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    - Nyasaland Networks, 1859-1960
    av Markku Hokkanen
    1 031,-

    This book makes a new contribution to histories of medicine and health in the colonial era, with particular focus on Malawi, the British Empire and Southern Africa. It argues that mobility of people, ideas and materials was crucial within the dynamic, intertwined and networked medical culture of colonial Malawi. -- .

  • - A Global Comparison, 2nd Edition
    av John Hogan, Gary Murphy, Raj Chari & m.fl.
    295,-

    An exhaustive update of the 2010 classic that analyzes more countries, revamping the theoretical classification of lobbying regulatory environments and the states found therein. Two key innovations in this edition include: new insights on measuring transparency and accountability of the laws and an easy guide to make or amend a law. -- .

  • - A Guide to Dark Visibilities
    av David Annwn Jones
    1 141,-

    An adventurous and wide-ranging survey of Gothic media, this book investigates everything from oil paintings to album cover art, magic lanterns to video games. -- .

  • - With a New Introduction by Marcelo G. Kohen
    av R. Y. Jennings
    437,-

    A timely reissue of a classic text in international law, featuring a new introduction from Professor Marcelo G. Kohen of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. -- .

  • - From Darwin to the Flintstones
    av Andrew Horrall
    286,-

    An extensively researched account of the history of the cave man character in modern popular culture, tracing its roots back to Victorian Britain -- .

  • - A Study in Obsolete Patriotism
    av W. J. Reader
    343

    In this book, Reader attempts to understand the extraordinary mass voluntary enlistment of two and a half million men in the British army in the first sixteenth months of the Great War -- .

  • - The Victorian Army and its Use of Railways
    av Edward Spiers
    1 091,-

    This wide-ranging and extensively researched work reviews the way in which the British army exploited the potential of railways from the 'dawn of the railway age' to the outbreak of the First World War. -- .

  • - The Church of England and the Expansion of the Settler Empire, c. 1790-1860
    av Joseph Hardwick
    1 144,-

    Looks at how the Anglican Church coped with mass migration from Britain in the first half of the nineteenth century -- .

  • - Anthony Ascham and English Political Thought (1648-50)
    av Marco Barducci
    1 144,-

  • - A Genealogy
    av Robert Miles
    459

    An intriguing overview of Gothic literature -- .

  • - Catholic Women Religious in Nineteenth-Century England and Wales
    av Carmen M. Mangion
    468

    This text looks at the identity of English women religious through the lenses of gender, class and ethnicity, offering an insight into women's religious belief and practice in the nineteenth century in light of the subsequent transformation of English society -- .

  • - A Christian Modernity for Tribal India
    av David Hardiman
    468

    Missionaries and their Medicine is a lucid and enthralling study of the encounter between Christian missionaries and an Indian tribal community, the Bhils, in the period 1880 to 1964. -- .

  • av Ian Connor
    461

    At the end of the Second World War, some 12 million German refugees and expellees fled or were expelled from their homelands in Eastern and Central Europe into what remained of the former Reich. This book examines their economic, social and political integration in Germany from 1945 up to the present day. -- .

  • - Anglo-Muslim Relations in the Late Nineteenth Century
    av Diane Robinson-Dunn
    289

    This book focuses on British efforts to suppress the traffic in female slaves destined for Egyptian harems during the late nineteenth-century and considers this campaign in relation to gender debates in England, the position of newly-established Muslim communities in that country, and Orientalist representations of the harem. -- .

  • av Ian Carter
    484

    The first book to study railway enthusiasts in Britain. The postwar train spotting craze swept most boys (and some girls, despite railways being coded as a male business) into a passion for railways. These people invigorated different sectors in railway enthusiasm's life world - from railway modelling to Britain's huge preserved railway industry. -- .

  • - White Women and Colonialism in Barbados and North Carolina, 1627-1865
    av Cecily Jones
    437,-

    Engendering Whiteness examines the complex diversity of slaveholding and non-slaveholding white women's material realities within the slave societies of Barbados and North Carolina between the 17th-19th centuries. -- .

