The green, green hills of home: Representations of mining in appalachian and welsh fiction
(2007)
Book Chapter
Robertson, S. (2007). The green, green hills of home: Representations of mining in appalachian and welsh fiction. In R. Gray, & W. Zacharasiewicz (Eds.), Transatlantic Exchanges: The American South in Europe, Europe in the American South. Vienna: The Austrian Academy of the Sciences
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Bristol: Ethnic minorities and the city, 1000-2001 (2007)
Book
Dresser, M., & Fleming, P. (2007). Bristol: Ethnic minorities and the city, 1000-2001. Phillimore Publishers
Grammatical borrowing in cross-linguistic perspective (2007)
Book
Matras, Y., & Sakel, J. (2007). Y. Matras, & J. Sakel (Eds.), Grammatical borrowing in cross-linguistic perspective. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter
Grammatical borrowing in cross-linguistic perspective (2007)
Book
Sakel, J. (2007). Y. Matras, & J. Sakel (Eds.), Grammatical borrowing in cross-linguistic perspective. Mouton de Gruyter
A sack in the sand: Photography in the age of information (2007)
Journal Article
Lister, M. (2007). A sack in the sand: Photography in the age of information. Convergence, 13(3), 251-274. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856507079176Throughout the 1990s the relationship between culture and technology was sharply focused in a debate about whether digital technologies signalled the death or radical displacement of photography. The case for the cultural continuity of photography ce... Read More about A sack in the sand: Photography in the age of information.
Gilles Deleuze and the history of philosophy (2007)
Journal Article
Sellars, J. (2007). Gilles Deleuze and the history of philosophy. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 15(3), 551-560. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608780701445060
War, industrial mobilisation and society in Northern Ireland, 1939-1945 (2007)
Journal Article
Ollerenshaw, P. (2007). War, industrial mobilisation and society in Northern Ireland, 1939-1945. Contemporary European History, 16(2), 169-197. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777307003773Archive-based regional studies can contribute much that is new to the economic, political and social history of the Second World War. This paper considers the process of industrial mobilisation in Northern Ireland, a politically divided region which... Read More about War, industrial mobilisation and society in Northern Ireland, 1939-1945.
A politeness-theoretic approach to pragmatico-semantic change (2007)
Journal Article
Beeching, K. (2007). A politeness-theoretic approach to pragmatico-semantic change. Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 8(1), 69-108. https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.8.1.05beeThis paper posits that certain "qualificatory" semantic primes are recruited to serve face-management needs in a metonymic Meaning1>Meaning2 relationship at what Traugott and Dasher (2002) have called the inter-subjective, non-truth-conditional, proc... Read More about A politeness-theoretic approach to pragmatico-semantic change.
Justus Lipsius's De Constantia: A stoic spiritual exercise (2007)
Journal Article
Sellars, J. (2007). Justus Lipsius's De Constantia: A stoic spiritual exercise. Poetics Today: International Journal for Theory and Analysis of Literature and Communication, 28(3), 339-362. https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-2007-001This essay offers an introduction to Justus Lipsius's dialogue De Constantia, first published in 1584. Although the dialogue bears a superficial similarity to philosophical works of consolation, I suggest that it should be approached as a spiritual e... Read More about Justus Lipsius's De Constantia: A stoic spiritual exercise.
Thatcher's children: Alienation and anomie in the plays of Judy Upton (2007)
Book Chapter
D'Monté, R. (2007). Thatcher's children: Alienation and anomie in the plays of Judy Upton. In R. D'Monté, & G. Saunders (Eds.), Cool Britannia? British Political Drama in the 1990s (79-95). Palgrave MacmillanThatcherite polices impacted upon the theatre, not just in the gradual erosion of subsidization and implementation of the market-driven economy, but also in the subject matter and use of dramatic form. Whilst it was initially suggested that many of t... Read More about Thatcher's children: Alienation and anomie in the plays of Judy Upton.
