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  • Tristana
    Tristana

    Tristana

    This volume provides an annotated critical edition of Galdós' Tristana (1892). Set in fin de siècle Madrid, this unique text reflects upon the ruling elites' political appropriation and exploitation of feminism and the human rights movement, and a variety of literary and philosophical issues asso...

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  • Cowboy Hamlets and zombie Romeos
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    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 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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  • Coriolanus
    Coriolanus

    Coriolanus

    A study of twenty stage productions, adaptations and screen versions of Shakespeare’s final Roman play

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  • The European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR)
    The European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR)

    The European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR)

    This study argues that the political activities of the ECR ought to be recognised as the main voice for conservatism in Strasbourg promoting 'Anglosphere' free market values and the role of NATO in international relations.

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  • Men in political theory
    Men in political theory

    Men in political theory

    'Men in political theory' is the first work to turn the 'gender lens' onto 'man' the 'abstract individual' and 'man' the gendered male as they appear in the works of ten classic political philosophers.

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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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  • Monarchies and decolonisation in Asia
    Monarchies and decolonisation in Asia

    Monarchies and decolonisation in Asia

    Provides new perspectives on the role of European colonial monarchies, and the monarchies of Asia, in the late colonial period, during the process of decolonisation, and in its aftermath.

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  • Doubtful and dangerous
    Doubtful and dangerous

    Doubtful and dangerous

    Examines the pivotal influence of the succession question on the politics, religion and culture of the post-Armada years of Queen Elizabeth’s reign

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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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  • 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 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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  • The EU and its neighbours
    The EU and its neighbours

    The EU and its neighbours

    The book argues that what is often considered a fundamental dilemma of EU foreign policy - a choice between the EU’s values and its quest for security - misrepresents a much more complex reality in which values and security interplay to shape the European Neighborhood Policy.

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  • Contemporary Olson
    Contemporary Olson

    Contemporary Olson

    Re-situating Olson’s work in relation both to his own moment and to current concerns, the essays assembled in Contemporary Olson provide a major re-assessment of his place in postwar poetry and culture.

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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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  • Neoliberal gothic
    Neoliberal gothic

    Neoliberal gothic

    A comprehensive study of how different Gothic forms have adapted, engaged with and represented the neoliberal agenda across the globe.

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  • The early Spenser, 1554–80
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    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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  • A theory of the super soldier
    A theory of the super soldier

    A theory of the super soldier

    Super soldiers are about to become the new actors in the battlefields of tomorrow. Armed with science fiction-esque equipment and drugs, they are about to make comic book and Hollywood superheroes a reality.

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  • European cities
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    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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  • Spenser and Virgil
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    Spenser and Virgil

    An engaging study that offers new and provocative re-readings of Spenser's pastoral poems, with a focus on Spenser's acknowledged debt to Virgil and his Eclogues. Reception studies, politics and classical studies are interweaved to provide a greater understanding of both poets.

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  • The contemporary law of armed conflict: Third edition
    The contemporary law of armed conflict: Third edition

    The contemporary law of armed conflict: Third edition

    Green’s The contemporary law of armed conflict has been acclaimed as one of the most significant works on the law of armed conflict to appear in recent years. The first edition was adopted as a basic text by military institutions and educational establishments throughout the world and is among th...

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  • The art of The Faerie Queene
    The art of The Faerie Queene

    The art of The Faerie Queene

    The Art of The Faerie Queene offers a new approach to Spenser’s massive Elizabethan epic, presenting it is as a formally radical and innovative text. Where previous criticism has presented Spenser as a conservative technician, this book explores his unexpected experiments with form in the service...

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  • Women art workers and the Arts and Crafts movement
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    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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  • Beckett on Screen
    Beckett on Screen

    Beckett on Screen

    This ground-breaking study analyses Beckett’s television plays in relation to the history and theory of television. It argues that they are in dialogue with innovative television traditions connected to Modernism in television, film, radio, theatre, literature and the visual arts.

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  • Play time
    Play time

    Play time

    An important re-theorisation of medieval gender and anti-Semitism, centring biblical drama as a source of evidence for lay attitudes towards scriptural time. Interrogating the Christian preoccupation with a superseded Jewish past, the book asks how this model is subverted by characters who experi...

