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Investigates how competing ideas about child development influenced the provision, practice and experience of childcare for the under fives since 1939. -- .

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This book charts a psychologist's journey to understand one of the most unusual experiences known to humankind: the feeling that someone or something is there when we are alone. A tour-de-force through contemporary psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and philosophy, Presence is the story of who we carry with us, at all times, as parts of ourselves.

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Pride in prejudice offers a concise introduction to the varied extreme right groups active in Britain today. The book examines the extreme right movement in terms of ideology and appeal, organisational styles, online and offline activism, approaches to leadership, types of supporters and gendered dynamics.

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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. -- .

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Princely Power in the Dutch Republic offers a vivid analysis of the role of patronage in the Dutch Golden Age. It is based on the highly illuminating private diaries of William Frederick of Nassau (1613-1664). -- .

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This anthology is a comparative primary source collection of focus on France and the British Isles in a period critical to their development as great powers. It takes a fresh approach to the history of these two pre-industrial states, with the emphasis being on the regions and nations of which they were composed rather than the monolithic states.

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Printing Terror argues that horror comics of the Cold War primarily concern white male victimhood and the monstrosity of the gendered and/or racialised other. -- .

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Printing Terror argues that horror comics of the Cold War primarily concern white male victimhood and the monstrosity of the gendered and/or racialised other. -- .

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During WWI hundreds of thousands of Germans faced incarceration in hundreds of camps on the British mainland. This is the first book on these German prisoners, and covers 3 different types of internees in Britain: civilians already present in the country in August 1914; civilians brought to Britain from all over the world; and combatants.

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What do people imagine it means to live in a world where private property is dominant and what are their fears about living in a future world where it has disappeared This book studies the recurring nightmare that various lumpen mobs could demolish private property. That threatened social chaos is the central unifying story of this book.

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Producing globalisation attempts to scrutinise the nature of the interplay between globalisation and national institutional settings. Rather than taking globalisation as a given, this book explores how concrete political actors produced the phenomenon of globalisation. -- .

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This monograph provides novel methods for writing transnational South Asian art history outside of genealogy. -- .

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This monograph provides novel methods for writing transnational South Asian art history outside of genealogy. -- .

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This book examines the correlations being drawn between notions of progress and pathology across a range of socio-economic cultures in the long nineteenth century. -- .

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A unique account of British and United States government's attempts to adapt their propaganda strategies to global terrorist threats in a post-9/11 media environment -- .

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A unique account of British and United States government's attempts to adapt their propaganda strategies to global terrorist threats in a post-9/11 media environment -- .

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In this illuminating study John M. Mackenzie explores the manifestations of the imperial idea, from the trappings of royalty through writers like G. A. Henty to the humble cigarette card. He shows that it was so powerful and pervasive that it outlived the passing of Empire itself.

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Proscribing peace shows how the listing of armed groups as terrorists has made pre-negotiations harder and more prolonged. Drawing on fieldwork in Colombia during the negotiation with the FARC, Sophie Haspeslagh introduces the concept of linguistic ceasefire which becomes a central pre-condition for the initiation of a peace process.

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An accessible and innovative analysis of how political groups used and contested spaces and places in protest. It uses a wide range of interesting sources, from Home Office correspondence to local magistrates, diaries and autobiographies, local newspapers, together with spatial analysis of sites of political protest plotted on historical maps.

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Protestant missionary childrens historical lives are examined from the perspectives of parents, churches and children, to reveal complicated existences. This book takes a comparative approach across a range of settings, drawing on oral history, childhood history and histories of emotion. It extends scholarship into the mid-twentieth century.

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In this book, historians and political scientists show how radically external images of Germany changed over the 20th century, from the 'Prussian military state' to the 'bulwark of liberalism.' They also explore how such images of Germany affected the evolution of international relations theory at some critical junctures. -- .

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This book examines the life and career of popular French psychoanalyst Franoise Dolto (190888). It connects her rise to two broader histories: the dramatic growth of psychoanalysis in postwar France and the long-running debate over the family and the proper role of women in society.

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The book explores the full catalogue of the films produced by the Empire Marketing Board, General Post Office and Crown Film Units between 1930 and 1952. It identifies themes which both reflect the sponsors demands and the anxieties of the time as well as providing the foundations for the post-war Public Information Film.

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Provides a ground breaking and unique analysis of the development of Public Private Partnerships internationally, with a detailed focus on the rationale behind their introduction and outcomes in Ireland. -- .