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'Chords of freedom' : commemoration, ritual, and British transatlantic slavery (2007)
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Oldfield, J. (2007). 'Chords of freedom' : commemoration, ritual, and British transatlantic slavery. Manchester University Press

How should we as Britons remember transatlantic slavery? How has slavery been remembered in the past? 'Chords of freedom' sets out to answer these questions and, in doing so, traces the way in which British transatlantic slavery has been absorbed int... Read More about 'Chords of freedom' : commemoration, ritual, and British transatlantic slavery.

Theatrum legale mundi: Symbola Cs. Varga oblata (2007)
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H. Szilágyi, I., Könczöl, M., Paksy, M., Takács, P., Tattay, S., & Cserne, P. (2007). Theatrum legale mundi: Symbola Cs. Varga oblata. Societas Sancti Stephani

A Festschrift for Professor Csaba Varga with contributions in English, German and French

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 3: 12 August 1810 to 17 June 1811 (2006)
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Ray, K., Looney, J., Perdue, S., Haggard, R., & Lautenschlager, J. (2006). The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 3: 12 August 1810 to 17 June 1811. Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv301fsm

Volume Three of the definitive edition of Thomas Jefferson's papers from the end of his presidency until his death presents 567 documents covering the period from 12 August 1810 to 17 June 1811. Jefferson is now firmly ensconced in retirement at Mont... Read More about The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 3: 12 August 1810 to 17 June 1811.

‘Who the Devil taught thee so much Italian?’: Italian language learning and literary imitation in Early Modern England (2006)
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Lawrence, J. (2006). ‘Who the Devil taught thee so much Italian?’: Italian language learning and literary imitation in Early Modern England. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781847794390

This book offers a comprehensive account of the methods and practice of learning modern languages, particularly Italian, in late sixteenth and early seventeenth century England. It is the first study to suggest a fundamental connection between langua... Read More about ‘Who the Devil taught thee so much Italian?’: Italian language learning and literary imitation in Early Modern England.

Idealist Political Philosophy: Pluralism and conflict in the absolute idealist tradition (2006)
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Tyler, C. (2006). Idealist Political Philosophy: Pluralism and conflict in the absolute idealist tradition. Continuum

The central claim of this book is that previous scholars have not appreciated the depths and complexities of the relationships between British idealist radicalism and the earlier idealist tradition of Kant, Fichte, Hegel and Carlyle. Colin Tyler expl... Read More about Idealist Political Philosophy: Pluralism and conflict in the absolute idealist tradition.

Understanding desistance from crime : Theoretical directions in resettlement and rehabilitation (2006)
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Farrall, S., & Calverley, A. (2006). Understanding desistance from crime : Theoretical directions in resettlement and rehabilitation. Open University Press

Why do people stop offending? What are the processes they undergo in stopping? What can be done to help more people who have offended put their pasts behind them? The growth of interest in why people stop offending and how they are resettled followin... Read More about Understanding desistance from crime : Theoretical directions in resettlement and rehabilitation.

Defining the Jacobean Church: The politics of religious controversy, 1603-1625 (2005)
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Prior, C. W. (2005). Defining the Jacobean Church: The politics of religious controversy, 1603-1625. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511495991

© Charles W. A. Prior 2005 and Cambridge University Press, 2009. Proposing a new model for understanding religious debates in the churches of England and Scotland between 1603 and 1625, Charles Prior sets aside 'narrow' analyses of conflict over pred... Read More about Defining the Jacobean Church: The politics of religious controversy, 1603-1625.

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part III, Volume 1: Elizabeth Gaskell, the Carlyles and John Ruskin by their Contemporaries (2005)
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Sanders, V., Christianson, A., Grimble, S., Mcintosh, S. A., & Pite, R. (2005). Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part III, Volume 1: Elizabeth Gaskell, the Carlyles and John Ruskin by their Contemporaries. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003513001

Elizabeth Gaskell, like her contemporary Emily Bronte, was from the north of England, though based in Lancashire and Cheshire rather than Yorkshire. Her first novel, Mary Barton (1848) was set in the north and was unusually realistic in its depiction... Read More about Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part III, Volume 1: Elizabeth Gaskell, the Carlyles and John Ruskin by their Contemporaries.

The scope of tolerance: Studies on the costs of free expression and freedom of the press (2005)
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Cohen-Almagor, R. (2005). The scope of tolerance: Studies on the costs of free expression and freedom of the press. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203003411

© 2006 Raphael Cohen-Almagor. All rights reserved. One of the dangers in any political system is that the principles that underlie and characterize it may, through their application, bring about its destruction. Liberal democracy is no exception. Mor... Read More about The scope of tolerance: Studies on the costs of free expression and freedom of the press.

The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature (2005)
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Porter, J., & Roemer, K. M. (Eds.). (2005). The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521822831

© Cambridge University Press 2005 and 2006. This Companion provides an informative and wide-ranging overview of a relatively new field of literary-cultural studies: Literature of many genres in English by American Indians from the 1770s to the presen... Read More about The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature.

Unpublished manuscripts in British idealism : political philosophy, theology and social thought. 2 vols. (2005)
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Tyler, C. (2005). Unpublished manuscripts in British idealism : political philosophy, theology and social thought. 2 vols. Thoemmes Continuum

A selection of previously-unpublished manuscripts by British idealists (Bernard Bosanquet, Edward Caird, T.H. Green, and D.G. Ritchie), transcribed and edited for the first time.  Paperback reprint published in 2008 by Imprint Academic. Returned in ... Read More about Unpublished manuscripts in British idealism : political philosophy, theology and social thought. 2 vols..

International conflict and security law : essays in memory of Hilaire McCoubrey (2005)
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Burchill, R., White, N. D., & Morris, J. (Eds.). (2005). International conflict and security law : essays in memory of Hilaire McCoubrey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511495137

© Cambridge University Press 2005. Hilaire McCoubrey wrote extensively in the area of armed conflict law, and on the issues of collective security law and the law relating to arms control. Although he died at the early age of 46 in 2000 he had contri... Read More about International conflict and security law : essays in memory of Hilaire McCoubrey.