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Literature & Literary StudiesJuly 2015Rocks of nation
The imagination of Celtic Cornwall
by Shelley Trower
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Geography & the EnvironmentJuly 2015Rocks of nation
The imagination of Celtic Cornwall
by Shelley Trower
Rocks of nation reveals how the imagination of nations and races is grounded in the landscape. In doing so, it makes a striking contribution to theories of nation, offering new insights into how national identity is bound up with materiality. The book provides an in-depth case study of Cornwall and its economy in the wider context of Britain and the rise of nationalist politics, especially in England (UKIP) and Scotland (SNP). Spanning from the early nineteenth to the twenty-first century, it traces the gradual formation of a cultural consciousness of Cornwall as a distinctively rocky nation through a wide range of literatures, including nineteenth-century geological journals and folklore, Gothic and detective fiction, modernist and romance novels, travel narratives, 'New Age' eco-spiritualism and Cornish nationalist writings. Rocks of nation will be of interest to students and academics across the disciplines, from English literature and cultural geography to Celtic studies, history and politics. ;
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Business, Economics & LawJune 2018Commerce, finance and statecraft
Histories of England, 1600–1780
by Ben Dew
Commerce, finances and statecraft charts the emergence of new approaches to England's economic history in the historical writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The book explores the work of the period's most influential historians - among them Francis Bacon, William Camden, Paul de Rapin-Thoyras and David Hume - and shows how these writers, and their contemporaries, were engaged in a series of hotly contested, politically-charged debates concerning the management of England's commercial and financial interests. This book will be essential reading for historians and literary critics working on Restoration and eighteenth-century historical writing, and historians, economists, political scientists, and philosophers interested in historiographical theory.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2019Anarchism and eugenics
An unlikely convergence, 1890-1940
by Richard Cleminson, Uri Gordon, Laurence Davis, Alex Prichard, Nathan Jun
Chapter 1 - Introduction Chapter 2 - The national and international context of theories on inheritance and eugenics Chapter 3 - From "Conscious Procreation" and Neo-Malthusianism to Eugenics: Anarchism in England, France, Portugal, Spain and Argentina, 1890-1920 Chapter 4 - Anarchist Eugenics, Women's Bodies and the Dilemma of Sterilization Chapter 5 - Conclusion
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2019This is your hour
Christian intellectuals in Britain and the Crisis of Europe, 1937–49
by John Wood
In the 1930s and 1940s - amid the crises of totalitarianism, war and a perceived cultural collapse in the democratic West - a high-profile group of mostly Christian intellectuals met to map out 'middle ways' through the 'age of extremes'. Led by the missionary and ecumenist Joseph H. Oldham, the group included prominent writers, thinkers and activists such as T. S. Eliot, John Middleton Murry, Karl Mannheim, John Baillie, Alec Vidler, H. A. Hodges, Christopher Dawson, Kathleen Bliss and Michael Polanyi. The 'Oldham group' saw faith as a uniquely powerful resource for social and cultural renewal, and it represents a fascinating case study of efforts to renew freedom in a dramatic confrontation with totalitarianism. The group's story will appeal to those interested in the cultural history of the Second World War and the issue of applying faith to the 'modern' social order.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2019This is your hour
Christian intellectuals in Britain and the Crisis of Europe, 1937–49
by John Wood
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2019This is your hour
Christian intellectuals in Britain and the Crisis of Europe, 1937–49
by John Wood
1. "This is your hour": Introduction 2. The "Oldham Group", 1937-1949: People, Organisations, and Aims 3. Explorations on the Frontier, I: Faith and the Social Order 4. Explorations on the Frontier, II: Engaging with "the Secular" 5. Between Mammon and Marx: Capitalism, Communism, and "Planning for Freedom" 6. "The rock of human sanity stands in the sea where it always stood": Nationalism, Universalism, and Europe" 7. "A new order of liberty": Freedom, Democracy, and Liberalism 8. "Democratising the aristocracy": Egalitarianism and Elitism 9. Conclusion Index
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Business, Economics & LawJune 2018Commerce, finance and statecraft
Histories of England, 1600–1780
by Ben Dew
Commerce, finances and statecraft charts the emergence of new approaches to England's economic history in the historical writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The book explores the work of the period's most influential historians - among them Francis Bacon, William Camden, Paul de Rapin-Thoyras and David Hume - and shows how these writers, and their contemporaries, were engaged in a series of hotly contested, politically-charged debates concerning the management of England's commercial and financial interests. This book will be essential reading for historians and literary critics working on Restoration and eighteenth-century historical writing, and historians, economists, political scientists, and philosophers interested in historiographical theory.
