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The plantation of Ulster
The first major academic study of the Ulster Plantation in over 25 years. This collection of essays by leading scholars in the field on a broad range of historical and literary topics redresses the previous coverage of the plantations, moving away from an exclusive colonial perspective, to includ...
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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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Gothic forms of feminine fictions
Gothic forms of feminine fictions is a study of the powers of the Gothic in late twentieth-century fiction and film. Susanne Becker argues that the Gothic, two hundred years after it emerged, exhibits renewed vitality in our media age with its obsession for stimulation and excitement.
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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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Human agents and social structures
This is a deliberately polemical intervention into the structure/agency debate in the social sciences. It argues that central concepts in this debate – such as ‘society’ and the ‘individual’ – have been widely misconceived, and that progress in the social sciences will only occur if the real natu...
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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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The four dimensions of power
This is an original account of social/political power, which builds upon cutting edge social theory, including Steven Lukes and Michel Foucault. The book develops a four-dimensional model, in an accessible style with vivid examples. It is ideal for undergraduates, postgraduates, academics and act...
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Literature and sustainability
This edited collection brings together twelve essays by leading and upcoming scholars, the aim of which is to contribute critically to conceptions of sustainability from the standpoint of environmental literary scholarship. The book will be of interest to scholars and advanced students in ecocrit...
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Between earth and heaven
Examines the teaching of the theology of Christ’s ascension in Anglo-Saxon literature, offering the only comprehensive examination of how patristic ascension theology is transmitted, adapted and taught to Anglo-Saxon audiences
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The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne
This innovative study of vision, gender and poetry traces Milton's mark on Shelley, Tennyson, Browning and Swinburne to show how the lyric male poet achieves vision at the cost of symbolic blindness and feminisation. Drawing together a wide range of concerns including the use of myth, the gender ...
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Negotiating insanity in the southeast of Ireland, 1820–1900
Students and Lecturers in Irish and British medical and social history.
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Picturing women in late medieval and renaissance art
This extensively illustrated book discusses the representation of women in the art of the late Middle Ages in Northern Europe. Drawing on a wide range of different media, but making particular use of the rich plethora of woodcuts, the author charts how the images of women changed during the perio...
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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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Making sense of the Industrial Revolution
Presents a new perspective on the Industrial Revolution providing far more than just an account of industrial change. Looks at the development of the economic structures and includes chapters on financing the revolution, technological change, markets and demand, transport and food. The final sect...
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Britain and Africa Under Blair
Critically explores Britain's fascination with 'doing good' in Africa under New Labour, and in particular under the premiership of Tony Blair, and, in so doing, sets out to explain the role of idealisation in international relations.
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Confabulations: Cologne life and humanism in Hermann Schotten’s Confabulationes Tironum Litterariorum (Cologne, 1525)
This full-length study of Hermann Schotten’s life and work is a companion to Peter Macardle’s edition of the Confabulationes.
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Popular television in authoritarian Europe
Brings together work on forms of popular television within the authoritarian regimes of Europe after World War Two
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Candide en Dannemarc, ou l’optimisme des honnêtes gens
French language edition of Candide in Denmark, the continuation of the adventures of Voltaire's famous creation, with introduction and notes in French.
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Writing otherwise
A collection of essays by established feminist and cultural critics interested in experimenting with new styles of expression.
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William Blake's Gothic imagination
While overlooked by extant studies of the Gothic, William Blake’s literary and visual oeuvre embodies the same obsessions and fears that inform the Gothic revival with which he was contemporary.
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Unfolding Irish landscapes
This is the first scholarly edited collection devoted to the work of the Anglo-Irish writer and cartographer Tim Robinson
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City of beasts
This book offers a panoramic view of Georgian London, redefining the city’s role in the industrial, agricultural and consumer revolutions. It does this by examining, for the first time, the huge contribution that horses, cattle, sheep, pigs and dogs made to the world’s first modern metropolis, as...
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Siete cuentos
One of the core authors of the '60s boom in Latin American fiction, Julio Cortázar made a contribution of international importance to the development of the short story as a literary form. This collection spans his writing career and includes La Noche Boca Arriba and Final del Juego (1956), Las B...
