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  • Knowledge resistance
    Knowledge resistance

    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 marketing and British political parties (2nd Edition)

    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
    D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation

    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
    Sex and desire in British films of the 2000s

    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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  • The cultural construction of the British world
    The cultural construction of the British world

    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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  • Mid-century women's writing
    Mid-century women's writing

    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
    Model and supermodel

    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
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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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  • Bordering Britain
    Bordering Britain

    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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  • Two tiers or two speeds?
    Two tiers or two speeds?

    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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  • Rebel populism
    Rebel populism

    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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  • Novelty fair
    Novelty fair

    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
    Henri-Georges Clouzot

    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
    Claude Chabrol

    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
    Three Jacobean witchcraft plays

    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
    My Voice: Peter Adler

    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
    Othello

    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

    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
    Pluriversal sovereignty and the state

    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
    A Trick to Catch the Old One

    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
    The Peeps

    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
    U.S. economic history since 1945

    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
    Humanitarian mobilization in Central and Eastern Europe

    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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  • Gesta Romanorum
    Gesta Romanorum

    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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  • Sir Robert Filmer (1588–1653) and the patriotic monarch
    Sir Robert Filmer (1588–1653) and the patriotic monarch

    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
    Local democracy, civic engagement and community

    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
    The Papal Reform of the Eleventh Century

    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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  • The silent morning
    The silent morning

    The silent morning

    The first book to study the cultural impact of the Armistice of 11 November 1918

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  • The politics of the British constitution
    The politics of the British constitution

    The politics of the British constitution

    This work on the British constitution assesses the properties, dynamics and implications of political exchange. It investigates the methods employed to mobilise and resist the pressure for constitutional change, how political agendas are formed, and reviews different political motivations.

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  • Capital and popular cinema
    Capital and popular cinema

    Capital and popular cinema

    Capital and popular cinema responds to the need for a more solid academic approach by situating 'low' film genres in their economic and culturally-specific contexts and by exploring the interconnections between those contexts, the immediate industrial-financial interests sustaining the films, and...

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  • The British left and the defence economy
    The British left and the defence economy

    The British left and the defence economy

    This book charts the dispute over defence spending between the left and business, government and the trade unions between 1970 and 1983. Whereas the left blamed Britain’s postwar economic decline on its burdensome military commitments, successive governments used defence was a form of economic st...

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  • Approaches to emotion in Middle English literature
    Approaches to emotion in Middle English literature

    Approaches to emotion in Middle English literature

    A significant new account of emotion in Middle English literature, proposing key methodologies for the analysis of feeling and affect in literary texts. It shows how contemporary audiences learned to understand emotion in themselves and others, through empathetic response, the development of fict...

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  • Out of the depths
    Out of the depths

    Out of the depths

    First published in 1945, this historic collection of songs composed by Jewish victims of the Holocaust is being made available for the first time in English, complete with introductory essays and biographies of the composers.

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  • Science, politics and society in early nineteenth-century Ireland
    Science, politics and society in early nineteenth-century Ireland

    Science, politics and society in early nineteenth-century Ireland

    Based on newly unearthed source material, this book follows the career of clergyman William Richardsona and assesses his impact on politics, science and agriculture nationally and internationally.

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  • Paul Abbott
    Paul Abbott

    Paul Abbott

    The first book-length academic study of the television programmes created, written by, and/or executive-produced, by Abbott

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  • Neoliberalism and neo-jihadism
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    Neoliberalism and neo-jihadism

    Neoliberalism and Neo-jihadism investigates the political economy of Al Qaeda and Islamic State. Its examination reveals that while these organisations propagandise on the basis of widespread anti-capitalist sentiments, at the same time they exploit and contribute to the same mechanisms of neolib...

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  • Refractions of Bob Dylan
    Refractions of Bob Dylan

    Refractions of Bob Dylan

    A multi-disciplinary set of essays revolving around the routes of Bob Dylan’s cultural appropriations.

