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A Moving Rhetoricke: Gender and Silence in Early Modern England (Book)

Christina Luckyj

ISBN:9780719083259

The complex history of silence provides an important framework for rethinking gender in early modern England and for challenging critical approaches to it. Based on an investigation of a wide range of contemporary sources...more details
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A Political Sociology of the European Union: Reassessing Constructivism (Book)

Jay Rowell

ISBN:9780719082436

The study of the European Union has historically been a theoretical battleground. Since the 1990s, new theoretical directions such as neo-institutionalism...more details
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A Sacred City: Consecrating Churches and Reforming Society in Eleventh-Century Italy (Book)

Louis I Hamilton

ISBN:9780719080265

The so-called Investiture Conflict was a watershed moment in the political life of the Latin West and the history of the papacy. Occurring at a time of rapid social change and political expansion...more details
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Alison Uttley: Spinner of Tales: The Authorised Biography of the Creator of Little Grey Rabbit (Book)

Denis Judd

ISBN:9780719084560

With exclusive and unrestricted access to her personal diaries and private letters, Denis Judd paints an intriguing portrait of one of the most successful...more details
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Britain and Europe Since 1945: Historiographical Perspectives on Integration (Book)

Oliver J Daddow

ISBN:9780719082160

This important book offers a refreshing and challenging perspective on the nature of history by analyzing the character, role, functioning and wider uses of historiography. Taking British policies toward European integration since the Second World War as a case study...more details
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Castles and Colonists: An Archaeology of Elizabethan Ireland (Book)

Eric Klingelhofer

ISBN:9780719082467

Castles and colonists is the first book to examine life in the leading province of Elizabeth I's nascent empire. Klinglehofer shows how an Ireland of colonizing English farmers and displaced Irish "savages" are ruled by an imported Protestant elite from their fortified manors and medieval castles.Richly illustrated...more details
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Charlotte Smith: Romanticism, Poetry and the Culture of Gender (Book)

Jacqueline M Labbe

ISBN:9780719083211

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Child, Nation, Race and Empire: Child Rescue Discourse, England, Canada and Australia, 1850-1915 (Book)

Margot Hillel

ISBN:9780719078941

This book is an innovative, inter-disciplinary, cross cultural study that contributes to understandings of both contemporary child welfare practices and the complex dynamics of empire...more details
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Co-Memory and Melancholia: Israelis Memorialising the Palestininan Nakba (Book)

Ronit Lentin

ISBN:9780719081705

The 1948 war that led to the creation of the State of Israel also resulted in the destruction of Palestinian society when some 80 per cent of the Palestinians who lived in the major part of Palestine upon which Israel was established became refugees. Israelis call the 1948 war their "War of Independence" and the Palestinians their "Nakba...more details
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Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity in the Republic of Letters: Essays in Honour of Richard G. Maber (Book)

Scott Paul

ISBN:9780719082825

The Republic of Letters emerged during the seventeenth century as a concept to describe the interaction between scholars across Europe and beyond. While the concept was an imaginary one...more details
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Conspiracy in the French Revolution (New in Paperback)

Campbell Peter R

ISBN:9780719082153

Conspiratorial views of events abound even in our modern, rational world. Often such theories serve to explain the inexplicable. Sometimes they are developed for motives of political expediency: it is simpler to see political opponents as conspirators and terrorists...more details
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Creating a Scottish Church: Catholicism, Gender and Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century Scotland (Book)

S Karly Kehoe

ISBN:9780719080784

This book highlights how the Catholic population participated in the extension of citizenship in Scotland and considers Catholicism’s transition from an underground and isolated church to a multi-faceted institution by taking a critical look at gender...more details
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Crowds and Popular Politics in Early Modern England (Book)

John Walter

ISBN:9780719082818

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Dorothy Richardson's Art of Memory: Space, Identity, Text (Book)

Elisabeth Bronfen

ISBN:9780719083266

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English Feminists and Their Opponents in the 1790s: Unsex'd and Proper Females (Book)

William Stafford

ISBN:9780719082177

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Fighting Fascism: The British Left and the Rise of Fascism, 1919-39: Keith Hodgson (Book)

Keith Hodgson

ISBN:9780719080555

In the years between the two world wars, fascism triumphed in Italy, Germany, Spain and elsewhere, coming to power after intense struggles with the labor movements of those countries...more details
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French Origins of English Tragedy (Book)

