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Katrina Navickas provides a lively and detailed account of popular politics in Lancashire in this period. She offers fresh insights into the complicated dynamics between radicalism, loyalism, and patriotism, explaining how this heady mix created a politically charged region where both local and national affairs played their part....

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Universalizing Family Policies That WorkThe first book to portray women who went off welfare as a result of the Clinton        welfare reform process not as victims of an oppressive system but as success        stories, who managed, with low-wage employment and income supplements and subsidies,        to pull their families into a substantially...

England and its Island Neighbours, 1500-1707A rich narrative history of England's increasing dominance over the territories        that became known as the British Isles in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,        from the reign of Henry VII through to the Act of Union of 1707....

G. E. R. Lloyd explores the variety of ideas and assumptions that humans have        entertained concerning three main topics: being, or what there is; humanity--what        makes a human being a human; and understanding, both of the world and of one        another. Amazingly diverse views have been held on these issues by...

It is universally accepted that there has been a huge growth in EU lobbying over        the past few decades. There is now a dense EU interest group system. This entirely        new volume, inspired by Mazey & Richardson's 1993 book Lobbying in the        European Community, seeks to understand the role of interest groups in the...