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Humanities & Social Sciences

September 2024

Law across imperial borders

British consuls and colonial connections on China’s western frontiers, 1880-1943

by Emily Whewell

Law across imperial borders offers new perspectives on the complex legal connections between Britain's presence in Western China in the western frontier regions of Yunnan and Xinjiang, and the British colonies of Burma and India. Bringing together a transnational methodology with a social-legal focus, it demonstrates how inter-Asian mobility across frontiers shaped British authority in contested frontier regions of China. It examines the role of a range of actors who helped create, constitute and contest legal practice on the frontier-including consuls, indigenous elites and cultural mediators. The book will be of interest to historians of China, the British Empire in Asia and legal history.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

January 2013

Crime, Law and Society in the Later Middle Ages

by Anthony Musson, Edward Powell

This book provides an accessible collection of translated legal sources through which the exploits of criminals and developments in the English criminal justice system (c.1215-1485) can be studied. Drawing on the wealth of archival material and an array of contemporary literary texts, it guides readers towards an understanding of prevailing notions of law and justice and expectations of the law and legal institutions. Tensions are shown emerging between theoretical ideals of justice and the practical realities of administering the law during an era profoundly affected by periodic bouts of war, political in-fighting, social dislocation and economic disaster. Introductions and notes provide both the specific and wider legal, social and political contexts in addition to offering an overview of the existing secondary literature and historiographical trends. This collection affords a valuable insight into the character of medieval governance as well as revealing the complex nexus of interests, attitudes and relationships prevailing in society during the later Middle Ages.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

January 2025

Catholics and the law in Restoration Ireland

by Paul Smith

In 1660 Charles II was restored to the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland, but his hold on power was precarious. In particular, Ireland was fundamentally unstable - Catholics formed the majority of the population in a country where Protestantism was the established religion, a state of affairs unique in Europe. It was through the law that the restored Stuart monarchy governed its subjects and its colonial dependencies, and this book examines how Catholics engaged with and experienced English common law primarily through the eyes of Catholic clerics and Gaelic poets. It also examines how Catholics engaged with the Courts and the particular challenges they faced as lawyers. The book draws on an extensive body of primary source materials, including Irish-language poetry and little-used archival material relating to elite Catholic families.

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The Arts

January 2019

From Perversion to Purity

The stardom of Catherine Deneuve

by Lisa Downing, Sue Harris

Catherine Deneuve is indisputably one of the world's most celebrated actresses, both in her native France and throughout the world. Her career has spanned five decades during which she has worked with the most significant of French auteurs, as well as forging partnerships with international directors such as Bunuel and Polanski. The Deneuve star persona has attained such iconic status that it can now symbolise the very essence of French womanhood and civic identity. In this wide-ranging and authoritative collection of essays by a selection of international film academics and writers, the Deneuve persona is scrutinised and illuminated. Beyond the glamorous iconographic status of Yves Saint Laurent's muse, and the epitome of sexual inviolability, Deneuve's status as actress is foregrounded. The book will be essential reading for students and lecturers in star studies.

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The Arts

December 2018

Unlimited action

by Maria M. Delgado, Maggie B. Gale, Peter Lichtenfels, Dominic Johnson

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Humanities & Social Sciences

September 2020

Law in popular belief

by Anthony Amatrudo, Regina Rauxloh

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Business, Economics & Law

February 2023

Law and healing

by Margaret Brazier

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Humanities & Social Sciences

December 2010

Beveridge and Voluntary Action in Britain and the Wider British World

by Melanie Oppenheimer, Nicholas Deakin

The relationship between the state and the voluntary sector has changed significantly since 1948 when Beveridge's major report, Voluntary Action, was first published. Sixty years later, a group of historians analyse and reassess the impact of Beveridge's ideas about voluntary action for social advance in this timely volume. Using examples from the UK, Australasia and Canada, this book clearly articulates the importance and significance of Beveridge's ideas on voluntary action within an international context. With the emphasis of governments on the importance of the voluntary or 'third sector' and the development of policies and practices to enhance social capital, build civil society and engage communities, this book will be invaluable for those interested in how the third sector has evolved over time. It will be of interest to historians, social policy researchers, political theorists, economists and educationalists. ;

