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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      October 2012

      Das Unglück der anderen

      Kosovo, Liberia, Afghanistan

      by Merkel, Rainer

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      Humanities & Social Sciences

      Three Gorges

      Image Files of the Natural and Humanistic Heritages of China’s River Sources, II

      by Zheng Yunfeng, Ge Jianxiong

      China's giant Three Gorges Dam is the world's biggest hydropower plant located in the Three Gorges region in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. Since its construction officially began in 1994, the higher water level has changed the scenery of the Three Gorges. In 1996, photographer Zheng Yunfeng arrived at the Three Gorges, hoping to document the scenery before it was swallowed by the rising water. He spent more than seven years taking over 50,000 photos of the gorges, based on which the series Three Gorges was produced. The series Three Gorges is a selected collection of Zheng Yunfeng’s photography of the Three Gorges region, depicting living conditions, economic status, and customs and beliefs of local people with massive exquisite pictures and plain language. It is a part of Image Files of the Natural and Humanistic Heritages of China's River Sources and has three volumes: Memories of Mountains and Rivers, Memories of Old Days, and Memories of Ours.

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      Yellow River

      Image Files of the Natural and Humanistic Heritages of China’s River Sources, III

      by Ge Jianxiong, Zheng Yunfeng

      In Chinese history, the Yellow River is much more than a river; it stands for the origins of Chinese civilization and is often referred to as "The Mother River". Image Files of the Natural and Humanistic Heritages of China's River Sources: Yellow River systematically records the nature, history, and humanity in the Yellow River Basin from the perspective of "visual anthropology". It contains a large number of precious photos taken in the 1980s, not only showing the originality, diversity, and uniqueness of the Yellow River culture but also strengthening the environmental protection awareness, which is considered of high cultural and historical value. The series has three volumes: Memories of Mountains and Rivers, Memories of Old Days, and Memories of Ours. Memories of Mountains and Rivers records in images the geological features of the Yellow River from the source towards the sea and reveals the natural magnificence of the Yellow River. Memories of Old Days tells the rise and fall of Chinese history in the Yellow River Basin throughout thousands of years, from the primitive society to the feudal dynasties, from cultural relics underground to above-ground. Memories of Ours records the residence, grazing, farming, clothing, and sacrifice of the Chinese nation in the Yellow River Basin and reveals the cultural prosperity of the Yellow River Civilization.

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      The Arts
      March 2023

      The art of darkness

      The history of goth

      by John Robb

      This is the first comprehensive history of goth music and culture. Across more than 500 pages, John Robb explores the origins and legacy of this enduring scene, which has its roots in the post-punk era. Drawing on his own experience as a musician and journalist, Robb covers the style, the music and the clubs that spawned the culture, alongside political and social conditions. He also reaches back further to key historic events and movements that frame the ideas of goth, from the fall of Rome to Lord Byron and the romantic poets, European folk tales, Gothic art and the occult. Finally, he considers the current mainstream goth of Instagram influencers, film, literature and music. The Art of Darkness features interviews with Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Cure, The Damned, Nick Cave, Southern Death Cult, Einstürzende Neubauten, Bauhaus, Killing Joke, Throbbing Gristle, Danielle Dax, Lydia Lunch and many more. It offers a first-hand account of being there at the gigs and clubs that made the scene happen.

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      August 1998

      Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives

      Discourse and subjectivity in oral histories of the Second World War

      by Penny Summerfield

      Examines the effects of the Second World War on women's sense of themselves. Using oral history it explores the interaction between cultural representations of men and women in the war, and women's own narratives of their wartime lives. ;

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      January 1998

      Gender and imperialism

      by Clare Midgley, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

      This book marks an important new intervention into a vibrant area of scholarship, creating a dialogue between the histories of imperialism and of women and gender. By engaging critically with both traditional British imperial history and colonial discourse analysis, the essays demonstrate how feminist historians can play a central role in creating new histories of British imperialism. Chronologically, the focus is on the late eighteenth to early twentieth centuries, while geographically the essays range from the Caribbean to Australia and span India, Africa, Ireland and Britain itself. Topics explored include the question of female agency in imperial contexts, the relationships between feminism and nationalism, and questions of sexuality, masculinity and imperial power. ;

