity and integrity second to none.

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  • Global solidarities against water grabbing
    Global solidarities against water grabbing

    Global solidarities against water grabbing

    Globally, people are organizing against water privatization and to reclaim the public sphere. These struggles demonstrate how people are linking their disparate fights to win against private profit-driven interests; water is at the heart of this book, but the book is as much about collective stru...

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  • I want to break free
    I want to break free

    I want to break free

    Written in a conversational form, this book provides an accessible and entertaining primer to those aspiring to make a new state.

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  • Passport island
    Passport island

    Passport island

    This book shows how instead of an isolated case, the Cyprus Papers are a new version of the Panama, Paradise and Pandora Papers: the global trade in passports is the continuation of offshore financial processes by other means.

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  • Puma
    Puma

    Puma

    Puma – published for the first time in its intended format – is Anthony Burgess’s lost science fiction novel. Set some way into the future, the story details the crushing of the planet Earth by a heavyweight intruder from a distant galaxy – the dreaded Puma.

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  • Emigration from Scotland between the wars
    Emigration from Scotland between the wars

    Emigration from Scotland between the wars

    Emigration from Scotland has always been very high. However, emigration from Scotland between the wars surpassed all records; more people emigrated than were born, leading to an overall population decline. Why was it so many people left?Marjory Harper, whose knowledge is grounded in a deep unders...

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  • Images of Africa
    Images of Africa

    Images of Africa

    Challenges the widely-held idea that Africans are powerless in the creation of self-image. It explores the ways in which image creation is a process of negotiation entered into by a wide range of actors within and beyond the continent.

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  • Indo-Pacific Empire
    Indo-Pacific Empire

    Indo-Pacific Empire

    This book explains why the idea of the Indo-Pacific is so strategically important and concludes with a strategy designed to help the West engage with Chinese power in the region in such a way as to avoid conflict.

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  • Egypt
    Egypt

    Egypt

    The book is a treatment of the British colony in Egypt from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth century, revealing deep-seated cultural and economic links, while also considering how the mundane concerns of ordinary colonials fared in a strategically vital imperial base, with all i...

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  • Thomas ‘Jupiter’ Harris
    Thomas ‘Jupiter’ Harris

    Thomas ‘Jupiter’ Harris

    This is the first biography of Thomas Harris: confidant of George III, ‘spin doctor’, philanthropist, sexual suspect, brothel owner, and the man who controlled Covent Garden theatre for nearly five decades.

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  • Colouring the Caribbean
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    Colouring the Caribbean

    The first monographic study of the painter Agostino Brunias, this book offers a compelling, original analysis of his representation of race in the British colonial West Indies, reconsidering the way in which the artist’s oeuvre has previously been understood.

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  • Youth and sustainable peacebuilding
    Youth and sustainable peacebuilding

    Youth and sustainable peacebuilding

    A critical analysis of how peacebuilding can become sustainable through transforming thinking about what youth participation and leadership entails.

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  • Tattoos in crime and detective narratives
    Tattoos in crime and detective narratives

    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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  • Watching the World
    Watching the World

    Watching the World

    Watching the world extends the reach of documentary studies by investigating recent instances of screen documentary and the uses made of them by audiences

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  • Semi-presidentialism in Central and Eastern Europe
    Semi-presidentialism in Central and Eastern Europe

    Semi-presidentialism in Central and Eastern Europe

    This book looks at the extent to which semi-presidentialism has affected the process of democratisation in Central and Eastern Europe since the early 1990s, examining whether some forms of semi-presidentialism are more conducive to democratisation than others and examines its impact on government...

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  • Critical theory and epistemology
    Critical theory and epistemology

    Critical theory and epistemology

    This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume offers a critical review of epistemological issues in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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  • Contemporary Olson
    Contemporary Olson

    Contemporary Olson

    Re-situating Olson’s work in relation both to his own moment and to current concerns, the essays assembled in Contemporary Olson provide a major re-assessment of his place in postwar poetry and culture.

