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  • Critical theory and demagogic populism
    Critical theory and demagogic populism

    Critical theory and demagogic populism

    This is the first study to make a detail case for the Frankfurt School’s relevance to understanding contemporary populism. It reconstructs their analysis of ‘modern demagogy’ and demonstrates its advantages over orthodox ‘populism studies’ and the work of Laclau. The book also extends the Institu...

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  • Martial races
    Martial races

    Martial races

    This book provides an exploration of how and why Scottish Highlanders, Punjabi Sikhs and Nepalese Gurkhas became linked as the British Empire’s fiercest, most manly soldiers in nineteenth century discourses of ‘martial races.’

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  • Public Schools and Private Education
    Public Schools and Private Education

    Public Schools and Private Education

    An analysis of the Clarendon Commission (1861-64) and the Public School Acts showing their profound importance to the future and development of education in England.

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  • Falling from grace
    Falling from grace

    Falling from grace

    This original new study examines how members of the English medieval nobility and their families fell from position and power in the period 1075-1455. Based on extensive research in chronicle, administrative, artistic and other interdisciplinary sources, the study spans from the Earls’ Revolt of...

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  • Race and riots in Thatcher's Britain
    Race and riots in Thatcher's Britain

    Race and riots in Thatcher's Britain

    Through exploration of black British community activism in three geographical case studies, this book argues that the 1980-1 anti-police disturbances should be viewed as ‘collective bargaining by riot’. Utilising many original sources, it charts dichotomous attitudes towards public inquiries and ...

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  • Romantic narratives in international politics
    Romantic narratives in international politics

    Romantic narratives in international politics

    Introducing insights from literary studies and narratology into international relations, this study examines the romantic narratives of pirates in Somalia, rebels in Libya and private military and security companies in Iraq.

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  • Drone imaginaries
    Drone imaginaries

    Drone imaginaries

    The book demonstrates how cultural and emotional knowledge, made salient in aesthetic drone imaginaries, can provide an understanding of the effects of drone technology on human communities. Each chapter raises questions about the political function of art that engages with drone technology surve...

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  • Martha Gellhorn: The war writer in the field and in the text
    Martha Gellhorn: The war writer in the field and in the text

    Martha Gellhorn: The war writer in the field and in the text

    St. Louis-born Martha Gellhorn (1908-98) was the doyenne of twentieth century war correspondence. In this first critical study of her Second World War fiction and journalism, Kate McLoughlin makes the connection between Gellhorn's intrepid progress through the war zone and her textual constructio...

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  • The Irish amateur military tradition in the British Army, 1854–1992
    The Irish amateur military tradition in the British Army, 1854–1992

    The Irish amateur military tradition in the British Army, 1854–1992

    This book examines the framework in which Irish auxiliary forces, part-time soldiers of the British Army, have existed alongside their regular army counterparts and how they have interacted with wider society.

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  • Dr Faustus: The A- and B- texts (1604, 1616)
    Dr Faustus: The A- and B- texts (1604, 1616)

    Dr Faustus: The A- and B- texts (1604, 1616)

    Dr. Faustus is one of the jewels of early modern English drama, and is still widely performed today. Interestingly, the play has come down to the contemporary audience in two distinct versions that have become known as the 'A' and the 'B' texts. David Bevington and Eric Rasmussen, who edited the ...

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  • Digital contention in a divided society
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    Digital contention in a divided society

    Representing the first in-depth qualitative study of how social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are used to mediate contentious public parades and protests in Northern Ireland, this book explores the implications of mis-and dis-information spread via online platforms for peacebuildin...

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  • Patient voices in Britain, 1840–1948
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    Patient voices in Britain, 1840–1948

    This edited collection repositions the patient experience at the centre of healthcare histories and considers the contributions that such histories can make to debates over health policy and service delivery.

