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This book examines the rapid rise and slow decline of greyhound racing in Britain, focusing on the 1920s to the 1960s. It examines the way in which the middle classes sought to ban or control a sport and gambling opportunity which became a niche part of British working-class culture. -- .

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This book is the first major publication based entirely on Manchester Museums Egyptology collections. It explores the Graeco-Roman Period (c. 300 BCE200 CE) of Egyptian history, asking to what extent our modern image of Egypt as a land of gold, sex, art and death is representative of ancient concerns and realities.

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This book looks at the liberalisation process in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) during the period 1987-1989, focusing on Gorbachev's initiative to encourage perestroika in all the fraternal regimes of CEE outside the Soviet Union. -- .

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Drawing on a range of popular Gothic and Victorian novels, poems and short stories, this book provides the first full length study of representations of death and dying in Gothic texts between 1740 and 1914. -- .

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Drawing on a range of popular Gothic and Victorian novels, poems and short stories, this book provides the first full length study of representations of death and dying in Gothic texts between 1740 and 1914. -- .

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In the 1790s, Britain was struck by a reading revolution, a taste for terror fiction that seemed to know no bounds. How is it that the age of Enlightenment gave rise to the genre of the literary ghost story "Gothic Documents" seeks to answer this and other questions.

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This interdisciplinary text combines an attention to socio-historical and cultural contexts with a rigorous close reading of literary, artistic, and televisual works, both classic and lesser known. It investigates how the Gothic and the concepts of dreams and nightmares have intersected from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day.

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An adventurous and wide-ranging survey of Gothic media, this book investigates everything from oil paintings to album cover art, magic lanterns to video games. -- .

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This book is a study of the powers of Gothic in late twentieth-century fiction film. Susanne Becker argues that the Gothic, two hundred years after it emerged, exhibits unchanged vitality in our media age with its obsession for incessant stimulation and excitement.

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Challenges dominant accounts of gender and sexuality in Gothic literature by demonstrating the complexities of the incest thematic through interdisciplinary readings of incest in texts from 1764-1847. -- .

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Challenges dominant accounts of gender and sexuality in Gothic literature by demonstrating the complexities of the incest thematic through interdisciplinary readings of incest in texts from 1764-1847. -- .

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Brings together case studies of Gothic kinship ties in film and literature and offers a synthesis and theorization of the different appearances of the Gothic family -- .

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Collection of essays by experts in Renaissance and Gothic studies tracks the lines of connection between Gothic sensibilities and the discursive network of the Renaissance -- .

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Collection of essays by experts in Renaissance and Gothic studies tracks the lines of connection between Gothic sensibilities and the discursive network of the Renaissance -- .

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This book is the first in-depth study of the Gothic on television. It defines and explores key instances of the genre across the history of television drama in the UK and US. The book builds a strong argument for the fact that the Gothic, in its various guises, is well-suited to television as a domestic medium. -- .

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This book is the first in-depth study of the Gothic on television. It defines and explores key instances of the genre across the history of television drama in the UK and US. The book builds a strong argument for the fact that the Gothic, in its various guises, is well-suited to television as a domestic medium. -- .

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This book looks at the development of governance analysis in new conceptions of political and democratic communication. -- .

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This volume brings together findings from rapid-response COVID-19 research that are linked by a focus on governance decisions, particularly the how and the why of decision-making during the pandemic. Contributors reflect on how the pandemic seems impossible to disentangle from issues of trust and accountability in power and authority.

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A timely new book on how government operates - and the problems that can arise - by one of Britain's foremost constitutional experts. The book assesses the key principles and relationships at the heart of the constitution and how they are shaping and being shaped by the political turmoil of recent years. -- .

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This volume introduces the concept of "external governance" to analyze the European Union's relations with its new neighborhood following the EU's 2004 enlargement. -- .

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The book constructs a case for re-imagining Europe - not as an entity in Brussels or a series of fixed relations - but as a simultaneously real and imagined space of action which exists to the extent that Europeans and others act in and on it. -- .

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This book examines both the turn to indirect rule as a way of mediating and resolving some of the contradictions that had tended to crisis, and the way both indirect rule and settler colonialism were transformed by this new political dispensation. -- .

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Mapping theoretical and empirical terrains, this volume suggests that the management of dead bodies is related to the constitution and membership of states and non-state entities that claim autonomy and impunity. This volume is a significant contribution to studies of death, power and politics.

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Mapping theoretical and empirical terrains, this volume suggests that the management of dead bodies is related to the constitution and membership of states and non-state entities that claim autonomy and impunity. This volume is a significant contribution to studies of death, power and politics.