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This exciting collection of documents offers readers access to primary material illustrating the experiences of women in Britain in politics, society and daily life in the period 1770 to the 1970s. -- .

Presents a history of the Irish civil service and its response to revolutionary changes in the State. This book gives an introduction of the third Home Rule bill in 1912. It examines the response of the civil service to the threat of partition, World War, the emergence of the revolutionary forces of Dail Eireann and the IRA.

This book offers the first authoratitive guide to, and critical evaluation of, assumptions about time in theories of world politics. It develops a new way of making sense of the 'present' times of world politics. -- .

Women Beware Women is among the most powerful and adroitly-plotted of Jacobean tragedies. Written by Thomas Middleton, a later contemporary of Shakespeare, the play deals with topics of enduring fascination such as sexual and financial greed, the sexual exploitation of women by a manipulative older woman and murderous revenge. -- .

A representative history of East German film culture from 1946 to the present, offering close readings both of DEFA's celebrated classics and of the most acclaimed post-unification films. -- .

This is the first book-length study of the uncanny, an important topic for contemporary thinking on literature, film, philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism and queer history. -- .

This new edition considers the legal concepts that have emerged from a wider political debate to govern vastly differing inter-governmental organisations ranging from the UN to the EU -- .

This is the first full-length study of Jeanette Winterson's work as a whole. The study establishes the formal, thematic and ideological characteristics of the novels and situates the writer within the general panorama of contemporary British fiction. -- .

This book is the first substantial study of Steven Berkoff's career, examining the construction and projection of his notorious public persona through his plays and writings. -- .

Thie books investigates controversies surrounding prostitution, homosexuality and the age of consent in the British Empire, and draws conclusions about the importance of sex as a nexus of imperial power relations. It will be of particular interest to academics and students in Geography, History, Postcolonial Criticism and Gender/Sexuality Studies. -- .

This is an extensively re-written, comprehensive and up-to-date second edition of a well-regarded and much cited text on the politics and philosophy of animal protection. -- .

A systematic study on the legal regulation of the use of military force, both by international organisations and states, at the beginning of the twenty-first century. -- .

An ideal companion and introduction to a major figure in world poetry -- .

A complete survey - the first in English - of Jacques Rivette's sixty-year career in French cinema, from the New Wave to the present day. -- .

A radical new interpretation of Britain's Chief Rabbis from Nathan Adler to Immanuel Jakobovits, and the impact they had on Anglo-Jewry. -- .

This study covers both the domestic and the international dimensions of the peace process, and is the first to deal seriously with the impact of the war on terror on the situation in Northern Ireland. It is also the first book to look at the Good Friday Agreement since the collapse of the Executive and the historical 2003 elections. -- .

This study of male witches addresses incidents of witch-hunting in Britain and Europe, using feminist categories of gender analysis to critique the feminist agenda that mars many studies. It advances a more balanced and complex view of witch-hunting and ideas about witches in their gendered forms.

Critically engages with the visual appearance of prose fiction where it is manipulated by authors; Reappraises the range of effects that can be created by graphic devices, and explores why literary criticism has dismissed such features; Examines problematical texts to demonstrate that an awareness of the graphic surface can make.

'Late modernist poetics' explores the uncanny afterlife of modernist ideals in the second half of the twentieth century. Contextually and theoretically wide-ranging, the book focuses on poetry of Britain, Europe and the United States. -- .

Uses case studies and voices of activists themselves to examine the role of the internet at all levels of environmental activism. Contemporary analysis of forms and processes of radical environmental activism. Contemporary analysis of forms and processes of radical environmental activism. -- .

Introduces ideas on international relations expressed by thinkers from High Middle Ages to the present day -- .

In his outstanding career, Trevor Griffiths has negotiated the issues of genre, politics, identity, class, history, memory and televisual form with a sustained creativity and integrity second to none. -- .

This study of working class tourism examines the evolution of the English holiday over two centuries, charting workers forms of travel from 'tramping' and the 'artisan's grand tour' to day tripping and package holidays abroad. -- .

This book looks at how the British Labour Party came to terms with the 1960's 'cultural revolution', specifically changes to: the class structure, place of women, black immigration, the generation gap and calls for direct political participation. -- .

Ethnographic account of English football fans who travel home and away following their team, based on sixteen years' participant observation -- .

An engaging and lively tour through the scatological, the flatulent and the cloacal in English literature over four centuries. Will appeal to cultural historians, and English literature scholars and students.

Students and lecturers in British and colonial medical, social and maritime history. -- .

This book explores the tensions underlying British imperialism in Cyprus, explaining how the Union Jack came to fly over the island and why after thirty-five years the British wanted it lowered. Cyprus' importance was always more imagined than real and was enmeshed within widely held cultural signifiers and myths. -- .

Considers in depth four particular dilemmas for contemporary Conservatism: European integration; national identity and the 'English Question'; social liberalism versus social authoritarianism; and the problems posed by a neo-liberal political economy. -- .

Offers a deep engagement with developments at the intersection of Habermasian communicative ethics and international relations. -- .