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Business, Economics & LawJune 2018Commerce, finance and statecraft
Histories of England, 1600–1780
by Ben Dew
Commerce, finances and statecraft charts the emergence of new approaches to England's economic history in the historical writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The book explores the work of the period's most influential historians - among them Francis Bacon, William Camden, Paul de Rapin-Thoyras and David Hume - and shows how these writers, and their contemporaries, were engaged in a series of hotly contested, politically-charged debates concerning the management of England's commercial and financial interests. This book will be essential reading for historians and literary critics working on Restoration and eighteenth-century historical writing, and historians, economists, political scientists, and philosophers interested in historiographical theory.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2019Anarchism and eugenics
An unlikely convergence, 1890-1940
by Richard Cleminson, Uri Gordon, Laurence Davis, Alex Prichard, Nathan Jun
At the heart of this book is what would appear to be a striking and fundamental paradox: the espousal of a 'scientific' doctrine that sought to eliminate 'dysgenics' and champion the 'fit' as a means of 'race' survival by a political and social movement that ostensibly believed in the destruction of the state and the removal of all hierarchical relationships. What explains this reception of eugenics by anarchism? How was eugenics mobilised by anarchists as part of their struggle against capitalism and the state? What were the consequences of this overlap for both anarchism and eugenics as transnational movements?
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2019Anarchism and eugenics
An unlikely convergence, 1890-1940
by Richard Cleminson, Uri Gordon, Laurence Davis, Alex Prichard, Nathan Jun
Chapter 1 - Introduction Chapter 2 - The national and international context of theories on inheritance and eugenics Chapter 3 - From "Conscious Procreation" and Neo-Malthusianism to Eugenics: Anarchism in England, France, Portugal, Spain and Argentina, 1890-1920 Chapter 4 - Anarchist Eugenics, Women's Bodies and the Dilemma of Sterilization Chapter 5 - Conclusion
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2020A global history of white nationalism
From Rhodesia to Donald Trump
by Daniel Geary, Camilla Schofield, Jennifer Sutton, John Solomos, Satnam Virdee, Aaron Winter
This book offers the first transnational history of white nationalism in Britain, the US and the formerly British colonies of Rhodesia, South Africa and Australia from the post-World War II period to the present. It situates contemporary white nationalism in the 'Anglosphere' within the context of major global events since 1945. White nationalism, it argues, became more global in reaction to the forces of decolonisation, civil rights, mass migration and the rise of international institutions. In this period, assumptions of white supremacy that had been widely held by whites throughout the world were challenged and reformulated, as western elites professed a commitment to colour-blind ideals. The decline in legitimacy of overtly racist political expression produced international alliances among white supremacists and new claims of populist legitimation.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2020A global history of white nationalism
From Rhodesia to Donald Trump
by Daniel Geary, Camilla Schofield, Jennifer Sutton, John Solomos, Satnam Virdee, Aaron Winter
This book offers the first transnational history of white nationalism in Britain, the US and the formerly British colonies of Rhodesia, South Africa and Australia from the post-World War II period to the present. It situates contemporary white nationalism in the 'Anglosphere' within the context of major global events since 1945. White nationalism, it argues, became more global in reaction to the forces of decolonisation, civil rights, mass migration and the rise of international institutions. In this period, assumptions of white supremacy that had been widely held by whites throughout the world were challenged and reformulated, as western elites professed a commitment to colour-blind ideals. The decline in legitimacy of overtly racist political expression produced international alliances among white supremacists and new claims of populist legitimation.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2020A global history of white nationalism
From Rhodesia to Donald Trump
by Daniel Geary, Camilla Schofield, Jennifer Sutton, John Solomos, Satnam Virdee, Aaron Winter
