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Douglas Clark, “Gunboat Justice: British and American Law Courts in China and Japan (1842-1943)” (Earnshaw Books, 2016)

Douglas Clark
Gunboat Justice
British and American Law Courts in China and Japan (1842-1943)
Earnshaw Books Limited, 2016

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Douglas Clark’s new Gunboat Justice: British and American Law Courts in China and Japan (1842-1943) (Earnshaw Books Limited, 2016) is a three-volume study of extraterritoriality and its transnational histories as it shaped modern China and Japan. Clark is both historian… Read More

Emma Jackson
Young Homeless People and Urban Space
Fixed in Mobility
Routledge, 2015

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What is the experience of young homeless people? What does this experience tell us about space, place and society? In Young Homeless People and Urban Space: Fixed in Mobility (Routledge, 2015), Dr. Emma Jackson, a lecturer in the Sociology … Read More

James Nott, “Going to the Palais: A Social and Cultural History of Dancing and Dance Halls in Britain, 1918-1960” (Oxford UP, 2016)

James Nott,
Going to the Palais
A Social and Cultural History of Dancing and Dance Halls in Britain, 1918-1960
Oxford University Press, 2016

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In his new book Going to the Palais: A Social and Cultural History of Dancing and Dance Halls in Britain, 1918-1960 (Oxford University Press, 2016), cultural historian James Nott charts the untold history of dancing and dance halls in Britain… Read More

Kennetta H. Perry, “London is the Place for Me: Black Britons, Citizenship, and the Politics of Race (Oxford UP, 2015)

Kennetta H. Perry
London is the Place for Me
Black Britons, Citizenship, and the Politics of Race
Oxford University Press, 2015

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Between the late 1940s and the early 1960s, hundreds of thousands of people from the British Commonwealth migrated the United Kingdom with plans to settle and find work. Kennetta Hammond Perry‘s new book, London is the Place for Me: … Read More

Nicola Rollock et al. “The Colour of Class: The Educational Strategies of the Black Middle Classes” (Routledge, 2014)

Nicola Rollock, David Gillborn, Carol Vincent and Stephen J. Ball
The Colour of Class
The Educational Strategies of the Black Middle Classes
Routledge, 2014

New Books in British Studies New Books in Critical Theory New Books in Education New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Public Policy New Books in Sociology New Books Network February 22, 2016 Dave O'Brien

The experience of the African American middle class has been an important area of research in the USA. However, the British experience has, by comparison, not been subject to the same amount of attention, particularly with regard to the middle… Read More