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  • Betsy and the Emperor

    The true story of Napoleon, a pretty girl, a Regency rake and an Australian colonial misadventure

    After Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, he was sent into exile on Saint Helena. He became an 'eagle in a cage', reduced from the most powerful figure in Europe to a prisoner on a rock in the South Atlantic. But the fallen emperor was charmed by the pretty teenage daughter of a local merchant, Betsy Balcombe.Anne Whitehead brings to life Napoleon's last years on Saint Helena, ... Leer más

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  • Paradise Mislaid

    In search of the Australian tribe of Paraguay

    Series Libro 120 - Untapped
    Part history, part travelogue, all riveting story, Paradise Mislaid is historian Anne Whitehead’s award-winning account of her quest to discover the story of the 500 idealistic Australians who attempted to establish a socialist Utopia in the jungles of Paraguay at the end of the nineteenth century.‘One of the most bizarre stories in Australian history - splendidly told by one of our master story ... Leer más

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  • Bluestocking in Patagonia

    Mary Gilmore’s quest for love and utopia at the world’s end

    Series Libro 121 - Untapped
    Dame Mary Gilmore’s portrait is on the ten dollar note. But before she was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire for contributions to literature, she was Mary Cameron, a schoolteacher and feminist, and one of a group of Australians who, at the end of the nineteenth century, attempted to create a socialist Utopia in Paraguay. Historian Anne Whitehead retraces her steps in a compelling ... Leer más

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  • Relating Suicide

    A Personal and Critical Perspective

    Series series Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities
    Writing against the prevailing narrativization of suicide in terms of why it happened, Whitehead turns instead to the questions of when, how, and where, calling attention to suicide's materiality as well as its materialization. By turns provocative and deeply affecting, this book brings suicide into conversation with the critical medical humanities, extending beyond individual pathology and the ... Leer más

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  • Between the Psyche and the Polis

    Refiguring History in Literature and Theory

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2000. Incorporating studies of Freudian and Marxist approaches to questions of history and memory, this timely collection illuminates how history is being refigured in contemporary literary, cultural and theoretical studies. The contributors to this volume invite the reader to attend to the forms - linguistic, visual, monumental - by which a connection with, or ... Leer más

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  • Memory

    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    The concept of ‘memory’ has given rise to some of the most exciting new directions in contemporary theory. In this much-needed guide to a burgeoning field of a study, Anne Whitehead:presents a history of the concept of ‘memory’ and its uses, encompassing both memory as activity and the nature of memoryexamines debates around the term in their historical and cultural contextsintroduces the reader ... Leer más

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  • Religion, Women of Color, and the Suffrage Movement

    The Journey to Holistic Freedom

    Series series Feminist Studies and Sacred Texts
    The year 2020 marks the centenary of the passing of the 19th Amendment that allowed for women in the United States to vote. The strategic struggle of women demanding equal dignity and the right to vote in the United States helped to shed light on the systemic evils that have plagued the collective history of the country. Ideologies of racism, genderism, classism, and many more were and continue to ... Leer más

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  • Vote For Honesty and Get Democracy Done

    Four Simple Steps to Change Politics

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    The truth matters.As our elected representatives make vital decisions on our behalf, an essential requirement of a functioning democracy is that the people in governance are honest with the electorate. Vote for Honesty and Get Democracy Done: Four Simple Steps to Change Politics seeks solutions to the increasing problem of dishonest behaviour by some UK politicians. It is an action plan: simple ... Leer más

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  • Italian Americans on Screen

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  • Museums and Biographies

    Stories, Objects, Identities

    Museums and biographies both tell the stories of lives. This innovative collection examines for the first time biography - of individuals, objects and institutions - in relationship to the museum, casting new light on the many facets of museum history and theory, from the lives of prominent curators, to the context of museums of biography and autobiography. Separate sections cover individual ... Leer más

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  • Feminisms in Development

    Contradictions, Contestations and Challenges

    This collection of essays by leading feminist thinkers from North and South constitutes a major new attempt to reposition feminism within development studies.Feminism's emphasis on social transformation makes it fundamental to development studies. Yet the relationship between the two disciplines has frequently been a troubled one. At present, the way in which many development institutions function ... Leer más

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