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Feeling the strain
By examining the popular and vernacular discourse of stress, the book traces the ways in which stress became a ubiquitous condition of everyday life by the end of the twentieth century in Britain.
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Red closet
Based on unique and previously undiscovered sources, this is the first book to tell the story of the oppression of LBGT people in the USSR.
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Freedom and the fifth commandment
Addresses the War of Independence from a new perspective by focusing on the attitude of the Catholic clergy
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Daniel calparsoro
This is the first book-length study of this major director’s work, from his early social-realist films set in the Basque Country to his later forays into the genres of the war and horror.
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British political parties today
Combines historical analysis with a sharp commentary upon the modern political scene. Reflects the key, recent developments in British Party Politics, such as the 1997 general election, 'New Labour' and the emergence of William Hague as Conservative Party leader. A welcome new second edition of a...
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Sport and diplomacy
The book critically addresses the relationship between sport and diplomacy posing new questions of these two enduring features of global society.
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Neither use nor ornament
Neither use nor ornament is a book about personal productivity, narrated from the perspective of its obstacles: clutter and procrastination. It offers a challenge to the self-help promise of a clutter-free life and unravels the moral narratives that hold individuals to account for their inefficie...
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The politics today companion to the british constitution
This companion to the British Constitution was born out of the view that the tendency for modern political studies to concentrate on processes rather than structures, results in a failure to understand the basic political terminology. Teachers and writers assume a knowledge on the part of others ...
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The bbc and national identity in britain, 1922–53
This book is the first study of how the BBC, through radio, tried to represent what it meant to be British. The book combines an examination of the BBC's desire to construct a strong, unitary sense of Britishness (through empire and the monarchy) with a thorough consideration of the broadcasting ...
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The never-ending brief encounter
This book explores the legacies of David Lean's Brief Encounter, tracing the classic film's influence on cinema, television, literature and more.
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Battle-scarred
Battle-scarred examines mortality, medical care and military welfare during the British Civil Wars. Its focus on the victims of war and their means of survival provides a series of case studies to demonstrate how these visceral conflicts drove developments in medical care and military welfare for...
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Power in modern russia
It offers an original and powerful argument about Russian power and introduces and discusses the term 'mobilisation' as a central element of the Russian state’s actions. It explores the Russian leadership’s strategic agenda and illuminates the range of problems it faces in implementing it.
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Imagining caribbean womanhood
Examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean
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George fox and early quaker culture
Close readings of Fox’s Journal are put in dialogue with the voices of other early Friends and their critics to examine the fundamental erosion of the division between the human and the divine in early Quaker culture, and its consequences for understanding the history of the spiritual subject.
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Fight back
Fight back examines the different ways punk – as a youth/subculture – may provide space for political expression and action.
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Songs of protest, songs of love
The book explores the identity of British agricultural labourers during a time of crisis for the British countryside. It looks at how they expressed grievances and celebrated their sexuality and way of life through songs
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Disability and the victorians
Disability and the Victorians investigates the attitudes of Victorians towards people with impairments, illustrates how these influenced the interventions they introduced to support such people and considers the legacies they left behind by their actions and perspectives. A range of impairments a...
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The english constitution
This book centres constitutional reform in discussions of England and Englishness, and centres England in debates on constitutional reform. It includes the text of a constitution that builds on the heritage and tradition of Westminster Model democracy, combining long-overdue reforms with the rest...
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Italian fascism and anti-fascism
A unique work that collections, for the first time, a wide variety of materials on both Italian fascism and antifascism.
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Cinema - italy
A journey to the Italian cinema in the company of its major film makers and theorists. Rossellini, Visconti, Pasolini and Zavattini are given a new focus that overturns the usual views and perspectives. It offers new and exciting interpretations.
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Race, bordering and disobedient knowledge
Developing the concept of disobedient knowledge, this book provides new perspectives on activism and everyday struggles against racism and borders. Drawing on empirical research in distinct European contexts, the chapters highlight the intertwined nature of racism and bordering, and the role of ...
