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This book examines twenty major British films from a 70-year time span, offering a lively account of what has made them valuable and provocative over many viewings. -- .

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Provides a comprehensive introduction to China's political system, outlining the major features of the Chinese model and highlighting its claims and challenges. -- .

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Investigates the boycott of the 1911 census by Suffragettes -- .

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This is a study of the historic 2007 Scottish Parliament election in which the SNP supplanted Labour as Scotland's largest party for the first time ever, and went on to form the Scottish Government. -- .

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This ground-breaking book examines the story of Wales since 1939, giving voice to ordinary people and the variety of experiences within the nation. This is a history of not just a nation, but of its residents' hopes and fears, their struggles and pleasures and their views of where they lived and the wider world. -- .

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This book covers the many topics of `the war on terror' from legal, philosophical, economic and historical perspectives. The dialogue form of the book (essay-response) allows a broad representation of views, covering the situation in the Middle East, national security, politics of intervention, human rights, torture and the motives of the Iraq War.

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Through a series of thematic chapters, this book focuses on the nature of injured and disabled bodies in relation to rehabilitative practices established in Britain during and immediately following the Second World War. -- .

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This book offers the first sustained examination of the cultural relations of the American and Soviet avant-gardes in a period of major transformation. -- .

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Compares the histories of psychiatric and voluntary hospital nurses' health from the rise of the professional nurse in 1880 to the advent of the National Health Service in 1948 -- .

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This book offers a comprehensive account of the methods and practice of learning modern languages, especially Italian, in late sixteenth and early seventeenth century England. -- .

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Offers a comprehensive examination of the oeuvre of William Trevor -- .

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Compares Irish women across the globe over the last two centuries, setting this research in the context of recent theoretical developments in the study of diaspora -- .

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This is the first book to consider the difference women MPs make for women constituents in Britain by comparing women parliamentarians' activities, priorities and perceptions to those of their male colleagues. -- .

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Explores British women's journeys abroad on steamships and trains during a period of great social, cultural and technical change, using a wide variety of sources including women's letters and diaries, contemporary art, advertising, fiction and etiquette guides. -- .

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Breaks new ground in the history of psychiatry by focusing on the role of work in mental-health institutions. -- .

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Analyses the role of workers both in Tito's Yugoslavia and in the subsequent Serbian revolution against Milosevic in October 2000 -- .

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Provides an in-depth study of agrarian capitalist developmental in Brazil. -- .

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The first in-depth study of Britain's many work camp systems. -- .

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The first detailed study on the experiences of disabled children during the Second World War. -- .

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Analyses the phenomenon of literary disenchantment after the First World War -- .

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A collection of essays by established feminist and cultural critics interested in experimenting with new styles of expression. -- .

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Examines the coming of age experiences of young men and women who became active in radical left circles in 1960s England. -- .

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Andrew Caine details the reaction to British and American pop films during the 1950s and 1960s to provide a valuable insight into British film criticism, teenage culture during the 1950s and 1960s and the generic status of rock films/teen movies and cultural hierarchies. -- .