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  • Lawyers for the poor
    Lawyers for the poor

    Lawyers for the poor

    This book examines the development of legal advice services in England, from their origins in ‘Poor Man’s Lawyer’ voluntary work in the 1890s, through the growth of mutual schemes and newspaper advice bureaux, and to the challenges of meeting the needs of socially-excluded groups in the post-war ...

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  • Precarious childhood in post-independence Ireland
    Precarious childhood in post-independence Ireland

    Precarious childhood in post-independence Ireland

    This book reveals the desperate plight of the poor, neglected, illegitimate, and abused children in an Irish society that claimed to "cherish" and hold them sacred, but in fact marginalized and ignored them.

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  • Knowing COVID-19
    Knowing COVID-19

    Knowing COVID-19

    This is an edited volume that draws on eight case studies to showcase how researchers in the humanities shone a light on some of the many hidden problems of COVID-19 – from the effects of racism to the risks of deploying shame; from how to design an effective instructional leaflet to how to commu...

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  • Sport and diplomacy
    Sport and diplomacy

    Sport and diplomacy

    The book critically addresses the relationship between sport and diplomacy posing new questions of these two enduring features of global society.

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  • Roots of the Pax Americana
    Roots of the Pax Americana

    Roots of the Pax Americana

    This fascinating book examines how and why Americans built an informal trading empire and why the British Empire needed to be removed before a Pax Americana could be built. It offers a systematic explanation for the rise of this super empire, and explains in detail how it is governed.

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  • Bartered bridegrooms
    Bartered bridegrooms

    Bartered bridegrooms

    This book explores the experiences of Muslim men born and raised in Pakistan and Kashmir who migrate after marrying British Pakistani nationals. The book particular focuses on the impact of migration and marriage on their masculinity.

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  • Sweden and ecological governance
    Sweden and ecological governance

    Sweden and ecological governance

    This is about policies and strategies for ecologically rational governance and uses the Swedish case study to ask whether it is possible to move form a traditional environmental policy to a broad, integrated pursuit of sustainable development, as illustrated through the ‘Sustainable Sweden’ progr...

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  • European cities
    European cities

    European cities

    European cities: Modernity, race and colonialism is a collection of empirical and theoretical scholarly analyses of multiple urban processes across the East-West European divide, inviting the reader to reimagine urban Europe from non-Eurocentric perspectives, and to engage active thought and thou...

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  • Pasticcio opera in Britain
    Pasticcio opera in Britain

    Pasticcio opera in Britain

    This study overturns twentieth-century thinking about pasticcio opera, redefining it as method not genre, and recontextualising it among many artforms which created new works from pre-existing parts. Its history is interwoven with society’s transition from a predominantly oral to literate culture...

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  • Picturing the Romantic
    Picturing the Romantic

    Picturing the Romantic

    Picturing the Romantic redefines European Romanticism by exploring its transnational connections in the visual arts. This volume, featuring fifteen essays by established and emerging scholars, delves into various Romantic works of art, challenging conventional definitions and highlighting the dyn...

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  • Medicine, health and Irish experiences of conflict, 1914–45
    Medicine, health and Irish experiences of conflict, 1914–45

    Medicine, health and Irish experiences of conflict, 1914–45

    A wide ranging volume on medical history, that examines critical areas of health concerns in Ireland through the World Wars.

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  • Secret Shakespeare
    Secret Shakespeare

    Secret Shakespeare

    In this volume, Wilson asks why Shakespeare remained so enigmatic about his religious beliefs, and demonstrates how he constructed a self-concealing theatre of darkness, deferral, evasion and disguise. This will be essential reading for all Shakespearean scholars, especially those with an interes...

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  • Bodily interventions and intimate labour
    Bodily interventions and intimate labour

    Bodily interventions and intimate labour

    This volume is about the relationship between bodily interventions, intimate labour and bioprecarity. It considers how access to and regulations around different kinds of medical intervention create vulnerabilities, especially for minorities, racialized groups, queers and trans people.

