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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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  • The three amigos
    The three amigos

    The three amigos

    This is the first academic book dedicated to the filmmaking of the Mexican born directors Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Alfonso Cuarón. The book examines the career trajectories of the directors and presents a detailed analysis of their most significant films.

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  • British imperialism in Cyprus, 1878–1915
    British imperialism in Cyprus, 1878–1915

    British imperialism in Cyprus, 1878–1915

    This book explores the tensions underlying British imperialism in Cyprus, explaining how the Union Jack came to fly over the island and why after thirty-five years the British wanted it lowered. Cyprus’ importance was always more imagined than real and was enmeshed within widely held cultural sig...

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  • Sidney’s Arcadia and the conflicts of virtue
    Sidney’s Arcadia and the conflicts of virtue

    Sidney’s Arcadia and the conflicts of virtue

    Wood reads Philip Sidney's New Arcadia in the light of the ethos known as Philippism after the followers of the Protestant theologian, Philip Melanchthon. He uses a critical paradigm previously used to discuss Sidney's Defence of Poesy and narrows the gap often found between Sidney's theory and l...

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • The world turned upside down?
    The world turned upside down?

    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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  • Dangerous amusements
    Dangerous amusements

    Dangerous amusements

    Drawing on an extensive range of sources, from newspapers and institutional records to oral histories and autobiography, Dangerous amusements explores the beginnings of a distinct youth culture in the streets and neighbourhood spaces of late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain.

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  • Joseph Losey
    Joseph Losey

    Joseph Losey

    The career of Wisconsin-born Joseph Losey spanned over four decades and several countries, from . collaborator with Bertholt Brecht, director of Hollywood B-pictures and victim of McCarthyism, to director of seminal British films such as "Time Without Pity," "Eve," "The Servant," and "The Go-Betw...

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  • The culture of craft
    The culture of craft

    The culture of craft

    Peter Dormer presents a series of lively, clearly argued discussions about the relevance of handicraft in a world whose aesthetics and design are largely determined by technology. One of the key questions discussed in the book is what makes the difference between a craft and a modern technology.

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  • Serving the empire in the Great War
    Serving the empire in the Great War

    Serving the empire in the Great War

    Explores the role of both mules and mule drivers to the British war effort and in particular the social and economic aspects of the Cypriot contribution to the Great War. It also questions why Cypriots forgot this extraordinary contribution.

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  • Cosmopolitan dystopia
    Cosmopolitan dystopia

    Cosmopolitan dystopia

    Cosmopolitan Dystopia evaluates cosmopolitan liberalism and shows In their effort to avoid the terrible fate of twentieth century utopias, cosmopolitan liberals have nonetheless created a new global dystopia of permanent war and authoritarian power embodied in ‘sovereignty as responsibility’.

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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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  • Republican learning
    Republican learning

    Republican learning

    Argues that far from being a marginal and insignificant figure, Toland counted queens, princes and government ministers as his friends and political associates

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  • Understanding AS-Level Government and Politics
    Understanding AS-Level Government and Politics

    Understanding AS-Level Government and Politics

    This is a clearly written, comprehensive and topical textbook on UK government and politics for AS and A Level students

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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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  • A history of the case study
    A history of the case study

    A history of the case study

    The case study is a modern genre that has not yet outgrown its original purpose. This collection tells the story of the genre as inseparable from the foundation of sexology and psychoanalysis, and integral to the history of European literature.

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  • African peace
    African peace

    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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  • Defending Eastern Europe
    Defending Eastern Europe

    Defending Eastern Europe

    This book utilises three theoretical models to analyse the defence conditions and preparedness of all the states of Eastern Europe. It considers the transition from Cold War communism to post-Cold War democracies, the stability of the East-Central European States, the precarious defence positions...

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  • Religion and life cycles in early modern England
    Religion and life cycles in early modern England

    Religion and life cycles in early modern England

    This innovative, interdisciplinary collection addresses religion and the life course in England c. 1550–1800. Considering Catholic, Protestant and Jewish experiences of biological, social and religious life stages, it suggests new ways of framing the multiple, overlapping life cycles that early m...