This book offers the first transnational history of white nationalism in Britain, the US and the formerly British colonies of Rhodesia, South Africa and Australia from the post-World War II period to the present. It situates contemporary white nationalism in the 'Anglosphere' within the context of major global events since 1945. White nationalism, it argues, became more global in reaction to the forces of decolonisation, civil rights, mass migration and the rise of international institutions. In this period, assumptions of white supremacy that had been widely held by whites throughout the world were challenged and reformulated, as western elites professed a commitment to colour-blind ideals. The decline in legitimacy of overtly racist political expression produced international alliances among white supremacists and new claims of populist legitimation.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2020Intimacy in postmodern times
A friendship with Zygmunt Bauman
by Peter Beilharz
Zygmunt Bauman was one of the most important social theorists of recent decades. He did major work on the Holocaust, the postmodern and much else, up to fifty-eight books in English on almost as many topics. In this book, Australian sociologist Peter Beilharz, Bauman's collaborator for thirty years, recounts the details of their relationship, simultaneously charting the changes that have occurred in academic life from the 1980s to today. Friendship was one of the bonds that made Bauman and Beilharz's intellectual collaboration possible. Though the two were worlds apart in terms of biography and place, their work together was defined by a certain kind of intimacy. Separated by a generation, they collaborated for a generation together. This book follows their story in touching detail while puzzling over Bauman's rich yet contested legacy.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2020Intimacy in postmodern times
A friendship with Zygmunt Bauman
by Peter Beilharz
Zygmunt Bauman was one of the most important social theorists of recent decades. He did major work on the Holocaust, the postmodern and much else, up to fifty-eight books in English on almost as many topics. In this book, Australian sociologist Peter Beilharz, Bauman's collaborator for thirty years, recounts the details of their relationship, simultaneously charting the changes that have occurred in academic life from the 1980s to today. Friendship was one of the bonds that made Bauman and Beilharz's intellectual collaboration possible. Though the two were worlds apart in terms of biography and place, their work together was defined by a certain kind of intimacy. Separated by a generation, they collaborated for a generation together. This book follows their story in touching detail while puzzling over Bauman's rich yet contested legacy.
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Business, Economics & LawFebruary 2020Commerce, finance and statecraft
Histories of England, 1600–1780
by Ben Dew
Commerce, finance and statecraft charts the emergence of new approaches to England's economic history in the historical writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The book explores the work of the period's most influential historians - among them Francis Bacon, William Camden, Paul de Rapin-Thoyras and David Hume - and shows how these writers, and their contemporaries, were engaged in a series of hotly contested, politically-charged debates concerning the management of England's commercial and financial interests. This book will be essential reading for historians and literary critics working on Restoration and eighteenth-century historical writing, and historians, economists, political scientists, and philosophers interested in historiographical theory.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2020Anarchism and eugenics
An unlikely convergence, 1890-1940
by Richard Cleminson, Uri Gordon, Laurence Davis, Alex Prichard, Nathan Jun
At the heart of this book is what would appear to be a striking and fundamental paradox: the espousal of a 'scientific' doctrine that sought to eliminate 'dysgenics' and champion the 'fit' as a means of 'race' survival by a political and social movement that ostensibly believed in the destruction of the state and the removal of all hierarchical relationships. What explains this reception of eugenics by anarchism? How was eugenics mobilised by anarchists as part of their struggle against capitalism and the state? What were the consequences of this overlap for both anarchism and eugenics as transnational movements?
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2020Anthropology after Gluckman
The Manchester School, colonial and postcolonial transformations
by Richard Werbner
This book places the Manchester School in the vanguard of modern social anthropology. Drawing on archives, personal knowledge, and a wealth of literature, Richard Werbner, as an insider, reveals the cosmopolitan distinctiveness of the intimate circle around Max Gluckman. Such distinctiveness was driven beyond merely a British importance by the force of creative difference in ideas, inter-disciplinary approaches, and travelling theories.
