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  • av Tamsin Badcoe
    327 - 1 151

    Edmund Spenser and the romance of space seeks to gauge the roles that aesthetic subjectivity and the imagination play in early modern spatial and textual practices. -- .

  • av Joseph Mai
    321 - 1 127

  • - New Perspectives on Socially Engaged Performance
     
    391

    Performing care explores the relation between socially-engaged performance and care and care ethics. It questions how performance might be understood as caring or uncaring and how care might be viewed as an embodied or aesthetic practice --arguing for more careful art and artful care. -- .

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    391

    Giving an overview of contemporary Nordic Gothic in different media as well as tracing its history, Nordic Gothic also provides a number of case studies and in-depth analyses of individual narratives. It explores Nordic folklore, settings and identities as well as making visible cultural anxieties haunting the welfare state. -- .

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    387

    Disability and the Victorians investigates the attitudes of Victorians towards people with impairments, illustrates how these influenced the interventions they introduced to support such people and considers the legacies they left behind by their actions and perspectives. A range of impairments are addressed in a variety of contexts.

  • - Death, Grief and Bereavement in Second World War Britain
    av Lucy Noakes
    381 - 1 127

    Drawing on a range of material, the book demonstrates just how much death matters in wartime - not just to the individual, threatened with their own death, or the death of loved ones, but to the state, tasked with managing the deaths of its citizens in conflict. -- .

  • - Promises and Pitfalls
     
    381

    This book explores how 'domestic' public policy approaches and concepts can enrich the study of foreign policy. It has chapters by leading experts on arguably the most important approaches in public policy. -- .

  • - History and Representations of Confino
    av Dana Renga, Elizabeth Leake & Piero Garofalo
    381 - 1 151

    This book is an accessible history of internal exile's origins and practices under Fascism and of its representation in film, literature and memoir. -- .

  • - Local Societies in Early Medieval Europe
    av Nicolas Schroeder, Miriam (Akademische Oberratin im Hochschuldienst (senior lecturer)) Czock, Wendy (Professor) Davies, m.fl.
    381 - 1 341

    This book explores rural societies in western Europe from 700-1050. It focuses on the bottom of the social hierarchy, rejectingviews that see rural society exclusively through the structures of lordship and challenging the teleological idea of the residential group as the prototype of the late-medieval structured community. -- .

  • - Perspectives on Military Collections and the British Empire
     
    381

    As museums across Europe reckon with the post-colonial legacies of their collections, this volume combines approaches from material anthropology, imperial and military history to shed light on the acquisition and appropriation of objects during British colonial warfare. The authors offer a nuanced view of how the amassing of objects was governed and understood within military culture. -- .

  • - Ever in Motion
     
    391

    This volume updates current assumptions about the early modern English sonnet and its reception and inclusion in poetic collections. It deals both with major (Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser) and minor (Harvey, Barnes) sonneteers, and includes the first modern edition of a 1603 printed miscellany, The Muses Garland. -- .

  • - London'S Street Markets and the Cultures of Informality, C.1850-1939
    av Victoria Kelley
    381 - 1 127

    From around 1850, London's street markets grew in number and scale, giving working-class Londoners a site for shopping, entertainment and sociability. Cheap Street is the first major study of this subject, analysing the street markets as a component of London's lively informal economy, and providing new insights into urban and consumer geographies. -- .

  • - Race, Finance and Inequality
     
    1 251

    This collection focuses on the way the legacies of empire, race and colonialism persist in the present: from the early days of settler colonialism to contemporary extractive industries, from direct colonial rule to racist border regimes. -- .

  • - Civil Defence Communities in Second World War Britain
    av Jessica (ESRC New Investigator) Hammett
    1 117

    Civil defence was the most significant voluntary organisation of the Second World War. It involved men and women of every class, generation and locality in Britain. This book examines how civil defence personnel developed local workplace communities, engaged with ideas about civil duty, and helped to create the myth of the 'people's war'. -- .

  • - Domestic Service and Gender in Urban Southern Africa
    av Sacha (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow) Hepburn
    1 241

    Home economics provides an innovative, comparative history of domestic service in southern Africa's post-colonial cities. Foregrounding labour relations in black households and the women and girl workers who predominated in these spaces, it provides new insights into the nature of gender, work and urban economies across the region. -- .