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  • Aesthetics of contingency
    Aesthetics of contingency

    Aesthetics of contingency

    A study of how literature responds to conditions of political uncertainty, this book rewrites much of what we thought we knew about civil war and Restoration literature. Rather than sparking a decisive break with the past, for many the seventeenth-century’s civil wars opened onto a resolutely ind...

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  • The Trump revolt
    The Trump revolt

    The Trump revolt

    The second entry in the Pocket Politics series provides an accessible account of the ideas and shifts that propelled Donald Trump to victory in the 2016 US presidential election and looks at the likely consequences of the result.

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  • Cormac McCarthy
    Cormac McCarthy

    Cormac McCarthy

    Cormac McCarthy: A complexity theory of literature offers the first sustained analysis of complexity science in McCarthy's literary works. McCarthy's fiction makes a significant case study demonstrating how literature can help us imagine and grapple with complex systems and crises, from global ec...

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  • Beyond observation
    Beyond observation

    Beyond observation

    A comprehensive history of ethnographic film since cinema began in 1895. It shows how the genre evolved out of reportage, exotic melodrama and travelogues prior to the Second World War into a more academic form of documentary in the post-war period.

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  • Gender and housing in Soviet Russia
    Gender and housing in Soviet Russia

    Gender and housing in Soviet Russia

    This book explores the housing problem throughout the seventy years of Soviet history. It looks at changing political ideology on appropriate forms of housing under socialism, successive government policies on housing, and the meaning and experience of 'home' for Soviet citizens.

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  • Stories from small museums
    Stories from small museums

    Stories from small museums

    This book tells the story of the boom in smalls museums that took place in Britain from the 1960s onwards. Drawing on extensive interview materials, it explores why community groups, families and individuals were inspired to set up museums, teasing out the connections between personal experience ...

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  • Angela Carter
    Angela Carter

    Angela Carter

    This full scale study discusses Angela Carter’s fiction in chronological order, and notes that although her themes are fairly consistent throughout her work, consistency of theme is not the same as repetition. The new angles and emphases that develop are partly from Carter’s immersion in the chan...

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  • She played and sang
    She played and sang

    She played and sang

    Jane Austen, widely acclaimed as one of the greatest English novelists, possessed another talent that enriched her life and work – music. She played and sang draws on the newly digitised music books of the Austen family, granting us a deeper understanding of the writer's artistic prowess and the ...

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  • Disability in industrial Britain
    Disability in industrial Britain

    Disability in industrial Britain

    This book examines disability and disabled people in British coalmining, an industry with high levels of injury and disease and where, as one outsider noted, streets ‘thronged with the maimed and mutilated’.

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  • Against the grain
    Against the grain

    Against the grain

    The first general history of the British far left to be published in the twenty-first century

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  • Scotland, empire and decolonisation in the twentieth century
    Scotland, empire and decolonisation in the twentieth century

    Scotland, empire and decolonisation in the twentieth century

    This volume represents one of the first attempts to examine the connection between Scotland and the British empire throughout the entire twentieth century.

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  • Mid-century gothic
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    Mid-century gothic

    Mid-Century Gothic offers a fresh perspective on the cultural moment that followed World War II, and discovers a deep sense of unease mingling with optimism about the future. By reassessing the novels, films, visual culture and technologies of the period, the book argues that gothicism itself was...

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  • Everyday resistance, peacebuilding and state-making
    Everyday resistance, peacebuilding and state-making

    Everyday resistance, peacebuilding and state-making

    Everyday resistance, peacebuilding and state-making addresses debates on the liberal peace and the policies of peacebuilding through a theoretical and empirical study of resistance in peacebuilding contexts. Examining the case of 'Africa's World War' in the DRC, it locates resistance in the exper...

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  • El Caballero de Olmedo by Lope de Vega Carpio
    El Caballero de Olmedo by Lope de Vega Carpio

    El Caballero de Olmedo by Lope de Vega Carpio

    One of the most famous plays by the leading Spanish dramatist of the Golden Age, El Caballero de Olmedo is made accessible to English readers through a context-setting introduction, and helpful notes to scenes and difficult passages.