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  • Irish women's writing, 1878–1922
    Irish women's writing, 1878–1922

    Irish women's writing, 1878–1922

    Providing an important intervention in contemporary Irish cultural-critical debate, this collection explores how Irish women writers exercised their political concerns and influence through their literary outputs during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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  • Peacemaking in the Middle Ages
    Peacemaking in the Middle Ages

    Peacemaking in the Middle Ages

    This study explores the making of peace in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries based on the experiences of the kings of England and the kings of Denmark. It offers a vision of how relationships between rulers were regulated and maintained in a period before nation states and internati...

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  • Covert colonialism
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    Covert colonialism

    This book is the first comprehensive archive-based study to explore governance, surveillance, political culture and public policymaking in colonial Hong Kong from 1966 to 1997, using newly released archival documents in London and Hong Kong. Using historical discipline, it provides a thorough und...

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  • She-wolf
    She-wolf

    She-wolf

    She-Wolf explores the cultural history of the female werewolf, from her first appearance in medieval literature to recent incarnations in film, television and popular literature.

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  • Queenship in Britain 1660–1837
    Queenship in Britain 1660–1837

    Queenship in Britain 1660–1837

    Queenship in Britain 1660–1837 looks at the lives of successive Queens, Princesses of Wales and royal daughters, and considers how they used their powers of patronage and operated within the confines of royal family politics. With contributions from an international group of scholars this book br...

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  • Edward and George Herbert in the European Republic of Letters
    Edward and George Herbert in the European Republic of Letters

    Edward and George Herbert in the European Republic of Letters

    The Anglo-Welsh aristocrats George Herbert (1593–1633) and Edward Herbert (1583–1648) are striking examples of an early European republic of letters. This volume argues that in their lives and works, a cosmopolitanism born of warfare and strife imagined a radical communion and openness.

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  • Political ideology today
    Political ideology today

    Political ideology today

    Examines the tenets of liberalism, socialism, conservatism, Marxism, anarchism, and fascism.

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  • Understanding governance in contemporary Japan
    Understanding governance in contemporary Japan

    Understanding governance in contemporary Japan

    This book explores the transformation of Japan’s state in response to the challenges of governance by focusing on the case studies of ICT regulation and antimonopoly regulation after the 1980s as an example of the new governance school in Japanese politics and beyond.

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  • The English Constitution
    The English Constitution

    The English Constitution

    This book centres constitutional reform in discussions of England and Englishness, and centres England in debates on constitutional reform. It includes the text of a constitution that builds on the heritage and tradition of Westminster Model democracy, combining long-overdue reforms with the rest...

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  • Granada Television
    Granada Television

    Granada Television

    Unique, readable first hand accounts of one of the most significant periods in British television history. Introductory essay from leading academic Julia Hallam (University of Liverpool), sets the creation of Granada in the context of British broadcasting history and of television as it is today....

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  • Ending British rule in Africa
    Ending British rule in Africa

    Ending British rule in Africa

    On the eve of World War II, a small, impoverished group of Africans and West Indians in London dared to imagine the unimaginable: the end of British rule in Africa. In books, pamphlets, and periodicals, they launched an anti-colonial campaign that used publishing as a pathway to liberation. West ...

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  • Collective emotions and political violence
    Collective emotions and political violence

    Collective emotions and political violence

    Analysing primary textual, audio and video data, this book argues that Islamist organisations in Germany and the UK perform collective emotions in and through narrative when turning to political violence. The book offers a provocative account departing from conventional interpretations of radical...

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  • Making social democrats
    Making social democrats

    Making social democrats

    This book, a collection of essays by some of Britain’s leading academics, public intellectuals and political practitioners, seeks to engage with the ‘big picture’ of British social democracy, both historical and contemporary, and point to grounds for greater optimism for its future prospects.

