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Richard Wagner: Parsifal
In this book Lucy Beckett gives a comprehensive account of Wagner’s last and strangest opera. The literary sources of this work, its many links with Wagner’s life and thought, its …
Anglo-Saxon Perceptions of the Islamic World
In this book, Scarfe Beckett is concerned with representations of the Islamic world prevalent in Anglo-Saxon England. Using a wide variety of literary, historical and …
Torres Strait Islanders
The Torres Strait Islanders are Australia’s ‘other’ indigenous minority. Their experience of colonialism and their reaction to their position in Australian society provides a …
Coal and Tobacco
Economic historians have long appreciated the important role of the Lowther family in the developing Whitehaven from a tiny fishing village into a flourishing industrial centre. In …
HIV and Psychiatry
This new edition of HIV and Psychiatry is fully revised and brings together a strong, international team of experts to create the most up-to-date handbook for mental health …
Agricultural Rent in England, 1690–1914
Agricultural historians have collected and published a remarkable amount of material in recent years, partly as a result of the ongoing series ‘The Agrarian History of England and …
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens, who died in 1955, was one of the most original, prolific, serious, and rewarding of twentieth-century American poets. This is a detailed critical study of his …
The British Army and the First World War
This is a major new history of the British army during the Great War written by three leading military historians. Ian Beckett, Timothy Bowman and Mark Connelly survey operations …