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View book details for Spacing Ireland
Place, society and culture in a post-boom era
In light of the innumerable interventions that characterise the transformation of Ireland over the last two decades, Spacing Ireland: Place, society and culture in a post-boom era explores questions of space and place to understand the nature of major social, …
View book details for The Basics of Foreign Exchange Markets
A Monetary Systems Approach
In an increasingly interdependent global economy, an understanding of foreign exchange markets is more critical than ever. These markets are inextricably entwined with underlying monetary standards and consequently they are treated conjointly in this book. Four different foreign exchange rate …
View book details for Time and memory in reggae music
The politics of hope
On the basis of a body of reggae songs from the 1970s and late 1990s, this book offers a sociological analysis of memory, hope and redemption in reggae music. From Dennis Brown to Sizzla, the way in which reggae music …
View book details for Einfuhrung in z/OS und OS/390
Web-Services und Internet-Anwendungen fur Mainframes
Das Buch beschreibt die wichtigsten Komponenten der zSeries- und S/390-Rechner und der z/OS- und OS/390-Betriebssystem-Umgebungen. Die Mehrheit der groen deutschen Unternehmen setzt als zentrale Server zSeries- und S/390-Rechner ein, die ihre hohe Zuverlassigkeit, Sicherheit, Performance und Skalierbarkeit einer ganzen Reihe …
View book details for Infidel feminism
Secularism, religion and women's emancipation, England 18301914
Infidel feminism is the first in-depth study of a distinctive brand of womens rights that emerged out of the Victorian Secularist movement. It looks at the lives and work of a number of female activists, whose renunciation of religion shaped …
The later Stuart Church, 1660-1714 features nine essays written by leading scholars in the field and offers new insights into the place of the Church of England within the volatile Restoration era, complementing recent research into political and intellectual culture …
View book details for The social world of early modern Westminster
Abbey, court and community, 15251640
Early modern Westminster is familiar as the location of the Royal Court at Whitehall, parliament, the law courts and the emerging West End, yet it has never been studied in its own right. This book is the first study to …
View book details for A minority and the state
Travellers in Britain in the twentieth century
This is a new paperback edition of Becky Taylor's history of Britain's travelling communities in the twentieth century. It draws together detailed archival research at local and national level to explore the impact of state and legislative developments on Travellers, …
View book details for Peace, war and party politics
The Conservatives and Europe, 184659
Peace, war and party politics examines the mid-Victorian Conservative Partys significant but overlooked role in British foreign policy and in contemporary debate about Britains relations with Europe. The book considers the Conservatives response - in opposition and government - to …
View book details for Global citizen and European republic
Irish foreign policy in transition
This book, available in paperback for the first time, offers a new and innovative way of looking at Irish foreign policy, linking its development with changes in Irish national identity. Many debates within contemporary International Relations focus on the relative …
View book details for Great Satan's rage
American negativity and rap/metal in the age of supercapitalism
Newly available in paperback, this book looks at how rap and metal have been highly engaged with Americas role in the world, supercapitalism and their own role within it. This has especially been the case when genres hitherto clearly identified …
View book details for American foreign policy
Studies in intellectual history
This book offers a nuanced and multifaceted collection of essays covering a wide range of concerns, concepts, presidential doctrines, and rationalities of government thought to have marked Americas engagement with the world during this period. The collection is organised chronologically …
How did people learn their Bibles in the Middle Ages? Did church murals, biblical manuscripts, sermons or liturgical processions transmit the Bible in the same way?This book unveils the dynamics of biblical knowledge and dissemination in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century England. …
View book details for The European Union and its eastern neighbourhood
Europeanisation and its twenty-first-century contradictions
This volume is timely in that it explores key issues which are currently at the forefront of the EUs relations with its eastern neighbours. It considers the impact of a more assertive Russia, the significance of Turkey, the limitations of …
View book details for Our fighting sisters
Nation, memory and gender in Algeria, 19542012
Between 1954 and 1962, Algerian women played a major role in the struggle to end French rule in one of the twentieth centurys most violent wars of decolonisation. This is the first in-depth exploration of what happened to these women …
Crispin Guest is summoned to a London priory to unmask a merciless killer. Can he discover who is committing the deadliest of sins? 1399, London. A drink at the Boars Tusk takes an unexpected turn for Crispin Guest, Tracker of …
View book details for The extreme Right in Western Europe
Success or failure?
Parties of the extreme right have experienced a dramatic rise in electoral support in many countries in Western Europe over the last two and a half decades. This phenomenon has been far from uniform, however, and the considerable attention that …
View book details for Spenser and Virgil
The pastoral poems
Dubbed 'the English Virgil' in his own lifetime, Spenser has been compared to the Augustan laureate ever since. He invited the comparison, expecting a readership intimately familiar with Virgil's works to notice and interpret his rich web of allusion and …
Established in the belief that imperialism as a cultural phenomenon had as significant an effect on the dominant as it did on the subordinate societies, the "Studies in Imperialism" series seeks to develop the new socio-cultural approach which has emerged …
This book explores the colonial mentalities that shaped and were shaped by women living in colonial India between 1820 and 1932. Using a broad framework the book examines the many life experiences of these women and how their position changed, …
View book details for Cinesonica
Sounding film and video
Cinesonica: sounding film and video explores previously neglected and under-theorised aspects of film and video sound, drawing on detailed case study analyses of Hollywood cinema, art cinema, animated cartoons, and avant-garde film and video. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach to the …
View book details for Neoliberal lives
Work, politics, nature, and health in the contemporary United States
This book is about the transformation of America that has occurred over the past thirty-five years, as capitalist logic has expanded into previously protected spheres of life. This expansion has had devastating effects on the potential for human development. Looking …
Ballads and songs of Peterloo is an edited collection of poems and songs written following the Peterloo Massacre in 1819. This collection, which includes over seventy poems, were published either as broadsides or in radical periodicals and newspapers. Notes to …
In the years between 1941 and 1965, Lance Comfort made some of the most entertaining films in Britain. There was the striking success of his second feature as director, Hatters Castle (1941) and when he returned to this melodramatic vein …
Julian Barnes is a comprehensive introductory overview of the novels that situates his work in terms of fabulation and memory, irony and comedy. It pursues a broadly chronological line through Barnes's literary career, but along the way it also shows …
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