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The house of lords
The House of Lords is widely discussed but little understood. This book provides an authoritative analysis of the contemporary House, showing how it has changed and considering what further reforms might take place.
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Border images, border narratives
This interdisciplinary volume written by experienced scholars in border studies explores the political role of images and narratives addressing borders, borderscapes and migration. The volume offers new methodologies to approach the political aesthetics of the border and related issues such as bo...
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Refractions of bob dylan
A multi-disciplinary set of essays revolving around the routes of Bob Dylan’s cultural appropriations.
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Early modern war narratives and the revolt in the low countries
The Revolt in the Low Countries is one of the major conflicts of early modern Europe. Though it is mostly seen as a war between the Dutch and the Spanish, in reality it was a complex civil war with international involvement. This book returns to the original war narratives of the period, re-estab...
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The magnetic lady
This is the new paperback edition of the first fully annotated volume of Ben Jonson's 'The Magnetic Lady' written in 1632. It contains textual and explanatory notes and the text is modernised for student use. The introduction places the play in the context of Jonson's later dramatic and poetic wo...
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British civic society at the end of empire
The end of the empire and the legacies of Britain’s imperial past have shaped how the British public interact with the outside world. This book shows how the international activities of civic associations in the 1960s can help us to understand the impact of decolonisation on the British public’s ...
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Passing into the present
This is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990’s in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction.
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She-wolf
She-Wolf explores the cultural history of the female werewolf, from her first appearance in medieval literature to recent incarnations in film, television and popular literature.
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Savage worlds
Savage Worlds examines frontier encounters between Germans and indigenous peoples in the age of high imperialism. It demonstrates the complexity of the colonial frontier and frontier zone encounters and poses the question of how far Germans were able to overcome their initial belief that, in leav...
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Beyond the spanish tragedy
Brilliantly fusing the drama of the academic and popular traditions, Erne shows how Thomas Kyd's plays are of central importance for understanding how the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries was formed
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Conflict to peace
Examines how and why the Northern Ireland conflict was resolved from the perspective of the general public, using dozens of public opinion surveys collected since 1968
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Liszt's 'chopin'
Meirion Hughes combines a new translation of the first edition with an introduction that places the work in its cultural and political context
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The greening of golf
This book is the first comprehensive study of the varyingresponses to golf-related environmental issues. The authors examine golf as asport and as a global industry, drawing on literaturespertaining to environmental sociology, global social movements, institutionalchange, corporate environmentali...
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Theorising media
Issues of power, form and subjectivity are at the centre of all attempts to understand the media better. This book highlights both what we know and what we need to know, using regular examples to make its points.
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Screen plays
Screen plays is a ground-breaking volume thatchronicles the rich and surprising history of stage plays produced for the small screen between 1930 and today. The collection makes a compelling case for the centrality of the theatre to the past and present of British television drama.
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Picturing the western front
Between 1914 and 1918, military, press and amateur photographers produced thousands of pictures. Classified in archives, collected in personal albums and circulated in illustrated magazines, photographs were supposed to tell the story of the war. This book argues that photographic practices also ...
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The cinema of lucrecia martel
Situates Martel's features and unstudied short films in relation to trends in recent national and international filmmaking.
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National missile defence and the politics of us identity
This book uncovers the controversial policies surrounding the strategy of national missile defence and provides an alternative, and arguably more inclusive, mode of interpretation of a strategy that is deeply embedded in performances of US identity.
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Women and the orange order
Provides a transnational account of women's involvement in conservative political activism during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Britain and Canada
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Women, travel and identity
Explores British women's journeys abroad on steamships and trains during a period of great social, cultural and technical change, using a wide variety of sources including women's letters and diaries, contemporary art, advertising, fiction and etiquette guides.
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Screening sherlock
A cultural history of Sherlock Holmes adaptations in film and television from early cinema to the present.
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Siblings and sociology
Drawing on innovative qualitative data sources, Siblings and sociology demonstrates the sociological significance of sibling relationships, explaining why siblings matter as a relational form capable of influencing us throughout the life course and as a lens through which to re-imagine familiar s...
