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  • - In the Name of Others
    av Silvia Salvatici
    387 - 1 081

    The book traces the history of international aid from the anti-slavery movement to the end of the cold war. The reconstruction of humanitarianism's long pattern unfolds around some crucial moments and events: the colonial expansion of European countries, the two world wars and their aftermaths, the emergence of a new postcolonial order. -- .

  • - A History
    av Derek Fraser
    391 - 1 277

    The definitive history of the third-largest Jewish community in the UK, which analyses the factors which contributed to its growth and success and explores the disproportionate influence the community had on the modern history of Leeds. -- .

  • - Chronic Disease and Clinical Bureaucracy in Post-War Britain
    av Martin D. Moore
    467

    Through its study of British diabetes care, this book asks how such a shift occurred, how systems of management were constructed, and what this says about diabetes care and modern medicine. -- .

  • - Race, Class and School Choice
    av Bridget Byrne & Carla De Tona
    1 181

    How do parents consider questions of race and class when they are choosing secondary schools for their children and does it differ from place to place? All in the mix: Race, class and school choice explores parents' experience of negotiating school choice in particular places and how this talk is racialised and classed. -- .

  • - Agency, Structure and Environment
    av Rick Peterson
    1 127

    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 the discussion. -- .

  • av Brice Dickson
    261

    The purpose of the book is to raise awareness of the uniqueness of the United Kingdom's unwritten constitution and to make it clear how the devolution of powers to the home nations, begun in 1998, coupled with the trials and tribulations associated with Brexit. -- .

  • - Britain and Europe, 1688-1788 2nd Edition
    av Daniel Szechi
    371 - 1 081

    This book is a comprehensive survey of the Jacobite movement, from its violent counter-revolutionary origins to its bitter conclusion. Written to be easily accessible, it takes into account the latest research and is designed to provide an easy introduction to the field. -- .

  • av Brian McFarlane
    321

    This book explores the legacies of David Lean's Brief Encounter, tracing the classic film's influence on cinema, television, literature and more. -- .

  • - Theatre and Image in an Age of Emergencies
    av Sam Haddow
    1 127

    This book is about the ways in which western spectators are bombarded with 'emergencies' by our press and political institutions. It examines the effect that this has on us and how theatre and performance can try to counteract that effect. -- .

  • - The Politics of 'Dissident' Irish Republicanism
    av Marisa McGlinchey
    387 - 1 081

    This book traces the political development of 'dissident' Irish republicanism from the beginnings of the peace process. Based on extensive interviews with activists, it offers an insight into the ideology and motivation of a wide range of radical republican groups and analyses how serious a challenge they mount to the status quo in Ireland. -- .

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    - Power, Culture, and Society
    av Chris Beasley & Heather Brook
    791

    Using an innovative syncretic 'cultural politics' approach drawing on political theory, film studies and sociology, this book unpacks how political myths about states, citizens, community, intimate life and social criticism operate in Hollywood narratives. -- .

  • - The Irish Government and Peace in Northern Ireland, from Sunningdale to the Good Friday Agreement
    av Graham Spencer
    461 - 1 417

    Focusing on the peace process, these two volumes includes seventeen interviews from high-ranking civil servants and political leaders in the Irish Government and takes the reader inside the negotiating room to experience the efforts, tensions and actions that led to the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 -- .

  • - From Indecision to Indifference
    av Thomas Prosser
    387 - 1 117

    Prosser argues that labour movements respond to European integration in a manner which instigates competition between national labour markets. The book's hypothesis has key implications for debates about labour movements and the EU and its engaging style will captivate scholars, students and policymakers. -- .

  • - Socially Engaged Art and Theory
    av Marc James Leger
    391

    Vanguardia chronicles and theorises changing forms of socially engaged art and radical politics since the rise of the anti-globalisation movement. From Occupy Wall Street to Black Live Matter and MeToo, Vanguardia detects signs of avant-garde praxis in the new social movements and activist collectives that challenge global capitalism. -- .

  • - Stages of the Soul in Early Modern English Poetry
    av Angelika Zirker
    1 151

    William Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece and John Donne's Holy Sonnets are read against the background of concepts of the soul during the early modern period. This approach provides new insights into concepts of interiority and performance as well as a new understanding of the soliloquy in both poetry and drama. -- .

  • - Poetry, Boxing and Revolution
    av Dafydd Jones
    1 127

    The first comprehensive English-language account and critical reading of the legendary poet and boxer Arthur Cravan, a fleeting figure on the periphery of early twentieth-century European avant-gardism. -- .

