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History of Policing, Crime, Disorder, Punishment (2023)
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Joyce, P., & Laverick, W. (2023). History of Policing, Crime, Disorder, Punishment. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36892-9

This book provides a broad and unique coverage of the key historical events that shaped ideas in criminology, criminal justice and policing from the late seventeenth century to the early twenty-first century in England and Wales. It vividly illustrat... Read More about History of Policing, Crime, Disorder, Punishment.

From Conflict to Modern Slavery: The Drivers and the Deterrents (2023)
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Heys, A. (2023). From Conflict to Modern Slavery: The Drivers and the Deterrents. Oxford University Press

Description: From Conflict to Modern Slavery considers the lives of people after they have fled conflict and arrived in the UK. The book draws on insights from interviews with those who have experienced the UK immigration system, and observations ar... Read More about From Conflict to Modern Slavery: The Drivers and the Deterrents.

Writing Early America: From Empire to Revolution (2023)
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Burnard, T. (in press). Writing Early America: From Empire to Revolution. Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press

Based on a close reading of nearly four hundred articles in leading journals published over the past decade, Trevor Burnard provides an unprecedented examination and analysis of the direction of the field encompassed by the popular hashtag #VastEarly... Read More about Writing Early America: From Empire to Revolution.

Beyond Trawlertown: Life and legacy in the wake of Hull's distant-water trawl fishery (2022)
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Byrne, J. (2022). Beyond Trawlertown: Life and legacy in the wake of Hull's distant-water trawl fishery. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press

Beyond Trawlertown takes a journey through the British distant-water fishery and its port-city connections in an era of disruption. In 1976, defeat in the Anglo-Icelandic Cod Wars saw the British trawling fleet excluded from their traditional hunting... Read More about Beyond Trawlertown: Life and legacy in the wake of Hull's distant-water trawl fishery.

Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War: The Making of Frank Prewett (2021)
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Porter, J. (2021). Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War: The Making of Frank Prewett. London: Bloomsbury Press

This book examines the extraordinary life of Frank “Toronto” Prewett and the history of trauma, literary expression, and the power of self-representation after WWI. Joy Porter sheds new light on how the First World War affected the Canadian poet,... Read More about Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War: The Making of Frank Prewett.

Understanding the Educational Experiences of Imprisoned Men (2021)
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Nichols, H. (2021). Understanding the Educational Experiences of Imprisoned Men. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429323850

Understanding the Educational Experiences of Imprisoned Men explores how adult male prisoners interpret and give value to their experiences of education, presenting an opportunity to consider how education can be beneficial to prisoners including and... Read More about Understanding the Educational Experiences of Imprisoned Men.

Settlers in Indian Country: Sovereignty and Indigenous Power in Early America (2020)
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Prior, C. (2020). Settlers in Indian Country: Sovereignty and Indigenous Power in Early America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108883979

The aim of this short book is to foreground Native American conceptions of sovereignty and power in order to refine the place of settler colonialism in American colonial and early republican history. It argues that Indigenous concepts of sovereignty... Read More about Settlers in Indian Country: Sovereignty and Indigenous Power in Early America.

The ties that bind : transatlantic abolitionism in the Age of Reform, c. 1820-1865 (2020)
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Oldfield, J. (2020). The ties that bind : transatlantic abolitionism in the Age of Reform, c. 1820-1865. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press

Monograph on international anti-slavery during the mid-nineteenth century. This ground-breaking book deals with two inter-related themes, opinion-building and transatlanticism, and includes chapters on abolitionist politics, songs, agent and popular... Read More about The ties that bind : transatlantic abolitionism in the Age of Reform, c. 1820-1865.

Jamaica in the Age of Revolution (2020)
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Burnard, T. (2020). Jamaica in the Age of Revolution. University of Pennsylvania Press (Penn Press)

Between the start of the Seven Years' War in 1756 and the onset of the French Revolution in 1789, Jamaica was the richest and most important colony in British America. White Jamaican slaveowners presided over a highly productive economic system, a pr... Read More about Jamaica in the Age of Revolution.

Ruin and reformation in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Marvell (2019)
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Mottram, S. (2019). Ruin and reformation in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Marvell. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Ruin and Reformation in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Marvell explores writerly responses to the religious violence of the long reformation in England and Wales, spanning over a century of literature and history, from the establishment of the national ch... Read More about Ruin and reformation in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Marvell.

Hardcore horror cinema in the 21st century: Production, marketing and consumption (2018)
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Aston, J. (2018). Hardcore horror cinema in the 21st century: Production, marketing and consumption. McFarland

Hardcore Horror Cinema in the 21st Century represents the first scholarly book of its kind. It addresses the exemplars of hardcore horror which are Fred Vogel's August Underground trilogy, Shane Ryan's Amateur Porn Star Killer series and Lucifer Vale... Read More about Hardcore horror cinema in the 21st century: Production, marketing and consumption.

Evolutionary Learning in Strategy-Project Systems (2018)
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Gardiner, P., Eltigani, A., Williams, T., Kirkham, R., Ou, L., Calabrese, A., & Söderlund, J. (2018). Evolutionary Learning in Strategy-Project Systems. Pennsylvania, USA: Project Management Institute

Race and the Yugoslav region: postsocialist, post-conflict, postcolonial? (2018)
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Baker, C. (2018). Race and the Yugoslav region: postsocialist, post-conflict, postcolonial?. United Kingdom: Manchester University Press

This is the first book to situate the territories and collective identities of former Yugoslavia within the politics of race - not just ethnicity - and the history of how ideas of racialised difference have been translated globally. The book connects... Read More about Race and the Yugoslav region: postsocialist, post-conflict, postcolonial?.

Decision making for personal investment: Real estate financing, foreclosures and other issues (2017)
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Rodgers, W., & McFarlin, T. G. (2017). Decision making for personal investment: Real estate financing, foreclosures and other issues. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47849-4

This book presents a personal financial decision making model based on six dominant decision making pathways. It outlines each pathway in detail before focusing on real estate investments in the second part of the book. Based on the authors extensive... Read More about Decision making for personal investment: Real estate financing, foreclosures and other issues.

Young people's daily mobilities in Sub-Saharan Africa: Moving young lives (2017)
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Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Abane, A., Munthali, A., Robson, E., & Mashiri, M. (2017). Young people's daily mobilities in Sub-Saharan Africa: Moving young lives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-45431-7

This book explores the daily mobilities and immobilities of children and young people in sub-Saharan Africa. The authors draw on findings from rural and urban field research extending over many years, culminating in a 24-site study across three Afric... Read More about Young people's daily mobilities in Sub-Saharan Africa: Moving young lives.

French Feminisms 1975 and After (2017)
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Atack, M., Fell, A. S., Holmes, D., & Long, I. (2017). M. Atack, A. S. Fell, D. Holmes, & I. Long (Eds.), French Feminisms 1975 and After. Oxford, Berne: Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/b13051

This volume explores contemporary French women’s writing through the prism of one of the defining moments of modern feminism: the writings of the 1970s that came to be known as «French feminism». With their exhilarating renewal of the rules of fictio... Read More about French Feminisms 1975 and After.

Tasso's art and afterlives: the 'Gerusalemme liberata' in England (2017)
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Lawrence, J. (2017). Tasso's art and afterlives: the 'Gerusalemme liberata' in England. Manchester: Manchester University Press

This interdisciplinary book examines the literary, artistic and biographical afterlives in England of the great Italian poet Torquato Tasso, from before his death in 1595 to the end of the nineteenth century. Focusing predominantly on the impact of h... Read More about Tasso's art and afterlives: the 'Gerusalemme liberata' in England.