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Provides a ground breaking and unique analysis of the development of Public Private Partnerships internationally, with a detailed focus on the rationale behind their introduction and outcomes in Ireland. -- .

This instructive study examines how a transnational discourse on 'modern' social policy - based the guiding principles of 'activation' and an 'activating welfare state' - intervenes in the concepts and practices of citizenship. -- .

In this authoritative book, a number of eminent and respected figures in the fields of theology, sociology, anthropology and political activism set out their vision for a society in which the competing truths must be accommodated not peacefully but without violence. -- .

A conversation about what Enghlish national identity actually means. -- .

The first in-depth assessment of myth 're-vision' as a phenomenon in women's drama, examining the diverse ways in which classical myth narratives have been reworked by women playwrights for the European stage. -- .

Situates the practices and perceptions of women's medical work in France in the context of the sixteenth century and its medical evolution and innovations. The book argues that early modern understandings of medical practice and authority were highly flexible and subject to change. -- .

This student-friendly volume brings together English translations of the main narrative sources, and a small number of other relevant documents, for the reign of Roger II, the founder of the kingdom of Sicily. -- .

Ireland's international reputation has suffered periodic fluctuation, from model case of rapid development, to exemplar of political and economic mismanagement. This book argues that both perspectives overlook more important and persistent features of Irish political life. -- .

Draws together key documents in the history of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) in a single, student-friendly volume. Balanced, comprehensive and framed by Callaghan and Harker's detailed introductions, this is a valuable addition to the study of twentieth-century Britain. -- .

`The art of poverty` is the first book in English to analyse depictions of beggars in sixteenth-century European art. It develops a striking thesis, arguing that such images largely conformed to two paradoxical, though complimentary, traditions: the one ironising, the other idealising. -- .

A book of photographs, interviews and commentary, recording the origins, recent past and current regeneration of the Ancoats area of Manchester -- .

Focuses on some key stories by major authors of contes and nouvelles from the late 1820s to the 1890s. -- .

Examines the full range of Carlos Fuentes' work. -- .

An examination fo the major fiction writing of Octave Marie Henry Mirbeau. -- .

The first comprehensive collection of essays in English dedicated entirely to the study of lesbian inscriptions in francophone society and culture. -- .

An analysis that concentrates in particular on problems of genesis and intertextuality, and highlights the thematic continuity of the aspect of Theophile Gautier's work.

Essays studying the dominant theme of conflict in cultural, literary and religious life in France in the sixteenth-century, revealed through nuanced analyses of the writings of contemporary authors. -- .

A scholarly reconstruction of one of Moliere's masterpieces. -- .

This volume explores the characteristics of the art and literature of the Second Empire in France. -- .

A study of one of the most enduring mysteries in world theatre: the nature, structure and purpose of the first and no longer extant version of his most controversial play, Le Tartuffe. -- .

Leading historians and policy advisors explore the implications of incorporating historical sensibilities into key development policy issues. -- .

Leading historians and policy advisors explore the implications of incorporating historical sensibilities into key development policy issues. -- .

The book examines the transformation of European football in recent years by focusing on the impact of Europe in general and the EU in particular on the way that the game has evolved in a broad cross section of European states. -- .

This wide-ranging collection surveys the diversity and energy of Irish literature over the last two decades, a period marked by major cultural, social and political transformations. It examines the work of both well-established writers and emerging literary talents, and also considers creative work in film, visual culture and the performing arts. -- .

Analyses the continuities and discontinuities in textual transmission as we move from a print paradigm into an increasingly digital world. This title conceptualises the transition van analogue to digital both in factual terms and in terms of its social significance.

This book traces world journeys of early modern visual images from Europe to distant parts of the world - India, Japan, China, Brazil, Chile - and their return, altered but still recognizable, and ready to be reused with an awareness of their recent travels. -- .

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 Parliamentary Party, and the Irish Republican Brotherhood to gain mastery over the burgeoning Ancient Order of Hibernians and, with it, control of popular nationalist politics in Ulster.

They reported wars, outraged monarchs and promoted the case for their country's freedom. The remarkable stories of reporters, proprietors and propagandists fill the pages of this original and engaging volume in which sixteen leading writers celebrate the emergence of Irish Journalism from 1800 to 1922. -- .

They reported wars, outraged monarchs and promoted the case for their country's freedom. The remarkable stories of reporters, proprietors and propagandists fill the pages of this original and engaging volume in which sixteen leading writers celebrate the emergence of Irish Journalism from 1800 to 1922. -- .

This book represents the first anthropological study of fiction reading and the first ethnography of British literary culture. It is the outcome of long-term engagement with a set of solitary readers who belong to a single literary society. -- .