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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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- 1
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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
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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- 1
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- 978-3-030-69728-0
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- Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood
- Call Number
- XIII, 338
Fungal Disease in Britain and the United States 1850-2000
This book is open access under a CC BY license. The narrative of 20th-century medicine is the conquering of acute infectious diseases and the rise in chronic, degenerative diseases. The history of fungal infections does not fit this picture. This book charts the path of fungal infections from the mid 19th century to the dawn of the 21st century.
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- 1
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- 978-1-137-37702-9
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- Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
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- XIII, 225
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