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The rhetoric of New Labour has captured the centre ground of British politics and now frames the policymaking agenda of all mainstream political parties. In...
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Fenians and Ribbonmen
The Development of Republican Politics in East Tyrone, 1898-1918

Manchester University Press
East Tyrone sits at the crossroads of Irish politics. This book commences with the struggle between Belfast’s "Wee Joe" Devlin, the coming man of the Irish...
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Destined For a Life of Service
Defining African-Jamaican Womanhood, 1865-1938
Gender in History

Manchester University Press
Based on a wide range of original sources, including folktales, anthropological studies, court statements, poetry, and speeches, this book sheds new light on...
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Through an analysis of the correspondence of over one hundred couples from the Scottish elites across the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, this book...
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Democratic Participation and Civil Society in the European Union
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Can the participation of civil society organizations democratize policy making in the European Union? This book challenges the widespread optimism about civil...
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Volumes of Influence

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Volumes of Influence explores the work of a number of important books and key writers within the academic disciplines of politics and international relations....
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International Organizations and Civilian Protection
Power, Ideas and Humanitarian Aid in Conflict Zones
Library of International Relations

Tauris Academic Studies
Despite the proliferation of international humanitarian and human rights laws since the end of the Cold War, there has been an erosion of the practical...
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Arab-American Women's Writing and Performance
Orientalism, Race and the Idea of the Arabian Nights
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The public image of Arabs in America has been radically affected by the "war on terror." But stereotypes of Arabs, manifested for instance in Orientalist...
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Alternative Visions of Urban Theory and Practice

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As African societies come to live more and more in cities, they do so in ways that challenge prevailing theories and models of urban development in geography,...

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