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Recounting a walk of twenty miles across Beijing, this book takes the reader on a journey through the city's recent history, explaining how the present and future of the world's rising superpower has been shaped by its tumultuous past, from the demise of the last imperial dynasty... in 1912 through to the present day. -- .
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The first collection of essays devoted to Spenser's Mutabilitie Cantos (1609) celebrates the 400th anniversary of the first publication of that intriguing, posthumously-published fragment of his unfinished epic, *The Faerie Queene* It contains original essays by major Spenser sch...olars such as James Nohrnberg, Gordon Teskey and Judith Anderson.
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Analyses the development of history writing on the destruction of the European Jews from just before the end of the Second World War to the present day, and argues forcefully that history writing is as much about the present as it is the past.
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This book tells the fascinating story of the Butlin and Warner holiday camp chains that emerged in the 1930s. The camps became a cultural phenomenon deeply enmeshed in the social and cultural history of twentieth century Britain.
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Through a series of thematic chapters, this book focuses on the nature of injured and disabled bodies in relation to rehabilitative practices established in Britain during and immediately following the Second World War.
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This is an original study of British diplomacy in the age of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. It examines the social, cultural and intellectual aspects of diplomatic life and practice between 1750 and 1830.
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This is a study of domestic life during the war, of what people on the home front did to support men at the front, and of how soldiers in trenches organised the routines of feeding, rest, warmth, washing, that ensured their survival.
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An examination of the geography of science and the science of geography in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain and the British Empire, using as its central example the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
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This book reconstructs American consular activity in Ireland from 1790 to 1913 and elucidates the interconnectedness of America's foreign interests, Irish nationalism and British imperialism
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This is a landmark study which examines the film and reading tastes of working-class consumers in 1930s Britain. Drawing on a wealth of original research, Robert James argues that working-class consumers used popular film and fiction to answer a range of cultural and social needs... in this tumultuous decade.
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