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  • Nonhuman voices in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture
    Nonhuman voices in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture

    Nonhuman voices in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture

    This book explores the voices of nonhuman things in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture, making a valuable contribution to 'thing theory'.

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  • Why pamper life's complexities?
    Why pamper life's complexities?

    Why pamper life's complexities?

    In this, the first academic text devoted to The Smiths, writers from a range of perspectives set out to consider the cultural significance and enduring appeal of one of the most influential and controversial bands of recent decades.

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  • Civic identity and public space
    Civic identity and public space

    Civic identity and public space

    A study of the long term historical background to the disputes over parades and related issues that remain central to conflict in Northern Ireland, linked to a review of current policy on the management of public space in the city and a discussion of options for the future.

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  • Practising EU foreign policy
    Practising EU foreign policy

    Practising EU foreign policy

    This book looks at practitioners’ approaches to the EU’s foreign policy to its eastern neighbourhood, particularly Russia, and offers a new methodology for capturing practices using the analytical approach of Discursive International Relations and the Discursive Practice Model.

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  • Conquering the maharajas
    Conquering the maharajas

    Conquering the maharajas

    Conquering the maharajas demonstrates that the political and military clashes between the Indian and Pakistani governments and the princely states, a legacy of the layered sovereignty of British indirect rule in India, was a product of the competing ideas of state sovereignty leading up to and fo...

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  • The implementation of environmental policy in Ireland
    The implementation of environmental policy in Ireland

    The implementation of environmental policy in Ireland

    This book explores the response of Ireland’s political-administrative system to the implementation of environmental directives in the cases of waste management, water and biodiversity.

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  • Hariulf’s History of St Riquier
    Hariulf’s History of St Riquier

    Hariulf’s History of St Riquier

    A new translation of an important source for medieval monastic history that provides interesting insights the background to the Norman Conquest of England.

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  • Complexity / simplicity
    Complexity / simplicity

    Complexity / simplicity

    This collection interrogates the concept of complex TV, and reappraises the value of simplicity in TV, with reference to a range of television programming, including episodic series and serial dramas, sitcoms, science-fiction, animation, horror, thrillers and period dramas.

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  • Changing satire
    Changing satire

    Changing satire

    This edited collection, with contributions from literary scholars and art historians, maps how satire became a less genre-driven and increasingly visual medium in the early modern period. It features material on several European countries and demonstrates the range and diversity of satire in the ...

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  • Leeds and its Jewish community
    Leeds and its Jewish community

    Leeds and its Jewish community

    The definitive history of the third-largest Jewish community in the UK, which analyses the factors which contributed to its growth and success and explores the disproportionate influence the community had on the modern history of Leeds.

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  • The hurt(ful) body
    The hurt(ful) body

    The hurt(ful) body

    Brings into mutual dialogue several existing strands of the study of pain and embodied violence. The volume’s two-fold approach, themed both on the hurt and hurt-inducing body, is unique. It encompasses both the victim’s presence as an image or performed event of pain and the transmitted burden o...

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  • Visions of empire
    Visions of empire

    Visions of empire

    This book offers a ground-breaking perspective on how imperial culture was disseminated from the 1890s onward. It identifies the important synergies that grew between a new civic culture and the wider imperial project. Three case studies are considered against an extensive analysis of seminal and...

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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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  • Stage women, 1900–50
    Stage women, 1900–50

    Stage women, 1900–50

    This book presents cutting-edge historical and cultural essays in the field of women, theatre and performance. It explore women’s networks of professional practice in the performance industries between 1900 and 1950, with a focus on women’s sense and experience of professional agency in an indust...

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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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  • Rethinking settler colonialism
    Rethinking settler colonialism

    Rethinking settler colonialism

    Rethinking settler colonialism focuses on the long history of contact between indigenous peoples and the white colonial communities who settled in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada and South Africa. It interrogates how histories of colonial settlement have been mythologised, narrated and em...

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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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  • Alan Clarke
    Alan Clarke

    Alan Clarke

    The first full-length critical study of Alan Clarke, one of Britain's greatest auteur directors which examines the full range of Clarke's work, and goes beyond the violent image garnered from work like 'Scum' and 'The Firm'.