  • - Art and Destruction
    av Jared Pappas-Kelley
    1 151

    This highly original study examines the destruction of art, both through objects that have been destroyed and as a process within art that the object courts through form. Against this, it maps a tendency wherein individuals attempt to conceptually gather destroyed or lost objects, hoping somehow to compensate for their absence. -- .

  • - Mass Vaccination and the Public Since the Second World War
    av Gareth Millward
    461

    Vaccinating Britain explores the complicated relationship between the British public and vaccination since the Second World War through British public health policy. It shows how the British public came to embrace vaccination but also made demands on the government to make vaccination more acceptable. -- .

  • - The Case of Iran-Us Relations
    av Constance Duncombe
    461 - 1 261

    This book addresses a critical issue in global politics: how recognition and misrecognition fuel conflict or initiate reconciliation. Using a detailed empirical investigation of the fraught bilateral relations between the US and Iran, the book demonstrates how representations of one state by another influence foreign policy-making behavior. -- .

  • - Bussing, Race and Urban Space, 1960s-80s
    av Olivier Esteves
    387 - 1 127

    This detailed study is the first ever book on English bussing, an integrationist policy introduced in places like Southall and Bradford in the 1960s. It reveals the failure of dispersal, which segregated rather than integrated, leaving Asian children vulnerable to racial bullying. -- .

  • - A Higher Loyalty
    av Bob Nicholls
    387 - 1 051

    This book is an historical examination of the impact short-term political expediency played in the positions adopted by members of Britain's political elites in the debates over Europe. It advances the argument that many MPs failed to consider the long-term implications of membership. -- .

  • - The Co-Operative Movement, Development and the Nation-State, 1889-1939
    av Patrick Doyle
    391 - 1 051

    Civilising rural Ireland challenges predominant narratives of Irish history that explain the emergence of the nation-state through the lens of political conflict and violence. Instead the book takes as its focus the numerous leaders, organisers, and members of the Irish co-operative movement. -- .

  • - A History of Greyhound Racing in Britain, 1926-2017
    av Keith Laybourn
    1 151

    This book examines the rapid rise and slow decline of greyhound racing in Britain, focusing on the 1920s to the 1960s. It examines the way in which the middle classes sought to ban or control a sport and gambling opportunity which became a niche part of British working-class culture. -- .

  • - Assembling an Ecocritical Art History
    av Andrew Patrizio
    1 061

    This book synthesises a variety of approaches to the visual, drawn from politics, theory, feminism and activism, in order to provide the blueprint for an ecocritical art history. -- .

  • - Writing American Sexual Histories
    av Barry Reay
    327 - 1 191

    This book is an experiment in writing an American sexual history, spanning the spectrum of queer, trans, and the allegedly 'normal'. The sexual histories in this book are those where pornography and sexual research are indistinguishable; where personal obsession becomes tomorrow's archive. -- .

  • av W. Mark (Professor of Medieval History) Ormrod, Bart Lambert & Jonathan Mackman
    381 - 1 117

    Immigrant England tells the story of thousands of people who migrated to later medieval England. The book draws on uniquely rich evidence about the lives of these men and women, and analyses the attitudes of the English to the foreigners in their midst. Essential reading for everyone interested in the historical dimensions of modern debates. -- .

  • - Strategy and Mobilisation
    av Andrew Monaghan
    237

    It offers an original and powerful argument about Russian power and introduces and discusses the term 'mobilisation' as a central element of the Russian state's actions. It explores the Russian leadership's strategic agenda and illuminates the range of problems it faces in implementing it. -- .

  • - Labour, the Trade Unions and 1969's in Place of Strife
    av Peter Dorey
    391 - 1 261

    This is the first in-depth academic study of the Labour Government's 1969 attempt to introduce industrial relations to curb strikes by trade unions. Using archival sources, this book explains how this attempt provoked strong opposition in the Party, and from the unions, to the extent that it was abandoned in a humiliating climb-down. -- .

  • av Jason Jacobs
    1 127

    This book is about the life and work of David Milch, the writer who created NYPD Blue, Deadwood and other important works of US television drama. It locates him within the traditions of achievement in American literature over the past in order to evaluate his contribution to fiction writing. -- .

  • av Alistair Cole
    207

    This book looks at the period 2015-18 in French politics, which witnessed the emergence of a new political order centred on Emmanuel Macron. It asks whether modern political leadership is capable of restoring trust in political institutions and investigates the transformative nature of the Macron presidency. -- .

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