Britain Culture
Death and Memory in Early Medieval Britain
An innovative application of theories of memory and material culture to an early historic society, this book uses the early medieval cemetery in Britain between 400-1100AD as a rich and complex data set, addressing the commemorative functions of funerary ritual using archaeologic
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Culture of English Antislavery, 1780-1860
The Culture of English Antislavery is an intervention in the lively international debate of recent years about the relation of antislavery in Britain to the deep changes of the period of the Industrial Revolution.
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Come on Down?
Come on Down? presents an introduction to popular media culture in Britain since 1945. It discusses the ways in which popular culture can be studied, understood and appreciated, and covers its key analytical issues and some of its most important forms and processes.
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Media, Monarchy and Power
Is obsession with the Royal Family in Britain a fact of culture or an illusion of media culture? What interest do the European media display in their royal families? Does twenty-first century monarchy remain a political and ideological force - or is it just an economic commodity?
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Writing against Revolution
Conservative culture in the Romantic period should not be understood merely as an effort to preserve the old regime in Britain against the threat of revolution.
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Print in Transition
This book examines the outbreak of print in late Victorian Britain. It joins categories that are normally separated: literature/popular culture, books/magazines, publishers/newsagents, and media studies/media history.
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