Jail Bird: The Life and Crimes of an Essex Bad Girl
Tracy Mackness and Deborah Crewe
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Tracy Mackness has always had a flair for business - if not all of it legal. She started work as a...
John Wayne's World: Transnational Masculinity in the Fifties
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In a film career that spanned five decades, John Wayne became a U.S. icon of heroic individualism...
Liberation in Print: Feminist Periodicals and Social Movement Identity
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This is the first analysis of periodicals' key role in U.S. feminism's formation as a collective...
Far Out: Countercultural Seekers and the Tourist Encounter in Nepal
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Westerners have long imagined the Himalayas as the world's last untouched place and repository of...
Hope: Entertainer of the Century
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With his topical jokes and his all-American, brash-but-cowardly screen character, Bob Hope was the...
Impunity, Human Rights, and Democracy: Chile and Argentina, 1990-2005
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Universal human rights standards were adopted in 1948, but in the 1970s and 1980s, violent...
In It for the Long Run: A Musical Odyssey
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Inspired by the Hank Williams and Leadbelly recordings he heard as a teenager growing up outside of...
Microbes from Hell
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At the close of the 1970s, the two-domain classification scheme long used by most biologists...
Railway Renaissance: Britain's Railways After Beeching
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When a 35 mile stretch of the former Waverley route from Edinburgh to Carlisle reopened on 6...
Signalling and Signal Boxes Along the GCR Route
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Over the course of several volumes, Allen Jackson uses an array of photographs to lavishly...