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This book discusses responses to the challenges faced by two different Iberian imperial systems in their struggle to sustain territorial integrity and economic interests in the face of international competition. During a so-called period of Enlightened Despotism, absolutist governments in …
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The Hanoverian Succession of 1714
The Hanoverian Succession of 1714 has not attracted the scholarly attention that it deserves. This is partly because the idea of the long eighteenth century, stretching from 1688 to 1832, has tended to treat the period as one without breaks. …
Offers an introduction to classic British Gothic literature. This book examines works by Gothic authors such as Horace Walpole, Matthew Lewis, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin and Mary Shelley against the backdrop of eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century British social and political history.
View book details for Energy, the Great Driver
Seven Revolutions and the Challenges of Climate Change
This book describes the long-term four billion-year context of anthropogenic climate change, and seeks to explain our inability to respond positively to its challenges. It argues that the availability of energy and the consequential capacity to do work and exert …
View book details for The Welsh Criminal Justice System
On the Jagged Edge
The Welsh criminal justice system is unique. While the country has its own devolved government and parliament, there is no Welsh equivalent of the Scottish or Northern Irish justice systems. Rather, the writ of England and Wales criminal justice institutions …
View book details for The Tlatelolco Massacre, Mexico 1968, and the Emotional Triangle of Anger, Grief and Shame
Discourses of Truth(s)
In the aftermath of major violent events that affect many, we seek to know the truth of what happened. Whatever truth emerges relies heavily on the extent to which any text about a given event can stir our emotions whether …
View book details for Medieval Wales c.1050-1332
Centuries of Ambiguity
After outlining conventional accounts of Wales in the High Middle Ages, this book moves to more radical approaches to its subject. Rather than discussing the emergence of the March of Wales from the usual perspective of the intrusive marcher lords, …
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Exile, Displacement, Migration
This book is the first to focus on the exile-poetry link in the case of Argentina since the 1950s. Throughout Argentina's history, authors and important political figures have lived and written in exile yet, conversely, contemporary Argentina is a nation …
The past three decades have witnessed the emergence of several Kantian theories. Both the critical reaction to consequentialism inspired by Rawlsian constructivism and the universalism of more recent theories informed by Habermasian discourse ethics trace their main sources of inspiration …
Astudiaeth banoramig a thematig a geir yma syn bwrw golwg ar y traddodiad llenyddol Cymraeg yn ei ymwneud ar gyfraith. Cyflwynir y traddodiad barddol a llenyddol o ddelweddur gyfraith, o Daliesin Ben Beirdd hyd at ein dyddiau ni. Gyda hynny, …
View book details for Darwinian Feminism and Early Science Fiction
Angels, Amazons, and Women
Darwinian Feminism in Early Science Fiction provides the first detailed scholarly examination of womens SF in the early magazine period before the Second World War. Tracing the tradition of womens SF back to the 1600s, the author demonstrates how women …
View book details for Science Fiction, New Space Opera, and Neoliberal Globalism
Nostalgia for Infinity
One of the few points critics and readers can agree upon when discussing the fiction popularly known as New Space Opera a recent subgenre movement of science fiction is its canny engagement with contemporary cultural politics in the age of …
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Women at Work in Contemporary France
Focusing on representations of womens experiences in contemporary France, Taking Up Space examines how women inhabit a variety of work spaces. It also speaks to the importance of cultural productions in calling out labour issues affecting women, as well as …
This book considers the fiction of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (181473) in its original material and cultural contexts of the early-to-mid Victorian period in Ireland. Le Fanus longstanding relationship with the Dublin University Magazine, a popular literary and political journal, …
View book details for A Century of Weird Fiction, 1832-1937
Disgust, Metaphysics and the Aesthetics of Cosmic Horror
This book offers a new critical perspective on the weird that combines two ways of looking at weird and cosmic horror. On the one hand, critics have considered weird fiction in relation to aesthetics the emotional effects and literary form …
View book details for Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury 1473-1541
Loyalty, Lineage and Leadership
Born in 1473, Margaret Pole was the daughter of George, duke of Clarence, niece of both Edward IV and Richard III, and the only woman, apart from Anne Boleyn, to hold a peerage title in her own right during the …
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New Voices in Contemporary France
This book provides a detailed analysis of the political arguments about the place of Muslims in contemporary France, and also discusses the ideas put forward by a range of Muslim thinkers. France has become the setting for one of the …
View book details for The Other Catalans
Representations of Immigration in Catalan Literature
Catalonia has for centuries been a destination for immigrants: first from neighbouring regions, then from all over Spain, and in the last twenty-five years from the whole world. Currently 16% of the Catalan population was born outside Spain, and well …
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On Brazil and Global Cinema
Paulo Emilio Salles Gomes (191677) is revered in Brazil as the first ardent defender, promoter and theorist of Brazilian cinema. A film professor, critic and historian, his dedication to cinema shaped a generation of influential film critics in his home …
Yn sgil y Mesur Iaith ar Safonau a gyflwynir gan Lywodraeth Cymru, mae mwy o alw nag erioed am weithwyr proffesiynol dwyieithog yng Nghymru heddiw. Dyma lawlyfr ymarferol sydd a ffocws penodol ar ddatblygu sgiliau iaith yn y gweithle, er …
Professor Daniel A. Binchys Corpus Iuris Hibernici, published in 1979, set the seal on a lifetimes work which had made him the acknowledged leader in Celtic law studies. At an earlier stage in his career, he had edited (in Studies …
View book details for The Mentor's Companion
A Guide to Good Mentoring Practice
This book explores what mentoring is and what are the essential skills required for it to be effective. Based on research, a new model is introduced distal mentoring which embodies best practice and can mitigate negative outcomes. Illustrated with relevant …
A radical thinker and humanitarian employer, Owen made a major contribution to nineteenth-century social movements including co-operatives, trade unions and workers' education. He was a pioneer of enlightened approaches to the education of children and an advocate of birth control.
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Corporeal Transgression in Contemporary Literature and Horror Film
The gothic, particularly in its contemporary incarnations, is often constructed around largely disembodied concepts such as spectrality or the haunted. Body Gothic offers a counter-narrative that reinstates the importance of viscerality to the gothic mode. It argues that contemporary discourses …
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Welsh, Scottish, English and Northern Irish Writing and Brexit in Comparative Contexts
This is the first comparative study of the distinctive literatures and cultures that have developed in Wales, Scotland, England and Northern Ireland since political devolution in the late 1990s, especially surrounding Brexit. The book argues that in conceptualising their cultures …
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