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  • EccentriCities: Writing in the margins of Modernism
    EccentriCities: Writing in the margins of Modernism

    EccentriCities: Writing in the margins of Modernism

    This book critically considers how geo-historically distant and disparate urban sites give rise to peculiarly parallel polyphonic fictional forms. It redefines new constellations (eccentric, concentric, ex-centric) for understanding geo-cultural and generic dimensions of modernist and post-modern...

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  • The absurdity of bureaucracy
    The absurdity of bureaucracy

    The absurdity of bureaucracy

    The absurdity of bureaucracy is a contemporary implementation study that unveil how organisational complexity and inefficacy is fed and sustained by employees well-meant attempts and almost primal instinct to compensate for malfunctioning bureaucratic systems by repairing them, short-cutting them...

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  • South Korean civil movement organisations
    South Korean civil movement organisations

    South Korean civil movement organisations

    This is a unique ethnographic study of the practical, theoretical, methodological, ethical and social dimensions of some key non-governmental organisations (NGOs), non-profit organisations (NPOs), and think tanks in Seoul during Roh Moo Hyun’s tumultuous presidency (2003-8).

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  • Shell-shocked British Army veterans in Ireland, 1918-39
    Shell-shocked British Army veterans in Ireland, 1918-39

    Shell-shocked British Army veterans in Ireland, 1918-39

    This study provides the first exclusive analysis of disabled First World War veterans who returned to Ireland. With a case study of mental illness, it foregrounds how the treatment and experiences of disabled communities in past societies is shaped by the existing socio-economic, cultural and pol...

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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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  • Arguments for a theatre
    Arguments for a theatre

    Arguments for a theatre

    There is no-one else in theatre who takes this position There is a lack of books on serious theatre theory Written in a particularly accessible form.

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  • Graveyard Gothic
    Graveyard Gothic

    Graveyard Gothic

    This collection of essays considers the significance of graveyards in Gothic literature, film, television and video games. The chapters incorporate discussion of Gothic texts from around the world, offering a compelling new account of the graveyard’s importance as a key location for Gothic art an...

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  • Poison, detection and the Victorian imagination
    Poison, detection and the Victorian imagination

    Poison, detection and the Victorian imagination

    A history of poisoning in the nineteenth century and in particular the case of Dr William Palmer, convicted of murder by poisoning, and how he baffled toxicologists, doctors, detectives and judges

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  • The United Nations and peacekeeping, 1988–95
    The United Nations and peacekeeping, 1988–95

    The United Nations and peacekeeping, 1988–95

    Make a genuine contribution to our understanding of international politics in the UN which includes the General Assembly committees, the Security Council and the UN Secretariat

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  • The Food Companions
    The Food Companions

    The Food Companions

    The introduction of rationing ensured that food became a central concern for the British people during the Second World War. The food companions investigates the cinema of this period and demonstrates the cultural impact that rationing and food control had on both government propaganda and comme...

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  • Royal tourists, colonial subjects and the making of a British world, 1860–1911
    Royal tourists, colonial subjects and the making of a British world, 1860–1911

    Royal tourists, colonial subjects and the making of a British world, 1860–1911

    Examines the nineteenth-century royal tour from the perspectives of various historical actors – including royals, politicians and indigenous people – in order to demonstrate how a multi-valent British culture was created throughout the empire.

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  • The domestic, moral and political economies of post-Celtic Tiger Ireland
    The domestic, moral and political economies of post-Celtic Tiger Ireland

    The domestic, moral and political economies of post-Celtic Tiger Ireland

    Provides an analysis of neo-liberal political economics implemented in Ireland and the deleterious consequences of that model

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  • Cowboy Hamlets and zombie Romeos
    Cowboy Hamlets and zombie Romeos

    Cowboy Hamlets and zombie Romeos

    The book focuses on the interpretation of Shakespeare film adaptations in commercial film genres, from the classical Hollywood era to contemporary blockbuster cinema. Its genre-based analyses revisit old favourites and rediscover long-forgotten treasures of film history, taking adaptation studies...