Richard Hillman

ISBN:9780719082764

Richard Hillman applies to tragic patterns and practices in early modern England his long-standing critical preoccupation with English-French cultural connections in the period. With primary...more details
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Harriet Martineau: Authorship, Society and Empire (Book)

Ella Dzelzainis

ISBN:9780719081330

Harriet Martineau responds to the strong revival of interest in her life and writing, exploring Martineau's controversial views through her innovative use of popular cultural forms--journalism...more details
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Human Agents and Social Structures (Book)

Peter J Martin

ISBN:9780719081729

The structure/agency debate has been among the central issues in recent discussions of social theory. It has been widely assumed that the key theoretical task is to find a link between social structures and acting human beings -- to reconcile the macro with the micro...more details
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Imperial Citizenship: Empire and the Question of Belonging (Book)

Daniel Gorman

ISBN:9780719082146

This is the first book-length study of the ideological foundations of British imperialism in the early twentieth century. By focussing on the heretofore understudied concept of imperial citizenship...more details
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Innovation by Demand: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of Demand and Its Role in Innovation (Book)

Andrew McMeekin

ISBN:9780719082849

This book brings together a range of sociologists and economists to study the role of demand and consumption in the innovative process. It begins with a broad conceptual overview of ways that the sociological and economics literatures address issues of innovation...more details
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Limits of Horror: Technology, Bodies, Gothic (Book)

Fred Botting

ISBN:9780719083655

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Liszt's 'Chopin': A New Edition (Book)

Meirion Hughes

ISBN:9780719083518

Passionate and pioneering, Liszt's biography of Chopin flaunts its author's celebrity while straddling the divide between the scholarly and the popular. In this volume...more details
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Marlowe and the Popular Tradition: Innovation in the English Drama Before 1595 (Book)

Ruth Lunney

ISBN:9780719083228

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Museums and Empire: Natural History, Human Cultures and Colonial Identities (Book)

John M MacKenzie

ISBN:9780719083679

"Museums and Empire" is the first book to examine the origins and development of museums in six major regions of the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It analyzes museum histories in thirteen major centers in Canada...more details
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Myth and Materiality in a Woman's World: Shetland 1800-2000 (Book)

Lynn Abrams

ISBN:9780719065934

The place of women in Shetland society is unique. In this isolated island group off the north of Scotland, women dominated the family, economy and the cultural imagination for 200 years. Here...more details
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Nationalising Femininity: Culture, Sexuality and British Cinema in the Second World War (Book)

Christine Gledhill

ISBN:9780719083501

The Second World War was unprecedented in the changes it demanded in the contours of British life. Work, the family, social policies, and the media were all transformed...more details
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Ordering Africa: Anthropology, European Imperialism and the Politics of Knowledge (Book)

Helen Tilley

ISBN:9780719082122

African research played a major role in transforming the discipline of anthropology in the twentieth century. Ethnographic studies, in turn, had significant effects on the way imperial powers in Africa approached subject peoples...more details
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Passing Into the Present: Contemporary American Fiction of Racial and Gender Passing (Book)

Sinead Moynihan

ISBN:9780719082290

This book is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990s in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction. The book accounts for the return of tropes of passing in fiction by Phillip Roth...more details
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Pockets of Resistance: British News Media, War and Theory in the 2003 Invasion of Iraq (Book)

Piers Robinson

ISBN:9780719084454

For scholars of media and war, the 2003 invasion of Iraq is a compelling case to study. As part of President Bush's "war on terror," the invasion was the most controversial British foreign policy decision since Suez...more details
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Politics and Provincial People: Sligo and Limerick, 1691-1761 (Book)

D a Fleming

ISBN:9780719081798

This ground-breaking study is the first to systematically examine the politics and political culture of provincial Ireland. The book compares two distinct localities that provide differing perspectives on how politics and power manifested itself in provincial Ireland: Sligo in the north west and Limerick in the south west...more details
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Race, Nation and Empire: Making Histories, 1750 to the Present (Book)

Catherine Hall

ISBN:9780719082665

The essays in this collection show how histories written in the past, in different political times, dealt with, considered, or avoided and disavowed Britain's imperial role and issues of difference. Ranging from enlightenment historians to the present...more details
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Shaping a Global Women's Agenda: Women's Ngos and Global Governance, 1925-85 (Book)

Karen Garner

ISBN:9780719081439

Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, Karen Garner documents international women's history through the lens of the long-established Western-led...more details
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South African Economy and Policy, 1990-2000: An Economy in Transition (Book)

