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A striking new interpretation of white settlement in early colonial Kenya -- .

Explores the development of patient-consumerism from the 1960s to 2010 in relation to seven key areas: patient autonomy, representation, complaint, rights, information, voice and choice. -- .

Explodes the myth that globalisation is the cause of inequality and that the state can do little to protect us. -- .

Examines attempts by the Conservative party in the interwar years to capture the 'brains' of the new electorate and create a counter-culture to what they saw as the intellectual hegemony of the Left. -- .

Focuses on the pivotal years of 1638-44 where debates around non-conformity within the Church of England morphed into a revolution between Parliament and its king -- .

The first ever book-length account of Spenser's monsters and their relation to the poetic imagination in the Renaissance. -- .

Explores and explains stories about the mythic outlaw, who from the middle ages to the present stands up for the values of natural law and true justice. -- .

The first detailed critical history of British Modernist sculpture's interaction with modern biology. -- .

As European theatre directors become a familiar presence on international stages and a new generation of theatre makers absorbs their impulses, this study develops fresh perspectives on Regie, the Continental European tradition of staging playtexts. -- .

This book explores how news and information about the conflict in Northern Ireland was disseminated through the most accessible, powerful and popular form of media: television. -- .

Assesses the economic and cultural links between country houses and the empire between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries -- .

Explores how Livingstone has been represented in diverse ways and put to work in a variety of socio-political contexts. -- .

Investigates how reformers, conservatives, and radicals used portraiture to connect with supporters and build identity in Victorian politics.

An examination of body cultures in the British Army during the Second World War -- .

The first detailed account of the life and work of Bishop Francis Hutchinson (1660-1739), author of one of the most important witchcraft texts of the early modern period, An historical essay concerning witchcraft (1718). This work has captivated readers for centuries and still a vital source for those investigating witchcraft trials of the period -- .

Students and Lecturers and intelligent readers interested in the Spanish Civil War and the representation of history in cinema -- .

The first full-length book devoted to Jacques Demy in the English language. -- .

Explores the rapid rise of cheap print and how it permeated Venetian urban culture in the Renaissance -- .

A major new study of Africa's most important writer, offering a comprehensive reassessment of Achebe's work as a novelist, broadcaster and political thinker -- .

Explains he special effects used to represent storms in the earl modern playhouses, and details how those effects filter into Shakespeare's dramatic language. With chapters on Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, Pericles and The Tempest -- .

In this first English translation, former Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis examines the European debt crisis with particular reference to the case of Greece -- .