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Reformation without end
Reformation without end conceives of eighteenth-century English history as a late chapter in the nation’s long Reformation. Contemporaries thought that the Reformation had caused two bloody seventeenth-century English revolutions.
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Citizen convicts
The first comprehensive study of prisoners and the right to vote
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Robert guédiguian
Considers Guédiguian's career, both as a filmmaker and producer, as a valid response to a crisis in post-Communist Leftist political movements in France
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Jacopo da varagine's chronicle of the city of genoa
This is the first English translation of Jacopo da Varagine's Chronicle of the city of Genoa. It broadens the available literature in English on medieval Italian urban life, providing an engaging introduction to medieval Genoa, civic culture, Dominican composition and the ‘historical Jacopo’.
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Housewives and citizens
This book explores the contribution that five conservative, voluntary and popular women’s organisations made to women’s lives and to the campaign for women’s rights throughout the period 1928–64.
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The evolving role of nation-building in us foreign policy
Weaving together International Relations theory and a rich history drawing mainly on declassified documents, interviews and other primary sources, this book contributes to theoretical discussions of nation-building while offering a critique of Realist and Critical Security School analyses of US p...
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An archaeology of innovation
This monograph takes a unique archaeological approach to the investigation of innovation and the innovation process. Case studies span the breadth of human history, from our earliest hominin ancestors to the contemporary world. The emphasis is on the social context and temporality of invention, a...
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When politics meets bureaucracy
This book presents an ethnographic study of policy-making in two different Norwegian municipalities, where the author analyses the straregies and tactics employed by both local politicians and bureaucrats. Through an interdisicplinary approach, the book explores the relationship between the centr...
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European gothic
The only collection to concentrate on the European Gothic - writing in English, French, German, Russian and Spanish. Charts the rich process of cross-fertilisation, especially regarding Anglo-French exchanges in the development of the Gothic novel. Emphasises the importance of the impact of trans...
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Contemporary french cinema
Contemporary French cinema is an essential introduction to popular French film of the last 35 years. It charts recent developments in all genres of French cinema with analyses of over 120 movies, from Les Valseuses to Caché.Reflecting the diversity of French film production since the New Wave, th...
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Chagos islanders in mauritius and the uk
This is the first book to compare the experiences of displaced Chagos islanders in Mauritius with the experiences of those Chagossians who have moved to the UK since 2002. It provides a unique ethnographic comparative study of forced displacement and onward migration within the living memory of o...
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Beyond nightingale
This book studies Crimean War nursing from a transnational perspective setting nursing in the five combatant armies into the wider context of European statecraft.
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The ethics of researching the far right
This book offers a series of critical reflections on the ethics of researching the far right from a range of contributors. It provides a starting point for researchers and considers issues such as terminology, positionality, safety, and dissemination.
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Perception and analogy
This book examines how sensory experience is conceptualised during the eighteenth century. It draws novel connections between theories of perception and the creative methods employed by poets, theologians, and scientists in their explorations of astronomy, light, colour, and the body.
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In contact with the gods?
In 1994 the Arts Council of Great Britain brought together a number of theatre directors as part of the City of Drama celebrations. This is a collection of interviews and discussions with directors who have helped shape the development of theatre in the last 20 years. They include Peter Brook, Pe...
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Terror and terroir
This book traces the history of post-war France by tracking the Comité Régional d'Action Viticole (CRAV), a militant collective of winegrowers who have used protest and violence to push back against attempts to modernise the French economy and state and the wider impacts of globalisation.
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A history of international relations theory
This new edition of a hugely popular title traces discussions about international relations from the middle ages up to the present times. It presents central concepts in historical context and shows how ancient ideas still affect the way we perceive world politics.
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The political interests of gender revisited
The book makes a compelling case for reconstructing feminist theory in critical-realist terms and forms a trend-setting text in the area of gender studies.
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Descending with angels
This book and award-winning film provide a unique account of the invisible dynamics of possession and psychosis, and how Muslim patients are transformed through the treatments offered by mosques and the psychiatric institutions of European nation-states.
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Reconstructing modernity
This book examines the redevelopment of British cities in the immediate post-war, challenging existing histories of reconstruction and urban modernism.
