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By investigating representations of the war years in a selection of French crime novels from the mid-1940s to the present day, this book argues for the importance of crime fiction, and popular culture more generally, as active agents of memory in the ongoing debates over the legacies of the war years in contemporary France. -- .

This book is concerned with the interaction of traditional politics, culture and social groups, of local and national influences, of ideals and individuals. It looks at local government, social groups and housing policy in the twentieth century. This is a remarkable story of how these factors were interwoven to create and manage policy. -- .

Describes how Victorian physicians located in a medical culture that privileged general knowledge over narrow specialism came to be transformed into the specialised physicians we now call neurologists -- .

This book is about what it meant to build a city in Germany at the turn of the twentieth century. It explores the physical spaces and mental attitudes that conditioned beliefs about the past and expectations for the future in the crucial German generations that shaped the young Reich, fought the Great War, and experienced the Weimar Republic. -- .

A study of theatre and sovereignty that situates Shakespeare's plays in the contraflow between two absolutisms of early modern England: the aesthetic and the political -- .

Explores the implications of scientific discourse on Russian concepts of mental illness and national health -- .

Shows that George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld thought about international politics, and about leadership, in divergent ways, and demonstrates the impact these differences had on the course of the Iraq war -- .

The first monograph-length study that charts the coercive diplomacy of the administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford as practised against their British ally -- .

Studies why and how successful forms of workers' interest representation could emerge in a hostile, post-communist context -- .

Examination of the popular film and fiction consumed by Britons in the 1920s and 1930s -- .

This study places official discourse regarding urban amusement into the context of broader cultural understandings -- .

Details the surveillance by the British security service MI5 of anti-Nazi refugees who came to Britain fleeing political persecution in Germany and Austria -- .

Explores the evolving shape of a series of Catholic festivals that took place throughout the duration of Portuguese colonial rule in Goa (1510-1961) -- .

Addresses the War of Independence from a new perspective by focusing on the attitude of the Catholic clergy -- .

Examines Shakespeare's role in contemporary culture -- .

A history of port health and immigration at a critical moment of transformation at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century -- .

Examines how political news was concealed, manipulated and distorted during the tumultuous later years of James I's reign -- .

Examines the "medical organisation" of Imperial Germany for total war -- .

Examines the rise and fall of the aristocratic Lacy family in England, Ireland, Wales and Normandy. As one of the first truly transnational studies of individual medieval aristocrats, it provides a fresh look at lordship and the interplay between aristocracy and crown from 1166 to 1241. -- .

The first book-length study of the humanities and the Irish university -- .

Offers a critical history of key debates about visual style in British film journals in the postwar period -- .

Explores the groundbreaking representation of the body in experimental films of the 1960s and 1970s. Focusing on sexually explicit films by Andy Warhol, Barbara Rubin, Stan Brakhage, Carolee Schneemann, Yoko Ono and Paul Sharits. -- .

The first comprehensive study of prisoners and the right to vote -- .

Examines the teaching of the theology of Christ's ascension in Anglo-Saxon literature, offering the only comprehensive examination of how patristic ascension theology is transmitted, adapted and taught to Anglo-Saxon audiences -- .

The first book-length account of the women's liberation movement (WLM) in Scotland -- .

Unearths new evidence to provide a richer understanding of the life of the Labour minister Ellen Wilkinson -- .

Focuses on one of the most innovative aspects of Irish social partnership, the Community and Voluntary Pillar. It is the most thorough account of the dynamics of the Pillar to date and tackles the weaknesses in existing perspectives -- .

Explores the major changes in our use of and attitude to time over three centuries. Asks why the 1960s and 1970s expectation that leisure time would increase has failed to come about

Evaluates the workings of juvenile justice and the relationship between young people and practitioners in a key era of social change -- .

Provides an analysis of neo-liberal political economics implemented in Ireland and the deleterious consequences of that model -- .