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A History of the North Atlantic Fisheries - Vol. 2: From the 1850s to the Early Twenty-First Century (2012)
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Starkey, D., & Heidbrink, I. (Eds.). (2012). A History of the North Atlantic Fisheries - Vol. 2: From the 1850s to the Early Twenty-First Century. Bremen: Hauschild Verlag

The fisheries have hat a profound influence on the development of human societies in the North Atlantic region. Assuming countless forms over the ages, fishing activity has ranged across the vast expanse of an ocean that comprises a myriad of complex... Read More about A History of the North Atlantic Fisheries - Vol. 2: From the 1850s to the Early Twenty-First Century.

Franklin Furnace and the spirit of the avant-garde: a history of the future (2011)
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Sant, T. (2011). Franklin Furnace and the spirit of the avant-garde: a history of the future. The University of Chicago Press

Franklin Furnace is a renowned New York-based arts organization whose mission is to preserve, document, and present works of avant-garde art by emerging artists - particularly those whose works may be vulnerable due to institutional neglect or politi... Read More about Franklin Furnace and the spirit of the avant-garde: a history of the future.

Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 4. [Anon.] Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Trimmer (1814), Volume II (2011)
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Fitzer, A. M., & Luria Walker, G. (Eds.). (2011). Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 4. [Anon.] Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Trimmer (1814), Volume II. Routledge

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This book is the second volume about Mrs. Sarah Trimmer and her charitable work. It contains selected content on her life and writings with original letters, her meditations and prayers for impoverished children in the early nineteenth... Read More about Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 4. [Anon.] Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Trimmer (1814), Volume II.

Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 2: William Roberts, Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Hannah More (1839) (2011)
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Fitzer, A. M., & Walker, G. L. (Eds.). (2011). Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 2: William Roberts, Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Hannah More (1839). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

This book is about Mrs. Hannah More, who had acted as a controversial patron to Ann Yearsley, and had used her own reputation as a poet in support of the abolitionist cause. It is the collaborative effort of Roberts, Bickersteth and Seeley that testi... Read More about Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 2: William Roberts, Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Hannah More (1839).

Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 3: [Anon.] Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mrs Trimmer (1814), Volume I (2011)
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(2011). A. M. Fitzer (Ed.), Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 3: [Anon.] Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mrs Trimmer (1814), Volume I. Routledge

This book is about Mrs. Sarah Trimmer and her charitable work. It is a principal source of reference for the work she undertook as an author, philanthropist and pioneer in the promotion and institution of educational opportunities for impoverished ch... Read More about Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 3: [Anon.] Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mrs Trimmer (1814), Volume I.

The Jawbone Gang (2011)
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Grubb, P. (2011). The Jawbone Gang. (Paperback). Acorn Independent Press

Crime novel: nominated for CWA Steel Dagger

Monarchism and absolutism in early modern Europe (2011)
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(2011). C. Cuttica, & G. Burgess (Eds.), Monarchism and absolutism in early modern Europe. London: Pickering & Chatto. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315655499

The fourteen essays in this volume look at both the theory and practice of monarchical governments from the Thirty Years War up until the time of the French Revolution. Contributors aim to unravel the constructs of 'absolutism' and 'monarchism', exam... Read More about Monarchism and absolutism in early modern Europe.

Normandy and its neighbours, 900-1250 : essays for David Bates (2011)
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Crouch, D., & Thompson, K. (2011). K. Thompson, & D. Crouch (Eds.). Normandy and its neighbours, 900-1250 : essays for David Bates. Brepols

Fourteen essays in Anglo-Norman and French history presented to David Bates on the occasion of his retirement.

Britain and World War I (2011)
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Simmonds, A. (2011). Britain and World War I. Routledge

Britain and World War One throws attention on the civilians who fought the war on the Home Front. Harnessing recent scholarship, and drawing on original documents, oral testimony and historical texts, Britain and World War One casts a new look over m... Read More about Britain and World War I.

The politics of nuclear weapons in South Asia (2011)
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Chakma, B. (Ed.). (2011). The politics of nuclear weapons in South Asia. Farnham: Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315554334

© Bhumitra Chakma 2011. All rights reserved. An important and critical re-evaluation of South Asia's post-tests nuclear politics, in contrast to other books, this volume emphasises the political dimension of South Asia's nuclear weapons, explains how... Read More about The politics of nuclear weapons in South Asia.

Displaying Families: A New Concept for the Sociology of Family Life (2011)
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Dermott, E., & Seymour, J. (2011). Displaying Families: A New Concept for the Sociology of Family Life. Palgrave Macmillan

This volume assesses how the concept of 'displaying families' can contribute to a better understanding of contemporary family and personal life. Using this concept, contributors discuss how family life must not only be 'done' but also be 'seen to be... Read More about Displaying Families: A New Concept for the Sociology of Family Life.

Legal and political theory in the post-national age: Selected papers presented at the Second Central and Eastern European Forum for Legal, Political and Social Theorists (Budapest, 21-22 May 2010) (2011)
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Cserne, P., & Konczol, M. (2011). Legal and political theory in the post-national age: Selected papers presented at the Second Central and Eastern European Forum for Legal, Political and Social Theorists (Budapest, 21-22 May 2010). Peter Lang

In the last decades, regional and global integration processes have made the traditional state-centred view of law less and less obvious. Recent discussions revolve around how to conceptually comprehend, critically reflect on and reasonably control t... Read More about Legal and political theory in the post-national age: Selected papers presented at the Second Central and Eastern European Forum for Legal, Political and Social Theorists (Budapest, 21-22 May 2010).

England's wars of religion, revisited (2011)
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Burgess, G., & Prior, C. W. A. (2011). C. Prior, & G. Burgess (Eds.), England's wars of religion, revisited. Routledge

The causes and nature of the civil wars that gripped the British Isles in the mid-seventeenth century remain one of the most studied yet least understood historical conundrums. Religion, politics, economics and affairs local, national and internation... Read More about England's wars of religion, revisited.