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- Malleus Maleficarum
Malleus Maleficarum
- 2007
- 288
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The Malleus Maleficarum is one of the best-known treatises dealing with the problem of what to do with witches. It was written in 1487 by a Dominican inquisitor, Heinrich...
- Mancunians
Mancunians
- 2023
- Scott, David
- 264
- anglické
Mancunians: Where do we start, where do I begin? is the authentic account of Manchester at the turn of the Millennium, told through a mixture of memoir and interviews with...
- The Ecological Eye: Assembling an Ecocritical Art History Patrizio AndrewPaperback
The Ecological Eye: Assembling an Ecocritical Art History Patrizio AndrewPaperback
- 2018
- Patrizio, Andrew
- 216
- anglické
This book synthesises a variety of approaches to the visual, drawn from politics, theory, feminism and activism, in order to provide the blueprint for an ecocritical art
- British Civilian Internees in Germany
British Civilian Internees in Germany
This fascinating book tells the forgotten story of four to five thousand British civilians who were interned at the Ruhleben camp near Berlin during the First World War and...
- ABC of the Projectariat
ABC of the Projectariat
The ABC of the projectariat contributes new thinking and practical responses to the widespread problem of precarious labour in the field of contemporary art. It works as both a...
- Manchester Cathedral
Manchester Cathedral
This is the first comprehensive study of Manchester Cathedral. Founded in 1421 by charter of Henry V, the Collegiate Church of Manchester, as it then was, is of outstanding...
- Luminous Presence
Luminous Presence
Luminous presence: Derek Jarman's life-writing is the first book to analyse the prolific writing of queer icon Derek Jarman. Much of Jarman's powerful, imaginative response to...
- British Fascism, 1918-1939
British Fascism, 1918-1939
- 2000
- Linehan, Thomas
- 320
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A major new and balanced study of British Facism which surveys the development of British fascism between 1918 and 1939. Provides an accessible guide to the essential features...
- Civilised by Beasts
Civilised by Beasts
This book offers a unique account of life in nineteenth-century Dublin, told through human-animal relationships. It argues that the exploitation of animals formed a key...
- Hamlet
Hamlet
Links acting traditions with cultural milieu. No other book on Hamlet on the stage covers as much theoretical ground. Covers a number of foreign productions and pays much...
- Julia Margaret Cameron's 'Fancy Subjects'
Julia Margaret Cameron's 'Fancy Subjects'
- 2017
- Rosen, Jeffrey
- 336
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Ignored or derided until now, this book looks at Cameron's allegorical work in relation to the political and artistic zeitgeist of the Victorian period.
- Rebel by Vocation
Rebel by Vocation
From 1940 to 1954, The Bell was notable as an outspoken liberal voice at a time of political and intellectual stagnation. While primarily a literary magazine, it is now mostly...
- French Empire at War, 1940-1945
French Empire at War, 1940-1945
- 2007
- Thomas, Martin
- 304
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The French empire at war draws on original research in France and Britain to investigate the history of the divided French empire - the Vichy and the Free French empires -...
- Aesthetics and Subjectivity
Aesthetics and Subjectivity
- 2003
- Bowie, Andrew
- 360
- anglické
New, completely revised and re-written edition. Offers a detailed, but asccesible account of the vital German philosophical tradition of thinking about art and the self. Looks...
- Culture is Bad for You
Culture is Bad for You
The book demonstrates that cultural jobs are the preserve of the most privileged, a 'creative class' in society, and always have been: there was no golden age for social...
- Postsocialist Contemporary
Postsocialist Contemporary
- 288
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This book engages with the historical paradigm of 'contemporary art' by examining a programme initiated in Eastern Europe by the Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros in...
- Holiday Camps in Twentieth-Century Britain
Holiday Camps in Twentieth-Century Britain
This book is the story of two holiday camp chains established in the 1930s that provided thousands with packaged pleasure. Warner and Butlin's commercial camps emerged at the...
- Queering the Gothic
Queering the Gothic
- 2011
- 256
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Queering the Gothic is the first multi-authored book concerned with the developing interface between Gothic criticism and queer theory. Considering a range of Gothic texts...
- Discourse Theory and Political Analysis
Discourse Theory and Political Analysis
- 2000
- 256
How can recent developments in post-structuralist, post-Marxist and psychoanalytic theory actually inform ongoing empirical research? What are the appropriate methods and...
- The Culture of Fashion - C. Breward
The Culture of Fashion - C. Breward
- 1995
- Breward, Christopher
- 304
This illustrated survey of 600 years of fashion investigates its cultural and social meanings from medieval Europe to 20th-century America. It provides a guide to the changes...
- The Culture of Craft - P. Dormer
The Culture of Craft - P. Dormer
Peter Dormer presents a series of lively, clearly argued discussions about the relevance of handicraft in a world whose aesthetics and design are largely determined by...
- Encountering the Book of Margery Kempe
Encountering the Book of Margery Kempe
This innovative critical volume brings the study of Margery Kempe into the twenty-first century. Structured around four categories of 'encounter' - textual, internal, external...
- Failed Imagination?
Failed Imagination?
The main purpose of this book is to explain how (mainly) American, but also British and other Western, policy makers have planned and largely managed to create an international...
- El Laberinto de la Soledad - O. Paz
El Laberinto de la Soledad - O. Paz
- 2008
- Paz, Octavio
- 304
If one had to identify one central, defining text from modern Mexican culture, it would be Octavio Paz's famous essay, El laberinto de la soledad. This fully annotated edition...