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  • - Art, Literature and Antiquarianism in Europe, c. 1400-1700
     
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    This book considers a range of antiquarian practices - history-writing, archaeological investigations, works of art, architecture and literature - that emerged in early modern Europe. Challenging the idea of a single 'Renaissance', it assembles essays on local antiquities in Spain, Portugal, France, Britain, Italy, the Netherlands and Poland. -- .

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    Historians and literary scholars explore the rise of parliament in the historical imagination of Tudor and early Stuart England. Collectively the essays demonstrate that the evolution of historical conceptions of parliament was central to the ecclesiological and political thinking and culture of the period before the English Revolution. -- .

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    Featuring modernised spelling and detailed explanatory notes, this anthology of Civil War-era women poets is perfect for students of English literature and early modern studies. -- .

  • - George Peele
     
    1 161

    Martin's new critical edition of George Peele's David and Bathsheba opens up this explosive drama about the turbulent and bloody Davidic period of Ancient Israel's history to student and scholar alike with its modernized text, full scholarly apparatus, comprehensive introduction, and commentary notes. -- .

  • - Volume 3
     
    341

    The James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. In addition to these cutting-edge contributions, each issue contains a review of recent Baldwin scholarship and an award-winning graduate student essay. The James Baldwin Review publishes essays that invigorate scholarship on James Baldwin; catalyze explorations of the literary, political, and cultural influence of Baldwin¿s writing and political activism; and deepen our understanding and appreciation of this complex and luminary figure.It is the aim of the James Baldwin Review to provide a vibrant and multidisciplinary forum for the international community of Baldwin scholars, students, and enthusiasts.

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    527

    Breaks new ground in the history of psychiatry by focusing on the role of work in mental-health institutions. -- .

  • - Britain at the Polls, 2017
     
    311

    The latest book in the long-running Britain at the Polls series provides an indispensable account of the remarkable 2017 British general election. Leading experts explain why Theresa May and the Conservatives lost their majority, and analyse how the other political parties and voters responded to the 2016 Brexit referendum and ongoing austerity. -- .

  • - A New Translation
     
    527

    This is the most complete translation ever attempted of these moral tales, and will be a valuable source text for all scholars and students of medieval literature. -- .

  • - Essays on the Spanish Tragedy
     
    477

    Doing Kyd reads Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, the box-office and print success of its time, as the play that established the revenge genre in England and served as a 'pattern and precedent' for the golden generation of early modern playwrights. -- .

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    361

    The volume builds upon developments in recent years in reconceptualising the British Empire as a system structured around complex, multi-layered networks, which transcended conventionally defined boundaries between metropolitan and colonial space. -- .

  • - Advancing the Cause of Liberty
     
    327

    Providing an important intervention in contemporary Irish cultural-critical debate, this collection explores how Irish women writers exercised their political concerns and influence through their literary outputs during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. -- .

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    341

    A ground-breaking collection of essays by leading and emerging scholars, which uncovers the vibrant intellectual life of early modern provincial England. -- .

  • - New Perspectives on Visual and Industrial Cultures in Nineteenth-Century Britain
     
    461

    Explores the relationship between industry and the visual arts in the long nineteenth century, using new research to reveal surprising collaborations between craftspeople, inventors, engineers and educators. -- .

  • - New Essays on Experiences of Culture and Society
     
    1 331

    Confronted by a complex new society, nineteenth-century Spaniards wrestled with how to envisage their lives. From trying to be universal through to acting as a cultural entrepreneur, this volume explores the possibilities and uncertainties that unfolded in their reconfigured world -- .

  • - Rereading the Fin De SieCle
     
    1 251

    This volume explores the novels and short stories of the popular author Richard Marsh through a range of critical lenses. An exemplary figure of the New Grub Street, Marsh was an important presence within fin-de-siecle literary culture, whose middlebrow genre fiction simultaneously reinforces and challenges the dominant discourses of the period. -- .

  • av Elizabeth Chalmers MacKnight
    1 181

    This is a study of noble families' collective memory and transmission of tangible and intangible cultural heritage. -- .

  • - Politics, Pageantry and Colonialism
     
    1 217

    Travel by European and 'native' monarchs and other royals between Europe, Asia and Africa developed as a new form of personal and international politics in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The pageantry and politics of royal tours during the age of empire provides great insight into modern monarchy, colonialism and transnational cultural encounters. -- .

  • - A Conceptual History, 1200-1900
     
    1 217

    This collection of essays investigates the historical genealogy of our contemporary ideas of intellectual or learning disability. The essays engage with literary, educational, cultural, legal, religious, psychiatric and philosophical histories to track how and why these precursor ideas arose and explore how they helped shape current concepts. -- .

  • av Simon Bulmer
    341

    This book offers a nuanced analysis of the German role in the EU, using a novel approach which identifies German influence in the EU in terms of "soft" power. -- .

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    347

    Social movements and Ireland is an innovative new text which aims to provide a comprehensive introduction and critical analysis of collective action in Irish society. -- .

  • - Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers and Artists in Italy
     
    351

    "Unfolding the South" presents a new vision ofAnglo-Italian cultural relations in the late Romantic and Victorian periods. -- .

  • - Political Marketing at the 2005 General Election
     
    277

    The book discusses, employing the findings from empirical research, the role of political marketing within the UK General Election of 2005. -- .

  • - A Social History of Central European Politics, 1945-56
     
    347

    A comparative study of early post-1945 Central Europe on both sides of the Iron Curtain which puts the people back into Cold War history -- .

  • - Northern England and the National Imagination
    av David Russell
    351

    Investigating areas as diverse as travel literature, fiction, dialect, the stage, radio, and television, feature film, music and sport, this fascinating book assesses the attitudes and portrayal of the North of England within the national culture and how this has impacted upon attitudes to the region and its place within notions of 'Englishness'. -- .

  • av Mick Moran
    271

    This book represents the first comparative study of howhealth policy is made in leading industrial nations. Using detailed casehistories of the UK, the US and Germany, it shows that health care systems andmodern states are indissolubly bound together. -- .

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    347

    In this collection, an eminent group of cultural historians have explored 'the kiss' using a wide range of evidence. By analyzing 'the kiss' and its position - embedded as it is as part of our culture - it shows how history can use small gestures to take us to big issues concerning ourselves and others, the past and the present -- .

  • av Jenny Macleod
    347

    This study broadens the debate over the cultural history of World War I beyond the Western Front, putting Australian dominance of the historiography of Gallipoli into perspective. It explores the cultural history of the 1915 campaign through the books and articles written by men who were there.

  • av Richard Bellamy
    351

    This book offers a stimulating new approach to studying social and political theory. It combines specially selected extracts from the political classics with original and insightful essays offering a commentary upon them. -- .

  • - Ideals and Realities
    av Paola Tinagli & Mary Rogers
    351

    Fills a gap in the still burgeoning literature on all aspects of women's lives in this period; A broad range of material is used, most of which has never been translated before; The three sections of the book provide a comprehensive account of all aspects of Renaissance women's lives as well as contemporary views on the nature of women.

  • av John Anderson
    347

    Central Asia is a fascinating region yet remote and unfamiliar to many people. This new study provides an introduction to the politics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgzstan, Tajikistan, Turkestan, and Uzbekistan. -- .

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