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Tony Blair's premiership has not only reaffirmed trends towards leader-centred parties and governments, it is a stage in the development of a genuine British presidency. The argument here is that the American presidency illuminates the strengths and weaknesses of an emergent British presidency.

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An incidental pleasure of watching a film is what it tells us about the society in which it is made. Using a sociological model this title looks at how working-class people were portrayed in British feature films in the decade after the Second World War. -- .

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This book follows the emergence and transformation of the watch industry throughout the world from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present day. It sheds new light on the way the global economy became established.

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Middleton and Rowley's The Changeling (1622) can claim to be the finest tragedy in English outside Shakespeare. This story of a woman who becomes involved in murder, without realising the terrible price she will pay for it, is developed with remarkable power and insight.

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A systematic study on the legal regulation of the use of military force, both by international organisations and states, at the beginning of the twenty-first century. -- .

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This book critically examines the tradition of adapting classic novels to film or TV screen. It includes novelists from Jane Austen to Michael Ondaatje.

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A standard text on the law of armed conflict, written in a non-technical and accessible style.

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The Culture of Regionalism is the first international comparative study of regionalism, and provides a fresh view of the relationship between cultural regionalism, political regionalism and nationalism -- .

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Discusses the modern concept of toleration in diverse societies -- .

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This study is surveys the historical literature surrounding the American Civil War era, from contemporary interpretations up to the present. The six chapters deal, respectively, with the American historical profession, slavery, abolitionism, the causes of the civil war, the civil war itself and reconstruction.

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The book reinterprets the role of the United Nations during the Congo crisis from 1960-1964 by presenting a multidimensional view of the organisation. -- .

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Explains under what conditions the European Court of Justice can successfully end state violations of European Union law. -- .

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This is a study of how the prosecution of the Nine Years' War in the last decade of Elizabeth I's reign impinged on government and society at central and local levels in the shires of England and Wales. -- .

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Ireland appears to be in the throes of a remarkable process of social and economic change. This text scrutinizes the interpretations and prescriptions that inform the deceptively simple metaphor of the "Celtic Tiger".

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This book proposes concrete solutions to confront the populist wave and the rise of "illiberal democracy." The author demonstrates that democracy is not a "demand side" phenomenon, but rather a "supply side" phenomenon and formulates twenty original and bold proposals to fight populism and defend liberal democracy. An original and essential book which will undoubtedly stimulate vigorous debate.

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This book analyses the English Question - does England need to find its own political voice, following devolution to Scotland and Wales, or are the English content to muddle through -- .

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This publication offers a critical survey of religious change and its causes in 18th-century Europe. Focusing on Enlightenment Italy, France and England, the text illustrates how the canonical view of 18th-century religious change has in reality been constructed upon scant evidence and assumption -- .

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Examines the underlying foundations on which the European Union's counter-terrorism and police co-operation policies have been built since the inception of the Treaty on European Union. -- .

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Later medieval Europe saw a great deal of change and expansion of different kinds. This geographically broad textbook explores these events in a series of chapters on the different countries, covering the Holy Roman Empire, East-Central Europe, Scandinavia and Russia. It looks not only at political history but also at economy, society and culture.

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Refuting popular concepts of the self as separate beings, the author proposes a new theory of the extended self as a product of the coevolution of humankind and technology, comprising both social and material elements

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This critical study of medieval English romances uses ideas from anthropology and critical theories of the gift to shed light on narratives ranging from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. Written in a style accessible for students as well as scholars, it engages with questions about storytelling, agency, gender and material objects.

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The heat of Beowulf reexamines the aesthetics of the longest surviving Old English poem through the poetics of twentieth-century poets Jack Spicer, arguing that the aesthetics of Beowulf entangle vulnerable human corporeality in the non-human world, rendering perceptible what otherwise remains insensible.

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The Henry VI plays are Shakespeare's earliest, most theatrically exciting plays and in their day, they were among his most popular works. This is the first major study of the Henry VI plays in performance, and focuses on the cultural context of modern British productions which have explored Shakespeare's troubling depiction of England. -- .