Smoking in British popular culture 1800–2000

Smoking in British popular culture 1800–2000A concise history of smoking in British popular culture from the early nineteenth century to the present day.. Provides the historical backdrop to the current debates about the politics of tobacco and health, demonstrating that both pro and anti smokers have consistently failed to understand the position of smoking within popular culture.. Important themes explored include: the importance of consumption to constructions of masculinity and femininity,

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Are broadcasting audiences better informed than they were twenty years ago

Mussolini's triumphs and failures in peace and war and his ultimate responsibility for the disintegration of the regime are discussed objectively

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to examine the constructions and performances of her maternity in devotional texts

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focusing on the social roots of the emerging dictatorship and the aspirations of antifascists and Socialists manipulated and ultimately betrayed by Stalinism

Architecture and the Virtual is a study of architecture as it is reflected in the work of seven contemporary artists

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