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Bertrand tavernier
Most comprehensive study of Tavernier’s oeuvre. In-depth discussion of every major film through 2010. First to examine Tavernier’s work through the lens of genre.
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Refiguring childhood
Assembled at the intersection of thought and practice, biosocial power attempts to bring envisioned futures into the present, taking hold of life in the form of childhood and shaping the power relations that encapsulate the social and cultural world(s) of adults and children. The book will appeal...
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Rebel populism
Rebel populism is an ethnography of Syrian migrant workers in Lebanon during the Syrian uprising and civil war. It documents the rise and fall of the revolution from the perspective of ordinary men. It explores the role of economic transformation, new technology, and masculinity in the developmen...
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Bordering britain
(B)ordering Britain argues that Britain is the spoils of empire, its immigration law is colonial violence and irregular immigration is anti-colonial resistance.
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Contemporary spanish cinema and genre
This book analyses the significant changes in the aesthetics, production and reception of Spanish cinema and genre from 1990 to the present while providing multiple perspectives on the concepts of national cinemas and genre theory.
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The uk financial system
Substantially revised and updated, this fourth edition of The UK financial system presents a comprehensive explanation of the workings of the financial institutions and markets making up the UK financial system.
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Critical theory and legal autopoiesis
The first English-language collection of the work of one of Europe's top legal sociologists, introducing his influential theories of societal constitutionalism and legal autopoiesis.
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Cultivating political and public identity
This bold and original study looks at the performance of identity in the public sphere, using the concept of 'plumage' to capture the countless elements that go together to make up a shared identity.
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Writing black britain, 1948–98
The first anthology of its kind, this timely collection brings together a diverse range of black British literatures, essays and documents from across the post-war period within a single volume.. Spanning half a century, this rich archive of representations includes South Asian, African and Carib...
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Friendship among nations
This is a study of friendship in international politics. It offers the history of friendship, and shows the role of friendship in building various legal and political orders on both equal and unequal terms. Told through an examination of sources ranging from diplomatic letters and bilateral treat...
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The cultural construction of the british world
The volume builds upon developments in recent years in reconceptualising the British Empire as a system structured around complex, multi-layered networks, which transcended conventionally defined boundaries between metropolitan and colonial space.
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Intimate afterlives of empire
Intimate afterlives of empire is the first comprehensive study of an important genre of cultural memory, the post-imperial autobiography. Through close readings of personal narratives from four corners of the globe, it examines the dialogue between individual and collective memory in the wake of ...
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Gesta romanorum
This is the most complete translation ever attempted of these moral tales, and will be a valuable source text for all scholars and students of medieval literature.
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Teens and territory in 'post-conflict' belfast
This is an account of the attitudes and experiences of teenagers growing up in segregated localities in Belfast, it shows how they make sense of, and negotiate everyday life in a divided city. It explores how identities are created, performed, maintained, reinforced, crossed and transformed thro...
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Knowledge resistance
Concerns about people's resistance to facts and knowledge are becoming increasingly serious. This book draws on the social, economic and evolutionary sciences to provide an integrated understanding of the phenomenon.
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Political marketing and british political parties (2nd edition)
Political parties use market intelligence to listen to the public, develop a product to suit and communicate it before the election and in government, raising concerns about treating voters like consumers, how to communicate delivery and managing political parties like businesses.
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D. w. griffith's the birth of a nation
A volume of new chapters exploring the reputation, text and legacy of D. W. Griffith’s 1915 film The Birth of a Nation. In-depth textual analyses accompany reflections on Birth’s profound impact on art and film into the twenty-first century, comprising a significant contribution to discourse on t...
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Sex and desire in british films of the 2000s
This book explores how British filmmakers of the 2000s engaged with the themes of love, sex and desire. It ranges from powerful contemporary dramas such as Kidulthood, Closer and Disobedience to the lighter mood of the Bridget Jones series, as well as exploring dramatisations of the lives of Osca...
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Mid-century women's writing
This book re-examines British women’s writing in the mid-century and its relationship to public and domestic spaces.
