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A New Muslim Order
Nicolas Pelham explores how America’s overthrow of the Baath partyin Iraq, and the failures of Washington’s post-invasion regime spawned a Shiite revolution in the heartland of the Arab world. Through…
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A Time Out of Joint
Roland Hill’s autobiography, “A Time Out of Joint”, is a remarkable and moving personal story and much more: it enables readers to re-live European history during the darkest period of…
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Aftershock
Accused by the tabloid press of setting out to ‘shock’, controversial artworks are vigorously defended by art critics, who frequently downplay their disturbing emotional impact. This is the first book…
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Aristocracy, Temperance and Social Reform
The visionary achievements of Isabella (Isabel) Caroline Somerset (Lady Henry Somerset), like the temperance cause she led, have undeservedly faded into obscurity. By her contemporaries she was feted for her…
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Challenges to Global Security
Ours is an age of great upheaval where change sometimes appears to be the only constant. Three of the most important forces driving such change are globalization, regionalization and democratization….
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Conceptual Odysseys
The ‘theoretical turn’ within the arts and humanities in the 1970s and 1980s has, for many, had its day, with work produced under its rubric all too often feeling tired…
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Conceptual Odysseys
The ‘theoretical turn’ within the arts and humanities in the 1970s and 1980s has, for many, had its day, with work produced under its rubric all too often feeling tired…
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Conservative Suffragists
As the suffragette movement was becoming increasingly militant what was the Conservative reaction to successive parliamentary bills on women’s suffrage and what was the level of support for votes for…
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Critics of Empire
The notion of ’empire’ has been at the forefront of world politics for over a century. Bernard Porter’s landmark work traces the critical response to the British imperial project in…
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Critics of Empire
The notion of ’empire’ has been at the forefront of world politics for over a century. Bernard Porter’s landmark work traces the critical response to the British imperial project in…
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Cyborgs and Barbie Dolls
Bringing a lively and accessible style to a complex subject, “Cyborgs and Barbie Dolls” explores the idea of the ‘posthuman’ and the ways in which it is represented in popular…
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