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Premodern ruling sexualities
This book brings together a range of methodological approaches to highlight royal and elite sexualities – the sexualities of rulers, and those who were ruled by their sexualities – and how these case studies might contribute to our broader knowledge of premodern gender and sexualities.
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Revolutionary bodies
An ambitious and wide-ranging study of the Irish gay novel, not merely in relation to a broader Irish political and historical narrative, but also a global one of increasing neoliberal domination legitimated by liberal social politics.
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Relics, dreams, voyages
This book presents a wide-ranging and original meditation on cartographies of connection in all the arts of the baroque period.
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Resistance and its discontents in south asian women's fiction
Resistance and its discontents in South Asian women’s fiction examines the literary representation of a fascinating range of resistances enacted in response to various forms of oppression, and addresses the expectations, contradictions, anxieties and even inaction that resistance can generate, pa...
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Breaking the deadlock
This latest edition of a prestigious and venerable series surveys the build up to the tumultuous 2019 General Election and its immediate aftermath, offering reasoned conjecture about the future of British party politics and democracy.
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Marian maternity in late-medieval england
Long takes advantage of the fifteenth century’s intense interest in the Virgin Mary, the best-documented mother of the medieval period, to examine the constructions and performances of her maternity in devotional texts. This results in revisionist readings that consider maternity as a literate pr...
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The xinjiang emergency
This volume investigates the mass detention of Uyghurs in China, exploring the regimes of surveillance to which they are subjected both inside and outside the detention centres of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. It offers new insights into the future of the CCP’s domestic governance strate...
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Borderland
This book considers the past, present and future of Kent, alighting on the key sites which symbolise the changing relationship between the UK and its continental neighbours.
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Rebels in government
After many years of relentless efforts to make a breakthrough in Irish politics, Sinn Féin’s strategy eventually paid off in the February 2020 general election. This book examines the challenges that this all-Ireland, radical left and former Provisional IRA associate being in government poses to ...
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Diaspora as translation and decolonisation
This book proposes a new way of conceptualising diaspora by examining how diasporas do translation and decolonisation. It provides conceptual tools for investigating diasporas and their interventions and considers diaspora as ‘the global south in the global north’, as well as providing a case stu...
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Pier paolo pasolini for art history and practice
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s influential cinematic and literary works attest to a crucial early formation: his intermittent practice as a painter, critic and art historian. Spanning the fifth-century BCE to the early twenty-first century, this volume’s chapters reflect the breadth of Pasolini’s aesthet...
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Kate atkinson
From Behind the Scenes at the Museum to Big Sky, this book explores the major themes and formal concerns in Kate Atkinson’s fiction (history, memory, feminism, metafiction, genre revision). It situates Atkinson's œuvre in terms of an aesthetics of hydridity that runs through her eleven novels, on...
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Beyond nationalism
This book discusses the meaning of the common good in a European Union thorned by nationalism and presents concrete policies to improve its achievement. It analyses the normative relevance of EU values as a shared moral standpoint between the member states and discusses institutional reforms that...
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Debates on the german revolution of 1918-19
This book examines how historians have interpreted the German revolution of 1918-19 from its inception to the present day. It charts how the debate on this revolution changed during the Weimar republic, the Nazi period and the second world war, in the time of Germany’s division from 1949 to 1990,...
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Tea on the terrace
A history of travel, tourism, and Egyptology, Tea on the terrace examines what Egyptologists did between home and the field site and how their activities in hotels and on dahabeahs impacted the development of the discipline at the turn of the twentieth century.
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English radicalism in the twentieth century
English radicalism has been a persistent and important, though minority, strand in English political culture since at least the English Civil War. This book explores, in historical context, the nature of this radicalism – its beliefs, practice and importance – in the twentieth century.
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The boundaries of international law
This book argues that the absence of women in the development of international law has produced a narrow and inadequate jurisprudence that has legitimated the unequal position of women worldwide rather than confronted it.