Drunk with the glitter: Space, consumption and sexual instability in modern urban culture (2007)
Book
Swanson, G. (2007). Drunk with the glitter: Space, consumption and sexual instability in modern urban culture. RoutledgeCompletion of this monograph was supported by an AHRC Research Leave Award, in 2004-5. Chapters 1 and 6 were first published before this reporting period. Chapter 5 is an extended version of a chapter in a previous book (this version comprises 18,00... Read More about Drunk with the glitter: Space, consumption and sexual instability in modern urban culture.
After the war was over: The civilian return to Leningrad (2007)
Journal Article
White, E. (2007). After the war was over: The civilian return to Leningrad. Europe-Asia Studies, 59(7), 1145-1161. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668130701607128This article focuses on the civilian return to Leningrad after the end of the Blockade and in the immediate post-war period. It examines how the authorities tried to control movement back to the city but proved to be overwhelmed by vast numbers of ci... Read More about After the war was over: The civilian return to Leningrad.
'Shattered into a multiplicity of warring functions': synthesis, disintegration and 'distractibility' (2007)
Journal Article
Swanson, G. (2007). 'Shattered into a multiplicity of warring functions': synthesis, disintegration and 'distractibility'. Intellectual History Review, 17(3), 305-326. https://doi.org/10.1080/17496970701622556At the centre of this peer-reviewed journal article on distractibility is a detailed investigation of William McDougall's 1920s-1940s adaptation of William James' notion of distraction developed in the 1890s. While the argument concerning the applica... Read More about 'Shattered into a multiplicity of warring functions': synthesis, disintegration and 'distractibility'.
After the bathhouse, or, in praise of awkwardness (2007)
Journal Article
Hornsey, R. (2007). After the bathhouse, or, in praise of awkwardness. English Language Notes, 45(2), 49-62
Beauty in the parlour: Letting yourself go (2007)
Presentation / Conference
Bacon, T., & Brooks, K. (2007, October). Beauty in the parlour: Letting yourself go. Paper presented at 'Ageing Femininities: Representation, Identities, Feminism' Intenational Conference, UWE St Matthias campus
Investigating the mechanisms of pattern replication in language convergence (2007)
Journal Article
Sakel, J., & Matras, Y. (2007). Investigating the mechanisms of pattern replication in language convergence. Studies in Language, 31(4), 829-865. https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.31.4.05matThis publication is an important contribution to language contact theory. Taking a typological perspective to contact-induced change, the authors investigate the ways in which grammatical structures from one language can be integrated into another. T... Read More about Investigating the mechanisms of pattern replication in language convergence.
Banking on change: Information systems and technologies in UK high street banking, 1919-1969 (2007)
Journal Article
Bátiz-Lazo, B., & Wardley, P. (2007). Banking on change: Information systems and technologies in UK high street banking, 1919-1969. Financial History Review, 14(02), 177-205. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0968565007000534This article explores the automation of the supply of financial services by British high street banks and provides a comparative assessment of the impact of similar developments in the USA. Its aim is to provide a historical perspective to highlight... Read More about Banking on change: Information systems and technologies in UK high street banking, 1919-1969.
The socialist revolutionary party, Ukraine, and Russian national identity in the 1920s (2007)
Journal Article
White, E. (2007). The socialist revolutionary party, Ukraine, and Russian national identity in the 1920s. Russian Review, 66(4), 549-567. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9434.2007.00458.x
The transformation of welfare and housing: Reflections from a British perspective (2007)
Presentation / Conference
Malpass, P. (2007, September). The transformation of welfare and housing: Reflections from a British perspective. Paper presented at CECODHAS Observatory Colloquium Welfare Transformation and Demographic Change in Europe: Challenges for the social housing sector, Barcelona, Spain
Official responses to foreign travel at the british foreign andlndia offices before 1914 (2007)
Journal Article
Fisher, J. (2007). Official responses to foreign travel at the british foreign andlndia offices before 1914. English Historical Review, 122(498), 937-964. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cem216