Stuart Jones

ISBN:9780719081507

The 1990s were the decade of transition from white rule to black rule in South Africa. In the political sphere the transition was dramatic. In the economic sphere less so...more details
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Sovereign States or Political Communities? Civil Society and Contemporary Politics (New in Paperback)

Schecter Darrow

ISBN:9780719082863

From the dissident movements in Eastern Europe to the Zapatista revolution in Mexico to the revival of Naples and other European cities, it has been argued that civil society will be the key site of political struggle and political change in the twenty-first century. Drawing on the writings of thinkers ranging from Kant...more details
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Structural Reform of British Local Government: Rhetoric and Reality (Book)

Michael Chisholm

ISBN:9780719082832

During the 1990s, the structure of local government in Scotland and Wales was completely reorganized by Acts of Parliament. Under other legislation...more details
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The BBC and National Identity in Britain, 1922-53 (Book)

Thomas Hajkowski

ISBN:9780719079443

Examining the ways in which the BBC constructed and disseminated British national identity during the second quarter of the twentieth century...more details
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The Culture of Regionalism: Art, Architecture and International Exhibitions in France, Germany and Spain, 1890-1939 (Book)

Eric Storm

ISBN:9780719081477

This pioneering book studies the rise, heyday and demise of regionalism from the Belle Epoque until the Eve of the Second World War. By using a novel comparative perspective it gives a fresh view of the relationship between cultural regionalism...more details
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The English Republican Tradition and Eighteenth-Century France: Between the Ancients and the Moderns (Book)

Rachel Hammersley

ISBN:9780719079320

"The English Republican Tradition and Eighteenth-Century France" offers the first full account of the role played by seventeenth and eighteenth-century English republican ideas in eighteenth-century France. Challenging some of the dominant accounts of the republican tradition...more details
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The European Union, Counter Terrorism and Police Co-Operation, 1991-2007: Unsteady Foundations? (Book)

David Brown

ISBN:9780719074646

This volume examines the underlying foundations on which the European Union's counter-terrorism and police co-operation policies have been built since the inception of the Treaty on European Union...more details
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The Last Taboo: Women and Body Hair (Book)

Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

ISBN:9780719083235

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The Material Renaissance (Book)

Michelle O'Malley

ISBN:9780719081255

Despite the recent interests of economic and art historians in the workings of the market, we still know remarkably little about the everyday context for the exchange of objects and the meaning of demand in the lives of individuals in the Renaissance...more details
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The Northern Ireland Experience of Conflict and Agreement: A Model for Export? (Book)

Robin Wilson

ISBN:9780719082894

"The Northern Ireland Experience of Conflict and Agreement" presents a salutary warning to the international community against the fashionable view that there is an "Irish model" which can be exported to cauterise ethnic troubles around the globe. The book draws on extensive archive research in London and Dublin on the 1970s power-sharing experiment...more details
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The Origins of the Scottish Reformation (Book)

Alec Ryrie

ISBN:9780719071065

The Scottish Reformation of 1560 is one of the most controversial events in Scottish history, and a turning point in the history of Britain and Europe. Yet its origins remain mysterious...more details
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The Secret Battle: Emotional Survival in the Great War (Book)

Michael Roper

ISBN:9780719083860

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Transnational Advocacy on the Ground: Against Corruption in Russia (Book)

Diana Schmidt-Pfister

ISBN:9780719084683

What can be done against corruption? In previous assessments, the global anti-corruption movement has so far not managed to markedly reduce the level of corruption...more details
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Using Europe: Territorial Party Strategies in a Multi-Level System (Book)

Eve Hepburn

ISBN:9780719081385

This book explores how regional political parties use Europe to advance their territorial projects in times of rapid state restructuring. It examines the ways in which decentralization and supranational integration have encouraged regional parties to pursue their strategies across multiple territorial levels...more details
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Women's Work: Labour, Gender, Authorship, 1750-1830 (Book)

Jennie Batchelor

ISBN:9780719082573

"Women's Work" challenges influential accounts about gender and the novel by revealing the complex ways in which labor, informed the lives and writing of a number of middling and genteel women authors publishing between 1750 and 1830. This book provides a particularly rich...more details
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Writing for Art: The Aesthetics of Ekphrasis (Book)

Stephen Cheeke

ISBN:9780719083242

Writing for art is a concise introduction to the subject of ekphrasis, and the first study to offer a useful general survey of the larger philosophical and theoretical questions arising from the encounter of literary texts and artworks...more details
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