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This study explores a wide range of Victorian and Edwardian musical life including brass bands, choral societies, music hall and popular concerts, and analyzes the way in which popular cultural practice was shaped by, and in turn, helped shape social and economic structures.

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Popular Music on Screen examines the relationship between popular music and the screen, from the origins of the Hollywood musical to contemporary developments in music television and video. -- .

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This collection of documents, spanning the years 1245-1424 concentrates on the 'contagion of rebellion' that followed the Black Death in Europe in the 14th century. Comprising a wide variety of sources from a range of authors - including revolutionaries, the aristoricacy, merchants and op -- .

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Lectures and research students in cultural history, medieval and early modern studies and literary studies -- .

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This book analyses the forms of popular science, the social and economic status of those who practiced it and the audience, and the settings for scientific dissemination and appropriation. -- .

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A collection of essays that examine landmark popular television drama from the last forty years, from 'Doctor Who' to 'The Office'. Contributors focus on programmes across the range of popular genres, from sitcoms to science fiction, gothic horror and children's drama -- .

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'Popular Victorian women writers' is a collection of essays on a variety of women writers working within the Victorian literary marketplace. Diverse and inclusive, the great strength of this book is that its emphasis on neglected writers and refreshing new angles on more widely known authors sends its readers back eagerly to the primary texts.

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A major study into the changes in moral politics and culture of working-class Radicalism during a crucial period of modern British history. -- .

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Over seven million people left Ireland over the course of the nineteenth century. This book is the first to put that huge population change in its religious context, by asking how the Irish Catholic, Anglican and Presbyterian churches responded to mass emigration.

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This timely volume analyses the Northern League under its founder Umberto Bossi (1991-2012). As a well-led mass party, the League has much to teach political scientists today on the reasons behind populist growth, endurance and success.

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Portraiture occupies a central position in the history of Western art. It has been the most popular genre of painting and has been crucial to the construction and articulation of individualism. This volume provides an introduction to the major issues in the history of portraiture.

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Exploring representations of happiness and other positive emotions in early modern Europe, this volume brings together interdisciplinary approaches informed by affect theory, history of emotions research, and the contemporary cognitive sciences to highlight the meanings and valuations of good feelings in the Renaissance.

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Postmodern, postcolonial, and post-truth are broadly used terms. But where do they come from When and why did the habit of interpreting the world in post-terms emerge And who exactly were the post boys responsible for this This book traces the emergence and popularity of post-concepts through a wide range of genres and fields.

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An excellent introductory volume for those wishing to know more about the hitherto neglected cinema from the African continent, including directors from Egypt, Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Guinea-Bissau, Burkina Faso, Tunisia, Cameroon, South Africa -- .

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An excellent introductory volume for those wishing to know more about the hitherto neglected cinema from the African continent, including directors from Egypt, Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Guinea-Bissau, Burkina Faso, Tunisia, Cameroon, South Africa -- .

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An examination of how Britain and France are handling the new religious and racial diversity that has become a fact of life in both countries, and how postcolonial minorities are caught between the nation and the state in relation to status and identity, acceptance and integration. -- .

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The National Health Service determines how Britons receive healthcare. It is a source of national pride, a workplace and a symbol. This book explores how the cultural meanings of the NHS developed and changed since its foundation in 1948, shaped by activism, labour, consumerism, space and representation.

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This collection assembles many of the major theorists of postmodernism, across the humanities and the social sciences, to reconsider the nature and significance of the postmodern moment, as historical phase and as theoretical field. -- .

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This collection assembles many of the major theorists of postmodernism, across the humanities and the social sciences, to reconsider the nature and significance of the postmodern moment, as historical phase and as theoretical field. -- .

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This book examines the benefits and limits of cultural nationalism, and describes the preliminary steps taken by contemporary filmmakers in order to establish a new popular African cinema. -- .

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This book charts the growth of the university settlement movement, a fundamental influence in the shaping of the welfare state, from 1918 to Margaret Thatcher's election in 1979. It looks at the complex relationships between charities, the welfare state and individuals and the ways in which change was negotiated over the twentieth century.

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This book charts the growth of the university settlement movement, a fundamental influence in the shaping of the welfare state, from 1918 to Margaret Thatcher's election in 1979. It looks at the complex relationships between charities, the welfare state and individuals and the ways in which change was negotiated over the twentieth century.

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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 -- .

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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 -- .