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  • Death in England
    Death in England

    Death in England

    Death in England provides the first ever social history of death from the earliest times 500,000 BC to Diana, Princess of Wales.. The book reveals how attitudes, practices and beliefs about death have undergone constant change: how, why and at what ages people died; plagues and violence; wills an...

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  • Think tank traditions
    Think tank traditions

    Think tank traditions

    As think tank numbers explode, they have become an integral part of political life. Political leaders, corporations and non-governmental organisations draw upon their expert advice to advance their causes in the battle of ideas.

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  • Human rights in the world
    Human rights in the world

    Human rights in the world

    Human rights occupy a key place in international law and relations. Understanding their significance involves knowing what the current guarantees of human rights are, and how the arrangements for protecting them work. This text offers a broad survey outlining the main human rights instruments and...

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  • Democratic inclusion
    Democratic inclusion

    Democratic inclusion

    Leading scholar of citizenship and migration Rainer Bauböck proposes a theory of inclusion for democratic societies. Five prominent interlocutors comment on this theory.

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  • Workers and revolution in Serbia
    Workers and revolution in Serbia

    Workers and revolution in Serbia

    Analyses the role of workers both in Tito’s Yugoslavia and in the subsequent Serbian revolution against Miloševic in October 2000

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  • In the club
    In the club

    In the club

    A comprehensive examination of social clubs across South Asia

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  • Glorious catastrophe
    Glorious catastrophe

    Glorious catastrophe

    Glorious catastrophe presents the first detailed critical analysis of the visual art, film, performance and writing of Jack Smith, an icon of the New York avant-garde, from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. It uses his personal papers, and unpublished interviews with friends a...

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  • Painting Dublin, 1886–1949
    Painting Dublin, 1886–1949

    Painting Dublin, 1886–1949

    This book explores artists’ visualisations of Dublin during a key period of the city’s political and social history. Based on close and contextual readings of original paintings and prints, along with new archival research, it shows how artists in Ireland creatively responded to the urban environ...

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  • Cooking up a revolution
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    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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  • Translations, an autoethnography
    Translations, an autoethnography

    Translations, an autoethnography

    Colonial anthropology, creative practice and migrant ethnography combine in Paul Carter’s Translations to produce a remarkably intimate and forthright autoethnography.

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  • Calvinist churches in early modern Europe
    Calvinist churches in early modern Europe

    Calvinist churches in early modern Europe

    A wide-ranging and interdisciplinary study of the impact of the European Reformation on the architecture, arrangement and appearance of places of worship.

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  • Germany's European diplomacy
    Germany's European diplomacy

    Germany's European diplomacy

    This book offers a nuanced analysis of the German role in the EU, using a novel approach which identifies German influence in the EU in terms of "soft" power.

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  • Ageing selves and everyday life in the north of England
    Ageing selves and everyday life in the north of England

    Ageing selves and everyday life in the north of England

    Seeking to better understand what it means to grow older in contemporary Britain from the perspective of older people themselves, this richly detailed ethnographic study engages in debates over selfhood and people’s relationships with time.

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  • Francis Bacon's New Atlantis
    Francis Bacon's New Atlantis

    Francis Bacon's New Atlantis

    This volume of eight new essays by leading scholars provides a stimulating dialogue between a range of critical perspectives on Bacon’s ‘The New Atlantis'.

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  • Britain’s Korean War
    Britain’s Korean War

    Britain’s Korean War

    This book investigates the UK’s experience as a junior partner in the only Cold war conflict where some of the main protagonists confronted each other on the battlefield. The author assesses the strains within the ‘Special Relationship’ between London and Washington and offers a new perspective o...

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  • The spatial contract
    The spatial contract

    The spatial contract

    This book is about how a new form of social contract, which we call the spatial contract, can help revitalize the economies of the basic things that matter – the core systems which build and provision the settlements human beings call home.

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  • Beautiful doom
    Beautiful doom

    Beautiful doom

    The first multi-authored volume on the work of contemporary British writer Dennis Kelly, Beautiful Doom examines the full range of his work for stage and screen, from new writing to adaptations of classic playtexts, musical theatre, and original works for television.

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  • Land and labour
    Land and labour

    Land and labour

    This book is a history of the Potters’ Emigration Society from its founding in 1844 to its dissolution in early 1851. The Society, which became a national organisation after 1848, sought to solve the problems of surplus labour by turning workers into frontier farmers. It was the most significan...