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Model and supermodel
Examines the persistent mythology concerning the artist’s model in British art and culture and some of the issues and ambiguities involved in representing the naked human body in a work of art.
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United nations peace operations and international relations theory
This volume is the first comprehensive overview of how International Relations theories - liberal, rational choice, feminist, and sociological institutionalism, realism, constructivism, practice theories, critical security studies, and complexity theory - can help us understand UN peace operations.
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Two tiers or two speeds?
The sudden transformation of the Cold War security order in 1989 altered the structure of the European state system, and necessitates the striking of a new balance between the economic, political and military requirements of security. This volume focuses on the most important institutions of Euro...
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Novelty fair
Engages with nineteenth-century visual culture in an unusually broad way, juxtaposing photography, fashion, broadside ballads, popular prints and caricature in order to re-examine Victorian society between Chartism and the Great Exhibition.
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Henri-georges clouzot
Despite his controversial reputation and international notoriety as a film-maker, no full-length study of Clouzot has ever been published in English. This book offers a significant revaluation of Clouzot’s achievement, situating his life and work in the wider context of French cinema and society,...
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Claude chabrol
This is the first book-length study in English on Chabrol since 1970. Chabrol has always been a neglected figure in the French New Wave but has recently been declared 'possibly the greatest living film director in France'.. Coincides with the recent renewal of interest in Chabrol, which has seen ...
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Three jacobean witchcraft plays
For Jacobean society, witchcraft was a potent and very real force, an area of sharp controversy in which King James I himself participated and a phenomenon that attracted many dramatists and writers. The three plays in this volume reflect the variety of belief in witches and practice of witchcraf...
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My voice: peter adler
Peter'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. Peter Adler was born in Berlin, escaped to England with his family in 1938 and was evacuated during the Blitz. He later became a doctor...
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Othello
Of all Shakespeare's tragedies, Othello, with its issues of racism, jealousy and sexual stereotyping seems most immediate to contemporary audiences. Traces Othello's acting tradition as it has affected the roles of Othello, Desdemona and Iago - demonstrating the emphasis placed on different chara...
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Cross-border intimacies
Cross-border intimacies draws on over a decade of frontline research to explore the lives of Chinese migrants who move to Taiwan for marriage. It highlights the complex interplay between emotional and affective processes in shaping marriage migration between China and Taiwan.
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Pluriversal sovereignty and the state
This book explains how the processes of ‘total territorial rule’ at the core of the modern international system became normalised in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). It develops a decolonial framework informed by a ‘pluriverse’ of multiple ontologies of sovereignty to argue that the state itself is an outcome...
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A trick to catch the old one
First single edition of one of Thomas Middleton's most popular plays; for all students and academics of early modern drama and Renaissance literature
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The peeps
A book of photographs, interviews and commentary, recording the origins, recent past and current regeneration of the Ancoats area of Manchester
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U.s. economic history since 1945
A concise, accessible review of the principal economic developments and social changes in the US between 1945 and the present day.. Covers an era of US economic dominance and the challenge from overseas.. Links more 'historical' post-war developments to the rapid 'contemporary' changes of the 197...
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Humanitarian mobilization in central and eastern europe
This volume examines humanitarianism in Central and Eastern Europe during the twentieth century. It challenges the often Western-focused history of humanitarianism by bringing together local, “private”, national, “socialist,” and international humanitarian actors.
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Sir robert filmer (1588–1653) and the patriotic monarch
Looks at one of the most unpopular and criticised thinkers in the history of political thought, to provide an illuminating and innovative picture of Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653) and patriarchalism. This thoroughly researched work will appeal to all those interested in early modern politics and i...
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Local democracy, civic engagement and community
Focuses on local democratic politics in Britain over the last decade and a half from the election of the New Labour Government right up to the current Conservative/Liberal Democrat Coalition government.
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The papal reform of the eleventh century
This fascinating collection of sources, translated for the first time in English and assembled in one accessible volume, show the startling impact of papal reform in the eleventh century and its consequences. An essential collection for students of medieval history.
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