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The 1980s. A decade of contemporary British fiction

by Tew, Philip, Horton, Emily, Wilson, Leigh

fromDecades series

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How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1980s shape contemporary British fiction? Setting the fiction squarely within the context of Conservative politics and questions about culture and national identity, this volume reveals how the decade associated…

Ireland's history. Prehistory to the present

by Campbell, Kenneth L.

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This book provides an introduction to Irish history that blends a scholarly approach to the subject, based on recent research and current historiographical perspectives, with a clear and accessible writing style. All the major themes in Irish history are covered, from prehistori…

Rabbinic creativity in the modern Middle East

by Zohar, Zvi

fromKogod library of Judaic studies

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Rabbinic Creativity in the Modern Middle East' provides a window for readers of English around the world into hitherto almost inaccessible halakhic and ideational writings expressing major aspects of the cultural intellectual creativity of Sephardic-Oriental rabbis in modern tim…

Queer cities, queer cultures. Europe since 1945

by Cook, Matt, Evans, Jennifer V.

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Through a series of urban case studies, this book examines the articulation of particular subcultures and forms of expression with the broader stories we tell about postwar Europe and particular watershed moments. It considers queer life in the selected cities in relation to the…

Virtual reality. Representations in contemporary media

by Chan, Melanie

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The idea of virtual realities has a long and complex historical trajectory, spanning from Plato's concept of the cave and the simulacrum, to artistic styles such as Trompe L'oeil, and more recently developments in 3D film, television and gaming. However, this book will pay parti…

The cinema of Hal Hartley

by Manley

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Hal Hartley is considered one of the most significant contributors to the American 'independent' cinema that flowered in the late 1980's and that now occupies a very important place in the American film landscape. Through a detailed discussion of all of Hartley's short and featu…

Britain and France in two World Wars. Truth, myth and memory

by Tombs, Robert, Chabal, Emile

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France and Britain, indispensable allies in two world wars, remember and forget their shared history in contrasting ways. The book examines key episodes in the relationship between the two countries, including the outbreak of war in 1914, the battles of the Somme and Verdun, the…

Contemporary cosmopolitanism

by Taraborelli, Angela

fromBloomsbury Political Philosophy

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This book is the first, and much-needed, introduction to contemporary political cosmopolitanism. Cosmopolitanism is the idea that we are all world citizens, and that we have moral duties towards others independently of their nationality. Over the last forty years this idea, whic…

Modern conspiracy. The importance of being paranoid

by Jane, Emma A.

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While conspiracy theory is often characterized in terms of the collapse of objectivity and Enlightenment reason, 'Modern conspiracy' traces the important role of conspiracy in the formation of the modern world: the scientific revolution, social contract theory, political soverei…

Victims and survivors of Nazi human experiments. Science and suffering in the Holocaust

by Weindling, Paul

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While the coerced human experiments are notorious among all the atrocities under National Socialism, they have been marginalised by mainstream historians. This book seeks to remedy the marginalisation, and to place the experiments in the context of the broad history of National …

Europe and the Struggle for leadership. Britain and France 1945-1975

by Adamthwaite, Anthony

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Europe and the struggle for leadership' offers a comparative history of sharply contrasting national experiences in the aftermath of the Second World War. Perceived as a failing power, post-war France seized the initiative in European construction, gaining ascendancy in Western …

Salman Rushdie

fromContemporary Critical Perspectives

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Sir Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most significant living novelist in English. His second novel, Midnight's Children, is regularly cited as the 'Booker of Bookers' and its impact is still being felt in world literature. His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, is a very major, poss…

Vertov, Snow, Farocki. Machine vision and the Posthuman

by Tomás

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Vertov, Snow, Farocki: Machine Vision and the Posthuman' begins with a comprehensive and original anthropological analysis of Vertov's film The Man With a Movie Camera. Tomas then explores the film's various aspects and contributions to media history and practice through detaile…

Making waves. New cinemas of the 1960s. Rev. ed

by Nowell-Smith

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The 1960s was famously the decade of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. It was also a decade of revolution and counter-revolution, of the Cuban missile crisis, of the American intervention in Vietnam, of economic booms and the beginning of consumerism. It was a decade in which the avan…

An environmental history of wildlife in England 1650-1950

by Williamson, Tom

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While few detailed surveys of fauna or flora exist in England from the period before the nineteenth century, it is possible to combine the evidence of historical sources (ranging from game books, diaries, churchwardens' accounts and even folk songs) and our wider knowledge of pa…