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A literature of restitution
Investigates the crucial question of ‘restitution’ in the work of W. G. Sebald. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplines, with a foreword by his English translator Anthea Bell.
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Spenserian allegory and elizabethan biblical exegesis
Critical analysis of the importance and influence of Elizabethan biblical typology on Spenser and the composition of the Faerie Queene.
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British rural landscapes on film
Offers insights into how rural areas in Britain have been represented on film, from the silent era, through both world wars, and on into the twenty-first century.
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Publics and their health
Why are some groups and individuals seen as problems for public health? How does this change over time and place? Through a series of case-studies, this collection explores the making of ‘problem publics’ and their relationship with public health authorities.
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Biografía de un cimarrón
This is the first critical editionBiografía de un Cimarrón (Biography of a Runaway Slave) is arguably the best-known book to have been written and published in revolutionary Cuba, being the testimonial narrative of Esteban Montejo, a former slave, runaway, and soldier in the Cuban wars of indepen...
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The management of the british economy, 1945–2001
This essential work for students of economic and economic history provides an overview of economic management in Britain since 1945, how it has changed and why it has not always been successful. It examines clearly the policies introduced, the problems various governments faced in implementing th...
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Popular music in england 1840–1914
The only in-depth study of the wider field of popular music in this period. Scholarly, but accessible. This is an Open University Set Text.
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Apostasy and jewish identity in high middle ages northern europe
The various aspects of the way the Jews regarded themselves is analysed
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Political cartoons and the israeli-palestinian conflict
Provides readers with an engaging introduction to cartoon analysis and a novel insight into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Welcome to the club
Hacienda resident and Manchester legend DJ Paulette celebrates the highs, lows and lessons of a 30-year career at the forefront of UK dance music as a ground-breaking Black female DJ.
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Robert bresson
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work of Robert Bresson, one of the most respected and acclaimed directors in the history of cinema.. The first monograph on his work to appear in English for many years dealing not only with his thirteen feature-length films but also his litt...
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Culture is bad for you
This book paints an unflinching portrait of the situation for arts and culture workers in Britain today. Revised and updated with the latest figures, it exposes how minorities continue to be marginalised in the post-COVID era.
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Caryl phillips, david dabydeen and fred d'aguiar
This book focuses on representations of slavery in the works of contemporary British authors Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D’Aguiar, specifically exploring how racial anxieties in twenty-first century Britain may be seen as legacies of this largely ignored, but deeply significant, past.
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Bankruptcy, bubbles and bailouts
This book argues that it is the Treasury, more than any other institution, public or private, which is responsible for socio-economic disparities in the UK, as well as the Brexit paralysis.
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Negotiating relief and freedom
This book investigates both short- and long-term responses to disaster in the British Caribbean. It is the first to examine the informal negotiations that took place on the ground between the colonial authorities and the African-Caribbean population, and the formal negotiations undertaken by colo...
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The european union and its eastern neighbourhood
This volume explores key issues that are currently at the forefront of the EU’s relations with its eastern neighbours. It considers the impact of a more assertive Russia, the significance of Turkey, the limitations of the Eastern Partnership with Belarus and Moldova, the position of a Ukraine in ...
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The ‘malleus maleficarum‘ and the construction of witchcraft
Shows the Malleus, a very well known and widely quoted medieval text, to be highly idiosyncratic, and unusual in its ideas, even among the texts of other contemporary witch-theorists
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Christian responses to islam
This is the only book currently on the market that attempts to construct a global perspective of Christian-Muslim interaction in a post-9/11 world.
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Celebrities, heroes and champions
Celebrities, heroes and champions examines the popular politician in British and Irish society from the Napoleonic Wars to the Second Reform Act. Covering a range of political movements, it offers a unique perspective on contemporary political culture including the connections between popular po...
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Threads of globalization
Threads of globalization is an interdisciplinary volume that brings fashion-specific garments, motifs, materials, and methods of production—into dialogue with gender and identity in various cultures throughout Asia during the long twentieth century.
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The law of the sea
The law of the sea provides an up to date and comprehensive treatment of all aspects of the subject. Based on extensive research, it combines clarity of expression with depth of analysis.
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Affective intimacies
This cutting-edge edited collection provides a novel terrain for rethinking intimacies through the lens of affect theories.
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An ethnography of english football fans
Ethnographic account of English football fans who travel home and away following their team, based on sixteen years' participant observation
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Passage works
The first English-language book on the work of Viennese artist, film-maker, and writer Ruth Beckermann., addressing all Beckermann’s major works and offering innovative critical readings.
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Globalisation and ideology in britain
Examines the impact of globalisaton across the ideological landscape of British politics by profiling the discourse on globalisation of several political groups involved in making and contestign British foreign economic policy.
