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This study covers both the domestic and the international dimensions of the peace process, and is the first to deal seriously with the impact of the war on terror on the situation in Northern Ireland. It is also the first book to look at the Good Friday Agreement since the collapse of the Executive and the historical 2003 elections. -- .

(Hardback, 2nd edition)

This study covers both the domestic and the international dimensions of the peace process, and is the first to deal seriously with the impact of the war on terror on the situation in Northern Ireland. It is also the first book to look at the Good Friday Agreement since the collapse of the Executive and the historical 2003 elections. -- .

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Situates the poem in its political and religious context while offering a full textual analysis. -- .

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This is the first broad study of large-scale violence and the methods of its restraint in the early modern world. Its case studies range from the early 1500s to the 1830s, taking in African slave raiders, Dutch merchants, Burmese bandits, Kurdish highwaymen, Mughal warriors, Spanish colonial soldiers and Japanese magistrates. -- .

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A comprehensive history of the development of British sports medicine as a medical specialism, and of the changing biomedical understanding of the athlete - from normal healthy man, to supernormal hero or even physiological freak - from 1880 to the early twenty-first century. -- .

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This book provides an outline history of English spelling from the Anglo-Saxon' adoption of the Roman alphabet to the present day.

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The book traces the history of international aid from the anti-slavery movement to the end of the cold war. The reconstruction of humanitarianism's long pattern unfolds around some crucial moments and events: the colonial expansion of European countries, the two world wars and their aftermaths, the emergence of a new postcolonial order. -- .

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The book traces the history of international aid from the anti-slavery movement to the end of the cold war. The reconstruction of humanitarianism's long pattern unfolds around some crucial moments and events: the colonial expansion of European countries, the two world wars and their aftermaths, the emergence of a new postcolonial order. -- .

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This new edition of a hugely popular title traces discussions about international relations from the middle ages up to the present times. It presents central concepts in historical context and shows how ancient ideas still affect the way we perceive world politics. -- .

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The case study is a modern genre that has not yet outgrown its original purpose. This collection tells the story of the genre as inseparable from the foundation of sexology and psychoanalysis, and integral to the history of European literature. -- .

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This book tells the story of the Greek resistance to Axis occupation during the Second World War and in particular the life of armed guerrillas. Rather than provide a conventional military history it will illuminate for the first time the lives, experiences and thoughts of the resistance fighters during their fight against the Occupation.

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Investigates the history of film in New Zealand. This volume looks at the very beginning of the NZ film industry, in the early years of the twentieth century, rather than concentrating on the renaissance in the 1970s. It covers various major directors, who have had international success, including Geoff Murphy, Roger Donaldson, and Lee Tamahori.

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This book is the first, definitive history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP), a unique political force in twentieth century British and Irish politics that drew its support from Protestants and Catholics and became electorally viable despite deep-seated ethnic, religious and national divisions. -- .

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Presents the history of Royal College of Nursing, one of the largest nursing organizations in the world. This book deals with the position of nurses in British society during 20th century by examining the largest of their organizations. It sheds light on both gender relations and the position of women in the work place in Britain since 1916.

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This fully annotated version makes available on one of the most popular and influential plays by Beaumont and Fletcher, young contemporaries of Shakespeare. In discussing sources and stage history, the critical introduction challenges the common modern devaluation of these playwrights and offers a fresh, historically informed interpretation.

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The so-called Travels of Sir John Mandeville (c. 1356) was one of the most popular books of the late Middle Ages, highly influencing European perceptions of exotic lands and peoples at the onset of the Age of Discoveries. -- .

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This book examines major literary texts by and about the Irish in the Middle Ages, providing an analysis of a spatial poetics developed over 600 years. It argues that the Irish theorised anew the concept of place and developed a spatial turn that reconfigured how communities in the Irish Sea region thought about writing, place and identity.

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This book examines major literary texts by and about the Irish in the Middle Ages, providing an analysis of a spatial poetics developed over 600 years. It argues that the Irish theorised anew the concept of place and developed a spatial turn that reconfigured how communities in the Irish Sea region thought about writing, place and identity.

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A lark for the sake of their country tells the tale of the upper and middle-class 'volunteers' in Great Britain's 1926 General Strike. -- .

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Investigates the crucial question of 'restitution' in the work of W. G. Sebald. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplines, with a foreword by his English translator Anthea Bell. -- .

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This book explores the evolution of Ireland's national television service during its first tumultuous decade addressing how the medium helped undermine the conservative political, cultural and social consensus that dominated Ireland into the 1960s. -- .

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Details the surveillance by the British security service MI5 of anti-Nazi refugees who came to Britain fleeing political persecution in Germany and Austria -- .

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Details the surveillance by the British security service MI5 of anti-Nazi refugees who came to Britain fleeing political persecution in Germany and Austria -- .

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This is the only general history of Britain's travelling communities in the twentieth century and covers state and legal developments affecting Travellers as well as their experiences of missions, education, warand welfare. -- .