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Investigating a series of cutting-edge acoustic experiments in twentieth-century Britain, this unique book reveals how exciting new ideas from science and music had a lasting effect on architectural design.

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Explores the relationship between English country houses and the portraits they contain -- .

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Using a micro-historical approach, this book explores how the 'culture of covenanting' shaped lived experiences and communities in seventeenth-century Scotland and offers a more complete understanding of protestant identity in the early modern Atlantic world.

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This book examines the depiction of physically ugly characters in a striking range of early modern literary and visual texts, offering fascinating insights into the ways in which ugliness and deformity were perceived and represented in the era, particularly with regard to gender and the construction of identity. -- .

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An important re-theorisation of medieval gender and anti-Semitism, centring biblical drama as a source of evidence for lay attitudes towards scriptural time. Interrogating the Christian preoccupation with a superseded Jewish past, the book asks how this model is subverted by characters who experience time differently. -- .

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This critical account of the Musicians' Union from 1893-2013 explores the organisation's development as a set of responses to technological, industrial and socio-political changes. -- .

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This critical account of the Musicians' Union from 1893-2013 explores the organisation's development as a set of responses to technological, industrial and socio-political changes. -- .

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Now available in paperback, this edition constitutes an archive of source materials in the field of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre. It is a collection of over one hundred wills left by those who participate in the life of the theatre - from actors and dramatists to carpenters and costumiers. -- .

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An exciting new anthology of plays and performance texts by British and American women from the late nineteenth century to the early 1930s. Written in an accessible style for students it contains an overview and two introductory essays, as well as biographical materials on each of the writers. -- .

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In the REVELS PLAYS series. An anthology of plays which illustrate the ways in which both theatrical pleasures and social relations complicate the connection between women and plays in early modern drama. The plays are annotated and introduced by McLuskie using contemporary and feminist critical approaches. Aimed at students of Elizabethan drama.

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This book explains how the processes of total territorial rule at the core of the modern international system became normalised in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). It develops a decolonial framework informed by a pluriverse of multiple ontologies of sovereignty to argue that the state itself is an outcome of imperial globalisation.

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This book explains how the processes of 'total territorial rule' at the core of the modern international system became normalised in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). It develops a decolonial framework informed by a 'pluriverse' of multiple ontologies of sovereignty to argue that the state itself is an outcome of imperial globalisation.

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Set in ancient Rome, this play offers the first statements in English of the Augustan cultural ideal. Jonson contrasts Augustus's wise rule with an English polity dominated (like the stage) by malice, intrigue and envy.

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What is the point of poetry for historians The answer lies in this new 'history of history', which looks at the question through the prism of W. H. Auden's Cold War history poems and of poetry and history education from the eighteenth century to the present day. -- .

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What is the point of poetry for historians The answer lies in this new 'history of history', which looks at the question through the prism of W. H. Auden's Cold War history poems and of poetry and history education from the eighteenth century to the present day. -- .

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This book explores some of the many instances of poisoning in early modern plays. It considers the practical, legal and epistemological issues aspects of poison plays and analyses the cultural work they perform, which includes questions related to race, religion, nationality, gender, and humans relationship to the environment.

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This book analyses several revolutionary changes in the way that Britain has been policed in the last two hundred years. It shows how management techniques and information systems have been developed to form modern police institutions. -- .

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The book explores interactions between police officers and citizens in European countries, asking how differences such as race, culture and ethnicity are brought up and in what way they shape these encounters.

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This book examines the way in which the issue of crime, and the response of the authorities to it, became central to the peace process in Northern Ieland after 1998. -- .

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

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This volume explores the theme of religious and political practices in early modern Britain.

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This book starts with the premise that clothing is political and that analysing clothing can enhance understanding of political style. It offers an examination of how dress formed political identities and communicated social and political messages during the period when imperial and colonial empires assumed their modern form.

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This text offers a sophisticated analysis of central political concepts in the light of debates in political theory. It introduces students to some of the main interpretations, pointing out their strengths and weaknesses, including a range of the main concepts employed in contemporary debates.

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The only scholarly account of Irish corruption from 1922-2010. It empirically maps the decline in standards since Irish independence in 1922, to the loss of economic sovereignty in 2010. -- .