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  • Doing psychiatry in postwar Europe
    Doing psychiatry in postwar Europe

    Doing psychiatry in postwar Europe

    Looking closely at practices that contributed to reshape the psychiatric field in the second half of the 20th century, Doing psychiatry offers new insights into a mental health assistance in transformation after World War II. Through richly documented case studies across Europe, this book sheds l...

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  • Measuring difference, numbering normal
    Measuring difference, numbering normal

    Measuring difference, numbering normal

    This book argues that health measurements are given artificial authority if they are particularly amenable to calculability and easy measurement, and shows that problems often coalesce around disabilities that do not lend themselves to easy quantification.

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  • Entertaining television
    Entertaining television

    Entertaining television

    An energetic look at BBC Television in 1950s, illustrating how it was at the forefront of popular programming, including the first Reality TV programmes, quiz and game shows, even 'problem' talk shows.

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  • The gestures of participatory art
    The gestures of participatory art

    The gestures of participatory art

    The study critically reclaims participatory art beyond its co-option as a fuzzword of neoliberal governance. It examines a range of artistic practices from community theatre, immersive performance and the visual arts in different sites around the world. It offers a refreshing theorisation of part...

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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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  • Abject visions
    Abject visions

    Abject visions

    An impressive list of authors examine how abjection can be discussed in relation to a host of different subjects, including marginality and gender.

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  • Ignorance
    Ignorance

    Ignorance

    An excellent theoretical work that investigates ignorance in literature.

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  • The Narrative of Carlos Fuentes
    The Narrative of Carlos Fuentes

    The Narrative of Carlos Fuentes

    Examines the full range of Carlos Fuentes’ work.

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  • What about the workers?
    What about the workers?

    What about the workers?

    This book explores the long-term relationship between the Conservative Party, trade unions, and the organised working class. It focuses on the question of why the Conservative Party for much of its history sought to accommodate the unions and why in the 1970s and 1980s it adopted a policy of excl...

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  • The Irish tower house
    The Irish tower house

    The Irish tower house

    Tower houses are the definitive building of medieval Ireland. This study investigates their significant social role, which has previously gone underappreciated. Innovative conclusions stem from an interdisciplinary methodology that demonstrates the interconnectedness of society, economics and the...

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  • Democratic citizenship and the European Union
    Democratic citizenship and the European Union

    Democratic citizenship and the European Union

    This book analyses the political legitimacy of the European Union. Developing a distinctive normative theory of political association, it evaluates the project of European integration. It develops its arguments through an original interplay of political science and political theory.

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  • 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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  • King Lear
    King Lear

    King Lear

    Through a study of ten modern stage and screen productions of 'King Lear', this book examines the way performance and interpretation are bound together, and shows how different performances have illuminated the contradictions in this play. The updated second edition has new chapters on Ian Holm's...

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  • Social democracy and urban politics
    Social democracy and urban politics

    Social democracy and urban politics

    Social democracy and urban politicsdelves into the changing relationship between social democratic, radical left and green parties within the political space of European cities, reflecting upon the formation and dilemmas of a broader progressive alliance.

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  • Empire and sexuality
    Empire and sexuality

    Empire and sexuality

    Established in the belief that imperialism as a cultural phenomenon had as significant an effect on the dominant as it did on the subordinate societies, the "Studies in Imperialism" series seeks to develop the new socio-cultural approach which has emerged through cross-disciplinary work on popula...

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  • End of empire and the English novel since 1945
    End of empire and the English novel since 1945

    End of empire and the English novel since 1945

    First book-length critical work devoted to the impact of the end of empire and traces of imperial memory in mainstream English Literature since the Second World War. Authors studied include Josephine Tey, William Golding, Penelope Lively, David Peace and Ian McEwan. Represents the best of current...

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  • The stomach for fighting
    The stomach for fighting

    The stomach for fighting

    Food is fundamental to soldiers’ morale and performance and yet to date it has received little attention from historians, who have reiterated army statistics without an investigation of their veracity. . Extensively researched with a wide range of sources so that theoretical concepts are illumina...