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  • Beyond the Happening
    Beyond the Happening

    Beyond the Happening

    The Happenings that burst on to the late 1950s cultural scene were rapidly declared passé and even ‘dead’, but this book reveals how an international network of artists continued to develop their premises into the late 1960s and 1970s, transforming the form into an interdisciplinary vehicle for s...

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  • Writing for radio
    Writing for radio

    Writing for radio

    Writing for radio brings together theoretical and practical aspects of radio writing. It deals with writing for all principal radio genres – short stories, plays, documentaries/drama documentaries, talks and features, adaptations/dramatisations, poems, and advertisements.

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  • The machine and the ghost
    The machine and the ghost

    The machine and the ghost

    Explores society’s relationship with the spectral and the paranormal, read through our interaction with technology

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  • The later Stuart Church, 1660–1714
    The later Stuart Church, 1660–1714

    The later Stuart Church, 1660–1714

    This book features nine essays written by leading scholars in the field to offer new insights into the place of the Church of England within the volatile Restoration era. Sections on ideas and people include essays covering the royal supremacy, the theology of the later Stuart Church and clerical...

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  • Patient voices in Britain, 1840–1948
    Patient voices in Britain, 1840–1948

    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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  • The time of European governance
    The time of European governance

    The time of European governance

    This book is about the impact of European governance on the time of national policymakers and institutions. It shows how European policymaking changes over time, how a new temporal logic has developed and the effect of this on EU institutions.

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  • The new pornographies
    The new pornographies

    The new pornographies

    Why do many of the most prominent books and films of the last decade return obsessively to the themes and imagery of pornography? Discussing many of France’s most successful and scandalous contemporary writers and directors, this book is the first to address this important trend.

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  • Let’s spend the night together
    Let’s spend the night together

    Let’s spend the night together

    This collection seeks to locate the sex in the well-known trilogy of ‘sex & drugs & rock ‘n’ roll’. By looking at how sex and sexuality were expressed, presented and received, the collection shows youth culture to be crucial to the changes and challenges that informed British society into...

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  • Understanding the mafia
    Understanding the mafia

    Understanding the mafia

    An anthology of writings in Italian which examine the origins, nature and culture of the Sicilian mafia.

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  • As You Like It
    As You Like It

    As You Like It

    A detailed account of the performance history of As You Like It through the modern period, focusing on landmark stage and film productions.

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  • The politics of male friendship in contemporary American fiction
    The politics of male friendship in contemporary American fiction

    The politics of male friendship in contemporary American fiction

    How might our friendships shape our politics? This new book examines how contemporary American fiction – from Philip Roth to Dinaw Mengestu – has rediscovered the concept of civic friendship and revived a long tradition of imagining male friendship as interlinked with the promises and paradoxes o...

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  • From prosperity to austerity
    From prosperity to austerity

    From prosperity to austerity

    Examines the Celtic Tiger, the once much-vaunted Irish economic phenomenon, and the subsequent financial disaster, from a socio-cultural perspective

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  • Beyond representation
    Beyond representation

    Beyond representation

    Beyond Representation poses the question as to whether over the last thirty years there have been signs of ‘progress’/’progressiveness’ in the representation of ‘marginalised’ or subaltern identity categories, within television drama in Britain and the US.

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  • Staging the old faith
    Staging the old faith

    Staging the old faith

    Staging the Old Faith is the first book length study to examine Caroline theatre as a space where the concerns of the English Roman Catholic community are staged.Rebecca Bailey juxtaposes a detailed analysis of Queen Henrietta Maria’s ground-breaking performances which showcased to an elite audie...

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  • Rethinking the university
    Rethinking the university

    Rethinking the university

    Rethinking the university explores and develops key critical debates in the humanities (concerning, for example, postmodernism, New Historicism, political criticism, cultural studies, interdisciplinarity and deconstruction), in the context of the various crises widely felt to be facing academic i...