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The Malcontent
"The Malcontent" is considered one of the most original and complex plays of the Elizabethan theatre. The aim of this edition is to offer answers to the various questions raised by the play and relate it to the aesthetic cross-currents flowing in the 17th century.
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Picturing the Western Front
Between 1914 and 1918, military, press and amateur photographers produced thousands of pictures. Classified in archives, collected in personal albums and circulated in illustrated magazines, photographs were supposed to tell the story of the war. This book argues that photographic practices also ...
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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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Europe and civil society
Provides an in-depth examination of how public interest groups and social movements seek to influence the European policy-making process
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Timed out
Addresses the 'global turn' in art history by way of the transnational Carribbean, 'Timed Out' is a comprehensive study of the art of the Atlantic world in relation to the mainstream history of art.
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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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The Normans in Europe
This book provides a selection from the abundant source material generated by the Normans and the peoples they conquered. Van Houts takes a wide European perspective on the Normans, assessing and explaining their origin, the Norman expansion and their political and social organisation in the peri...
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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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The Bourdieu paradigm
The book discusses relations between philosophy and empirical social sciences through detailed analyses of the work of Schutz, Gurwitsch and Merleau-Ponty, and then explores the development of Bourdieu’s sociological reflexivity as his attempt to reconcile this intellectualist legacy with social ...
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Serfdom in medieval England
Re-evaluates the mechanics and decline of serfdom in medieval England, casting new light on the nature of its economy and society, and the impact of the Black Death.
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The social world of early modern Westminster
This book is the first study to provide an integrated picture of Westminster during this crucial period in its history. It reveals the often problematic relations between the diverse groups of people who constituted local society – the Court, the aristocracy, the Abbey, the middling sort and the ...
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Using Europe: territorial party strategies in a multi-level system
This book examines how regional political parties have used Europe to advance their territorial projects in a period of rapid state restructuring. It offers a new and theoretically innovative account of the dynamics of multi-level governance based on a comparative study of territorial party strat...
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The politics of the public sphere in early modern England
Including contributions from key early modern historians, this book uses and critiques the notion of the public sphere to produce a new account of England in the post-reformation period from the 1530s to the early eighteenth century. Makes a substantive contribution to the historiography of ear...
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Texts and readers in the Age of Marvell
Texts and Readers in the Age of Marvell offers fresh perspectives from leading and emerging scholars on seventeenth-century British literature, with a focus on the surprising ways that texts interacted with writers and readers at specific cultural moments.
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Alan Bennett
The first book written on Alan Bennett's work for television, including his plays, series, documentaries and biographical pieces.
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The United States in the Indo-Pacific
This edited volume examines the legacies former US President Barack Obama leaves across Asia and the Pacific, as well as the endurance of, and prospects for, those legacies two years into the Presidency of Donald Trump.
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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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Humanitarianism and the Greater War, 1914–24
This book offers fresh perspectives on the history of humanitarianism and its impact on domestic and international politics in the era of the Great War.
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Supranational citizenship
Offers a new theory of citizenship applicable beyond the nation-state. It brings political and moral philosophy together with current debates in citizenship, European integration, and international relations.
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Urbicide in Syria
Through the cases of Damascus and Aleppo and adopting a postcolonial perspective, this book explores how urbicide (the destruction and violent recomposition of urban space) is central to the Syrian regime’s wartime rearticulation of state-society dynamics, the production of loyalty, and the shapi...
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The grotesque in contemporary British fiction
This book shows how the grotesque continues to be a powerful force in contemporary British writing and provides an illuminating picture of often controversial aspects of recent fiction.
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Medieval law in context
Examines how medieval people at all social levels thought about law, justice and politics, as well as their role in society. Provides a clear, structured view of judicial developments and experience of litigation in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Offers a new perspective on both law an...
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Medicine, patients and the law
The seventh edition of this much respected accessible book provides an enlightening and comprehensive account of the intersections between medicine, patients and the law.
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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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Paradoxes of internationalization
Paradoxes of Internationalization deals with British and German trade union responses to the internationalization of corporate structures and strategies at Ford and General Motors between the late 1960s and the early twenty-first century.
