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Queer as folklore
The hidden queer history of myths and monsters
Av Sacha Coward
Häftad, 2025
185 kr
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A celebration of queer history like you've never seen it before.Queer as folklore travels across centuries and continents to reveal the unsung heroes and villains of storytelling, magic and fantasy. Featuring images from archives, galleries and museums around the world, each chapter investigates …
Cosmopolitan dystopia
International intervention and the failure of the West
Häftad, 2020
336 kr
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Cosmopolitan Dystopia shows that rather than populists or authoritarian great powers it is cosmopolitan liberals who have done the most to subvert the liberal international order. Cosmopolitan Dystopia explains how liberal cosmopolitanism has led us to treat new humanitarian crises as unprecedented …
Spanish Quinqui Film
Delinquency, Sound, Sensation
Häftad, 2023
309 kr
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This is the first major study in English of cine quinqui, a cycle of popular Spanish films from the late 1970s and early 1980s that starred real-life juvenile delinquents. The book provides a close analysis of key quinqui films by directors such as Eloy de la Iglesia, José Antonio de la Loma and …
John Wyclif
Selected Latin Works in Translation
Inbunden, 2019
1199 kr
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John Wyclif (d. 1384) was among the leading schoolmen of fourteenth-century Europe. He was an outspoken controversialist and critic of the Church, and, in his last days at Oxford, the author of the greatest heresy that England had known. This volume offers new translations of a representative …
Subject of Britain, 1603–25
Inbunden, 2020
885 kr
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The subject of Britain analyses key seventeenth-century texts by Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare within the context of the English reign of King James VI and I, whose desire to create a united Britain prompted serious reflection on questions of nationhood. This book traces writing on Britain and …
Northern Ireland Peace Process
From Armed Conflict to Brexit
Inbunden, 2021
1227 kr
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This book offers a re-evaluation of the emergence, development and outcome of the peace process in Northern Ireland. Drawing on interviews with many of the key participants of the peace process, newly released archival material and the existing scholarship on the conflict, it explains the decisions …
Working-Class Writing and Publishing in the Late Twentieth Century
Literature, Culture and Community
Av Tom Woodin
Inbunden, 2018
1411 kr
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From the early 1970s, working class writing and publishing in local communities rapidly proliferated into a national movement. This book is the first full evaluation of these developments and opens up new perspectives on literature, culture, class and identity over the past 50 years. Its origins …
Contract of Mutual Indifference
Political Philosophy After the Holocaust
Av Norman Geras
Häftad, 2020
224 kr
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'The idea which I shall present here came to me more or less out of the blue. I was on a train some five years ago, on my way to spend a day at Headingley, and I was reading a book about the death camp Sobibor... The particular, not very appropriate, conjunction involved for me in this train …
Contract of Mutual Indifference
Political Philosophy After the Holocaust
Av Norman Geras
E-bok, 2020
187 kr
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The idea which I shall present here came to me more or less out of the blue. I was on a train some five years ago, on my way to spend a day at Headingley, and I was reading a book about the death camp Sobibor... The particular, not very appropriate, conjunction involved for me in this train …
Contract of Mutual Indifference
Political Philosophy After the Holocaust
Av Norman Geras
E-bok, 2020
200 kr
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The idea which I shall present here came to me more or less out of the blue. I was on a train some five years ago, on my way to spend a day at Headingley, and I was reading a book about the death camp Sobibor... The particular, not very appropriate, conjunction involved for me in this train …
Cosmopolitan Dystopia
International Intervention and the Failure of the West
Inbunden, 2020
1227 kr
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Cosmopolitan Dystopia shows that rather than populists or authoritarian great powers it is cosmopolitan liberals who have done the most to subvert the liberal international order. Cosmopolitan Dystopia explains how liberal cosmopolitanism has led us to treat new humanitarian crises as unprecedented …
Bad English
Literature, Multilingualism, and the Politics of Language in Contemporary Britain
Inbunden, 2020
1381 kr
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Bad English investigates the impact of increasing language diversity, precipitated by migration, globalisation, and new forms of communication, in transforming contemporary literature in Britain. Considering writers whose work engages experimentally, playfully, and ambivalently with English’s …
Shakespeare and the Supernatural
Av Victoria Bladen, Yan Brailowsky
Inbunden, 2020
1381 kr
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Supernatural elements are of central significance in many of Shakespeare's plays, contributing to their dramatic power and intrigue. Ghosts haunt political spaces and internal psyches, witches foresee the future and disturb the present, fairies meddle with love and a magus conjures a tempest from …
Shakespeare and the Supernatural
Av Victoria Bladen, Yan Brailowsky
E-bok, 2020
279 kr
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Supernatural elements are of central significance in many of Shakespeare's plays, contributing to their dramatic power and intrigue. Ghosts haunt political spaces and internal psyches, witches foresee the future and disturb the present, fairies meddle with love and a magus conjures a tempest from …
Shakespeare and the supernatural
Av Victoria Bladen, Yan Brailowsky
Häftad, 2022
414 kr
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Supernatural elements are of central significance in many of Shakespeare's plays, contributing to their dramatic power and intrigue. Ghosts haunt political spaces and internal psyches, witches foresee the future and disturb the present, fairies meddle with love and a magus conjures a tempest from …