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  • Cases of citation
    Cases of citation

    Cases of citation

    This collection investigates the methodological problem of how to see, or read, art that references literature through a series of object-focused chapters on post-1960 artworks. Variously eccentric, playful, reverential and procedural, the diverse range of works engage with literary history by te...

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  • Debating civilisations
    Debating civilisations

    Debating civilisations

    Debating civilisations offers an up-to-date evaluation of the re-emerging field of civilisational analysis, tracing its main currents and comparing it to rival paradigms such as Marxism, globalisation theory and postcolonial sociology.

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  • Direct democracy
    Direct democracy

    Direct democracy

    Combining the latest scholarship and academic research with current debates, Direct Democracy is essential reading for political scientists, lawyers, journalists and anybody who is interested in the challenges facing democracies today. Direct Democracy shows when government by the people can imp...

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  • In Strange Countries: Middle English Literature and its Afterlife
    In Strange Countries: Middle English Literature and its Afterlife

    In Strange Countries: Middle English Literature and its Afterlife

    These essays by senior scholars in medieval studies celebrate the career of J.J. Anderson, editor, critic, and co-founder of the Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture series, who taught in medieval studies at the University of Manchester for forty years. The essays are rooted in medieval lit...

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  • A minority and the state
    A minority and the state

    A minority and the state

    This is the only general history of Britain's travelling communities in the twentieth century and covers state and legal developments affecting Travellers as well as their experiences of missions, education, warand welfare.

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  • Women against cruelty
    Women against cruelty

    Women against cruelty

    This is the first study of women’s leading contribution to animal protection in nineteenth-century Britai

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  • Revolutionary lives of the Red and Black Atlantic since 1917
    Revolutionary lives of the Red and Black Atlantic since 1917

    Revolutionary lives of the Red and Black Atlantic since 1917

    This volume explores the life histories of a wide range of radical figures whose political activity in relation to the black liberation struggle was catalysed or profoundly shaped by the global impact and legacy of the Russian Revolution of 1917, including C.L.R. James, Paul Robeson, Walter Rodne...

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  • Hybrid healing
    Hybrid healing

    Hybrid healing

    This book works from the premise that the tremendous diversity of Old English medical texts requires an equally diverse range of interpretative methodologies. Taking a case study approach, it offers close readings tailored to individual remedies, drawing from biology, rhetoric, archaeology, folkl...

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  • Reading the graphic surface
    Reading the graphic surface

    Reading the graphic surface

    Critically engages with the visual appearance of prose fiction where it is manipulated by authors, from alterations in typography to the deconstruction of the physical form of the book

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  • Murder in Marseille
    Murder in Marseille

    Murder in Marseille

    On 9 October 1934, the Ustashe, a Croatian terrorist group, killed King Alexander I of Yugoslavia in a Marseille street. This book examines the circumstances, processes, and trajectories that shaped the Ustashe terrorists and their attack in Marseille.

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  • The 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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  • Doubting sex
    Doubting sex

    Doubting sex

    This groundbreaking analysis of nineteenth-century European clinical case histories of hermaphrodites shows how sex changed from an outward appearance inscribed in a social body to something to be found deep inside body and self.

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  • Experimental British television
    Experimental British television

    Experimental British television

    The first academic study to focus on experimental British television. Uncovers the history of experimental television, bringing back forgotten programmes and places the aesthetics of experimentation within historical contexts. The book also examines the importance of the changing technologies on ...

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  • Understanding criminal law
    Understanding criminal law

    Understanding criminal law

    A detailed overview of criminal law aimed at A2 and undergraduate students

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  • British and Irish diasporas
    British and Irish diasporas

    British and Irish diasporas

    This book offers the first integrated study of the formation of diasporas from the islands of Ireland and Britain, and explores how the examples and experiences of the constituent nations and peoples of those islands compare.

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  • Doggy people
    Doggy people

    Doggy people

    This book reveals the varied and often eccentric lives of the Victorians who helped define dogs as we know them today.

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  • Hospitals and charity
    Hospitals and charity

    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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  • Distant sisters
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    Distant sisters

    The book tells a regional and international history of the Australian suffrage campaigns between 1880-1914, uncovering the networks of suffragists built to win the vote and sell its merits abroad. Situated at the nexus of feminist and imperial history, it examines the limits of cross border conne...