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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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Civil war london
London’s mobilisation proved crucial to parliament’s success in the English Civil War. Through a rigorous investigation of archival and print sources, this book shows how and why the City aligned its interests with parliament and how, ultimately, this alignment led to the establishment of an army...
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Baroquemania
Baroquemania offers a new account of Italian post-unification visual culture through its entanglement with the Baroque. Interrogating the Baroque’s fraught afterlife in the work of Giorgio de Chirico, Armando Brasini, Lucio Fontana and others, the book reveals its role in crafting a distinctively...
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The debate on the french revolution
This book surveys a cross-section of historians of the Revolution from the early nineteenth century right up to the present day. From liberals to conservatives and from Marxists to revisionists, this books focuses on major figures across the numerous schools of historical thought concerned with t...
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The social world of early modern westminster
Early modern Westminster is familiar as the location of the Royal Court at Whitehall, parliament, the law courts and the emerging West End, yet it has never been studied in its own right. This book is the first study to provide an integrated picture of the town during this crucial period in its h...
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An archaeology of lunacy
This is a materially focused exploration of the first wave of public asylum building in Britain and Ireland. Examining architecture and material culture, it proposes that the familiar asylum archetype, usually attributed to the Victorians, was in fact developed much earlier.
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Into the woods
This book is a detailed exploration of the working practices of a community of scientists exposed in public, and of the making of scientific knowledge about climate change in Scotland.
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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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African cities and collaborative futures
This book brings together scholars from across the globe and a range of disciplines to discuss the nature of African cities today. This groundbreaking collection, spanning energy, housing, infrastructure, safety and sustainability, offers a fresh perspective on some of the most pressing issues co...
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The daring muse of the early stuart funeral elegy
A broad reading of the period’s rich trove of funeral elegies, in both manuscript and print, which daringly use individual deaths as opportunities for ethical reflection, political comment, and even satire.
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Lee miller
Revises conventional biographical accounts of Miller’s work, examining unpublished and lesser-known works, and offering new insights into her relationship with surrealism and the American avant-garde.
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West indian intellectuals in britain
A book of the moment - nothing comparable on the Carribean influence on Britain.. Discusses the influence, amongst others, of C. L. R. James, Una Marson, George Lamming, Jean Rhys, Claude McKay and V. S. Naipaul.
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Shakespeare's storms
Explains he special effects used to represent storms in the earl modern playhouses, and details how those effects filter into Shakespeare's dramatic language. With chapters on Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, Pericles and The Tempest
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Intelligence and national security policymaking on iraq
Presents a range of scholarly analyses of how George Bush and Tony Blair used (or misused) intelligence about WMD in taking their countries to war in Iraq. The study includes original excerpts from speeches and reports on the need to go to war and what subsequently went wrong as well as cutting e...
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The renewal of radicalism
Kidd argues that emergence of Labour politics in southern England represented the renewal of the working-class radical tradition. Mapping the trajectory of Labour politics from its mid-Victorian origins to the 1920s, the book offers a new narrative that challenges conventional understandings of p...
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Ferranti. a history
The case-study outlines the inherent dangers in international mergers, as well as explaining the acute problems associated with City practices that avoided issues that would bring down Ferranti in spectacular fashion.
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Objects of affection
This study investigates the affective agency of the book, through the emotional literacy training that a single codex provided a late-medieval English household. It demonstrates how MS Ashmole 61 affirms both the physical and moral agency of nonhumans, who fashion spiritually generous and sociall...
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The politics of constitutional nationalism in northern ireland, 1932–70
A timely analysis of Northern Ireland’s constitutional nationalist tradition in the years leading up to the outbreak of the Troubles
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Shakespeare’s histories and counter-histories
Shakespeare's history plays have always been pivotal to our understanding of his works and their relationship to their political and cultural context. This collection renews attention to these crucial plays by exploring official and unofficial versions of the past, histories and counter-histories.
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Thomas nashe and literary performance
Thomas Nashe is typically regarded as an urban author and a University wit, but his writings are inflected and shaped by regional travel, ‘non-literary’, non-elite works, and oral culture. The essays in this collection address Nashe’s use of the past, his engagement with the Elizabethan present, ...
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Bulletin of the john rylands library 101/2
The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is a long-running journal that publishes research complementary to the John Rylands Library’s extensive special collections.
