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Corporate Policing, Yellow Unionism, and Strikebreaking, 1890-1930
This book provides a comparative and transnational examination of the complex and multifaceted experiences of anti-labour mobilisation, from the bitter social conflicts of the …
Owen's New Book of Fairs, Published by the King's Authority. Being a Complete and Authentic Account of All the Fairs in England and Wales, ... a New Edition. to Which Is Added, an Abstract of All the Acts of Parliament Relating to Fairs
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its …
Freedom's Debt
In the years following the Glorious Revolution, independent slave traders challenged the charter of the Royal African Company by asserting their natural rights as Britons to trade …
Life and Times of Patuone the Celebrated Ngapuhi Chief
Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with …
Mrs Gaskell and Me
Winner of the 2019 Somerset Maugham Award'A great galloping joy of a book - funny, lyrical, fast paced, heart-warming - a delicious celebration of love and life' - Rebecca Stott, …
Imprisonment in England and Wales
Originally published in 1985, Imprisonment in England and Wales is an account of the changing functions and conditions of imprisonment in England and Wales from the Medieval period …
Modernism and the Occult
This study of modernism's high imperial, occult-exotic affiliations presents many well-known figures from the period 1880-1960 in a new light. Modernism and the Occult traces the …
One Hundred Years of Wartime Nursing Practices, 1854–1953
This book examines the work that nurses of many differing nations undertook during the Crimean War, the Boer War, the Spanish Civil War, both World Wars and the Korean War. It …
Judges and Convicts
Uncovering the origins of the new sentencing structure that emerged in the course of the nineteenth century, this book travels from the demise of the "e;Bloody Code"e; in …
Land and Labour
Land and labour provides the first full-length history of the Potters’ Emigration Society, the controversial trade union scheme designed to solve the problems of surplus labour by …
Deconstruction and the 'Unfinished Project of Modernity'
Through a close engagement with some key thinkers, Norris argues that deconstruction is part of the "e;unfinished project of modernity."e; a project whose interest and …