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This book offers fresh perspectives on the history of humanitarianism and its impact on domestic and international politics in the era of the Great War.

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Leading experts in Anglophone humanitarianism across some three hundred examine the relationship between humanitarianism, empire, postcolonialism, transnational and global human rights in and beyond the British World.

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Leading experts in Anglophone humanitarianism across some three hundred examine the relationship between humanitarianism, empire, postcolonialism, transnational and global human rights in and beyond the British World.

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What can a turn to humour offer International Relations This book suggests that a focus on comic practice can illuminate the relationship between global politics, culture and the everyday. It odders a theoretically rich examination of humour's contribution to the making and unmaking of subjectivity, identity and community at a range of empirical sites.

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This book works from the premise that the tremendous diversity of Old English medical texts requires an equally diverse range of interpretative methodologies. Taking a case study approach, it offers close readings tailored to individual remedies, drawing from biology, rhetoric, archaeology, folkloristics and disability studies.

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Hyde Park is a striking Caroline example of London city comedy. This critical edition unpicks its valuable insights into the shifting nature of the genre and early modern conceptions of London and courtship.

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Hyde Park is a striking Caroline example of London city comedy. This critical edition unpicks its valuable insights into the shifting nature of the genre and early modern conceptions of London and courtship.

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Coining the term Jugoslovenka to designate the unique history of Yugoslav womens resistance to patriarchy during and after socialism, this book shows how Yugoslavias anti-fascist, transnational and feminist legacies manifest in performance, conceptual, video and activist works.

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Coining the term Jugoslovenka to designate the unique history of Yugoslav womens resistance to patriarchy during and after socialism, this book shows how Yugoslavias anti-fascist, transnational and feminist legacies manifest in performance, conceptual, video and activist works.

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I refuse to condemn highlights how in times of national security a culture of condemnation is expected of people of colour that sits at the heart of structurally racist systems. This collection catalogues the ways in which scholars and activists experience and resist this expectation. -- .

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A clearly written, comprehensive critical introduction to one of the most original contemporary British writers, providing an overview of all of Sinclair's major works and an analysis of his vision of modern London -- .

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The most up-to-date survey of the leading British novelist of his generation, offering the fullest account to date of McEwan's sources, especially concerning his interest in popular science. -- .

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This collection develops the field of ice humanities in order to reveal the centrality of ice and the need to understand better why, where, and how it matters to human and more than human life.

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Focusing on the house-building boom of the interwar years, when Britain became a nation of homeowners, this book investigates the ways in which ordinary people expressed new class and gender identities through the design, architecture and decoration of their homes. -- .

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Focusing on the house-building boom of the interwar years, when Britain became a nation of homeowners, this book investigates the ways in which ordinary people expressed new class and gender identities through the design, architecture and decoration of their homes. -- .

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Ideal homes investigates the tastes and aspirations of the suburban communities that emerged in Britain after the First World War. It explores how new class and gender identities were forged through the architecture and decoration of the home. This edition includes a chapter on researching the history of your own house. -- .

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This book examines the political works of Andrew Michael Ramsay (1683-1743) within the context of early eighteenth-century British and French political thought. -- .

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This book examines the political works of Andrew Michael Ramsay
(16831743) within the context of early eighteenth-century British and
French political thought.

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This collection of essays examines the ways in which poverty was conceptualised in the social, political, and religious discourses of eighteenth-century Europe and North America.

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The 2005 rioting in France's suburbs caught the world's attention and exposed the limits of the Republic's integration policies concerning its 'immigrant-origin' populations. This book focuses on one of these groups - the French-born descendants of North African immigrants. -- .

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The 2005 rioting in France's suburbs caught the world's attention and exposed the limits of the Republic's integration policies concerning its 'immigrant-origin' populations. This book focuses on one of these groups - the French-born descendants of North African immigrants. -- .

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Politicians still call themselves socialists, conservatives and liberals, but among these groups exist very different understandings of what these terms represent. This new book provides a clear, comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the ideas and doctrines that have shaped, and will continue to shape, British politics. -- .

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This book provides an extensive overview of the British actors who achieved their greatest stardom during the 1950s. This was a transitional period for the British cinema, when the major studios faced growing competition from television and Hollywood increasingly dominated the UK film industry. -- .

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An excellent theoretical work that investigates ignorance in literature. -- .