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  • Vagrancy in the Victorian Age

    Representing the Wandering Poor in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

    by Alistair Robinson ...
    Series Book 134 - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
    Vagrants were everywhere in Victorian culture. They wandered through novels and newspapers, photographs, poems and periodicals, oil paintings and illustrations. They appeared in a variety of forms in a variety of places: Gypsies and hawkers tramped the country, casual paupers and loafers lingered in the city, and vagabonds and beachcombers roved the colonial frontiers. Uncovering the rich ... Read more

    $25.49 USD

  • Post-Specimen Encounters Between Art, Science and Curating

    Rethinking Art Practice and Objecthood through Scientific Collections

    Edited by Edward Juler, Alistair Robinson ...
    This edited collection explores a subject of great potential for both art historians and museologists – that of the nature of the specimen and how it might be reinterpreted. Through its cross-disciplinary contributions, written by a team of art historians, artists, poets, anthropologists, critics and curators, this book looks at how artistic encounters in museums, ranging from anatomy museums to ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Cultures of London

    Legacies of Migration

    Edited by Charlotte Grant, Alistair Robinson ...
    From its origin as the Roman city of Londinium through to its latest incarnation as a super-diverse World City in the twenty-first century, London's history and culture has been shaped by migration. This book expresses and celebrates the plurality of the capital's cultures and affirms the importance of migration in the making of the modern city through thirty-three short essays written by ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

  • Museum and Gallery Studies

    The Basics

    by Rhiannon Mason, Alistair Robinson, Emma Coffield ...
    Series series The Basics
    Museum and Gallery Studies: The Basics is an accessible guide for the student approaching Museum and Gallery Studies for the first time. Taking a global view, it covers the key ideas, approaches and contentious issues in the field. Balancing theory and practice, the book address important questions such as:What are museums and galleries?Who decides which kinds of objects are worthy of collection ... Read more

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  • The Art of Forgiveness

    by Myk Habets, Philip Halstead, Kit Barker, Dale Campbell, David P. Gushee, Sarah Harris, Mark S. Hurst, Belinda Jacomb, Richard Neville0, Andrew Picard1, Alistair Reese2, Jonathan R. Robinson3, Csilla Saysell4, David Tombs5, Stephanie Worboys6, L. Gregory Jones7 ...
    Forgiveness is at the heart of the Christian Gospel. It goes hand in hand with love, mercy, and grace, the fundamental theological virtues. However, forgiveness is easier to define than it is to embody. This unique collection of essays brings together theologians, ethicists, and ministry practitioners into a constructive dialog which explores the complex and crucial concept of forgiveness: what it ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Youth Marginality in Britain

    Contemporary Studies of Austerity

    by Anthony Rudd, Robert Mcpherson, Frances Atherton, Jane Mckay, Sean Murphy, Emma Davidson, Claire Tupling, Patrick Ainley, Jenny van Krieken Robson, Lucy Williams, Kim Robinson, L. Ling, Alistair Fraser, L. Whittaker, Susan Anusas Batchelor, Mary Jane Kehily, Linda Brooks, Eldin Fahmy, Peter Squires ...
    Tabloid headlines such as ‘Anti-social Feral Youth,’ ‘Vile Products of Welfare in the UK’ and ‘One in Four Adolescents is a Criminal’ have in recent years obscured understanding of what social justice means for young people and how they experience it. Youth marginality in Britain offers a new perspective by promoting young people’s voices and understanding the agency behind their actions. It ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

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  • Urban Design Futures

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  • Introducing Architectural Theory

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  • The English

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  • The Tourist Gaze 3.0

    by John Urry, Jonas Larsen ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
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