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  • av Mairi Cowan
    1 141

    This book examines lay religious culture in Scottish towns between the Black Death and the Protestant Reformation: what the living did to influence the dead and vice versa; considers both continuities and changes, highlighting the Catholic Reform movement that reached Scottish towns before the Protestant Reformation took hold. -- .

  • - At Liberty to Protest
    av Janet Clark
    1 127

    Explores the origins of the NCCL, its political orientation, and the political and personal agendas of its supporters. -- .

  • - War Resistance in Apartheid South Africa
    av Daniel Conway
    1 127

    Explores the gendered dynamics of apartheid-era South Africa's militarisation, analysing the defiance of compulsory military service and the anti-apartheid activism of the white men and women in the End Conscription Campaign. -- .

  • - On the Genealogy of Fairy Tales and the Brothers Grimm
    av Willem de Blecourt
    1 151

  • - Passengers, Pilots, Publicity
    av Gordon Pirie
    1 341

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

  • - A Study of Georg LukaCs' Writing on Film 1913-1971
    av Ian Aitken
    1 127

    Students and lecturers in film studies -- .

  • - Dominique Cabrera, NoeMie Lvovsky, Laetitia Masson and Marion Vernoux
    av Julia Dobson
    1 061

    Dobson provides detailed critical analysis of films by Dominique Cabrera, Laetitia Masson, Noemie Lvovsky and Marion Vernoux, and presents common threads including the possible construction of social intimacy, the political demystification of romance narratives and the role of nostalgia in contemporary French cinema. -- .

  • av Christina Morin
    1 151

    A clear, theoretically-grounded, chronological study of Maturin's six novels. A new critical paradigm by which to view and read Irish Romantic fiction. Offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of Maturin and his fiction available today. -- .

  • - The Irish in Punjab 1881-1921
    av Patrick O'Leary
    1 127

    The first book to examine the proposition that Irish public servants in India were moved by their 'Irishness' to subvert or eccentrically implement policies of the Raj. Essential reading for those wishing to understand the three-way interaction between the Irish, the empire and the peoples of India. -- .

  • - Irish Literary History Through Balzac, Sheridan Le Fanu, Yeats and Bowen
    av Bill McCormack
    327

    Radically revises the idea of a gothic tradition and traverses two centuries of Irish literary history to give a fluent and detailed account of the emerging relation between Irish culture, modernism and politics. -- .

  • - Methodist Missionaries in Colonial and Postcolonial Burma, 1887-1966
    av Michael D. Leigh
    1 127

    An exploration of Methodist missionaries working in Upper Burma between 1887 and 1966 -- .

  • av Helen Cowie
    1 277

    This book examines the study of natural history in the Spanish Empire in the years, 1750-1850, taking a transatlantic approach to the history of science. -- .

  • av Stefania Parigi
    1 151

    A journey to the Italian cinema in the company of its major film makers and theorists. Rossellini, Visconti, Pasolini and Zavattini are given a new focus that overturns the usual views and perspectives. It offers new and exciting interpretations. -- .

  • av Angela McCarthy
    1 151

    Using a range of written, verbal, and visual sources, this book examines distinctive aspects characteristic of Irish and Scottish ethnic identities in New Zealand. -- .

  • av Virginia Crossman
    327

    This is a study of the nature and operation of the poor law system in post-Famine ireland. Topics covered include the politicisation of the welfare system, the relief of distress, the provision of labourers' cottages and the role of women. -- .

  • - Gender, Politics and Imperialism in India, 1883-1947
    av Mary A. Procida
    327

    Situates women at the centre of the practices and policies of British imperialism -- .

  • - Ritual, Routine and Resistance in the British Empire
    av Giordano Nanni
    327

    The book is a highly original and long overdue examination of the ways that European concepts of time were imposed on other cultures as a component of colonisation. It brings together two complex subjects - time and colonialism - in an engaging, non-theoretical and accessible style. -- .

  • av Louise Hill-Curth
    327

    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 ideas about medical care throughout England. -- .

  • av Neil Sinyard
    316,99

    A personal and fascinating account of the career and achievement of an important, much-loved director; Jack Clayton. -- .

  • - The Military, Race and Masculinity in British Imperial Culture, 1857-1914
    av Heather Streets
    327

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

  • - Towards Supranational Governance in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
    av Christian Kaunert
    1 151

    This book analyses the role of EU institutions in the area of European internal security -- .

  • - Child Rescue Discourse, England, Canada and Australia, 1850-1915
    av Margot Hillel & Shurlee Swain
    1 117

    In the second half of the nineteenth century, prominent English child rescuers, reconstituted the vulnerable body of the child at risk as central to the survival of nation, race and empire. The book explains how the project contributed to the neglect and abuse disclosed in recent enquiries into the past treatment of children in out-of-home 'care'. -- .

  • av Colin Gardner
    351

    The career of Wisconsin-born Joseph Losey spanned over fourdecades and several countries, from . collaborator with Bertholt Brecht,director of Hollywood B-pictures and victim of McCarthyism, to director ofseminal British films such as "Time Without Pity," "Eve,""The Servant," and "The Go-Between". -- .

  • - A Critical Analysis of the Work of John Burton
    av Tarja Vayrynen
    327

    This book re-examines conflict resolution, and partcualry problem-solving conflict resolution, from a new perspective. A critical study of John Burton's work which outlines an alternative framework for the study of international conflict, it provides an insight into the problems of conflict and conflict resolution from a social constructionist angle. -- .

  • - British Imperial Civil Aviation, 1919-39
    av Gordon Pirie
    1 151

    A fresh study of civil aviation as a tool of late British imperialism. It uses archival sources, biographies, industry magazines and newspapers to chronicle the disputed progress toward air empire.

  • - Comedy-Drama in 1990s British Cinema
    av Nigel Mather
    316,99

    Critically explores the interactions of comedy and drama within a group of popular and influential British films released during the 90s, demonstrating that this was an innovative period in British film history. Films discussed include: 'Brassed Off', 'The Full Monty', 'East is East', 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' and 'Love Actually'. -- .

  • av Lisa Downing
    211

    Lisa Downing's comprehensive study of the films of PatriceLeconte traces lines of continuity and revision through a body of apparentlydisparate films whose "messages" often appear both contradictory andcontroversial. -- .

  • av Martine Beugnet
    261

    This is the first book on the celebrated films of director Claire Denis ('Chocolat', 'Beau Travail', 'Trouble Every Day'), one of the most remarkable filmmakers to come to prominence in the last 20 years. An essential read for students and specialists in contemporary French cinema. -- .

  • av Peter Marks
    1 061

    This book is the most sustained and comprehensive examination to date of one of cinema's most challenging and lauded auteur. It proposes new ways of seeing Gilliam and his films that go beyond reductive readings of him as a gifted but manic fantasist. It analyses Gilliam's work over nearly four decades, from Monty Python, to Brazil and Tideland. -- .

  • av Marjory Harper
    311

    Emigration from Scotland has always been very high. However, emigration from Scotland between the wars surpassed all records; more people emigrated than were born, leading to an overall population decline. Why was it so many people left? This title maps out the many factors which worked together to cause this massive diaspora.

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