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As Ireland's economic boom grounds to a sudden halt, Transforming Ireland offers a diverse range of critical analyses of its legacies across different areas of Irish life - the media, racism, consumerism, sports, education, state surveillance and the pharmaceutical industry. The book also maps out a politics of change for Irish society. -- .

A multi-authored book concerned with the developing interface between Gothic criticism and queer theory. Considering a range of Gothic texts produced between the eighteenth century and the present, it explores the relationship between reading Gothically and reading Queerly.

This book focuses on Britain's international policy when the country was retreating from a world role to a European focus. It includes coverage of the Vietnam War, East-West detente and the Middle East conflict. -- .

Charitable hatred presents a challenging new perspective on religious tolerance and intolerance in early modern England. Instead of charting a path of linear progress from persecution to toleration, it emphasises the complex interplay between these two impulses throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. -- .

This book seeks to provide a comprehensive and critical overview of a society in the process of transition between war and peace. -- .

An English translation of "Investigations into Magic" that deals not only with magic in all its forms, from the manipulation of angelic and demonic powers to straightforward conjuring and illusion, but also with witchcraft, alchemy, astrology, divination, prophecy, and possession by evil spirits.

This book covers the many topics of `the war on terror' from legal, philosophical, economic and historical perspectives. The dialogue form of the book (essay-response) allows a broad representation of views, covering the situation in the Middle East, national security, politics of intervention, human rights, torture and the motives of the Iraq War. -- .

Monasticism in Late Medieval England provides an ideal introduction to this subject for students and scholars alike. It combines translated sources relating to every aspect of late medieval monastic life with the first extended overview of pre-Reformation monasticism in England for a generation. -- .

The book makes a compelling case for reconstructing feminist theory in critical-realist terms and forms a trend-setting text in the area of gender studies. -- .

Attempts to reconstruct the landscape of pre-Conquest England. This book examines the evidence for the West Midlands - the counties of Worcestershire, Warwickshire and Gloucestershire, much of which formed the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the Hwicce.

This is a study of how the prosecution of the Nine Years' War in the last decade of Elizabeth I's reign impinged on government and society at central and local levels in the shires of England and Wales. -- .

Analyses the tensions and contradictions within the 'religion of protestants' that dominated great swathes of the early Stuart church. This book studies puritan theology and intra-puritan theological dispute. It also studies lay clerical relations and the politics of the parish.

An authoritative edition of one of the most popular plays in Elizabethan and Jacobean England -- .

This is the first English translation of two chronicles of long-acknowledged importance to European history in the period c.850-c.950. This period, which is widely taught in European and North American universities, saw the collapse of the Carolingian Empire and the rise in Germany of the 'First Reich' under the Ottonian dynasty. -- .

A collection of essays that considers the James Bond novels and films in relation to their historical, political, and social contexts from the Cold War period onwards, and also examines the classic Bond canon from an array of theoretical perspectives.

John Ashbery is America's greatest living poet. He is also greatly misunderstood. Presenting the poet in all his forms -avant-garde, nostalgic, sublime and camp - this book argues that the perpetual inventiveness of Ashbery's work has always been underpinned by the poets desire to write the poem fit to cope with its occasion.

Offers guidance both to newcomers and to the more experienced, on how to make best use of the labyrinth of genealogical sources in England and Wales. This book takes into account changes to the civil registration system. It includes bibliography for those who discover that their ancestors migrated from other countries.

For too long, American women have been hidden in the history of the Cold War. This title recovers their significance by examining the activities and ambitions of American women's organisations in the long period of uneasy peace. It is suitable for those in the field of gender and women's history, cultural studies, and American history.

The first work to reflect in detail on the Left's experiences in government in the 1990s and early twenty-first century. -- .

This book assembles an expert team of leading authorities and up-and coming scholars to re-assess the status of the Co-op in modern British history and demonstrate the Co-op's continuing relevance to contemporary debates about consumerism and . -- .

Looks at the lives of successive Queens, Princesses of Wales and royal daughters, and considers how they used their powers of patronage and operated within the confines of royal family politics. This book presents fresh approaches in gender history and court studies.

Combining theological discussion, illustrative anecdotes and practical advice, the Malleus Maleficarum is one of the best-known treatises dealing with the problem of what to do with witches. This new lean and unvarnished translation will undoubtedly become the standard translation of this important and controversial late-medieval text. -- .

Three of the most important chronicles of eleventh-century Germany were composed in the south-western duchy of Swabia. The Swabian chronicles are an indispensable resource to the student of the changing loyalties and conflicts of eleventh-century Germany. -- .

Political parties use market intelligence to listen to the public, develop a product to suit and communicate it before the election and in government, raising concerns about treating voters like consumers, how to communicate delivery and managing political parties like businesses. -- .

An interdisciplinary study of 'medieval film' and its cultural functions -- .

This book will fascinate anyoneinterested in the Victorians or theory. Each chapter pairs a poet with atheorist: Robert Browning meets Jacques Derrida; Christina Rossetti encountersLuce Irigaray; Matthew Arnold is after Michel Foucault; Gerald Manley Hopkinsdreams with Jacques Lacan; and Elizabeth Barrett Browning haunts Helene Cixous. -- .

Students and lecturers in photography, art history, Englishness and documentary studies -- .

Gathers the voices of unique artists from the worlds of theatre, music and performance to discuss process and the making of interdisciplinary work. -- .

The question of how the international community should engage in a legitimate way in state-building in war- torn, weak or failing states is a priority question for international relations. This book draws on a group of specialists to examine this question in relation to a new model of state-building intervention in the Pacific 'arc of crisis'. -- .

A valuable collection of essays that look at Anthony Burgess's relationship with Modernism and postmodernity -- .