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An energetic look at BBC Television in 1950s, illustrating how it was at the forefront of popular programming, including the first Reality TV programmes, quiz and game shows, even 'problem' talk shows. -- .

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This book combines phenomenology and political economy to offer new approaches for analyses of human-environment relations and technologies. It contributes to the social studies of fisheries through an analysis of how fishing practices and social relations are shaped by political economy. -- .

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This book provides an introduction into the development, the making and the implementation of European Union environmental politics. It employs a clear and accessible analytical perspective based on the theoretical state-of-the-art of EU policy Studies -- .

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This book investigates how the practice of keeping a light burning in churches was established in the early Middle Ages. It asks what the material consequences of implementing the practice were and why it ceased at the end of the Middle Ages.

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EU development cooperation policy has ceased to be unique and perhaps has become more symbolic than substantive. This book analyses the external and internal influencing factors which have contributed to the drastic changes to this policy. -- .

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Focuses on issues of assimilation, translation and misunderstanding as art objects moved between cultures, either literally or imaginatively, and considers how visual culture expresses the increasing contact between Europe and the rest of the world in this era. -- .

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This volume examines the cultural history of the fashion industry in the postwar era. Taking an original, interdisciplinary approach, it focuses on the internal culture of the trade, explaining the significance of value creation and assessing the transformation of local industries into global brands. -- .

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Challenging the tyranny of the Anglo-American narratives that have dominated critical historis of the Gothic, this work argues that the Gothic novel did not simply derive from "The Castle of Otranto", but from the cross-fertilization of translations from French, German, Russian and Spanish.

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Taking its cue from Michel de Montaigne, this book asks what COVID-19 can teach us about the art of living. It examines eight themes from a philosophical perspective, including attitudes to old age, populism and life under lockdown, arguing that the crisis presents opportunities to create a more just society and change our lives for the better.

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Expatriate offers an in-depth study of the history and politics of the category expatriate. The book works across multiple sites to tell situated stories about the categorys (re)making, contestation and lived experience and shows that migration is a key terrain on which colonial power relations are reproduced, reworked and translated today.

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Faith stories is an investigation of faith and belief systems in Australia and England. Drawing on ethnography, interviews, focus groups for adults and arts-based workshops for their children, Hickey-Moody takes a community-based approach to examining belonging, attachment, faith and belief.

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A brilliant new account of John Singer Sargent and his relationship with the Wertheimers, an eminent Jewish family in Edwardian London.

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Fascist Italy is an introduction to the phenomenon of Italian Fascism and its impact. The author balances a re-evaluation of political, diplomatic and military developments with an assessment of the more domestic and cultural dimensions of the subject.

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This book explores the relationship between fictional television and American world politics in the period from 9/11 through to the presidency of Donald J. Trump. This period comprises a second golden age for fictional TV. The book therefore explores some of the best TV of all time across two decades of heightened political controversy. -- .

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This book tells the story of how the moderate right in the Labour Party, weakened by defections to the SDP in 1981, successfully regained control of the party and helped it return to electability -- .

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This book is paradigm-shifting in the study of film audiences. It develops new theory on audiences as a process and new methodology for studying audiences based on extensive new empirical data on audiences.

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Unique report on the major archaeological dig at Shakespeare's Stratford-upon-Avon home and the implications for the Shakespearian biography. -- .

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Celebrates the life and work of Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain's greatest modern poet and dramatist. -- .

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This book provides the first comprehensive account of France's relationship to human protection since the 1980s by investigating the mutual impact interconnected yet distinct domestic and international norms of human protection have had on each other over time. -- .

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After making an initial impact with his first film "Les 400 Coups", the French film director Francois Truffaut went on to make 23 films in 26 years. This appraisal of his work provides a socio-political contextualization, and gives an overview of his films and film-making methods.

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This collection offers bold reappraisals of the history of freedom of speech in the pre-modern Anglophone world. It addresses the aims and effectiveness of official policies, the thorny issues with which contemporaries grappled and the claims that were and were not made about freedom of expression. -- .

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This 50-year overview examines both the evolution of Britain's welfare state, and the varying attitudes towards it. The text concentrates on the five core services of the welfare state: health care, education, social security and the personal social services.

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In this pioneering study, Conley examines the intersection between empire, navy, and manhood in British society from 1870 to 1918. Jack Tar to Union Jack is indispensable reading as it reminds us of the navy's long-standing influence upon British domestic and imperial culture. -- .

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This book situates and critically assesses the substantial body of work created by Gee Vaucher within a lineage of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art history, including radical art production of the 1970s, political protest and street art and punk design, as well as cultural, socio-economic, political and historic contexts.