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Chris abani
Touching on global issues such as violence, sexual abuse, gender, performativity, marginality, migration and human rights, Abani’s work testifies to the centrality of his literary voice in the contemporary literary panorama. This book shows how aesthetics overlaps with ethics and how forms of ext...
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Rereading chaucer and spenser
Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete offers dynamic new approaches to the relationship between the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser. Contributors draw on current and emerging preoccupations in contemporary scholarship and offer new perspectives on poetic autho...
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Comrades in conflict
This is the first in-depth academic study of the Labour Government’s 1969 attempt to introduce industrial relations to curb strikes by trade unions. Using archival sources, this book explains how this attempt provoked strong opposition in the Party, and from the unions, to the extent that it was ...
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The politics of feeling in brexit britain
This book challenges the idea that Brexit was a contest between ‘heads’ and ‘hearts’, and offers a fresh account of political feelings and the stories we tell about them.
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‘survival capitalism’ and the big bang
Survival Capitalism is a cultural history of the 1980s financial revolution. It ranges in scope across the Thatcher government, the Bank of England, London Stock Exchange and member firms, and Lloyd’s of London. It offers timely new perspectives on the City of London’s Big Bang reforms as the Con...
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Margaret cavendish
Margaret Cavendish was the most extraordinary seventeenth-century Englishwoman, refusing to be silent when exiled by the Crowmellian regime, she fought to make her voice heard through her fascinating publications.
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New international politics of south asia
Fully revised and updated from the 1992 edition. First edition well reviewed.. Relatively little accessible literature in the area.
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Arts and crafts objects
A fascinating reassessment of the conventional understanding of a cohesive ‘Arts and Crafts movement’ in Britain. The book’s illuminating visual analysis and radical new interpretations of key contexts such as the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society and the homes of William Morris call for a major...
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Popular virtue
A major study into the changes in moral politics and culture of working-class Radicalism during a crucial period of modern British history.
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Making the british empire, 1660–1800
This book is based on the latest research, and involves stimulating new ideas from some of the most important scholars working in the field of imperial history. It ranges across politics, religion, economy, law and geography in order to offer challenging perspectives on the nature and origins of ...
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Pageantry and power
Pageantry and Power is the first full and in-depth cultural history of the Lord Mayor’s Show in the early modern period. The book provides new insight into the culture and history of the London of Shakespeare’s time and beyond.
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Windows for the world
This study focuses on the significance of the displays of stained glass at several international exhibitions held in Britain, France, the USA and Australia between 1851 and 1900. It provides new perspectives for the study of nineteenth-century stained glass, within these temporary secular exhibit...
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The right formula
In the corner of a Manchester laboratory in 2004, two scientists stumbled on a major discovery while pulling pieces of Sellotape apart - graphene. This is the story of those scientists, Professors Andre Geim and Kostya Novosolev, their eureka moment, subsequent Nobel Prizes and investigation into...
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Wales and the british overseas empire
This unique collection of essays examines the many relationships that existed between Wales and the expanding British overseas empire between 1650 and 1830.
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Renaissance humanism and ethnicity before race
Examines how the elite in early modern Ireland spoke about human societies and human bodies, and demonstrates that this elite discourse was grounded in a commitment to the languages and sciences of Renaissance Humanism
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Science at the end of empire
One solution to West Indian problems after 1940 was to transform sugarcane into a raw material for making synthetics. Britain hoped to encourage new industry by providing scientific information that business might exploit. This plan was threatened by American promotion of a different model of dev...
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Growing up and going out
A study of youth, commerce, and leisure that explores the reimagination, remaking, and regulation of the post-war city after dark. Using a case study of Sheffield, this book considers the relationship between young people and their local environment and the meaning of leisure in post-war Britain.
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The 'do-it-yourself' artwork
What happens when you touch or enter an artwork instead of looking at it? As artists since the 1950s have increasingly sought to involve viewers more actively in their artworks, this critical anthology sheds light on the nature of these new forms of participation and their historical, social and ...
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Five elizabethan progress entertainments
A fully annotated, modern-spelling edition of entertainments performed for the monarch during her summer progress, the collection affords an insight into a neglected area of Elizabethan cultural activity.
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Transcultural encounters
Explores Franco-Maghrebi crossings in contemporary art, giving particular attention to performance, video, photography and installation. It is the first book to focus on postcolonial approaches to art in France and the wider French-speaking world.
