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This book examines the phenomenon of infanticide in Ireland from 1850 to 1900. It is based on a large sample of 4,645 individual cases of infant murder, attempted infanticide and concealment of birth. Through a variety of sources, attitudes towards the crime of infanticide and women accused of the offence are revealed. -- .

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This book examines the phenomenon of infanticide in Ireland from 1850 to 1900. It is based on a large sample of 4,645 individual cases of infant murder, attempted infanticide and concealment of birth. Through a variety of sources, attitudes towards the crime of infanticide and women accused of the offence are revealed. -- .

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An investigation of a wide range of contemporary sources, from domestic conduct guides to emblem books, this study offers fresh perspectives on both culture and literature. -- .

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A neoliberal revolution examines the Thatcher governments attempt to privatise and individualise Britains pension system, thereby transforming workers into risk-taking savers with a stake in capitalism. The book explains why this revolution failed and charts the malign legacy left by the evolutionary reforms which ministers salvaged from it.

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Analyses co-operation between universities and regional authorities -- .

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This volume brings together a diverse selection of the latest academic research in the field of naval history. It is the first publication to capture a new form of naval history that engages with race, sexuality, gender, material culture, popular culture and fine art. -- .

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Based on a critical appraisal of the constructivist approach in European studies, this volume introduces a new political sociology approach focused on actors. -- .

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Based on a critical appraisal of the constructivist approach in European studies, this volume introduces a new political sociology approach focused on actors. -- .

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Human rights and dtente inextricably intertwined during Carters years. By promoting human rights in the USSR, Carter sought to build a domestic consensus for dtente; through bipolar dialogue, he tried to advance human rights in the USSR. But, human rights contributed to the erosion of dtente without achieving a lasting domestic consensus.

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Human rights and dtente inextricably intertwined during Carters years. By promoting human rights in the USSR, Carter sought to build a domestic consensus for dtente; through bipolar dialogue, he tried to advance human rights in the USSR. But, human rights contributed to the erosion of dtente without achieving a lasting domestic consensus.

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A Progressive Education argues that the period after WWII witnessed a fundamental transformation in concepts of childhood and adolescence in England and Wales. -- .

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A Progressive Education argues that the period after WWII witnessed a fundamental transformation in concepts of childhood and adolescence in England and Wales. -- .

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In this autobiography, the author evokes his Edwardian childhood in his portrait of a vanished community as he tells how he and the other children of Salford struggled daily to survive the poverty that surrounded them.

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Through an examination of the rite and practice of consecrating (dedication) churches in eleventh-century Italy, A Sacred City examines how ritual was employed to foster the Gregorian reform and how sacred space shaped identity, generated conflict, and provoked a debate over symbolic meaning and ecclesiology among the reformers. -- .

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In A sonnet to science, leading science communicator Dr Sam Illingworth presents a selection of poetry written by well-known scientists, contextualising it with their work and research, in an effort to better understand how poetry might today be used as an effective tool in both the advancement of science and the way it is communicated. -- .

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The first monograph-length study that charts the coercive diplomacy of the administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford as practised against their British ally -- .

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Ralph Knevet's Supplement of the Faery Queene (1635) is a narrative and allegorical work, which weaves together a complex collection of tales and episodes, featuring knights, ladies, sorcerers, monsters, vertiginous fortresses and deadly battles. -- .

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Table for one: A critical reading of singlehood, gender and time is the first book to consider the profound relationship between singlehood and time. -- .

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Table for one: A critical reading of singlehood, gender and time is the first book to consider the profound relationship between singlehood and time. -- .

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This book offers a stimulating new approach to studying social and political theory. It combines specially selected extracts from the political classics with original and insightful essays offering a commentary upon them. -- .

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Super soldiers are about to become the new actors in the battlefields of tomorrow. Armed with science fiction-esque equipment and drugs, they are about to make comic book and Hollywood superheroes a reality. -- .

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Super soldiers are about to become the new actors in the battlefields of tomorrow. Armed with science fiction-esque equipment and drugs, they are about to make comic book and Hollywood superheroes a reality. -- .