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The nigeria–biafra war and the making of a humanitarian crisis (1967–70)
Focusing on the Nigeria–Biafra war, this book combines individual, institutional, and governmental perspectives to show how this conflict became a testing ground on which humanitarian practices were reshaped for the postcolonial era, making emergency aid central to the redefinition of Africa–West...
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Stiliagi and soviet masculinities, 1945–2010
This book explores the Stiliagi, the Soviet Union's first youth subculture from the late 1940s to the 1960s. It examines their Western-influenced fashion, love of jazz, and defiance of Soviet norms, revealing how they challenged traditional masculinity and reshaped Soviet cultural identity.
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The promise of violence
The promise of violence inspires revolutionaries in Iran to see themselves as the hegemony and inflict violence against their compatriots when the Islamic Republic calls for it. The book is a political anthropology of the Islamic Republic of Iran utilising the ‘collective’ memory of Iran-Iraq War...
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Democratic passions
This book takes a fresh look at British radicalism in the first-half of the nineteenth century from the new perspective of the history of emotions. It changes the way in which we look not only at popular radicalism but also at the affective qualities of politics itself in modern Britain and beyond.
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Rodrigo ximenez de rada’s minor histories
An English translation and study of the ‘Minor Histories’ of Toledo’s archbishop Rodrigo Ximénez de Rada, including his important work History of the Arabs.
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Settler/colonialism in kashmir
This book examines India’s settler/colonial rule in Kashmir through historical and contemporary settler/colonial geopolitics. Analysing Kashmir’s place in the geopolitical settler/colonial world order and ecological catastrophe, the book contributes to pressing debates regarding current planetary...
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Surplus lives under racial capitalism
This book argues that Roma became a racialised surplus population of post-socialism. It is a critical contribution to the study of racial capitalism in East Central Europe.
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The conservative party and the constitution
The Conservative Party and the Constitution explores the Conservative Party’s pivotal role in shaping Britain’s constitution, blending tradition with pragmatic reform.
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What is a thoughtful life?
This book offers a space for thoughtful living – for ways of engaging with the ‘nearness’ of the world – with hesitations, doubts, swerves, crafting another manner of grounding.
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Environments of power
Environments of power demonstrates how environments influence which bodies and other matter belong (or not) in certain places.
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Power plants
Power Plants exposes the underappreciated stakes of an expanding global bioenergy sector. As the pursuit of net zero climate targets comes to rely heavily on the industrial burning of crops and trees, this book argues that a closer attention to plants could yet foster energy futures concerned not...
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Confessions of monuments
This book examines the role of artefacts and design practice in representing and commemorating a new political community of Turks within the cultural transformation from empire to nation-state between 1908-50s. It offers an expanded understanding of nation-building within global, public as well a...
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The vietnam idea
The Vietnam Idea explores the visual politics of solidarity, and asks how global protest art made during the Vietnam-American War shaped—and complicated—transnational leftist identity and political imagination, both then and now.
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Histories of international legal theories in japan
The first systematic account of Japanese international legal theory edited by Japanese scholars. Through thirteen influential theorists, the volume proposes an alternative approach to international legal scholarship—'conversation' over 'dialogue'—embracing incommensurability while enabling contin...
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Little wars of empire
Little Wars of Empire is first history of British multi-war veterans – the soldiers, nurses, and military families who experienced both colonial wars in the British empire and the First World War. Using their personal archives, it works to understand how at the turn of the twentieth century, colo...
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Afterlives of the troubles
Focusing on experiential life stories across a range of forms and practices in the lengthening 'afterlife' of the Troubles, this book explores complex temporal dynamics of 'post-conflict' subjectivities and the cultural politics of their representation, seen as a neglected dimension of conflict t...
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Democracy on demand
Democracy on demand is a most comprehensive analysis of the good, the bad, and the ugly aspects of referendums and the challenges to modern democracy. It shows how democracy is vulnerable, and how it can be saved from demagogues.
