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This book uncovers that exhibitions uniquely reveal the changing landscape of Irishness over two centuries by analysing the politics of display. It demonstrates how questions of Irishness intersected with broader ideas of citizenship, race and ethnic construction in Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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This book studies the ways in which three fields of creative activity inspired by the medieval musical performance, literature, cinema and their reception have worked together to produce and sustain the fantasy of a long-lost, long-mourned paradisal home.

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Details the political and cultural contexts of the entry of fairies to the historical record in twelfth century England, and the subsequent political uses of fairy narratives in both insular and continental history and romance, revealing the fairy as a contested marker of historicity and fictionality.

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This book explores how we theorize about fashion, responding to a new increasing attention to critical theory and philosophy in the fashion industry.

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This book is the first historical study of colour in modern British hospitals, examining the use of colour to understand the layered meanings of modernity in twentieth-century Britain.

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This book provides the first in-depth examination of feminist mental health activism in England from c.1968-1995. It explores how feminist activists initially rejected Freud before using psychoanalysis to enhance their politics; examines the development of feminist therapy; and charts the influence of feminism on national mental health charities.

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This is the definitive guide to British folklore. Written by two of the country's leading experts, it covers everything from wizards and witches to UFOs and internet fanfiction.

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From the Alpine pastureland of late nineteenth century Switzerland to the hospitals of post-independence West Africa, Nestle and the shaping of the aid industry tells the story of how Nestle earned a seat at the table of international aid, and uncovers the long-forgotten alliances and controversies that continue to shape the aid industry today.

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This book presents social ecological economics as an emerging paradigm combining critical social science with structural realism to offer a radical, theoretically grounded, alternative economics based on ethical social provisioning and meeting needs. The foundations include its radical roots, philosophical presuppositions and preanalytic vision.

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Future Perfect is a co-creative ethnography combining theatre improvisations, storytelling, collaborative filmmaking and participatory animation in the study of illegalised migration in the Mediterranean. It recognises the centrality of imagination and creativity in the making of lives and stories at the crossing of dehumanising border regimes.

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A groundbreaking study of British women's responses to the South African War of 1899-1902 throwing new light on empire and British society, gender and imperialism, and Victorian women's politics and citizenship.

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This collection examines ghostly presences (and absences) in both classic and lesser-known Gothic texts from the beginning of the genre to the present in a global context.

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This interdisciplinary text combines an attention to socio-historical and cultural contexts with a rigorous close reading of literary, artistic, and televisual works, both classic and lesser known. It investigates how the Gothic and the concepts of dreams and nightmares have intersected from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day.

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This collection of essays considers the significance of graveyards in Gothic literature, film, television and video games. The chapters incorporate discussion of Gothic texts from around the world, offering a compelling new account of the graveyard's importance as a key location for Gothic art and culture.

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Haunted Britain offers a new emotional and cultural history of the Great War as told through the spiritualist and psychical research movements between 1914 and 1939.

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This study provides insights into the politics, policies and management of healthcare in Northern Ireland from Irish partition in 1921 to the reorganisation of the services in 1973. It covers the interwar era, reforms of the 1940s, and creation and operation of the National Health Service, especially the Northern Ireland Hospitals Authority.

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This book, a companion to the author's acclaimed Emile and Isaac Pereire (2015), sheds new light on elite Jewish families in nineteenth-century France.

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Hospital aesthetics: Disability, medicine, activism argues that contemporary disabled artists are offering a new hospital aesthetics, where artists are taking health and care into their own hands and body-minds. Disabled artists are contributing to a type of disability activism that can simultaneously improve mainstream bioethics and ableist museum and gallery culture.

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Hospital aesthetics: Disability, medicine, activism argues that contemporary disabled artists are offering a new hospital aesthetics, where artists are taking health and care into their own hands and body-minds. Disabled artists are contributing to a type of disability activism that can simultaneously improve mainstream bioethics and ableist museum and gallery culture.

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This book explores the neglected history of textile crafts in projects of social and moral reform and considers how historical processes have become materialised in contemporary humanitarian craft-work.

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This volume examines humanitarianism in Central and Eastern Europe during the twentieth century. It challenges the often Western-focused history of humanitarianism by bringing together local, "private", national, "socialist," and international humanitarian actors.

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What can a turn to humour offer International Relations This book suggests a focus on comic practice illuminates the relationship between global politics, culture and the everyday. It offers a theoretically rich examination of humour's contribution to the making and unmaking of subjectivity, identity and community at a range of empirical sites.

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This book delivers a critical study of British-born Ida Lupino as both a constructed star image and an underappreciated filmmaker who worked across independent and mainstream cinema during Hollywood's classical era.

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A collection of original research on far-left groups and activists in Britain from the 1950s onwards, focusing in particular on themes of international solidarity, British Black Power, experiences of policing and surveillance, and relationships to the Labour Party.