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  • The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence
    The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence

    The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence

    n 1715 Leibniz wrote to his friend the Princess of Wales to warn her of the dangers Newton's philosophy posed for natural religion. Seizing this chance of initiating an exchange between the two greatest minds in Europe, the princess showed his letter to the eminent Newtonian scientist and natural...

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  • Why theory?
    Why theory?

    Why theory?

    Edward Tomarken's previous book, Filmspeak, was a study of literary theory in relation to contemporary mainstream films. Some of the abstruse ideas of early literary theorists (1950–70) had in fact permeated our thinking to such an extent that both films and theories enriched and shed light upon ...

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  • Proscribing peace
    Proscribing peace

    Proscribing peace

    Proscribing peace shows how the listing of armed groups as terrorists has made pre-negotiations harder and more prolonged. Drawing on fieldwork in Colombia during the negotiation with the FARC, Sophie Haspeslagh introduces the concept of ‘linguistic ceasefire’ which becomes a central pre-conditio...

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  • The end-of-the-century party
    The end-of-the-century party

    The end-of-the-century party

    This is the definitive account of the shift in popular music and youth culture that took place in the 1980s. It draws on interviews with DJs, record company bosses, musicians, producers and fans to outline a transition in pop thinking from the obsession with style and packaging to content, social...

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  • Divided Isles
    Divided Isles

    Divided Isles

    In 2019, Solomon Islands made international headlines when the country severed its decades-old alliance with Taiwan in exchange for a partnership with Beijing. The decision prompted international condemnation and terrified security experts. This penetrating investigation into the switch sheds lig...

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  • Habermas and European integration
    Habermas and European integration

    Habermas and European integration

    This concise yet comprehensive book delineates German philosopher Jürgen Habermas’s conception of the European Union.

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  • Hamlet
    Hamlet

    Hamlet

    Links acting traditions with cultural milieu.. No other book on Hamlet on the stage covers as much theoretical ground.. Covers a number of foreign productions and pays much attention to the role of scenography .

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  • Strategies of arms control
    Strategies of arms control

    Strategies of arms control

    Bringing the subject of arms control into the arena of complex, multi-polar international relations, this text traces the history of agreements over weapons back to ancient times. The author puts forward a typology of arms control: it occurs at the end of major conflicts, stabilizes balances betw...

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  • Lance Comfort
    Lance Comfort

    Lance Comfort

    Charts Lance Comfort's career in full

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  • President Lyndon Johnson and Soviet Communism
    President Lyndon Johnson and Soviet Communism

    President Lyndon Johnson and Soviet Communism

    This book fills a major gap in the history of the Cold War by examining in detail a neglected phase of US-Soviet relations. Based on original and recently released archive materials, the book constitutes a major contribution to the growing ‘beyond Vietnam’ literature on the foreign policy of Pres...

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  • The heat of Beowulf
    The heat of Beowulf

    The heat of Beowulf

    The heat of Beowulf reexamines the aesthetics of the longest surviving Old English poem through the poetics of twentieth-century poets Jack Spicer, arguing that the aesthetics of Beowulf entangle vulnerable human corporeality in the non-human world, rendering perceptible what otherwise remains in...

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  • Cooking up a revolution
    Cooking up a revolution

    Cooking up a revolution

    During the late 1980s and early 1990s the city of San Francisco waged a war against the homeless. This book treats the conflict between the city and activists as a unique opportunity to examine the contested nature of homelessness and public space while developing an anarchist alternative to libe...

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  • Men on trial
    Men on trial

    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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  • A farewell to arms?
    A farewell to arms?

    A farewell to arms?

    This study covers both the domestic and the international dimensions of the peace process, and is the first to deal seriously with the impact of the war on terror on the situation in Northern Ireland. It is also the first book to look at the Good Friday Agreement since the collapse of the Execut...