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  • A defence of witchcraft belief
    A defence of witchcraft belief

    A defence of witchcraft belief

    This edition of a previously unpublished manuscript defence of witchcraft belief offers a unique insight into learned opinion on the subject in Elizabethan England. It includes a comprehensive analytical introduction and will appeal to scholars with an interest in witchcraft across disciplinary b...

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  • Walking in the dark
    Walking in the dark

    Walking in the dark

    This beautiful and deeply personal book blends memoir and biography with literary criticism to offer a new perspective on the legendary American writer James Baldwin.

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  • Queering the Gothic
    Queering the Gothic

    Queering the Gothic

    A first rate collection of essays on queer Gothic, ranging from 'Frankenstein' to George Eliot, E.M.Forster to Michael Jackson. Provides a chronological investigation of the Gothic from the eighteenth century to the present day and in doing so produces a new way of reading the Gothic tradition.

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  • Revolutionary Britannia?
    Revolutionary Britannia?

    Revolutionary Britannia?

    Europe was swept by revolution in the period from 1789 to 1848. Britain, alone of the major western powers, seemed exempt from this revolutionary fervour. The governing class attributed this exemption to divine providence and the soundness of the British Constitution. This view has been upheld ...

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  • Instruments of international order
    Instruments of international order

    Instruments of international order

    This book explores the transformation of international relations in the first half of the twentieth century as internationalist schemes for doing world politics came to be practices and principles shared by diplomatic actors across the globe – instruments of international order.

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  • The Magnetic Lady
    The Magnetic Lady

    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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  • Conflict to peace
    Conflict to peace

    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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  • 'The World' and other unpublished works of Radclyffe Hall
    'The World' and other unpublished works of Radclyffe Hall

    'The World' and other unpublished works of Radclyffe Hall

    Presents a wide range of previously unpublished works by Radclyffe Hall.

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  • Claire Denis
    Claire Denis

    Claire Denis

    This is the first book on the celebrated films of director Claire Denis ('Chocolat', 'Beau Travail', 'Trouble Every Day'), one of the most remarkable filmmakers to come to prominence in the last 20 years. An essential read for students and specialists in contemporary French cinema.

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  • Ireland's District Court
    Ireland's District Court

    Ireland's District Court

    Asks how the apparently significant presence of non-Irish people in the District Court - Ireland’s busiest court - has affected how these courts are run, and what happens when immigrants appear before the District court

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  • The Simons of Manchester
    The Simons of Manchester

    The Simons of Manchester

    This book illuminates the history of one of Manchester’s most influential families. Charting the lives of Henry, Emily, Ernest and Shena Simon, it demonstrates their significance through tracing their work in engineering innovation, enriching Manchester’s civic culture, and in shaping local gover...

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  • The UK financial system
    The UK financial system

    The UK financial system

    The fifth edition of this successful textbook provides an up-to-date discussion of the UK financial system and the changes currently affecting it.

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  • Leprosy and identity in the Middle Ages
    Leprosy and identity in the Middle Ages

    Leprosy and identity in the Middle Ages

    This book presents new, cross-disciplinary research on leprosy in medieval Europe, focusing on questions of identity. It reveals complex responses to the disease, challenging earlier views that medieval sufferers were uniformly stigmatised. The social, religious and cultural impacts are explored,...

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  • The independent man
    The independent man

    The independent man

    This book explores changing notions of political and personal virtue in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and offers a new account of masculinity and citizenship in English culture.

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  • Oil and the political economy in the Middle East
    Oil and the political economy in the Middle East

    Oil and the political economy in the Middle East

    This is the first comprehensive analysis of the Middle East political economy in response to the oil price decline in 2014. Based on a heuristic framework inspired by rentierism, the volume contains original studies on Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the Un...

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  • Henry V
    Henry V

    Henry V

    This study examines the profound changes that twentieth-century performance has wrought on Shakespeare’s complex drama of war and politics. What was accepted at the turn of the century as a patriotic celebration of a national hero has emerged in the modern theatre as a dark and troubling analysis...

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  • Arab youths
    Arab youths

    Arab youths

    A unique and transdisciplinary look at the young generations who lived in the Arab world at the time of the Arab springs. Featuring cases from Yemen, Algeria, Syria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Palestine and more, this book gives a voice to young men and women who are inventing the future of societies in t...

