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One of the most famous plays by the leading Spanish dramatist of the Golden Age, El Caballero de Olmedo is made accessible to English readers through a context-setting introduction, and helpful notes to scenes and difficult passages. -- .

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Miguel Delibes' inaugural address to the Royal Spanish Academy in 1975 portrayed "El camino" (1950) as a distant precursor of the emergent Green movement. This text comprises an introductory essay discussing Green issues, attitudes towards the Spanish peasantry under Franco, and the function of the novel's subtly orchestrated comedy.

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An authoritative new critical edition of Lope de Vega's best and best-known play that includes an introduction, commentary, selected vocabulary and footnotes for the English-speaking student. -- .

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This is an annotated edition of El laberinto de la soledad, a classic text on Mexican culture and identity, first published in 1950 by Nobel prize winner Octavio Paz. It includes a wide-ranging introduction, hundreds of explanatory notes and four appendices. -- .

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This major new account of the politics of modern Ireland offers a rigorous analysis of the forces which shaped both how the Irish state governed itself from the period since 1987 and how it lost its economic sovereignty in 2010.

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This major new account of the politics of modern Ireland offers a rigorous analysis of the forces which shaped both how the Irish state governed itself from the period since 1987 and how it lost its economic sovereignty in 2010.

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Three of the most important chronicles of eleventh-century Germany were composed in the south-western duchy of Swabia. The Swabian chronicles are an indispensable resource to the student of the changing loyalties and conflicts of eleventh-century Germany. -- .

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This augmented edition of Patsy Stoneman's pioneering Elizabeth Gaskell presents the original 1987 text unchanged (apart from bibliographical updating) together with an extensive new 'Afterword' surveying Gaskell criticism over the last twenty years. -- .

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Elizabeth Gaskell is best known as a novelist and biographer, but she was also a lively and sensitive letter writer, with a vivacious interest in all that was going on around her. This selection from her letters, with a linking commentary provides a biography of Elizabeth Gaskell largely in her own words. -- .

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A study of Elizabeth Gaskell's early life up to her marriage in 1832. It analyses three travel journals by her Knutsford cousins which prove that she grew up in a literary milieu.

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Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy (1833-1918) was one of the most significant pioneers of the British women's emancipation movement. Wolstenholme Elmy referred to herself as an 'initiator' of movements, and she was at the heart of every campaign Victorian feminists conducted. This title presents a portrait of this 'Insurgent woman'.

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This book provides the first full-length biography of Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy (18331918) someone referred to among contemporaries as the grey matter in the brain of the late-Victorian womens movement.

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Using unexamined sources, including diaries and unpublished manuscripts, this biography traces the life and work of nurse, writer, and activist Ellen N. La Motte (1873-1961), examining how she developed as a professional in the early twentieth century. -- .

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Explores the significance of the slavery business and emancipation in the formation of modern imperial Britain -- .

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Return migration has long been a significant but neglected aspect of international population movements thorughout the centuries. Emigrant homecomings is the first study to rectify this imbalance by analyzing the motives, experiences and impact of returners in a wide range of locations over four centuries. -- .

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Emigration from Scotland has always been very high. However, emigration from Scotland between the wars surpassed all records; more people emigrated than were born, leading to an overall population decline. Why was it so many people left This title maps out the many factors which worked together to cause this massive diaspora.

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A fascinating biography that sheds light on Jewish history, economic history and nineteenth-century France

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A fascinating biography that sheds light on Jewish history, economic history and nineteenth-century France -- .

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This book is an authoritative account of the career of Emilio Fernndez, (1906-1986), one of Mexicos and Latin Americas most successful and significant directors. It challenges assumptions about classical Mexican cinema and offers new, detailed textual analyses of Fernndez most significant films (Enamorada, Rio Escondido, Mara Candelaria).

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This book addresses a universal problem: the transmission of psycho-physiological reactions from one person to another, and illuminates the twofold enigma, that of the trajectory of the term compassio, and that of explaining the phenomenon it denoted.

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Drawing on the devotional culture of John of Fcamps Norman monastery, Emotional monasticism exposes the monastic roots of medieval affective piety, casts a new light on the devotional life of monks in Europe before the twelfth century and redefines how medievalists should teach the history of Christian devotion.

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Drawing on the devotional culture of John of Fcamps Norman monastery, Emotional monasticism exposes the monastic roots of medieval affective piety, casts a new light on the devotional life of monks in Europe before the twelfth century and redefines how medievalists should teach the history of Christian devotion.

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The book examines the aesthetic interactions between Britain and India during the Raj in relation to issues of empire and considers the visual culture of urban elites and princely states alongside popular arts. It explores the impact of the Anglo-Indian colonial encounter on the arts and aesthetic traditions of both countries. -- .