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Explores the origins of the NCCL, its political orientation, and the political and personal agendas of its supporters. -- .

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This book presents a wide range of important, lively and engaging readings, aiming to capture the originality of Bauman's special way of doing sociology and all the complexity of his core ideas, in a way that connects with twenty-first century minds. -- .

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Presents a salutory warning to the international community against the fashionable but superficial view that there is an "Irish model" which can be exported to cauterise ethnic troubles around the globe. -- .

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First full length academic work to situate the theology of Richard Brothers into its larger political and cultural context. -- .

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The book makes a compelling case for reconstructing feminist theory in critical-realist terms and forms a trend-setting text in the area of gender studies. -- .

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Considers Irish constitutional law and the Irish constitutional tradition from the perspective of republican theory. -- .

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How and why do so many radicals betray the cause What implications does it have for left politics Were the ex-radicals right to become conservatives This book, the first of its kind, answers these and more questions. -- .

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A timely analysis of Northern Ireland's constitutional nationalist tradition in the years leading up to the outbreak of the Troubles -- .

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This book explores how the European question has been channelled into political competition in Hungary, and how this has affected party strategy, elections and government. It provides a comparative analysis of the politics of European integration and one of the first English-language analyses of the politicsof Hungary since the fall of communism.

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Situates Jean Genet's theatre within the wider social, spatial and political contexts of France in the 1950s and 1960s. This book argues that his theory and practice of political theatre have more in common with the affirmative ideas of thinkers such as Henri Lefebvre, Jacques Ranciere and Alain Badiou.

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situates the discussion of older people's interests in the international context and outlines the findings of an Irish case study -- .

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Is democracy in crisis Not according to this book! In this fascinating study, Professor Qvortrup shows that citizens are engaged in politics like never before by voting in referendums and participating in demonstrations and other forms of 'low politics'. -- .

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In formulating a notion of filmic reality, The Reality of Film offers a novel way of understanding our relationship to cinema. It argues that cinema need not be understood in terms of its capacities to refer to, reproduce or represent reality, but should be understood in terms of the kinds of realities it has the ability to create. -- .

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Explores the role of public sector agencies in the regeneration of east Manchester -- .

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This collection of essays offers a major reassessment of the meaning and significance of emotional experience in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. -- .

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The Swing Riots were the most dramatic and widespread rising of the English rural poor. Protestors destroyed machines, demanding higher wages and better poor relief. Swing represented a genuine challenge to the existing ruling order, provoking a bitter and bloody repression. This is a vivid account of a defining moment in British history.

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A new English translation. Looks at the most notorious massacre in early modern European history and rejects most of the established accounts, especially those privileging conspiracy. Based on extensive research and a careful examination of existing interpretations, this book is the most authoritative analysis of a shattering event. -- .

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This book examines same-sex unions policy (SSU) developments in eighteen western democracies and seeks to explain why the overwhelming majority of these countries has implemented a national law to recognise gay and lesbian couples since 1989. -- .

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The Scottish family tree detective is a practical, user- friendly guide to research in family history - in locating the ancestors and exploring their background. Its aim is to provide sign-posts to the past and to solve problems. -- .

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New and original assessment of the second Labour government 1929-31 with up to date analyses of its policies and politics. -- .

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Offers a new and challenging account of the relationships between rhetoric and aesthetics, informed by literature, critical theory and philosophy.

Offers readings of familiar and unfamiliar early modern texts by Shakespeare, Sidney, Jonson and others that will be of interest to researchers and students of literature, aesthetics and rhetoric.

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The 2001 foot and mouth disease epidemic in the UK had a devastating and long-lasting impact on individuals and communities. Although many studies about FMD have been published since 2001, this is the first book to examine in any detail the ways in which the outbreak affected the fabric of rural life and rural culture across class and generations.

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Examines the transformation of public services in different varieties of capitalism. It compares postal reform in France, Germany and the United Kingdom, takes stock of the postal reform movement in Europe and internationally, and discusses policy approaches in telecoms and electricity. -- .

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A striking new interpretation of white settlement in early colonial Kenya -- .