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  • av Robert Ormsby
    387 - 1 127

    A study of twenty stage productions, adaptations and screen versions of Shakespeare's final Roman play

  • av Michael Friedman
    387

    The second edition of Friedman's stage history of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus adds an examination of twelve major theatrical productions and one film that appeared in the years 1989-2009, identifying four lines of descent in the recent performance history of the play: the stylised, realistic, darkly comic, and political approaches.

  • - Diaspora space and the devolution of literary culture
    av Robert Crawshaw, Corinne Fowler & Lynne Pearce
    387 - 1 117

    Offers a radical new perspective on Britain's devolved literary cultures by focusing on Manchester's vibrant, multicultural literary scene.

  • - A political biography
    av Gregor Gall
    391

    Bob Crow was the most high-profile and militant union leader of his generation. This biography focuses on his leadership of the RMT union, examining and exposing a number of popular myths created about him by political opponents. Using the schema of his personal characteristics (including his public persona), his politics and the power of his members, it explains how and why he was able to punch above his weight in industrial relations and on the political stage, helping the small RMT union become as influential as many of its much larger counterparts. As RMT leader, Crow oversaw a rise in membership and promoted a more assertive and successful bargaining approach. While he failed to unite all socialists into one new party, he established himself as the leading popular critic of neo-liberalism, 'New' Labour and the age of austerity.

  • - Can the University Survive?
    av Thomas Docherty
    341

    Drawing on Julian Benda's famous Treason of the Intellectuals, this book exposes the damaging impact of market-driven ideology on the institution of the University, and calls for a reassertion of the values of knowledge-seeking, democracy and justice. -- .

  • - Experts and the Development of the British Caribbean, 1940-62
    av Sabine Clarke
    1 081

    One solution to West Indian problems after 1940 was to transform sugarcane into a raw material for making synthetics. Britain hoped to encourage new industry by providing scientific information that business might exploit. This plan was threatened by American promotion of a different model of development. -- .

  • - The British Case, 1750-1900
    av Eric Richards
    1 127

    This book argues the modern mass transit of ordinary people derives from common conditions in modernising societies and that they were first manifested in the British Isles. -- .

  • - Gender, Writing and the Life of the Mind in Early Modern England
    av Leonie Hannan
    387 - 1 157

    Women of letters writes a new history of English women's intellectual worlds using their private letters as evidence of hidden networks of creative exchange. The book argues that many women of this period engaged with a life of the mind and demonstrates the dynamic role letter-writing played in the development of ideas. -- .

  • - Spinning Dark Intrigue at Covent Garden Theatre, 1767-1820
    av Warren Oakley
    1 157,99

    This is the first biography of Thomas Harris: confidant of George III, 'spin doctor', philanthropist, sexual suspect, brothel owner, and the man who controlled Covent Garden theatre for nearly five decades. -- .

  • av Michael Clarke
    207

    A concise explanation of all the elements that make up current British defence policy as it goes through a major transition to confront the technological and political challenges Britain faces in the coming decade. -- .

  • - An Assessment of Sources and Principles
    av Martyn Hammersley
    391 - 1 127

    This book offers a well-informed and timely appraisal of the rationale for ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. It examines some of the influences that have shaped work of this kind, and its relationship to mainstream social science. -- .

  • - Looking Across the Borderlands of Art, Media and Visual Culture
    av Anna Dahlgren
    1 157

    This book examines the borderlands of the art world and the relations between art and visual mass culture in modernity. It includes case studies on photocollage, window displays, fashion photography and contemporary fine art. -- .

  • - The American Culture of Gun Violence in Westerns and the Law
    av Justin Joyce
    387 - 1 227

    Gunslinging justice examines gun violence in Western films and literature alongside changes in justifiable homicide and gun rights in the United States. -- .

  • av Timothy Peacock
    1 261

    This book gives a fresh perspective on minority governance using declassified files which challenge some of the myths surrounding the minority administrations in the 1970s, and reveals a British tradition of minority government which goes beyond that of other countries. -- .

