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International History and International Relations

By: Andrew J. Williams,Amelia Hadfield,J. Simon Rofe

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International History and International Relations

By: Andrew J. Williams,Amelia Hadfield,J. Simon Rofe

This innovative new textbook seeks to provide undergraduate students of international relations with valuable and relevant historical context, bridging the gap and offering a genuinely interdisciplinary approach. Each chapter integrates both historical analysis and literature and applies this to an international relations context in an accessible fashion, allowing students to understand the historical context in which these core issues have developed. The book is organised thematically around the key issues in international relations such as war, peace, sovereignty, identity, empire and international organisations. Each chapter provides an overview of the main historical context, theories and literature in each area and applies this to the study of international relations. Providing a fresh approach, this work will be essential reading for all students of international relations and international relations theory.

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266

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Routledge

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0415481783

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9780415481786

Space and the Eighteenth-Century English Novel

By: Simon Varey

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Space and the Eighteenth-Century English Novel

By: Simon Varey

In this challenging and illustrated study, first published in 1990, Simon Varey relates the idea of space in the major novels of Defoe, Fielding and Richardson to its use in the theory and practice of eighteenth-century architecture. Concepts of divine design, expressed in the work of philosophers and theologians, introduced an ideological element to the notion of space which gave it a heightened significance in contemporary thought. Professor Varey's central argument is that space becomes a political instrument used to establish conformity, assert power and give form to the aspirations of social classes. He draws on a wide range of architectural books, both English and European, and on the example of Bath (focusing in particular on its chief architect in the eighteenth century, John Wood). The discussion of novels such as Robinson Crusoe, Tom Jones and Clarissa examines narrative as a form of spatial design, the use of architectural imagery to describe people, and the political control of social space.

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240

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Cambridge University Press

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0521374839

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9780521374835

Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity

Art, Opera, Fiction, and the Proclamation of Modernity

By: Simon Goldhill

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Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity

Art, Opera, Fiction, and the Proclamation of Modernity

By: Simon Goldhill

How did the Victorians engage with the ancient world? Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity is a brilliant exploration of how the ancient worlds of Greece and Rome influenced Victorian culture. Through Victorian art, opera, and novels, Simon Goldhill examines how sexuality and desire, the politics of culture, and the role of religion in society were considered and debated through the Victorian obsession with antiquity. Looking at Victorian art, Goldhill demonstrates how desire and sexuality, particularly anxieties about male desire, were represented and communicated through classical imagery. Probing into operas of the period, Goldhill addresses ideas of citizenship, nationalism, and cultural politics. And through fiction--specifically nineteenth-century novels about the Roman Empire--he discusses religion and the fierce battles over the church as Christianity began to lose dominance over the progressive stance of Victorian science and investigation. Rediscovering some great forgotten works and reframing some more familiar ones, the book offers extraordinary insights into how the Victorian sense of antiquity and our sense of the Victorians came into being. With a wide range of examples and stories, Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity demonstrates how interest in the classical past shaped nineteenth-century self-expression, giving antiquity a unique place in Victorian culture.

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377

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Princeton University Press

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1400840074

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9781400840076

The Borisaurus

The Dictionary of Boris Johnson

By: Simon Walters

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The Borisaurus

The Dictionary of Boris Johnson

By: Simon Walters

Do you know your Boosterism from your Backstopectomy? Can you tell Prometheus from Cincinnatus, and if so, do you know what Prime Minister Boris Johnson is trying to say when he namechecks esoteric figures from the classics, quotes obscure phrases from history or just makes words up? Certainly, Johnson is the most verbose Prime Minister of recent years, no doubt the result of a classical education, a closet full of public-school confidence and a former career as a wordsmith for The Times. Boris, more than perhaps any other leader, knows the importance of words, but he also knows how to have serious fun with them. Welcome to The Borisaurus, a lexicon of the Prime Minister's funniest, wittiest, most interesting words and phrases compiled in one brilliant dictionary, with every entry accompanied by a guide to its etymology, pronunciation, meaning and the intention of its use.