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Beginning modernism
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Roger ii and the creation of the kingdom of sicily
This student-friendly volume brings together English translations of the main narrative sources, and a small number of other relevant documents, for the reign of Roger II, the founder of the kingdom of Sicily.
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Understanding immigration in ireland
A sociological analysis of immigration in Ireland. It is the first major comprehensive study of labour and asylum immigration into Irish society
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Saints and cities in medieval italy
This book offers full translations of the Lives of seven saints (five men and two women) who lived in Italian cities between about 1150 and 1315. It will interest both students and other readers curious about medieval Italian history and about medieval popular religion and sainthood.
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The us vs china
An accessible survey of Sino-American relations in Asia, which analyses the complex interactions between the two powers and asks whether conflict is inevitable.
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James kelman
Offers readings of Kelman’s style, characterisation and linguistic innovations within the diverse contexts of Scottish socialism, public transport, emigration, ‘Booker Prize’ culture and Glasgow’s controversial ‘City of Culture’ status in 1990
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Transmodern
Transmodern examines the global dimension of modern art by tracing the crossroads of modernisms in Asia, Europe and the Americas. It explores path-breaking transcultural art practices from the 1920s to the 1960s in the framework of decolonial movements and transcultural thinking.
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Reframing margaret thatcher
Reframing Margaret Thatcher charts how contemporary British film and TV revisit and rewrite the clichéd Iron Lady. It demonstrates how the apparent depoliticization of British film makes visible new relations between genre, cinematic form, and imaginations of the past.
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Go home?
An important intervention in one of the most heated issues of recent decades, this book investigates government campaigns to demonstrate toughness on immigration, and the wide-reaching consequences for migrants and citizens alike. engaged research.
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Kitsch!
From bottle gardens, batman and the bachelor pad to garden gnomes and monogamy spray, this book uses a range of objects to explore the meanings and uses of kitsch. An accessible, comprehensive introduction for students and informed readers, it adds to debates on taste in cultural theory and socio...
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Literature and class
This book explores the intimate relationship between literature and class in England (and later Britain) from the Peasants’ Revolt at the end of the fourteenth century to the impact of the French Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth.
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Noble society
This volume contains five biographical sources, translated into English for the first time , about noblemen and noblewomen living in twelfth-century Germany.
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Migration and social policy in a changing world
This book bridges social policy and migration studies, exploring responses from the Industrial Revolution to today. Through global case studies, it offers a comprehensive analysis of migrant experiences and host society policies, providing insights for scholars and policymakers.
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Female fortune
A new edition of Jill Liddington’s classic work on Anne Lister's extraordinary diaries, which inspired Gentleman Jack
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Northern ireland and the crisis of anti-racism
Racism and sectarianism makes a sustained critique of official anti-racism, using the case of Northern Ireland to do so. Many of the prominent themes in the UK today have been central to discussions in Northern Ireland for decades. The book sketches out some elements of an emancipatory anti-racis...
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Bulmer hobson and the nationalist movement in twentieth-century ireland
This book examines Bulmer Hobson (1883-1969) nationalist career in the period 1900-16, as well as his lesser-known activities in the years after the rebellion.
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The europeanisation of whitehall
This is a path breaking study of the European Union’s impact on UK central government. It is the first book to deal comprehensively with the EU’s impact on central government across the period from the UK’s first application to join in 1961 right up to the end of the Blair administration.
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Britain alone
Ten years after it was initiated, this book provides the definitive account of the 'age of austerity' from high politics to everyday life and how it is permanently altering British society. It shows how scarcity in the name of national survival is intensifying social conflict over who gets what, ...
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The end of populism
This book proposes concrete solutions to confront the populist wave and the rise of “illiberal democracy.” The author demonstrates that democracy is not a “demand side” phenomenon, but rather a “supply side” phenomenon and formulates twenty original and bold proposals to fight populism and defend...
