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Explores how from its formation in 1954 the intellectual movement Tuairim ('opinion' in Irish) was at the vanguard of the challenge to orthodoxy and conservatism. -- .

Provides a comprehensive introduction to China's political system, outlining the major features of the Chinese model and highlighting its claims and challenges. -- .

Students and Lecturers in Irish and British medical and social history. -- .

From bottle gardens, batman and the bachelor pad to garden gnomes and monogamy spray, this book uses a range of objects to explore the meanings and uses of kitsch. An accessible, comprehensive introduction for students and informed readers, it adds to debates on taste in cultural theory and sociology and provides a review of the literature. -- .

An energetic look at BBC Television in 1950s, illustrating how it was at the forefront of popular programming, including the first Reality TV programmes, quiz and game shows, even 'problem' talk shows. -- .

Based on over 250 psychiatric case files, this book traces the lives of Kenya's 'white insane' to focus not on the 'great white hunters' and heroic pioneer farmers but on those Europeans who did not manage to emulate the colonial ideal. In doing so, the book raises important new questions around deviance, transgression and social control. -- .

A new English translation. Looks at the most notorious massacre in early modern European history and rejects most of the established accounts, especially those privileging conspiracy. Based on extensive research and a careful examination of existing interpretations, this book is the most authoritative analysis of a shattering event. -- .

Sport and British Jewry provides the first wide-ranging examination of the importance of sport in the history of the British-Jewish community. Covering the period from 1890 through to 1970, it examines the peak era of Jewish involvement and interest in sport and physical recreation in Britain in recent times. -- .

The first in-depth study of a distinctive brand of women's rights that emerged out of the Victorian Secularist movement. It looks at the lives and work of a number of female activists, whose renunciation of religion shaped their struggle for emancipation. Anti-religious or secular ideas were fundamental to the development of feminist thought. -- .

In the twenty years after Ireland joined the UN in 1955, one subject dominated its fortunes: Africa. The first detailed study of Ireland's relationship with that continent, this book documents its special place in Irish history. -- .

This book examines the 11,000 foreign nationals who worked for the Chinese Customs Service1854-1949, exploring how their lives and careers were shaped by imperial ideologies, networks and structures. Looks at professional lives, social activities, private lives, and how these factors were influenced by the changing political context. -- .

Looks at the attitudes of colonial officials in Africa who served between the end of the19th century and WWII, as well as what shaped such attitudes, including education and training, interrelationships, infrastructural change, and anti-colonial nationalism. -- .

Broad ranging, interdisciplinary, this book seeks to understand the corporate conceptions of identity and work, and how they are reflected in our wider culture - through novels, cookery writing, autobiography and the many constructions of narrative. -- .

Focusing on Manchester, this book shows that canals were at the heart of the self-styled Cottonopolis. Not only did canals move the key commodities of Manchester's industrial revolution -coal, corn, and cotton - but canal banks also provided the key sites for the factories that made Manchester the 'shock city' of the early Victorian age. -- .

This book is designed as both a framework text - setting out concepts by which to understand the British question - and a synthetic text - providing a digest of significant academic work on historical, conceptual and political matters relevant to that question. -- .

This book uses a case study to explore the contribution which scientific knowledge made to the growth trajectory of England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The aim is not to re-tell the story of the Industrial Revolution, but to reconstruct its preliminary stage which is here labelled the Industrial Enlightenment. -- .

Blair's community challenges the widely held view that New Labour's policies and approach have reflected or even been influenced by the work of communitarian writers, by comparing party policy and rhetoric directly with their work. -- .

Theatre and drama studies, film studies, cultural studies -- .

Students and lecturers in English and Cultural Studies, and Comparative Literature -- .

The story of Noah's Flood is one of the Bible's most popular stories, and other flood myths are preserved by cultures across the world. This book presents the first comprehensive study of the incorporation of the Flood myth into the literary and historical imagination of the Anglo-Saxons, ranging from the works of Bede to Beowulf. -- .

During WWI hundreds of thousands of Germans faced incarceration in hundreds of camps on the British mainland. This is the first book on these German prisoners, and covers 3 different types of internees in Britain: civilians already present in the country in August 1914; civilians brought to Britain from all over the world; and combatants. -- .

This book shows how the grotesque continues to be a powerful force in contemporary British writing and provides an illuminating picture of often controversial aspects of recent fiction. -- .

This book examines the creation and collapse of the first power-sharing administration in Northern Ireland, and British government policy during the period 1972-75. It also analyses the relationship between the British and Irish states during the 1972-75 period. -- .

This book addresses the growing gap between policy makers and (organised) citizens, and attempts by international organisations to implement a multi-stakeholder approach largely facilitated by the internet. -- .

The most comprehensive study published to date about John Galsworthy's philanthropic support for, and his compositions about soldiers disabled in the Great War. It makes available for the first time in a single edition the most significant of his compositions about the war disabled and examining their value as historical documents. -- .

This book argues that memory functions as a key element in contemporary South African re-imagining of historical events and in constructing new definitions of national and personal identity. It compares two ways in which memory is embodied: in repertoires of practices, songs, dance, rituals, and in material archives, texts, documents, buildings. -- .