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      December 1999

      The debate on the American Civil War era

      by Hugh Tulloch, Roger Richardson

      This study is the first to critically survey the changing and highly controversial historical literature surrounding the American Civil War era, from contemporary interpretations up to the present.. The book analyses both historians attitudes and assumptions and suggests that each writer's perspective was partly determined by the dictates of time and place.. The author engages with all aspects of the Civil War era; social, cultural and economic as well as its political dimensions.. Aimed at sixth form colleges and university students. ;

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      April 1999

      French society in revolution 1789–1799

      by David Andress, Mark Greengrass

      French society in revolution aims to retrieve the social history of the French Revolution from unjustified neglect. This study examines both the structural and cultural elements behind the breakdown of the eighteenth-century monarchic state and its aris. . . . ;

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      August 1998

      War and the Media

      Propaganda and persuasion in the Gulf War

      by Philip M. Taylor

      A standard text on the subject. New introduction and bibliography. The leading expert in the field. ;

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      November 1998

      Marxism and History

      A critical introduct

      by S. H. Rigby

      This critically aclaimed book, now in its second edition is firmly established as an essential guide to this recent historiographical debate. Adopted as a set book by the Open University. An indispensable guide to Marxist historiography for undergradu. . . . ;

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      May 2016

      Protest and the politics of space and place, 1789–1848

      by Katrina Navickas

      This book is a wide-ranging survey of the rise of mass movements for democracy and workers' rights in northern England. It is a provocative narrative of the closing down of public space and dispossession from place. The book offers historical parallels for contemporary debates about protests in public space and democracy and anti-globalisation movements. In response to fears of revolution from 1789 to 1848, the British government and local authorities prohibited mass working-class political meetings and societies. Protesters faced the privatisation of public space. The 'Peterloo Massacre' of 1819 marked a turning point. Radicals, trade unions and the Chartists fought back by challenging their exclusion from public spaces, creating their own sites and eventually constructing their own buildings or emigrating to America. This book also uncovers new evidence of protest in rural areas of northern England, including rural Luddism. It will appeal to academic and local historians, as well as geographers and scholars of social movements in the UK, France and North America. ;

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      May 2016

      The Scots in early Stuart Ireland

      Union and separation in two kingdoms

      by David Edwards, Micheál Ó Siochrú, David Edwards

      By exploring Irish-Scottish connections during the period 1603-60 this book brings important new perspectives to the study of the Early Stuart state. Acknowledging the pivotal role of the Hiberno-Scottish world, it identifies some of the limits of England's Anglicising influence in the northern and western 'British Isles' and the often slight basis on which the Stuart pursuit of a new 'British' consciousness operated. Regarding the Anglo-Scottish relationship, it was chiefly in Ireland that the English and Scots intermingled after 1603, with a variety of consequences, often destabilising for English, Scots and Irish. The importance of the Gaelic sphere in Irish-Scottish connections also receives much greater attention here than in previous accounts. This Gaedhealtacht played a central role in the transmission of religious radicalism, both Catholic and Protestant, in Ireland and Scotland, ultimately leading to political crisis and revolution within the British Isles. ;

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      June 2016

      Imagining Armenia

      Orientalism, ambiguity and intervention, 1879–1925

      by Joanne Laycock, Bertrand Taithe, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones, Ana Carden-Coyne

      This book examines how Armenia and Armenians were portrayed in Britain at a decisive moment in modern history. It illustrates how British observers represented the 'in-between' position of Armenians and considers the early development of atrocity narratives which related acts of violence and oppression by the Ottomans. It goes on to examine responses to the massacres of the Armenians during the First World War, showing how established images of Armenians were transformed in the wake of this crisis. Laycock then turns to the post-war period when attempts were made to define and establish an independent Armenian nation state in the midst of international efforts to provide for the relief and resettlement of Armenian refugees. The book ends with the long-term implications that British and international 'abandonment' of the Armenians had for their subsequent place in public memory. This book will be of interest to scholars modern British history, Armenian history and wider issues within European studies ;

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      March 2016

      Novelty fair

      British visual culture between Chartism and the Great Exhibition

      by Jo Briggs

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      March 2016

      The end of the Irish Poor Law?

      Welfare and healthcare reform in revolutionary and independent Ireland

      by Donnacha Lucey

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      March 2016

      Novelty fair

      British visual culture between Chartism and the Great Exhibition

      by Jo Briggs

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      Humanities & Social Sciences
      April 2016

      Masters and servants

      Cultures of empire in the tropics

      by Claire Lowrie, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

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