Shakespeare and the Supernatural
Av Victoria Bladen, Yan Brailowsky
E-bok, 2020
261 kr
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Supernatural elements are of central significance in many of Shakespeare's plays, contributing to their dramatic power and intrigue. Ghosts haunt political spaces and internal psyches, witches foresee the future and disturb the present, fairies meddle with love and a magus conjures a tempest from …
Britain’S Rural Muslims
Rethinking Integration
Inbunden, 2020
1201 kr
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Immigration has long been associated with the urban landscape, from accounts of inner-city racial tension and discrimination during the 1960s and 1970s and studies of minority communities of the 1980s and 1990s, to the increased focus on cities amongst contemporary scholars of migration and …
Britain’S Rural Muslims
Rethinking Integration
Häftad, 2021
371 kr
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This book examines the relationship between the integration of Muslim migrant communities and rurality in Britain. It uses the county of Wiltshire as a case study, and charts both local authority policy and Muslims communities’ personal experiences of migration and integration across the post-1960s …
Britain’S Rural Muslims
Rethinking Integration
E-bok, 2020
336 kr
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Immigration has long been associated with the urban landscape, from accounts of inner-city racial tension and discrimination during the 1960s and 1970s and studies of minority communities of the 1980s and 1990s, to the increased focus on cities amongst contemporary scholars of migration and …
Britain’S Rural Muslims
Rethinking Integration
E-bok, 2020
326 kr
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Immigration has long been associated with the urban landscape, from accounts of inner-city racial tension and discrimination during the 1960s and 1970s and studies of minority communities of the 1980s and 1990s, to the increased focus on cities amongst contemporary scholars of migration and …
Nostalgia and the Post-War Labour Party
Prisoners of the Past
Inbunden, 2018
792 kr
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This book examines the impact that nostalgia has had on the Labour Party’s political development since 1951. In contrast to existing studies that have emphasised the role played by modernity, it argues that nostalgia has defined Labour’s identity and determined the party’s trajectory over time. …
Nostalgia and the Post-War Labour Party
Prisoners of the Past
Häftad, 2021
243 kr
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This book examines the impact that nostalgia has had on the Labour Party’s political development since 1951. In contrast to existing studies that have emphasised the role played by modernity, it argues that nostalgia has defined Labour’s identity and determined the party’s trajectory over time. …
Art as worldmaking
Critical essays on realism and naturalism
Av Malcolm Baker, Andrew Hemingway
Häftad, 2026
456 kr
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Art as worldmaking is a response to Alex Potts’s provocative 2013 book Experiments in modern realism. Twenty essays by leading scholars test Potts’s recasting of realism through examinations of art produced in different media and periods, ranging from eighth-century Chinese garden aesthetics to …
Debating medieval Europe
The early Middle Ages, c. 450–c. 1050
Inbunden, 2020
1337 kr
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Debating medieval Europe serves as an entry point for studying and teaching medieval history. Rather than simply presenting foundational knowledge or introducing sources, it provides the reader with frameworks for understanding the distinctive historiography of the period, digging beneath the …
Debating medieval Europe
The early Middle Ages, c. 450–c. 1050
Häftad, 2020
730 kr
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Debating medieval Europe serves as an entry point for studying and teaching medieval history. Rather than simply presenting foundational knowledge or introducing sources, it provides the reader with frameworks for understanding the distinctive historiography of the period, digging beneath the …
Deirdre Madden
New Critical Perspectives
Av Anne Fogarty, Marisol Morales-Ladrón
Inbunden, 2022
957 kr
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The Irish writer, Deirdre Madden, has written key novels about the Northern Irish Troubles and about contemporary Ireland. In these works, she weighs up the aftermath of violence and the impact of the shift to a more open but materialist society in the country overall. Memory, trauma, and the …
John Wyclif
Selected Latin Works in Translation
Av John Wyclif
E-bok, 2019
1284 kr
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John Wyclif (d. 1384) was among the leading schoolmen of fourteenth-century Europe. He was an outspoken controversialist and critic of the Church, and, in his last days at Oxford, the author of the greatest heresy that England had known. This volume offers new translations of a representative …
John Wyclif
Selected Latin Works in Translation
Av John Wyclif
E-bok, 2019
1256 kr
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John Wyclif (d. 1384) was among the leading schoolmen of fourteenth-century Europe. He was an outspoken controversialist and critic of the Church, and, in his last days at Oxford, the author of the greatest heresy that England had known. This volume offers new translations of a representative …
Japan's New Security Partnerships
Beyond the Security Alliance
Av Wilhelm Vosse, Paul Midford
Inbunden, 2018
832 kr
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After decades of solely relying on the United States for its national security needs, over the last decade, Japan has begun to actively develop and deepen its security ties with a growing number of countries and actors in the Asia-Pacific region and Europe, a development that has further …
Japan's New Security Partnerships
Beyond the Security Alliance
Av Wilhelm Vosse, Paul Midford
E-bok, 2018
325 kr
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After decades of solely relying on the United States for its national security needs, over the last decade, Japan has begun to actively develop and deepen its security ties with a growing number of countries and actors in the Asia-Pacific region and Europe, a development that has further …
