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In this highly original contribution to knowledge about a little-known subject: the history of nursing work, Christine Hallett explores the nature and meaning of the practices developed by nurses and their volunteer-assistants during the First World War -- .

Analyses films, paintings and museum exhibitions to show how aspects of hispanic visual culture 'manage' or 'mediate' risk, as articulated stylistically and ideologically in the visual artefact. This title includes essays on visual cultural artefacts and their histories/modes of consumption and reception.

In the last decade Ireland's immigrant population grew to more than one in ten. This is the first major academic book to offer a detailed account of how immigrants in Ireland are faring and is the first to address the challenge of integration and social cohesion. -- .

Shaping a global women's agenda documents the crucial and central role of women's international organisations played at the League of Nations and at the United Nations as the NGOs interjected concerns for women's and human rights into the global governance system. -- .

A comprehensive reference book for anyone interested in Britiush politics, covering modern history, institutions, ideas, key terms and key political biographies. -- .

Model Experts is the first book-length history in English of a celebrated collection of anatomical wax models which continues to fascinate audiences and shape our image of the body to the present day. Model Experts reveals the human relationships, controversies, and political projects which surrounded the artificial bodies. -- .

Offers new insights into the early modern sickness experience, through a study of the medical history of Wales -- .

An authoritative analysis of the trajectory and outcome of reform of the UK parliament across the past century, addressing significant debates about the balance of executive-legislative relations in Britain, and which employs historical and institutional perspectives for the purposes of analysing and explaining political change at Westminster. -- .

Details the discovery of The epic of Gilgamesh, and explores the broader tensions concerning history and time that it highlighted in Victorian culture -- .

The first full-length treatment of the child in Spanish cinema -- .

Offers both a narrative and an analysis of the influence of British imperial involvements on history writing since 1750 -- .

Explores the history of the royal city during the civil war and interregnum -- .

Examines labouring-status women in late medieval Valencia as they negotiated the fundamentally defining experience of their lives: marriage -- .

The first book detailing the social and economic history of Ireland during the Second World War -- .

Relates the Undead in literature and other media to questions concerning genre, technology, consumption and social change -- .

Reviews the burial history of central North Yorkshire -- .

The first history of the Irish juvenile justice system -- .

The first comprehensive overview of the resurgence of interest in realist political theory, and a defence of liberal politics in realist terms -- .

This study applies the concept of postmemory, developed in Holocaust studies, to novels by contemporary British writers. The first monograph-length study of postmemory in British fiction, it focuses on a group of texts about the World Wars. -- .

Examines the problem of corruption in British urban society and politics between 1930 and 1995 -- .

Examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean -- .

Examines how the elite in early modern Ireland spoke about human societies and human bodies, and demonstrates that this elite discourse was grounded in a commitment to the languages and sciences of Renaissance Humanism -- .

This book is about reading and studying poetry. Using fully-worked examples and complete poems wherever possible, it shows all the key elements of poetry 'at work' in poems -- .

The first in-depth study of Britain's many work camp systems. -- .

The first comprehensive account of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) in Ireland -- .

The first comprehensive survey of women in the Weimar Republic, exploring the diversity and multiplicity of women's experiences in the economy, politics and society. -- .

The first detailed scholarly and authoritative analysis of Richard Attenborough's work as a filmmaker -- .

Includes the author's interviews with various crime writers conducted at Yellowbird Productions, Stockholm, Sweden, Mar. 30, 2011.

Analyses the experiences of Spanish Republican refugees in France -- .