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This book reinterprets the history of German-Israeli relations by examining the policies that East and West Germany implemented towards Israel in the early Cold War from an innovative and multinational angle. -- .

James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. This edition brings together all of the articles published in this year's volume. -- .

This timely volume offers a critical analysis of the regional and international relations of the Horn of Africa and Red Sea, focussing on the role of states from the Persian Gulf in these developments. -- .

This study provides the first exclusive analysis of disabled First World War veterans who returned to Ireland. With a case study of mental illness, it foregrounds how the treatment and experiences of disabled communities in past societies is shaped by the existing socio-economic, cultural and political context. -- .

The unimagined community presents a wide-ranging study of South Vietnemese culture, from political philosophy and psychological warfare to popular culture and film. The book pursues the provocative claim that in its early phase the conflict was not an anti-communist crusade, but a struggle between two different forms of anticolonial communism. -- .

Through the narrations of war-injured individuals and MSF humanitarian workers, the book explores healing and rehabilitation process in all its complex forms: physically, emotionally and symbolically. -- .

This book examines the thought of Abdennour Bidar, MalekChebel, Leila Babes, AbdelwahabMeddeb and Dounia Bouzar. In doing so it investigates how these five figures allcontribute in their diverse and varying ways to broader understandings of therelationship between Islam and secularism in contemporary French society. -- .

Looking at the royal rituals around the death of Louis XV and the accession of Louis XVI, this book sheds new light on the politics and culture of the period, offering original perspectives on court culture, the transition of power, the recall of the Paris parlement and the first year of Louis XVI's reign, including his coronation in June 1775. -- .

This book explores early modern British responses to nose reconstruction, and the concerns and possibilities raised by rumoured nose transplants. -- .

Women Art Workers provides a new social and cultural history of the Arts and Crafts movement which offers unprecedented insight into how women constructed alternative, creative lifestyles and disseminated the ethos of the social importance of the Arts and Crafts across new local, national, and international spheres of influence. -- .

Leading experts in Anglophone humanitarianism across some three hundred examine the relationship between humanitarianism, empire, postcolonialism, transnational and global human rights in and beyond the British World. -- .

Colonial anthropology, creative practice and migrant ethnography combine in Paul Carter's Translations to produce a remarkably intimate and forthright autoethnography. -- .

In May 2019, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi won the world's largest election. This book brings together a stellar team of economists, political scientists, sociologists, historians and geographers to explain why Indians voted the way they did. -- .

Pride in prejudice offers a concise introduction to the varied extreme right groups active in Britain today. The book examines the extreme right movement in terms of ideology and appeal, organisational styles, online and offline activism, approaches to leadership, types of supporters and gendered dynamics. -- .

The House of Commons is the United Kingdom's key democratic institution. But it faces serious challenges which it is ill-equipped to meet. This book examines what is wrong with the House of Commons, how we got here and what can be done about it. -- .

This book explores a particular 1918-20 'moment' in the British Empire's history, between the First World War's armistices of 1918, and the peace treaties of 1919 and 1920. It documents and conceptualises this 1918-20 'moment' and its characteristics as a crucial three-year period of transformation for and within the Empire. -- .

This book makes a timely intervention in popular film culture, examining how three iconic Hollywood stars (Marlon Brando, James Dean and Elvis Presley) disrupted British youth culture when they starred in classic American films about juvenile delinquency. -- .

Magdalen history has long been marginalised. Even as women's activism and contributions are included in new histories of the revolutionary era, the lives of women regarded as marginal are still excluded. This collection examines how Magdalen history can contribute to a more nuanced, inclusive understanding of post-independence Irish history. -- .

What did it mean to be an artisan in early modern London? Through an innovative and inter-disciplinary approach to urban social, cultural and architectural histories, this book examines how individual and corporate identities were forged through negotiation of the spatial and material cultures of the early modern city. -- .

Touching on global issues such as violence, sexual abuse, gender, performativity, marginality, migration and human rights, Abani's work testifies to the centrality of his literary voice in the contemporary literary panorama. This book shows how aesthetics overlaps with ethics and how forms of extreme abuse may coexist with love and redemption. -- .

This book examines three Shakespeare plays in which abusive banishment participates in a dialectics of deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation (King Richard II, King Lear and Coriolanus). It draws on analyses by French philosophers (notably Deleuze and Foucault), so as to understand strategies of resistance when one is denied one's territory. -- .

A fully annotated critical edition of John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's ground-breaking comedy Love's Cure, or The Martial Maid (1615), a fascinating exploration of the journey of two transgender characters in an adverse heteronormative society. This Revels Plays edition offers a modernised text and a full critical commentary. -- .

Recontextualizing Edmund Spenser's Shepheardes Calender in relation to book history, this study analyses the first edition of 1579 as a material text, and provides the first clearly detailed facsimile available as a book. By illuminating the 1579 Calender's development, this volume much advances understanding of Spenser and Elizabethan culture. -- .

This edited collection of twelve essays from an international range of contemporary Shakespeare scholars explores the supernatural in Shakespeare from a variety of perspectives and approaches. -- .

The computerization of culture appears relentless and unstoppable. In response Anti-Computing deals in dissent. Engaging with critical theory and media archaeology, working with rich and varied materials, it explores key moments when computer technologies, logics, techniques, imaginaries, utopias have been questioned, disputed, or refused. -- .

The Family of Love is a rumbustious citizen comedy. Delivering farcical twists on familiar dramatic situations, it offers a glimpse of spiritual freedom in paraperopandemical times. -- .

Pulling together many subject areas into one, this study of the Anglo/ Indian silk trade shows the complexity of the Empire by linking usually disparate histories -- .

The ABC of the projectariat contributes new thinking and practical responses to the widespread problem of precarious labour in the field of contemporary art. It works as both a critical analysis and a practical handbook, speaking to and about the vast cohort of artistic freelancers worldwide. -- .

This book assesses the potential EU media regualtion provides for market growth and the protection of media pluralism, the citizen and ultimately democracy itself. These opportunities are presented in the coming decade with the devloping European Constitution, EU enlargement, and the implementation and revision of European regulation. -- .

The book offers five interlinked portraits of Irish women artists and political figures: Edna O'Brien, Sinead O'Connor, Nuala O'Faolain, Bernadette McAliskey and Anne Enright. -- .