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This is the first study, edition and English translation of the Middle Dutch Brut, the only medieval Dutch chronicle of England. The work was first published in 1480 in Utrecht by Johan Veldener, the typographer who also helped William Caxton set up his printing press.

Clémentine Mélois is a writer, artist, and member of Oulipo. Her first published work, Cent titres (2014), is a cult classic. She has gone on to subvert children's literature and - more recently - the photo-story genre. Sinon j'oublie (2017) - Otherwise I Forget - is a unique work embroidered around a selection of her collection of 'found' shopping lists. After a short foreword - exposing her interest in this universal but throw-away form of w...

This is the final book in a series of volumes on the history of the Transport & General Workers' Union (T&G, ). After the neo-liberal assault on the unions and working people more generally carried through by Margaret Thatcher and John Major in the 1980s and 1990s, the unions, including the T&G, , were faced with making some tough decisions about their future. The T&G, initially turned to restructuring and engaged US management consultants to ...

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Studying the experiences of children can offer an important corrective to how we think of the Jewish past. This volume proves the potential of this approach in east European contexts including local history, the history of education, charitable institutions, and medicine, and studies of emotion, gender history, and Polish‿Jewish relations.

Sidonius Apollinaris was an inhabitant of southern Roman Gaul in the mid fifth century AD, when it was threatened by invasions from beyond the boundaries of the Roman Empire and by competing warlords. His many poetic works include three panegyrics to emperors at the beginnings of their reigns, these are carefully translated and annotated, and provided with comment and synopses. His multiple shorter poems, in a variety of metres, are translated...

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This is the first edited collection to explore what can be gained from bringing together Italian science fiction and the environmental humanities. Early-career and established scholars from varied fields provide cutting-edge analysis of a somewhat overlooked genre that has plenty to offer in terms of ecological and sociopolitical insights.

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A wide-ranging introduction to our planet Earth, its structure, landscapes, oceans and atmosphere. The book concludes with ' The Human Perspective', an account of the evolution of Homo Sapiens.

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Throughout history numerous individuals with disabilities have had to pit themselves against huge obstacles placed in their way because of the type of person they were born as, the type of person they became through accident, illness or circumstances, or the type of person they have been perceived as. This book tells the story of how disabled people have done this, how they have seen themselves, how they have been perceived and treated by othe...

In this first comprehensive study of Paterson's poetry, Ben Wilkinson presents him as a modern-day metaphysical, whose work is characterised by guileful use of form, musicality, colloquial diction and playful wit, in pursuit of poetry as a moral and philosophical project.

This volume pays tribute to Professor Kate Marsh (1974-2019), featuring essays that reflect her vast scholarship, from her focus on French colonialism in India, colonial nostalgia and imperial rivalries, all the way through to her final project on anti-colonial activism and its policing in France's cities.

Examines the extent to which British policy, while successful in imposing a war of attrition upon Nasser in the Yemen, contributed to the political demise of the very objective covert action was designed to secure.

This interdisciplinary collection investigates the forms that authority assumed in nineteenth-century Ireland, the relations they bore to international redefinitions of authority, and Irish contributions to the reshaping of authority in the modern age.