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Comic spenser
Comic Spenser explains how the deep-rooted cultural bias against humour has skewed interpretation of The Faerie Queene since its first publication. As well as bringing a comic perspective to new areas of the poem, this study explores profound connections between humour, faith, and allegory.
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The french party system
This book provides a complete overview of the of parties in France. The social and ideological profiles of all the major parties are analysed chapter by chapter, highlighting their principal functions and dynamics within the system. These are complemented by analyses of bloc and system features, ...
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International organisations, non-state actors, and the formation of customary international law
This collection of essays provides the most comprehensive study of the theory and practice of the contribution of international organisations and non-state actors to the formation of customary international law. The book offers new practical and theoretical perspectives on one of the most complex...
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Listen in terror
The first full-length study of British horror radio
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South african performance and archives of memory
This book argues that memory functions as a key element in contemporary South African re-imagining of historical events and in constructing new definitions of national and personal identity. It compares two ways in which memory is embodied: in repertoires of practices, songs, dance, rituals, and ...
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The european union and industrial relations
This is the first book to provide a clear overview and innovative analysis of the multiple ways the European Union affects industrial relations.
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Missionary families
Presents an innovative argument for the significance of missionaries’ familial relations in the philosophy, conduct and outcomes of mission work during the nineteenth century.
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World stages, local audiences
This book argues that local performance events offer a way to read the world, and an opportunity to remake that world, helping to foster a global political consciousness. Surveying a wide array of theatre, dance, performance and visual art, as well as sporting contests, marriage ceremonies human ...
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Constructing foucault's ethics
The work of Michel Foucault has had a huge influence on contemporary philosophy, but one thing it lacks is a normative ethical framework. Seeking to construct an ethics consistent with Foucault’s core postulates, this study advances the concept of ‘life continuance’, an approach it contrasts with...
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Law across imperial borders
This book is the story of British consuls at the edge of the British and Chinese empires. By embracing local norms and adapting to transfrontier migration, consuls created forms of transfrontier legal authority.
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Ireland, slavery and the caribbean
Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean interrogates the complex relationship between two island archipelagos at the peak of the slave economy. Employing a broad range of islands, sources, sites, and methods creates a transnational, trans-imperial and interdisciplinary history of Ireland, slavery and ...
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Addressing the other woman
This book analyses how three artists – Adrian Piper, Nancy Spero and Mary Kelly – worked with the visual dimensions of language in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Immigration and european integration
This revised and updated edition explores the dynamic of EU migration and asylum policy, clearly an issue that remains very topical.
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Alcohol, psychiatry and society
The medicalisation of alcohol use has become a prominent discourse that guides policy makers and impacts public perceptions of drinking. This book maps the historical and cultural dimensions of the phenomenon, emphasising medical attitudes to alcohol and the changing perception of consumption in ...
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Politics of waiting
This book is a political ethnography that examines how welfare programmes for the unemployed function as a contemporary form of state control.
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Filmmaking for fieldwork
The underlying principal of this handbook is to broaden the application of ethnographic filmmaking to suit a wide range of research areas and documentary expression, encompassing sensory, fictive, observational, participatory, reflexive, performative and immersive modes of storytelling.
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Empire, migration and identity in the british world
This volume brings together established scholars with a new generation of migration and transnational historians. Their work weaves together the ‘new’ imperial and the ‘new’ migration histories, and explores the interplay of migration within and between the local, regional, imperial, and transnat...
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Global networks of indigeneity
This book brings together a range of Indigenous perspectives, forming a global network of writers, thinkers, and scholars connected by common investments in Indigenous futures.
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Imagining armenia
This book examines how Armenia and Armenians were portrayed in Britain at a decisive moment in modern history, when diplomats, scholars and humanitarians engaged with the past, present and future of Armenia.
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Jacob talmon
The first book-length account in English of Jacob Talmon and his work on humanism, the university and society, and the ideal role of professors and scientists.
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Gender, migration and the global race for talent
This book analyses the gendered terrain of skilled immigration policies across twelve countries and thirty seven skilled immigration visas. It argues that while skilled immigration policies are often gendered, this outcome is not inevitable and that governments possess considerable scope in polic...
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