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Assesses the economic and cultural links between country houses and the empire between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries -- .

The first history of bioethics in Britain -- .

Explores how Livingstone has been represented in diverse ways and put to work in a variety of socio-political contexts. -- .

Investigates how reformers, conservatives, and radicals used portraiture to connect with supporters and build identity in Victorian politics.

An examination of body cultures in the British Army during the Second World War -- .

The first detailed account of the life and work of Bishop Francis Hutchinson (1660-1739), author of one of the most important witchcraft texts of the early modern period, An historical essay concerning witchcraft (1718). This work has captivated readers for centuries and still a vital source for those investigating witchcraft trials of the period -- .

Students and Lecturers and intelligent readers interested in the Spanish Civil War and the representation of history in cinema -- .

The first full-length book devoted to Jacques Demy in the English language. -- .

Explores the rapid rise of cheap print and how it permeated Venetian urban culture in the Renaissance -- .

A major new study of Africa's most important writer, offering a comprehensive reassessment of Achebe's work as a novelist, broadcaster and political thinker -- .

Argues for new relationships between Chaucer's poetry and works by others -- .

Explains he special effects used to represent storms in the earl modern playhouses, and details how those effects filter into Shakespeare's dramatic language. With chapters on Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, Pericles and The Tempest -- .

In this first English translation, former Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis examines the European debt crisis with particular reference to the case of Greece -- .

This book is concerned with the interaction of traditional politics, culture and social groups, of local and national influences, of ideals and individuals. It looks at local government, social groups and housing policy in the twentieth century. This is a remarkable story of how these factors were interwoven to create and manage policy. -- .

Describes how Victorian physicians located in a medical culture that privileged general knowledge over narrow specialism came to be transformed into the specialised physicians we now call neurologists -- .

This book is about what it meant to build a city in Germany at the turn of the twentieth century. It explores the physical spaces and mental attitudes that conditioned beliefs about the past and expectations for the future in the crucial German generations that shaped the young Reich, fought the Great War, and experienced the Weimar Republic. -- .

A study of theatre and sovereignty that situates Shakespeare's plays in the contraflow between two absolutisms of early modern England: the aesthetic and the political -- .

Explores the implications of scientific discourse on Russian concepts of mental illness and national health -- .