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  • Green Unpleasant Land

    Selected by Bernardine Evaristo as an Observer Best Books 2021Green Unpleasant Land explores the repressed history of rural England's links to transatlantic enslavement and the East India Company.Combining essays, poems and stories, it details the colonial links of country houses, moorlands, woodlands, village pubs and graveyards. It also explores the links between rural poverty, particularly ... Leer más

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  • The Countryside

    Ten Rural Walks Through Britain and Its Hidden History of Empire

    An Air Mail Editors’ PickTen walks through idyllic scenery reveal rural Britain’s forgotten links to transatlantic slavery and colonialism—a “revelatory travelogue-cum-exposé” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) that will transform our understanding of the English countryside and its heritage.For centuries, the green fields, rugged highlands, and rolling hills of England, Scotland, and Wales have ... Leer más

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  • Postcolonial Manchester

    Diaspora space and the devolution of literary culture

    de Lynne Pearce ...
    Postcolonial Manchester offers a radical new perspective on Britain’s devolved literary cultures by focusing on Manchester’s vibrant, multicultural literary scene. Referencing Avtar Brah’s concept of ‘diaspora space’, the authors argue that Manchester is, and always has been, a quintessentially migrant city to which workers of all nationalities and cultures have been drawn since its origins in the ... Leer más

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  • Travel and Ethics

    Theory and Practice

    Series series Routledge Research in Travel Writing
    Despite the recent increase in scholarly activity regarding travel writing and the accompanying proliferation of publications relating to the form, its ethical dimensions have yet to be theorized with sufficient rigour.Drawing from the disciplines of anthropology, linguistics, literary studies and modern languages, the contributors in this volume apply themselves to a number of key theoretical ... Leer más

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    The Countryside

    Ten Rural Walks Through Britain and Its Hidden History of Empire

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    An Air Mail Editors’ PickTen walks through idyllic scenery reveal rural Britain’s forgotten links to transatlantic slavery and colonialism—a “revelatory travelogue-cum-exposé” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) that will transform our understanding of the English countryside and its heritage.For centuries, the green fields, rugged highlands, and rolling hills of England, Scotland, and Wales have ... Leer más

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  • Liberty's Dawn

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    "Emma Griffin gives a new and powerful voice to the men and women whose blood and sweat greased the wheels of the Industrial Revolution" (Tim Hitchcock, author of Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London).This "provocative study" looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working ... Leer más

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  • Staying Power

    The History of Black People in Britain

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