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Presents a wide range of previously unpublished works by Radclyffe Hall. -- .

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Cinema provides entertainment, but it also communicates a set of values, a vision of the world or an ideology. European cinema has dealt with the tension between these two functions in a variety of ways. Diverse and entertaining, this book explores the complex relationship between entertainment, ideology and audiences in European film.

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Integrating in detail the experiences of both Britain and Ireland, 1820 provides a compelling narrative and analysis of the United Kingdom in a year of European revolution. It charts the events and forces that tested the government almost to its limits, and the processes and mechanisms through which order was maintained. -- .

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Integrating in detail the experiences of both Britain and Ireland, 1820 provides a compelling narrative and analysis of the United Kingdom in a year of European revolution. It charts the events and forces that tested the government almost to its limits, and the processes and mechanisms through which order was maintained. -- .

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This book takes its cue from the annus miabilis for French culture to outline French modernism and to situate it on the map of global modernism. Essays on specific works in various media present the first narrative of French modernism as a critical category and establish its position in the thriving field of modernist studies. -- .

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Explores the remarkable 1934 opera Four Saints in Three Acts, focusing on the hitherto neglected significance of photography in documenting the opera and its all-African American cast, and examining the roles of fashion, dance, literature, and music in the opera's popular success. -- .

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This book presents a cultural history of Promethean Horror in the modern age, tracing the rise of a sub-genre of gothic fiction in the twentieth-century and examining post-modern revisions of Modernist Promethean tropes in an eclectic range of gothic, fantasy and SF writing.

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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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An essential supplement to Pastoral poetry of the English Renaissance: An anthology. The full-length introduction offers a historical and critical analysis of the pastoral tradition and the circulation of texts. -- .

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A collection of writings about the Grand Tour that is original and innovative, straying from the usual path of aristocrats and churches. -- .

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This inquiry concerns the cultural history of the chess-player. It takes as its premise the idea that the chess-player has become a fragmented collection of images, underpinned by challenges to, and confirmations of, chess's status as an intellectually-superior and socially-useful game, particularly since the medieval period -- .

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This book reveals the eighteenth-century home as a site of emergence for science. By rejecting the limiting associations of domestic life, this book re-imagines a culture of enquiry populated by apprentices and housewives as much as Fellows of the Royal Society.

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This edition of a previously unpublished manuscript defence of witchcraft belief offers a unique insight into learned opinion on the subject in Elizabethan England. It includes a comprehensive analytical introduction and will appeal to scholars with an interest in witchcraft across disciplinary boundaries. -- .

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This edition of a previously unpublished manuscript defence of witchcraft belief offers a unique insight into learned opinion on the subject in Elizabethan England. It includes a comprehensive analytical introduction and will appeal to scholars with an interest in witchcraft across disciplinary boundaries. -- .

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This study covers both the domestic and the international dimensions of the peace process, and is the first to deal seriously with the impact of the war on terror on the situation in Northern Ireland. It is also the first book to look at the Good Friday Agreement since the collapse of the Executive and the historical 2003 elections. -- .

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This study covers both the domestic and the international dimensions of the peace process, and is the first to deal seriously with the impact of the war on terror on the situation in Northern Ireland. It is also the first book to look at the Good Friday Agreement since the collapse of the Executive and the historical 2003 elections. -- .

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Situates the poem in its political and religious context while offering a full textual analysis. -- .

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This is the first broad study of large-scale violence and the methods of its restraint in the early modern world. Its case studies range from the early 1500s to the 1830s, taking in African slave raiders, Dutch merchants, Burmese bandits, Kurdish highwaymen, Mughal warriors, Spanish colonial soldiers and Japanese magistrates. -- .

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A comprehensive history of the development of British sports medicine as a medical specialism, and of the changing biomedical understanding of the athlete - from normal healthy man, to supernormal hero or even physiological freak - from 1880 to the early twenty-first century. -- .

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This book provides an outline history of English spelling from the Anglo-Saxon' adoption of the Roman alphabet to the present day.

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The book traces the history of international aid from the anti-slavery movement to the end of the cold war. The reconstruction of humanitarianism's long pattern unfolds around some crucial moments and events: the colonial expansion of European countries, the two world wars and their aftermaths, the emergence of a new postcolonial order. -- .

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The book traces the history of international aid from the anti-slavery movement to the end of the cold war. The reconstruction of humanitarianism's long pattern unfolds around some crucial moments and events: the colonial expansion of European countries, the two world wars and their aftermaths, the emergence of a new postcolonial order. -- .