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Adaptation and resilience in the performing arts
The pandemic and beyond
Edited by Pascale Aebischer and Rachael Nicholas
This book offers insights into some of the digital innovations, structural adaptations and analogue solutions that enabled live performance in the UK to survive through the COVID-19 pandemic. It ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7240-2
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Hardcover
£40.00
Pre-OrderCulture is not an industry
Reclaiming art and culture for the common good
By Justin O'Connor
Culture is at the heart to what it means to be human. But twenty-five years ago, the British government rebranded art and culture as 'creative industries', valued for their economic contribution, ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7126-9
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£14.99
Pre-OrderConceptualising China through translation
By James St André
This monograph provides an innovative methodology for investigating how China has been conceptualised historically by tracing the development of four key cultural terms (filial piety, face, ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5732-4
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£85.00
Buy NowMigrants shaping Europe, past and present
Multilingual literatures, arts, and cultures
Edited by Helen Solterer and Vincent Joos
This pioneering volume explores the contribution of migrants to European culture from the early modern era to today. It takes culture as an aesthetic and social activity of making, one practised ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6616-6
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Hardcover
£25.00
Buy NowHigh culture and tall chimneys
Art institutions and urban society in Lancashire, 1780-1914
By James Moore
This study examines how nineteenth-century industrial Lancashire became a leading national and international art centre. By the end of the century almost every major town possessed an art ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6699-9
FORMAT:
£25.00
Buy NowDreams of disconnection
From the autonomous house to self-sufficient territories
By Fanny Lopez
Why do we live in homes and communities built around the century-old industrial model of large service networks that use polluting resources? For more than a century, creative architects and ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4689-2
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£25.00
Buy NowDrone imaginaries
The power of remote vision
Edited by Andreas Immanuel Graae and Kathrin Maurer
There should no longer be any doubt: drones are here to stay. In civil society, they are used for rescue, surveillance, transport and leisure. And on the battlefield, their promises of remote ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4593-2
FORMAT:
£90.00
Buy NowNorthern memories and the English Middle Ages
By Tim William Machan
This book provocatively argues that much of what English writers of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries remembered about medieval English geography, history, religion and ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4535-2
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£85.00
Buy NowGender, rhetoric and regulation
Women's work in the Civil Service and the London County Council, 1900-55
By Helen Glew
The Civil Service and the London County Council employed tens of thousands of women in Britain in the early twentieth century. As public employers these institutions influenced both each other ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4663-2
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£26.00
Buy NowCrisis music
The cultural politics of Rock Against Racism
By Ian Goodyer
Rock Against Racism was a mass movement built in opposition to racism and fascism in 1970s Britain. At a time of severe economic and social crises, RAR, alongside the Anti-Nazi League, organised ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3385-4
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£26.00
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