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Lloyd's Introduction to jurisprudence.
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ISBN: 9780421907904 Year: 2008 Publisher: London Sweet and Maxwell


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Print for victory : book publishing in Britain 1939-1945.
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ISBN: 0712350012 9780712350013 0712363653 Year: 2008 Publisher: London British library

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This is the first in-depth study on the role of British publishing in 1939-45, an aspect of the World War Two that other books have not covered in any detail. Although frequently referred to as a barren interlude stunted by war and austerity (paper rationing played a crucial role), the period was also marked by innovation in book design, changes in the pattern of trade (the time when Penguin became hugely profitable, and also when a surprising number of shiploads of books were exported), and the advent of new readers in the UK and elsewhere. The book analyses the pivotal role played by publishers in relations between Government and people, shedding light on the intervention by wartime ministries at all stages of book production, and assesses the extent to which war affected the corpus of literature that was published. This fascinating period has been intensively studied by social and political historians but is virtually untouched by historians of the book until now. This major new study draws extensively on previously unpublished and often un-catalogued archive material, and will fill a gap in the book history market.


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Between two silences : talking with Peter Brook
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ISBN: 9780413755803 Year: 2008 Publisher: London : Methuen,

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The British library : a treasure house of knowledge.
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ISBN: 9781857593754 1857593758 Year: 2008 Publisher: London Scala

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The British Library holds one of the world's greatest collections of books and manuscripts, spanning almost three millennia and from all parts of the world. The collections also include Britain's national sound archive and philatelic collections, the world's most comprehensive archive of patents and related material, a unique collection of photographs, and the only large, integrated national newspaper service in the world. Philip Howard trawls through the areas of universal knowledge within the Library, and presents 120 different highlights of the library, organised thematically.


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Printing the Middle Ages.
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ISBN: 9780812240917 Year: 2008 Publisher: Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press

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In Printing the Middle Ages Siân Echard looks to the postmedieval, postmanuscript lives of medieval texts, seeking to understand the lasting impact on both the popular and the scholarly imaginations of the physical objects that transmitted the Middle Ages to the English-speaking world. Beneath and behind the foundational works of recovery that established the canon of medieval literature, she argues, was a vast terrain of books, scholarly or popular, grubby or beautiful, widely disseminated or privately printed. By turning to these, we are able to chart the differing reception histories of the literary texts of the British Middle Ages. For Echard, any reading of a medieval text, whether past or present, amateur or academic, floats on the surface of a complex sea of expectations and desires made up of the books that mediate those readings. Each chapter of Printing the Middle Ages focuses on a central textual object and tells its story in order to reveal the history of its reception and transmission. Moving from the first age of print into the early twenty-first century, Echard examines the special fonts created in the Elizabethan period to reproduce Old English, the hand-drawn facsimiles of the nineteenth century, and today's experiments with the digital reproduction of medieval objects; she explores the illustrations in eighteenth-century versions of Guy of Warwick and Bevis of Hampton; she discusses nineteenth-century children's versions of the Canterbury Tales and the aristocratic transmission history of John Gower's Confessio Amantis; and she touches on fine press printings of Dante, Froissart, and Langland (Ashendene press, Shakespeare Head press, Kelmscott press).


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Chitty on contracts. 2 : Specific contracts.
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ISBN: 9781847035479 9781847035486 Year: 2008 Publisher: London Sweet and Maxwell

The culture of cloth in Early modern England : textual construction of a national identity.
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ISBN: 9780754663010 9781315615219 9781317036685 9781317036692 9781138259867 Year: 2008 Publisher: Aldershot Ashgate

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Through its exploration of the intersections between the culture of the wool broadcloth industry and the literature of the early modern period, this study contributes to the expanding field of material studies in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. The author argues that it is impossible to comprehend the development of emerging English nationalism during that time period, without considering the culture of the cloth industry. She shows that, reaching far beyond its status as a commodity of production and exchange, that industry was also a locus for organizing sentiments of national solidarity across social and economic divisions. Hentschell looks to textual productions - both imaginative and non-fiction works that often treat the cloth industry with mythic importance - to help explain how cloth came to be a catalyst for nationalism. Each chapter ties a particular mode, such as pastoral, prose romance, travel propaganda, satire, and drama, with a specific issue of the cloth industry, demonstrating the distinct work different literary genres contributed to what the author terms the "culture of cloth."

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