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  • Women, the arts and globalization
    Women, the arts and globalization

    Women, the arts and globalization

    This book brings transnational feminist theory and criticism together with women’s art practices to discuss the connections between aesthetics, gender and identity in a global world; shows the movement of women globally rarely matches dominant models of global exchange; traces their eccentric exp...

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  • Chaplains in early modern England
    Chaplains in early modern England

    Chaplains in early modern England

    A pioneering collaboration between leading early modern historians and literary scholars. Chapters by Kenneth Fincham, David Crankshaw and Mary Morrissey analyse the legal structures governing the appointment and remit of chaplains and map their roles and functions within early modern England.

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  • 'More work! Less pay!'
    'More work! Less pay!'

    'More work! Less pay!'

    In the mid-1970s, a long wave of contentious radicalism swept through Italy: ‘Proletarian youth’, ‘metropolitan Indians’, ‘the area of Autonomy’... For the first time in English, Phil Edwards has told the story of a unique and fascinating group of political movements, and of their disastrous enga...

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  • The experience of urban poverty, 1723–82
    The experience of urban poverty, 1723–82

    The experience of urban poverty, 1723–82

    This comparative study of urban poverty is the first to chart the irregular pulse of poverty’s encounters with officialdom. It exploits an unusual methodology to secure new perspectives from familiar sources. The highly localised characteristics of the welfare economy generated a peculiarly urb...

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  • Truth recovery in Northern Ireland
    Truth recovery in Northern Ireland

    Truth recovery in Northern Ireland

    This book is a unique analysis of truth recovery in post-conflict Northern Ireland. It proposes a new model of victim and perpetrator dialogue that is entirely victim-centred, suggesting that only a ‘moral bottom line’ in which violence is dismissed as universally wrong can assists in the effect...

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  • Mundane Methods
    Mundane Methods

    Mundane Methods

    Mundane Methods brings together an exciting array of interdisiplinary approaches to researching the extra-ordinary everyday. Covering themes of materials and memories, emotions and senses, and mobilities and motion, the collection is a practical, hands-on guide for students and scholars intereste...

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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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  • The civil service and the revolution in Ireland 1912–1938
    The civil service and the revolution in Ireland 1912–1938

    The civil service and the revolution in Ireland 1912–1938

    Refutes the orthodox view that the independent Irish State accepted intact the civil service inherited from the former British regime in Dublin Castle

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  • Ottonian Germany
    Ottonian Germany

    Ottonian Germany

    Translated in its entirety here for the first time, The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg has long been recognised as one of the most important sources for the history of the tenth and early eleventh centuries, especially for the history of the Ottonian Empire.

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  • Images of Africa
    Images of Africa

    Images of Africa

    Challenges the widely-held idea that Africans are powerless in the creation of self-image. It explores the ways in which image creation is a process of negotiation entered into by a wide range of actors within and beyond the continent.

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  • Surrealist women's writing
    Surrealist women's writing

    Surrealist women's writing

    Featuring essays by leading scholars of surrealism, this book offers the first sustained critical inquiry into the multifaceted writing of women associated with surrealism, and highlights howthis oeuvre intersects with and contributes to contemporary debates on gender, sexuality, subjectivity, ot...

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  • Stacking the coffins
    Stacking the coffins

    Stacking the coffins

    A social history of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic’s effects on an Ireland where normal patterns of life were disturbed by war and the growing separatist movement. The influenza seemed to disrupt every aspect of Irish life – culture, economics, politics, medicine and family life.

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  • US diplomacy and the Good Friday Agreement in post-conflict Northern Ireland
    US diplomacy and the Good Friday Agreement in post-conflict Northern Ireland

    US diplomacy and the Good Friday Agreement in post-conflict Northern Ireland

    This book revises our understanding of US intervention in Northern Ireland, 2001-2007. Within the context of 9/11 and America’s subsequent response, this work will reveal the vital role played by the George W. Bush administration in the region and why this was critical to the restoration of the G...

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  • Paramilitary loyalism
    Paramilitary loyalism

    Paramilitary loyalism

    Takes a provocative second look at paramilitary loyalism. Based on extensive documentary and oral evidence from former combatants, politicians and key interlocutors.

