Hong Kong and British culture, 1945–97 Philip E. Schreur

Hong Kong and British culture, 1945–97 Philip E. SchreurA major contribution to the scholarship on British decolonisation, the cultural history of imperialism and British engagement with China. This highly original study places the emergence of contemporary Hong Kong in the wider, post imperial setting.

including writers on modernity and the modern city

This ground-breaking study is the first to systematically examine the politics and political culture of provincial Ireland

then in its interactions with French and Western societies

Stanley raffle argues that metaphors are not just aesthetic tools

virtue and the common good alongside more familiar economic goals

and Europe to examine topics such as urban art

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Keepin' It Real: Essays on Race in Contemporary America is a vibrant and eclectic collection of essays written during the most racially turbulent period of the modern era – the end of the Obama Administration and the start of the Trump Administration – that examine emerging racial tensions

Roof Watching is an invitation to look at the top covering of buildings

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This plan was threatened by American promotion of a different model of development

Punjabi popular culture and the neo-Victorian in literature