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English almanacs, astrology and popular medicine, 1550–1700
This volume will help to fill a gap in the current understanding of sixteenth and seventeenth century popular medicine. As the most widely produced and distributed form of printed material in early modern England, almanacs had an immense power to propagate and reinforce traditional, orthodox ide...
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Bordering social reproduction
Bordering social reproduction explores how migrants subjected to policies that seek to deny them the means of life endeavour to make and sustain meaningful lives. It develops innovative theorisations of welfare bordering and advances the novel concept of weathering to comprehend mother’s and chil...
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Naming security - constructing identity
Based on the voices of Mayan women, this book re-considers the connections between security and political identity and critically challenges stereotypical views of what might constitute ‘security’ in modern global politics.
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Eva Gore-Booth: Irish radical poet, rebel and reformer
This anniversary reissue of the acclaimed biography tells the remarkable life story of Eva Gore-Booth, an author and activist who rejected her aristocratic heritage and became a champion of Irish independence and women's suffrage.
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The Transformation of European Football
The book examines the transformation of European football in recent years by focusing on the impact of Europe in general and the EU in particular on the way that the game has evolved in a broad cross section of European states.
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EU enlargement, the clash of capitalisms and the European social dimension
Analyses the impact of the 2004 and 2007 enlargements upon the politics of European integration within EU employment and social policy
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Egypt and the rise of fluid authoritarianism
This book is a ground-breaking and intellectually engaging work on authoritarian discontinuity in Egypt after the shockwaves, and the impact this has had at the overall domestic and international political, social and economic levels. It questions political ecology and the legitimation struggle a...
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Bakhtin and cultural theory
An important collection of essays which treats Bakhtin as a provocative theorist whose work must be tested, explored and compared with the work of others. Contributors assess Bakhtin's contribution to difficult issues of colonialism, feminism, reception theory and theories of the body, amongst ot...
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Literature and Agency in English Fiction Reading
This book represents the first anthropological study of fiction reading and the first ethnography of British literary culture. It is the outcome of long-term engagement with a set of solitary readers who belong to a single literary society.
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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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Beyond text?
Addresses a series of questions concerning the relationship between anthropological understandings of the world, sensory perception and aesthetic practices.
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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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New mobilities in Europe
This book examines Polish migration to Ireland in the context of ‘new mobilities in Europe’. It includes detailed accounts of the working lives of a group of mainly skilled Polish migrants in Dublin, and traces their careers and aspirations as Ireland moved from ‘boom to bust’.
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Photographic subjects
This is the first English-language monograph on monarchy in the Dutch colonial world. It reveals the role of mass and amateur photography in fostering modes of imperial citizenship at royal celebrations in the East Indies during the reigns of Queens Wilhelmina (1898–1948) and Juliana (1948–80).
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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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Critical games
Critical Games is about the games we play, the ways we play them, and what happens when they get out of hand. With readings of a range of cultural texts, from the Ancient Greeks to contemporary auto-fiction, it pinpoints what is critical in games and game-playing.
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Lukácsian film theory and cinema
Students and lecturers in film studies
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Making work more equal
A tribute to the highly influential contributions of Jill Rubery, this book proposes a ‘new labour market segmentation approach’ for the investigation of issues of job quality, employment inequalities and precarious work.
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EcoGothic
This book will provide the first study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas. The book's focus is from the late eighteenth century to the present day, via consideration of a number of national and global contexts and different media including short stories, novels and films.
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Mediterranean quarantines, 1750–1914
This volume provides new perspectives on the modern history of quarantine in various locations across the European and Islamic Mediterranean.
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Popular culture and working–class taste in Britain, 1930–39
This is a landmark study which examines the film and reading tastes of working-class consumers in 1930s Britain. Drawing on a wealth of original research, Robert James argues that working-class consumers used popular film and fiction to answer a range of cultural and social needs in this tumultuo...
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Neolithic cave burials
This book provides the first synthetic overview of Neolithic cave burial and demonstrates its importance in understanding the period. It makes a substantial contribution to debates about collective burial in the Neolithic, adding data which is currently little known and not easily accessible to t...