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  • The changing spaces of television acting
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    The changing spaces of television acting

    This title is an historical overview and a then-and-now comparison of performing for British television drama.

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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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  • Let the dead speak
    Let the dead speak

    Let the dead speak

    Let the dead speak explores the historical and social dynamics of Spiritualism, the religious movement associated in the popular imagination with nineteenth-century parlour séances and ghost photography.

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  • Empire and Art
    Empire and Art

    Empire and Art

    The book examines the aesthetic interactions between Britain and India during the Raj in relation to issues of empire and considers the visual culture of urban elites and princely states alongside popular arts. It explores the impact of the Anglo-Indian colonial encounter on the arts and aestheti...

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  • The Encyclopedia of British Film
    The Encyclopedia of British Film

    The Encyclopedia of British Film

    The fifth edition of this highly successful reference guide features more than 6,500 articles on the producers, directors, actors and studios behind a century or so of great British cinema.

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  • The ethics of war
    The ethics of war

    The ethics of war

    Drawing on examples from the history of warfare from the Crusades to the present day, The ethics of war explores the limits and possibilities of the moral regulation of war. While resisting the commonly held view that ‘war is hell’, A. J. Coates focuses on the tensions which exist between war and...

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  • Collieries, communities and the miners' strike in Scotland, 1984–85
    Collieries, communities and the miners' strike in Scotland, 1984–85

    Collieries, communities and the miners' strike in Scotland, 1984–85

    This book analyses the 1984-5 miners’ strike by focusing on its vital Scottish dimensions, especially the role of workplace politics and community mobilisation.

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  • How the other half lives
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    How the other half lives

    How the other half lives interrogates contemporary social and spatial inequalities in housing, urban design, place-making, austerity, notions of deservedness and transnational mobility.

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  • Land and labour
    Land and labour

    Land and labour

    This book is a history of the Potters’ Emigration Society from its founding in 1844 to its dissolution in early 1851. The Society, which became a national organisation after 1848, sought to solve the problems of surplus labour by turning workers into frontier farmers. It was the most significan...

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  • The Blunt Affair
    The Blunt Affair

    The Blunt Affair

    The Blunt Affair examines a range of literary and filmic texts on the Cambridge spies and related topics – including British intelligence’s betrayal of Alan Turing, the Profumo Affair and the Portland spy case – in the context of the culture and politics of the late Cold War.

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  • The European Union after Brexit
    The European Union after Brexit

    The European Union after Brexit

    This volume addresses the transformation of the EU during and after the process of Brexit. Covering topics such as trade, the internal market, freedom of movement, security, and social Europe, this book suggests that Brexit reorders the priorities, internal balance(s) of power, and legislation of...

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  • Globalizing democracy
    Globalizing democracy

    Globalizing democracy

    This new edition examines some of the philosophical and theoretical issues underlying the ‘democratic project’ which increasingly dominates the fields of comparative development and international relations. The first concern presented here is normative and epistemological: as democracy becomes mo...

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  • Riddles at work in the early medieval tradition
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    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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  • Religion and Rights
    Religion and Rights

    Religion and Rights

    In this authoritative book, a number of eminent and respected figures in the fields of theology, sociology, anthropology and political activism set out their vision for a society in which the competing truths must be accommodated not peacefully but without violence.

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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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  • Roy Ward Baker
    Roy Ward Baker

    Roy Ward Baker

    This book traces the career of one of the great survivors of the British film and television industry over more than sixty years, who directed landmark British films, worked at Twentieth Century Fox and Rank in Hollywood, moved to television series such as 'The Avengers' and re-emerged as a major...

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  • The United States in the Indo-Pacific
    The United States in the Indo-Pacific

    The United States in the Indo-Pacific

    This edited volume examines the legacies former US President Barack Obama leaves across Asia and the Pacific, as well as the endurance of, and prospects for, those legacies two years into the Presidency of Donald Trump.

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  • Hincmar of Rheims
    Hincmar of Rheims

    Hincmar of Rheims

    Brings together the latest international research on a crucial figure for all those interested in early medieval European history in general, and Carolingian history in particular.

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