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A highly original and detailed study of an individual single woman in early modern England, based on a recently discovered spiritual autobiography authored by a never-married gentlewoman, Elizabeth Isham. Provides new perspective on women's writing, identity and status in the early modern period. -- .

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This book offers a new interpretation of global migration from c. 1815-1920 by examining the elite German migrants who moved to India especially missionaries, scholars and scientists, businessmen, and travelers. -- .

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Why did Bismarck's new German State degenerate into Hitler's Third Reich What happened to Europe's leading industrial nation - cultural heirs to Kant, Goethe, Durer and Bach How did East and West Germany diverge after 1945 This study explores German social mores, political structures and national psyche over several centuries.

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The study critically reclaims participatory art beyond its co-option as a fuzzword of neoliberal governance. It examines a range of artistic practices from community theatre, immersive performance and the visual arts in different sites around the world. It offers a refreshing theorisation of participatory art as gesture. -- .

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The study critically reclaims participatory art beyond its co-option as a fuzzword of neoliberal governance. It examines a range of artistic practices from community theatre, immersive performance and the visual arts in different sites around the world. It offers a refreshing theorisation of participatory art as gesture. -- .

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The Ghost Story 1840-1920: A Cultural History is the first book length analysis of the British ghost story in over thirty years. It includes readings of the economic, national, colonial, and gender contexts of the ghost story and provides a new and important critical re-evaluation of writers including Dickens, Collins, Henry James, and M.R. James.

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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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An interdisciplinary collection providing new perspective on the interface between the gothic and death, with fresh readings of established, overlooked and recent Gothic works across a variety of cultural and literary forms. -- .

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An interdisciplinary collection providing new perspective on the interface between the gothic and death, with fresh readings of established, overlooked and recent Gothic works across a variety of cultural and literary forms. -- .

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A compelling account of the development of gothic literature in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Ireland. -- .

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A compelling account of the development of gothic literature in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Ireland. -- .

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This collection of essays exposes how meaning has been produced around the Great Exhibition. Critics and historians of art, culture, design and literature have been brought together to examine the objects, the images, the documents and the fictions of 1851.

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An invaluable compendium of sources relating to the Great Exhibition -- .

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An invaluable compendium of sources relating to the Great Exhibition -- .

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This is the first biography of the last major unknown figure in European history. The Duke of Lerma was the first and greatest of the royal favourites of the European seventeenth century. He was the greatest art patron of his generation and the greatest lay builder in Spanish history. This study is profoundly well researched and fluently written.

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Explodes the myth that globalisation is the cause of inequality and that the state can do little to protect us. -- .

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Explodes the myth that globalisation is the cause of inequality and that the state can do little to protect us. -- .

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This book analyses the battle for ideological and actual control of the Durham Miners' Association between Liberals, socialists and syndicalists in the tumultuous period prior to the First World War. -- .

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This book analyses the battle for ideological and actual control of the Durham Miners' Association between Liberals, socialists and syndicalists in the tumultuous period prior to the First World War. -- .

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This book is the first comprehensive study of the varying responses to golf-related environmental issues. The authors examine golf as a sport and as a global industry, drawing on literatures pertaining to environmental sociology, global social movements, institutional change, corporate environmentalism and the sociology of sport. -- .

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This book is the first comprehensive study of the varying
responses to golf-related environmental issues. The authors examine golf as a
sport and as a global industry, drawing on literatures
pertaining to environmental sociology, global social movements, institutional
change, corporate environmentalism and the sociology of sport.

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This book shows how the grotesque continues to be a powerful force in contemporary British writing and provides an illuminating picture of often controversial aspects of recent fiction. -- .

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This book shows how the grotesque continues to be a powerful force in contemporary British writing and provides an illuminating picture of often controversial aspects of recent fiction. -- .

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This book applies an original theoretical framework to unpack the threat perceptions and strategic calculus driving the behaviour of each one of the six Gulf monarchies, which emerged after the Arab Spring as major geopolitical players in the Middle East and North Africa region and as middle powers destined to play an oversized role in the new multipolar world.