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Industrial memory in North East England examines how the region's industrial myth and memory have been articulated in the renegotiation of northernness, offering a critical contextualisation of the concept of northernness and the English North.

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This book presents for the first time a coherent analysis of the British Isles as an imperial setting understood through its buildings, spaces, and infrastructure. It considers 'internal' colonisation and its infrastructures of order and suppression, alongside wider relationships between architecture, imperialism, and cultural identity.

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This collection of essays provides the most comprehensive study of the theory and practice of the contribution of international organisations and non-state actors to the formation of customary international law. The book offers new practical and theoretical perspectives on one of the most complex questions about the making of international law.

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This edited volumes engages with the concept of multipolarity in the MENA region, and it does so by using a broad range of theories and approaches.

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Intimate afterlives of empire is the first comprehensive study of an important genre of cultural memory, the post-imperial autobiography

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Lily Dunn, author of Sins of My Father, presents an essential guide to memoir writing. Demystifying the memoirist's art, she explores why our memories privilege some events over others and offers advice for navigating the challenge of writing truthfully without intruding on the lives of our loved ones.

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This book explores the process by which the French Basque country acquired a folkloric regional identity in the long nineteenth century. It argues that, despite originating in pre-'modern' customs, such stereotypical identity was invented in the long nineteenth century as part of France's process of nation-building.

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Invoking Empire combines nine case studies from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa to demonstrate the diverse ways people continued to interact with imperial authority in the decades before and after their colonies gained self-government, attending specifically to their efforts to apply imperial power in their local communities.

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This book tells the story of graphic designers in Milan from the 1930s to the 1960s. Focusing on design education, everyday practice, organisational strategies, mediating channels and modernism, it contributes to our understanding of the role graphic design has played in the history of Italian visual culture.

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James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. This edition brings together all of the articles published in this year's volume.

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This book bears witness to the personal experiences of Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe in the highly gendered profession of nursing.

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This volume explores John Ford's preoccupations throughout his long career, showing how he attempted to come to terms with American history, with how America kept changing its relationship with history and how many of the myths of the 'West' were just that myths.

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Joining up explores men's encounters with representations of the First World War in interwar Britain, and illuminates how these informed their understandings of the First World War and how those understandings shaped their attitudes to Second World War enlistment and their conceptions of masculinity in wartime Britain.

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As the neoliberal order decays, we recall Polanyi's warning against market domination and his trademark ideas: commodified money, the double movement, the US exception development, the reality of society, and socialism as freedom in a complex society. The contributors consider the links between Polanyi's ideas and income inequality, world systems theory, and comparative political economy.

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This book is a history of the Potters' Emigration Society from its founding in 1844 to its dissolution in early 1851. The Society, which became a national organisation after 1848, sought to solve the problems of surplus labour by turning workers into frontier farmers. It was the most significant industrial emigration scheme of its period.

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Latin America and international investment analyses the complex relationships between governments and foreign investors, and the influence of international organisations, corporations, civil society, and indigenous peoples, to examine the contribution that Latin America has made to the theory and practice of international investment law.

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A unique and worthwhile examination of EU relations with South America in the first decades of the twenty-first century, focusing in particular on the evolution of negotiations for new generation preferential trade agreements.

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A critical and colourful commentary on the history of the fractious relationship between law and medicine over several centuries reveals compelling stories how law regulated healers and healing . Any view that the law consistently deferred to medical practitioners is shown to be wrong. From the womb to the grave, enduring themes are identified.

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A sourcebook illustrative of the legal, political, social and cultural history of the German lands of the Holy Roman Empire in the late medieval and Reformation era (c. 13501550). It includes translations of all the major laws issued in the Empire in this period, as well as sources focused on local elites and ordinary men and women.

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A sourcebook illustrative of the legal, political, social and cultural history of the German lands of the Holy Roman Empire in the late medieval and Reformation era (c. 13501550). It includes translations of all the major laws issued in the Empire in this period, as well as sources focused on local elites and ordinary men and women.

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This collection explores what Roland Barthes termed the 'autobiographical turn' in art, literature and critical theory since the mid-1960s. Through a variety of perspectives, it examines the relationship between work and life, notions of the 'self' and what autobiography might mean today.

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This book presents six medieval biographies of bishops from the German Empire, translated into English for the first time. The texts span the tenth to thirteenth centuries, and offer fascinating windows onto politics and society in the central Middle Ages.

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This book examines the theological questions posed by portrayals of love, sexual violence, and sacrifice in medieval romance. The book argues that these themes are by nature entangled with the discourse of anti-Judaism, which can be turned inwardly to expose irresolution within Christianity itself.

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Lying abroad reconstructs the tumultuous early modern career of a jobbing ambassador, Henry Wotton, the man James I sent to Venice in 1604 to restore Anglo-Venetian relations. It recounts his back-story then follows his daily life in diplomacy, poised between tedium and crisis a life endlessly theatrical.