The battle of britishness

Analyzing the history and memory of migrant journeys, covering not only the response of politicians and the public but also literary and artistic representations, then and now, Kushner’s volume sheds new light on the nature and construction of Britishness from the early modern era onwards.

Dr faustus: the a- and b- texts (1604, 1616)

Dr. Faustus is one of the jewels of early modern English drama, and is still widely performed today. Interestingly, the play has come down to the contemporary audience in two distinct versions that have become known as the 'A' and the 'B' texts. David Bevington and Eric Rasmussen, who edited the ...

Hincmar of rheims

Brings together the latest international research on a key medieval writer and thinker

Dress and globalisation

The first work to survey dress around the world, covering consumption, ethnicity, gender and the body, as well as anthropological accounts and studies of representation. The book also examines international western style dress, headwear, ethnicity, traditional dress, ‘alternative’ dressing, and T...

Crank it up

Jason Statham is Britain’s most important post-millennial male film star. This book examines his work throughout a career encompassing film, television, music videos, multi-media platforms and video gaming.

Beginning theory

Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for over two decades. This new and expanded fourth edition continues to offer readers the best single-volume introduction to the field. The bewildering variety of approaches, theorists and tec...

Between the salt and the ash

Jake Morris-Campbell sets out on a pilgrimage from Lindisfarne to Durham Cathedral, exploring thirteen-hundred years of social change and asking what stories the North East can tell about itself in the wake of Christianity and coal.

Global london on screen

Global London on screen presents a mélange of films by directors from the Global South and North, portraying everyday life to the more fantastical, odious or extraordinary circumstances that are captured cinematically in this superdiverse city.

Cinematic ethnography

Cinematic Ethnography proposes an interdisciplinary approach to theories and practices that reside within the fertile zone where anthropology and filmmaking intersect.

Dust

Dust is a witty and highly original investigation into the development of modern history writing. This book considers how history writing belongs to the currents of thought shaping the modern world, and suggests that, like dust, the 'matter of history' can never go away or be erased.

Wild colonial boys

In this compelling memoir, Thomas Paul Burgess recounts his time as a member of Ruefrex, one of Northern Ireland’s most successful punk rock bands. Through a series of revealing vignettes, he traverses strife-torn Belfast and bohemian London, revealing another side of the punk rock story.

Frankland

Commemoration of work by Professor Nelson on early medieval history, Frankish culture and its effect on Europe.

Remembering refugees

At a time of growing refugee crises across the modern world, this is the first book that examines how Britain remembers its past refugees, from the Huguenots through to the many groups who came in the twentieth century. It looks at how that memory has shaped treatment of contemporary asylum seekers.

Transnational solidarity

This book excavates forgotten histories of solidarity which were vital to radical political imagination during the long sixties. It decentres the conventional Western loci of this critical historical moment by instead foregrounding transnational solidarity with, and across, anticolonial and anti-...

The english manor c.1200–c.1500

This book provides a comprehensive introduction and essential guide to one of the most important institutions in medieval England and to its substantial archive. This is the first book to offer a detailed explanation of the form, structure and evolution of the manor and its records.

The making of a status symbol

This book shows how Rolex has become the embodiment of individual success since the 1960s. This brand is much more than a watch: it is a narrative on a triple exceptionality: that of a product, that of an entrepreneur, and that of the wealthy consumers who wear it. A must-read for understanding t...

Songs of seven dials

Centring on a 1927 libel trial, this book tells the story of the cosmopolitan London neighbourhood of Seven Dials and its battles with racism and gentrification throughout the 1920s and 1930s, a struggle that would shape the city we know today.

The fairy tales of jim henson

This book provides a new perspective on the work of Jim Henson, the important but often overlooked creator of screen fairytales.

Debating medieval europe

An entirely original textbook format to introduce students to medieval European history: this is the second volume covering the central and later medieval centuries

Eclipsing the west

As the international order begins to crumble, this incisive book asks what the rise of the Asian superstates means for the future.The Western-dominated world we have known for the past three hundred years is coming to an end. As America withdraws from its role as enforcer of the international ord...

The future of employment in africa

The Future of Employment in Africa: Demography, Labour Markets and Welfare explores the major socio-economic trends that will define the face of the sub-Saharan continent in the next three decades. It mainly focuses on the need to massively create jobs due to unseen demographic growth. The book c...

