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

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

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 -- .

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 -- .