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  • Unrespectable Radicals?

    Popular Politics in the Age of Reform

    by Paul A. Pickering ...
    In 1988 Iain McCalman's seminal work, Radical Underworld, unravelled the complex and clandestine revolutionary networks of democrats that operated in London between 1790 and the beginnings of Chartism, to reveal an urban underworld of prophets, infidels, pornographers and rogue preachers where powerful satirical and subversive subcultures were developed. This present volume reflects and builds ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Contested Sites

    Commemoration, Memorial and Popular Politics in Nineteenth-Century Britain

    by Paul A. Pickering, Alex Tyrrell ...
    Series series Studies in Labour History
    The second half of the nineteenth century witnessed a new phenomenon in public monuments and civic ornamentation. Whereas in former times public statuary had customarily been reserved for 'warriors and statesmen, kings and rulers of men', a new trend was emerging for towns to commemorate their own citizens. As the subjects immortalised in stone and bronze broadened beyond the traditional ruling ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Sounds of liberty

    Music, radicalism and reform in the Anglophone world, 1790–1914

    by Kate Bowan, Paul A. Pickering ...
    Series Book 148 - Studies in Imperialism
    Throughout the long nineteenth-century the sounds of liberty resonated across the Anglophone world. Focusing on radicals and reformers committed to the struggle for a better future, this book explores the role of music in the transmission of political culture over time and distance. Following in the footsteps of relentlessly travelling activists – women and men - it brings to light the importance ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Lucy

    by Paul Pickering ...
    Paul Pickering's new anti-war novel Lucy is about obedience and rebellion, how one survivor in the actual and moral wasteland of immediate post-war Berlin takes over the lives of three others, psychologically and sexually, in the way Hitler took over a country.The worldwide protests surrounding the 2024 conflict in Gaza mirror the rebel spirit at the heart of Pickering's important, groundbreaking ... Read more

    $11.29 USD

  • Elephant

    by Paul Pickering ...
    In a country house in England a precocious teenage exile from revolutionary Russia sets down his adventures on paper, beginning with his first ball in St Petersburg and how he frees a huge African elephant from a cruel circus. But a hundred years later an American academic feels the boy may have invented the elephant as the only kind and uplifting being in dark times. ... Read more

    $11.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Leopard's Wife

    A Novel

    by Paul Pickering ...
    Now a famous classical pianist, S. Miles-Harcourt, aka “Smiles,” arrives in Congo to play a Peace and Reconciliation Concert, and to make amends with his former schoolteacher and mentor, Lyman Andrew, who has buried himself in the war-torn jungle. Smiles owes his success to the man he helped ruin and harbors a dark secret from his brutal public school days. But a bomb has exploded at the hotel in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • “We Had All the Good Songs!”

    Reflections on Australia’s Voice Referendum

    Edited by Matt Qvortrup, Paul Pickering ...
    The Voice Referendum was a momentous event in Australian politics. It was a historical turning point, but one where history stubbornly refused to turn. In this book leading public intellectuals – both indigenous and non-indigenous – reflect of the change that never was. Why was the referendum lost? What does it mean for Australian perception of themselves? How will the wounds be healed? ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • The Long Way Home

    The Meaning and Values of Repatriation

    Edited by Paul Turnbull, Michael Pickering ...
    Series Book 2 - Museums and Collections
    Indigenous peoples have long sought the return of ancestral human remains and associated artifacts from western museums and scientific institutions. Since the late 1970s their efforts have led museum curators and researchers to re-evaluate their practices and policies in respect to the scientific uses of human remains. New partnerships have been established between cultural and scientific ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Manchester must dance

    A life of music, madness and moving on up

    by Mike Pickering ...
    From Manchester’s backstreets to global dancefloors – the untold story of a musical pioneer.Beginning on the night in November 1963 when his mum took him to see the Beatles live at Manchester’s ABC Cinema, Mike Pickering takes the reader through sixty years of clubs, clothes, gigs, record labels, football matches and politics.Pickering has lived through decades of rapid change in popular music. As ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Parkes' Occupational Lung Disorders

    Edited by Anthony Newman Taylor, Paul Cullinan, Paul Blanc, Anthony Pickering ...
    This authoritative text on occupational lung disorders builds upon the fundamentals, including clinical, epidemiological, and predictive approaches. It discusses interstitial and malignant diseases, airways diseases, and other respiratory issues, such as diving, working at high altitudes, and abnormal sleep conditions. It also covers related long-term conditions, such as asthma and COPD. This ... Read more

    $159.99 USD

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  • Acts of Union and Disunion

    by Linda Colley ...
    The United Kingdom; Great Britain; the British Isles; the Home Nations: such a wealth of different names implies uncertainty and contention - and an ability to invent and adjust. In a year that sees a Scottish referendum on independence, Linda Colley analyses some of the forces that have unified Britain in the past.She examines the mythology of Britishness, and how far - and why - it has faded. ... Read more

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