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Makes available, for the first time in English translation, four of the principal narrative sources for the history of the Spanish kingdom of Leon -Castile, covering the Reconquest of Spain from the forces of Islam during the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and the story of Rodrigo Diaz, better remembered as El Cid. -- .

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Explores the ways in which the unashamedly disturbing conventions of international horror cinema allow audiences to engage with the traumatic legacy of the recent past in a manner that has serious implications for the ways in which we conceive of ourselves both as gendered individuals and as members of a particular nation-state. -- .

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This volume investigates the mass detention of Uyghurs in China, exploring the regimes of surveillance to which they are subjected both inside and outside the detention centres of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. It offers new insights into the future of the CCPs domestic governance strategies and troubling international behaviour.

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This book looks at the genesis of British national identity in the reign of King James I and VI. It does this by studying two things: the political language of the King's project to replace England, Scotland and Wales with a single kingdom of Great Britain and cultural representations of empire on the public and private stages. -- .

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This important collection of essays focuses on the place of Roman Catholicism in early modern England, bringing new perspectives to bear on whether Shakespeare himself was Catholic. -- .

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This wide-ranging look at the state of contemporary theatre practice, economics, and issues related to identity, politics, and technology contains a snapshot dissection of where theatre is, where it has been and where it might be going.

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This is the first book to appear in English about theatre from the entire Nazi period (1933-45) -- .

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The book is a study of theatre's educational role in the 20th and the first years of the 21st centuries. It examines the variety of ways the theatre's educational potential has been harnessed and theorised by the claims made for its value and the tension between theatre as education and theatre as 'art'. -- .

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This book focuses on the significance and effect of theatrical subject matter in key films in several genres, and ranges from Busby Berkeley to Ingmar Bergman, and from the haunted backstage world of The Phantom of the Opera to the sinister glamour of The Red Shoes and the theatrical politics of Mephisto and The Lives of Others. -- .

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An analysis that concentrates in particular on problems of genesis and intertextuality, and highlights the thematic continuity of the aspect of Theophile Gautier's work.

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Applying approaches prominent in the field, this book explains the achievements and shortcomings of the peace in Northern Ireland, focusing on the role of a number of significant actors as well as those who have been marginalised by the process. -- .

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Issues of power, form and subjectivity are at the centre of all attempts to understand the media better. This book highlights both what we know and what we need to know, using regular examples to make its points. -- .

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Therapeutic landscapes uniquely brings together historical and contemporary debates on the use of the garden as a therapeutic space. By focusing on the history of hospital gardens in England, Hickman adds a new dimension to current concerns regarding the therapeutic environment. -- .

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There is no soundtrack amplifies new and radical audio-visual relationships in experimental media art. It addresses the lack of diversity in the study of art, media and sound through careful audition of marginalised voices that speak of race, gender, sexuality, indigeneity, colonialism, nationalism, violence and the politics of space. -- .

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There is no soundtrack amplifies new and radical audio-visual relationships in experimental media art. It addresses the lack of diversity in the study of art, media and sound through careful audition of marginalised voices that speak of race, gender, sexuality, indigeneity, colonialism, nationalism, violence and the politics of space. -- .

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A conversation about what Enghlish national identity actually means. -- .

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As think tank numbers explode, they have become an integral part of political life. Political leaders, corporations and non-governmental organisations draw upon their expert advice to advance their causes in the battle of ideas. -- .

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How should we respond to the inhumanity that suffused the 20th Century and continues in the present one Has there been an adequate treatment of this issue by the political left Questions such as these are treated in this, the first scholarly book to combine academic and blogging approaches to some of the major political issues of the day.

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A celebration of Englishness in the sixteenth century. Appeals equally to students of early modern history and its literary culture, presenting a view of 'Tudor England' and offering a firmer historical background to evaluating the English Renaissance. -- .

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A celebration of Englishness in the sixteenth century. Appeals equally to students of early modern history and its literary culture, presenting a view of 'Tudor England' and offering a firmer historical background to evaluating the English Renaissance. -- .

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This book examines responses of a Christian intellectual group in 1930s and 1940s Britain to totalitarianism and war. Seeking middle ways through what has been called the age of extremes, the group sought to apply faith to the social order, influence public opinion and inspire a social renewal in the years surrounding the Second World War.

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This book examines responses of a Christian intellectual group in 1930s and 1940s Britain to totalitarianism and war. Seeking middle ways through what has been called the age of extremes, the group sought to apply faith to the social order, influence public opinion and inspire a social renewal in the years surrounding the Second World War.