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This book examines the forms and practices of Irish confinement from the 19th century to present-day to explore the social and political failings of 20th and 21st century postcolonial Ireland. Building on an interdisciplinary conference held in the Crumlin Road Gaol,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-06-26
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
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Zum ersten Mal wird hier die ganz unwahrscheinliche Entstehung moderner Demokratie aus der Perspektive der Handelnden erzählt und analysiert. Nicht als Masterplan, den es nicht gab, sondern als innovatives Stückwerk in vielen Ländern, oft mit anderen als demokratischen...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2020-05-13
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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'This captivating account . . . is the story of an ordinary soldier, but an extraordinary man. I commend this book most warmly.'Richard Dannatt, General The Lord Dannatt GCB CBE MC DL, Chief of the General Staff 2006-9'The amazing account of a young man, Neville...
Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2020-04-30
Format(s) : ePub
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THE RADIO 4 BOOK OFTHE WEEK'Gobsmacking' The Times'Luscious' Mail on Sunday'Delectable . . . ravishing' Sunday Times'A chocolate box full of delicious gothic delights - jump in' Lucy Worsley'Stranger than fiction, as dark as any gothic drama . . . utterly gripping'...
Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2020-04-16
Format(s) : ePub
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This book offers a new interpretation of the place of periodicals in nineteenth-century Ireland. Case studies of representative titles as well as maps and visual material (lithographs, wood engravings, title-pages) illustrate a thriving industry, encouraged, rather than...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-03-26
Collection :
New Directions in Book History
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Sweet and Clean? challenges the widely held beliefs on bathing and cleanliness in the past. For over thirty years, the work of the French historian, George Vigarello, has been hugely influential on early modern European social history, describing an aversion to water...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-03-26
Format(s) : ePub
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Sweet and Clean? challenges the widely held beliefs on bathing and cleanliness in the past. For over thirty years, the work of the French historian, George Vigarello, has been hugely influential on early modern European social history, describing an aversion to water...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-03-26
Format(s) : PDF
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From the Plantation of Ulster in the seventeenth century to the entry into peace talks in the late twentieth century the Northern Irish people have been engaged in conflict - Catholic against Protestant, Republican against Unionist. The traumas of violence in the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-03-26
Format(s) : PDF
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From the Plantation of Ulster in the seventeenth century to the entry into peace talks in the late twentieth century the Northern Irish people have been engaged in conflict - Catholic against Protestant, Republican against Unionist. The traumas of violence in the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-03-26
Format(s) : ePub
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This book examines the topic of excess in modern Irish writing in terms of mysticism, materialism, myth and language. The study engages ideas of excess as they appear in works by major thinkers from Hegel, Kierkegaard and Marx through to Nietzsche, Bataille, Derrida...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-03-14
Collection :
New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
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A stonemason's story of the building of Britain: part archaeological history, part deeply personal insight into an ancient craft. In his thirty-year career, stonemason Andrew Ziminski has worked on many of our greatest monuments. From Neolithic monoliths to Roman baths...
Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2020-03-05
Format(s) : ePub
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This book explores the form, function and meaning of crime and execution broadsides printed in nineteenth-century Britain. By presenting a detailed discourse analysis of 650 broadsides printed across Britain between the years 1800-1850, this book provides a unique and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-02-18
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Utilizing recent developments in book history and digital humanities, this book offers a cultural, economic, and literary history of the Victorian three-volume novel, the prestige format for the British novel during much of the nineteenth century. With the publication...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-02-07
Collection :
New Directions in Book History
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This book provides the first detailed analysis of how interactions between government policy and Fleet Street affected the political coverage of the Greek civil war, one of the first major confrontations of the Cold War. During this period the exponential growth of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-02-01
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media
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This book is the first transnational history of rambling and mountaineering. Focussing on the critical turn-of-the-century era, it offers new insights into alpine development, attitudes to danger, cultures of time, internationalism and domesticity in the outdoors. It...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-01-02
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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There were tens of thousands of different local law-courts in late-medieval England, providing the most common forums for the working out of disputes and the making of decisions about local governance. While historians have long studied these institutions, there have...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-12-12
Format(s) : PDF
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There were tens of thousands of different local law-courts in late-medieval England, providing the most common forums for the working out of disputes and the making of decisions about local governance. While historians have long studied these institutions, there have...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-12-12
Format(s) : ePub
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Jennie Churchill was said to have had two hundred lovers, three of whom she married. But her love for her son Winston never wavered.Jennie Churchill is an intimate picture of her glittering but ultimately tragic life, and the powerful mutual infatuation between her and...
Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2019-11-28
Format(s) : ePub
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This book reveals the queen behind Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. Placing Spenser’s epic poem in the context of the tumultuous sixteenth century, Donald Stump offers a groundbreaking reading of the poem as an allegory of Elizabeth I’s life. By narrating the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-11-07
Collection :
Queenship and Power
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Why is the North East the most distinctive region of England? Where do the stereotypes about North Easterners come from, and why are they so often misunderstood? In this wideranging new history of the people of North East England, Dan Jackson explores the deep roots of...
Editeur : Hurst
Parution : 2019-11-01
Format(s) : ePub
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