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  • Bellies, bowels and entrails in the eighteenth century
    Bellies, bowels and entrails in the eighteenth century

    Bellies, bowels and entrails in the eighteenth century

    This collection of essays addresses the belly and the bowels as key elements in our understanding of eighteenth-century mentalities, emotions, and perceptions of the self.

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  • Rescaling the state
    Rescaling the state

    Rescaling the state

    Rescaling the State provides a theoretically-informed and empirically-rich account of the process of devolution undertaken in the UK since 1997, focusing in particular on the devolution of economic governance.

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  • Contesting the state
    Contesting the state

    Contesting the state

    This book is the first comprehensive survey of the Irish state, its history and evolution, its nature and its role in Ireland's recent economic boom. Containing contributions from some of the leading authorities on the subject, it offers an in-depth analysis of a state widely seen as a model of s...

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  • Trust in the system
    Trust in the system

    Trust in the system

    An ethnographic exploration of research ethics committees in the UK, which highlights the central role of trust in biomedical regulatory decision making.

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  • The sense of early modern writing
    The sense of early modern writing

    The sense of early modern writing

    Offers a new and challenging account of the relationships between rhetoric and aesthetics, informed by literature, critical theory and philosophy. Offers readings of familiar and unfamiliar early modern texts by Shakespeare, Sidney, Jonson and others that will be of interest to researchers and st...

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  • Dreams of disconnection
    Dreams of disconnection

    Dreams of disconnection

    This book offers a history of energy autonomy and small infrastructures in the field of architecture and urbanism from the end of the 19th century to the present day.

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  • The early Spenser, 1554–80
    The early Spenser, 1554–80

    The early Spenser, 1554–80

    Brink shows that Spenser began as the protégé of churchmen, who expected him to take holy orders and that the Shepheardes Calender signaled his transition from shepherd-priest to shepherd-poet. A

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  • Act now
    Act now

    Act now

    Written by an extraordinary team of authors, including Danny Dorling and Kate Pickett, this book offers a compelling and achievable vision for a progressive future. It presents concrete policy proposals for the reform of welfare, health and social care, public utilities and more.

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  • Diplomacy and lobbying during Turkey’s Europeanisation
    Diplomacy and lobbying during Turkey’s Europeanisation

    Diplomacy and lobbying during Turkey’s Europeanisation

    This book presents intricate, backstage negotiations of interests and compromises between diplomats and lobbyists through the corridors of power, which drove Turkey both closer to and farther apart from the EU.

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  • Everyday foreign policy
    Everyday foreign policy

    Everyday foreign policy

    This book offers a framework for analysing grass roots politics in Russia. It challenges the assumption that international relations only happen on the high level and instead focuses on the way general population enacts and re-interprets significant foreign policy concepts such as sanctions, wars...

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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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  • Women's leisure in England 1920–60
    Women's leisure in England 1920–60

    Women's leisure in England 1920–60

    This insightful new book offers a timely assessment of the complex relationship between women and leisure in England, drawing upon recent feminist theory. Departing from approaches which focus on particular activities or institutions, it places everyday experiences at its centre, presenting a wid...

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  • Art and Literature of the Second Empire
    Art and Literature of the Second Empire

    Art and Literature of the Second Empire

    This volume explores the characteristics of the art and literature of the Second Empire in France.

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  • Law, laity and solidarities
    Law, laity and solidarities

    Law, laity and solidarities

    The primary focus of this collection by leading medieval historians is the laity, in particular the ideas and ideals of lay people. The contributors explore lay attitudes as expressed in legal cases, charters, chronicles and collective activities. Highlights the centrality of kinship, whilst stre...

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  • Electric wind
    Electric wind

    Electric wind

    Electric wind offers an innovative history of modern Britain, told through the pursuit of wind energy.

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  • The political aesthetics of the Armenian avant-garde
    The political aesthetics of the Armenian avant-garde

    The political aesthetics of the Armenian avant-garde

    Sheds light on artistic production and the emergence of contemporary art in Armenia from the ruins of the socialist utopian project and the failure to realise the romanticised consumerism of the capitalist West.

