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Race On Screen - Audience Racism In Twentieth-Century Britain

de Christine (University Of Lincoln) Grandy

~~37,85€~~ 34,07€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 How did ordinary racism among white Britons shape images of Black and south Asian people on screen in twentieth-century Britain? Christine Grandy explores what producers of film and television thought British audiences wanted, providing a history of 'audience research' as it developed at the BBC and ITV.
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Brotherhood Of Barristers - A Cultural History Of The British Legal Profession, 1840â€“1940

de Ren (New York University) Pepitone

~~40,55€~~ 36,50€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 Brotherhood of Barristers critically investigates masculinity, the creation of the gentlemanly professional, and the exclusionary culture of the British legal profession. It examines the cultural history of the four Inns of Court between 1840â€"1940, exploring how these societies maintained their insularity in the face of sweeping social change.
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Politics Of The Past - Inter-War Memories And The Making Of British Popular Politics, 1939â€“2009

de David (University Of Cambridge) Cowan

~~40,55€~~ 36,50€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 The inter-war period (1918â€"1939) is still remembered as a period of mass deprivation â€" the 'hungry thirties'. But how did this impression emerge? Politics of the Past explains how stories about the inter-war working-class experience in industrial areas came to appear commonplace nationwide.
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Love, Class And Empire - An English Family Saga In The Middle East

de A. James (La Trobe University, Victoria) Hammerton

~~43,26€~~ 38,93€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 Focusing on the experiences of two British expatriate families in Iran and Iraq, this study explores the impact of rapid social mobility in the late imperial era. Drawing on a wealth of personal letters and diaries, A. James Hammerton offers a close and evocative portrait of expatriate love and sexuality.
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Multiracial Britishness - Global Networks In Hong Kong, 1910â€“45

de Vivian (University Of Bristol) Kong

~~40,55€~~ 36,50€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 Multiracial Britishness explores how British subjects of different 'races' collectively shaped what it means to be British today, focusing on 1910-45 Hong Kong. This book reframes the discussion about British identities and colonial Hong Kong, with clear implications for understanding Hong Kong's decolonisation, Brexit, and the Commonwealth.
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Working-Class Raj - Colonialism And The Making Of Class In British India

de Alexandra (University Of Mississippi) Lindgren-Gibson

~~40,55€~~ 36,50€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 Working-Class Raj explores what happened to working-class men and women when they left Britain and travelled to India, where their worlds were upended by the disruptive addition of race to British social hierarchies. Drawing on previously unused correspondence collections, this book puts British working-class history in a global perspective.
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A Nation Of Petitioners - Petitions And Petitioning In The United Kingdom, 1780â€“1918

de Henry J. (Durham University) Miller

~~40,55€~~ 36,50€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 Between 1780 and 1918, over one million petitions from across the four nations were sent to the House of Commons. This first study of the nineteenth-century heyday of petitioning explores the central role of petitions in reshaping the political culture of the United Kingdom, as well as the history of modern British politics.
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Thatcher'S Progress - From Social Democracy To Market Liberalism Through An English New Town

de Guy (New York University) Ortolano

~~35,14€~~ 31,63€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 Situating Britain's new towns programme of urban development within a global context, Thatcher's Progress revises our understanding of the welfare state. Guy Ortolano reveals a dynamic social democracy during its decade of crisis, while also showing how public sector actors begrudgingly accommodated the alternative politics of market liberalism.
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Futures Of Socialism - Â€˜Modernisation', The Labour Party, And The British Left, 1973â€“1997

de Colm (Queen Mary University Of London) Murphy

~~33,79€~~ 30,41€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 Futures of Socialism overhauls the history of 'modernisation' and the British Left and recasts our understanding of New Labour. It provides an innovative, iconoclastic history of debates over the 'modernisation' of the Labour Party, beginning with the shocks of the 1970s and ending with the emergence of New Labour.
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Imperial Heartland - Immigration, Working-Class Culture And Everyday Tolerance, 1917â€“1947

de David (University Of Sheffield) Holland

~~33,79€~~ 30,41€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 Working-class Britons played a crucial role in the pioneering settlement and integration of South Asians in imperial Britain. Using a host of new and neglected sources, Imperial Heartland revises the history of early South Asian immigration to Britain, presenting a fresh and inspiring picture of settlement and inter-racial tolerance.
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Managing Mobility - The British Imperial State And Global Migration, 1840â€“1860

de Philip (University Of Miami) Harling

~~114,91€~~ 103,42€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 In the first age of mass migration (1840â€"1860), the British imperial state intervened to ensure a racialised global economic order in the wake of Emancipation. Managing Mobility analyzes the large-scale movement of people as labor assets across the British Empire, considering the outcomes of these significant projects of social engineering.
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Foreign Jack Tars - The British Navy And Transnational Seafarers During The Revolutionary And Napoleonic Wars

de Sara (University Of Cambridge) Caputo

~~31,08€~~ 27,97€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 The British Royal Navy of the French Wars (1793â€"1815) is an enduring national symbol, but we often overlook the tens of thousands of foreign seamen who contributed to its success. For the first time, this book explores their role in the Navy during this crucial period, challenging the very notions of 'Britishness' and 'foreignness'.
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The Life And Death Of The Shopping City - Public Planning And Private Redevelopment In Britain Since 1945

