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Turning the conventional Break-Up of Britain narrative inside-out, this book scans the horizon of overseas projections of British identities that unravelled during the decades of global decolonisation

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These chapters provide deeply researched narratives of the links between partition in India and Palestine in 1947. It focuses on the shared dynamics that shaped both regions, such as violence, the role of religion in politics, majoritarian politics, and the persistence of imperial modes of power.

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These chapters provide deeply researched narratives of the links between partition in India and Palestine in 1947. It focuses on the shared dynamics that shaped both regions, such as violence, the role of religion in politics, majoritarian politics, and the persistence of imperial modes of power.

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Imperialism is strikingly represented in its buildings. This work illuminates the dispersal of colonial culture and religious forms, social classes, and racial divisions over two centuries, from the establishment of colonial rule to a post-colonial world. It will be a vital reading for all students of imperial history and global material culture.

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Imperialism is strikingly represented in its buildings. This work illuminates the dispersal of colonial culture and religious forms, social classes, and racial divisions over two centuries, from the establishment of colonial rule to a post-colonial world. It will be a vital reading for all students of imperial history and global material culture.

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Film studies, cultural studies, modern British history, politics -- .

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A study of how lifestyle choices intersect with migration, and how this relationship frames and shapes post-migration lives. -- .

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With contributions from a range of distinguished Irish and British scholars, this collection of essays provides the first full treatment of the historical relationship between the Labour Party and Ireland in the last century, from Keir Hardie to Tony Blair. -- .

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This book charts the dispute over defence spending between the left and business, government and the trade unions between 1970 and 1983. Whereas the left blamed Britains postwar economic decline on its burdensome military commitments, successive governments used defence was a form of economic stimulus to promote jobs and sell weapons abroad.

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The changes and divisions on the British left over the Israel-Palestine conflict forms the central theme of this archive based study. -- .

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A rich collection that looks at how the British monarchy has been seen on film and television. It is first comprehensive look at royalty on screen. -- .

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This book offers an opportunity to reconsider the films of the British New Wave in the light of forty years of heated debate. Taylor presenting a new and innovative look at this famous cycle of British films. -- .

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A rich and original study of the culture of association, showing the Big Society in action in interwar Britain. First full-length study of a major British pressure-group, the League of Nations Union, since 1981, making extensive use of local archives. Essential reading for anyone interested in the history of social movements in modern Britain.

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A rich and original study of the culture of association, showing the Big Society in action in interwar Britain. First full-length study of a major British pressure-group, the League of Nations Union, since 1981, making extensive use of local archives. Essential reading for anyone interested in the history of social movements in modern Britain.

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This book is an historical examination of the impact short-term political expediency played in the positions adopted by members of Britain's political elites in the debates over Europe. It advances the argument that many MPs failed to consider the long-term implications of membership. -- .

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This book is an historical examination of the impact short-term political expediency played in the positions adopted by members of Britain's political elites in the debates over Europe. It advances the argument that many MPs failed to consider the long-term implications of membership. -- .

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This book is designed as both a framework text - setting out concepts by which to understand the British question - and a synthetic text - providing a digest of significant academic work on historical, conceptual and political matters relevant to that question. -- .

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This is the first detailed academic cultural study of the rise and fall of the seaside holiday in Britain. This book offers an entertaining and broad interpretation of the holidays and resorts. -- .

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This book gives a fresh perspective on minority governance using declassified files which challenge some of the myths surrounding the minority administrations in the 1970s, and reveals a British tradition of minority government which goes beyond that of other countries. -- .

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A meticulous study of a significant early modern manuscript. -- .

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This volume provides a new commercial perspective on contraception in modern Britain. It examines contraceptives as commodities and demonstrates the significance of the contraceptive industry in shaping sexual knowledge alongside the medical profession, the birth control movement, and the state before the emergence of the contraceptive pill.

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This volume provides a significant new commercial perspective on contraception in modern Britain. It is the first book-length study to examine contraceptives as commodities and to demonstrate the significance of the contraceptive industry in shaping sexual knowledge alongside the medical profession, the birth control movement, and the state before the emergence of the contraceptive pill.

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The book explores the previously under-researched patterns and practices that fashioned a modern consumer society, charting the evolving habits among English men and women across three centuries. -- .