  • - Anticolonialism in the Global Sixties
     
    1 181

    This book excavates forgotten histories of solidarity which were vital to radical political imagination during the long sixties. It decentres the conventional Western loci of this critical historical moment by instead foregrounding transnational solidarity with, and across, anticolonial and anti-imperialist liberation struggles. -- .

  • - Lived History as Method
     
    1 181

    Global biographies offers a thorough historiographical intervention, a new set of biographical approaches to global history - 'time and periodization', 'exceptional normal' and 'space and scales' - and a broad and critically reflective set of case-studies spanning the globe. -- .

  • - Race, Decolonisation and Migration Since 1945
     
    1 251

    This book follows the afterlives of empire from 1945 to present day, providing an interdisciplinary analysis of how the legacy of empire continues to shape the cultures, politics, spaces and memories of contemporary Britain. The essays it contains illustrate this with reference to a series of local histories, individual texts and institutions. -- .

  • - Small Towns and Religious Politics in the French Revolution
    av Edward Woell
    1 241

    Challenging the subject's current interpretation, this microhistorical study traces the social and civic dynamics of the French Revolution's religious politics within five small towns. -- .

  • - Modernity, Race and Colonialism
     
    1 251

    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 thoughtful action. -- .

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    1 191

    his cutting-edge edited collection provides a novel terrain for rethinking intimacies through the lens of affect theories. -- .

  • - Living, Thinking and Working in a Melting World
     
    1 171

    This collection develops the field of ice humanities in order to reveal the centrality of ice and the need to understand better why, where, and how it matters to human and more than human life. -- .

  • - The Enduring Legacy of F. G. Bailey
     
    1 251

    F.G. Bailey's contributions to anthropological theory and method are illuminated in this edited volume. Chapters variously present, apply, and trace the origins of Bailey's seminal ideas regarding power's place in the relationship between agency and structure, and the way that people tactically deploy emotions and cultural norms for personal gain. -- .

  • - The Surgical Stereotype, Past and Present
    av Agnes Arnold-Forster
    387

    Cold, hard steel anatomises the surgical stereotype in modern and contemporary Britain. It offers a new social, cultural and emotional history of this specialty, explores the development of its professional identity and foregrounds experiences of surgeons at work. -- .

  • - Sadomasochism in Medieval Cultures
     
    1 251

    The chapters of Painful pleasures offer new and worthwhile pathways of examination into medieval culture and invite further analyses into the kinkier side of human sexualities, a side that in fact could not be more central to a study of our culture. -- .

  • - New and Regional Perspectives
     
    1 267

    This edited collection showcases exciting new work on lesser-known histories of HIV/AIDS, from the earliest days of the crisis to the present day. Focusing on regions of western Europe, it offers new perspectives on the development and implementation of policy, the nature of activism and expertise and which (or whose) histories are remembered. -- .

  • - Education and Community in Interwar London
    av Hester Barron
    1 117

    This book argues that the interwar classroom shaped twentieth-century Britain. It recreates and analyses life in London's elementary schools in the 1920s and 1930s, building a mosaic of the educational experience. It argues that schools were grounded in their local communities and should be seen as key drivers of social change. -- .

  • - By John Fletcher and Philip Massinger
    av Domenico Lovascio
    1 117

    This is the first fully annotated, single-volume critical edition of Fletcher and Massinger's The False One, with an introduction that offers new insights on the date and the theatre of the play's first performance, freshly examines its sources and explores the theatrical potential of a play that has hitherto been lost to the dramatic repertory. -- .

  • - Embodiment, Materiality and Performance
     
    1 251

    Medieval literary voices explores literary voice in relation to its authorial, scribal and socio-political settings. It reveals how literary voices evoke voices lurking beyond the text - the absent authorial voice, the traces of scribal voices and the aural soundscape of the uttered text - and how they mediate embodied life and material presence. -- .

  • - Radicalism, Resistance and Rebellion
    av Gregor Gall
    287

    Drawing on Strummer's lyrics, interviews and bootleg recordings, as well as interviews with friends and contemporaries like Billy Bragg, The punk rock politics of Joe Strummer reveals the wide-ranging political influence of one of the twentieth century's iconic rock'n'roll rebels. -- .

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