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Confronting the Present
Anthropologists study other people and worry about it. In the past this took the form of a professional desire to make our politics always somewhere else and to do with…
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Conservative Suffragists
As the suffragette movement was becoming increasingly militant what was the Conservative reaction to successive parliamentary bills on women’s suffrage and what was the level of support for votes for…
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Critics of Empire
The notion of ’empire’ has been at the forefront of world politics for over a century. Bernard Porter’s landmark work traces the critical response to the British imperial project in…
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Cultural History
Anna Green provides a coherent and accessible introduction to the major theoretical approaches and key concepts within this most diverse of historical fields. ‘Cultural History’ explores the conceptual, affective and…
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Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe/Moll Flanders
Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719) and Moll Flanders (1721) together defined a new way of writing fiction in the 18th century. Each was highly controversial in Defoe’s time, and each has…
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Dean John Colet of St Paul’s
This is an important and original biography of John Colet, the leading humanist theologian in early Tudor England and the founder of St Paul’s School in London. Taken at face…
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Defiance
In 1960s Sicily, the Mafia were everywhere – and never seen. In the small town of Cinisi their power was unspoken, and absolute: ‘it’s in the air that you breathe’…
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Delicious!
Cat, Squirrel, and Duck have a very serious problem: there are no ripe pumpkins in the garden for their favorite soup! They’ll have to make something else, but while Cat…
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Dictionary of British America, 1584-1783
Did you know that:- The thirteen colonies which became the USA were not the most valuable British possessions in America?- Georgia was not the thirteenth but the fourteenth British colony…
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Dress Sense
Dress Sense explores the importance of the senses and emotions in the way people dress, and how they attach value and significance to clothing. Inspired by the work of Joanne…
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Eastern Europe and Eurasia in the Global Age
This volume is a critical exploration of the geopolitical hierarchies of global culture, which foregrounds Eastern European, Russian, and Central Asian languages and cultures. It highlights the cultural production of…
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Elegy
Mary Jo Bang’s fifth collection, Elegy, chronicles the year following the death of her son. By weaving the particulars of her own loss into a tapestry that also contains the…