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Survival Capitalism is a cultural history of the 1980s financial revolution. It ranges in scope across the Thatcher government, the Bank of England, London Stock Exchange and member firms, and Lloyds of London. It offers timely new perspectives on the City of Londons Big Bang reforms as the Conservatives contemplate Big Bang 2.0 in the 2020s.

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This is the story of La Coruna ,which became a virtual encampment of starving homeless Irish nobles, soldiers, women, children, elderly and poor following the Battle of Kinsale. -- .

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Surviving repression tells the story of the Muslim Brotherhood in the aftermath of the 2013 coup. It is the first book of its kind to analyse the movements recent trajectories by showcasing the experiences of its individual members, analysing how their responses to repression are affecting the movement as a whole.

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A major international collaboration between artists, art historians, curators and policy makers, this collection shows how visual art can play a crucial role in forging a more sustainable community for the Caribbean and its diaspora. -- .

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Swoon is the first extensive study of literary swooning, homing in on swoonings rich history as well as its potential to provide new insights into the contemporary. It offers an exciting new approach the history of the body alongside the history of literary response.

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Swoon is the first extensive study of literary swooning, homing in on swoonings rich history as well as its potential to provide new insights into the contemporary. It offers an exciting new approach the history of the body alongside the history of literary response.

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A lucid and informative account, drawing on unpublished material, of the career of one of the most successful and significant producers in British cinema. It provides discussion of all his films, including The Seventh Veil (1945), and affords an exceptional insight into the workings of the wartime and postwar British film and television industries.

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Focusing on the Syria crisis, this book challenges the arguments in favour of the chemical weapons taboo, demonstrating how it can exacerbate a conflict. -- .

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Focusing on the Syria crisis, this book challenges the arguments in favour of the chemical weapons taboo, demonstrating how it can exacerbate a conflict. -- .

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This book presents examination of queer and feminist alternative art spaces in Canada and the United States from the late-1960s to the present. It explores how queer and feminist artists have responded to the institutions and histories they have inherited.

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This book provides a new cultural history of the travel souvenir. It uncovers how eighteenth-century British women enlisted the objects they collected during their European travels to realise their ambitions in the arenas of connoisseurship, science and friendship, and to stake their claims to agency and authority as travelling subjects.

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This text is related to contemporary theatrical conventions and conditions and offers a critical account of the play closely attuned to a sense of theatre. Aspects of the play discussed include its response to 'Machiavellian' ideas and the degree to which its sensational violence can provoke laughter from the audience.

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Traces the impact of the great Italian poet's neglected masterpiece across a broad spectrum of arts from the sixteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, focusing on, among many others, the works of Spenser, Milton, Shakespeare, Daniel, Van Dyck, Poussin, Handel and Byron. -- .

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Tattoos in crime and detective narratives: Marking and remarking examines representations of the tattoo and tattooing in literature, television and film, from two periods of tattoo renaissance (1851-1914, and c1955 to present). -- .

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Tattoos in crime and detective narratives: Marking and remarking examines representations of the tattoo and tattooing in literature, television and film, from two periods of tattoo renaissance (1851-1914, and c1955 to present).

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Offering a history of travel, tourism and Egyptology, Tea on the terrace follows Egyptologists between home and field sites, revealing how their activities in hotels and on dahabeahs impacted the development of the discipline.

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A history of travel, tourism, and Egyptology, Tea on the terrace examines what Egyptologists did between home and the field site and how their activities in hotels and on dahabeahs impacted the development of the discipline at the turn of the twentieth century.

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Critically explores the interactions of comedy and drama within a group of popular and influential British films released during the 90s, demonstrating that this was an innovative period in British film history. Films discussed include: 'Brassed Off', 'The Full Monty', 'East is East', 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' and 'Love Actually'. -- .

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This book explores Andrew Feenbergs idea that technology is both the main medium of domination in contemporary society and the principal site of democratic resistance. It presents his work as an account of the connection between disputes over the design of specific technologies and the challenge of constructing a new, sustainable civilisation.

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This book examines the little explored relationship between a variety of medical, informational, and health technologies and patients roles as consumers from the early twentieth century to the present. It shows how patients as consumers have shaped such technologies, and equally, how technology has had a lasting effect on ways of being a patient.

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Based upon over 300 personal testimonies, the book traces the everyday experiences of teenage girls of the post-war period, illuminating how matters of romance, sex and intimacy shaped their young lives. In doing so, it reveals the pivotal role that young women played in changing English sexual culture in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

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This is an account of the attitudes and experiences of teenagers growing up in segregated localities in Belfast, it shows how they make sense of, and negotiate everyday life in a divided city. It explores how identities are created, performed, maintained, reinforced, crossed and transformed through their daily spatial practices. -- .

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This is the first detailed study of the rich vein of mockumentary television programmes, covering series such as The Larry Sanders Show, The Daily Show, and the British and American versions of The Office to discuss how producers have experimented with mockumentary as a distinctive approach to storytelling. -- .