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This book explores how medieval and early modern texts use material objects to negotiate temporal otherness. From marvellous artefacts to everyday items, it reveals objects as agents of change, bridging human and material, nature and culture, in ways that anticipate Latour's ideas.

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Surrealists idealized feminine madness for its purportedly unfettered access to the unconscious. At the same time, an unusually large number of surrealist women artists, including Leonora Carrington and Frida Kahlo, experienced mental illness. Die these women find the dream of feminized, mad genius prohibitive-or productive

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Surviving repression tells the story of the Muslim Brotherhood in the aftermath of the 2013 coup. It is the first book of its kind to analyse the movement's recent trajectories by showcasing the experiences of its individual members, analysing how their responses to repression are affecting the movement as a whole.

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This ethnographic study examines the moral, gendered, affective, social, and political dimensions of irregular migrants' experiences of entrapment, uncertainty, and violence in Morocco. To counter dehumanising narratives of a crisis, the book is articulated around the emic notion of 'the adventure' as a quest to carve out a better life and future.

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This is an anthropological exploration of the existential and philosophical qualities of ambiguity as a generative force of political and socio-cultural transformation in contemporary human life trajectories.

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This book demonstrates the continuities of five centuries of European-led slavery and colonialism in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, examining calls for reparations in all three regions for what many now regard to have constituted crimes against humanity.

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This book demonstrates the continuities of five centuries of European-led slavery and colonialism in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, examining calls for reparations in all three regions for what many now regard to have constituted crimes against humanity.

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Fusing a distinctive feminist aesthetics with a startling vision of twentieth-century Spain, the work of Cecilia Bartolome casts a new light on the histories of both Spanish national film, and transnational women's cinema. This book places Bartolome among other key auteurs of national Spanish, and transnational feminist, cinema.

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This edited collection focusses on the writing of ordinary, semi-literate people in history, emphasising the agency and voices of the subordinate classes and contesting conventional histories that treat them as passive or silent. It analyses 'ordinary writings' across a range of geographical areas, historical periods and scholarly disciplines.

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This book explores the cultural politics of food in the South African context, bringing together a range of disciplinary perspectives on the links between media, nourishment, and inequality. The book critically explores the multiple ways in which food is never just food, and is always linked to complex and shifting modalities of meaning and knowledge in the South African context.

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The book uses the metaphor of 'double games' to critically analyse how music education, as a series of games, is played. Examining the intertwinement of social power with players' belief in the purity of their game, and of material with symbolic economies, the authors unravel the complex social dynamics of musical upbringing and socialisation.

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This book analyses the treatment of the emotions in liberal writing in Britain over the long nineteenth century, showing how liberals were deeply concerned with the nature, function, and effects of the emotions and how links between reason, disinterestedness and the positive role of the emotions became a hallmark of liberal writing.

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This book centres constitutional reform in discussions of England and Englishness, and centres England in debates on constitutional reform. It includes the text of a constitution that builds on the heritage and tradition of Westminster Model democracy, combining long-overdue reforms with the restoration of neglected constitutional norms and values

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This book centres constitutional reform in discussions of England and Englishness, and centres England in debates on constitutional reform. It includes the text of a constitution that builds on the heritage and tradition of Westminster Model democracy, combining long-overdue reforms with the restoration of neglected constitutional norms and values

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This book provides a new perspective on the work of Jim Henson, the important but often overlooked creator of screen fairytales.

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The first comprehensive English-language study of Bigas Luna's complete filmography, this book explores genre, gender representation, Iberian and Mediterranean identities, and meta-cinematic narratives. It can be read as a cohesive study of his oeuvre or as a reference for specific films.

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This book explores the international dimensions of the peace settlement of the Eastern Mediterranean.

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An exploration of new Gothic, old Gothic, and their intersection with the crises of our own times. This text shows Gothic as it encompasses each new reality, each new apocalypse, each new plague or crisis we are going through.

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This book applies an original theoretical framework to unpack the threat perceptions and strategic calculus driving the behaviour of the Gulf monarchies, which emerged after the Arab Spring as major geopolitical players in the Middle East and North Africa region and as middle powers destined to play an oversized role in the new multipolar world.

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This book analyses British attitudes on southeastern Europe in the period between 1870-1930.

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Investigating the functioning of travel in political culture by using early modern small states as a case study, this book examines the complex relationship between Jacobitism, educational travel, and small-state diplomacy.

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This ground-breaking history explores the figure of Jacob Harris, a Jewish pedlar who committed a notorious triple-murder in 1734. Tracing Harris's legend through three-hundred years of British history, it offers a new perspective on Jewish life in Britain and beyond.

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The loneliness room is a richly evocative account of loneliness as told through the photographs, videos, songs, poems, and writings supplied by its participants.