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  • Beckett on Screen
    Beckett on Screen

    Beckett on Screen

    This book focuses on the five dramas written by Samuel Beckett for television, in the context of British television.

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  • Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation
    Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation

    Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation

    Looks at the new activity of transcontinental civil flying in the 1930s and its extension of British imperial attitudes and practices. Gathers new evidence to distil the age, class, gender and occupational profiles of people who used private and commercial aircraft and looks at how flying in the ...

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  • Waiting for the revolution
    Waiting for the revolution

    Waiting for the revolution

    A companion piece to 2014's Against the grain, this collection of essays explores trajectories in the British far left from 1956 to the present day.

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  • David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the sun machine
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    David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the sun machine

    A dazzling act of literary-critical rebellion, casting new light on the lives of David Bowie and Enid Blyton

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  • My Voice: Sam Laskier
    My Voice: Sam Laskier

    My Voice: Sam Laskier

    Sam'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. Sam Laskier experienced terrible ordeals at labour camps and then Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was brought to Windermere in England after WWII ...

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  • Transfiguring medievalism
    Transfiguring medievalism

    Transfiguring medievalism

    Transfiguring medievalism explores medieval literature, modern poetry and theologies both medieval and modern to show how bodies can become apparent to the attentive eye as more than they first appear. Bringing together medieval sources with modern lyric medievalism, the book argues for the surpr...

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  • Race and the Yugoslav region
    Race and the Yugoslav region

    Race and the Yugoslav region

    This study argues that, contrary to many assumptions, Yugoslavia and its successor states are deeply embedded in the global history and politics of ‘race’, and that the ambiguities of perceiving ‘race’ in the region’s past and present in fact have complex historical roots.

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  • Women, workplace protest and political identity in England, 1968–85
    Women, workplace protest and political identity in England, 1968–85

    Women, workplace protest and political identity in England, 1968–85

    This book revisits women’s workplace protest from an historical perspective to deliver a new account of working-class women’s political identity in England between 1968 and 1985.

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  • Deportation limbo
    Deportation limbo

    Deportation limbo

    Deportation limbo is a political ethnography of deportation enforcement in Denmark and Sweden. Building on research on frontline officials working in immigration detention and deportation camps, it traces the continuum of state violence mobilised to pressure non-deported people to leave, and its ...

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  • Realising the city
    Realising the city

    Realising the city

    This edited collection explores what happens when a city administration tries to bring their vision for a city into being. It provides ethnographic accounts that complicate the dominant narrative of Manchester’s renaissance.

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  • Personal narratives of Irish and Scottish migration, 1921–65
    Personal narratives of Irish and Scottish migration, 1921–65

    Personal narratives of Irish and Scottish migration, 1921–65

    Drawing predominantly on personal narratives, this book compares Irish and Scottish migration to North America and Australasia between 1921 and 1965.

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  • Women art workers and the Arts and Crafts movement
    Women art workers and the Arts and Crafts movement

    Women art workers and the Arts and Crafts movement

    Women Art Workers provides a new social and cultural history of the Arts and Crafts movement which offers unprecedented insight into how women constructed alternative, creative lifestyles and disseminated the ethos of the social importance of the Arts and Crafts across new local, national, and in...

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  • Imperial cities
    Imperial cities

    Imperial cities

    Imperial cities explores the influence of imperialism in the landscapes of modern European cities including London, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Marseilles, Glasgow and Seville. Examines large-scale architectural schemes and monuments, including the Queen Victoria Memorial in London and the Vittoriano in...

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  • Gothic Documents
    Gothic Documents

    Gothic Documents

    How is it that the age of Enlightenment gave rise to the genre of the literary ghost story? What did the term 'Gothic' mean, when Horace Walpole used it in the subtitle of his experimental novel The Castle of Otranto? How did a type of writing which broke. Based on intensive research, it demonstr...

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