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Rebel women between the wars: Breaking boundaries, 1918–39 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
An original history of thirteen interwar women who successfully challenged male dominance in a wide range of occupations, from mountaineering to... Læs mere
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Christ’s war: Holiness, heroism and horror in Carolingian poetry, c.730–c.900 CE (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Christ’s war examines Carolingian holy war from the forging of their empire in the eighth century to its dissolution in the... Læs mere
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The poetry of suicide: Lessons in grief from the lives and deaths of poets (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Interweaving stories of poets who took their own lives with the long history of suicide in his own family, J. T. Welsch reveals how poetry can help us to understand and come to terms with these difficult deaths. -- .
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Elites in civil society: A comparative perspective (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Challenging the assumption that civil society is inherently egalitarian, this book investigates the formation of a distinct civil society elite, its... Læs mere
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Manchester must dance: A life of music, madness and moving on up (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A gripping memoir of Mike Pickering's five decades in the music industry, which saw him DJing at the Haçienda, signing Happy Mondays and James to Factory Records and selling millions of albums with his band M People. -- .
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Roger Michell (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Brian McFarlane’s book, Roger Michell, is a study of one of the most interesting (and least explored) directors of recent British cinema. It offers analyses of his films in various categories, in a style aimed at general readers with an interest in British film. -- .
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Re-examining nineteenth-century Easts: Gendered narratives of encounter (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This collectionreassesses and revitalises the gendered and gendering debates associated with nineteenth-century ‘Easts’. It offers... Læs mere
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A Confucian theory of power (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This book reconstructs the Confucian account of power in terms of responsibility from historical and normative perspectives. It pays special attention to the liability and... Læs mere
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Converting Ireland: Religious education, language and colonialism (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Karina Bénazech Wendling re-assesses ‘souperism’ and British cultural imperialism through the use of the Irish language and Bible in... Læs mere
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The art of decolonisation: Dakar-Paris, 1950-70 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A transnational and transhistorical history of the artistic, political, and diplomatic relations between France and Senegal from the 1950s to the 1970s.... Læs mere
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Critical theory and the critique of alternative societies: Co-operatives, mutual aid and universal basic income (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This book turns to the ideas of the early Frankfurt School to critically engage with key developments within anti-capitalist activism. -- .
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Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 101/1 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is a long-running journal that publishes research complementary to the John Rylands Library’s extensive special collections. -- .
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