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A sonnet to science
In A sonnet to science, leading science communicator Dr Sam Illingworth presents a selection of poetry written by well-known scientists, contextualising it with their work and research, in an effort to better understand how poetry might today be used as an effective tool in both the advancement o...
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Thierry and theodoret
This is the first fully annotated, single-volume critical edition of Fletcher, Massinger, and Field's Thierry and Theodoret, with an introduction that reassesses sources (including Shakespeare) and discusses the authorship and reception of this captivating play, pointing the way for future study,...
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Male witches in early modern europe
This is the first ever full book on the subject of male witches addressing incidents of witch-hunting in both Britain and Europe.Uses feminist categories of gender analysis to critique the feminist agenda that mars many studies. Advances a more bal. Critiques historians’ assumptions about witch-h...
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The colonisation of time
The book is a highly original and long overdue examination of the ways that European concepts of time were imposed on other cultures as a component of colonisation. It brings together two complex subjects – time and colonialism – in an engaging, non-theoretical and accessible style.
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Aesthetic theory and the video game
This book analyses video games like Grand Theft Auto and Resident Evil as aesthetic objects. Drawing on philosophical theories of art from Kant to Ranciere, it focuses on what games feel like to players and argues that their appeal can only be adequately understood by relating them to development...
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The abc of the projectariat
The ABC of the projectariat contributes new thinking and practical responses to the widespread problem of precarious labour in the field of contemporary art. It works as both a critical analysis and a practical handbook, speaking to and about the vast cohort of artistic freelancers worldwide.
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Eastward bound
An enlightening collection of essays by a distinguished list of contributors on travel and travellers from Europe to the Middle East in the medieval period, covering the Crusades, pilgrimage, mission, trade, scholarship, and exploration, as well as expectations and experiences. A valuable work fo...
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Regulatory quality in europe
This book focuses on the capacity of European governments and the EU institutions to deliver high quality regulation. Drawing on comprehensive research and an original survey, it shows how regulatory quality can be measured and appraised - thus appealing both to academics and to policy-makers inv...
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Payment and philanthropy in british healthcare, 1918–48
Examines how commercial medicine operated before the foundation of the NHS, and how this could be compatible with a system based on charity. It challenges the assumptions of historians, politicians and the public.
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Ideal homes
Ideal homes investigates the tastes and aspirations of the suburban communities that emerged in Britain after the First World War. It explores how new class and gender identities were forged through the architecture and decoration of the home. This edition includes a chapter on researching the hi...
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Revisiting divisions of labour
This collection revisits Ray Pahl's 1984 sociology classic, combining excerpts from the original with assessments by leading researchers of how and why the book has stood the test of time as a study that fundamentally re-thinks our understanding of 'work'.
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‘ten pound poms’
More than a million Britons emigrated to Australia between the 1940s and 1970s. They were the famous 'Ten Pound Poms' and this is their story, illuminated by the riveting testimony of migrant life histories
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The political theory of the irish constitution
Considers Irish constitutional law and the Irish constitutional tradition from the perspective of republican theory.
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Writing and constructing the self in great britain in the long eighteenth century
This volume explores the notion of the ‘self’ as it was elaborated and expressed by philosophers, novelists, churchmen, poets and diarists in the Enlightenment. The questions raised by the twelve essays and the introduction, explore the unity, diversity and fragility of a recognisably modern self.
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The red and the black
This edited collection explores the inspiration of the Russian Revolution of 1917 for black radicals across the African diaspora. The volume challenges European-centred understandings of the Russian Revolution and the global left and enables new insights on the relations between Communism and var...
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Reimagining north african immigration
An interdisciplinary collection of essays examining the depiction of immigration from North Africa in contemporary French culture.
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The henry vi plays
The Henry VI plays are Shakespeare’s earliest, most theatrically exciting plays and in their day, they were among his most popular works. This is the first major study of the Henry VI plays in performance, and focuses on the cultural context of modern British productions which have explored Shake...
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Dictionary of british politics
This book provides the reader with short, authoritative explanations and definitions of key terms, institutions, offices of state, political events, processes and policies as well as biographies of well known politicians, political thinkers, movements and theorists. It is the ideal instant refere...
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My voice: werner conn
Werner'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. Werner Conn spent his early childhood in Berlin and was sent to the UK on the Kindertransport when life became very difficult for Jews...
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Shakespeare's cinema of love
Shakespeare's cinema of love addresses the question, how much has Shakespeare influenced modern film genres? Convincing arguments are made for the links between his comedies of love and genres such as 'screwball' comedy, musicals, romantic comedy and tragic love films.
