Transport and the industrial city

Transport and the industrial cityFocusing on Manchester, this book shows that canals were at the heart of the self styled Cottonopolis. Not only did canals move the key commodities of Manchesters industrial revolution coal, corn, and cotton but canal banks also provided the key sites for the factories that made Manchester the shock city of the early Victorian age.

An excellent introductory volume for those wishing to know more about the hitherto neglected cinema from the African continent

will undoubtedly appeal to the general readerA clearly argued

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Trois hommes et un couffin (Three Men and a Baby) was the most successful French film of the 1980s

childhood and death

old and new

Offers a startling re-evaluation of what has until now been seen as the most critically lacklustre period of the British film history

This book examines John Donne’s theory of royal absolutism within a tradition of conformist thought

This fascinating and original study will broaden the investigation of world exploration and Pacific ethnography

science and culture

This is the first edited collection on Hari Kunzru

the contributors attack the question of just how effective festivals are at producing politically engaged spectators