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Shows that George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld thought about international politics, and about leadership, in divergent ways, and demonstrates the impact these differences had on the course of the Iraq war -- .

The first monograph-length study that charts the coercive diplomacy of the administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford as practised against their British ally -- .

Studies why and how successful forms of workers' interest representation could emerge in a hostile, post-communist context -- .

Examination of the popular film and fiction consumed by Britons in the 1920s and 1930s -- .

Matthew Schultz maps rhetorical hauntings across a wide range of postcolonial Irish novels, and defines the spectre as a non-present presence that simultaneously symbolises and analyses an overlapping of Irish myth and Irish history. -- .

This study places official discourse regarding urban amusement into the context of broader cultural understandings -- .

Compares the histories of psychiatric and voluntary hospital nurses' health from the rise of the professional nurse in 1880 to the advent of the National Health Service in 1948 -- .

Details the surveillance by the British security service MI5 of anti-Nazi refugees who came to Britain fleeing political persecution in Germany and Austria -- .

Explores the evolving shape of a series of Catholic festivals that took place throughout the duration of Portuguese colonial rule in Goa (1510-1961) -- .

Addresses the War of Independence from a new perspective by focusing on the attitude of the Catholic clergy -- .

Examines Shakespeare's role in contemporary culture -- .

A timely consideration of how children's and young people's education can confront and challenge social inequality -- .

A history of port health and immigration at a critical moment of transformation at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century -- .

An ethnographic study of ritual performance and place-making among Shi'a Muslim Iraqi women in Copenhagen -- .

Examines the "medical organisation" of Imperial Germany for total war -- .

Analyses the phenomenon of literary disenchantment after the First World War -- .

Examines the rise and fall of the aristocratic Lacy family in England, Ireland, Wales and Normandy. As one of the first truly transnational studies of individual medieval aristocrats, it provides a fresh look at lordship and the interplay between aristocracy and crown from 1166 to 1241. -- .

The first dedicated study of how and why Irish consumption and production customs dramatically transformed after the famine and independence -- .

Offers a critical history of key debates about visual style in British film journals in the postwar period -- .

The first book-length study of the humanities and the Irish university -- .

Explores the groundbreaking representation of the body in experimental films of the 1960s and 1970s. Focusing on sexually explicit films by Andy Warhol, Barbara Rubin, Stan Brakhage, Carolee Schneemann, Yoko Ono and Paul Sharits. -- .

The first comprehensive study of prisoners and the right to vote -- .

Analyses the impact of the 2004 and 2007 enlargements upon the politics of European integration within EU employment and social policy -- .

Examines lessons learned from the Northern Ireland and Border Counties conflict transformation process through social and economic development and their consequent impacts and implications for practice and policymaking -- .

Critically examines how and why Eastern enlargement has impacted on the EU human rights policy -- .

Examines the teaching of the theology of Christ's ascension in Anglo-Saxon literature, offering the only comprehensive examination of how patristic ascension theology is transmitted, adapted and taught to Anglo-Saxon audiences -- .

This genealogy of the odd woman compares representations of spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women's fiction and auto/biography from the 1850s to the 1930s -- .

The first book-length account of the women's liberation movement (WLM) in Scotland -- .

Unearths new evidence to provide a richer understanding of the life of the Labour minister Ellen Wilkinson -- .

Critically examines the range of policies and programmes that attempt to manage economic activity that contributes to political violence -- .