Cold War Civil Defence in Western Europe Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Survival and Preparedness
This edited collection brings together established and new perspectives on Cold War civil defence in Western Europe within ...
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Cultural Heritage and Human Rights
The volume addresses a deeply political aspect of heritage preservation and management as it relates to human rights. Social ...
Lee masDissecting the Criminal Corpse : Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England
Those convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the Murder Act in Georgian England. ...
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European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine, 1918–1948 Between Contention and Connection
This book investigates the transnationally connected history of Arab Christian communities in Palestine during the British ...
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Executing Magic in the Modern Era
This book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking ...
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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings
This volume provides a series of illuminating perspectives on the timings of death, through in-depth studies of Shakespearean ...
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Political Economy, Linguistics and Culture
During the late 19th and throughout the 20th century, social sciences in general and economics in particular have undergone ...
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Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840
This book analyses the different types of post-execution punishments and other aggravated execution practices, the reasons ...
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Remembering and Disremembering the Dead
This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and ...
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Sociology in Germany A History
This book traces the development of sociology in Germany from the late 19th century to the present day, providing a concise ...
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The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain
This book is the first academic study of the post-mortem practice of gibbeting (‘hanging in chains’), since the nineteenth ...
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The Pathologisation of Homosexuality in Fascist Italy
The book highlights how the dictatorship operated in a low-key, shadowy and undetectable manner, bending pre-existing legislation. ...
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The Social Metabolism of Spanish Agriculture, 1900–2008 The Mediterranean Way Towards Industrialization
This book provides a panoramic view of the evolution of Spanish agriculture from 1900 to the present, offering a more diverse ...
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