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  • Cameron
    Cameron

    Cameron

    This book uses the themes of modernisation and manipulation to provide a new and distinctive analysis of the political strategy of Prime Minister David Cameron. It explores the key issues – coalition, electoral reform, Scottish independence, the Big Society, austerity and Brexit – that defined hi...

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  • Men on trial
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    Men on trial

    Men on Trial provides the first history of masculinity and the law in early nineteenth-century Ireland. It combines cutting-edge theories from the history of emotion, performativity and gender studies to argue for gender as a creative and productive force in determining legal and social power rel...

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  • Law and violence
    Law and violence

    Law and violence

    A interlocution containing a stimulating lead essay on the relationship between law and violence by one of the key third-generation Frankfurt School philosophers, Christoph Menke, and engaged responses by a variety of influential critics.

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  • Dancing through the dissonance
    Dancing through the dissonance

    Dancing through the dissonance

    This book explores the relationship between peacebuilding and dance, including insights dance provides on key debates around peace and conflict.It investigates the application, practice, and analysis of a dance-focused peacebuilding programme and tells the important story of young people who enga...

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  • Contemporary Violence
    Contemporary Violence

    Contemporary Violence

    The book unravels the story of the insurgencies in Kosovo and Chechnya, shedding new light on the social networks and narratives, the rifts, tensions and movements involved in the road to war in 1999.

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  • The European Union, counter terrorism and police co–operation, 1991–2007
    The European Union, counter terrorism and police co–operation, 1991–2007

    The European Union, counter terrorism and police co–operation, 1991–2007

    Examines the underlying foundations on which the European Union's counter-terrorism and police co-operation policies have been built since the inception of the Treaty on European Union.

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  • Image operations
    Image operations

    Image operations

    A powerful book that provides new interdisciplinary perspective on the functions of still and moving images in political conflict.

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  • Bog bodies
    Bog bodies

    Bog bodies

    Reinterpreting the latest research and discoveries, and featuring a ground-breaking study of Worsley Man, this book brings the bogs to life through both natural history and folklore, revealing them as places that were rich and fertile yet dangerous. It also reflects on the debate over whether bog...

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  • Campaspe and Sappho and Phao
    Campaspe and Sappho and Phao

    Campaspe and Sappho and Phao

    One of a series of play texts by Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists other than Shakespeare, this volume discusses the plays "Campaspe" and "Sappho and Phao" by John Lyly. The series aims to throw light on the plays and to offer views of the plays that have been neglected in the past.

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  • Titus Andronicus
    Titus Andronicus

    Titus Andronicus

    The second edition of Friedman's stage history of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus adds an examination of twelve major theatrical productions and one film that appeared in the years 1989-2009, identifying four lines of descent in the recent performance history of the play: the stylised, realistic, ...

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  • The Central Asian Revolt of 1916
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    The Central Asian Revolt of 1916

    This volume provides a comprehensive reinterpretation of the 1916 Central Asian Revolt - a key event in the history of Central Asia, the Russian Empire and the First World War.

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  • Early medieval militarisation
    Early medieval militarisation

    Early medieval militarisation

    This volume is the first to study the phenomenon of early medieval militarisation from a wide geographic and disciplinary perspective. It explores the impact of an enhanced role attributed to warfare and the military as characteristic features of a European world in the process of becoming medieval.

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  • The genres of Renaissance tragedy
    The genres of Renaissance tragedy

    The genres of Renaissance tragedy

    These twelve new essays show the variety and versatility of Renaissance tragedy and highlight the issues it explores. Each chapter defines a particular kind of Renaissance tragedy and offers new research on a particularly striking example. Collectively the essays offer a critical overview of Rena...

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  • Critical theory and human rights
    Critical theory and human rights

    Critical theory and human rights

    This book describes the evolution of the human rights movement into a grand managerial project, rooted in compassion, with the aim of improving universal welfare by defining the conditions of human well-being and imposing obligations on the state and other actors to realise them. It argues that t...