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Changing our textual minds
Text has always been the chief vehicle for the inscription and dissemination of knowledge and culture. As more and more of our textual communication moves into the digital realm we have reached a crucial moment in the history of textual transmission. In many respects digital text looks deceptivel...
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A ragged schooling
With great humour and vitality, Robert Roberts evokes his Edwardian childhood in the vivid portrait of a vanished community. Breathing the smoke from the factory chimneys, the children of Salford struggled daily to survive the grinding poverty that surrounded them. Sharing lively games along the ...
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La parisienne in cinema
The first book-length work on the Parisienne, this study combines scholarship in the fields of art history, literature and fashion to enrich our understanding of this intriguing cinematic figure, simultaneously offering new perspectives on film.
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Destined for a life of service
This study of the construction of black womanhood in Jamaica between 1865 and 1938 sheds new light on the struggle for full and equal citizenship of people of African descent in the post-emancipation British Caribbean.
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Imperial inequalities
This volume examines the unequal politics of economic governance across European empires and the ongoing legacies of such histories. It focuses on processes of colonial taxation and, primarily, national welfare to examine the ways in which today’s global inequalities are the result of such connec...
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Labour orators from bevan to miliband
Presents a thorough investigation of how oratory was utilised in the ideological disputes of the post-war period
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Placing faces
Explores the relationship between English country houses and the portraits they contain
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Popular protest in late-medieval europe
This collection of documents, spanning the years 1245-1424 concentrates on the 'contagion of rebellion' that followed the Black Death in Europe in the 14th century. Comprising a wide variety of sources from a range of authors - including revolutionaries, the aristoricacy, merchants and op
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Proxy war in afghanistan
This book is about proxy war and the politics of state-wrecking in Afghanistan and examines how proxy war undermined the US-led state-building project in Afghanistan.
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Alan hollinghurst
An edited collection on Alan Hollinghurst, one of Britain's leading contemporary novelists with an outstanding international reputation.
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Power and the people
A comparative study of early post-1945 Central Europe on both sides of the Iron Curtain which puts the people back into Cold War history
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The cromwellian protectorate
Examines the nature of the first regime ever to have effective control of the British Isles and the impact that it had on England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and on Britain’s international reputation. One of the few stuides to view the period as one of acheivement rather than merely a reactiona...
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Writing the welsh borderlands in anglo-saxon england
An ambitious book which argues that the March of Wales, as it existed as a legally defined space in the period after 1066, had a long pre-history as a place of encounter and interchange from the early Anglo-Saxon period. It is argued that this frontier space was not inevitably a zone of ethnic co...
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Lifestyle revolution
Lifestyle revolution charts how class culture, which many thought would be dissolved by mass consumption, was remade in the postwar period from flat-pack furniture, Mediterranean cuisine and lifestyle magazines – as a world of symbolic goods became an intimate environment alive with new feelings ...
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Gothic death 1740–1914
Drawing on a range of popular Gothic and Victorian novels, poems and short stories, this book provides the first full length study of representations of death and dying in Gothic texts between 1740 and 1914.
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The diplomacy of decolonisation
The book reinterprets the role of the United Nations during the Congo crisis from 1960-1964 by presenting a multidimensional view of the organisation.
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The emergence of footballing cultures
This study of Manchester football during the period 1840 to 1919, by leading sports historian Gary James, contextualises the sport’s emergence, development and establishment through to its position as the city’s leading team sport, and identifies the communities who developed football.
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Marxism and america
If the United States has been so hostile to Marxism, what accounts for Marxism’s recurrent attractiveness to certain Americans? Marxism and America: New appraisals sheds new light on that question in essays that engage sexuality, gender, race, nationalism, class, memory, and much more.
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Auto/biographical discourses
In the forefront of the large and growing interest in life-writings. A comprehensive account of the criticism and theory of autobiography. The book makes complex debates accessible to a wide readership.
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The basics of international law
The basics of international law: The UK context presents a comprehensive and accessible entry level text which provides the most essential and basic rules and facts of international law. This is an essential study guide for students and an invaluable reference for practitioners.
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The shadow of marriage
This book stakes out new territory within an exciting, emerging field of study. Not only does it uncover the history of a neglected group, but it also offers valuable insights into the significance of marital status which are equally relevant to current debates on marriage and family.
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Narrative painting in nineteenth-century europe
How do pictures tell stories? This ground-breaking book analyses visual narrative in nineteenth-century history and genre paintings across Europe. It reveals how artists constructed plots via objects, managing the tension between narrative and style and prompting viewers to weave their own tales.
