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Narratives of the Unspoken in Contemporary Irish Fiction
This Open access book is a collection of essays and offers an in-depth analysis of silence as an aesthetic practice and a textual strategy which paradoxically speaks of the unspoken nature of many inconvenient hidden truths of Irish society in the work of contemporary fiction writers. The study acknowledges Ireland’s history of damaging silences and considers its legacies, but it also undersc…
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- 978-3-031-30455-2
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- New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
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- XIX, 246
Making Humanitarian Crises
This open access collection of essays explores the emotional agency of images in the construction of ‘humanitarian crises’ from the nineteenth century to the present. Using the prism of the histories of emotions and the senses, the chapters examine the pivotal role images have in shaping cultural, social and political reactions to the suffering of others and to the establishment of the inte…
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- 978-3-031-00824-5
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- Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions
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- XII, 186
Feeling Political
Historicizing both emotions and politics, this open access book argues that the historical work of emotion is most clearly understood in terms of the dynamics of institutionalization. This is shown in twelve case studies that focus on decisive moments in European and US history from 1800 until today. Each case study clarifies how emotions were central to people’s political engagement and its …
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- 978-3-030-89858-8
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- Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions
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- XIX, 390
UK Child Migration to Australia, 1945-1970
This open access book offers an unprecedented analysis of child welfare schemes, situating them in the wider context of post-war policy debates about the care of children. Between 1945 and 1970, an estimated 3,500 children were sent from Britain to Australia, unaccompanied by their parents, through child migration schemes funded by the Australian and British Governments and delivered by churche…
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- 978-3-030-69728-0
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- Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood
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- XIII, 338
Child Protection in England, 1960–2000
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This open access book explores how children, parents, and survivors reshaped the politics of child protection in late twentieth-century England. Activism by these groups, often manifested in small voluntary organisations, drew upon and constructed an expertise grounded in experience and emotion that supported, challenged, and subverted…
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- 978-3-319-94718-1
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- Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood
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- IX, 215
Credit Networks in The Preindustrial World
This open access book examines the formation and sustainability of private credit networks in past societies, gathering a global range of case studies from Europe and the Americas. The book represents a fi rst attempt to coordinate the work of different scholars working on credit networks and aims to explore the possibilities offered by social network analysis for the study of past fi nancial m…
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- 978-3-031-67117-3
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- Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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- XIV, 403
Social Movements in 1980s Sweden
This open access book discusses the emergence and development, and in some cases also the disappearance, of social movements and activism in Sweden during the 1980s. Its aim is to nuance and problematize the image of the 1980s as unilaterally dominated by right-wing politics and neoliberalism, as well as the idea of a conflict-free Scandinavian model. The 1980s have often been described as a pe…
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- 978-3-031-27370-4
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- Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements
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- XXIII, 249
Bearing Witness
This open access book is the biography of one of Britain’s foremost animal welfare campaigners and of the world of activism, science, and politics she inhabited. In 1964, Ruth Harrison’s bestseller Animal Machines triggered a gear change in modern animal protection by popularising the term ‘factory farming’ alongside a new way of thinking about animal welfare. Here, historian Claas …
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- 978-3-030-62792-8
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- Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements
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- XXVI, 271
'The Bell Curve' in Perspective
This open access book examines the implications of The Bell Curve for the social, economic, and political developments of the early 21st century. Following a review of the reception of The Bell Curve and its place in the campaign to end affirmative action, Professor Tucker analyses Herrnstein’s concept of the “meritocracy” in relation to earlier 20th century eugenics and the dramatic incr…
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- 978-3-031-41614-9
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- Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology
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- XIII, 124
The Dutch Paper Industry from 1580 to the Present
This open access book is the first to provide an analysis of the Dutch paper industry over a period encompassing six centuries. Responding to a trend of renewed scholarly interest in paper industries and production, the book seeks to illuminate the factors behind this relatively small national industry’s centuries-long survival.
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- 978-3-031-54324-1
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- XIII, 149
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