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  • - The Case of Romania
    av Anca Pusca
    271

    Using Romania as a case study, this book develops a fresh perspective on the transition from communism to capitalism by arguing that transition and democratisation studies should turn their attention towards processes of illusion formation and disillusionment as key to understanding the shift from one ideological framework to another. -- .

  • - Volume 3: Management, Mergers and Fraud 1987-1993
    av John F. Wilson
    1 341

    The case-study outlines the inherent dangers in international mergers, as well as explaining the acute problems associated with City practices that avoided issues that would bring down Ferranti in spectacular fashion. -- .

  • - Philhellene Protestantism, Renaissance Translation and English Literary Politics
    av Victor Skretkowicz
    1 341

    European Erotic Romance casts new light on the publication, translation and politicisation of three ancient Greek novels, Daphnis and Chloe, Leukippe and Kleitophon and An Ethiopian Story, and their impact in Renaissance England. -- .

  • av Deborah Youngs
    271

    This is the first book to draw together the rich and growing literature on the life cycle in Western Europe, c.1300-c.1500. In discussing life's stages, from birth to death, the study explores attitudes towards ageing, rites of passage, and the influence played by gender, class and regional location. -- .

  • av Douglas Morrey
    311

    This volume offers a new interpretation of the whole of Godard's career in cinema. Drawing examples from all periods of Godard's filmmaking, it examines the parallels between the director's innovative approach to film form and wider developments in French culture and thought since 1950. -- .

  • - Gender, Welfare and Surveillance in the Twentieth Century
    av Louise Jackson
    316,99

    Women Police is the first in-depth historical study of women's involvement in uniform, plain-clothes and undercover policing in the UK. Topics covered include the regulation of prostitution, sexual violence, child abuse and neglect. T -- .

  • - Behaviour, Ideology and Institutional Culture in Representation and Practice
    av Jonathan Dunnage
    1 281

    Examines Italy's police in the context of fascism's efforts to modernise and establish ideological control over the state. Presenting an inside perspective on fascist repression, it focuses on recruitment, training and professionalism in the Interior Ministry Police, and their ideological orientation, working conditions and quality of life. -- .

  • - 'For Spirit and Adventure'
    av Angela McCarthy
    311

    Drawing predominantly on personal narratives, this book compares Irish and Scottish migration to North America and Australasia between 1921 and 1965. -- .

  • - Sexuality, Catholicism and Literature in Twentieth-Century Ireland
    av Michael G. Cronin
    1 151

    This book will be of interest to students and scholars in various disciplines, including literary studies, history, sociology and gender studies. -- .

  • - Allusion and the Uncanny
    av Sarah Annes Brown
    1 127

  • - Convicts, Settlers and the State in Early Colonial Australia
    av Kirsty Reid
    327

    Examines the experiences of the convict men and women transported to the British penal colony of Van Diemen's Land between 1803 and 1852, challenging the received notions of convict women as a particularly oppressed and exploited group, supposedly dominated by convict men as much as by the imperial and colonial states. -- .

  • - Maternity and Child Welfare in Dublin, 1922-60
    av Lindsey Earner-Byrne
    311

  • 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. -- .

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