Social & Cultural History
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The Battle for the Roads of Britain: Police, Motorists and the Law, c.1890s to 1970s
David TaylorCurrent price €47.59Original price €55.99Policing in Britain was changed fundamentally by the rapid emergence of the automobile at the beginning of the twentieth century. This book seeks t...
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Australian Women in Advertising in the Twentieth Century
J. DickensonCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99When did Australian women first enter the advertising industry? The stereotypical advertising executive might be a pony-tailed, Ferrari-driving, yo...
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Police, Picket-Lines and Fatalities: Lessons from the Past
D. BakerCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Police, Picket-lines and Fatalities explores public protests and their management by the police, focusing on the fatalities of strikers at the hand...
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Public Discourses of Contemporary China: The Narration of the Nation in Popular Literatures, Film, and Television
Y. ShenCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Analyzing contemporary Chinese literature, film, and television, Shen shows the significance of nationalism for the mass imagination in post-social...
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The Uses of Space in Early Modern History
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €79.19Original price €87.99While there is an growing body of work on space and place in many disciplines, less attention has been paid to how a spatial approach illuminates t...
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Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature: Personally Speaking
Tanure OjaideCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Literature remains one of the few disciplines that reflect the experiences, sensibility, worldview, and living realities of its people. Contemporar...
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Politics, Performance and Popular Culture: Theatre and Society in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Manchester University PressCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50This collection brings together studies of popular performance and politics across the nineteenth century, offering a fresh perspective from an arc...
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Westphalia: The Last Christian Peace
D. CroxtonCurrent price €110.69Original price €122.99This sweeping, exhaustively researched history is the first comprehensive account of the Peace of Westphalia in English. Bringing together the late...
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Indian Doctors in Kenya, 1895-1940: The Forgotten History
A. GreenwoodCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This ground-breaking book offers unique insights into the careers of Indian doctors in colonial Kenya during the height of British colonialism, bet...
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The ILO from Geneva to the Pacific Rim: West Meets East
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This volume of original essays considers how the International Labour Organization has helped generate a set of ideas and practices, past and prese...
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Literary Networks and Dissenting Print Culture in Romantic-Period Ireland
Jennifer OrrCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Literary Networks and Dissenting Irish Print Culture examines the origins of Irish labouring-class poetry produced in the liminal space of revoluti...
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Intimate Violence and Victorian Print Culture: Representational Tensions
Suzanne RintoulCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Suzanne Rintoul identifies an important contradiction in Victorian representations of abuse: the simultaneous compulsion to expose and to obscure b...
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Lost Mansions: Essays on the Destruction of the Country House
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This provocative volume stimulates debate about lost 'heritage' by examining the history of the hundreds of great houses demolished in Britain and ...
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West Germany and the Portuguese Dictatorship, 19681974: Between Cold War and Colonialism
R. LopesCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99West Germany and the Portuguese Dictatorship 1968-1974 examines West Germany's ambiguous policy towards the Portuguese dictatorship of Marcelo Caet...
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Hoarders, Doomsday Preppers, and the Culture of Apocalypse
Gwendolyn Audrey FosterCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99The culture of twenty-first century America revolves around narcissistic death, violence, and visions of doom. Foster explores this culture of the ...
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Communications, Media and the Imperial Experience: Britain and India in the Twentieth Century
Chandrika KaulCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Presenting a communicational perspective on the British empire in India during the 20th century, the book seeks to examine how, and explain why, Br...
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Religion and Politics in the Risorgimento: Britain and the New Italy, 1861-1875
D. RaponiCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book examines Anglo-Italian political and cultural relations and analyses the importance of religion in the British 'Orientalist' perception o...
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Imperial Childhoods and Christian Mission: Education and Emotions in South India and Denmark
K. VallgårdaCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Making an important addition to the highly Britain-dominated field of imperial studies, this book shows that, like numerous other evangelicals oper...
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The Home Front in Britain: Images, Myths and Forgotten Experiences since 1914
Janis LomasCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99The Home Front in Britain explores the British Home Front in the last 100 years since the outbreak of WW1. Case studies critically analyse the mean...
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Contemporary Scottish Gothic: Mourning, Authenticity, and Tradition
T. BakerCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99An innovative reading of a wide range of contemporary Scottish novels in relation to literary tradition and modern philosophy, Contemporary Scottis...
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The Home Front in Britain: Images, Myths and Forgotten Experiences since 1914
Janis LomasCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99The Home Front in Britain explores the British Home Front in the last 100 years since the outbreak of WW1. Case studies critically analyse the mean...
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Labour and the Decolonization Struggle in Trinidad and Tobago
J. TeelucksinghCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book provides evidence that Labour in Trinidad and Tobago played a vital role in undermining British colonialism and advocating for federation...
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Insanity, Race and Colonialism: Managing Mental Disorder in the Post-Emancipation British Caribbean, 1838-1914
L. SmithCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Despite emancipation from the evils of enslavement in 1838, most people of African origin in the British West Indian colonies continued to suffer s...
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Philanthropy and Settler Colonialism
A. O'BrienCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book, the first long-range history of the voluntary sector in Australia and the first internationally to compare philanthropy for Indigenous a...
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