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This book explores thrift through its moral, religious, ethical, political, spiritual and philosophical expressions, and via key characters such as Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Smiles, and Henry Thoreau.

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Thomas Middleton's play, "A Game at Chess" provoked a scandal when it was first performed in 1624. Contemporary reports and official documents relating to the scandal (printed in the appendix, some for the first time), provide a context for this political play.

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This is the first scholarly history of the development of the Ulster Unionist Party. It is essential reading for an understanding of the importance of this party to the process of finding a political settlement to Northern Ireland

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After an historical survey of A Midsummer Night's Dream from Shakespeare's time through to the 19th century, Jay Halio focuses primarily on 20th century productions and adaptations, for film and television as well as for the stage. -- .

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This volume brings together a diverse selection of the latest academic research in the field of naval history. It is the first publication to capture a new form of naval history that engages with race, sexuality, gender, material culture, popular culture and fine art. -- .

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An engaging and comprehensive research handbook for patients and members of the public who want to learn more about the approaches, methods and language of health-services research. -- .

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First single edition of one of Thomas Middleton's most popular plays; for all students and academics of early modern drama and Renaissance literature -- .

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The book argues that the temporal privilege of the medieval masks the extent to which the medieval and medievalistic are mutually constitutive and ultimately dependent not on absolutist epistemological claims but on how feelings and temperaments affect the way we approach the Middle Ages. -- .

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A new approach to art history from an inter-disciplinary and global perspective with a focus on the event and its repercussions. -- .

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Seeking to better understand what it means to grow older in contemporary Britain from the perspective of older people themselves, this richly detailed ethnographic study engages in debates over selfhood and people's relationships with time. -- .

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The first book written on Alan Bennett's work for television, including his plays, series, documentaries and biographical pieces. -- .

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The medicalisation of alcohol use has become a prominent discourse that guides policy makers and impacts public perceptions of drinking. This book maps the historical and cultural dimensions of the phenomenon, emphasising medical attitudes to alcohol and the changing perception of consumption in psychiatry and mental health.

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This topical and innovative study is the first book on Algerian cinema to be published in English since the 1970s. -- .

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Presents an introduction to the fictional and non-fictional writings of one of the most celebrated and significant literary voices to have emerged from India. This book takes a thematic approach which enables analysis of the cluster of themes, ideas and issues that Ghosh has steadily built up into a substantial intellectual project.

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Monstrous births, rains of blood, apparitions of battles in the sky - people in early modern England found all of these events to carry important religious and political meanings. This book explores the process by which these events became religiously and politically insignificant in the Restoration period.

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Ethnographic account of English football fans who travel home and away following their team, based on sixteen years' participant observation -- .

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This book assesses the post-communist period in Bulgaria and examines how the democratization process has developed, providing the reader with a comprehensive and detailed account of the ongoing political, social and economic transformation in this heavily understudied southeast European country. -- .

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Each chapter in this critical reader tackles the theory and practice of modern performance work, and enables students and teachers to see what is at stake in analysing dance, drama, music and videos using contemporary critical theories.

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This study of the work of Angela Carter deals with a range of her writings, including "Shadow Dance", "The Magic Toyshop", "The Passion of Eve", "Nights at the Circus", "Wise Children", "The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman" and "The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories".

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Taking the 'special relationship' as a central theme, this book explores the public and private diplomacy between Britain and the United States in periods of war and peace. Using recently released archives as well as contemporary sources, the areas of co-operation and conflict are revealed.

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This book places the Manchester School in the vanguard of modern social anthropology. Werbner reveals not only the cosmopolitan distinctiveness but also the force of creative difference in the ideas, interdisciplinary approaches, and travelling theories of the intimate circle around Max Gluckman. -- .

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Incorporating original and extensive archival research, as well as new interviews with his family and friends, Anywhere Out of the World provides the definitive critical perspective upon the literary life and work of this enigmatic and influential author.