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This book explores how the concept of a multipolar order is being used for different purposes in different national contexts. It examines the ways that debates about power and order in the world are shaping the policies of rising and established powers alike.

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This volume documents the (in)visibility of women in science in the twentieth century. It combines individual and collective portraits with discussions of institutional structures, work cultures, science and domesticity, the pedagogy of science and the gendered dimensions of science communication.

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This book investigates both short- and long-term responses to disaster in the British Caribbean. It is the first to examine the informal negotiations that took place on the ground between the colonial authorities and the African-Caribbean population, and the formal negotiations undertaken by colonies as they sought financial aid from Parliament.

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Neither use nor ornament is a book about personal productivity, narrated from the perspective of its obstacles: clutter and procrastination. It offers a challenge to the self-help promise of a clutter-free life and unravels the moral narratives that hold individuals to account for their inefficiencies and muddles.

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This book explores the twenty-first century upsurge in Gothic screen media emanating from the Basque region of Northern Spain.

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New Labour, new Britain reassesses Tony Blair's governments, offering a balanced view of their policies and impact. Exploring New Labour's successes in public services and social liberalism while acknowledging its shortcomings, the book provides a nuanced perspective on New Labour's lasting influence on modern Britain.

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The eight studies presented here on late medieval religious objects provide new insight into miracle stories, spiritual writings, religious drama, and medieval English poetry.

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The book offers a deep insight into the early days of industry-sponsored clinical research in psychiatry. Examining how the clinic, patients, doctors, nursing staff, corporations, and authorities interacted, it meticulously reconstructs the experimental practices in a psychiatric hospital from 1940-80 whilst telling a larger story.

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First published in 1945, this historic collection of songs composed by Jewish victims of the Holocaust is being made available for the first time in English, complete with introductory essays and biographies of the composers.

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This study overturns twentieth-century thinking about pasticcio opera, redefining it as method not genre, and recontextualising it among many artforms which created new works from pre-existing parts. Its history is interwoven with society's transition from a predominantly oral to literate culture and evolutions in conceptualising the self.

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Picturing the Romantic redefines European Romanticism by exploring its transnational connections in the visual arts. This volume, featuring fifteen essays by established and emerging scholars, delves into various Romantic works of art, challenging conventional definitions and highlighting the dynamic exchanges that shaped the artistic movement.

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Pier Paolo Pasolini's influential cinematic and literary works attest to a crucial early formation: his intermittent practice as a painter, critic, and historian of art. Spanning the fifth-century BCE to the early twenty-first century, this volume's wide-ranging chapters reflect the breadth of Pasolini's aesthetic concerns, from Greek vase painting to the painting of Andy Warhol.

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Pier Paolo Pasolini's influential cinematic and literary works attest to a crucial early formation: his intermittent practice as a painter, critic, and historian of art. Spanning the fifth-century BCE to the early twenty-first century, this volume's wide-ranging chapters reflect the breadth of Pasolini's aesthetic concerns, from Greek vase painting to the painting of Andy Warhol.

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The stock theatrical character Pierrot is an enduring figure in French visual art, where he emerges at the intersection of theatricality and the marketplace. This book offers an account of Pierrot's recurrence in painting, prints, photography and film, tracing this distinctive type from the art of Watteau to the cinema of Occupied France.

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Policing the beats exposes the long history of policing Black music from the era of colonial slavery to the present day.

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Policing the beats exposes the long history of policing Black music from the era of colonial slavery to the present day.

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This book traces the changing ways enthusiasm has been understood politically, exploring how political actors use enthusiasm to motivate allegiances, how we have come to think on the dangers of enthusiasm in democratic politics, and how else we might think about enthusiasm today.

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This book brings together a range of methodological approaches to highlight royal and elite sexualities the sexualities of rulers, and those who were ruled by their sexualities and how these case studies might contribute to our broader knowledge of premodern gender and sexualities.

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Protestant missionary children's historical lives are examined from the perspectives of parents, churches and children, to reveal complicated existences. This book takes a comparative approach across a range of settings, drawing on oral history, childhood history and histories of emotion. It extends scholarship into the mid-twentieth century.

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In this book, historians and political scientists show how radically external images of Germany changed over the 20th century, from the 'Prussian military state' to the 'bulwark of liberalism.' They also explore how such images of Germany affected the evolution of international relations theory at some critical junctures.

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Justifying (in)justice offers an in-depth analysis of the 2011 English 'riots' and the state's startlingly punitive response. Drawing on original research inside the criminal justice system, it traces the forms of denial and ignorance that underpin the contemporary politics of law and order, and offers timely insight into the current moment of crisis.

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This book traces the political genealogy of railways from their introduction in the heyday of railway imperialism to their transformation into a tool for both Chinese nation making and furthering China's global ambition.

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This book explores how literature, theatre and music revive the dead to explore the dynamics of grief and mourning. Combining expressive and analytical writing, it offers a critical poetics of loss to show how ghosts, scenes of mourning, memories of reading or viewing, and acoustic fragments, all reanimate the dead in different ways.