Visceral Cosmopolitanism
Mica Nava's significant study of cosmopolitanism traces its marginal status at the beginning of the 20th century to its relative normalisation today. It focuses particularly on English cultural...
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The Void
Despite its title, The Void is not a science fiction adventure but a journey through many of the fundamental ideas of modern physics. It centres on efforts to understand the nature of the vacuum (the...
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Book of the Week
In the age of Borat it may come as a surprise to learn that the grasslands between Ukraine and Kazakhstan were once regarded as an early crucible of civilisation. This idea is revisited in a major...
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The week in books
Mussolini and the Rise of Fascism by Donald Sassoon, professor of comparative European history, Queen Mary, University of London. Harper Press, £14.99 ISBN 978-00071924"Just as he wanted people to...
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Bastions of Britishness
Jeffrey Richards revels in Piers Brendon's vivid evocation of a liberal Empire with an irreconcilable paradox at its heart.
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Women against the Vote: Female Anti-Suffragism in Britain
The study of women who opposed female enfranchisement in late 19th-century and early 20th-century Britain has been neglected by historians. Anti-democratic and hostile to the labour movement of their...
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A National Joke: Popular Identity and English Cultural Identities
This is an excellent study of a popular comedy that links it into a variety of English cultural identities. Unusually for a book classified as cultural studies, it is clearly written, and by an...
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Published this week
ART AND DESIGN- Building St. Paul'sBy James W. P. Campbell, fellow in architecture and history of art at Queens' College, CambridgeThames and Hudson, £12.95. ISBN 9780500342442Campbell tells the...
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First Impressions competition: 24 January 2008
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a science-fiction novel with dystopic elements:"Snowman wakes before dawn."Entries, including postal...
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A masterclass on the underclass
The cultural commentator Peter York was due to speak on "The Chavs and the Chav Nots" at the University College for the Creative Arts this week. Mr York's lecture, which is subtitled "understanding...
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Scholars raise concerns over business school 'theory fetish'
Universities are urged to focus more on practice to remain relevant to managers. John Gill reports.
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Poor research cited for low language take-up
"Very weak" modern language research in universities is to blame for a decline in the popularity of the subject among students, an academic has claimed.
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Non-academics predicted to take over the running of departments
Report says faculty will increasingly be managed by professional administrators, writes Melanie Newman.
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Institute of Education - Sex discrimination claim settled
Allegations of sex discrimination against the director of the Institute of Education have resulted in an out-of-court settlement. As reported by ߣߣÊÓƵ in June last year, Geoff Whitty...
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University of Strathclyde - Boom in chemical engineering
A new chemical engineering laboratory has been opened at the University of Strathclyde. The £2 million facility will allow the department of chemical and process engineering to further its research...