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Focuses on one of the most innovative aspects of Irish social partnership, the Community and Voluntary Pillar. It is the most thorough account of the dynamics of the Pillar to date and tackles the weaknesses in existing perspectives -- .

Explores the major changes in our use of and attitude to time over three centuries. Asks why the 1960s and 1970s expectation that leisure time would increase has failed to come about

Examines mental healthcare workers' efforts to educate the public between 1870 and 1970 -- .

A definitive examination of higher education in Ireland -- .

Evaluates the workings of juvenile justice and the relationship between young people and practitioners in a key era of social change -- .

Provides an analysis of neo-liberal political economics implemented in Ireland and the deleterious consequences of that model -- .

Carefully considers the complicated relationships between the modern queer bachelor and interior design, material culture and aesthetics in Britain between 1885 and 1957 -- .

The first full-length study of British horror radio -- .

The most comprehensive coverage to date of the institutional development of Northern Ireland following the UK government's devolution programme and Northern Ireland's development as an autonomous policy actor in Europe -- .

Analyses the way that New Labour was built and sustained under Blair's leadership -- .

Comprehensive overview of the director's body of work which yields new insights on the established classics of Lean's career as well as its lesser-known treasures -- .

Priestley's England explores the cultural, literary and political history of twentieth-century Britain through the radical critique offered by one of its most popular writers, J B Priestley. Its wide-ranging themes include 'Englishness', literary culture and its values, 'Americanisation' and mass culture. -- .

A timely analysis of Northern Ireland's constitutional nationalist tradition in the years leading up to the outbreak of the Troubles -- .

Forever Fluid is the first English commentary on Luce Irigaray's important text, Elemental Passions. It provides a lively alternative to the binary logic that runs through western culture, showing how sexual difference enables appreciation of difference of all kinds -- .

Analyzing the history and memory of migrant journeys, covering not only the response of politicians and the public but also literary and artistic representations, then and now, Kushner's volume sheds new light on the nature and construction of Britishness from the early modern era onwards. -- .

Explores the history of sanatoria and of winter sports between 1860 and 1914 in Switzerland. This book offers an overall view of the growth of health and sports tourism in Switzerland.

This book examines the phenomenon of infanticide in Ireland from 1850 to 1900. It is based on a large sample of 4,645 individual cases of infant murder, attempted infanticide and concealment of birth. Through a variety of sources, attitudes towards the crime of infanticide and women accused of the offence are revealed. -- .

A study of the impact of power politics on the historical reputation of Charles D'Albert, duc de Luynes, a royal favourite at the court of Louis XIII in early seventeenth-century France -- .

Based on newly unearthed source material, this book follows the career of clergyman William Richardsona and assesses his impact on politics, science and agriculture nationally and internationally. -- .

Decadent daughters and monstrous mothers interrogates Angela Carter's feminist politics through the lens of European Gothic. It illuminates her ambivalent relation to her European literary forebears, reveals her rich knowledge of French literature and offers fresh insights into her literary practices afforded by newly available archival material. -- .

This book seeks to problematise the very notion of context, which has remained for the most part stubbornly un-theorised and un-examined. The book aims to set a distinction between 'deep' and 'broad' contexts, arguing that we need to counter the prevalence of the latter if literary studies is to avoid becoming a minor branch of history. -- .

Usually considered to be John Marston's masterpiece, "The Malcontent" is one of the most original and complex plays of the Elizabethan theatre - complex in genre, structure and language. This edition has notes designed for modern undergraduate use.

With continuing controversy about the future direction of the EU, this groundbreaking book argues that Europe has a Common Agricultural Policy in name only. Based on a comparison between the UK, France, Poland, the Netherlands, Greece and Ireland, it shows how agriculture and rural policy is more diverse than generally recognised. -- .

Using a rich array of oral histories and archival sources, Tomboys and Bachelor Girls provides the first detailed academic study of lesbian identity and culture in post-war Britain for the scholarly and general reader. -- .

Traces how the Bible came to be known by lay people through different mediums. It brings together intellectual and religious history with art history, music, literature and social history to trace how the Bible was sung and preached, revered and studied in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century England. -- .

How and why do so many radicals betray the cause? What implications does it have for left politics? Were the ex-radicals right to become conservatives? This book, the first of its kind, answers these and more questions. -- .

Explores British women's journeys abroad on steamships and trains during a period of great social, cultural and technical change, using a wide variety of sources including women's letters and diaries, contemporary art, advertising, fiction and etiquette guides. -- .

Women's Work challenges influential accounts about gender and the novel by revealing the complex ways in which labour (as material reality and philosophical concept) shaped the lives and writings of a number of women authors working in the second half of the long eighteenth century -- .

The first single-volume edition of this play in almost 500 years, widely rated by critics as Philip Massinger's best work -- .

John Kinsella explores a contemporary poetics and pedagogy as it emerges from his reflections on his own writing and teaching, and on the work of other poets, particularly contemporary writers with which he feels some affinity. -- .