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A Man’s World? Political Masculinities in Literature and Culture

Edited By: Kathleen Starck

£44.99

Political institutions are often treated as un-gendered, yet rationality has been ascribed to masculinity. This book explores the interdependence of masculinities and concepts like the state, citizenship, and democracy, shedding light on their construction.

Women and Science, 17th Century to Present

Pioneers, Activists and Protagonists

Edited By: Véronique Molinari

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This volume takes a new approach to women in science, moving beyond the obstacles they have faced. It analyzes the link between women and science through various media—including fiction, poetry, and sci-fi—to explore the portrayal and self-portrayal of women.

The Old World and the New

The Marriage and Colonial Adventures of Lord and Lady Northcote

By: Elizabeth Taylor

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This biography tells the untold story of two British aristocrats. It details the drama of their personal lives and their rule in colonial India and Australia, examining the decline of an upper class and raising questions of Empire and social mobility.

Health and Hazard

Spa Culture and the Social History of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century

By: Karl E. Wood

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The nineteenth-century European spa was an intersection of social class and medical ideas. It offers a unique opportunity to study a key shift: the rise of the order-giving physician over the compliant patient, and the turn from liberalism toward authoritarianism.

Less than Nations

Central-Eastern European Minorities after WWI, Volume 2

By: Giuseppe Motta

£44.99

After WWI redefined the map of Central-Eastern Europe, states and nations rarely coincided. This book analyses the conditions of national minorities, from the massacres of Armenians and Jews to the role of Kin States that conditioned the stability of Europe.

The Atlantic World in the Antipodes

Effects and Transformations since the Eighteenth Century

Edited By: Kate Fullagar

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This collection of essays investigates the transformations of ideas, peoples, and institutions from the Atlantic World when carried into the Antipodes. The chapters underscore how both oceanic worlds were co-produced through intellectual and practical interactions.

Doubt, Time and Violence in Philosophical and Cultural Thought

Sino-Western Interpretations and Analysis

Edited By: Artur K. Wardega

£44.99

These essays confront the traumas of our postmodern world: loss of identity, media uniformity, violence, and climate change. Distinguished scholars explore these and other fascinating topics from Western and Chinese history to address our shared global concerns.

Yea, Alabama! A Rare Glimpse into the Personal Diary of the University of Alabama (Volume 2 – 1871 through 1901 Second Edition)

By: David M. Battles

£44.99

This second volume introduces several elements into the University of Alabama’s narrative, like its hassle with the state government through 1877 and its strict admission of women students. Other topics explored include the history of unofficial student sports from the 1870s.

Between Time and Space

Edited By: Sulevi Riukulehto

£41.99

This volume explores regional history from around the globe, showing how time and space are connected. Through case studies ranging from romantic operas in Europe and gold-mining in South Africa to urban planning in New Zealand, it examines the most personal level of belonging.

A History of Riots

Edited By: Keith Flett

£41.99

Many thought riots were an outdated form of protest. They were wrong. This book probes various historical riots—from 18th-century Scotland to a 1930s US police riot—to understand the issues that motivate them and why they still take place today.

From Colonies to Countries in the North Caribbean

Military Engineers in the Development of Cities and Territories

Edited By: Pedro Luengo-Gutiérrez, Gene A. Smith

£41.99

This publication explores how military engineers in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico reshaped the physical landscape for imperial reasons, laying the foundations for colonial development, and highlights the role of military engineers in articulating new American countries.

Memory, History, and Autobiography in Early Modern Towns in East and West

Edited By: Vanessa Harding, Kōichi Watanabe

£41.99

Between the 16th and 19th centuries, towns in Europe and East Asia helped shape individual consciousness. These essays explore how personal writings placed individuals into urban histories, challenging the idea that individualism emerged only in European society.

40 Years are Nothing

History and memory of the 1973 coups d’état in Uruguay and Chile

Edited By: Fernando López

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The 1973 coups in Uruguay and Chile ushered in a new kind of dictatorship. Through state terror and ideological genocide, they imposed radical neoliberal systems whose brutal legacies continue to shape both nations today.

Wales and the American Dream

By: Robert Llewellyn Tyler

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This book analyses four Welsh communities in the US to test the assumption they were a prime illustration of the American Dream. It assesses their socio-economic success and tracks the cultural changes that transformed the Welsh into Welsh-Americans and, ultimately, Americans.

Civilization at Risk

Seeds of War

By: Ron D. Petitte

£41.99

The evil of sex trafficking will not stop, but it can be discouraged and lives spared. All of the author’s proceeds for this book go directly to the Justice and Mercy Initiative at Bryan College to fight human trafficking.

Museums beyond the Crises

CIMAM 2012 Annual Conference Publication

Edited By: Zdenka Badovinac, Bartomeu Marí

£41.99

The predominant model of the museum is collapsing. The old paradigm is being replaced by a new one that still needs to be defined. This book investigates what such a new paradigm may entail and its consequences for the preservation of heritage.

Roaming, Wandering, Deviation and Error

Dialogues Between Paradise Lost and the Novels of Salman Rushdie

By: Mayra Helena Alves Olalquiaga

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This title presents a comparative reading of John Milton’s epic Paradise Lost in relation to four novels by Salman Rushdie, namely The Satanic Verses, The Moor’s Last Sigh, Fury and The Ground Beneath Her Feet, confronting terms such as influence and inheritance.

Clientelism and Implementing Social Security Programmes in Post-conflict Iraqi Kurdistan Region

By: Muslih Irwani

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This book investigates social policy in Iraqi Kurdistan, introducing a “clientelistic model of policy implementation.” It argues that politicians interfere, distributing social security benefits based on socio-political status, not socio-economic need.

Solway Country

Land, Life and Livelihood in the Western Border Region of England and Scotland

By: Allen J. Scott

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The Solway Country is a little-known world on the Anglo-Scottish border, its identity rooted in landscape and a turbulent history. This book captures its spirit, exploring a hybrid culture of ballads born from the theft and mayhem of the border reivers.

Autobiography as a Writing Strategy in Postcolonial Literature

Edited By: Benaouda Lebdai

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This book analyzes how postcolonial writers used autobiography to express themselves. By using the ‘I’ and ‘me’ as subjects, not objects, they affirmed their identity and established autobiographical writing as a true art form.