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  • Talking of the Royal Family

    de Prof Michael Billig, Michael Billig ...
    To talk about royalty is to talk of many things: privilege, equality, nationality, morality, family life, parenting, divorce, the media and more. Important themes and issues flow through the seemingly trivial everyday chatter about royalty.Now with a new preface, Talking of the Royal Family was the first serious full-length study of royalty to emerge from this rhetorical perspective and remains ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

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  • The Long Revolution

    de Raymond Williams ...
    Examining the gradual change that has shaped the political, economic, and cultural life of the 20th century, socialist thinker Raymond Williams offers interesting arguments that remain timely for contemporary readers. In this new edition of the classic text, Williams' study of education and the press traces the development of a common language, revealing links between ideas, literary forms, and ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Death of Christian Britain

    Understanding Secularisation, 1800–2000

    de Callum G. Brown ...
    Series series Christianity and Society in the Modern World
    The Death of Christian Britain examines how the nation’s dominant religious culture has been destroyed. Callum Brown challenges the generally held view that secularization was a long and gradual process dating from the industrial revolution. Instead, he argues that it has been a catastrophic and abrupt cultural revolution starting in the 1960s. Using the latest techniques of gender analysis, and ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Authentocrats

    Culture, Politics and the New Seriousness

    de Joe Kennedy ...
    "The Authentocrats" claim to the be the new voice of common sense that speak for the common man and woman; right-wing, traditional and dangerous, Joe Kennedy argues that they are everything but what they purport to be.In contemporary Britain, a lot has been said about what it is that “real people” want politically. Forgotten by elites and sick of globalisation, so the story goes, they demand ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack

    Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures

    de Karl Bell ...
    WINNER of the 2013 Katharine Briggs AwardNEW LOWER PRICEThis book uses the nineteenth-century legend of Spring-Heeled Jack to analyse and challenge current notions of Victorian popular cultures. Starting as oral rumours, this supposedly supernatural entity moved from rural folklore to metropolitan press sensation, co-existing in literary and theatrical forms before finally degenerating into a ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Words of the World

    A Global History of the Oxford English Dictionary

    de Sarah Ogilvie ...
    Most people think of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) as a distinctly British product. Begun in England 150 years ago, it took more than 60 years to complete and, when it was finally finished in 1928, the British prime minister heralded it as a 'national treasure'. It maintained this image throughout the twentieth century, and in 2006 the English public voted it an 'Icon of England', alongside ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Reading The Legal Case

    Cross-Currents between Law and the Humanities

    Edición de Marco Wan ...
    This volume examines the nature, function, development and epistemological assumptions of the legal case in an interdisciplinary context. Using the question of ‘reading’ as a guiding principle, it opens up new ways of understanding case law and the doctrine of precedent by bringing the law into dialogue with the humanities. What happens when a legal case is read not only by lawyers, but by ... Leer más

    $48.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture

    Edición de Francis O'Gorman ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    The Victorian era produced artistic achievements, technological inventions and social developments that continue to shape how we live today. This Companion offers authoritative coverage of that period's culture and its contexts in a group of specially commissioned essays reflecting the current state of research in each particular field. Covering topics from music to politics, art to technology, ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel

    de John Wilson Foster ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Irish novel has had a distinguished history. It spans such diverse authors as James Joyce, George Moore, Maria Edgeworth, Bram Stoker, Flann O'Brien, Samuel Beckett, Lady Morgan, John Banville, and others. Yet it has until now received less critical attention than Irish poetry and drama. This volume covers three hundred years of Irish achievement in fiction, with essays on key genres, themes, ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment

    Edición de Alexander Broadie ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment offers a philosophical perspective on an eighteenth-century movement that has been profoundly influential on western culture. A distinguished team of contributors examines the writings of David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Reid, Adam Ferguson, Colin Maclaurin and other Scottish thinkers, in fields including philosophy, natural theology, economics, ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Political Lives

    de Judith Brett ...
    Politicians' lives are public lives. The decisions they make and do not make, and the way they behave, affect us all and shape our lives.To what extent do the inner lives of our leaders influence their performance? Should we know about the inner person? Indeed, how can we know?The eight essays in this collection explore these questions and present some disturbing answers by scrutinising the ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Catherine Cookson Country

    On the Borders of Legitimacy, Fiction, and History

    Edición de Julie Taddeo ...
    Britain's most widely read author of the late twentieth century, Catherine Cookson published more than 100 books, including The Fifteen Streets, The Black Velvet Gown, and Katie Mulhollond. Set in England's industrial northeast, her novels depict the social, economic, and emotional hardships of that area. In the first essay collection devoted to Cookson, the contributors examine what Cookson's ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD