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A collection of essays that examine landmark popular television drama from the last forty years, from 'Doctor Who' to 'The Office'. Contributors focus on programmes across the range of popular genres, from sitcoms to science fiction, gothic horror and children's drama -- .

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'Popular Victorian women writers' is a collection of essays on a variety of women writers working within the Victorian literary marketplace. Diverse and inclusive, the great strength of this book is that its emphasis on neglected writers and refreshing new angles on more widely known authors sends its readers back eagerly to the primary texts.

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A major study into the changes in moral politics and culture of working-class Radicalism during a crucial period of modern British history. -- .

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Over seven million people left Ireland over the course of the nineteenth century. This book is the first to put that huge population change in its religious context, by asking how the Irish Catholic, Anglican and Presbyterian churches responded to mass emigration.

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This timely volume analyses the Northern League under its founder Umberto Bossi (1991-2012). As a well-led mass party, the League has much to teach political scientists today on the reasons behind populist growth, endurance and success.

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Portraiture occupies a central position in the history of Western art. It has been the most popular genre of painting and has been crucial to the construction and articulation of individualism. This volume provides an introduction to the major issues in the history of portraiture.

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Exploring representations of happiness and other positive emotions in early modern Europe, this volume brings together interdisciplinary approaches informed by affect theory, history of emotions research, and the contemporary cognitive sciences to highlight the meanings and valuations of good feelings in the Renaissance.

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Postmodern, postcolonial, and post-truth are broadly used terms. But where do they come from When and why did the habit of interpreting the world in post-terms emerge And who exactly were the post boys responsible for this This book traces the emergence and popularity of post-concepts through a wide range of genres and fields.

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An excellent introductory volume for those wishing to know more about the hitherto neglected cinema from the African continent, including directors from Egypt, Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Guinea-Bissau, Burkina Faso, Tunisia, Cameroon, South Africa -- .

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An excellent introductory volume for those wishing to know more about the hitherto neglected cinema from the African continent, including directors from Egypt, Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Guinea-Bissau, Burkina Faso, Tunisia, Cameroon, South Africa -- .

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An examination of how Britain and France are handling the new religious and racial diversity that has become a fact of life in both countries, and how postcolonial minorities are caught between the nation and the state in relation to status and identity, acceptance and integration. -- .

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The National Health Service determines how Britons receive healthcare. It is a source of national pride, a workplace and a symbol. This book explores how the cultural meanings of the NHS developed and changed since its foundation in 1948, shaped by activism, labour, consumerism, space and representation.

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This collection assembles many of the major theorists of postmodernism, across the humanities and the social sciences, to reconsider the nature and significance of the postmodern moment, as historical phase and as theoretical field. -- .

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This collection assembles many of the major theorists of postmodernism, across the humanities and the social sciences, to reconsider the nature and significance of the postmodern moment, as historical phase and as theoretical field. -- .

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This book examines the benefits and limits of cultural nationalism, and describes the preliminary steps taken by contemporary filmmakers in order to establish a new popular African cinema. -- .

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This book charts the growth of the university settlement movement, a fundamental influence in the shaping of the welfare state, from 1918 to Margaret Thatcher's election in 1979. It looks at the complex relationships between charities, the welfare state and individuals and the ways in which change was negotiated over the twentieth century.

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This book charts the growth of the university settlement movement, a fundamental influence in the shaping of the welfare state, from 1918 to Margaret Thatcher's election in 1979. It looks at the complex relationships between charities, the welfare state and individuals and the ways in which change was negotiated over the twentieth century.

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A study of the impact of power politics on the historical reputation of Charles D'Albert, duc de Luynes, a royal favourite at the court of Louis XIII in early seventeenth-century France -- .

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A comparative study of early post-1945 Central Europe on both sides of the Iron Curtain which puts the people back into Cold War history -- .

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Keith Dowding is a major figure in relation to debates on power and highly influential in the fields of political theory and political science. Power luck and freedom is a collection of his essays and articles, that provide a significant reference point for the field of power analysis. -- .

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Argues that the changing world of work cannot be divorced from several overlapping power dynamics that have resonance to wider societal debates: issues of labour market inclusion and exclusion or marginalisation, profit and wealth distribution, political influence and employment regulation, union representation and community solidarity and agency.

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Power: A philosophical analysis is the first full-length attempt to analyse what we mean when we talk about power. This revised second edition includes an extended new forward which brings the book up to date by discussing recent developments in the literature, including those which were initiated by the first appearance of this book. -- .

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This annotated reader is an introductory guide to some of the most significant perspectives on power within social and political theory. Its 15 chapters contain extracts from Giddens, Lukes, Bourdieu, Weber, Arendt and Foucault, each with its own comprehensive introduction.

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Focusing on EU practitioners approach the Union's foreign policy to its eastern neighbourhood including Russia from a post-structuralist prospective, this title offers a new methodology to capture practices through the analytical approach of Discursive International Relations and Discursive Practice Model to analysis practitioners' practices.