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Anna of denmark
This book examines Anna of Denmark’s engagement with visual and material goods, including architecture, garden design, painting and jewellery. It contextualises the consort’s place within the wider socio-political environment of the Stuart courts and provides a comprehensive understanding of her ...
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Killing men & dying women
This book explores how theories of embodiment, the gesture, hysteria and subjectivity can deepen our understanding of New York abstract painting. Providing readings of paintings by Krasner and examining images of Pollock and Frankenthaler at work, it builds a bridge between the New York artist-wo...
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Poetry for historians
What is the point of poetry for historians? The answer lies in this new 'history of history', which looks at the question through the prism of W. H. Auden’s Cold War history poems and of poetry and history education from the eighteenth century to the present day.
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Modernity and philosophy in max horkheimer
This book shows that Max Horkheimer’s program of critical theory and his research are rooted in the cogency of philosophical questions and an in-depth knowledge of the historical development of philosophical problems in their close correlation with the socio-economic framework which shaped the ‘b...
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Jacques feyder
This is the first English-language book on Jacques Feyder, one of the Golden Age of French cinema’s most prolific directors. It argues that a fuller understanding of Feyder’s style involves exploring his provocative portrayals of gender, class and colonialism across his body of work.
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Players' work time
This critical account of the Musicians' Union from 1893-2013 explores the organisation's development as a set of responses to technological, industrial and socio-political changes.
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Punk rock ruined my life
John Robb has been at the forefront of musical culture since the 1980s. In this compelling memoir, he looks back on a life lived through and for music.
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Europe's path to crisis
Examines each stage of the EU monetary crisis along with the political and social impact, and reveals the longer-term origins
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Safe as houses
As the tragedy of the Grenfell tower fire has slowly revealed a shadowy background of outsourcing, private finance initiatives and a council turning a blind eye to health and safety concerns, many questions need answers.Stuart Hodkinson has those answers.
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Imperial nostalgia
A short, polemical study of the persistence of imperial nostalgia in modern British culture, politics, heritage and media.
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Repeal and revolution
Repeal and revolution. 1848 in Ireland examines the events that led up to the 1848 rising and examines the reasons for its failure. It places the rising in the context of political changes outside Ireland, especially the links between the Irish nationalists and radicals and republicans in Britain...
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Free will
A study of theatre and sovereignty that situates Shakespeare’s plays in the contraflow between two absolutisms of early modern England: the aesthetic and the political
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Re-examining nineteenth-century easts
This collectionreassesses and revitalises the gendered and gendering debates associated with nineteenth-century ‘Easts’. It offers novel conceptualisations and methodologies to fictions and travel writing in and of the cultural, geographical and ideological contexts surrounding the nineteenth-cen...
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Order and rebellion
This book, written by two authors with longstanding familiarity with the party, provides an in-depth and nuanced analysis of the different managerial strategies pursued by three Labour leaders, Ed Miliband, Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer, in the tumultuous years of opposition from 2010 to 2024.
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The annals of lampert of hersfeld
Lampert is widely regarded as 'the unrivalled master among medieval historians' and 'a superb story-teller', noted for his vivid characterisation and narrative. This English translation of his work is of the greatest value to teachers and students of medieval history and also of interest to the g...
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The open university
This historical perspective on The Open University, founded in 1969, frames its ethos (to be open to people, places, methods and ideas) within the traditions of correspondence courses, commercial television, adult education, the post-war social democratic settlement and the Cold War. A critical a...
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Brazil in the world
This book explains why Brazil is taking an increasingly prominent international role, how it conducts and plans its regional and global interactions, and what the South American giant intends to do with its rising international influence.
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Culture is bad for you
The book demonstrates that cultural jobs are the preserve of the most privileged, a ‘creative class’ in society, and always have been: there was no golden age for social mobility in culture. It shows how women, people of colour, and those of working class origins are missing from key parts of the...
