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Reinterpreting the latest research and discoveries, and featuring a ground-breaking study of Worsley Man, this book brings the bogs to life through both natural history and folklore, revealing them as places that were rich and fertile yet dangerous. It also reflects on the debate over whether bog bodies should be displayed at all. -- .

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A radical new interpretation of Britain's Chief Rabbis from Nathan Adler to Immanuel Jakobovits, and the impact they had on Anglo-Jewry. -- .

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This book, the first full-length study of British civilians' behaviour in air raids during the Second World War, challenges a common image of civilians as passive shelterers during air raids. -- .

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Updated to include the 1997 election, New Labour and the Tory Party under William Hague, this covers all aspects of the major British parties - their history, ideals, organization, finances, electoral prospects, and impact on British society. The likely effect of a more intrusive EU is included.

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This book explores the life courses of children born of war
in different twentieth-century conflicts, from the Second World War to the
Rwandan Genocide and the LRA conflict. It is based on extensive archival
research, as well as oral history and participatory research methods, to add
the voices of the children born of war to historical analysis.

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This book offers a panoramic view of Georgian London, redefining the citys role in the industrial, agricultural and consumer revolutions. It does this by examining, for the first time, the huge contribution that horses, cattle, sheep, pigs and dogs made to the worlds first modern metropolis, as well as the serious challenges the animals posed.

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Charts the story of the people of the Scottish Highlands from medieval times to the great crofter's rebellion in the 1880s -- .

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This book provides a critique of dominant cybersecurity knowledge that draws upon original constructivist analysis of the expert discourse within the internet security industry. The book argues that this expertise helps explain the probematic common sense that sees cybersecurity conflated with national security. -- .

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Provides an introduction to the products and context of the new Australian film industry which arose toward the end of the 1960s. Traces the development of Australian film and the evolution of the film genres peculiar to Australia and the adaptation of traditional Hollywood forms.

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This book is about the spectacles and ceremonies of society in the Low Countries. It is the first ever attempt to unite and translate some of the key texts which informed Johan Huizinga's famous study of the Burgundian court in The Waning of the Middle Ages, a work which has never gone out of print. -- .

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Jason Statham is Britain's most important post-millennial male film star. This book examines his work throughout a career encompassing film, television, music videos, multi-media platforms and video gaming. -- .

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Curating empire explores the diverse roles played by museums and their curators in moulding and representing the British imperial experience. This collection demonstrates how individuals, their curatorial practices, and intellectual and political agendas influenced the development of a variety of museums across the globe. -- .

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Drawing in an eclectic range of primary and secondary sources, Chaplin reveals how darts was transformed during the interwar years to become one of the most popular recreations in England, not just among the working classes but even (to some extent) among the middle and upper classes. -- .

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Comprehensive overview of the director's body of work which yields new insights on the established classics of Lean's career as well as its lesser-known treasures -- .

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Death Machines offers a critical reconsideration of ethical theories and political justifications for technologised practices of violence in contemporary conflicts. -- .

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Debates on Stalinism introduces major debates about Stalinism during and after the Cold War. It introduces major debates and major historians of the Soviet Union during the brutal reign of Stalin. Readers will better understand not only the history of our current understanding of Stalinism but also contemporary debates in Russia and Ukraine.

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This book examines how historians have interpreted the German revolution of 1918-19 from its inception to the present day. It charts how the debate on this revolution changed during the Weimar republic, the Nazi period and the second world war, in the time of Germanys division from 1949 to 1990, and finally in the years since German reunification.

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This unique textbook introduces undergraduate students to medieval historiography, providing an entry point for the dense scholarship on the period. Volume I covers the post-Roman world, from 450 to 1050. -- .

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This book gives detailed and original critical readings of all eleven of Derek Jarman's feature-length films, arguing that he occupies a major and influential place in European and world cinema rather than merely being a cult figure within a particular subculture. -- .

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Investigates what is done to the bodies of the victims after they are killed -- .

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This book examines disability and disabled people in British coalmining, an industry with high levels of injury and disease and where, as one outsider noted, streets 'thronged with the maimed and mutilated'. -- .

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This volume in the "Revel Plays" series, offers reading editions, with modern spelling, of the 1604 and 1616 editions of Marlowe's play, arguing that the two cannot be conflated into one. Included are sources and commentary, literary criticism, style and staging/performance assessments.

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This is a book that provokes a debate about accountability in the House of Commons. Based on unprecedented access, it reveals different ways that MPs and officials interpret scrutiny. Some of their approaches are more conducive to effective scrutiny than others, which raises interesting questions about the effectiveness of Parliament. -- .