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This book examines how participation in the British Empire shaped constructions of Scottish national identity. It makes an important contribution to our understanding of nineteenth and early twentieth century Scottish society.
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Drawing on a wide range of source materials from across Scotland, this sourcebook provides new insights into women’s attitudes to the society in which they lived, and how they negotiated their identities within private and public life.
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Contrary to the stereotypical images of torture, narcotics and brutal sexual abuse traditionally associated with Ottoman or 'Turkish' prisons,... Læs mere
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This is a new ‘global’ history of the Scottish city of Dundee’s industrial era which combines economic, political and social history and explores the significance of empire for British policy.
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Explores the writing and influence of the first Arabic-language global biographical dictionary of women.
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By investigating the changing nature of the retailing of menswear, this book illuminates wider aspects of masculine identity as well as... Læs mere
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Argues that municipal museums had a further, social role. In a situation of rapid urban growth, allied to social and cultural changes on a scale hitherto unknown, it was inevitable that traditional class and social hierarchies would come under enormous pressure.
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This volume evaluates British womens' poetry by identifying how their work registered and influenced the cultural shifts between the... Læs mere
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University astronomy is the tap-root of the discipline from which the community of professional astronomers and its organizing talent emerged. This book... Læs mere
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As Pierre Bourdieu points out, economic success and artistic status rarely overlap in cultural industries. This volume focuses on the period in which commercial book publishing became a mass market business that was able to appeal to a wide range of interests and incomes.
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Concentrates on social relations in the 1,500 estate villages of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz. This book makes use of... Læs mere
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This text on Russian industrialists includes chapters on: the Russian business community; the dilemmas of backwardness; and politics, war, and revolution.