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  • The Fourth Estate
    The Fourth Estate

    The Fourth Estate

    This book recounts the history of journalism in Ireland from the 1880s to today, using previously un-consulted records to explore how changing practices in the field have affected the country's social and cultural development

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  • The political aesthetics of the Armenian avant-garde
    The political aesthetics of the Armenian avant-garde

    The political aesthetics of the Armenian avant-garde

    Sheds light on artistic production and the emergence of contemporary art in Armenia from the ruins of the socialist utopian project and the failure to realise the romanticised consumerism of the capitalist West.

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  • Human agents and social structures
    Human agents and social structures

    Human agents and social structures

    This is a deliberately polemical intervention into the structure/agency debate in the social sciences. It argues that central concepts in this debate – such as ‘society’ and the ‘individual’ – have been widely misconceived, and that progress in the social sciences will only occur if the real natu...

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  • Medieval film
    Medieval film

    Medieval film

    An interdisciplinary study of ‘medieval film’ and its cultural functions

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  • Postcolonial Manchester
    Postcolonial Manchester

    Postcolonial Manchester

    Offers a radical new perspective on Britain’s devolved literary cultures by focusing on Manchester’s vibrant, multicultural literary scene.

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  • An ethnography of NGO practice in India
    An ethnography of NGO practice in India

    An ethnography of NGO practice in India

    Through an ethnographic study of the ‘Barefoot College’, an internationally renowned non- governmental development organisation (NGO) situated in Rajasthan, India, this book investigates the methods and practices by which a development organisation materialises and manages a construction of success

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  • My Voice: Marianne Philipps
    My Voice: Marianne Philipps

    My Voice: Marianne Philipps

    Marianne'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. Marianne Phillips began life in Berlin in 1924, came to England on the Kindertransport, and went on to run a dressmaking business an...

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  • Every Man Out of His Humour
    Every Man Out of His Humour

    Every Man Out of His Humour

    Despite its popularity when it first appeared in print in 1600, Every Man out of His Humour has never appeared as a single modern critical edition until now. The volume's introduction and annotations convey early modern obsessions with wealth and self-display by providing historical contexts and ...

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  • At the end of the line
    At the end of the line

    At the end of the line

    Colonial policing and the imperial endgame is the first comprehensive study of the colonial police and their complex role within Britain’s long and turbulent process of decolonisation, a time characterised by political upheaval and colonial conflict.The Colonial Police Service was created in 1936...

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  • Visible strangers
    Visible strangers

    Visible strangers

    A collection of essays on the nature of cultural pluralism in the Mediterranean and the different ways in which this was managed in various cities during the early modern period.

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  • Playhouse wills
    Playhouse wills

    Playhouse wills

    Now available in paperback, this edition constitutes an archive of source materials in the field of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre. It is a collection of over one hundred wills left by those who participate in the life of the theatre – from actors and dramatists to carpenters and costumiers.

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  • Theatre and religion
    Theatre and religion

    Theatre and religion

    This important collection of essays focuses on the place of Roman Catholicism in early modern England, bringing new perspectives to bear on whether Shakespeare himself was Catholic.

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  • The ignorant bystander?
    The ignorant bystander?

    The ignorant bystander?

    The Rwandan genocide was one of the bloodiest events in the late twentieth century and the international community’s response has stimulated a great deal of interest and debate ever since. In this study, Dean White provides the most thorough review of Britain’s response to the crisis written to d...

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  • Tasso's art and afterlives
    Tasso's art and afterlives

    Tasso's art and afterlives

    Traces the impact of the great Italian poet’s neglected masterpiece across a broad spectrum of arts from the sixteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, focusing on, among many others, the works of Spenser, Milton, Shakespeare, Daniel, Van Dyck, Poussin, Handel and Byron.