Cricket, fiction and nation

Cricket, Fiction and Nation examines how cricket has been used by fiction writers from the early nineteenth century to the present day to explore matters such as national identity, class, sexuality, murder, suicide, obsession, empire, migration and the global post-colonial world.

World film locations: los angeles

World Film Locations: Los Angeles Volume 2 is an engaging and highly visual city-wide tour of both well known and slightly lesser known films shot on location in one of the birthplaces of cinema and the ‘screen spectacle’. It pairs 50 synopses of carefully chosen film scenes with evocative full-c...

Singing for our lives

Exploring the role of street choirs in political culture, and based on oral histories from more than 40 members of UK street choirs, this book introduces this neglected world to a wider public, including activists and academics. The title is taken from a song by musician and activist Holly Near, ...

World film locations: rome

This volume explores the city of Rome, which has served as the setting for countless memorable films, spanning all genres and emotions. Readers are taken on a journey through the city with stops at key locations. A carefully selected compilation of films is complemented by essays that further exa...

Kurt kren

Kurt Kren was a vital figure in Austrian avant-garde cinema of the postwar period. His structural films—often shot frame-by-frame following elaborately prescored charts and diagrams—have influenced filmmakers for decades, even as Kren himself remained a nomadic and obscure public figure. Kurt Kre...

Performance art in ireland

This book, the first devoted to the history and contemporary forms of Irish performance art in the north and south of Ireland, brings together contributions by prominent Irish artists and major academics.  Co-published with Live Art Development Agency. 

Coming in

This book reconceptualises Europeanisation and studies how the EU Enlargement has shaped LGBT politics in Serbia. Questioning our ability to reduce LGBT liberation to rights and policies, the book moves beyond legal and institutional change to consider the political consequences the Europeanisati...

Gels in the conservation of art

This volume brings together papers and posters from the Gels in Conservation conference (London, 2017), along with an appendix by Richard Wolbers on gel terminology and properties. It presents current research and practical applications of gels in the treatment of art objects and built surfaces, ...

The pigments of british medieval illuminators

This comprehensive and richly illustrated volume is the first-ever history of British medieval illuminators� pigments. It rests on first-hand investigation, with optimal scientific techniques, of a wide selection of manuscripts, ranging in date from the seventh century to the fifteenth. It provid...

Introductory notes on planetary science

This textbook provides a physics-based tour of introductory planetary science concepts for undergraduate students majoring in astronomy or planetary science. It shows how principles and equations learned in introductory physics classes can be applied to study many aspects of planets, including dy...

Interstellar flow and star formation

An insightful discussion of the basic physics underlying interstellar cloud formation and evolution, going beyond traditional but incomplete or unrealistic applications and emphasizing the continuum nature of the interstellar medium, followed by a unified account of the life cycle of interstellar...

Electrostatics

This book describes the formalism of the electrostatic field in both vacuum and matter, by constructing step-by-step the complete system of Maxwell’s equations, representing the foundation of classical electromagnetism, and is suitable for students taking a general electricity and magnetism (E&am...

Nuclear materials science (second edition)

This book provides an overview of the intersection of nuclear engineering and materials science at a level approachable by advanced students from materials, engineering and physics. The text explains the unique aspects needed in the design and implementation of materials for use in demanding nucl...

Mastering computer vision with pytorch and machine learning

This book is a valuable resource for professionals, researchers, and students who want to expand their knowledge of advanced computer vision techniques using PyTorch.

The icsa corporate governance handbook, 4th edition

Charity law and governance

Business families and family businesses

This comprehensive handbook makes essential reading for all practitioners who advise business families, including lawyers, accountants, financial advisers and wider family business advisers.

Product counsel

Product Counsel: A Practical Framework for Advising Throughout the Product Life Cycle offers a pioneering exploration into the emerging discipline of product law. Authored by Olga V. Mack and Adrienne Go, this comprehensive guide equips readers with the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate t...

Family offices

Prepared in association with STEP, the world’s leading organisation for private wealth professionals, this new edition of Family Offices has been fully updated and features a number of new chapters, all written by the leading experts in the field.