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This book argues that local performance events offer a way to read the world, and an opportunity to remake that world, helping to foster a global political consciousness. Surveying a wide array of theatre, dance, performance and visual art, as well as sporting contests, marriage ceremonies human rights protests, even acts of extreme weather.

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A global history of couple dancing in commercial venues in the era of the two world wars.

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This book offers a transnational perspective on interwar circuses and its modes of exotification and Orientalising foreign worlds. It explores how international and national forces shaped the German and British circus, combining interwar popular culture, its globalising forces, and the circus's ties to European imperialism.

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This book investigates how different cultures of fear manifest in South African social and mainstream media, arguing that fear and other emotions are a critical lens for understanding contemporary life. It discusses the myth of white genocide; so-called Satanist murders; township urban legends; and white suburban anxieties.

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This book investigates how different cultures of fear manifest in South African social and mainstream media, arguing that fear and other emotions are a critical lens for understanding contemporary life. It discusses the myth of white genocide; so-called Satanist murders; township urban legends; and white suburban anxieties.

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The first detailed study on the experiences of disabled children during the Second World War. -- .

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Essays studying the dominant theme of conflict in cultural, literary and religious life in France in the sixteenth-century, revealed through nuanced analyses of the writings of contemporary authors. -- .

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This volume explores the notion of the 'self' as it was elaborated and expressed by philosophers, novelists, churchmen, poets and diarists in the Enlightenment. The questions raised by the twelve essays and the introduction, explore the unity, diversity and fragility of a recognisably modern self. -- .

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This anthology brings together a diverse range of black British literatures, essays and documents from across the post-war period. Spanning half a century, it features South Asian, African and Caribbean cultural production by both leading and lesser-known artists, critics and commentators.

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Examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent, including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam -- .

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Examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent, including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam -- .

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Ekphrasis is the technical term for the relationship between literary texts and the visual or the plastic arts, whereby writers write about paintings, photograpy or works of art. This is a concise introduction -- .

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Writing for radio brings together theoretical and practicalaspects of radio writing. It deals with writing for all principal radio genres short stories, plays, documentaries/drama documentaries, talks and features,adaptations/dramatisations, poems, and advertisements.

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This book appraises the critical contribution of the Studies in Imperialism series to the writing of imperial histories as the series passes its 100th publication. The volume brings together some of the most distinguished scholars writing today to explore the major intellectual trends in Imperial history. -- .

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This book appraises the critical contribution of the Studies in Imperialism series to the writing of imperial histories as the series passes its 100th publication. The volume brings together some of the most distinguished scholars writing today to explore the major intellectual trends in Imperial history. -- .

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This book describes the development of local history in England from its origins in the Middle Ages to its practise in the early twenty-first century. It looks also at how local history is related to archaeology, landscape, and family history. -- .

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This book describes the development of local history in England from its origins in the Middle Ages to its practise in the early twenty-first century. It looks also at how local history is related to archaeology, landscape, and family history. -- .

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An animal studies and ecocritical approach to poetry on sheep in the context of agro-pastoral societies and environmental crisis.

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A collection of essays by established feminist and cultural critics interested in experimenting with new styles of expression. -- .

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The main issues of this work are the construction of US identity, as seen particularly in its foreign policy, and structural issues of identity. It examines the way in which the identity of the USA has been written and rewritten through foreign policies operating in its name.

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Historians and literary scholars explore the rise of parliament in the historical imagination of Tudor and early Stuart England. Collectively the essays demonstrate that the evolution of historical conceptions of parliament was central to the ecclesiological and political thinking and culture of the period before the English Revolution. -- .

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The purpose of the book is to raise awareness of the uniqueness of the United Kingdom's unwritten constitution and to make it clear how the devolution of powers to the home nations, begun in 1998, coupled with the trials and tribulations associated with Brexit. -- .

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This book examines the language of the war on terrorism. It is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand how the Bush administration's approach to counter-terrorism became the dominant policy paradigm in American politics today. -- .