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Monasticism and renewal in southern italy
The Chronicle of Montecassino is a crucial source for the history of monasticism and that of southern Italy in the early Middle Ages, as well as for the art and architecture of the period.
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Women’s troubles
Women’s Troubles sets out to capture the complexities of feminist movement building in the divided society of Northern Ireland, contributing to ongoing analysis of contemporary global feminisms.
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Africa 2.0
Africa 2.0 provides an important history of how two technologies – mobile calling and internet – were made available to millions of sub-Saharan Africans and the impact they have had on their lives. The book deals with the political challenges of liberalisation and privatisation that needed to be ...
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British civilians in the front line
This book, the first full-length study of British civilians’ behaviour in air raids during the Second World War, challenges a common image of civilians as passive shelterers during air raids.
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Northern ireland a generation after good friday
This book captures the complex and often contradictory realities of the region’s peace process. Across nine original essays, the authors provide a critical and comprehensive reading of a society that seems to have left its violent past behind but at the same time remains subject to its gravitatio...
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The politics of expansion
The book gives an original and accessible discussion of an era of educational expansion, exploring the transformation of Irish education in the 1960s and early 1970s. The work sheds new light on the crucial role of international organisations in stimulating change in Irish educational policy.
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Debt as power
Debt as power is a timely and innovative contribution to our understanding of one of the most prescient issues of our time: the explosion of debt across the global economy and related requirement of political leaders to pursue exponential growth to meet the demands of creditors and investors. The...
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Populism in europe
This timely volume analyses the Northern League under its founder Umberto Bossi (1991-2012). As a well-led mass party, the League has much to teach political scientists today on the reasons behind populist growth, endurance and success.
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Unruly subjects
Unruly Subjects unravels how everyday solidarity, resistance, and violent abandonment intersect at Europe’s borders. Through long-term ethnographic research in Greece, it explores the creative, yet ambivalent solidarities between ‘illegalised’ migrants incarcerated in camps and the grassroots vol...
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The regulation of standards in british public life
This is an analysis of the revolution of the last two decades that has built an extensive new regulatory apparatus governing British public ethics. The book sets the new machinery in the wider institutional framework of British government. Its main purpose is to understand the dilemmas of regulat...
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Household servants in early modern england
Using a wide variety of sources this lively socio-cultural history examines household service, one of the largest, most multi-layered, most mobile and most indispensable sectors of employment in early modern England
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Adapting philosophy
Adapting Philosophy looks at the ways in which The Matrix Trilogy adapts Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation, and in doing so creates its own distinctive philosophical position.
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Change and the politics of certainty
The book engages with our desire to seek change in a world of increasing inequality, exclusion and violence. Deploying practical, academic and autobiographical illustrations, the book argues that although we might need to traverse the fantasy of certainty and security, we do not need to give up ...
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Black flags and social movements
An in-depth analysis of contemporary anarchist movements, focusing upon who anarchists are, and where they may be found.
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The art of decolonisation
A transnational and transhistorical history of the artistic, political, and diplomatic relations between France and Senegal from the 1950s to the 1970s. This book examines the strategies of decolonisation from a globalised perspective and decentres perspectives about modernism and the global turn...
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Creative research communication
Creative research communication provides a theoretically grounded introduction to a range of practical approaches to research engagement, as well as addressing emerging issues, such as inclusivity, professionalism and ethics.
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Spectacular performances
Why did Queen Elizabeth I compare herself with her disastrous ancestor Richard II? Why would Ben Jonson transform Queen Anne and her ladies into Amazons as entertainment for the pacifist King James? How do the concepts of costume as high fashion and as self-fashioning, as disguise and as the very...
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Irish townspeople
A work of Irish urban history that studies the society and culture of townspeople, including their integration as citizens, their membership of fraternities, guilds and parishes and their charity. As civic leaders they forged political and confessional identities that set them at odds with church...
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