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Local democracy, civic engagement and community
Focuses on local democratic politics in Britain over the last decade and a half from the election of the New Labour Government right up to the current Conservative/Liberal Democrat Coalition government.
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Black Bartholomew's Day
Black Bartholomew's Day is the first comprehensive study of the politicised preaching and polemical literature surrounding the mass ejection of Puritan ministers from the Church of England in 1662 - a pivotal event in the history of religion in Britain
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Collieries, communities and the miners' strike in Scotland, 1984–85
This book analyses the 1984-5 miners’ strike by focusing on its vital Scottish dimensions, especially the role of workplace politics and community mobilisation.
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Anticlerical legacies
This book offers a new study of Hobbes’s reception among seventeenth- and eighteenth- century deists and freethinkers, showing how influential Hobbes was for anticlerical thinking through a close analysis of the works of a large number of writers, including Charles Blount, John Toland, Antony Col...
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Working–class suburb
An original study seeking to challenge the negativity associated with council estates. It will be of interest not only to historians but to anyone interested in housing, housing policy, and key issues in urban studies.
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Encountering early America
Encountering early America traces the many cultural influences that shaped English understandings of the Americas in the sixteenth century. The book demonstrates that the first century of English engagement with America was dynamic, adaptive and had a lasting influence on exploration and settleme...
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Abandoning historical conflict?
This is the definitive book on why those who ‘fought the war’ in Northern Ireland opted for peace. Drawing on over 150 interviews with former IRA and loyalist prisoners, this volume shows how the interplay of military fortunes, politics and societal changes contributed to the shift from war to pe...
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Revolutionary lives of the Red and Black Atlantic since 1917
This volume explores the life histories of a wide range of radical figures whose political activity in relation to the black liberation struggle was catalysed or profoundly shaped by the global impact and legacy of the Russian Revolution of 1917, including C.L.R. James, Paul Robeson, Walter Rodne...
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Trevor Griffiths
In his outstanding career, Trevor Griffiths has negotiated the issues of genre, politics, identity, class, history, memory and televisual form with a sustained creativity and integrity second to none.
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Critical theory and epistemology
This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume offers a critical review of epistemological issues in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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Colouring the Caribbean
The first monographic study of the painter Agostino Brunias, this book offers a compelling, original analysis of his representation of race in the British colonial West Indies, reconsidering the way in which the artist’s oeuvre has previously been understood.
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Deporting Black Britons
Deporting ‘Black Britons’ exposes the relationship between racism, borders and citizenship by telling the painful stories of four men who have been exiled to Jamaica. It examines processes of criminalisation, illegalisation and racialisation as they interact to construct deportable subjects in c...
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As Good as a Marriage
The authoritative sequel to Female Fortune, continuing the diaries of Anne Lister up to 1838, when she was at her most powerful.
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Gender and punishment in Ireland
In the decades after Irish independence, 292 women were prosecuted for murder, facing the threat of conviction and death sentencing. Within a rising atmosphere of hostility to women, moral rigidity, sexual repression and Catholic Church control, this book explores the meanings and responses to wo...
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Sonic ethnography
Through a combination of text, colour photographs and sound recordings, Sonic ethnography explores the role of sound in the performance of local identities in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. The book makes a compelling argument for taking sound seriously as a crucial component of socia...
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Colonial caring
The editors have brought together eleven authors for an analysis of colonial and post-colonial nursing that spans nearly a century, and touches on Europe, Australia, the Caribbean and Africa
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Visual culture in Spain and Mexico
Visual culture in Spain and Mexico analyses films, paintings and museum exhibitions to show how aspects of hispanic visual culture ‘manage’ or ‘mediate’ risk, as articulated stylistically and ideologically in the visual artefact. The book is divided into six chapters plus an Introduction. The fir...
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Honecker's Children
This book examines the shifting identities and state loyalties of young people in East(ern) Germany during a unique period straddling the last decade of the GDR and the first decade of united Germany. It provides insight into the functioning of the GDR state, the process of German unification and...
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Discovering Gilgamesh
Details the discovery of The epic of Gilgamesh, and explores the broader tensions concerning history and time that it highlighted in Victorian culture
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