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  • Sounds of liberty
    Sounds of liberty

    Sounds of liberty

    Focussing on radicals and reformers this book explores the role of music in transmitting political culture across the Anglophone world over time and distance. It brings to light the importance of music in the lived experience of politics of those who composed, performed and consumed it. It provid...

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  • John Wyclif
    John Wyclif

    John Wyclif

    This new collection of translations represents the first attempt to offer a representative sample of Wyclif’s Latin works in translation in a single volume.

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  • The same-sex unions revolution in Western democracies
    The same-sex unions revolution in Western democracies

    The same-sex unions revolution in Western democracies

    This book examines same-sex unions policy (SSU) developments in eighteen western democracies and seeks to explain why the overwhelming majority of these countries has implemented a national law to recognise gay and lesbian couples since 1989.

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  • Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance
    Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance

    Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance

    This book examines the theological questions posed by portrayals of love, sexual violence, and sacrifice in medieval romance. The book argues that these themes are by nature entangled with the discourse of anti-Judaism, which can be turned inwardly to expose irresolution within Christianity itself.

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  • Fantastic histories
    Fantastic histories

    Fantastic histories

    Details the political and cultural contexts of the entry of fairies to the historical record in twelfth century England, and the subsequent political uses of fairy narratives in both insular and continental history and romance, revealing the fairy as a contested marker of historicity and fictiona...

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  • Rebel angels
    Rebel angels

    Rebel angels

    This book examines the ‘fall of the angels’ tradition in early medieval sermons, saints’ lives, legal documents and Old English biblical poetry. It argues that Anglo-Saxon authors adapted apocryphal and patristic accounts in ways that allowed them to express their ideas concerning ecclesiastical ...

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  • Border images, border narratives
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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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  • Livingstone's 'lives'
    Livingstone's 'lives'

    Livingstone's 'lives'

    Explores how Livingstone has been represented in diverse ways and put to work in a variety of socio-political contexts.

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  • Doris Lessing
    Doris Lessing

    Doris Lessing

    This book examines the writing career of the respected and prolific novelist Doris Lessing, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007 and has recently published what she has announced will be her final novel. This is the first significant book-length critical evaluation in ten years.

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  • Pastoral poetry of the English Renaissance
    Pastoral poetry of the English Renaissance

    Pastoral poetry of the English Renaissance

    An invaluable, unique collection that combines classic texts with little-known material. This book will give a uniquely full picture of one of the most fashionable and dynamic areas of Renaissance poetry.

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  • Paving the Empire Road
    Paving the Empire Road

    Paving the Empire Road

    The book explores how BBC management attempted to address race relations for the benefit of white Britons and African Caribbeans as their presence in England increased beyond the post-war years. Archival documents are used to demonstrate how established policies often shifted, reflecting the chan...

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  • 'Adolf Island'
    'Adolf Island'

    'Adolf Island'

    Drawing on more than a decade’s worth of historical, forensic and archaeological research, this book presents the first detailed investigation of the lives of the thousands of forced and slave labourers sent to Alderney under Nazi occupation.

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  • Moving Stories
    Moving Stories

    Moving Stories

    This is a unique collaboration between a historian and four ordinary women who were extraordinary letters-writers, family photographers and memoirists. Taken together, these stories enrich and complicate our understanding of key themes in twentieth century British and Australian women’s history.

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  • Derek Jarman
    Derek Jarman

    Derek Jarman

    This book gives detailed and original critical readings of all eleven of Derek Jarman's feature-length films, arguing that he occupies a major and influential place in European and world cinema rather than merely being a cult figure within a particular subculture.

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  • Representing ethnicity in contemporary French visual culture
    Representing ethnicity in contemporary French visual culture

    Representing ethnicity in contemporary French visual culture

    An investigation of the representation of ethnicities across a range of media in contemporary France.

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  • Medicine, patients and the law
    Medicine, patients and the law

    Medicine, patients and the law

    The seventh edition of this much respected accessible book provides an enlightening and comprehensive account of the intersections between medicine, patients and the law.

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