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God's Only Daughter

Spenser's Una as the invisible Church
In this study, Kathryn Walls challenges the standard identification of Una with the post-Reformation English Church, arguing that she is, rather, Augustine's City of God - the invisible Church, who...
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160,04 zł

Black middle-class Britannia

Identities, repertoires, cultural consumption
Autor: Ali Meghji
This book analyses how racism and anti-racism affects Black British middle-class cultural consumption. In doing so, it challenges the dominant understanding...
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161,38 zł

Intellectual disability

A conceptual history, 1200-1900
This collection explores the historical origins of our modern concepts of intellectual or learning disability. The essays, from some of the leading historians of ideas of intellectual disability, f...
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159,69 zł

The capitalist mode of destruction

Austerity, ecological crisis and the hollowing out of d...
This book interprets contemporary capitalism's economic, ecological and democratic crises as manifestations of a previously unrecognized contradiction: over time the benefits from capitalism...
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156,79 zł

City of beasts

How animals shaped Georgian London
This book offers a panoramic view of Georgian London, redefining the city's role in the industrial, agricultural and consumer revolutions. It does this by examining, for the first time, the huge co...
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105,54 zł

This is your hour

Christian intellectuals in Britain and the Crisis of Eu...
This book examines responses of a Christian intellectual group in 1930s and 1940s Britain to totalitarianism and war. Seeking 'middle ways' through what has been called the 'age of extremes', the g...
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158,75 zł

Affective medievalism

Love, abjection and discontent
The book argues that the temporal privilege of the medieval masks the extent to which the medieval and medievalistic are mutually constitutive and ultimately dependent not on absolutist epistemolog...
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161,84 zł

Forms of faith

Literary form and religious conflict in early modern En...
This collection of essays opens a new perspective on the interplay of religious conflict and literary culture in early modern England. Focusing on negotiation instead of escalation, thirteen distin...
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159,92 zł

Knowledge, mediation and empire

James Tod's journeys among the Rajputs
Studies Tod's relationships with particular Rajput leaders and with the Rajputs as a group in general, in order to better understand his attempts to portray their history, geographical moorings and...
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159,64 zł

Savage worlds

German encounters abroad, 1798-1914
Savage Worlds examines frontier encounters between Germans and indigenous peoples in the age of high imperialism. It demonstrates the complexity of the colonial frontier and frontier zone en...
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202,16 zł

Law in popular belief

Myth and reality
This book looks at the relationship between statute law and legal practice. It examines how law is applied in reality and more precisely how law is perceived by the general public in ...
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160,71 zł

Labour, British radicalism and the First World War

This book provides a concise set of thirteen essays looking at various aspects of the British left, movements of protest and the cumulative impact of the First World War.
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Confronting crisis in the Carolingian empire

Paschasius Radbertus' funeral oration for Wala of Corbie
This is the translation of an extraordinary and enigmatic narrative of Carolingian history, which should interest historians of politics, religion and literature in equal measure. Radbertus' 'Epita...
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157,21 zł

Citizenship, nation, empire

The politics of history teaching in England, 1870-1930
Autor: Peter Yeandle
Details contemporary debates about the purpose of history teaching and the influence of late-Victorian and Edwardian educational culture, and goes on to examine how pedagogical developments shape...
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160,71 zł

Race and riots in Thatcher's Britain

Autor: Simon Peplow
Through exploration of black British community activism in three geographical case studies, this book argues that the 1980-1 anti-police disturbances should be viewed as 'collective bargaining by r...
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Stacking the coffins

Influenza, war and revolution in Ireland, 1918-19
Autor: Ida Milne
A social history of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic's effects on an Ireland where normal patterns of life were disturbed by war and the growing separatist movement. The influenza seemed to disrupt ...
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98,69 zł

The politics of freedom of information

How and why governments pass laws that threaten their p...
Autor: Ben Worthy
This book explores the implementation of the UK's FOI law under Tony Blair, showing how the radical policy was weakened by compromises and clandestine agreements before reaching the statute book, t...
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160,36 zł

Civilising rural Ireland

The co-operative movement, development and the nation-s...
Autor: Patrick Doyle
Civilising rural Ireland challenges predominant narratives of Irish history that explain the emergence of the nation-state through the lens of political conflict and violence. Instead the bo...
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176,24 zł

The 'desegregation' of English schools

Bussing, race and urban space, 1960s-80s
This detailed study is the first ever book on English bussing, an integrationist policy introduced in places like Southall and Bradford in the 1960s. It reveals the failure of dispersal, which segr...
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