This book is the first sustained and dispassionate study of the role of Freemasonry in everyday social and economic life: why men joined, what it did for them and their families, and how it affected the development of communities and local economies.

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9781905816163 | Published: 2020

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9781905816187 | Published: 2020

This book examines how photography, the railroad, electricity, space flight and the computer became central, yet often contradictory, parts of the way Americans construct and narrate their culture. This is a significant contribution to American cultural history, and like David Nye's previous books, is written to be accessible to a wide audience.

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9780859895569 | Published: 1997

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9780859895552 | Published: 1997

The New Germany provides a picture of contemporary Germany from a variety of perspectives, establishing relationships between recent political events and society and cultural life.

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9780859894425 | Published: 1995

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9780859894944 | Published: 1995

The collection draws on the work of scholars and creative producers from all over the world who explore the idea of the nation in a variety of postcolonial contexts.

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9780859894685 | Published: 1997

This book explores the history of Cornwall‘s portrayal on screen, from the earliest days of the moving image to the recent BBC adaptation of Winston Graham’s Poldark books. Innovative new research looking at amateur film and newsreels, avant-garde and documentary works alongside mainstream popular film and television. 7 b&w and 13 col. illus.

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9780859890779 | Published: 2018

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9780859893589 | Published: 2018

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9780859890885 | Published: 2019

This book is a comparative study of a number of dependent and independent tropical islands and archipelagos. Its contributors seek to answer a number of vital questions affecting the security, political status and economic development of some of the world's smallest and most remote communities.

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9780859893725 | Published: 1992

This book of interdisciplinary essays explores how youth has been represented in American culture. The book focuses on familiar literary, film and television texts set within a framework of ideas drawn from cultural and social theory, presenting innovative and challenging analyses of new and classic texts from the 1890s to the 1990s.

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9780859896474 | Published: 2000

Representing Others examines a diverse range of cultural forms in which white novelists, sculptors, diarists, photographers, ethnographers, travel writers and filmmakers have depicted Native American, African, Pacific and Australian Aboriginal peoples.

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9780859893541 | Published: 1994

The Futurist opera Victory over the Sun was a key event of the Russian avant-garde, notorious for its libretto, its unconventional score and its pioneering abstract sets and costumes. This volume brings together the first fully annotated translation of the libretto of this ‘anti-opera’ and other important primary source materials.

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9780859898393 | Published: 2012

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9780859899529 | Published: 2015

Includes articles first published in The Journal of William Morris Studies and new pieces written for this book. Subjects incl. promotion of craft skills and meaningful work, division of labour, education, environment, art and architecture and the contrasts between Ruskin’s (1819-1900) Tory paternalism and Morris’s (1834-1896) revolutionary socialism.

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9781905816347 | Published: 2019

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9781905816279 | Published: 2019

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9781905816293 | Published: 2019