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144

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Biteback Publishing

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1785905805

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9781785905803

Wordsworth's Philosophic Song

By: Simon Jarvis

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Wordsworth's Philosophic Song

By: Simon Jarvis

Wordsworth wrote that he longed to compose 'some philosophic Song/Of Truth that cherishes our daily life'. Yet he never finished The Recluse, his long philosophical poem. Simon Jarvis argues that Wordsworth's aspiration to 'philosophic song' is central to his greatness, and changed the way English poetry was written. Some critics see Wordworth as a systematic thinker, while for others he is a poet first, and a thinker only (if at all) second. Jarvis shows instead how essential both philosophy and the 'song' of poetry were to Wordsworth's achievement. Drawing on advanced work in continental philosophy and social theory to address the ideological attacks which have dominated much recent commentary, Jarvis reads Wordsworth's writing both critically and philosophically, to show how Wordsworth thinks through and in verse. This study rethinks the relation between poetry and society itself by analysing the tensions between thinking philosophically and writing poetry.

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300

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Cambridge University Press

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1139462660

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9781139462662

Opera: The Autobiography of the Western World (Illustrated Edition)

From theocratic absolutism to liberal democracy, in four centuries of music drama

By: Simon Banks

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Opera: The Autobiography of the Western World (Illustrated Edition)

From theocratic absolutism to liberal democracy, in four centuries of music drama

By: Simon Banks

Since the first performance of the first opera in 1600, operas have been telling stories from myth and history. This book - beginning with the Creation and ending in the present day - is a chronology of myth and history as told in opera. Over 260 paintings and photographs, most in colour, accompany the narrative. Why were particular myths and historical events important at particular times? Why were the same myths and historical events told in radically different ways? In seeking answers to these questions, this book charts how the modern West migrated from autocracy towards liberal democracy, from theocratic absolutism towards tolerant pluralism, from sexism towards gender equality. It traces growing scepticism about religiously inspired warfare and colonial empire building. Unlike anything previously published, this is a book for lovers of history and the arts, and for anyone interested in how the western world of today came into being. By exploring a bewitchingly beautiful art form, it chronicles a sequence of extraordinary transformations: the political, religious and social revolutions that created the modern West.

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352

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1803131934

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9781803131931

Kingship and Politics in the Late Ninth Century

Charles the Fat and the End of the Carolingian Empire

By: Simon MacLean

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Kingship and Politics in the Late Ninth Century

Charles the Fat and the End of the Carolingian Empire

By: Simon MacLean

This is a major study of the collapse of the pan-European Carolingian empire and the reign of its last ruler, Charles III 'the Fat' (876–888). The later decades of the empire are conventionally seen as a dismal period of decline and fall, scarred by internal feuding, unfettered aristocratic ambition and Viking onslaught. This book offers an alternative interpretation, arguing that previous generations of historians misunderstood the nature and causes of the end of the empire, and neglected many of the relatively numerous sources for this period. Topics covered include the significance of aristocratic power; political structures; the possibilities and limits of kingship; developments in royal ideology; the struggle with the Vikings and the nature of regional political identities. In proposing these explanations for the empire's disintegration, the book has broader implications for our understanding of this formative period of European history more generally.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139440292

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9781139440295

Book's by Simon Gibbon

International History and International Relations

International History and International Relations

Space and the Eighteenth-Century English Novel

Space and the Eighteenth-Century English Novel

Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity

Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity

The Borisaurus

The Borisaurus

Wordsworth's Philosophic Song

Wordsworth's Philosophic Song

Opera: The Autobiography of the Western World (Illustrated Edition)

Opera: The Autobiography of the Western World (Illustrated Edition)

Kingship and Politics in the Late Ninth Century

Kingship and Politics in the Late Ninth Century

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