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Humanities & Social Sciences

January 2019

Knowledge, democracy and action

by Budd L. Hall, Michael Osborne, Edward T. Jackson, Rajesh Tandon, Jean-Marc Fontan, Nirmala Lall

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Humanities & Social Sciences

January 2018

Law and violence

by Christoph Menke, David Owen

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Business, Economics & Law

June 2023

Medicine, patients and the law

by Emma Cave, Margaret Brazier, Rob Heywood

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Business, Economics & Law

April 2022

The law of the sea

by Robin Churchill, Vaughan Lowe and Amy Sander

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Business, Economics & Law

April 2022

The law of the sea

by Robin Churchill, Vaughan Lowe, Amy Sander, Iain Scobbie

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The Arts

January 2019

Bertrand Blier

by Sue Harris

The most complete study of Blier's work to date, Harris traces the director's career from the early 1960s until the present. Outlines the forms, themes and style which dominate in Blier's work, and challenges the many labels that have been used to describe both the corpus of films and the man himself. Provides an original and controversial discussion of Blier's alleged 'misogyny', and invites the reader to understand the scatological and corporeal aspects of Blier's filmmaking in terms of long-established traditions of popular dramatic culture. Brings to light the comic mechanisms underpinning Blier's films and identifies strategies which navigate through one of the most entertaining and disconcerting bodies of work of recent years. The first book on Blier published in English.

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Business, Economics & Law

February 2022

Latin America and international investment law

by Sufyan Droubi, Cecilia Juliana Flores Elizondo, Jean d'Aspremont, Sufyan Droubi, Iain Scobbie

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Humanities & Social Sciences

February 2018

How to save politics in a post-truth era

by Ilan Zvi Baron

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Society & culture: general

May 2014

The end of the experiment?

From competition to the foundational economy

by Andrew Bowman, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, John Law, Adam Leaver, Mick Moran and Karel Williams

For thirty years, the British economy has repeated the same old experiment of subjecting everything to competition and market because that is what works in the imagination of central government. This book demonstrates the repeated failure of that experiment by detailed examination of three sectors: broadband, food supply and retail banking. The book argues for a new experiment in social licensing whereby the right to trade in foundational activities would be dependent on the discharge of social obligations in the form of sourcing, training and living wages. Written by a team of researchers and policy advocates based at the Centre for Research on Socio Cultural Change, this book combines rigour and readability, and will be relevant to practitioners, policy makers, academics and engaged citizens.

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Business, Economics & Law

October 2016

The law of international organisations

by Nigel White

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Humanities & Social Sciences

September 2018

Beslan: Six stories of the siege

by Sue-Ann Harding

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June 2014

Mein superdickes Arena Malbuch

by Arena Verlag

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British consuls and colonial connections on China’s western frontiers, 1880-1943

by Emily Whewell

by Anthony Musson, Edward Powell

by Paul Smith

The stardom of Catherine Deneuve

by Lisa Downing, Sue Harris

by Maria M. Delgado, Maggie B. Gale, Peter Lichtenfels, Dominic Johnson

by Anthony Amatrudo, Regina Rauxloh

by Margaret Brazier

by Melanie Oppenheimer, Nicholas Deakin

by Budd L. Hall, Michael Osborne, Edward T. Jackson, Rajesh Tandon, Jean-Marc Fontan, Nirmala Lall

by Christoph Menke, David Owen

by Emma Cave, Margaret Brazier, Rob Heywood

by Robin Churchill, Vaughan Lowe and Amy Sander

by Robin Churchill, Vaughan Lowe, Amy Sander, Iain Scobbie

by Sue Harris

by Sufyan Droubi, Cecilia Juliana Flores Elizondo, Jean d'Aspremont, Sufyan Droubi, Iain Scobbie

by Ilan Zvi Baron

From competition to the foundational economy

by Andrew Bowman, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, John Law, Adam Leaver, Mick Moran and Karel Williams

by Nigel White

by Sue-Ann Harding

by Arena Verlag

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