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  • Human capital and empire
    Human capital and empire

    Human capital and empire

    The book contrasts Scottish, Irish and Welsh involvement in early British imperialism in Asia and reflects on the ways in which this global connection impacted upon all three societies.

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  • The Great Exhibition of 1851
    The Great Exhibition of 1851

    The Great Exhibition of 1851

    This collection of essays exposes how meaning has been produced around the Great Exhibition. Critics and historians of art, culture, design and literature have been brought together to examine the objects, the images, the documents and the fictions of 1851.

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  • Writing otherwise
    Writing otherwise

    Writing otherwise

    A collection of essays by established feminist and cultural critics interested in experimenting with new styles of expression.

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  • Inventing the modern region
    Inventing the modern region

    Inventing the modern region

    This book explores the process by which the French Basque country acquired a folkloric regional identity in the long nineteenth century. It argues that, despite originating in pre-‘modern’ customs, such stereotypical identity was invented in the long nineteenth century as part of France’s process...

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  • Sab
    Sab

    Sab

    This new annotated critical edition is the first to provide the original Spanish text along with a substantial and authoritative introduction in English, as well as maps and tables relating to nineteenth-century Cuba, a vocabulary list, and suggestions for further reading.

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  • Debating institutionalism
    Debating institutionalism

    Debating institutionalism

    Asks whether institutionalism is useful for the various sub-disciplines within political science to which it has been applied, and to what extent the assumptions inherent to institutional analysis can be useful for understanding the range of behaviour of individuals and structures in the public s...

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  • The foreign policies of European Union member states
    The foreign policies of European Union member states

    The foreign policies of European Union member states

    The only comparative analysis of the foreign policies of European Union member states. Examines those policies which are ‘Europeanised’ through the EU’s processes and those policies which are retained or excluded from these processes. Analyses the dual impact of the Maastricht Treaty on the Europ...

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  • British railway enthusiasm
    British railway enthusiasm

    British railway enthusiasm

    The first book to study railway enthusiasts in Britain. The postwar train spotting craze swept most boys (and some girls, despite railways being coded as a male business) into a passion for railways. These people invigorated different sectors in railway enthusiasm’s life world - from railway mode...

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  • 4 saints in 3 acts
    4 saints in 3 acts

    4 saints in 3 acts

    Explores the remarkable 1934 opera Four Saints in Three Acts, focusing on the hitherto neglected significance of photography in documenting the opera and its all-African American cast, and examining the roles of fashion, dance, literature, and music in the opera’s popular success.

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  • The Persian Gulf triangle
    The Persian Gulf triangle

    The Persian Gulf triangle

    This book explores the relations between Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United States through a Neoclassical Realist framework and shows how their dynamic has affected the Persian Gulf regional system and its international relations from the 1970s until today.

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  • The Lancashire witches
    The Lancashire witches

    The Lancashire witches

    This book is the first major study of England's biggest and best-known witch trial which took place in 1612, when ten witches were arraigned and hung in the village of Pendle in Lancashire.

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  • Theatre under the Nazis
    Theatre under the Nazis

    Theatre under the Nazis

    This is the first book to appear in English about theatre from the entire Nazi period (1933–45)

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  • 'Other' Spanish theatres
    'Other' Spanish theatres

    'Other' Spanish theatres

    Challenges established opinions on modern Iberian theatre by considering the roles of contrasting figures and companies who have impacted upon both the practice and the perception of Spanish and European stages

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  • From Iceland to the Americas
    From Iceland to the Americas

    From Iceland to the Americas

    This volume looks at how Leif Eiriksson’s visit to Vinland around the year 1000 has been reimagined in the modern era, taking on a range of media from scholarly works on history and mythology to novels, films and comic books. More broadly, it asks why medieval contact has become a modern cultural...

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  • The nineteenth-century present
    The nineteenth-century present

    The nineteenth-century present

    This collection explores how a range of nineteenth-century authors, from their own historically contingent perspectives, were concerned with many of the same issues as scholars today looking back at the nineteenth century.

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  • The films of Costa-Gavras
    The films of Costa-Gavras

    The films of Costa-Gavras

    This collection provides new perspectives on the work of filmmaker Costa-Gavras. Contributors from a variety of fields examine his studies of human political crises, from the horrors of the Nazis and state totalitarianism to contemporary crises of immigration and global financial collapse.

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