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Catholic literature and secularisation in france and england, 1880–1914
This book comparitively explores the French and English Catholic literary revivals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
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Beginning ethnic american literatures
Since the late 1960s, American literature has been revitalised by the work of writers such as Toni Morrison, Sherman Alexie, Sandra Cisneros and Maxine Hong Kingston. An introduction to the study of ethnic American fictions organised into four sections, each written by a specialist in the fields ...
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My voice: leo stein
Leo'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. Leo Stein grew up in Germany, witnessed the horrors of Kristallnacht and later escaped to England thanks to a scholarship from a Jewish S...
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The elephant and the dragon in contemporary life sciences
This book demonstrates that the ‘subversiveness’ assumed in China’s and India’s rise in the life sciences reflects many of the regulatory challenges that are shared globally. It stresses a decolonial imperative for science governance to be responsive and effective in a cosmopolitan world.
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Training minds for the war of ideas
Examines attempts by the Conservative party in the interwar years to capture the ‘brains’ of the new electorate and create a counter-culture to what they saw as the intellectual hegemony of the Left.
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Supreme emergency
An insider’s view of the development of the UK nuclear deterrent which suggests that an aversion to the moral issues associated with civilian casualties has led to an enduring Government reticence on nuclear deterrence policy.
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Antonio and mellida
A new in paperback edition of this first play by John Marston to be performed by the revived Paul's Company in 1599. Fully annotated with critical introduction and full commentary.
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Performance in a time of terror
This book explores the ways in which performance has given shape and form to wars on terror past and present, focusing on examples of performed violence from Northern Ireland and Iraq. It also investigates how theatre-makers and performance activists have resisited violence in times of terror.a.
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Dancing in the english style
This book illuminates the history of popular dance, one of the most influential and widespread leisure practices in early twentieth-century Britain. It focuses on the relationship between dancing and national identity construction, in a period when Britain participated in increasingly global mark...
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Cricket and community in england
Cricket and Community in England: 1800 to the Present Day is a path-breaking enquiry into the social history of the summer game.
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The challenge of the sublime
This interdisciplinary study looks at the influence of Edmund Burke's theories of the sublime on British Romantic art, arguing that it is far more significant than previously imagined.
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Courteous exchanges
This book offers new connections between Spenser and Shakespeare by showing how their works hone readers’ and audiences’ judgement about the social construction of aristocratic identity.
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The rise and fall of world orders
Drawing in lessons from 400 years of Great-Power politics, this volume challenges both the "declinist" arguments and the overstretched hypothesis of Paul Kennedy to develop an alternative approach to the debate on the rise and fall of the Great Powers. The first half of the book compares the Span...
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Salman rushdie
In this comprehensive and lucid critical study, Andrew Teverson examines the intellectual, biographical, literary and cultural contexts from which Rushdie’s fiction springs in order to help the reader make sense of the often complex debates that surround the life and work of this major contempora...
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Transforming ireland
As Ireland’s economic boom grounds to a sudden halt, Transforming Ireland offers a diverse range of critical analyses of its legacies across different areas of Irish life – the media, racism, consumerism, sports, education, state surveillance and the pharmaceutical industry. The book also maps ou...
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The british monarchy on screen
A rich collection that looks at how the British monarchy has been seen on film and television. It is first comprehensive look at royalty on screen.
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Transcultural things and the spectre of orientalism in early modern poland-lithuania
Is it possible for foreign things to be perceived as local? Transcultural things sets out to examine this seeming paradox, focusing on artefacts from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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Sport and technology
How do new technologies come to be used in sport? This book moves beyond the idea of functionality to explore the many other important factors that athletes and sporting bodies consider throughout the process of adoption. Few would question the difficulty of producing an elite athletic performan...
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Over her dead body
The argument that this book presents is that narrative and visual representations of death can be read as symptoms of our culture and because the feminine body is culturally constructed as the superlative site of "other" and "not me", culture uses art to dream the deaths of beautiful women.
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Heroic imperialists in africa
This book looks at imperial heroes from behind the legends of a dozen major colonial figures on both sides of the Channel, revisiting the familiar stories under a radically new angle. It demonstrates how their reputations were made over several decades, and depicts the milieus and individuals who...
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Model experts
Model Experts is the first book-length history in English of a celebrated collection of anatomical wax models which continues to fascinate audiences and shape our image of the body to the present day. It reveals the human relationships, controversies, and political projects which surrounded the a...
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The schubert song companion
This reference book provides an encyclopaedic guide to every song by Schubert for solo voice and piano, 600 in all, including different versions, unfinished songs and variants.
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Screening songs in hispanic and lusophone cinema
In this volume, eighteen experts from a variety of academic backgrounds explore the use of songs in films from the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds. This volume illustrates how - rather than simply helping to tell the story of - songs in Hispanic and Lusophone cinema commonly upset the hie...
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