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Examines the experiences of First World War nurses through their own writings, offering fresh insights into the reality of industrial warfare. -- .

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This book analyses the reputations and experiences of women and men who nursed the sick before any calls for nursing reform.

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Produces an original empirical analysis of the discourse of safer sex, condom use and consent -- .

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This study investigates the affective agency of the book, through the emotional literacy training that a single codex provided a late-medieval English household. It demonstrates how MS Ashmole 61 affirms both the physical and moral agency of nonhumans, who fashion spiritually generous and socially mindful human household members.

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This book aims to explore the lived experience of workers suffering from occupational diseases in contemporary China through a corpus of qualitative, ethnographic data solicited from about one hundred peasant-workers. -- .

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Oceania under steam is a lively study of empire and the Pacific in the age of steam. It connects the intimate details of shipboard life with the high politics of imperial ocean space to present a wealth of new insights into the significance of shipping and the sea in the everyday life of colonialism. -- .

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Oceania under steam is a lively study of empire and the Pacific in the age of steam. It connects the intimate details of shipboard life with the high politics of imperial ocean space to present a wealth of new insights into the significance of shipping and the sea in the everyday life of colonialism. -- .

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This book takes four stories by Vladimir Odoevsky, the Russian-Romantic author, to illustrate 'pathways' in modern fiction, developed further by subsequent writers. Featured here are: the artistic story, the rise of science fiction, aspects of the detective story, and of confession in the novel. -- .

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Off white centres the role of race and whiteness to rewrite the history of Central and Eastern Europe and illuminate the development, operation and enduring appeal of white nationalisms within racial capitalism.

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This is the first comprehensive analysis of the Middle East political economy in response to the oil price decline in 2014. Based on a heuristic framework inspired by rentierism, the volume contains original studies on Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

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Written in a period characterized by increased mobility and the development of proto-capitalism, Thomas Dekkers Old Fortunatus (1599) is a journeying play that offers joyous celebration of the pleasures of travel and a circumspect critique of spendthrift indulgence. This Revels Plays edition makes Dekkers neglected stage romance newly available.

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Written in a period characterized by increased mobility and the development of proto-capitalism, Thomas Dekkers Old Fortunatus (1599) is a journeying play that offers joyous celebration of the pleasures of travel and a circumspect critique of spendthrift indulgence. This Revels Plays edition makes Dekkers neglected stage romance newly available.

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Drawing on recent debates in Irish literary and cultural criticism, the study of cultural memory, as well as on radical models of time and history, this book explores the varied, creative, and often critically challenging forms of rewriting Ireland's troubled past in contemporary prose, drama and poetry. -- .

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The book offers a deep insight into the early days of industry-sponsored clinical research in psychiatry. Examining how the clinic, patients, doctors, nursing staff, corporations, and authorities interacted, it not only meticulously reconstructs the experimental practices in a psychiatric hospital from 1940 to 1980 but also tells a larger story: the changing history of clinical trials.

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Relates the Undead in literature and other media to questions concerning genre, technology, consumption and social change -- .

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Provides a more comprehensive account of internment and assesses previously unexplored aspects of its use. Drawing on archival sources the high politics and intelligence surrounding the introduction of internment are considered and in doing so accepted narratives regarding the measure are challenged. -- .

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In 1650 the Dutch Orange stadholder William II died unexpectedly and his opponents used the opportunity to suspend the stadholderate. This book describes the language and imagery deployed by the Orangists in the critical years 1650 to 1675 in their attempt to restore the stadholderate William III, his posthumous son.

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provides the first comparative overview of the role of anthropology in colonial Africa. With essays exploring metropolitan research institutes, Africans as ethnographers and the transnational features of knowledge production, this volume both consolidates and extends a range of new research questions focusing on the politics of imperial knowledge.

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This book draws on multiple real life experiences to make a compelling case for how the NHS can organise care better around the needs of patients.

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This book draws on multiple real life experiences to make a compelling case for how the NHS can organise care better around the needs of patients.

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In one of the first studies of its kind, Orphan texts seeks to insert the orphan into the larger critical areas of the family and childhood in Victorian culture. Laura Peters considers canonical texts alongside lesser known works from popular culture in order to establish the context in which discourses of orphanhood operated. -- .