de Alistair (Universiteit Leiden) Kefford

~~35,14€~~ 31,63€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 This innovative new history of the modern British city traces the story of urban redevelopment from the 1940s era of reconstruction up to the present-day crisis of town centre retailing and property markets, showing how planners, property developers, councils, and retailers and worked together to create the modern shopping city.
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Outrage In The Age Of Reform - Irish Agrarian Violence, Imperial Insecurity, And British Governing Policy, 1830â€“1845

de Jay R. (University College Cork) Roszman

~~35,14€~~ 31,63€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 During the pivotal 19th-century 'decade of reform', British politicians wrestled over the best ways to address Irish agrarian violence â€" branded as 'outrages' â€" as well as how their decisions might influence wider imperial concerns. This book demonstrates Ireland's profound influence on British political culture in the 1830s and beyond.
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Practical Utopia - The Many Lives Of Dartington Hall

de Anna Neima

~~35,14€~~ 31,63€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 Dartington Hall was a social experiment of kaleidoscopic vitality, founded in Devon in 1925, where ambitious ideals were turned into a reality. Practical Utopia explores its compelling history, through the lives of its founders and participants, and opens a window onto British and international social reform between the wars.
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Brotherhood Of Barristers - A Cultural History Of The British Legal Profession, 1840â€“1940

de Ren (New York University) Pepitone

~~120,32€~~ 108,29€ 10% IMEDIATO

portes grátis

 Brotherhood of Barristers critically investigates masculinity, the creation of the gentlemanly professional, and the exclusionary culture of the British legal profession. It examines the cultural history of the four Inns of Court between 1840â€"1940, exploring how these societies maintained their insularity in the face of sweeping social change.
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Politics Of The Past - Inter-War Memories And The Making Of British Popular Politics, 1939â€“2009

de David (University Of Cambridge) Cowan

~~120,32€~~ 108,29€ 10% IMEDIATO

portes grátis

 The inter-war period (1918â€"1939) is still remembered as a period of mass deprivation â€" the 'hungry thirties'. But how did this impression emerge? Politics of the Past explains how stories about the inter-war working-class experience in industrial areas came to appear commonplace nationwide.
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Imperial Heartland - Immigration, Working-Class Culture And Everyday Tolerance, 1917-1947

de David Holland

33,11€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Working-class Britons played a crucial role in the pioneering settlement and integration of South Asians in imperial Britain. Using a host of new and neglected sources, Imperial Heartland revises the history of early South Asian immigration to Britain, presenting a fresh and inspiring picture of settlement and inter-racial tolerance.
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Working-Class Raj - Colonialism And The Making Of Class In British India

de Alexandra (University Of Mississippi) Lindgren-Gibson

120,32€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 Working-Class Raj explores what happened to working-class men and women when they left Britain and travelled to India, where their worlds were upended by the disruptive addition of race to British social hierarchies. Drawing on previously unused correspondence collections, this book puts British working-class history in a global perspective.
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Lifescapes - The Experience Of Landscape In Britain, 1870-1960

de Jeremy Burchardt

42,40€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Why does landscape matter to us? Lifescapes develops a new approach to landscape history based on comparative biography, offering a penetrating and richly empathetic study of the relationship between individual lives and landscapes, through eight compellingly varied modern British examples.
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Lifescapes - The Experience Of Landscape In Britain, 1870-1960

de Jeremy Burchardt

42,40€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Why does landscape matter to us? Lifescapes develops a new approach to landscape history based on comparative biography, offering a penetrating and richly empathetic study of the relationship between individual lives and landscapes, through eight compellingly varied modern British examples.
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Multiracial Britishness - Global Networks In Hong Kong, 1910â€“45

de Vivian (University Of Bristol) Kong

120,32€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 Multiracial Britishness explores how British subjects of different 'races' collectively shaped what it means to be British today, focusing on 1910-45 Hong Kong. This book reframes the discussion about British identities and colonial Hong Kong, with clear implications for understanding Hong Kong's decolonisation, Brexit, and the Commonwealth.
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Imperial Heartland - Immigration, Working-Class Culture And Everyday Tolerance, 1917â€“1947

de David (University Of Sheffield) Holland

128,43€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 Working-class Britons played a crucial role in the pioneering settlement and integration of South Asians in imperial Britain. Using a host of new and neglected sources, Imperial Heartland revises the history of early South Asian immigration to Britain, presenting a fresh and inspiring picture of settlement and inter-racial tolerance.
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Futures Of Socialism - Â€˜Modernisation', The Labour Party, And The British Left, 1973â€“1997

de Colm (Queen Mary University Of London) Murphy

120,32€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 Futures of Socialism overhauls the history of 'modernisation' and the British Left and recasts our understanding of New Labour. It provides an innovative, iconoclastic history of debates over the 'modernisation' of the Labour Party, beginning with the shocks of the 1970s and ending with the emergence of New Labour.
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