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  • David Lean
    David Lean

    David Lean

    Comprehensive overview of the director’s body of work which yields new insights on the established classics of Lean’s career as well as its lesser-known treasures

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  • In solidarity, under suspicion
    In solidarity, under suspicion

    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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  • Riddles at work in the early medieval tradition
    Riddles at work in the early medieval tradition

    Riddles at work in the early medieval tradition

    The first collection devoted solely to early medieval riddles, Riddles at work showcases recent research in this popular, new field. It brings together studies of Old English and Latin riddles, authors at various stages of their careers and a range of approaches, aiming to map out both the state ...

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  • War and welfare
    War and welfare

    War and welfare

    This book examines the experiences of the millions of service dependents created by total war, particularly those of men taken captive in both Europe and the Far East.

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  • European Empires and the People
    European Empires and the People

    European Empires and the People

    The first book to survey, in comparative form, the transmission of imperial ideas to the public in six European countries. It provides fascinating parallel studies of France, Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Italy, examining the media and the content through which events in colonial...

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  • Vienna’s ‘respectable’ antisemites
    Vienna’s ‘respectable’ antisemites

    Vienna’s ‘respectable’ antisemites

    This book presents a radical reconsideration of the role of key players in developing an organised, politically oriented antisemitism in Vienna in the decades leading to the 1938 Anschluss. It pays particular attention to the clergy and how their antisemitism fitted the worldview of an authorita...

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  • Swashbucklers
    Swashbucklers

    Swashbucklers

    Swashbucklers is the first study of one of the most popular and enduring genres in television history – the costume adventure series.

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  • Gentry culture in late-medieval England
    Gentry culture in late-medieval England

    Gentry culture in late-medieval England

    This book is a comprehensive introductory guide to late medieval gentry culture, including chapters on gentility, chivalry, politics, education and recreation, literacy, literature, cultural networks, religion, music and the visual arts. It surveys existing work in the fieldand presents new resea...

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  • A savage song
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    A savage song

    This book examines key moments of violent social unrest in the twentieth-century United States. Investigating the centrality of constructions of gender to American racism, it asks how African and Mexican American men responded to the violence of racism, and how their resistance was understood by ...

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  • Hincmar of Rheims
    Hincmar of Rheims

    Hincmar of Rheims

    Brings together the latest international research on a key medieval writer and thinker

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  • Queen and country
    Queen and country

    Queen and country

    Detailed study of same-sex desire and military authority in the British Armed Forces between 1939 and 1945

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  • Henry Neville and English Republican culture in the seventeenth century
    Henry Neville and English Republican culture in the seventeenth century

    Henry Neville and English Republican culture in the seventeenth century

    Henry Neville and English Republican Culture in the Seventeenth Century is the first full-length study of the republican Henry Neville as country gentleman, politician, political thinker, rebel and libeller. It traces the development of Neville’s political thought from the English Civil Wars to t...

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  • Organising care around patients
    Organising care around patients

    Organising care around patients

    This book draws on multiple real life experiences to make a compelling case for how the NHS can organise care better around the needs of patients.

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  • The business of birth control
    The business of birth control

    The business of birth control

    This volume provides a new commercial perspective on contraception in modern Britain. It examines contraceptives as commodities and demonstrates the significance of the contraceptive industry in shaping sexual knowledge alongside the medical profession, the birth control movement, and the state b...

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  • Being boys
    Being boys

    Being boys

    Offers a fresh and original approach to the masculinities, subjectivities and emotions of working-class young men, and makes a distinctive contribution to the history of leisure and interwar youth.

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  • New Hollywood violence
    New Hollywood violence

    New Hollywood violence

    'New Hollywood violence' is a groundbreaking collection of essays devoted to an interrogation of various aspects, dimensions and issues - historical, conceptual, empirical, aesthetic, cultural and ideological - relating to the depiction of violence in what has come to be known as New Hollywood fi...

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  • Reading David Foster Wallace between philosophy and literature
    Reading David Foster Wallace between philosophy and literature

    Reading David Foster Wallace between philosophy and literature

    This collection aims to show that David Foster Wallace’s work originates from and functions in the space between philosophy and literature. New essays by prominent and promising Wallace scholars explore the many ways these two discursive modes serve as always already intertwined ways of experienc...

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