  • av Heather Walton
    276

  • - Solving Shakespeare's Riddles in the Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, King John, 1-2 Henry Iv, the Merchant of Venice, Henry V, Julius Caesar, Othello, Macbeth, and Cymbeline
    av Steve Sohmer
    1 144,-

    Steve Sohmer's book solves literally dozens of Shakespeare's riddles which have never been solved before. Scholars, editors of the plays, and theatre enthusiasts will find much in these pages to inform, surprise and delight them. -- .

  • - Central Governments and the Macro-Implementation of Eu Public Policy
    av Dionyssis Dimitrakopoulos
    421,-

    The central governments of the member states play a crucial role in the transformation of EU public policy into reality. This book examines the way in which the Greek, French and British central governments perform this role. -- .

  • - The Case of Romania
    av Anca Pusca
    379,-

    Using Romania as a case study, this book develops a fresh perspective on the transition from communism to capitalism by arguing that transition and democratisation studies should turn their attention towards processes of illusion formation and disillusionment as key to understanding the shift from one ideological framework to another. -- .

  • - Volume 3: Management, Mergers and Fraud 1987-1993
    av John F. Wilson
    1 209,-

    The case-study outlines the inherent dangers in international mergers, as well as explaining the acute problems associated with City practices that avoided issues that would bring down Ferranti in spectacular fashion. -- .

  • - Philhellene Protestantism, Renaissance Translation and English Literary Politics
    av Victor Skretkowicz
    1 209,-

    European Erotic Romance casts new light on the publication, translation and politicisation of three ancient Greek novels, Daphnis and Chloe, Leukippe and Kleitophon and An Ethiopian Story, and their impact in Renaissance England. -- .

  • av Deborah Youngs
    379,-

    This is the first book to draw together the rich and growing literature on the life cycle in Western Europe, c.1300-c.1500. In discussing life's stages, from birth to death, the study explores attitudes towards ageing, rites of passage, and the influence played by gender, class and regional location. -- .

  • av Douglas Morrey
    226

    This volume offers a new interpretation of the whole of Godard's career in cinema. Drawing examples from all periods of Godard's filmmaking, it examines the parallels between the director's innovative approach to film form and wider developments in French culture and thought since 1950. -- .

  • - Gender, Welfare and Surveillance in the Twentieth Century
    av Louise Jackson
    283,-

    Women Police is the first in-depth historical study of women's involvement in uniform, plain-clothes and undercover policing in the UK. Topics covered include the regulation of prostitution, sexual violence, child abuse and neglect. T -- .

  • - Behaviour, Ideology and Institutional Culture in Representation and Practice
    av Jonathan Dunnage
    1 144,-

    Examines Italy's police in the context of fascism's efforts to modernise and establish ideological control over the state. Presenting an inside perspective on fascist repression, it focuses on recruitment, training and professionalism in the Interior Ministry Police, and their ideological orientation, working conditions and quality of life. -- .

  • - 'For Spirit and Adventure'
    av Angela McCarthy
    295,-

    Drawing predominantly on personal narratives, this book compares Irish and Scottish migration to North America and Australasia between 1921 and 1965. -- .

  • - Sexuality, Catholicism and Literature in Twentieth-Century Ireland
    av Michael G. Cronin
    1 144,-

    This book will be of interest to students and scholars in various disciplines, including literary studies, history, sociology and gender studies. -- .

  • - Allusion and the Uncanny
    av Sarah Annes Brown
    1 144,-

  • - Convicts, Settlers and the State in Early Colonial Australia
    av Kirsty Reid
    289

    Examines the experiences of the convict men and women transported to the British penal colony of Van Diemen's Land between 1803 and 1852, challenging the received notions of convict women as a particularly oppressed and exploited group, supposedly dominated by convict men as much as by the imperial and colonial states. -- .

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