Radical collections: re-examining the roots of collections, practices and information professions

This volume looks at the role that archivists and librarians play in compiling collections – do they “curate” history? To what extent are they gatekeepers of knowledge? It shines a light on pressing topical issues within library and information services (LIS)- to encompass selection, appraisal an...

The signature in law

Drawing on cases from common law jurisdictions across the world, this book demonstrates that judges expanded the meaning of a signature as technologies developed and were used in unanticipated ways. It explores the judicial development of the concept of the signature from the thirteenth century t...

The victoria history of herefordshire: cradley

Drawing extensively on local archival sources, this volume charts the social, economic, religious and political history of Cradley in Herefordshire. It explores the fragmented model of land ownership and the development of a powerful body of wealthy yeomanry that shaped the distinctive character ...

Dethroning historical reputations: universities, museums and the commemoration of benefactors

The campaigns in universities across the world to reject, rename and remove historic benefactions have brought the present into collision with the past. In Britain, people are reconsidering civic monuments in light of an imperial past. In America, memorials to leaders of the Confederacy and to ot...

Voice, silence and gender in south africa's anti-apartheid struggle

Tracing the political life of Masabatha Loate, a young black woman activist who testified at the trial of the ‘Soweto Eleven’ in 1978, this book examines the history of South Africa’s liberation struggle through the lens of voice, speech and silence, and what this reveals about the gendered dynam...

Innovations in teaching history

An essential teaching companion offering practical strategies for enhancing learning for all teachers of history in higher education, this collection of seven case studies reflects on how we teach the history of the long eighteenth century. It is grounded in real academic practice and focuses on ...

The family firm

The Family Firm is the first major historical analysis of the way Buckingham Palace worked with the Church of England and the media to initiate a new public relations strategy in the period 1932-53. It argues that the monarchy’s deliberate elevation of a more informal and vulnerable family-centre...

Waterscapes: reservoirs, environment and identity in modern england and wales

This book explores the impacts of reservoir construction and management in England and Wales from the late-nineteenth to early-twentieth century. Taking a comparative approach with case studies from Leeds’s Washburn Valley, Liverpool’s Vyrnwy Reservoir and Birmingham’s Elan Reservoir, it examines...

Freedom seekers

Freedom Seekers reveals the hidden stories of enslaved and bound people who attempted to escape from captivity in 17th-century London. It was the joint winner of the prestigious Frederick Douglass Book Prize from Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Ab...

The social and political life of latin american infrastructures

This cross-disciplinary book makes a novel contribution to global infrastructure debates and provides important new insights into Latin America’s history and politics. It captures the characteristics, limits and vibrancy of Latin America’s infrastructures, exploring irrigation networks in Peru to...

Brazil: essays on history and politics

This volume is published to mark the 80th birthday of Leslie Bethell, a major figure in Brazilian studies. It consists of seven of his essays on important themes in modern Brazilian history and politics. The essays are new, but they draw on book chapters and journal articles published (mainly in ...

Shaping migration between europe and latin america: new perspectives and challenges

Focusing on Latin America and Europe, two world regions historically linked by human mobility and cultural exchange, this insightful examination of their changing international migration patterns details their responses to significant demographic changes and new migration trends. The volume exami...

Capitalism, colonisation and the ecocide-genocide nexus

This timely publication examines the drivers of the ecologically induced genocide of Indigenous and place-based peoples in the former British colonies of Kenya and Australia. It synthesises radical political ecology with a political-economic approach to illuminate the nexus between the genocidal ...

Democratising history

Democratising History interrogates the ways in which democracy has transformed modern Britain and how we teach its history. Nine research-led chapters offer new ways to think about the history of democracy in Britain since the early nineteenth century. These are complemented by six interludes tha...

The good governance guide to strategy - digital

Modern optimization methods for science, engineering and technology

This book reviews the fundamentals, background and theoretical concepts of optimization principles in a comprehensive manner along with their potential applications and implementation strategies. The book will be useful for a wide spectrum of target readers such as research scholars, academics an...

The mystery of carbon

A valuable reference text for materials scientists and an essential text for any solid-state or electrical engineering student, this book summarises recent developments in the field of carbon materials, including their synthesis and allotropes, and the impact these have had on developmental science.

Engineering electrodynamics (second edition)

This book discusses mathematical tools and key concepts of electrodynamics through principles, theorems and practical engineering examples.

Thermoacoustic tomography

This book offers a comprehensive overview of thermoacoustic imaging approaches, covering everything from the basics of thermoacoustic generation and image reconstruction methods, and the various implementations, to numerous practical applications.

Problems and solutions in many-particle systems

Many-particle systems play a fundamental role in physics where we encounter systems of molecules or systems of elementary particles in quantum field theory. overing a wide range of topics and including more than 400 problems and solutions, this book is an ideal resource for students specialising ...

Principles and practice of image-guided abdominal radiation therapy

This book covers the fundamental knowledge required to implement the IGRT techniques in abdominal cancer treatment with detailed operational procedures involved, and also provides an overview of emerging techniques for future application. This is an ideal text for Radiation oncologists, medical p...

The structure of amorphous materials using molecular dynamics

This reference text demonstrates how molecular dynamics can be used in practice to achieve a precise understanding of structural properties for systems devoid of any order beyond the first interatomic distances. The ideas, concepts and methodologies covered are easily applicable to any system.

Modern classical optical system design

Modern Classical Optical System Design (MCOSD) shares the author’s “bag of tricks”, knowledge, experience, and interpretation of optical design fundamentals to the development of optical systems in a modern fast-paced product development context. Topics include imaging principles, elements of len...

Leadership and challenges in medical physics: a strategic and robust approach

Leadership and Challenges in Medical Physics: A Strategic and Robust Approach aims to help present aspiring future medical physics leaders with effective, strategic and robust leadership skills in a world dominated by austerity economics, inter-professional competition and sometimes unchecked com...

Modeling and computation in vibration problems, volume 1

These books provide a state-of-the-art treatment of mathematical theories of vibration. The first volume discusses numerical and semi-analytical methods to be used in solving various vibration problems. It is an invaluable guide for graduate and postgraduate students, teachers and researchers in ...