  • - The Ethics of Violent Technologies
    av Elke Schwarz
    387 - 1 151

    Death Machines offers a critical reconsideration of ethical theories and political justifications for technologised practices of violence in contemporary conflicts. -- .

  • - British Army Sisters and Soldiers in the Second World War
    av Jane Brooks
    1 151

    The mobility of the Second World War, brought on by 'technological advances in destructive capabilities' needed new type of medical service. Success meant that expert care was needed near the frontline. -- .

  • - Language, Symbols and Myths
    av Andrea Mariuzzo
    1 127

    The books detects the struggle of Communism and anti-Communism as a key feature for the making of the political system in post-WWII democratic Italy, and presents it in its international context through a broad analysis of the main communication networks -- .

  • - Writing, Politics, and Culture in England, 1639-89
    av Matthew C. Augustine
    1 127

    A study of how literature responds to conditions of political uncertainty, this book rewrites much of what we thought we knew about civil war and Restoration literature. Rather than sparking a decisive break with the past, for many the seventeenth-century's civil wars opened onto a resolutely indeterminate future. -- .

  • - Young Lives in Prehistory
    av Robin Derricourt
    316 - 1 081

    Prehistoric children can be seen in footprints and finger daubs, in images painted on rocks and pots, in the signs of play and the evidence of first attempts to learn practical crafts. Readers in archeology and those with interests in childhood will gain new perspectives from this survey of the deep past. -- .

  • - Power in Cross-Border Cooperation
    av Elana Wilson Rowe
    341

    This book seeks to understand better how Arctic cross- border cooperation is developed, sustained and periodically contested against a backdrop of power relations. -- .

  • - A New Travel Guide
    av James L. Newell
    1 257

    The book provides an accessible account of the significance of political corruption, its causes, consequences and remedies. -- .

  • av Andrew Klevan
    327 - 1 161

    This book provides an in-depth, holistic examination of evaluative aesthetics and criticism and how they apply to film. Suitable for students of films studies and philosophical aesthetics, undergraduates and postgraduates, it also provides a supportive framework for academics researching or teaching in the area. -- .

  • - Histories of England, 1600-1780
    av Ben Dew
    1 131

    In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, historians of England pioneered a series of new approaches to the nation's economic history. Commerce, finances and statecraft charts the development of these forms of writing and examines their importance for the economic, political and historical thought of the period. -- .

  • - Thinking Through Difficult Times
    av Ilan Zvi Baron
    1 241

  • - Conflict, Capital and Culture
    av George Legg
    387 - 1 051

    This book examines the capitalist critiques that underpin representations of sectarian conflict in poetry, photography, performance, oral-testimony and punk. -- .

  • av Yangwen Zheng
    327 - 1 191

    A timely and solid portrait of modern China -- .

  • - Private Greed, Political Negligence and Housing Policy After Grenfell
    av Stuart Hodkinson
    1 091

    As the tragedy of the Grenfell tower fire has slowly revealed a shadowy background of outsourcing, private finance initiatives and a council turning a blind eye to health and safety concerns, many questions need answers. Stuart Hodkinson has those answers. -- .

  • av Matt Qvortrup
    177

    A perfect primer for anyone interested in the politics of referendums. -- .

  • - Has Illiberalism Brought the West to the Brink of Collapse?
    av Stanley R. Sloan
    177

    Transatlantic traumas surveys the landscape of external and internal threats to Western values and interests, including Russian and Islamist assaults on the West, illiberal radical right populist challenges, Turkey's undemocratic tendencies, Brexit and the Trump Tsunami. -- .

  • av Alison Morgan
    311 - 1 261

    This is an edited anthology comprising more than seventy poems and songs written in immediate response to Peterloo in 1819. Mainly anonymous, these ballads appears either as broadsides or in the radical press and are collected together for the first time. -- .

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